Jacqueline Kennedy’s restoration project for, 240–41
Lady Bird’s departure from, 363–64, 365
Lynda’s wedding at, 1–5
Oval Office of, 220
private quarters of, 226–27
State Dining Room of, 226
two hundredth birthday celebration for, 392
White House Diary (Lady Bird Johnson), 237–38, 245, 368–72, 381
White House Festival of the Arts, 271–73
Whitney, Tex., 187
Wiggins, J. Russell, 258–59
Wild, Claude C., Sr., 92–93
Wiley, Mary Margaret, see Valenti, Mary Margaret Wiley
Wiley College, 138
Williams, Aubrey, 106–7, 110
Williams, Gene, 168–69
Williams, Helen, 168
Williams College, 312
Wilson, Cynthia, 312
Wilson, Edmund, 272
Wilson, Ellen Axson, 292–93, 333, 335
Wilson, Woodrow, 183, 292–93
Wirtz, Alvin, 92, 94, 98, 107, 110, 164–65
Wirtz, Kitty, 107, 110
Wisconsin, University of, 108
women:
LBJ’s appointments of, 185–86
LBJ’s hiring and promotion of, 336–37
in political campaigning, 144–45, 254
Women Doer’s lunches, 295, 352–53
Women’s National Press Club, 206–7
Women Strike for Peace, 322
Women’s Wear Daily, 319
Woodley Park Towers, 128
Woods, Randall, 329, 341
Woodward, Warren, 154, 155, 158
Wooldridge Park, 146
World War I, German Americans and, 40
World War II, 125, 126, 292, 334
end of, 142
Wouk, Herman, 313
Wright, Zephyr Black, 128, 168, 189
Wyoming, 316
Yale Law School, 108
Yale University, 114, 312
Yeats, William Butler, 266
Yuki (dog), 318, 357–58
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Caroli, Betty Boyd.
Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president / Betty Boyd Caroli.—First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912–2007—Marriage. 2. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908–1973—Marriage. 3. Married people—United States—Biography. 4. Presidents’ spouses—United States—Biography. 5. Presidents—United States—Biography. I. Title.
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