Discover Our Collections


  • Collection > Reference File (remove)
  • Specific Item Type > Newsletter (remove)

95 results

  • who are dear to you. -Interview in Austin American Statesman My life is full and good. -Interview in Dallas Times Herald , Gould Book Describes 'New Role' Played By First Lady by Nancy Smith Lady Bird Johnson and the Environ­ ment, by Lewis Gould
  • by the Pedernales under the big oak trees preparing. The Secret Service, of course, with justi­ fication were concerned that there might be an accident so we were crossing every "T" as far as safety was concerned. About that time we heard the honking of a horn
  • for the Dallas Times Herald. Cyndi Krier. Texas state senator from Bexar County. Earl Lewis, department chairman and professor at Trinity University. Larry McMurtry. novelist. Dave McNeely, political editor of the Austin American-Statesman. Bill Messer. Texas
  • W Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.), Douglas Kiker (New York Herald Tribune), Francis Lewine (As­ sociated Press), John Chancellor (NBC), Marianne Means (Hearst Newspapers; Look Magazine), Bob Thompson (Los Angeles Times, Hearst), Helen Thomas (United
  • colum­ nist for the Dallas Times Herald, who in the course of her award­ winning career has worked for the Minneapolis Tribune, the Texas Observor and the New York Times, covered the recent revelation of pay­ ments to football players at SMU that became
  • special assistant, she was Acting Assistant Director for a time. Although retired, she continues to work with the Library staff on special events. In the last year of his life, President Johnson inscribed a photograph to Mrs. Territo: "For Dorothy Territo
  • for that reason. If you saw him six times a day, he'd put the charm on you. If you saw him every two weeks, he would. He was known for this and he loved to do it. It did have problems and it caused some problems because he used the charms as a filibuster. Re ently
  • prejudices had any part in what I did. We've moved so far ahead in civil rights and religious freedom in the last few years, it's like looking back on another time. 3 LBJ Reminisces The Fatal Trip to Dallas Dallas has always been a nightmare for me. I've
  • it in vivid detail. v n though it was more than sixty years ago. Mrs. Connally did read an excerpt from her book. a harrowing account of the murder of a president and the nearly fatal wound to her husband. "We were ·'More than anything, I had hoped Dallas
  • state so in future times. I believe it's already beginning so, to establish his position in American life. But for Israel, he was a special friend. "Israel has had the fortune of enjoying bipartisan support from the day of its establishment. All American
  • Ce111etery, LBJ Runch. Judith and I were deeply honored to be asked by Lady Bird to be here today. lo take part in and preside over these ac­ tivities. I wrote this in an essay Lhat appeared in the New York Times on the day after President Johnson was buried
  • to that. Yet George Christian did what few White House press secretaries have been able to do: he conscien­ tiously served a President who was wary of the press; at the same time he conscientiously served a press that was wary of the President. And because Mr
  • . Scott, L. Kaneem Smith, Kathleen Varnell 2 join in a discussion that has been going on since the time of W. E. B. DuBois: How best to represent a black aesthetic? What is the black aesthetic?" Alvia J. Wardlaw, Curator of Twentieth-Century Art
  • was an experience that you couldn't fully appreciate. Rarely did you get any time to see and enjoy the country and people, except from the back of a tlatbed truck in a motorcade looking through the view­ finders of a camera. Buf every now and then from that vantage
  • u.fi'aid it is politics.-Oh, I know l haven't any business-not any •pro­ prietary interest"-bul I would hate for you to go into politics." Mrs. Johnson .hasgiven the LBJ Library the picture albums that she kept from the time of her youth. Looking through
  • curator last year. He contin­ ued to supervise its execution on a part-time basis as a consultant. Lupita Barrera Bryant, guest curator, was responsible for the research and acqui­ sition of artifacts and the exhibit text. The land as it has existed
  • Corporation in Jacksonville, Florida. It was commissioned by Neiman Marcus of Dallas to be displayed by the department store during the cele­ bration of its 90th anniversary over the Christmas season. Neiman Marcus then donated it to the Library. The figure
  • : One Artist's Engaging Look at Life is an eye-opening look at the life and times of America and the world, through the peri­ od covering much of the first half of the twentieth century. Throughout his life, Butler's observant eye and scalding wit
  • . 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
  • and competitive steel industry. ("We've got to re-tool America," sai Jack Conway.) • holding down unemployment, and in fact creatrng millions of new jobs - particularly for the hard core unemployed in the ghetto (thereby defusing- a "social time bomb.") Rohatyn
  • , a movement, it.h your interest and your time. Y u can be useful." Following Mrs. Carter's presentat10n, a reception was held in the Great Hall of the Library. Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Johnson greet guei;tRin the Great Hall. Ms.Jordan M . Jordan said she
  • family rooms of the ranch. Significant furnishmgs are als isplayed. Another section is a gallery of western art, many f the paint­ ings and objects eing shown outside the LBJRanch for the first time. Some :>f!he paintings include "Following the Buffa
  • 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
  • . This time, however, ''we th,ink the ti.me has corne to mobilize an effort to do something" about the plight of children in America. Therefore, leading educators, heahh professionals, political leaders, comnumity activists and scholars as­ sembled not just
  • Folk Art in l'iew York City, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the Witte Museum in San An­ tonio, and Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin. She is currently represented bl Webb and Parsons (,al­ lery in Bedford Village. New York. 3 WOMEN: NEW VOICES
  • vious Lhre conferenc s focu, d on hm .S. policy toward Vietnam evol ed in Wash·ngton and was applied in the Field. This time, twenty prominent scholar, met to con­ sider ho, the Johnson Admini tration search d for peace in Vietnam. Pr . ident Johnson's
  • Among Issue um be1• I, XV, June, 200 I "Teddy:" An Evening With Lawrence Luckinbill His previous one-man show "Lyndon" and "Clarence Darrow' mesmerized LBJ Library audiences. On March 6, Lawrence Luckinbill did it again this time recreating
  • , were not at the time professional artist . But they were young and talented and felt compelled to record their thoughts and the scenes they were witnessing:' The exhibit, organized through the Vietnam Veterans Art Group of Chicago, Illinois, has been
  • Staffer Martin "Marty ' Underwood Marty Underwood. 88, a senior advance man on President Kennedy's staff. died in Baltimore on March 18. He had been in Kennedy's Dallas motorcade when the as a.­ sination occurred. Mr. Underwood entered government service
  • ,° 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
  • to convince the other side that, in fact, you will continue to do things to keep deterrence via­ ble ... And many times they appear to be contradictory things, but they both must be done if, in fact, we're going to achieve the objective of any national secunty
  • the four of us. But Lynda and I understood that time was precious and there was a BIG family to help. Tomorrow Daddy's political par­ ty and ours, the Democrats, will formally choose Barack Obama as their presidential candidate. Senator Obama is a man
  • one job for me, and one job only, f'rom here on out. horn now on. ever time we are meeting. whether it be in the abin t R om or with the Secretary or D fcnsc. or with whom­ ever, hO\· vcr private. I want you to p ~e the be. t possible argument that can
  • "the most extraordinary Senate leader either party has ever produced." Each time he opens the drawer or his desk Daschle sees LBJ's signature, which he left there by custom. And Daschle ponders: What made LBJ so success­ ful in his dealings with Congress
  • by Museum Curator Gary Yarrington and his staff, the exhibition-temporarily titled, "U.S.A. 1963-1969"-depiets with photographs, documents and memo­ rabilia the major developments of that turbulent time. The pictorial dis­ play is augmented by a sound track
  • in the House. It got better the years that we were in the Senate. After I was stricken and temporar­ ily derailed, it seemed that I had time to real y appreciate people and things more than I had in my earlier years. Then we bought our home here when I was Vice
  • the Watergate scandal, and the Per ian Gulf War. His hallmark has been quiet and effective diplomacy; hi mantra was always " ever l t the other fellow set the agenda." Time magazine once called him "the Velvet Hammer." In his first statevvide campaign
  • Lands lakes place al the time of Texas' fight for independence from Mexico. TruC' Women is based on the lives of three of Ms. Windle 's ancestors. Michael Beschloss Assesses Presidential Greatness Historian Michael Beschloss gave a penetrating insight
  • Office. SoreJ Etrog, a Romanian-born artist who studied in New York City, pro­ duced this bronze abstract. Titled simply "The Source," and massive in appearance, it weighs less than six hundred pounds. Its permanent pedestal had not arrived at the time
  • of a master politician at work," Burka noted that the passage of time and a new appreciation of Johnson's social programs clearly contributed to !his new look. But without the release of the tapes at this time, a quarter-century before the schedule set