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  • CllUnsclorin the U.S. foreign S.:rvicc and dt:an of the School of Arca Studi~,, of the State Department's Foreign Servic Institute. Mr. G1.:rmandirected the Stat Department's Office of Soviet Uni >n Affairs in 1980-1981 and wa~ executiv' dir ·ctor of thi: S1
  • in the past two years. (The winners f the prize are selected, on behalf of the Library, by a committee composed of three members of the faclYof The Univ rsity f Texas at Austin-Lewis Gould, Depart­ ment of History; Barbara Jordan, LBJ School of Public Affairs
  • pealed in affair after affair in the Civil War and it\, one of the thing::. that. ror me, lends it'· enom1ous allractivenes • as u :mbject for study and especially as a subject to write about. "Writers always thin they have lo hype something up to make
  • of Public Affairs, and Michael Stoff, History Department. Grant recipients and the titles of their proposed subjects arc: Alexandra Carter, "State Interests and Security Cooperation: Epistemic Community Influence on U.S. Non-Proliferation Policy"; Mary
  • , sponsored by U. T.'s His­ tory Department and College of Liberal Arts. His book, scheduled for publication in the spring by Oxford University Press, is titled Lyndon B. Johnson, A PoliticalLife, 1908-1960. lit will be the first of two projected volumes. 2
  • tional opportunities for scholarly research in public affairs." The recommendation by E. D. Walker, Chancellor of the University of Texas System, and President Peter Flawn of the University of Texas at Austin, which resulted in the deci­ sion by the Board
  • of this centllry's greatest photoj urnal- isls. A veteran of the days when pho­ tojournalism came or age, he is responsible for some or the twentieth century's most recognizable pho­ tographs. As a Marine photographer, then a photojournalist for Life maga­ zine
  • : they were women in search of a better definition of their roles as women in a changing society. The Conference was jointly sponsored by the Library and lhe Lyndon R. Johnson School of Public Affairs. It was funded, in part, throug-h a grant from the Friends
  • of the social reform mo,·ement laund1ed half a centur} ag.o. Library Director Harry Middleton called 11 ··the most ambitious program attempted 111the ten-year history of sym­ po.~ia at the Library." Dean Lhpeth Rostm • of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, c
  • of that profession. I am proud hecause I hav the power to change lives. and :omet1mes when I'm lucky, I even do." 9 William P. Bundy, until recently Editor of Foreign Affairs, followingsen ice in the State and Defense Departments during tht Johnson years, came
  • Former Se retary of State Henry Kissinger c;poke to an overflow crowd at the Library ov. 7, as part of the Distinguished Lecturer Series co-spon­ sored by the Library and lhP LBJ School of Public Affairs. Dr. Kissinger gave a wide-range review of U.S
  • who joineJ the experts were veterans of community discussions in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina. Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania. Texas, Washington and Washington, D.C. Mark Shields
  • Library, LBJ School of Public Affairs and the University of Texas, will host the symposium, TO WARD NEW HUMAN RIGHTS: The Social Policies of the Ken­ Mrs. Lyndon B. nedy arrd Johnson Administrations. Johnson announced the upcoming event at a Washington
  • with the scholars who use those collections, Cohen and Evron Appear in Distinquished Lecture Series Wilbur Cohen, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1968, and Israel's ambassador to the United States, Ephraim Evron. spa e
  • in Washington. Because Lyndon Johnson cared, a little lad from Sicily was brought to the United States for needed complex surgery. The case had reached the president through the "sample correspondence" from all the departments and agen­ cies that regularly
  • , and she read intelligence for the O.S.S. in Washington-they returned to Europe and married in Oxford. Writing a memorandum for the State Department outlining a proposed structure for post-war Europe led to Walt's working in the late 1940s for Gunnar Myrdal
  • . The first, jointly sponsored with the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Brookings Institution in February, traced the nation's effort to develop an energy policy since the end of World War II and then focused on current problems and poten11al solutions
  • was nation­ al security advisor during the Johnson Administration and now professor emeritus of political economy at the University of Texas, and Elspeth Rostow, former dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and now a professor of government
  • , ambassador in the State Department's Bureau of Politico-Mili­ tary Affairs; Joseph Nye, Harvard professor who was Deputy Undersecretary of State in the Carter Administration; William Hyland, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment; Paul Warnke, former
  • Bradford Reynolds Assistant Attorney General Chit Rights Dhision United States Department of Justice Panel: THE CONSTITUTIONAL CULTURE OF AMERICA Moderator: Sanford V. Levinson Charles Tilford McCormick Professor of Law The University of Texas at Austin
  • Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs departed from the usual procedure of holding symposia in Austin when they carried the flag to two different cities recently. In cooperation with the Brook­ ings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute
  • , not drawing closer, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the University of Texas at Austin sponsored a two-day conference Sept. 18-;19, 1992. As explained by Hany Middleton, director of the Library, aod Wilham S. Livingstof!I
  • Talks": New TV Interview Series Texas Monthly has partnered with KLRU-TV to produce a series of public affairs interviews. Taped in the LBJ Li­ brary, four segments have been recorded. with former ~enator Bill Bradley. Enron whistle blower Sherron
  • , to be followed by the Senate papers, the Vice Presidential papers, the post-Presidential files, and finally the personal papers of associates. Of the Library's one million security-classified docu­ ments- primarily concerned with foreign affairs - more than
  • stres ed 5 that the new lectronic records pose huge problems. For exm11ple,he said. ' The Department of Defense has made it very clear th y're out of the paper business when it c mes to mil­ itary p rsonnel records." Th rapid rate at which the technol
  • for International Secu­ rity and Law in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, told me not to take that job. He said, "It's going to diminish your aura as a statesman. You're going to get hurt." I said, 'Bob, that may be true, but I have to do this. It's not something I
  • national security team, so that he could focus on domes­ tic affairs, Blumenthal noted. [nstead Mr. Clinton was forced to deal with successive crises in Bosnia, Somalia, and Haiti. It took two years, said Blumenthal, for Clinton to learn that foreign policy
  • disappeared and were never heard from again. And I've always wondered if this wasn't Castro's answer, I tried to find out, but I couldn't get a damn thing out of the Justice Department's files. Abe Fortas Abe Fonas is as good, fine, patriotic, and concerned
  • of the Great Society, In April, the LBJ Library and LBJ School of Public Affairs joined with the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the Texas Bar Foundation in a con­ ference held at the Library to . urvey the status of the program. Panelists Dan Morales
  • of bribery in a military procurement mean that we should close the doors of the Department of Defense. I Transminin~Wor~s t~e ~cclaime~ AgTesto declared that "The Endowments would have flourished if they devoted themselves to one great task: transmitting
  • at 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W. in Washington, D.C. as the yndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building. At the LBJ Li­ brary the occasion was marked by a vi:it from .S. Congre . man Mi­ chael Mc au!, (R-10 th District), wh presented the red-line
  • First Lady Rosalynn Carter speaks at LBJ Library Barbara Jordan to teach at LBJ School Barbara Jordan, U.S. Rep­ resentative from Hou ton who is leaving Congress after three terms, has ac­ cepted a professorship al the LBJ School of Public Affairs
  • would want for the two of you, his children, to lay the wreath. After all, birth­ days are family affairs, and this is such a BIG birthday." And so Lynda and I have come here to do the honors. But we come knowing that family for Lyndon Johnson was always
  • generosity in granting amnesty to former Confederates, his reform mitiatives in civil service and Indian affairs, and his peaceful settlement of grievances with England through the Treaty of Washington. Only his persistence in attempting to annex Santo
  • such as The University of Texas at Austin would provide the best setting for the Johnson Library and School of Public Affairs. multi-faceted institution that the vital, that the president sought to build-a place where "scholars can study the past for the sake
  • by the Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The program, supported through a grant from the Moody Foundation, brings prominent speakers to the Library each year. Other distin­ guished lecturers have been Averell Harriman, Elliot Richardson and British
  • in the expanded galleries, produ d with a grant from the LBJ Foundation, go substantially more into detail in both dom­ estic programs and foreign affairs than did earlier exhibits. In addition, displays focu for the first time on the Congres­ sional and Senate
  • ' Dirl'dor ol the . ·alio11al Association for he Acln111c1•m(•11t of r.olon·d l'l'oph·, for his work i11Ci, ii Rigl1ts. \Ir.\\ ilki11s,,·as presf'nl at tlil' affair hcmori11g . Ir Alll'11 a11cl\lr. Thom.Ls. Beea11se the field of mha11 affairs emlmtt'l'S 1na11
  • gnarled cypress trees," and the '·first wild violets" of spring. She speaks of a '·Jove affair wirh nature" that began in childhood. Mrs. Johnson's mother died when Lady Bird was only five years old, and her mother's maiden sister, Aunt Effie, came lo
  • at the LBJ emor rofcs 01 •_ \ huol 1,f Public Affair· lCJ be named m· fom1 •1 • L'l:I l 1ry of ·t.1tt' D •,111 1 11:k. The H11sk .,hn1r, rnclm,t d hy ,1 :-ou,0110 Tra11l from th• Fo1111datio11will attmd ,11111utst.111di11~ s holnr tu th S hool