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    "title": "Letter from Lady Bird Taylor to Lyndon Johnson",
    "description": "In this second letter of the day to Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Taylor writes that Dorris [Powell] was unable to get tickets for the play they had planned to attend in Shreveport. Taylor says she wants to take her father to a show and try to get him interested in something besides work. She didn't get a letter from Johnson today; she wishes she were with him; she will not quit writing to him.",
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