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  • a Christmas season program entitled ''Twentieth Century Song Book: A Musical Celebration.'' Coming Events February 13-April 18: An exhibition of Mexican Prints. February 22: Richard Norton Smith, Director of the Herbert Hoover Library, will discuss George
  • of Texas A&M Press' re-publication of her Ruffles and Flourishes, a best­ selling account of her service in the Johnson White House. RichardNorton Smith, directorof the Herbert Hoover Library, brought his just-publishedbiogra­ phy of the first U.S
  • on the presidential inauguration stand but ex­ President Herbert Hoover, behind Truman, takes a serious view of the situation. Left to right: Mrs. Tru­ man; Mrs. John Eisenhower; Mrs. Richard i.·on; Maj. John Eisenhower: Mrs. Eisenhower; William R. Castle, former
  • traditions, so did the striking of a commemo­ rative medal for a presidential inauguration. The medals were first produced in very limited quantities, mainly as gifts for the Inaugural Committee. Not until Herbert Hoover's time were the medals sold
  • , yet the passions of the times and the temper of an antagonistic Congress prevented a sensible period of reconstruction. I thought that Herbert Hoov r was a wise and compassionate man, but he was com­ pletely unable to cope with the economic disaster
  • by the National Archives and Records Administration. Most recently, Fawcett has served as Assistant Director, and then acting Dir,ector of the Herbert Hoover Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa. He was named to his new position by Don W. Wilson (right
  • Smith, Director of the Herbert Hoover Library. Claudine Weiher, Deputy Archivist of the United States Tom Johnson, President of the LBJ Foundation Board of Directors; Caro­ line Kennedy, representing the Kennedy Library Foundation, and William vanden
  • at the University of Michigan. ,-..... Former Yale baseball infielder George Bush displays his form at horseshoes. I0 Physical Fitness in the White House infonnation). Herbert Hoover invented a variation of volleyball which used a ten-pound medicine ball instead
  • was crucial in allowing me Loget a bel­ t r understanding of my topic. My proje t received the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library·s Award for best u 'C of Presidential Library Sources at State competiti n. 1 was chosen to represent the state of Iowa
  • , CTJ and General Harry Vaughan (Truman’s military aide) attend the services. LBJ, Wright Patman and Rayburn speak on the “Texas State Forum of the Air” regarding congressional response to domestic issues. LBJ says that the Hoover Commission’s first
  • in Presidential Library Collections "Homeplace" Honeymoon (Johnsons) Honor Guard (U.S. Armed Forces) Honorary Degrees and Awards Honorary Memberships Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar - 11/23/63 Telephone Conversation with LBJ (IBM Belt Recording) Hoover (Herbert
  • Presidential administrations. The third has no name yet, but he says it will cover the administrations from James Buchanan to Herbert Hoover. In the meantime, he says "Secrets" has been selling well. Later this year, he says a different publisher will release
  • Presidential administrations. The third has no name yet, but he says it will cover the administrations from James Buchanan to Herbert Hoover. In the meantime, he says "Secrets" has been selling well. Later this year, he says a different publisher will release
  • by LBJ Library archival staff from oral history transcripts and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive. discoverlbj.org LBJ and CTJ attend a dinner as guests of Tom Pickett in honor of Herbert Hoover
  • other Steering Committee members to decide on appointments. Pearson also criticizes LBJ’s support of Price Daniel over Herbert Lehman for a seat on the Judiciary Committee. Lehman has more seniority but is not a lawyer, an unofficial requirement
  • · i . October 22, 1964·. •'• j ,·•; . Attended Memorial Service for· President Herbert Hoover, s·t. Bar~holomew's Episcopal Church, New York City f . October 31, 1964. · :. ·_· · ·.. ',' _·.·. :· :, 'Campaign speech; Madison Square Garden, New
  • , it is con­ sidered a permanent exh1b1l. Radios are part of the new display techniques. From a vintage radio visitor· listen to the voice of Woodrow Wilson. Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt speak from a radio built in 1933 while campaign
  • , Mitchell and Mitch II, P.A. George H. Nash Historian, Author and Biographer of Herbert Hoover Douglass Cater. President Washington College "The ·ew Deal's Legacy For The Future" Mr. Cater Mr. Brademas Vernon E. Jordan. Jr. Attorney at Law Akin, Gump
  • badly that it required stitches. Despite these outbursts, Johnson's love for Blanco never wavered. Answer: Blanco was a gift and not a dog that any member of our family was close to. *- Edgar was named after J. Edgar Hoover who had given the pup to LBJ
  • badly that it required stitches. Despite these outbursts, Johnson's love for Blanco never wavered. Answer: Blanco was a gift and not a dog that any member of our family was close to. *- Edgar was named after J. Edgar Hoover who had given the pup to LBJ
  • that the “Dump Nixon” movement is flourishing again. High-ranking conservative Republicans in Washington are claiming that men such as Herbert Brownell, Jr., General Lucius Clay, Paul Hoffman, and Sidney Weinberg are discussing various alternative candidates
  • attends meetings of the Appropriations Committee and State-Justice-Judiciary subcommittee today. Among his phone calls are ones to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and J. Edgar Hoover. 5/14 State-Justice-Judiciary Subcommittee marks up
  • . On this case as on any such case, the public interest cones before all personal feelings. I have requested and received Mr. Jenkins' resignation. Within moments after being notified last night, I ordered Director J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI to make an immediate
  • . On this case as on any such case, the public interest cones before all personal feelings. I have requested and received Mr. Jenkins' resignation. Within moments after being notified last night, I ordered Director J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI to make an immediate
  • from the collections of the Library of Congress, the National Ar­ chives, the Ohio Historical Society, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy Presidential Libraries. From March 15 to April 25, 1976
  • and scenes from the pa ·t. John Fawcett has been Chief of the Audiovisual Section since 1973. He began his career as a museum assistant with the Hoover Library while studying physics at the University of Iowa. He soon changed his major to history, and became
  • sident Hoover's. At eac.h place I learned som thing ... First, [the Library is] a research facility. We house all of Lyndon's papers-you can't get librarians to throw anything away-and the papers f a good many of the people who were his working assodates
  • . He call d J. Edgar Hoover to tell him that he wants the inquiry to be run by the FBI at the federal level, and by state attorney general Waggoner Carr at the state level. Johnson said, "So I looked at the transcript that I had prepared in part and I
  • , offering limited technical and financial aid to areas facing school desegregation. Reedy reports that J. Edgar Hoover is opposed to legislation in the bombing field, but will not publicly oppose the bill. 1/22 LBJ attends executive session of the Armed
  • Library; James O'N ill, Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries; Robert Wood, Assi"itanl Director or the Hoover I ibraq; Robert Warner, Archivist of the United States; Thomas Soapes, Office f Presidential Libraric.,; Claudine Weiher, ,\s:.istant
  • their annual meeting at the Library at the time of the opening of the World War II exln'bition. Standing are: Ralph Bledsoe, Reagan Library; John Taylor, Nixon Library; Ben Zobrist, Truman Library; Richard Norton Smith, Hoover Library; John Fawcett, Assistant
  • , and all future chief executives. Consequently, there now exist librnries bear­ versity of Texas anJ are operated by the :..1tiunal Services Archives of the General ing the names of Presidents Hoover, Roose­ velt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy
  • Hoover recommends U.S. spend $475 million to supply German citizens with food, fertilizer and petroleum products to insure the survival of Germany and Western Europe. March 3/4 Greek government appeals to U.S. for speedy financial assistance, arms
  • ~. Lyndon 8. Johnson; an mscnbed pholograph ol President Harry Trumar1, 1964, a gift from Pr s1d nt Truman to Presid nt Johnson: bronze pres11.lential m dais set in silver of Pr sidcnts H 'rbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, a gift from l'v[ilton S
  • shake hands with J. Edgar Hoover. 6/11 Truman vetoes Case Bill, calling it far too restrictive on unions. House attempts to override veto but falls short of two-thirds needed. LBJ votes yea. House passes terminal leave bill for enlisted men, 380-0
  • address to answer the charges. He maintains that he made the appointment with the approval of J. Edgar Hoover because failing to do so would have tipped off many other people then under surveillance by the FBI. Truman also charges that the Eisenhower
  • Kittrell, Kilgores, Jenkins and Carpenters. 6/11 LBJ attends anti-discrimination subcommittee of PCEEO. Attends 4:30 p.m. WH full cabinet meeting. He talks with J. Edgar Hoover and with Walter Winchell that evening. 1962 Chronology ● p. 15 of 35 07/2024
  • to the Interior Department have been abandoned. The transfer had been recommended by the Hoover Commission on Reorganization of the Executive Branch. 4/25 Mrs. Bob Bartley hosts a tea for Miss Lou Rayburn. Fagan Dickson, executive director of the Loyal Democrats