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  • The Johnsons are in Washington. LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) attends a luncheon at Secretary Dulles’ home and later a bipartisan White House briefing where Eisenhower asks for support of his proposed Mideast Resolution. 1/2 LBJ attends a meeting of the Foreign
  • by Senators Douglas and Yarborough, but LBJ refuses to give them official approval, saying tax cuts wouldn’t help the army of unemployed. LBJ proposed a new public works administration to handle the federal program. (clip) Senate Banking Committee approves
  • of constructing overseas military bases, and on the use of private employment services charging fees to find government jobs overseas. Senate considers S. 1976, the District of Columbia Home Rule bill, one of the first measures to be considered in this session
  • in spite of the terrible spell they had at Christmas.” LBJ gives dinner at his home in Washington for Texas Attorney General Grover Sellers. Guests include: Harry Truman, William O. Douglas, Fred Vinson, Navy Secretary Forrestal, Marvin Jones, Robert
  • without leaving their nursing home. Three library tour guides have been presenting a one­ hour slide show and narrative about the library to Aus­ tin nursing homes since eptember. They've received rave reviews for their sho, . Their field trips
  • in his home state, the veteran of almost two dec­ ades on Capitol Hill maintained that the Congress "lost its way" when it "became a fuJl-timc undertaking." The change in the legislative body's origi­ nal purpose came, Iriesaid, "when we started passing
  • FOR RELEASE AFTER 9:30 A. M. SUNDAY, JUNE ll, 1967 Office of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Johnson THE WHITE HOUSE --·-------~-----------------------------------------------------REMARKS OF MRS. ' LYNDON B. JOHNSON AT THE CALVIN COOLIDGE HOME
  • Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Calvin Coolidge Home, Plymouth, Vermont, 6/11/1967"
  • century pursuit of that vision, the Library has been a chronicler of his­ tory and a witness to it~and on occasion the setting for moments of high drama. Nineteenyearsago~on ,thestage of the LBJ Auditorium,Helen Hayes and Kirk Douglas read excerpts from
  • . discoverlbj.org May 5/1 LBJ returns to Washington with the Speaker. 5/5 Rebekah Bobbitt joins her husband in Washington and visits LBJ at his office. 5/6 LBJ has dinner with Bill Douglas. 5/13 CTJ receives priority on building materials, will start
  • to dedicate the tomb of Stephen A. Douglas, but actually to rally public support for presidential programs. Grant observed firsthand the disastrous effects of Johnson's vituperative attacks on his opponents follow by his intemperate responses to heck­ lers
  • & Co. George Kozmetsky, Dean, Graduate S~hool of Business, The University of Texas at Austin Rohert 0. Anderson, Chairman of the Board, Atlantic Richfield Company W. Donham Crawford, Chairman of the Board, Gulf States Utilities Company Douglas M. Costle
  • of preserving the written record has not been neglected, he said, recalling that on one occasion Archivist Nancy Smith look a.II of five minutes to retrieve a letter that Beschloss, as a chi1d, had written to LBJ. That brought home to him what the public can g
  • the Taylor's beautiful ante helium home, bearing its precious cargo. Underneath the pic­ ture he wrote: ' n December 22, such and such a year, the store in Karack, the T. J. Taylor Store, Dealer-in-Everything closed. In every fireplace in the Taylor home
  • R EMARKS OF MR S. LYNDON B. JOHNSON AT THE HOME OF MARK TWAIN - HANNIBAL, MISSOURI FOR RELEASE AFTER 1 :45 P. M., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1967 Office of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Johnson THE WHITE HOUSE One of the challenges of my childhood
  • Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Home of Mark Twain - Hannibal, Missouri, 9/21/1967"
  • at the Johnson family gravesite this way: Those of u who worked for LBJ have known all along that, to him, Vi tnam was at least as much a threat to his revolution at home as were right wing conservatives and die hard segregationjst •. In­ deed I believe his
  • voted for the I964 Civil Rights bill which, he said, ''was not an easy vote for this district." He got home at 3 a.m. to find a message to caH the President no matter what time it was. When he reluctantly made the late call, LBJ to:ld him: "I ,made
  • the right to vote; to set up a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission; to prohibit discrimination interstate transportation facilities. His message also requested D.C. home rule and suffrage, and 1948 Chronology ● p. 3 of 45 07/2024 3
  • in what I considered glamorous places like Hawaii and Alaska. But all that never happened because I met Lyndon .... I knew I had met some­ thing remarkable, but I didn't quite know what." Iler father approved. "Young lady, you've brought home a lot of boys
  • some pictures of Mary Jane taken on the Truman farm during the first World War. Harry went off 10 the war and Mary Jane stayed home and ran the farm. She was a beautiful young woman, really striking looking. And 'iuddenl_ it becomes a different story
  • to take them home. I could tell you more about how I felt at the time, but you really should make your own discoveries-and there are enough opportunities to fill a lifetime. Fortunately. there are practically as many different types of museums
  • at Home"; James Stever, "Presidential Management of Intergovernmental Relations"; Stephen Streeter. "U.S.­ Guatemalan Relations, 1954-1969"; Qiang Zhai, "The Sino-Soviet Alli­ am:e and the Western 'Wedge' Strat­ egy Toward It, 1950-1968"; and Thomas
  • Connally, Barry Goldwater. Middle row: Helen Hayes, Gloria Steinem. Bottom row: David and J uJie Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger. On page 3, top row: Ann Landers, Kirk Douglas, Hubert Humphrey. Middle row: William Westmoreland, Barbara Jordan
  • with Wirtz and George Brown. 1/13 CTJ attends a meeting of the Business and Professional Women’s Club. 1/16 LBJ and Truman attend a party at Clark Clifford’s home. Truman asks LBJ to come see him soon. 1/18 The Air Force calls up 150,000 reserves
  • Preservation by Scanning (Dr. Carl Haber) "August 4, 1964" (Oratorio by Steven Stucky/Gene Scheer, Dallas Symphony Orchestra premier 9/18/2008) Austin Austin Black Leaders Austin Housing Project Austin Nursing Home Project Austin Project Austin American
  • TO SALUTE GEORGE PERKINS MARSH ROCKEFELLER HOME, WOODSTOCK, VERMONT Mr. Secretary, Governor Hoff, We are gathered here today to pay tribute to a man and an idea. The man is George Perkins Marsh, for whom this bouse was home for so many years. The idea
  • Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Ceremony to Salute George Perkins Marsh, Rockefeller Home, Woodstock, Vermont, 6/11/1967"
  • Affairs Committee reports a bill supporting the states’ right to the submerged land within their historic boundaries. A filibuster against the bill, led by Senators Hill’, Lehman and Douglas, proved unsuccessful, although Morse set a new record by speaking
  • Message before Joint Session. LBJ later meets in Mansfield’s office with people from White House and DNC. Dinner party at home with REA and LCRA members. 1/12 Arthur Goldberg hosts black-tie dinner at Labor Dept. in honor of LBJ and CTJ. 1/13 LBJ
  • . LBJ hospitalized in Austin with severe case of the flu LBJ helps get Jewish immigrants out of Germany. LBJ assists Erich Leinsdorf in remaining in the U.S. [1938?] 3/20 William O. Douglas is appointed to Supreme Court. 3/22 LBJ asks $5 million
  • . I have moved my family to Washington where we are now ensconced in Apt. 78-F, 3895 Rodman Street, and if the damn mail doesn’t quit being so heavy I assume I will be here from now until I die, because I can’t even go home at night, and so I am
  • rec­ ollection: '"I can't tell you how good it is to be back home in Austin ... For you who may not know, l was born in Austin and grew up here ... It was just a few hun­ dred yards from here that I experienced love at first sight, and 1 still remember
  • a very special place. One of our Congresswomen -- Julia Hansen -- teils me how. proud she is that your climbing posts are made from Douglas Fir timber from the woods of the great northwest. There is lots a.nd lots of soft sand -- two feet of it, I believe
  • of the world's best natural harbors, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel that is symbolic of all that is progressive and modern, and your handsome, new library. I would like to see the General Douglas MacArthur memo rial because, as you may know, General MacArthur
  • community to another. Home is nota place back over the hill, behind us. It is wherever we are, and I am thrilled to pay tribute to the thousands of people over the years, wbo bave made Offutt their home, and left it a little more lovely every tirne. Colonel
  • ,• l ni\'l'r. 1ty of Tt"xas \\"t-dn1•,day. Sl•plt•mhl'r 1:; l'an,•l: TIIF: HIGHT TO A DECENT HOME IN A llECE>,/T COM. I\ NIT\ Concept and Programs: Victor Bach, Assistant Professor LBJ School of Public Affairs Impact on Housing Policy and Programs
  • and ailvex-, and all the things that go to make a home are gathered together and express how, at the very earliest times, there was craftsmanship and elegance in American living. There have been fascinating days at sites of special interest to me
  • e of vast and con­ stant chang e, it is more important than ever that we pres erve our rich i nheritance and remember i ts significance - - both for the pr e sent and for our future . It is most appropriate that this. the home of President Wilson
  • tell him about all of you. The sugar maple which we carried home last year is flo'.lrishing and the lovely painting of the sugar mill in the snow-covered grove of maples gives us great pleasure. I am looking forward to the rest of my visit here
  • at anxiously-await e d envelope p o s tmarked :'C a m b ridg e, Massachusetts" arrived in y our home. This day m arks t h e c ulm ination of those y ears. You have str ugg l e d, g r t-;an ed a nd g rown within the demanding and rig or ous int ellectua l l ife
  • know, in 1940 , after I had been in Congress several years, I l ooked up the number of homes with e l ectric l ighting in my State, and we had 59 out of every 100 . Today we have 100 percent rural electrification. In Oklahoma they had 55 percent