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  • is that I feel I know McAlester and the surrounding area because I learned about it from a dear friend of yours, my husband's and mine, the late Senator Bob Kerr. Last September at the dedication of Eufaula Dam, the President told us of Senator Kerr's dreams
  • Among Bob Hope's daughter Linda opened the exhibit honoring her father at the Johnson Library. Story on page 23. Photo by Charles Bogel. An Evening With Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Joe Califano was LBJ's top aide for domestic legislation. He oversaw
  • was small b y t cday 'a standardo, and we came mostly from small towns all ove r T ex ae . But we c ounted ourselve3 fortunate that we coul d study with a faculty that boas ted such intellectual g iants as Dr. Bob Montg omery, Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, and J
  • (AS ACTUALLY DELIVER ED ) MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON: Friends, I feel like I am seeing a dream come true because for years I would hecr Senator Bob Kerr talk about his plans for his State -- dams, water, soil conservation, flood control -- and here I am with one
  • he said "Hello, Bob, how are you, how is your wife Maisy, how are the children (calling them all by name), you haven't been in to see me, I don't know why you haven't ... how's everything out there? But Bob, I've been looking at your registration
  • for the congressman-at-large seat also, which Texas gained when the legislature did not redistrict the state in 1951. There is also speculation that Martin Dies may announce. Early January Olin Teague is touring Korea for about 2 1/2 weeks, and he hopes to visit
  • com­ plete some of the programs of his predecessors. Medical insurance for the elderly had been on the Demo­ cratic agenda since Harry Truman's time. The hope of federal aid for ed­ ucation went back as far as Franklin Roosevelt. The Civil Rights law
  • often reminisce. B cause we hoped his book would capture the flavor of the essential LBJ, we tried Lointroduce a tape recorder into those reminiscing ses ion . But he was no better with that machine than he had been with a TV camera in the White House
  • and know you arc loved." The note was recently discov­ ered in his personal effects by long­ time Johnson friend Bob Waldron, who turned it over to the Library. photo by Ccci I Stoughton 2 'l\vo panels address issues the new President embraced as his
  • ." The idea for the exhibit actually began with Mrs. Johnson, who expressed the hope to Library staff members several years ago that the museum would one day undertake to show the Mexican influence in her nath·e state. Former Congressman Jake Pickle
  • son's legacy of reaching out to everyone, we hope this adds a welcoming di­ mension for our non-Eng­ lish speaking visitors." Photos by Charles Bogel Archivist Bob Tissing here shows a group of African French-speakers a few tips on the new device. 2
  • to Acapulco the next day. 2/10 The Johnsons, Kellams, Baileys, Wiley and Bob Armstrong leave at 1 p.m. for Mexico on Wesley West’s plane. They are forced to spend the night in Monterrey after the pilot refuses to fly into the unfamiliar terrain around
  • government to be a force that could be harnessed for LBJ's Remarks at Library Dedication We are all partners in this hopeful undertaking. The people of Texas built this Library. The national archives will manage the Library. The documents I have saved since
  • /12 FDR wires LBJ to remain in Texas and campaign; CTJ campaigns for LBJ in Elgin, Giddings, Brenham and Washington County, accompanied by Mrs. Bob Long. 6/13-6/14 LBJ tours West Texas. 6/16 Giant LBJ homecoming rally in Wooldridge Park, Austin
  • of the 'Johnson boys' has come home to Southwest Texas." Bob Hardesty, new president of Southwest Texas Slate University, ponders a painting of the University's most distinguished alumnus, which hangs in the Academic Center at the Universily. 2 Library Docents
  • . McNeill’s. Sleeps late next day. 6/15 LBJ has lunch with General Brett. 6/17 LBJ attends dinner for Joe, Tisse Reichstein, Elaine Clark, Perren and Bob Sherrod. Has supper with Marquat, Van North, Kurtz and Vance. Directive issued to House and Senate
  • include Bill Moyers. Jack Valenti. Registration fee required. Contact Kristie Kimbell, 512-471-3200; www.utexas.edu/lbj/civilrights March 6-April 25 Special exhibit, "Bob Hope: American Pai-riot." April 13 An Evening with Joseph A. Califano, Jr
  • for so many years: thank you, thank you, thank you." Library Travels the Information Superhighway by Bob Brewin The following is excerpted from an article that appeared in Federal Computer Week magazine. rt is reprinted with the magazine's per­ mi ion
  • that I wasn't on drugs. [Laughter] That's P-A-S-S- -D. [Laughter] l 've not talked a lot about v hat happened in [the election cri­ sis in] Florida, but I do in this book. My really good pal, Bob Strauss, for whom you've named the Robert S. Strauss Center
  • staff wrote in response to LBJ’s congressional mail that “LBJ has been ill with the flu for several days and although he hopes to return to Washington almost any day now he has been unable to obtain reservations on the train or plane.” The bill LBJ
  • with HHH and Harry McPherson at 12:20. Other appointments: Dale Miller, Ed Welsh, Najeeb Halaby, Oscar Chapman and Dr. Teller, Bob Dunphy. Attends executive meeting of NSC at WH this afternoon before informal dinner at the Goldbergs with CTJ and Lynda. 1
  • recovery” from the coronary thrombosis he suffered on 9/24/55. LBJ and CTJ attend KTBC board meeting in Austin. On 2/15 they hold a long meeting with KTBC sales staff--Bud Graham, Bob Meacham, Bob Slack, Bobbitt, Kellam, Harvey Herbst, Victor [?], Earl
  • all day, except for meeting Mr. & Mrs. Graham Purcell at Friendship and stopping by Thornberry office staff party. 1/29 Attends coffee in McCormack’s office for Purcell. Meets with Gene Chambers; Bob Donovan (Times Herald); Andrew Heiskell (Life
  • comfort: "Strom Thurmond is ninety-five years old. And all of his children are younger than mine." And that recollection led her to a not unrelated observarion: '·Bob Dole goes and tells the world that hc'".i on Viagra. Who needed 10 know that?" Ms
  • , there was the unconditional love of her Grandpa Patton. a junk dealer and ex-convict. He told her she was spe­ cial and worthy of God's love. Then there was the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church with its emphasis on respectability, educa­ tion, and responsibility
  • CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) is invited to a dinner for ladies only given by Mrs. Bob Kerr. 1/10 LBJ announces new committee assignments for Democratic senators. Former Vice President Alben Barkley is assigned to the Foreign Relations and Finance
  • 29, 1963 Bernard Safran 8 MARTIN LUTHER KING February 18, 1957 Boris Chaliapin BOB HOPE December 22, 1967 Marisol LADY BIRD JOHNSON August 28, 1964 Boris Artzybasheff BOBBY KENNEDY May 24, 1968 Roy Lichtenstein BARRY COLDWATER June 12, 1964
  • , honoring Oveta Hobby and Bob Anderson. 3/4 As part of Ike’s “New Look,” the NSC requests that the Defense budget be cut by about $4 billion in fiscal 1954 and another $6.6 billion in fiscal 1955 in order to reduce the deficit and achieve a balanced budget
  • .. The three most cl scly identified with it werr Wilhur Cohen, Bob Hardesty, and Jack Otis, Dean of the University of Texas' Graduate School of Social Work. Each proposal carried the saml' rea~ ing: Th, i;ocial programs C'71aL tr•d in the 196()"s slirrE:d hope
  • of Alaska (Ernest Gruening and E. L. Bob Bartlett). LBJ is re-elected majority leader; Everett Dirksen defeats John Sherman Cooper for the position of minority leader left vacant by the retirement of William Knowland. When the Senate opens, LBJ, exercising
  • Lausche votes with the Democrats to organize the Senate. Senator Mansfield is elected Democratic whip. Senator Anderson offers a motion to consider the adoption of new Senate rules in hopes of changing Rule 22, the filibuster rule. LBJ immediately moves
  • does not ome into play. But the "nd result. Faulkner hopes, will be roughly the same: increa.-ed minority enrollment. Final! , Faulkner vow d that he would not allow any compromise in UT's high academic stan lards. Since most of the undergraduates at T
  • L.B.J. I have enclosed a copy of my essay for you to read. I hope you enjoy reading it. They would only let us write about a page. I had many pages of notes about President Johnson and even have a book of some of his White House tapes. I could have
  • and books. Ms. Robb high­ lighted LBJ's passion for helping people, and concluded with the hope that her new program, uture Forum (see article on page 13), would continue to serve LBJ's memory and dedication to public service. She said, When I see a!I of you
  • with smiles on our faces. Those of you who did not know him missed the rarest human being of a lifetime. But I hope that you and the legions of others who benefited from his activities will take pleasure that you, too, share his legacy." Larry Temple
  • a lot of writing at Camp David, but he also had noted guests in for visits. Here, he chats with entertainer Bob Hope in Aspen Cabin in late 1972. l, Camp David has residents other than humans, and here President Gerald Ford, Mrs. Ford, son Steve
  • a lot of writing at Camp David, but he also had noted guests in for visits. Here, he chats with entertainer Bob Hope in Aspen Cabin in late 1972. l, Camp David has residents other than humans, and here President Gerald Ford, Mrs. Ford, son Steve
  • er for his alma mater. where hi~ friends have endowed a $500.000 professorship in his name. He was vice chairman of the Bob Bullock State Museum Foundation, and served on the boards of the Vice Chairman,Passes Away PhOlos hy Yoiclti Okw11010