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- , a junior at Southwest
Texas State University.
Horace Busby, long-time aide to
and associate of Lyndon Johnson
and now a consultant in Wash
ington, D.C., reminisced about
the man he knew at a breakfast
meeting of Washington alumni of
the LBJ School
- as an Instrument of
Policy."
Symposium:Selectionof SupremeCourt Justices
The Library and the LBJ School of
Public Affairs joined with the Texas
Young Lawyers Association and the
Texas Bar Foundation to sponsor a
symposium investigating the selec
tion process
-
Emeritus
Gary Yarrington
and
Associate Curator Lupita Barrera
Bryant, will depict the influence of
the Texans of Mexican descent and
the settlement of the state through
photographs, oral histories, artifacts
and historical documents
dating
from the 1700s
- . Richard Baker, Historian
of the .S. Senate; Professor David
Prindle and Associate Dean Brian
Robe11s, UT faculty; and Dr. Raymond
Smock, former Historian of the House
of Representatives.
Committee chairman Bacon says
of Professor Remini 's Webster:
"Dr
- academic
directio11 of Professor Redford, former
President of the A merica11 Political
Science Association, and the admin
istrative direction of the Dean of the
LBJ School
Reception held in D.C. for friends of the school
LBJ School Dean Elspeth Rostow
- is at th
heart of the humanities in general and at
the heart of the ndowments.
Panelists for the session included
Lydia Bronte, Associate irector for the
Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation:
Nikki Giovanni, poet; Preston Jones,
playwright; Donald Saylor, LBJ
- :
Dagmar S. Hamilton
Associate Dean
Lyndon B. Johnson School of
Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin
Panelists:
Philip C. Bobbitt
~rofessor, School of Law
The University of Texas at Austin
and Anderson Senior Research
Fellow
Nuffield College
- A.
Baker, Historian of the U.S. Senate;
Raymond W. Smock, Historian of
the U.S. House of Representatives;
Roger Dav,idson, a University of
Maryland political scientist who also
is associated with the Library of
Congress; Donald C. Bacon, Senior
Editor
- Gowen, who was honored for her 3,000 hours of service.
Florence Nightingale and Her Legacy for Nursing
In association with The University
of Texas at Austin School of Nursing,
the LBJ Library and Museum opened
an exhibit on April I. honoring the
founder
- would take up.
The acquisition and preserva
tion of historical records, Beschloss
explained, was the second. "The
biggest question associated with this
issue," he said, "has for years been,
is it a good idea to go on with the
presidential
library
- fraternity which admit· of no po
litical divisions.
From the Archives
ichael Gillette, th n head of the LBJ Library Oral History Program, wrote a letter to
Jay Taylor, on of LBJ' oldest friend~. asking him to write something about hi· association
- of his
harrowing, yet uplifting experiences as
a pilot in wartime Vietnam. The fol
lowing is excerpted from his web site.
http: //www.c ware-associates.
com/
about.html.
tary as an Army pilot. Flying helicop
ters in Vietnam, Ware traded the hard
ship
- than 100 personal friends
or profes ional associates of Pr sident Johnson.
Alexis Johnson, who is currently United States Am
ba ·sador-at-Large, served as Deputy Ambassador to Viet
nam in 1964-1965 and Ambassador to Japan in 1966-1969.
Gardner
- Mary Woodward Lasker,
promoter of medical research and driving force behind the
National Cancer Institute, died recently at her home in
Connecticut. A longtime friend and associate of President
and Mrs. Johnson, she worked with the president on health
- Johnson'."
It was a phenomenon noted by many others
associated with LBJ.
When he came to Austin in October to deliver
the Liz Sutherland Carpenter lecture, President
Clinton broke his long silence on President
Johnson.
Among his comments:
"The rift we see
-
The Ilonorahle Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the
Left to right. former Secretary of Commerce Alexander Tro\\
bridge, Mrs. Charles Engelhard and Associate Justice Thur
good .Marshall await the luncheon ceremonies.
2
Dr. McGill. IeH, and Mrs. Johnson
- President Johnson's for
many years, and he has a large fund
of anecd tes about their association
that he illingly shares. He is not
alone in that regard. At any gath r
ing of President Johnson's intimates
and associates, ·tories of LBJ fill the
air
- '
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
- , 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
- concerts during the month of June. The series,
12
BAND
billed as "Evening Concerts Under the Stars," included a mix
ture of classic band pieces, selections from musical comedies,
marches, and songs associated with the University.
LBJ Foundation Board
- to succeed Han-y Middleton
as Director of the LBJ Library
and useum.
The University of Texas at
Austin has re ently named Dr.
Flowers, Professor of Engli h and
former Associate Dean of Graduate
Studies, a Distinguished Alumna of
the University. She has served
-
Parkway; Carlton Leeds, recent , ice president of the Ne\\
York Botanical Gardens; Virginia Calloway, who heads
Calloway Gardens in Georgia; Robert Lederer, executive
director of the Association of American Nurserymen; and
Craig Steffan, supervising
- . But the difficul
ties associated with such innovations
are many. Because of their exp ri
rnental nature, at first they are only
used on patients who show no
response to other treatment. A nation
wide experiment i. now in progress
to det rmine how effective
-
with the growing independence
of
the NATO nations and the intransi
gence
of Charles
de Gaulle.
Johnson encouraged
the idea of
regional
development
in many
areas,
but nowhere
with more
telling results than in the formation
of the Association
of S()Utheast
Asian
