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Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Park City, Utah, 8/15/1964" (Item)
  • know how helpful Senator Moss has been on this project because he is always watching out for Utah. I am overwhelmed when I think of the possibilities for tourism in America. From these inspiring mountains to the everglades, from the shores of Maine
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks, Restoration Luncheon, the White House, 10/15/1968" (Item)
  • that preservation bas needed and richly deserved in America, they give safeguards from destruction, they give the beginnings of public financial support. One of my joys in these years has been traveling to scenes of Americe~s pas'c:. I have spent many sunny weekends
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 10/27/1964" (Item)
  • clear when he said recently: 11The domestic issue has to do with the kind of future America will have; the foreign issue has to do with whether we shall have any future at all. 11 The President has said: ''The true courage in this nuclear age lies
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson to American Institute of Park Executives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9/21/1965" (Item)
  • are the c onduits of that very g oal. As planners and administrators of America's parks, you provide the places so essential to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. t1 It was John Muir who said, " E verybody needs beauty as well as bread, places
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Lincoln School, Columbus, Indiana, 9/21/1967" (Item)
  • : - 1 ­ MORE .... "We would like to see this community come to be not the cheapest community in America, but the very best community of its size in the country. We would like to see it become the city in which the smartest, the ab!est, the best
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 8/15/1964" (Item)
  • sailing the oceans throughout the world as a bulwark of America 's national defense. When we remember that it was here in Idaho that the fir st pr oof testing of the feasibility of nuclear propelled ships was conducted, we fully realize how much the people
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • ington •s home where you feel the presence of America 1s beginnings. A day like that reminds you of Ralph Waldo Emerson's words : ''The true test of civilization is, not the census , nor the s i ze of the cities , nor the crops -- no, but the kind of man
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Selma, North Carolina, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • of Representatives, 12 years in the Senate. and three years in the Vice Presidency. Into these last 10 months, he has poured all the energy, intellect, and heart he has to try to keep our country prosperous, preserve peace and plan for a greater America. You can tell
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Charlotte, North Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)
  • poured all the energy, intellect and heart he has. to try to keep our country prosperous, to preserve peace, and to plan for a greater America. You can tell what sort of President be will make because you have lived through these ten months with us. North
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of Point Reyes National Seashore, 9/20/1966" (Item)
  • that otr ong salt brccze and roaring surf. Thi s is a t hrilling pl~ce , and Govcl'nor, I am ao g l nd yon invited me h crc to c~.tch the ocean air , and sec for my seH this Pac ifie palisade t hat i s now a Na tional Sea shore bclonging to a ll of America
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Women Doers Luncheon on 'What Citizens Can Do to Improve the Health of the American Child' - the White House, 4/2/1968" (Item)
  • the host of ills that e a t at people in the city ghetto, in the landlocked bills of rural America, in the migrant camps. During the past four years. we bave not solved ail tbese problems -- but we have dared to begin. and I believe the se health measure s
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Gonzales, Texas Concluding Trip with Foreign Journalists, 4/9/1968" (Item)
  • . In many u ays, it still is. For from the small to"l-ms of America wi th their courthouse s o_u a r es come rnuch of the s pirit and hope o f our country. Therc are, acro s::o this lan d , 17, 000 t01ms about the s ize of thi s on e . To di s cover ~-j
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Press Breakfast in Honor of Mrs. Johnson by Mrs. Richard Hughes and Mrs. John Bailey, Shelburn Hotel, Atlantic City. N.J., 8/27/1964" (Item)
  • when we go to the people and ask for their support. Sometimes I wish all the world could just once travel the campaign trail across America in an election year. So much that can never be put into words about America and the meaning of our freedom comes
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of Columbia Island at the Department of Interior Auditorium, 11/12/1968" (Item)
  • that America•s future generations will enjoy these lovely groves, for it is to thern that I am proud and happy to deciicate this entrance to Washington. # # # - 2 ­
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks, University of Utah Commencement, Salt Lake City, Utah, 8/15/1964" (Item)
  • of these men and women. Persecuted, they fled across the Mississippi, across the great plains and rugged mountains, harassed by enemies and persecuted by extremists. Theirs is one of the greatest stories of bravery c.ud fortitude and America will always
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Charleston, South Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)
  • in the Vice Presidency. Into these last ten months, he has poured all the energy, int ellect and heart he bas to try to keep our country prosperous, to preserve peace and to plan for a greater America. You can tell what sort of a President he will make because
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Paseo Del Rio Lighting Ceremonies, San Antonio, Texas, 4/1/1966" (Item)
  • on tonight, I look out over the river with its grassy banks and cottonwoods, and cypress, and pecan and willow, and Retama, and all I can say is "This is America the Beautiful. 11 ### -2­
Press release, "The 'B. Y. Morrison Memorial Lecture' by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Convention of the American Institute of Architects, Portland, Oregon, 6/26/1968" (Item)
  • have a building boom and beauty, too? Must progress inevitably mean a shabbier environment? Must s uccess spoil Nature 1s bounty? lnsistently -- and with growing volurne -- citizens everywhere in America are demanding that we turn our building
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 56, 15 November 1993," LBJ Library (Item)
  • intelligence-gathering methods and may shed further light on the events that led America down the road to war in Vietnam. In the company of key congressional leaders, President Johnson signs the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. (photo by Cecil Stoughton) 5 Evenings
Press release, "Address of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson before the Luncheon at the Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, 10/1/1965" (Item)
  • population of America will be 300 million. Eighty-five percent of them will live in urba.n areas. Qne...third of them living in ten metropolitan areas with populations ranging from 5 to Z3 million. This, then is the dimension of your biggest and most critical
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication Ceremony, Breathitt County Museum, Jackson, Kentucky, 5/21/1964" (Item)
  • and all America so confident of vict ory in our war a gainst poverty.
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Ceremony to Salute George Perkins Marsh, Rockefeller Home, Woodstock, Vermont, 6/11/1967" (Item)
  • hostess who acquired it in 1869 and give it its imposing Queen Anne Style of the 1880 1 s. - 2 ­ MORE Mary French Rockefeller tells me of so many haJ>PY holidays that she and her family spent here. s~mertimesand Her husband i s America's leadirg
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Middlebury College Commencement Exercises, Middlebury, Vermont, 6/12/1967" (Item)
  • is What is tough is to be a working protester. That takes some effort. Tbat takes some thought. That takes some giving. That takes patience. America has be en shaped and continues to be shaped by men of protest, by men of conviction. I know one of them
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson B'nai B'rith Luncheon -Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC, 3/26/1968" (Item)
  • -- in housing, in employment, in our environment. The social conscience of an affluent Society bas prompted the Nation's life insurance companies to invest one billion dollars in rebuilding the city slums across America. Almost daily, I see the parade through
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, American Road Builders Association, Denver, Colorado, 2/23/1966" (Item)
  • the surf, and winds its way from Carmel, CaEfornia to the Hearst San Simeon Castle. These great roads not only get you from "here'' to 11there ", but they afford a revelation of America's great bra uty alt1ng the .way. It is the difference between just
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, Washington, DC, 6/3/1964" (Item)
  • the problems they faced if they had not kept their eyes on the future. Jefferson said, "Cherish the spirit of our people". He was concerned with the growth of democracy. The jo\rtley of your life is still the unfinished story of America 1s growth. of the quest
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Baccalaureate Address, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass., 6/9/1964" (Item)
  • at home or abroad. Anyone with imagination, zeal and brains has many opportunities in unfinished America. A number of you already participate in this through the Phillips-Brooks House. I can tell you first hand that Appalachia cries out for young women
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 54, 1 February 1993," LBJ Library (Item)
  • ~on and for the past 25 years has been presi­ dent of the Motion Picture Associa­ tion of America, spoke at the Library on the occasion of the pub­ lica tion of his novel about Washington, titled Protect and Defend. His comments ranged over his broad experience
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1950" (Item)
  • . 10/23 LBJ speaks before the annual convention of the Independent Natural Gas Association of America in Houston. discoverlbj.org CTJ and LBJ are in Austin. That afternoon LBJ flies to St. Louis to address the National Association of Postmasters
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 71, 1 September 1999," LBJ Library (Item)
  • America First'' campaign, which was designed to help with our foreign balance of pay­ ments cleficil. The files at Lhe Johnson Library document these trips. but at a recent symposium at the LBJ Library, Liz Carpenter told a story about the wilderness