Press Conference - Reporters Families Meet The President
Press Conference - Reporters Families Meet The President
On the south lawn of the White House, in a picnic setting, pink lemonade, candy-striped tents, animal crackers and the presence of two famous one-year-old Beagles, President Lyndon Johnson held a Family Day Press Conference for wives and children of reporters. The President again "ear marks" Him and Her just to prove that it causes them no pain. Another howling success...and some of the brouhaha should boil down as LBJ announces that he has accepted lifetime membership in Vandenberg Humane Society. (That's in Evansville, Indiana.....) Washington DC The White House. MCUS - President Johnson and his Beagle. CUS - President Johnson holding his dog by his ears. This went over like a lead balloon. President Johnson walking his two Beagles, Lady Bird is off to his right. White House correspondence wives and children invited into the Rose Garden for a News Conference. A mother with her two daughters. MLS - The White House with the South Lawn loaded with people. MS - President Johnson walking over tot the podium. President Johnson, "I sometimes think that these press conferences can be conducted just as accurately and perhaps as effectively in the President's office, but I try to give you a variety. As I told you in the beginning, I always want to remain accessible. I hope the press will never be critical of me for being overaccessible. ... The only hazing I have received in that respect is from the newspaper people and I think we made a grievous error when I asked them to walk around the block with me the other day. ... I feel fine. I get adequate rest and good pay, and plenty to eat. I don't know anyone that is concerned about my health. Certainly none of my doctors are concerned about it." LBJ takes a photo with the children.