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- shared the ideal expres cd by President Johnson at
the opening of th Library in 1971: "We are not here today lo
celebr te the breakthroughs of yesterday, bu to try to chart the
hould
breakthroughs of tom rrow. It is the future to which
address ourselves
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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
- of the Johnson family received a numhcr
of distinguished visitors lo the Librar Below, top
lo bottom, Mrs. John on welcomes Ambassador
and Mrs. Zhang Wenjin, from the People's Republic
of China; The Right Honorable Sir Robert
Muldoon, Prime Minister of 'cw
- with the insight of a philo opher."
She ended with a few "final words Lo the students who are
privileged to be here at this time. Your attentions are going
to be concentrated on gaining practical skills and that is as it
should be in our expanding adventure
- of the library prior to reviewmg the bulk
of the documents, the processing of requests to
declassify items, I he need to provide information
Lo governmental agencies, the time required to gel
ready for symposia, and the Lask of simply having
lo answer innumerable
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in your
to 10,000 given
h, th 7 Im, ~fim>r of Los Augcle.,,
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of 1:nurse. is still open.
All m11nh n: ore 1:-ncour.igt-dto in,,t..,
fr1c11cknm1 ~ocl lies to JOU\m :.ul'}J(lrt
t.11th Lil min ·s ncthitfo .
Smn, of ti fl~c
- by Marvin
Watson, former Postmaster General, and U.S. Represen
tative Tom Loeffler from the 21st Congressional district.
Mrs. Johnson ended the program on a poignant note:
"Tonight is full of memories, a time of reunions and
thoughts of dreams pursued
- Foundation Boar of Directors
met November 15 in special session lo
elect new officers following the death
of the Board's longtime Chairman
Frank C. Erwin, Jr. (see story on p. 9)
Newly elected officers are W. Thomas
Johnson, President, George Christian
- Endowment for the Arts, the Library will host a
majur national Symposium on "THE ARTS: Y ars of
Development, Time f Decision." That evening, as the
major event in this year's program, the Friends of the
LBJ Librar ,,..-it be invited with the symposium
- GREAT
SOCIET'Y
ALUM l
LBJ Remembered
The fi"rxl n·!'nl 11( I/ie 1·0111·ocario11w1Is cm
e1·('fli11g of' r!'minisccnce hy 1/icse Washi11g1011
I•ererc11Is Frum lc:/i lo righr • Lurry Tl'111ple:
Sic/11ey Om·is; Bill Mm·ers: Bom,ie Angelo:
George
- Burnham
of the
University of Texas led off the morn
ing session, with Robert Strauss, for
mer Chairman of the Democratic
Party and one-time Ambassador to
the Soviet Union. The three joined in
agreeing that, overall, the political
culture in Washington
- qualities when he spoke from this stage in
the final months of his life ...
But he was also a realist, and he saw the pendulum
begin lo swing the other way, and he instructed us in the
virtues of contention. He made it clear that he wanted us
to create
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time. They have made a differ
ence, said York, in more ays
than one. John Barrymore,
when earnestly a ked as lo
whether he thou 0 ht omeo and
Juliet,
as teenagers,
had
enjoyed a full physical rela
tion hip, "he famously replied,
'W 11 th y certainly
- and private
s(h(1ols. nursing ,tn
- touch with San Angelo because my
husband like most cattlemen reads the San Angelo Standard Times. I am glad
to see San Ange lo looking so prosperous and busy.
It has taken teamwork in t he Congress and White House to achieve
thi s, and I know you
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The following comments are extracted from
Mr. Cronkite's address:
The 1980s have not gotten off lo a very auspicious beginning.
In that time we have heard America mocked and taunted as an
impotent giant, gutless and evil-the
most powerful and
technologically
- of the time--Kennedy
and Humphrey because Johnson eliminated one and
selected ,theother as his vice presidential running mate,
Goldwater because he would be the Republican candi
date in the election.
"An Evening With .... "
Frank
Vandiver,
President
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families do not endurt forevt•r. It is time, in th(• year
1976, that the meetings of women aJI arross the
country should join together. "l'ize thl· power they
are enlitlt:'d to under thl' 19th amendml'nl and l"reale
a just world nearer lo their heart's
- the American lune
"Danny Boy," for instance-delight
ed the audience, which soon gave up
resisting the urge to keep time.
Ms. Miller, a prize-winning clog
dancer, demonstrated the form which
she learned in Appalachia and per
fected on her own. She and husband
- than conquerors
through Him who loved us.
For we are sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in
all creation, will be able
- than conquerors
through Him who loved us.
For we are sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in
all creation, will be able
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- , 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
- . Polk, who
added more to our national empire
than anybody. There is where Daniel
Webster stood and said, ''I know no
north or south, no east or west."
Then I stopped ·rnd said, 'But I know
many of you are here in the Capitol
for the first time and I know
- that
are of mud or brick or plaster, and lo the countryside which
is so often arid. The trees changed in different regions. Pop
lar was very common. There were many times when I would
look at a lane with a row of poplar trees along it and think I
was looking
- to undertake extensive new exhibit on the life, time
and programs of Lyndon Johnson.
The new orientation theater will be carved out of the area
which now contains large transparencies of rooms in the
White House. Those transparencie will be moved to a ne,"
lo
- , of
the Future Forum steering committee,
moderated the panel.
Mr. Baxter. a former aide and com
mittee clerk in the Texas house, was the
first Republican to be elected lo the Tra
vis County Commissioners Court. His
special interests are telecommunications
-
University, and is President of the International
Solar Energy Society. He and his family have Jived
in a solar heated home of his own design for nearly
20 years.
Dr. Lo£ was selected by a Committee co-chaired
by Mrs. Lyndon Johnson and Dr. William J. McGill
- . There are moments when I still pinch
myself lo make sure I'm not dreaming the
life I've led. Of course there have been
plenty of ups and clowns, the high or being
tapped by President Lyndon Johnson ro
be. as the New York Times
put it, 'deputy president
for domestic
- , bul I think lhis time you've
brought home a man."
Fast forward Lo November 22,
1963, and Mrs. Johnson's memories
of President Kennedy's assassina
tion: the startling crack of gunfire;
the wild ride to the hospital, the
return to Air Force One, where
- had סt stand up a:cd say them. You had to write them, lo g םafter every
one else had gone to bed.
WeU, both of us are the better for it -- 1 bope.
We bave had great times together -- you and 1. Newswomen are a
breed all their own -- hard- wor
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from tirne to time -- escape bim. That is what makes the creation of
Sylvania Recreation Area both necessary and important.
For these woods of maple, birch, bemlock and pine and these sky-blue
lakes are within reacb of some ten million people who
- . 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
- on Erwin\ nght
are Henry row/er and Lew Wasserman.
Library Names
New Chief
Archivist
Christina Lawson
John Wickman, D,recwr of the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas,
spoke at th Library tn May lO a
University of Texas group, joined together
- of
thousands of people. I don't know how long that's going lo
b true. The world gets more complicated and more difficult
all the time. Demands on the Presidency grow each year
and so do the dangers. Everyone knows that one major mis
calculation in the balance
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featuring
Mrs.
Johnson had been on the Library·s
agenda for a long Lime. Although
Lady Bird Johnson appears many
times in the Museum's permanent
exhibits, nowhere was there signifi
cant space specifically dedicated Lo
explaining the crucial role she played
- for Justice:
The Passion and Politics of Phillip
Burton.
The $1,000 award was created
from a bequest left to the Library in
1981 by D. B. Hardeman, long-time
aide to Speaker of the House Sam
Rayburn and, later, House Majority
Whip Hale Boggs. Hardeman wanted
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Lr don
,tin,· Jolimo11 Fo11ncl,1lion. ml th· Friends of th
HJ Library
• study at the LBJ Library. Th s
f 01wnin~ the rich rc•sourL·( • of lhl'
Library Loslutlrnt , I •,1t:h rs
cl he 1111.11
I • lo u • • this 1111iqut.· 11 ·clio11 \ ithout trav I
- for the first
time on November 8 at the
LBJ Auditorium. Johnson had
come from Georgia. Nancy
Corbin Corsiglia had Lraveled
from Illinois. Johnson r !ls us
he sleeps at night now for the
first time in 34 years, because
he has finally been able LO de
liver Ron's
