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  • : The enclosed cartoon was · in today's edition of The Times Union, Albany's morning paper. · Mr. Roseri has expressed how so many feel a~out that episode of the past week. Mrs. Johnson has proved again the real lady she is. One of the many blessings of our
  • for reflection before action. Robert Strauss, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, does not envy future presidents. "Today," he declared, "a president has a helluva time just marginally influencing the course
  • . Gardner President, Carnegie New York City EXECUTIVE Corporation SECRETARY William B. Cannon Bureau of the Budget (Alternate: Emerson J. Elliott) MEMBERS ( James E. Allen, Jr. Commissioner of Education Albany, New York Fr. Paul C. Reinert President
  • of involvement. What good is intelligence, if it is not put to use? This American society can never achieve the destiny that it seeks, can never remove the slums, or the prejudice, or the ugliness, unless citizens join in the great adventure of our time. Brigham
  • in his State of the Union message that this is a time of te sting - ­ So many foundations of our daily life are on trial. One of these foundations which I believe is most important, and too likely to be swept away in busy, urban life is simply the quality
  • comments you want to make? MR. SCHNITZLE...~: Thay 'Will be coming in, M'rl.· Vice President~ I have made a personal check of my own as best I can determine and there are 117 international unions tha·t have no seg:regated locals at all. time
  • OF AMERICAN MUSEUM OF IMMIGRATION ­ STATUE OF LIBERTY I have been to the Statue of Libe rty many time s - - but 1 can neve r come here without a lift of spirit or a catch in my throat. The few acres of this little island are as sacred to Ame rican history
  • Among Issue um ber LX'Vlll ' July 2002 What If: No Socrates? No William the Conquerer? No FDR? Victor Hanson: For want of a Socrates, a Plato was lost. .. 2 On Ma L. for the e nd time in the LBJ Library' Evening With series, a panel
  • oman from trade union rank s, Esther Peterson, As s istant Secr e tary of Labor, to be bis Consume r Advisor. We are proud to have her here today and always, to protect our interest as the nation 1s largest consumers. For if you, your g ove rnment ~nd
  • Grande Valley. 6/20 LBJ speaks in Waco. 6/22 Germany invades the Soviet Union. 6/23 Amarillo 6/24 Cuero and Fort Worth; FDR promises all possible aid to Soviet Union, orders Treasury to release 40 million in Soviet credits which had been frozen
  • Aunt Effie dies on New Year’s night. 1/3 80th Congress convenes, controlled by Republicans for first time in fourteen years. Joseph Martin elected speaker of the House. Proceedings televised for first time. 1/4 Stag party for E.H. Perry at Driskill
  • there is a Women's Pavilion at Hemisfair, and delighted this facility will have a strong purpose in future years. Here on this platform are many women I have known whose lives have e x panded with the exciting challenges and opportunities oî our times. Women
  • "NION, NEW HA VEN, CC~NECTICUT, OCTOBER 9, 1967 0 When 1 received the invitation from John J. 0 1Leary ...... a name no Democrat can reeist -- to corne and talk to the Yale Political Union about beautification, l was delighted to accept. Delighted
  • Press release, "Address of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Yale Political Union, New Haven, Connecticut, 10/9/1967"
  • plans to attend. 1/10 First assembly of the United Nations opens in London. 1/12 LBJ is apparently ill, and Welly Hopkins writes him: “By this time I trust that your scarlet fever experience has cleared away.” 1/14 Congress convenes. 1/19 Office
  • Cleme"lts Ab ~j_l , of our 9t:::.df h elps us so much in t he White House. She had a lot to do w ith our visit her e tonight, as did her daddy~ our old friend Senat or Earle Clements from nearby Union County. And I'm happy to be in our good fri end
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  • . World Crise Provide Conference Backdrop Planning began in January 1979 for "The International ChaUenge of the 80's: Where Do We Go From Here?" At that time, the symposium planning committee, composed of members of the Univer~it) of Texa~ faculty
  • curator last year. He contin­ ued to supervise its execution on a part-time basis as a consultant. Lupita Barrera Bryant, guest curator, was responsible for the research and acqui­ sition of artifacts and the exhibit text. The land as it has existed
  • Office. SoreJ Etrog, a Romanian-born artist who studied in New York City, pro­ duced this bronze abstract. Titled simply "The Source," and massive in appearance, it weighs less than six hundred pounds. Its permanent pedestal had not arrived at the time
  • of those interv1ew!>-involving 91 persons-were accomplished in the past year Most of the interviews-962-are available for research; 56 others have been deeded over to the Library but they are not yet open for research because of time restrictions. Th
  • of the time--Kennedy and Humphrey because Johnson eliminated one and selected ,theother as his vice presidential running mate, Goldwater because he would be the Republican candi­ date in the election. "An Evening With .... " Frank Vandiver, President
  • , weapons, uniforms, paintings, car­ toons and memorabilia lent by a dozen institutions and individuals across the country. Also shown are some newsreels of the time. The exhibition will run until January 8, 1989. TO G i'ERAL A catalogue of the exhibition
  • for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton. The $1,000 award was created from a bequest left to the Library in 1981 by D. B. Hardeman, long-time aide to Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and, later, House Majority Whip Hale Boggs. Hardeman wanted
  • and memorabilia of servicemen who the day before their deaths had been part of peace­ time America are among the most poignant items in the display. Visitors study a mock-up of desert tank action. 3 Lifesize figures add interest to the exhibit
  • common life which is education, it has been that lead. The evidence of this is impressive beyond dispute. Thie was the first state in all the Union to open the doors of a State University to the people. Here in Greensboro, learning has been encouraged
  • st moment Sam Rayburn set eyes on this hill was a day in March of 1913. He arrived from Texas• Old Fourth District and stepped out of Union Station to see before him the breath-taking beauty of the glistening white Capitol dome. It was love at first
  • and commemorated in 1990, the 25th an­ niversary year of that event. It all culminated in a series of re­ unions and conferences that lit up the spring for alumni of the Great Society and members of the Friends of the LBJ Library. Men and women who served
  • it to be We had efforts all the time to try to reach accommtxlations with the Russians and he signed a lot of treaties of one kind or anoth r with the Soviet Union during that time. It was a period of tension . . but with all of th"s a social revolution
  • the world's, major powers. By all the good old rules of political reaction, these events should have strengthened President Johnson in his 1964 election run. In times of crisis, U.S. voters ordinarily flock to the cause of the man in office. Johnson, who
  • the world's, major powers. By all the good old rules of political reaction, these events should have strengthened President Johnson in his 1964 election run. In times of crisis, U.S. voters ordinarily flock to the cause of the man in office. Johnson, who
  • and strategy, and political problems. Truman delivers his final State of the Union Message. Senator Bricker and 63 other cosponsors introduce a proposed constitutional amendment that provides that a treaty that denies or abridges any right enumerated
  • the Watergate scandal, and the Per ian Gulf War. His hallmark has been quiet and effective diplomacy; hi mantra was always " ever l t the other fellow set the agenda." Time magazine once called him "the Velvet Hammer." In his first statevvide campaign
  • of a master politician at work," Burka noted that the passage of time and a new appreciation of Johnson's social programs clearly contributed to !his new look. But without the release of the tapes at this time, a quarter-century before the schedule set
  • his State of the Union Message to Congress, calling for a cost-of-living tax credit, an anti-inflation program, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii and support for the Marshall Plan. According to James Forrestal, Secretary of Defense, the response
  • . No business is conducted until after Eisenhower’s State of the Union Message on 1/9. At a conference of Democratic senators held before Senate convenes, LBJ gives a Democratic message on the state of the Union, in advance of Eisenhower’s message. In it he sums
  • the same time. meaning more elderly people depending upon a shrinking work force for support. The proces is already taking hold in Japan. -uropc. and the European parts of the former Soviet Union-and may be beginning in China. Young History Researcher
  • welcomed shade and that comfortable feeling of deep roots. There was a marveloU.:s; swimming hole off the campus that must by now be lost t c-; the forces of progress. But the center of life was the Union Building. We all gathered there at the Post Office
  • IssueNumberL August1, 1991 "It's all here-The story of our time, with the bark off!' -LBJ at dedicationof Library,May 22, 1971. 20 years of Library faces, pages2-3. "20 Yearsof The faces on these pages and the cover are some of the leaders
  • the State of the Union Message. CTJ hosts the first of two luncheons for wives of new senators. The second is 1/14. 1/10 Soviets send message to Eisenhower and 26 other nations calling for a conference to discuss the reunification of Germany through