White House Social Files. 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. Alphabetical Files
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Kitt, Eartha, 1927-2008
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Eartha Kitt was an international star who gave new meaning to the word versatile. She distinguished herself in film, theater, cabaret, music, and on television. Kitt was one of only a handful of performers to be nominated for a Tony (three times), a Grammy (twice), and an Emmy Award (twice). She enthralled New York nightclub audiences during her extended stays at the Café Carlyle. These intimate performances have been captured in, Eartha Kitt, Live at The Carlyle.Eartha Mae Kitt was b...
Gonella, Ashton, 1929-2014
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Ashton Gonella was born Ashton Glassell on January 13, 1929 to parents Wesley and Ashton Glassell in Shreveport, Louisiana. After graduating from Byrd High School, Glassell attended Hockaday Junior College and Centenary College. Gonella became interested in politics, and served as President of the Shreveport League of Women Voters. After reading an article about Lyndon B. Johnson and his work in the U.S. Senate, Gonella inquired through a mutual friend about openings on the Johnson staff. ...
Wilson, Cynthia E., 1940-
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Cynthia E. Wilson was born July 10, 1940 in Syracuse, New York. Wilson graduated in 1962 from St. Lawrence University with a degree in English and earned a graduate degree in journalism from the University of Texas in 1964. After graduation, Wilson held jobs with the Waco Times Herald and Columbia Records. Wilson was recommended to Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird Johnson’s Press Secretary and fellow University of Texas alumnus, by the head of the University of Texas Journalism School, Dr. Dewitt C....
Stugard, Christine Moore, 1913-1985
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Christine Stugard was born Christine Whitehorn Moore on January 19, 1913 to parents T. D. Whitehorn and Trannie Waites Whitehorn. Christine married Victor Ivan Moore, Jr., son of Victor Ivan Moore, Sr., a Dean at the University of Texas. Moore, Jr. passed away in 1942. After that, Christine married Burl Stugard, who served as an Agricultural Attache to embassies in Spain, Mexico, and the Philippines. Stugard received her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas in 1947....
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
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Lady Bird Johnson was born Claudia Alta Taylor in Karnack, Texas on December 22, 1912. Her parents were Thomas Jefferson Taylor and Minnie Pattillo Taylor, and she had two older brothers, Tommy and Tony. Her mother died when she was only five years old, and her Aunt Effie Pattillo moved to Karnack to look after her. At an early age, a nursemaid said she was "as purty as a lady bird," and thereafter she became known to her family and friends as Lady Bird. She graduated from Marshall High School i...
Johnson, Luci Baines, 1947-
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Luci Baines Johnson (Turpin) was born on July 2, 1947, the youngest daughter of Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. She was a student at Georgetown University, the University of Texas, and St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. She married Patrick Nugent on August 6, 1966, but they divorced in August 1979. They had four children: Patrick Lyndon (b. 1967), Nicole Marie (b. 1970), Rebekah Johnson, and Claudia Taylor (b. 1976). She married Ian Johnstone Turpin on March 3, 1984. She is chair...
Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
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Lynda Bird Johnson Robb was born on March 19, 1944 in Washington, D.C., the oldest daughter of Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. She received a B.A. from the University of Texas in 1966, and married Charles Spittal Robb on December 9, 1967. They had three children: Lucinda Desha (b. 1968), Catherine Lewis (b. 1970), and Jennifer Wickliffe (b. 1978). She is a writer and served as writer for McCall's Magazine from 1966 to 1968, contributing editor to Ladies Home Journal from 1968 to 1980, a...
Abell, Bess, 1933-2020
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Bess Abell was born Elizabeth Hughes Clements on June 2, 1933 in Evansville, Indiana to parents Earle C. Clements and Sara Blue. She grew up in both Kentucky and Washington, D.C. while her father served as Congressman and, later, Governor of Kentucky. In 1954, Clements received a political science degree from the University of Kentucky. She married her husband, Tyler Abell, in 1955. After working for her father in various capacities, Abell took a part-time job as a typist for the Democratic Nati...
