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  • to go back to the jungle when the strong were free to prey on the weak? Are we to have Government for all the people or Government for the fortunate? Are we to have the Great Society or the great surrender? Your Senator Fulbright made our choice very
  • Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 10/27/1964"
  • arduous, demandi ng months as your P...-esi dent. I b e li eve he has k ept our country on a course of stability and progress and l ift ed our eyes to the exapnding horizons of the free world. I am proud of that re cord, I believe you approve of it, and I
  • Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Henderson, Kentucky, 10/27/1964"
  • /1 Johnsons are at the Ranch. At noon Skeeter Johnston calls LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) to inform him of Senator Kerr’s death. Phone conversations with Jim Webb, Reedy, press follow. 1/2 LBJ helicopters to Austin for the afternoon, returns to Ranch
  • live in communities tbat free the ~i.n.:i or imprison it? Will your cities be places to thrive in or merely to escape from? And what places will there be left to escape to? 1t is thrilling to me, that for the first time in history, America 1 s major
  • Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, Youth Conference on Natural Beauty, 6/27/1966"
  • paign in 1976, he did not go to the traditional place where all D mocratic campaigns had begun for a generation, Detroit's Cadillac Square, but to Warm Spring , Georgia, where, surrounded by sym­ bol~ ol the Roosevelt presidency, he began his effort
  • to speed up that day when all of God's children ... will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old egro spiritual: 'Free at last, free at last; thank God Almighty, we're free at last.' "And so, Grandson" (conclud­ ed the old man), that is why
  • of energy and the environment, and 'The Press: Free and Responsible?" Lecturers of every political persua­ sion-from Barry Goldwater to Jimmy Carter-ha e fi lied the LBJ Auditorium. The retiring dir ctor says the thing he is proud st of is that the Library
  • , beginning with the Truman Administra­ tion and moving through the Carter Administration. A major symposium enutled, "The Press: Free and Responsible?" will take place April 3 in th LBJ Auditorium. Co-sponsored by the Library and the Universi­ ty of Texas
  • announces he will not serve as chairman of the Democratic National Convention, leaving him free to promote LBJ’s candidacy. LBJ meets with Andy Biemiller and other international labor leaders this morning. Democratic Conference meets at 3:30; Gore motion
  • desc:r.·i =>e as a l o t of det e1·oination, energy and devo tion to the c ost deeanding f'OSi tion in the free world. I ao proud of that cont i nue it. r eco ~d and I hop e you will want to And I ho ~e you will yote D eoo c~atic right down the l
  • Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Tyler, Texas, 10/26/1964"
  • to his predeoessor, Mr. Bush called LBJ •'a towering and passion­ ate figure" who "tried with all his heart to be the best President that this country ever had for the people who are pressed against the wall, whose cries are not heard. But he heard
  • by the University of Chicago Press, the book is the atest 111 a series recording the admmislrativ history of the J hnson presidency. Overall edilor f the series is LBJ School Professor Emmelle S. Redford. In selecting his appo111tees, the authors found, President Jo
  • in the southwestern United States. The Library's Museum is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closing only on Christmas Day. At. the request of President Johnson, admission to the Library is free. It is the only museum in the Presidential Library system that. does
  • , leaves for Geneva at 11:30 a.m., meets with Arthur Dean and Ed Gullion that night. 4/6 Press conference at hotel in Geneva before leaving for Paris for SHAPE conference. Later shopping, embassy reception, dinner at Maxims, spends night at Hotel George V
  • , published by the University of Kansas Press, should be of great interest to anyone interested in Mrs. Johnson, the envi­ ronmental movement, or the impor­ tance of first ladies. This is the first book since the popular biographies of Mrs. Johnson
  • reel that a phone at the Ranch was on a hundred-yard cord so that when he was down walking by the Ped rnale. they could just re I it our to him like a garden hos . George Christian ( Press Seaetary to President Joh11so11): I Company): 1 : was out
  • the landmark career of photojournalist Duncan, who recently donated his $15 million archive 10 the Ransom Center. As with all LBJ Library exhibits, it is free and open to the public. The exhibition runs through January 2, 2000. David Douglas Duncan is one
  • recognition in his own right. Next, Ward pointed out that Roo evelt was lucky not to ha e dealt with today·s intrusive and sensational press, which would have made hay out of his relationship with Lucy Mercer and Missy LeHand. Bul by the lights of What
  • of the rickle down to the poor will assure Lhe provision of needs lo the poor. Of course, thal doesn't work." Like Barbara Ward who spoke the previous day, th United Nations Executive expressed concern for the efficacy of the free market system. Strong ob­
  • , that splendid moment." 3 Former Congressman Jake Pickle made a return to the library to delight an audience composed of old friends and former constituents with tales from his colorful career. His appearance coincided with the publication (by the U. T. Press
  • , electric utilities, juvenile justice, and family issues. Hood gets a lot of good press. he was still a thief. Baxter favored eliminating the Robin Hood system entirely, and replacing rhe lost revenues wiU1state ap­ propriations. The ensuing con ersalion
  • archive to be mined for years to come; it is a national forum for the free exchange of ideas; it is a splendid museum-the visual record of a tumultuous era. An extraordinary range of activities flourishes within the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
  • no doubt that the country as a whole reacted as we did. Cordially yours, Mrs . Johnson The White House Washington CO YLBJL PRESS CUPPING RlJRF.AtJ DALI.AS f.rtahl1 .1 hrd 1910 Palestine, TX Herald-Press (Cir. D. 11,463) '; (;·r 1 1 'MA~ Eartha Kitt
  • Among Issue Number LXX, January 2003 George Christian,Former Press Secretaryand LBJ Foundation George Eastland Christian died of lung cancer on November 27. His illness had been diagnosed as termi­ nal a year earlier. After a brief try
  • and/or the Library, there is a pressing need for a major modification of several ar as of space ... in order to make those areas more usable and effective." I ' Along the north wall of the building on the first floor will be 11 new !>etof display cases
  • the scars of centuries by say­ ing, "Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and bring him up to the starting line of a race
  • History of the Johnson Presidency Series (UT Press) Adolphus Hotel Incident (1960) Advance Men Advise and Consent (Allen Drury) Advisory Bodies Advisory Committees - Commissions Advisory Committee on Presidential Libraries Affirmative Action see also Civil
  • was President Johnson's last press secretary spoke to the Library volunteers in Sep­ tember, Excerpts from Christian's comments about LBJ follow: . . . More than likely, biographers and critic-, and admirers of Lyndon Johnson arc going to be mining ..illthe lore
  • , the Swedes, the Poles. tJ1 French, Professor Lloyd Gardner has organ­ ized three scholarly conferences on the Vietnam War for the LBJ Library. The proceedings of the first two have been published: Vietnam: The Early Decisions (University of Texas Press
  • . Johnson's !avorite recipes. With all good wiahes to you, Cooks 11pt < .- Davia Sincerely, Elizabeth Carpenter Press Secretary and St:.li! Director to Mrs. Johnson Ml:a. James A. Longo Th~ Pattcrsoc. News Pa.acrsoi:., New Jer3ey (Rosalie L:mgo
  • . Johnson's !avorite recipes. With all good wiahes to you, Cooks 11pt < .- Davia Sincerely, Elizabeth Carpenter Press Secretary and St:.li! Director to Mrs. Johnson Ml:a. James A. Longo Th~ Pattcrsoc. News Pa.acrsoi:., New Jer3ey (Rosalie L:mgo
  • 0 t I • SEPTE:MBER 25, 1964 FOR IMMEDIATE RE LEASE OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRET A RY (E ufaula, Oklahoma) THE WHITE HOUSE REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AND MRS . LYND CN B. JOHNSON AT DEDICATION OF EUFAULA DAM E UFAULA, OKLAHOMA
  • Press release, "Remarks of the President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Dedication of Eufaula Dam, Eufaula, Oklahoma, 9/25/1964"
  • negotiations, rather than free, all-German elections. Dulles tells the Senate Foreign Relations Committee there is no acceptable alternative to elections to achieve reunification. 1/14 Senate Democrats announce new committee assignments. Several freshman
  • of staff, told him of change in plans for his future. In press conference, LBJ states that while defense and foreign policy will be dominant issues in next session of Congress, other domestic problems include: low 07/2024 1 lbjlibrary.org REFERENCE
  • protection t mpcred the 111herent hardships and cruelties of\\ hat is still, by some, called the free enterprise system .. The R osev It Revolution, the New Deal, to this day is both celebrated and not quite forgiven The poor ;.ire still though! y the -.tern
  • by the destroyers to make their way out of the Gulf of Tonkin." As a young lawyer at the Pentagon, I prepared a chronology of events for the White House shortly after the episodes occurred. I was given free access to the cables and records of the Joint Chiefs
  • . In Memoriam George Reedy, 19J7-1999 Of President Johnson's press secretary, 1964-1965 ·oy JR. When the Library staff learned of the tragic loss of John Kennedy, Jr., they searched the archives for items to assemble a remembrance to him in the Library foyer
  • Smith, of United Press Internationat-··Jeak it to him first. lt gets home first that way, and when old Judge Moursund reads this, he'll know what we're trying to do out here with his money." He taught us ... that a nation of two hundred million
  • Democrats, and 1 Independent (Senator Wayne Morse). LBJ and CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) are guests of Sarah McClendon at the Women’s Press Club dinner that night. 1/6 LBJ and CTJ attend a cocktail party given by the Dale Millers in honor of Speaker Rayburn
  • , University of isconsin; Donald Ritchie, enate Historical ffice; Joel Silbey, Cornell University; and Margaret Thompson. Syracuse Uni er- sity. epresenting the press 1/ere Donald Bacon, U.S. News and World Report; Paul Duke, W.E.T.A.; Nick Kotz, free lance