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  • of the American Institute of Architects who s aid: "Most of our ugliness is a result of wealth, not of poverty. A poor people wouldn't be able to replace trees with parking lots, litter the streets with signs and fill the air with wires. We need to m ake u gliness
  • "; Thomas F. Clarkin, "Federal Pol icy and Native Americans, 1961-1969"; Shane C. Fricks, "The Johnson Administration and Economic Aid to North Vietnam"; John Garofano, "Power and the Definition of the National Interest: U.S. Military Intervention from
  • ; and Terry Sullivan, Government Department.) The Hardeman prize is named for the late aide to Speaker Sam Rayburn, who left a bequest to the Library. (For other mention of the Hardeman bequest, see page 7.) Professor Oshinsky\ book. A Conspiracy So Immense
  • deal of the forum's d15cussion. How will the state's future be shaped? There was general agreement that there\\ ill be no return to an oil economy "The: oil caru has been played,'' aid Wc:m­ stcin. • Oil is just another Cl)mmodity. It is not going
  • destruction." As to the future of LBJ's legacy. Senator Daschle was clear: the American people want the Johnson agenda-aid to education, civil rights, environmental protection. and the rest-to survive. Columnist Liz Smith Looks at Her Life On November 13
  • has served as a tru tee of a number of educational and philanthropic organizations, and as Chair­ per on of the American Foundation for AIDS research. The theater, its namesakes, and a friend, outside the theater ... . . . and inside 5
  • came from the late D. B. Hardeman of Texas, who served as an aide to and biographer of Sam Rayburn, the longtime speaker of the U.S. House of Repre­ sentatives. In a bequest to the LBJ Library following his death in 1981, Hardeman gave his personal
  • , Congressman from Oklahoma and former aide lo President Johnson; former Texas Congressmen Jo Kilgore, Robert Krueger, and Judge Homer Thornberry; and current Texas Congressmen Wil• liam N. Patman, Wright Patman's son, and Sam B. Hall. Seated in front are Mrs
  • openings. and that too often ins,s~ on interpreting all tension and conflict in the context of the East-West rivalry." Democrats can't afford to succ mb to isolationist tendencie,. but inst ad should be a po itivc force in the world, ~aid Robb. who re­
  • for the photographs they provide to enliven this publication. Grants-In-Aid Committee - This Committee, chaired by University of Texas Chancellor Emeritus, Harry Ransom, will meet in January to select recipients of 1975 Grants-In-Aid for research in the LBJ Library
  • . FDR promised no large-scale programs of federal aid to ducation. He spoke rather of " mering wedges" ... the first of these wedges appeared with New Deal programs ( for) public works, conservation proje t5, and youth training. In December I 933
  • Receive Grants for Library Research Following the practice of giving grants-in-aid twice a year, the Library awarded 21 grants for the second half of the 96/97 grant period. The funds, which total $30.000, result from a grant from the Moody Foundation
  • Society and the War on Poverty as "unmitigated disasters." Dallek 's response was to ask if Americans are ready to give up such programs as Medicare, Medicaid, federal aid to education, civil rights, environmental protections, and other Great Society
  • be able to do. But it turns out that we can. It's done spectroscopically. "Ther r galaxies everywhere you look" aid Weinberg, and the fascin· ting thing is that they are all rushing apart. Today they are 1,089 time further apart than they were in the b
  • busied herself to find out why, and learned his home folk s could not read any message he would send, and he could not r ead anything they r.ai ght sendto him. i:It always has seem.ed sad to n1e , she s aid, ' 'that t here could exist any ­ where
  • to Mi ra!>eau Bonaparte L amar and h ;.s rathP.!" J e hovian phrase, "There s hall be established a uni\•ereity o! the first class ••• " , and I measure my Uni versity a gainst the standard he l aid down. - l - MORE -. . . - Not long ago
  • support of Library activities for the ne ·1 fiscal year (beginning September 1), including symposia, le-.turers, tour guide ser vice, educauonal programs, grant -in-aid to scholars con- ducting research in the Library, special exhibits, permanenc xhibtts
  • 12 percent. But, and this is a but we must repeat again and again. if we count the income effects of the Great Society service programs, such as those for health care, job training, aid to education and rehabilitation for the handicapped, by the mid
  • to be presi­ dent 1" Certainly this library is the richer for it. Among the 31 million documents housed here are records, both official and personal, of Lyndon Johnson's boyhood days and his career as a schoolteacher, as aide to a con­ gressman, 8s
  • vice chairman of delegation. June 07/2024 6/6 LBJ confers with W. Lee O’Daniel in Austin re: FDR’s recommendation for program of aid to national government for a unified program of training in Texas--Texas National Aviation Defense Board; O’Daniel
  • after Bush's inauClinton's sloppy salute is drawing winces :• ~ .jural ceremony, they excJiangedbrisk mili- ·*om_the Pentagoi;i.:Aides are subtly sug- ', 1 ~salutpthatlooked•w~me9otelevigesti~gth~t_ht:wo~~nii.";,
  • after Bush's inauClinton's sloppy salute is drawing winces :• ~ .jural ceremony, they excJiangedbrisk mili- ·*om_the Pentagoi;i.:Aides are subtly sug- ', 1 ~salutpthatlooked•w~me9otelevigesti~gth~t_ht:wo~~nii.";,
  • these paja­ mas in the bathroom and getting th others that are ehind there?" and l ·aid. "No, not at all.'" Then he said. "And wh n you've done that, would you go foe McGeorge Bund ?" George Christian: Lyndon John on was a v ritable I maclo of a man who want d
  • -any acquaintance who was ever offended by him, any aide who suffered h.is wrath or impatience and still nurs s a bitterness, any neighbor or classmate or political rival who objected to his style, his personality, his public or private behavior. Those
  • . As a result of their discussions that day, the aid was granted. The mask, which enghor brought as a gift, is arved from a ingle piece of wood and painted with earth pigmt!nts. It is on exhibit in a n w gla. s­ cncased display on the Library's first floor
  • the perspec­ tive of his advisors and aides, not the man himself. He was not known to have committed himself in writing extensively, preferring to communi­ cate directly, often over the telephone. The recordings-part. of the col­ lections which the library's
  • . What we haven\ learned is how to get along together. Technology can be the prop -- the aid -- but it still is the human machine -- the mind and the heart of each individual .... which spells success or failure in this. It is a good time
  • having to carry water from the creek 400 yards away. He got himself a job on March 16 under the Aid to Families of Dependent Children--Unemployed Fathers (AFDC-UF) and can earn up to $160 a month. He is assigned to the Breathitt County Forestry Division
  • of the reasons I'm here today. As a matter of fact, when your nice invitations kept coming in, Lyndon •aid, 111 think you ought to go." I agreed. Then I found out I was supposed to make a speech I Since he was the one who had urged me to come, I stopped him
  • and regions. I particularly want to congratulate the College of the Virgin Islands on its newly established Caribb ean Reoearch Institute. This Institute, by engaging in fundamental, long-range economic and social research, will prove of enormous aid
  • of the Library's initial efforts and make them aware of our con­ tinued mteresl in meeting their needs. More than 2,500 educators have been sent a new brochure describing the museum, its educational aspects and a variety of aids produced for use in th classroom
  • as an aide in the /930s, shared Fusrecollections of those leaders in a speech at the Library in March. Excerpts from those reminiscences: On Roosevelt: Roosev It was full of charm. He charmed everybody, I don't think he could help it. His staff adored him
  • With Horace Busby," the former aide to Lyndon John­ son (off and on throughout LBJ's public career) traced what he called the "conservatising trend" which he said has defined the course of recent American history. "Politicians," he said, "are not causes
  • .) , 5 I Eveningsat the Library George Reedy, Allen Drury and Marijane Maricle provided three lively and different kinds of pro­ grams at the Library. Reedy, aide to LBJ through the Senate and vicepresidential years and the first press secretary
  • included an Elemen­ tary and Secondary Education Act which provided massive federal aid to the nation's schools; and Medicare, providing medical care to all elderly Americans. It was the time of Head Start, the Job Corps, college student loans and grants
  • that a threat to the country's oil supplies falls in that category. Clifford, whose public career began as an aide to President Truman and who has served as an advisor to Presidents Ken­ nedy and Carter in addition to his cabinet post under Presi­ dent Johnson
  • 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
  • in Washington. Watc·on has been called the mystery man of the White Hou.-e. His voluminous files have remained scaled, at his request, in the LBJ Library. Only former presiden­ tial aide Sherwin Markman has had access to them. Markman was active in lowa Demo­
  • To Scholars Seventee scholars have been selected to receive more tha $12,000 m grants-in-aid of research [rom the LB.I Foundation and the Friends of the LBJ Library he annual grant program was established with a· islance from the Moody Foundation for the pur o
  • . Kennedy ... had his eyes on the stars. . . . He created the Peace Corps. He signed the first nuclear test ban treaty. Once we asked Kennedy, on Air Force One, what would happen if the aircraft era. bed? He aid, •I know one thing. Your name will be just