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  • , to restling oil rigs, to football. there is a myth of the supporting women who fostered these male enterprises, diminished nowadays t the exhibition of furs and bangles in the sky boxes, and pompons and pomty bras at half­ time on the field. I distrust
  • mate because. among other reasons, "It wouldn't be worthwhile being president if Lyndon were majority leader." rEd. note: A number of LBJ's associates have recalled him saying that one reason among many that he accepted the vice-presidential nomination
  • (Handwritten on Senate stationery) Dear Mr.President, Reading the newspapers and their columnists and listening to my colleagues in Congress (including myself) on what to do and what not to do in Viet Nam must become some­ what discouraging at times. I
  • on the second floor~ Renderings by Graeber, Simmons & Cowan, A.I.A. Architects, Inc. In association with R. Max Brooks, FA/A 3 Foundation Board Meets At LBJ Ranch Members of the LBJ Foundation Board of Directors, meeting at the LBJ Ranch on June 7-8, approv d
  • . On the corresix1ndents' panel were Frank Cormier, for a long time with the Associated Press and now retired; Helen Thomas, United Press Interna­ tional and dean of the Whjte House press corps: Marianne Means, Hearst Newspapers and l(jng Features syndi­ cate: James
  • and Native American settlement sites across the country. The United States Newspaper Progrnm, created by the NEH in ID8'.2,is microfilming .>4 million pages from hundreds of thousands of local newspapers that would otherwise be lost to decay. The Endowment
  • protection t mpcred the 111herent hardships and cruelties of\\ hat is still, by some, called the free enterprise system .. The R osev It Revolution, the New Deal, to this day is both celebrated and not quite forgiven The poor ;.ire still though! y the -.tern
  • ;.,eparate session~. probed three issues of compelling concern: prioriti1:, m c
  • in the school newspaper and yearbooks, to the delight of his classmates, who voted him "Wittiest" and "Most Original." Butler even found humor in the s::, ~ ~ C, ~r;\ l\S 0 ,t,, 0 ';. ~ ,.L.. 01- " ~ 'o' ~......"'< ;I) ~ c;+
  • was then briefed on the Library's Oral History Project, in which inter­ views with md1viduals who ere associated with Presi­ dent Johnson are taped and transcribed for researchers working with the Library's collections. Ford and Mrs. Johnson examine a document
  • , President's Commission on White House Fellows Frank Ikard, Sr., Danzansky, Dickey, Tydings, Quint & Gordon J. J. Pickle, United States Representative, 10th District, Texas Charis Walker, Charis E. Walker Associates, Inr. system up for ransom." It represents
  • compiled by Dr. Hurst and his colleague, the late Dr. Jim Cain of the Mayo Clinic, also a long­ time friend of the Johnson family. The book, titled, LBJ: To Know Him Better, contains recollections of Johnson by some 40 persons who were associated with him
  • the President while writing the report for a presi­ dential commission. Prior to that he had worked as a reporter for the Associated Pr ss. as news editor of Archirecrural Fortun magazine, and as a freelance writ r. A native of Kansas Middleton grad­ uated
  • in print. Now Caro is at work on the final volume of his LBJ biography. The author began his remarks with praise for LBJ Library archivists Clau­ dia Anderson and Linda Seelke, who have helped with his research over the long years. As a young newspaper
  • had a long association with the University of Michigan, where he currently is Prof or of Education and Public Welfare Admini­ stration. From 1969 to 1978 he was Dean of the Michigan School of Education. During his career as teacher, admini­ strator
  • . Other Committee members include Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, George R. Brown, Robert A. Good, Katharine Graham, Linda Howard, Arthur Krim, Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, Harry McPherson and Mark Ward. Dr. Lof will receive the Award in special luncheon
  • to President Ford. • On the other side were the men and women of the Press: Frank Cormier, Associated Pr
  • . before President Johnson's 75th birthday anniversary. Following are excerpts from the memorial speech made by Jack Valenti, president, Motion Picture Association of America, and former special assistant to the President: The measure of a great leader
  • and, in many cases, more effective with me. I read newspapers and magazines. I watched television for news and comment. I was in touch with many members of Con­ gress every single day. I was receiving letters from friends and enemies, from the informed
  • Association of America Charis E. Walker, adjunct Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs; Chairman of Walker Associates Lee C. White, Special Counsel to LBJ; attorney,Washington,D.C. Thomas Wicker, journalist, New York Times arc also frequently
  • institutional inferiority when it came to for­ eign policy. In Congress and the Cold War, however, Robert David Johnson ucce, sfully cha II nges that assumption showing us an enterprising and activi t legislative branch that used its constitutional tools
  • is to be misunderstood. And when we say we stand or snmc things wc must never be seen to have done che opposite. And people associated with !hat have to leave. It doesn't matter which party. As an ambassador you use back-channel communications occasionally to get
  • with every American President during that time opened at the Library in February. Titled, "Boy Scouts of America: From the Brush of Norman Rockwell," the exhibit features 15 of the original works which the famed painter undertook during his association
  • 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
  • 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
  • .; Honorable Thurgood Marshan, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the U.S.; and Mr. Mark Ward, graduate student at the University of Minnesota. Lew Wasserman, Chairman of the Board of MCA, Inc., and Board member of the LBJ Foundation, and Mrs. Wasserman, chat
  • committees, trade associations, and others with vested interests in gov­ ernment operations." One reform needed, Rove sug­ gested, is "fuller disclosure ... es­ pecially as to the source of money [and] the principal occupation [of the donor]. Shipley agreed
  • r the last two hundred years, and much of the change has been driv­ en by improved technology. Early newspapers were largely political organs devoted to boosting one candidate and attacking his oppo­ nent. The appearance of the first wire service
  • Civil Rights leader who served two decades as a director ofG.M. 3 VotingPatternsin U.S. A symposium which the Library jointly sponsored with the LBJ School of Public Affairs. the Texas Ytrnng Lawyers Association and the Texas Bar Foundation pursued
  • on her time and her country. The event was Lady Bird Johnson's 80th birthday, celebrated at the LBJ Library on December 4-5 (three weeks before the actual date of December 22). Family members, friends, associates stretching deep into the past
  • degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. She ha represented the Library, sometimes presenting papers and serving on panels, at meetings of the Texas Library Association, Society of Southwest Archivist, Society of American Archivist, Organization
  • or the Far East Command during the Korean War. BEVIN ALEXANDER, Author, Korea: The First War We Lost, moderator MARTIN BLUMENSON, Author of 15 books, including The Patton Papers and Patton: The Man Behind the Legend ARTHUR STUART DALEY, Retired Associate Dean
  • for history by members of the White House New PhotogT11phersAswciation and are included in the Association's 39th annual awards exhibitions, on loan to the LBJ Library from the Lib111ryof Congre5S. The photo of President Reagan, titled "Custom Fitted," taken
  • to enjoy in full measure. I am grateful that the great constant in my life for 50 years has been my political association and my most affectionate friendship with Lady Bird Johnson. Another constant has been my love of the Capitol Dome and all
  • News Photographers Patricia Burchfield, Museum Registrar, discusses Head of State gifts with Library volunteers, who number almost 100 this year. Association 40th Annual Exhibition. February 22-April 21, 1985: Photographing the American Pre.­ idency
  • interviews with LBJ associates, are not intended as reflections of the substance of that work, but simply interest­ ing or amusing footnotes to a complicated history. eedy Johnson was a pack rat for information, and more particularly for points of view
  • . and inter­ preting the stories of "Old Ironsides" and the people associated with her. During each i it of "Old Iron- sides" Across the Narion. active-duty Navy er wmembers and Mu: 'um staff visit local el rnentary school cla.- rooms. pres nting int racti e l
  • Presidential papers, 6 million pre-Presidential pages, 6 million papers donated by associates of LBJ, and 2 million federal records. They are stored in 46,000 r,ed boxes, visible to Library visitors through the glass walls of the four floors that rise above
  • ' Boggs Paptr "Lyndon Johnson and the Senate Leadership", RALPH K. HUITT, Din·c·tor. National Association of Stal' Universities and Land Grant Colleges 14 D1scussirm ALAN BIBLE, Former United States 'l·nator, 'llcvad.1, R, p. Ll~DY BOGGS. 2nd District
  • , Syracuse University Brenda A. Leath, Associate Director, National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality Harold W. Stevenson, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan Jeanette Watson, Djrector of many child development organizations Edward Zigler