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- on the Congress and
long-time assistant to Sam Rayburn,
left a bequest to the LBJ Foundation to
further the study of the national legis
lature. Since that time, the Foundation
has awarded the D. B. Hardeman Prize
for books on a congressional topic to
twelve
- to criticize in Washington
today, especially the state of polit
ical discourse. Mr. Ford recalled
that when he first came to the
House in 1949, Speaker Sam
Rayburn gathered all the freshmen
representatives for a talk. One of
the things he said, and which Mr
- room for unveiling of Sam Rayburn commemorative
stamp. Meets with Mr. Kappel, Lloyd Miller’s boss. 5 p.m., goes to WH for
off-the-record NSC meeting on disarmament.
7/31
WH leadership breakfast meeting. LBJ opens Senate, has an appt. with McGeorge
- Speaker Rayburn’s 66th birthday. He receives a standing
ovation from the House during a tribute speech by Congressman Halleck of
Indiana. President Truman is an unannounced guest at a private luncheon at the
Capitol honoring Rayburn.
1/7
Truman delivers
- the LBJ Foundation that Hard man, \\ ho died
December 3, 1981, and was a long-time aide to the late
House Speaker Sam Rayburn and long-time friend of
the J ohnsons, h d made provision in his will for acer
tain percentage of his estate to go
- and published in the pa. t two years.
The award was named for D. B. Hardeman of San
Antomo, aid to the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn, in
acknowledgment of r. Hardeman' gift t th Library of
ver I 0,000 books on Congress. It covers the entire span of
merican
- boo· on the
Congre'>s published in the two-year period.
The award, carrying a prize of $ 1500, is '1amcd ior the
late D. B. Hardeman,
ong-lime aide to Speaker Sam
Rayburn and then House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, v.ho
Sundquist
gave his entire
- for the
competition. The wmner will be announced at the LBJ Library
April 1, 1986.
The prize, funded by a grant from the LBJ Foundation, is
named in honor of the late D. B. Hardeman. aide to Speaker
Sam Rayburn and noted authority on the U.S. Congress.
The original
- to the Foundation. amounted to S83.000.
Mrs. Roberts· is the second bequest to come to the Library under the terms
ot a will in recent year~. The first was from D. B. Hardeman. who died in
1982. having served as aide to both Speaker Sam Rayburn and Congressman
Hale
-
University Press.
The prize is awarded every second
year for the best book on the Con
gress published during that period.
It is named for the late aide to
Speaker Sam Rayburn. Mr. Harde
man left his extensive coflection of
books on the Congress
- . Nor should the papers of the two unsuc
cessful Democratic presi ential candidates of this period,
Adlai tevenson and Hubert Hum hrey, be ignored - nor the
papers of Sam Rayburn. Robert Wagner, Paul Douglas, and
scores of other important party figures
- /of
Joe McCarth),
The $1500 prize, named for the late aide to Sam Rayburn and
Hale Boggs. 1s funded from a bequest made to lhe Library by Mr.
Hardeman, who him elf was recognized as an authority on the
Congress.
Previous winners of the prize are Richard
- CORPS. THOSE WHO DOUBTED HIS SINCERITY. IT CAME IN THAT ELECTRIC
MOMENT TO SEVERAL HUNDRED DEMOCRATS IN THE PENTHOUSE BALLROOM OF THE JUNG HOTEL,
WHEN LBJ OUOTED AN UNAMED SOUTHERN SENATOR CONFIDING IN SAM RAYBURN ABOUT HIS
CONSTITUENCY."ALL THEY EVER
- CORPS. THOSE WHO DOUBTED HIS SINCERITY. IT CAME IN THAT ELECTRIC
MOMENT TO SEVERAL HUNDRED DEMOCRATS IN THE PENTHOUSE BALLROOM OF THE JUNG HOTEL,
WHEN LBJ OUOTED AN UNAMED SOUTHERN SENATOR CONFIDING IN SAM RAYBURN ABOUT HIS
CONSTITUENCY."ALL THEY EVER
- to the Library. One recent acquisition is
a 1903 photograph of Sam Rayburn's graduating class from
East Texas Normal College in Commerce, Texas. These
photographs are placed in the photo archives and are used
by researchers and as display material
A recent
- in Congress. Speaker Sam
Rayburn took Congressman Johnson
under his wing. LBJ w· s a court
favorite of Franklin Roosevelt's.
And formidable Georgia Senator
Richard
u sell first made LBJ
minority leader and then majority
leader of the Senate.
Harry Truman did
- with FDR for 30 minutes, shows President photos of dams.
7/27
John L. Lewis attacks John Nance Garner as “a. labor-baiting, poker-playing,
whiskey-drinking, evil old man.” Garner calls Rayburn, demands Texas delegation
pass resolution absolving him
- as a public man ... This carnpu , then,
set Lyndon Baines Johnson on a course that was t have
dramatic impact on the life f every American ... "
ALLEN SCHICK RECEIVES
SECOND HARDEMAN AWARD
The late D. B. Hardeman, long-time aide to Speaker
Rayburn
