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- . That was a big advance; it was so nice he didn't bury alive with him 6,000 people and horses to commemorate his death and to accompany him into the next life! That habit had existed prior to his time. After him there was less burying concu bines, soldiers
- a peaceful resolution to some of the conflicts raging around the world. Some of the points in his address: ... There are more wars on earth now than at any other time in history more than 100 conflicts. almost three dozen of which are major wars. ... Almost
- -- and where -- do young people, ar1d mothers, and little children, and weary executives use their precious hours of leisure time ? A little over a year ago, some of you wèze here for the White House Conference on Natural Beauty which was called by my huaband
- is lurninous and delicate. It is found in chambers and arches and tapestried canyon walls. lts texture is ancient. It conaists of eons of time laid bare -- on stone pages or in the treasure troves of Indian mythe and artifacts. It is these attractions
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson upon Arrival at Santa Fe, New Mexico, 9/22/1966"
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- have visited here many times with my brother - - Tony Taylor - but because both he and your Senators keep me informed of the exciting development and growth of the state. Let me say right now that what I have seen in the past few hours bas left me
- . It shows that Head Start tackles the problem at the most crucial age - when the difference for good or ill can be made, when the most can be done, when the investment in time and money brings the most telling results. ldeally, we would hope that Head Start
- that this time is as full of hope as Jefferson•s or Polk1s -- let tbem come to this spoto Foi- Columbia Colloge is an admonition to any pessimist: stop wringing your bands for a moment - and list en td the ringing of eie school belle in our new country
- - 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
- there is a Women's Pavilion at Hemisfair, and delighted this facility will have a strong purpose in future years. Here on this platform are many women I have known whose lives have e x panded with the exciting challenges and opportunities oî our times. Women
- on the air. It is a many-faceted bond we share, And I bellew tb.at in onr time in this ho use all of y ou here have belped that word become a more vital part of the political language. F or all of us that w ord has special rneaning, T o me, it is sometimes
- are graspiםg tbe lirnitless opportunities tbat present themselves in our time • - 1 MORE In Denver, we will see in action a way that aU Americans can have good health care in their neighborhoods -- and in the renaissance of a blighted downtown area
- in the Nation's Capitol along with other heroic men and women who took giant steps for progress. They rightly call Wyoming "the Equality State". There never was a time in Wyoming's history when woman wasn 1t man 1s full partner. She had to be. In your early
- gave my husband his Silve r Star in the South Pacific during World \Wlir II. Just last January, General Mac Arthur said: "If I'd known Lyndon was to become President, I would have looked after his welfare better than I did, but at the time he seemed
- at the Navy Yard. So the partnership means jobs and a better community to live in. It spells prosperity for Charleston, and at the same time greater economic and defense strength for the whole country. This partnership takes Federal resources. And it takes men
- to be in that part of the country where, although you might not like all I say, at least you understand the way I say it. From the time I was six years old, summer meant coming back to Alabama. As I think back to my girlhood, I have so many memories filled
- and pioneered by people of foresi ghi: spi::ited "can - do people - - should unde rstnad this better than a nyone . And you say i t every time you elect men like John Connally and Jum Wright . I am a Democrat and proud of i t . I am a Democrat from the White
- bill, then it is because enough of us who care have ~said what we feel in time . But we WILL on another day. Better landscaping a nd good design are also part of the new horizons on the natural beauty front . None of these are abstract causes of purely
- : -Reduce the time span of Presidential primaries to a period of eight weeks beginning no earlier than June l -Group primaries by time zones, to cut down on the frenetic travel of candidates and delay the early locking-up of the nomination. -Bring more
- 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
- , she found a place to live comfortably while she filled out the inevitable Form 572 dozens of times and looked for a job in the vast and sometimes--alas--impersonal employer -- the United States Government. ~onvenient in the ~eart of the city for her
- these beginnings -- to bring down the curtain on a time of energy and movement and compassion in America? 1 believe that would be a tragedy. Hope and progress and compassion can be kept alive in America; they can prevail in the future we hope to build. "'AIT
- faculty mea and women, and above all, to yourselves who have recognized the opportunity and acted upon it. You now have a precious educational equipment and the question is: What are you going to do with it? In times past, in a number of countries
- llf him A scnil1r offo:ial of the .Johnson adrrnn1,tration someone in h1 White Haus~. satd tu me rec ntly that by the time John.on c..ime lll office his predecessors had created such a myt or inv1m:1blc communism that Johnson and his adviser-. could
- , of the Museum Tour Department. The visitors were given a behind-the-scenes preview of the 1920s exhibit (,;ee page 4), which was under con struction at the time, and materials for use in their cla ooms KathyScafe Teachers register in the Great Hall
- of those interv1ew!>-involving 91 persons-were accomplished in the past year Most of the interviews-962-are available for research; 56 others have been deeded over to the Library but they are not yet open for research because of time restrictions. Th
- . Like the time Robert Merrill, the great baritone from the Met ropolitan pera. came to the White House to sing for the Prime Mm1ster of Gr at Britain The day before the dinner my phone rang and 1t was Walt Rostow. He said. "You can't be serious You
- Congress, he said, is "bigger and busier. It's better educated and more experienced. It is more ethical, regardless of what you read, and more open. It is more democratic and more accessible. It is too accessible, I might add, at times. It is more
- and Museum Mrs. Johnson began to see how a presiden tial library might dramatically portray the decisions of a president and his effect upon his times. The archives and displays should represent a melding- "a melding of both library and museum," she wrote
- back into those y ars with startling immediacy. And the Johnson Library has them. Virtually every time the President made formal remarks, a Communications Agency crew was there with tape recorders running. Those tapes, nearly a thousand of them
- discovery shocked the western world in the early days of the cold war and who were the subject of a recent book written by him .... . . . Nan Robertson (below), Pul itzer-prize winning former reporter for the New York Times, whose own just-published book
- . It is 35 times as large as the Panama C anal , Grand Coolee Dam and St. Lawrence Seaway combined. Above that, in the next six yea r s, you are planning to build halt- a-million miles of road. Your creations, your works a.re as public as any can
- as monetary. " All that is why the President in 1965 called the first White House Conference on Natural Beauty -- why be bas put natural beauty high on t h e national agenda. My own time and energy and thought on this rnatter have been largely devoted
- citizen conservationist today. From the Grand Tetons to the Virgin Islands -- and here in your valley -- be bas made conservation and recreation bis life's work. He once told me, "Our leisure time may well be our Achilles Heel." No one knows better than
- our own good achievements. VIe must not be complacent -- never ! We must be struggling always. But certainly we do not have to spend our time on a collective psychiatrist couch. -z .. Skepticism is val.id, but cynicism -- the kind of doubt which
- its results. Their loving care and supplementary, e nlightened atten tion is vital to the progress of a patient. There are many groupa which give their time and devotion to this service. One is the Jaycees Auxiliary. Seventy- eight percent
- \on, for recreation in the Nation 1 s Capital -- in the mcs t creative way. The project might be called "Mission 1 76." It is an exciting, provocative and hopeful proposal. believe, to set goals and a target time. It is important, I One of the happiest experiences
- and triumphs : 12 Presidents, 15 signe rs of the Constitution, 15 Se cretaries of State from Thomas Jeffe r son t o Dean Rusk. > I . . .. . . .. . ·. . ..... ., ..--" Yet in recent times, we re c ognize the strain in the South from national life
- the largest enrollment in North Carolina and perhaps in the Southeast. . - l \ . . " ' . ; l fl This accent on education in Greensboro has given the world such men as 0 1Henry and Wilbur Daniel Steel&, four - time winner of the 0 1Henry award
- sight. Often, afterward he would recall the moment and envy others who experienced this sight for the first time. The freshman congressman checked in, received his office space, and carefully clipped from a country newspaper back home an editorial boldly
- already made your mark here in St. Petersburg. The petition of the people of Ridgecrest and Old Baskin 's Crossing asking for you to stay is evidence of your success. That -- in this brief time -- must be a special source of satis faction. You men