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- coup d’etat seizes power in Czechoslovakia,
suppresses opposition newspapers.
1948 Chronology ● p. 4 of 45
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- the Radio Correspondents Association annual dinner.
Senator Joe McCarthy arrives in Houston to investigate whether improper
influence was exercised in a recent pipeline construction case before the Federal
Power Commission.
2/9
General Omar Bradley
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replacing James Farley.
8/7
LBJ, Charlie Marsh and George Brown in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia;
Marsh giving advice on newspapers.
CTJ goes to Santa Fe, New Mexico; George, Alice and Margaret Brown are also
there; CTJ is at La Prudia, New Mexico
- who are in
Washington for the American Society of Newspaper Editors Association
convention. A surprise birthday cake is served to Mrs. Diana Hobby, wife of
William P. Hobby, Jr., during the three-hour voyage.
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- Hospital this morning. Dr. Willis Hurst is also
in Washington, has dinner with the Johnsons at their home the next night.
February
2/2
Eisenhower presents the American Heart Association “Heart of the Year” Award to
LBJ in a ceremony at the White House
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LBJ attends stag dinner in honor of the President, hosted by George H. Baker of
Business Magazine Editors Association.
1/23
LBJ is scheduled to meet with Truman, but cancels. Later that day LBJ hosts
dinner for John Connally, Cameron McElroy and Ray
- is
charged with treason, espionage and black market activities, and admits he is
“guilty in principle.”
2/5
Democratic caucus meets to discuss amending the cloture rule.
LBJ attends Radio Correspondents Association Annual Dinner honoring the
President
- column and radio broadcast. LBJ wants to see the memoranda to see
who has come up with ideas.
1/25
Robert E. Lee is confirmed as a member of the FCC by a 58 to 25 Senate vote,
despite the controversy which arise because of Lee’s association
- with the Newspaper
Editors Association at the Waldorf, later meets in his hotel suite with Ed Weisl,
Dick Berlin and George Sokolsky. They return to Washington at 9:30 p.m.
4/27
LBJ attends the Democratic Conference at 10:30 a.m. and opens the Senate at
noon
- with CTJ, MMW and Geraldine, where he addresses American
Society of Newspaper Editors at a luncheon, and later meets with Texas newspaper
editors in Hotel Roosevelt suite. They fly to LBJ Ranch at 5 p.m.
4/20
Drives to Brooks AFB with MMW for a checkup
- issues a statement saying that Truman’s seizure of the steel mills is
“extremely dangerous and could open the way to seizure of newspapers, labor
unions and churches” and criticizes Truman’s use of the inherent powers of the
presidency to justify his
- in the following weeks when the
Eisenhower Administration appears willing to impose sanctions.
Senator Robertson writes LBJ about the criticism in the Virginia newspapers over
the delay in the Senate on the Mideast Resolution: “Since the President has U.S.
over
- is vice chairman of the premiere and party,
which benefits the Washington Heart Association fund drive.
LBJ announces the appointment of Stuart Symington, Henry Jackson, John
Sparkman, Richard L. Neuberger, and Pat McNamara to the Senate Democratic
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7/7
Flies to Fort Worth with Reedy, MMW, Lucia and Birge; met by Amon Carter,
Warren Woodward, Raymond Buck. LBJ meets with Sarah Hughes at the Texas
Hotel before addressing the Texas Bar Association; returns to Ranch that night.
7/10
Returns
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Administrators. Returns to DC that evening.
2/18
Off-the-record meeting this morning w/JFK re: nuclear testing. Attends luncheon
honoring George Jessel, meets w/Hobart Taylor, Reedy, Dr. John Kenney, president
of the National Medical Association and 5 other
- in the rest of the world but not
in the U.S.
LBJ speaks before the American Society Newspaper Editors Dinner.
1958 Chronology ● p. 16 of 45
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10/23
LBJ speaks before the annual convention of the Independent Natural Gas
Association of America in Houston.
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CTJ and LBJ are in Austin.
That afternoon LBJ flies to St. Louis to address the National Association of
Postmasters
- for civilian war housing project for the San Marcos
Navigation School is selected.
2/11
President Roosevelt nominates Thurman Arnold as an associate justice of the
Circuit Court for the District of Columbia.
2/16
Ida Nell Connally has a baby daughter.
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and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive.
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4/17
LBJ announces he has submitted plan to the U.S. Associate Director of Defense
Research Laboratory, Dr. M.J. Thompson
- . Mayer, Jack Warner, Sam Wood, Adolphe Menjou, Walt Disney testify
before House Un-American Activities Committee about communism in film
industry.
10/21
LBJ addresses Southwest Regional Conference of National Association of Housing
in San Antonio
- address on the problems of the South and the
need for leadership.
A struggle for control of the N.Y. waterfront between the AFL and the CIO
entered the pier strike as members of the International Longshoremen’s
Association (AFL) started a back-to-work
- by the board of regents.
11/3
American Association of University Professors scores UT regents action, plans
intervention. Students continue protest. Faculty reaffirms confidence in Rainey.
11/7
FDR elected to fourth term.
11/13
James Lawrence Fly resigns
