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- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- , Oregon.
4/11
LBJ surveys labor supply in Portland shipbuilding industry.
4/13
LBJ meets with NYA personnel re: war work centers, leaves Portland via Union
Pacific.
4/15
LBJ arrives in Denver, Colorado, meets with Orren Lull, Colorado NYA director
- to the next.
Reedy had previously written a memo saying that without some concessions,
Senate rules would probably be drastically rewritten at the beginning to the next
session of Congress.
1/10
Eisenhower delivers the State of the Union Message to a joint
- attend a reception in his honor
at the Women’s National Democratic Club. They also attend the traditional
birthday dinner in his honor given by long-time friend and recent widow, Mrs.
J.L. Aston. In the late evening, Rayburn and LBJ attend the annual stag
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elected Speaker of the House.
1/6
Eisenhower delivers his State of the Union Message before a joint session of
Congress. In foreign affairs Eisenhower promises that “America’s response to
aggression will be swift and decisive” and calls for a military
- , and the cook has
recovered. . . . For the time being we seem to be getting along very well.”
4/26
On FDR’s orders, Army troops take possession of Montgomery Ward and
Company after Sewell L. Avery, company chairman, and company directors
refused to obey
- Stassen.
1/9
Truman delivers the State of the Union Message. [?] is appointed to the
committee to escort Truman to the chamber.
1/11-1/12
LBJ, Estes Kefauver, Lester Hunt and John Stennis conducted hearings in New
York City, checking on the cost
- with Texas delegation. During afternoon
meets with Walker Stone, talks with Thornberry re: Will Wilson wire (?), and later
to Lee White and Arthur Goldberg re: Bobby Troutman.
1/11
Talks with Goldberg re: Troutman. At 12:30 Kennedy delivers State of Union
- . Senator Douglas is going to attempt to tack an
anti-lynching amendment onto the natural gas bill.
Eisenhower delivers State of the Union Message to Congress, outlining foreign,
farm, tax and other major election-year issues. He calls for payments
- Hawaii or
Alaska to the Union at this time.
Dudley Dougherty writes the general managers of Texas radio stations carrying
LBJ’s weekly radio broadcasts and asks them to provide him with the same
services they provide LBJ.
3/21
In his Sunday radio
-
Eisenhower delivers the State of the Union address at 12:30; afterward LBJ
meets with JFK and Robert Kennedy.
The Democratic Conference meets at 3:30. At the conference, Gore introduces a
motion to expand the Democratic Policy Committee from 9 to 15 members
- of the Union Message to Congress,
recommends “an eight-point anti-inflation program, public housing, Universal
Military Training, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, an increase in the minimum
wage--from 40¢ to 50¢ an hour, and compulsory national health insurance
- of the Union Message to the joint session of
Congress at 1 p.m.
1/6
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) and Wright Patman arrange a birthday luncheon for
Rayburn at which Truman is a surprise guest.
1/12
Tea for Mrs. Truman at Blair House.
1/13
LBJ writes Dorothy Plyler
- residence.
1/7
Meetings with JFK, part of the time on the Honey Fitz.
1/8
Meeting with JFK this morning at Kennedy residence and aboard Honey Fitz.
Returns to Washington that afternoon, meets with JFK and congressional leaders at
This chronology
- Clark at 10:30
(on same subject?).
3/15
Senator Frear sworn in as SEC commissioner, NSC meeting at 2:00, WH black tie
dinner for Prince and Princess Radziwill.
3/16
LBJ addresses Farmer’s Union at 3:45, 4:00 attends WH meeting on Cuba.
1961
