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Compiled by LBJ Library Staff

FOOD AND BEVERAGES

*Guests at the LBJ Ranch were often served: Deer sausage (very spicy), eggs, toast (made from homemade, freshly baked bread), peach preserves

DESSERTS

MAIN DISHES

BEVERAGES


-Coconut Macaroon

-Cookies

-Brownies

-Tapioca Pudding

-Coconut Cream Pie

-Peanut Brittle

-Banana Pudding

-German Chocolate Cake

-Lemon Sponge Cake

-Peach Ice Cream

-Peach Cobbler


-Mexican dishes

-Beef, corn, okra, apple butter

-Chicken Fried Steak with mashed potatoes and gravy

-Spinach, Cornbread

-Rat Cheese and soda crackers

-Fruits: any type of melon

-Chipped beef on toast (from Navy days)

-Deer sausage, scrambled eggs, and grits

-Liquor: Scotch/Cutty Sark

-Soft Drinks: Fresca, Root Beer

DIET MEALS

BREAKFAST*

LUNCH

DINNERS


Half a melon, hot tea, low-calorie orange juice (for a reservoir of energy—a slice of grilled lean steak)


Hot bouillon, grilled fish steaks, herb-flavored string beans, sherbet or low-calorie custard

Cup of unsweetened fresh fruit, soufflé made of low-calorie cheese, green salad filled with grated carrot, pie with both crust and filling made of low-calorie ingredients


MOVIES/MUSIC/SONGS

MOVIES

MUSIC

SONGS

-Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid
-Guess Who’s
Coming To
Dinner
-John Wayne
westerns
-James
Bond films
-The Searchers
-Action/Thriller movies

-Strauss Waltz
-Viennese Waltzes
-Western Music
-Old Time Fox Trot

-Battle Hymn of the Republic
-Onward Christian Soldiers
-America The Beautiful
-Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
-Carolina Moon
-Stormy Weather
-Tumbleweed
-Wagon Wheels
-Don’t Fence Me In
-High Noon
-Navajo Trail
-Hills of Home
-Songs from:
"Oklahoma", "Hello Dolly", and the "The
Sound of Music"

MISCELLANEOUS FAVORITES

FLOWERS

THINGS TO DO/IDEA OF FUN

PLACES TO EAT IN AUSTIN

PLACES TO DRIVE IN AND AROUND AUSTIN

SCRIPTURES

AFTER SHAVE

Wildflowers
[Especially the Bluebonnet, Coreopsis, & Gaillardia]

-Meeting friends
-Reminiscing
-Visiting friends

-Driskill Hotel
-Night Hawk
-El Patio
-El Rancho
-Cisco’s
-Steak Island

Hill Country.
Lakes (Highland Lakes chain) Commodore Perry. Tarrytown (section of Austin)

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us reason together Psalm 23

Old Spice

 

We do not know President Johnson’s favorite color. When asked, Mrs. Johnson remembered that he didn’t like the following: purple, "muley" colors, such as green, brown, beige, and gray.