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- cum:nt subject , President
Ham S Truman.
• Lari) r Tt.mple once spr..:Lialcoun:cl to Pn..sident fohn
,on, now an
- in Congress. Speaker Sam
Rayburn took Congressman Johnson
under his wing. LBJ w· s a court
favorite of Franklin Roosevelt's.
And formidable Georgia Senator
Richard
u sell first made LBJ
minority leader and then majority
leader of the Senate.
Harry Truman did
-
apply to New Dealers: "Through our great good fortune in
our youth, our hearts were touched with fire."*
On Harry S. Truman:
I wrote two long memoranda [for him] ... one on how a
President should handle an opposition Congress, and in
1947, a long
- President Clinton never men
tions are ""Lyndon Johnson""----cven
··1ast year when he rattled off the
names of other presidents besides
himself who had tried to reform
America's [healthl system. he cited
Harry Truman, John Kennedy. and
Richard Nixon. I
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of."
Harry Truman: ·'Very few peo
ple, even those who in 1948 would
have voted Republican. doubt that
this was one of our great figures. Yet
at the time Truman left the White
House in 1953 his public approval
ratings were something above 27%,
sometimes
- Issue Number XLIX April I. 1991
White HousePhotographers
at Work
Photographerswho have been a ·signed
to the White House to record on film the
activitiesof every presidentsince Harry
Truman assembled at the Library
to remini ce about their subjects
- ISSUENUIIEIIW,JM~Um
•
~mongFriends
ofLBJ
NEWSLETTER
OFTHEFRIENDS
OFTHELBJUIIIAIIY
Dr.a.wing
Givento Friends
of Library
FourLibraries
Sponsor
Seminar
In a trial cooperative effort, this fall four for the
six Presidential Libraries-the Truman
- Issue Numbe r LXII April I, 1996
LBJ Reminiscences
(see page 6)
Programs at the Library
Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson
of President and Mrs. Harry
Truman and son, of Clifton and
Margaret Truman Daniel, recount
ed his memories of his
- in Austin condemned the civil rights portion of Harry
Truman ·s Fair Deal as a farce and a sham, an effort, he
said. to set up a police state in the guise of history.
But if Ronald Reagan, who voted four times for Frank
lin Roosevelt, could change his mind
-
Americans-the
black the
Hispanic, the elderly, the poor.
More than once, he said he
would not let Vietnam shatter
bis Great S ciety, as President
Truman's Fair Deal had been
killed by charges that he had
lost China to the Communists
and the Korean War.
Th
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and Chancellor E. Don 'alker, Co-Vice
Presidents. Walker and Christian were
also appointed t ser.c on the E:x~uthc
Committee. Also elected Lo Board:
Library Dir ·tor Harry l\1iddleton.
Tom John,;on
LBJ School Fellowships Created
to Honor Strauss
One thousand
- .
(Below) President Cleveland delivering his Inaugural Address, 1893.
(Above) James Polk and party
(Above) Theodore Roosevelt with envoys of Japan
and Russia, 1905
6
(Left) Harry S. Truman talcing the oath of office after the death of
President
- their impressions and reactions to
the Vietnam war. All are combat veterans who served at
least one tour of duty in Vietnam. Five of the veterans
were on hand for the official opening of the exhibit.
Library Di rec or Harry Middleton called the exhibit "the
most
- acclaimed biogra
phy of President Harry S. Truman,
titled Truman; in introducing him,
Library Director Harry Middleton
said, "In David McCullough, Pres
ident Truman has found for poster
ity a biographer who understands
and respects him."
7
Los Angeles
- Cliris1ia11. Frc111ce.1
Lc:winc. Jim ./011,•s:
Follm1·i11g are
I/ugh Sieler: Li:: Carpl'nl!'r.
l'.\'Cl!f'JJIS/iv111!hat mllicki11g exl!l'cisc in noswl•
gia. (Ti!li's are.fi'mn 1!,e si.r1ies.1
id Davis (White House cunespo11clen1.
Westinghouse
Brooclrnstin
- model. Johnson w,b certain that in act111g
a~ he did in Vietnam he wa~ doing only \\ hat Roosevelt
1\ould h,ne done
It seems dear that no one will any longer live in l·DR's
~hado\\, as each in their fashion, Harry Truman, John Ken
nedv, and Lyndon
- Franklin D Roos veil'· m•'C lings
with thc pre ·s as "loo cozy and one sided," yet with
enough give-and-ta k t he called th first mod rn
prl'ss c nference. "Roosevelt mast red the pres a.
has nu other President I have ever known."
Harry S Truman was "salty
- consisting of Harry Middleton,
Elspeth Rostow, and George Christian
(right) about her memoir, Personal
History.
Among her observations:
• She does not know who ''Deep
Throat" of Watergate fame is.
• The Nixon administration was the
most dangerous in her
- Dunar, "Harry S. Truman:
The Retirement Years"; Catherine
Forslund, "Anna Chennault: China,
Asia, and U.S. Foreign Policy,
I 950-1985":
William Gibbons,
"The U.S. Government and the
Vietnam War, Part V": Jill Jonnes,
"A History of Illegal Drugs
- . (For an account
of the second symposium, see page 7 .)
Titled "Energy Policy in Perspective. Solutions, Prob
lems and Prospe ts,'' the conference drew representatives
from every Administration from Harry Truman's through
Jimmy Cart r's. Experts from industry
- to 125 milliori nor
what changes there would be in transportation
The text of Harry S. Truman'
last Fireside Chat,
drhvered a few days before leavmg office, gives an msight
mto his concept of Presidential responsibility and also int
the unpretentiousness
- so many sc nari s going on
at once. While Harry McPherson
and oth rs were working on the
c sation-of-the-bombing speech
at midnight n turday the 30'1\
my faU1ergot a call at our resi
dence in Maryland that the Presi
dent would like him
- . and
Development or Industry in Central
America."
Deputy Di.rector Tina Houston pre
sented M . Warnock with a signed copy
of LBJ: The White House Years, by for
mer Library Director Harry Middleton,
and a sample CD of President Johnson ·s
telephone tape
- Among
Issue Number LXVI, October, 2001
Retiring LBJ Library and Museum Director Harry Middleton,
with Incoming Director Betty Sue Flowers
Story on page two
Our Next Director
Archivist of the United States
John Carlin has named Betty Sue
Flowers
- 9,000volume library on Congress and pro
vided some funds to promote the
scholarly study of Congress.
The chief representatives of the
two institutional sponsors who have
been most involved in plans for the
encyclopedia are Harry Middleton,
Director of the LBJ
- Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F.
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson w re always the bearers of good
news. A President in those days seeing on his appointment calen
dar that he had an appointment with his economist knew they
w r corning in to discuss
- in the world. As he
often did, Harry Truman put it most
pungently when he called the White
House "the crown jewel in the penal
system." He advised his successor,
Dwight Eisenhower, "If you want a
friend in Washington, get a dog."
Thomas told a packed LBJ
- ~. Lyndon 8. Johnson; an mscnbed
pholograph ol President Harry Trumar1, 1964, a gift from
Pr s1d nt Truman to Presid nt Johnson: bronze pres11.lential
m dais set in silver of Pr sidcnts H 'rbert Hoover and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, a gift from l'v[ilton S
- present Dr. George Lo[
with a check for $25,000.
Left to right, former Johnson cabinet officers Ilenr~ Fowler,
Secretary of the Treasury, and C. R. Smith. Secretary of Com
merce, with President Roosevelt's Postmaster Gl•neral. James
Farley.
'.S. upreme
- years of LBJ.
To the press, a few days before the opening of the
renovated area, Library Director Harry Middleton explained:
"No museum should go more than 10 years without taking a
look at itself and revising and updating its exhibits." The
new exhibits
-
a chapter of history in which their
grandfathers might have participated.
Among the documenls on display is
the draft of the order by which Presi
dent Truman relieved General Doug
las MacArthur of his commands.
Among the most stirring episodes
of the war
- misery."
Harry Truman called the White
House the nation's most preten
tious prison. As for LBJ, Ms.
Carpenter recalled his musing, '1f
there were easy solutions for
problems, they wouldn't get to the
president. That's what presidents
are for."
Richard
-
sentatives of the Veterans Adminis
tration to discuss veterans' issues.
OtherUpcomingEvents at the Library:
David McCullough, noted author,
will speak on June 15. His subject
will be Harry S. Truman, who also
is the subject of his forthcoming
book, slated
- com
plete some of the programs of his
predecessors. Medical insurance for
the elderly had been on the Demo
cratic agenda since Harry Truman's
time. The hope of federal aid for ed
ucation went back as far as Franklin
Roosevelt. The Civil Rights law
- Foundation Award Committee: Harry McPherson, Verner,
Liipfert, Bernhard and McPher on; Miss Linda Howard, Professor, Ohio State
University; Dr. William J. McGill, President of Columbia University; Mrs. Johnson;
Arthur Krim, Chairman of the Board, Orion
- The Sights and Sounds of an America that was ...
see pag 4
Cohen Joins LBJ School
Cohen
Wilbur J. Cohen, who was Secretary
of the U S Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare in 1968, has been
appointed first occupant of the Sid Richard
- )' about foreign affairs. There ·s a
lot of missed opportunity going on
here, because we are the onl) \Uper
power. l think there are times when
we do have to be the world\ police
man, and lrn4 is probabl~ the best
example of that."
"The Last Roundup
- s Johnson was BIG, esti
mated at about ten pounds.
Her husband, "Mr. Sam," a mem
ber of the Texas legislature, got
on his horse to ride to tell his fa
ther that a "United States Sena
tor" had been born. What an
insightful proclamation
-
resumed it when the lapse brought
unfavorable attention. Now it's a
tradition.
Placing the wreath sent by Presi
dent Reagan on President Johnson's
grave at the LBJ Ranch, Library
Director Harry Middleton recalled
for a group of visitors LBJ's plea
early
