A White House Diary (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series Book Seventeen [17])

ix, [1], 806 pp. A memoir about being the First Lady during a tumultuous presidency, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "Originally published in 1970, A White House Diary is Lady Bird Johnson's intimate, behind-the-scenes account of Lyndon Johnson's presidency from November 22, 1963, to January 20, 1969. Beginning with the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Johnson records the momentous events of her times, including the Great Society's War on Poverty, the national civil rights and social protest movements, her own activism on behalf of the environment, and the Vietnam War."