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- majored in
journalism and became sports editor
of the student newspaper. the Daily
Texan. After a stint as capitol corre
spondent for International News
Service, he became press secretary to
Texas Governors Price Daniel and
John Connally. ln 1966 he
- at the Lyndon Eames Johnson
Library m Austin.
-The Dallas Morning News
November 5, 1978
World War I veteran salutes a11 members
of service organizationr;i lay memorial
wreathR
C remon,>hegin~ at
2
The opening was a community affair.
The Austin-Travis County V
- Among
Issue
umber LXXU, January, 2000
New Exhibit Features Work
of Cartoon Genius
Bud Butler
Story on Page Two
A Romp Through Peace and War:
Illustrations and cari
catures of everyday life in
the early 20th century
make up the newest exhibit
- in Austin.
I'd been around the capitol a lot, edi
tor of The Daily Texan. and to hear a
man talk this way three days after I
left [ there] was kind of boggling.
And he said, 'We're in a race with
time, and I hope we can succeed be
cause if we don't
-
rchives Capture Project, headed by
the Central Intelligence Agen y.
The growth of Lhe world wide
web has created new demands for
electronic access to our holdings.
The Library sent to the National
Archives
about 500 pages of
President Johnson's
Daily Diary
- . The
vacated space, located next to the
replica Oval Office, proved to be an
ideal spot for a new gallery.
The quandary of financing the
project remained. There would be
significant costs, which the Museum
budget was unprepared LOcover. That
problem vanished
- : A
Biography."
University of Texas faculty members
Bruce Buchanan (Government),
Richard Schott (LBJ School)
and Michael Stoff (History) form
the committee which advises the
library on awarding grants.
s
Museum News:
Lisa Royse New Curator; Major
- to the public on
June 5. On the evening before, 800 members of the Friends
f the Library gathered for a preview of the new displays, a
buffet supper on the plaza and a gala program of entertain
ment by Opera Diva Leontyne Price, Broadway star Carol
Channing
- Issue Number LXIX September 18, 1998
Balcony Sculpture Garden
(See story on page 2)
The Balcony Sculpture Garden
Gary Yarrington, former curator
of the LBJ Museum and a sculptor by
avocation, furnished the inspiration
for this new showpiece. Set
- . And when he
chose LO address the country on the energy cri is, he deliberately
picked the format of the fireside chat. In the 1980 campaign, even
Ronald Reagan quoted from FDR to such an extent in his acceptance
addre. s that the New York Times titled its
-
eighty hours of recordings
of
President Johnson's telephone con
versations, covering the months of
January through March 1964. This
new opening, along with the record
ings for November 22 through
December 31, 1963, which previous
ly were opened
- Issue Number XLII February 15, 1988
Lady Bird Johnson at 75 (seepp. 2-3)
Photo by Frank Wolfe
Jubilee Year Filled With Activity
Lady Bird Johnson's jubilee year
she was 75 on December 22-was
marked by a move into a new house
which she decorated
- the Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute; author,
The Years of MacArthur
WILLIAM J. JORDEN, Correspondent, Associated Press, 1948-1952; Correspondent, New York Times,
1952-1955; U.S. Ambassador to Panama, 1974-1978
Panel
- ½. The
State of New York/Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr., State Office Building
Collection.
2
Bal Jeunesse by Palmer Hayden
Collection of Dr. Meredith Sirmans
Meta Warrick Fuller. Talking skull.
1937. Bronze, 28x40X15. The
Museum of Afro-American History,
Boston
- of American for
ces to Vietnam. President Lyndon
Johnson maneuvered the measure
through the House and Senate with
astonishing speed. The vote in Con
gress, with only Senators Morse and
Gruenjng dissenting, was to mark the
beginning of a new phase
- to me.... "
But she did know long-time LBJ
aide Horace Busby, a childhood
friend of hers. So when Ms. Smith
was working at Cosmopo!ita11 maga
zine, and its new owner Helen Gurley
Brown asked her to do a story on the
Johnson girls, she said, "Okay, 1
- . A month later, some of them
joined members of the Friends of the
LBJ Library for a celebration that
saw I ,600 people dining on the
Library's plaza (see cover photo).
At both the Washington and Austin
events, a new film titled "LBJ: A
Remembrance
- ,"
she said.
To round out a busy day, mem
bers of the Johnson family also
appeared in Au tin on Wednesday
afternoon at the LBJ Library to
celebrate the opening of a new
exhibit, "To the Moon," which
celebrates the nascent space pro
gram in the 1960s
- , members of the Friends joined Mr~.
Lyndon 8. Johnson and Archivist of the United Stutes
Jame~ fl. Rhoads at premieres of a multimedia presenta
tion, LBJ Humor, and the new Library Orientation Film.
Both features were produced by the Library staff
- -=-;
_Among
Friends
ofLBJ
ISSUE NUMBER XXI,JANUARY15, 1981
A NEWSLETTEROF
TH£ FRIENDS OF THE LBJ LIBRARY
Mrs. Johnson greets new Board member George Christian.
Foundation
Board Meets in Special Session
Members of The Lyndon Baines John
son
- Issue Number LXVIII May 1, 1998
Images of LBJ
(see pages 2-3)
A new and \ er~ popular
exhibit in the Library is an auto
mated talking and moving l"igureof
President Johnson telling humor
ous stories. The animatronic image
was built by the Sally
- opinion so much.' Later his
mother succumbed to typhoid- ·he
too was only 46-on the same day
that his wife died of complications r
her first childbi1th.
Luckinbill/TR recalled staiting in
politics in the New ~ rk A sernbl
when he was fre·h from Harvard. s
- . President,
Patriarch: George Washington and
the New American Nation. He
describedWashingtonas a "politi
cal genius" who "was able to per
suade almost everyone, including
himself, that he was no politicianat
all."
oven door and pulled out two pecan
pies
- ,°
In his r tirement LBJ had
me to lunch on cla . The Dallas
Morning New had published a story
saying LBJ wanted to be chancellor f
The niver:;ity of Texas. H glared at
me and asked. '·Why in the hell would
I want be the chancellor nf The
University of Texas
- , in the New York Times, notes that Caro weighs the
evidence to get the picture he wants and confuses the function of a
biographer wilh that of a Judge "-and in this case, a hanging
judge." For those seeking to understand Johnson, Donald says,
"Mr. Caro's book
- movies are in the Johnson Library.
This wealth of unique material is
drawn upon by people from a variety of
backgrounds, from scholars researching
biographies to producers of news
documentaries, from photo editors to
members of the public who simply want
- a
factor in a successful membership drive in Austin which
recently brought in almost 600 new members of the
"Friends of the LBJ Library." The total number of
members of that organization now stands at 2,575.
THE LIBRARY WITH
ROBERT FLYNN, author
-
Hyman, Professor of History at Rice
University; Dr. Morton Keller, Pro
fessor of History at Brandeis Univer
sity; Donald Bacon, formerly senior
legislative editor of U.S. News and
World Report and co-author of Ray
burn: A Biography; Dr. Raymond
Smock
- Douglass, which played
to a full auditorium at the Library.
2
OtherProgramsAt The Library.• •
. . . included Verne Newton, new
Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library in Hyde Park, New York
(below right), who discussed "The
Cambridge Spies," whose
- . E, c:r>girl there must
have kissed me!
h. la la' What a
vari ty of lip tick:·
"That co
ral gc l u nght ab ut
New )brk Ci on that d.t>:·
General
Powell aid. ··r knov. h • ,;
-
THEECONOMY:
As The Cartoonist
Saw It Then
Inflatiun and rrcession command a stronghold
on today·.- nl'WS spotlight. A. they struggle with
the eronomy. President ford and the new Con
gress are faking more
an a few ja s rom
e
powerful pens of editorial
-
included vivid references to nature in
love letters to Lyndon Johnson.Several
of these lel'ters were released recent
ly in connection wirh rhe new "First
Lady's Gallery .. exhibit. One of them
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor.
6
includes this passage
- , and therefore
his inactivity has deprived him of the
boost in his reputation that might
have come had he made more of an
effort to show [historians l the better
side of that period ... This may
change, however, because a new life
of Gerald Ford has just been
- .
Former President Jimmy Carter
inaugurated the series last year.
Luckinbill, currently appearing
in a play, "A Fair Country," in New
York, flew to Austin to make his
Darrow presentation on the one night
of the week when his play is not
given, to honor
- ,
playgrounds,
and open space.
Some 7,000,000 acres of new park
land and 38,000 recreation projects
in every county in the country were
made possible by the fund.
The Land and Water Con
servation Fund was created on the
recommendation of a Commission
made up
- economist Robert
Reischauer, reminded his colleagues
that "we are not the only group
meeting and coming up with lists of
new initiatives ... People are meet
ing all over the country, doing the
same kind of thing ... the environ
mentalists, the energy folks
- news
photographer for the Houston Press. ov ring the years 19591965, ox's photograph, document national political cam
paigns. th earl days f the space program, and social and
ultural de lopmen
s seen from
Houston perspective.
1ong the political
- of McCaiihy
ism. More successful in shap
ing the for ign policy f the
1960s and early 1970s were
the "new internationalists a
group of influential member
of Congr s • that included Stu
art Symington, J. William Ful
bright, Frank Church and Wi l
lian1
- Calcutta. And the re ·ult
fwas) Vietnam ... Lyndon Johnson inherited it and was su,pi
cmus of it. but he couldn't pcrsuaJc hims If that he 1-..new
more
about the suhje t than the people whos good fortune it was to
know more about such things than the likes
- charge of introducing new
gods and corrupting the youth of
Athens. He didn't do ither ... but he
did bring on the wrath of powerful peo
ple in Athens, because he questioned
them; he made them look silly, he
humiliated them. . . . And then in that
great
