Skip to main content
Limit your search
Tag
Contributor
Date
Subject
Type
Collection
Specific Item Type
Time Period
110 results
- who discovered America."
Columbus is a discovery for me and a delightful one -- even
though 1 do feel at home with you because 1 know you as good. hard
working Democrats -- through the people you send to Washington.
And, they are your admirers I
- Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson 'Salute to Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson' Luncheon Given by Federated Democratic Women of Ohio, Deshler Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, 9/18/1964"
- will be acceptable to him for the two
roles--chairman of the Texas delegation as well as favorite son--only if he
renounces “liberal” alliances with groups such as the Americans for Democratic
Action, the anti-Shivers Democratic Advisory Council of Texas, and the CIO
- and countryside is high on America's agenda.
For it seems to me that one of the most press challenges for the
individual is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in
a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye. Our peace of
mind, our
- ; and it stimulated economic g rowth as well.
It symbolizes, too, the par tnership between local, State and Federal
governments, between private organizations and public action.
This is what took Charleston out of the dark days of the depression.
President Roosevelt
- or definitive.
discoverlbj.org
1/24
Conclusion of present set of Preparedness Subcommittee hearings lists principal
areas on which action must be taken. Interim report of 17 points is unanimously
approved by entire subcommittee.
1/26
Prominent Democrats
- ” the Congress by
threatening to veto bills. LBJ says the Democratic victory last November was a call
for government action, something the Republican administration has not provided.
1/25
LBJ is at the Ranch until 1/27.
1/27
CTJ begins Hester Beale
- and the Americans for Democratic Action will
“attempt to muscle in” on the legislative program of Congress. The DNC has
circulated an analysis of the President’s State of the Union Message attacking it
on certain points. LBJ replies that the Democratic leadership
- "NION, NEW HA VEN,
CC~NECTICUT, OCTOBER 9, 1967
0
When 1 received the invitation from John J. 0 1Leary ...... a name no
Democrat can reeist -- to corne and talk to the Yale Political Union about
beautification, l was delighted to accept.
Delighted
- as a filibuster designed to
prevent action on the Bricker Amendment and the Eisenhower program. LBJ
criticizes Knowland’s statements in a speech on the Senate floor, charging that
the Republicans have engaged in lengthy debate, not the Democrats, and that
Knowland
-
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) is elected Democratic whip, and Ernest McFarland is
elected Democratic majority leader.
1/3
Congress convenes.
1/5
Senator Taft delivers a speech attacking the Truman Administration’s foreign and
military policies, saying
- Lyndon
Liz Carpenter arrived on the arm of Ben Barnes.
The occasion began with a powerful a capella rendition of "America
the Beautiful" by Johnny Ray Watson, of Bastrop, Texas.
Johnson's book of how to work with the
opposition.
The rank
- for
Wednesday-Friday. May 12-15. Its
purpose will be to examine the sea
change which transformed America
in that turbulent period. and what the
change has meant for the nation.
"LBJ Remembered.'. a round-table
discussion involving several former
LBJ staffers
- /1
Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate Truman outside Blair House.
11/2
LBJ speaks at a luncheon meeting of the Theater Owners of America.
11/7
Republicans make significant gains in congressional elections. Senate Democratic
Majority
- , one
of the symposium keynoters, "is a
massive demographic change that
may indeed be the biggest stolfy in
America in the next century." He
pointed out that minority groups
under the s,ixth grade in Houston
schools and under the fourth grade
- compensation. That is
one thing liberals conscr\'anves.
moderates.
Democrats
and
RLpubhcans. l think. have ull
concurred 1> . . . E\'Cl') study
~hm, ~ that w :,pend too liule too
late in education . . . We spend a
much lower pcrc magc of our
av.iilabh:: dollars
- be compiled with, if possible.
If you will advise me of your action in the matter and have the letter returned to me with your reply, I
will Appreciate it.
Very Truly yours,
Isl Lyndon Johnson M.C.
Letter to Rep. Lyndon Johnson
Dear Mr. Johnson:
Why has
-
pines, South Korea. South Africa. Haiti and Chile, we mu. I place
America's moral. economic and political support tirml) on the side of
democratic forces before it's too late. instead of waiting until their
politics polarize. the democratic center h
- agrees to call meetings at the request of any senator. The Gore
motion is defeated in the Democratic caucus on 1/12 by a vote of 51-12.
1/8
LBJ calls Senators Pastore, Holland, Smathers and Chavez this morning to thank
them for their action
- in President Truman’s 1948 budget.
Meeting of special session of the State Democratic Executive Committee in
Austin, called by Chairman Robert W. Calvert at the request of Governor
Beauford Jester, makes plans for taking over organization and financing
- , judgment it we hope to pr serve I e ,ocial nd
e ..onom1L gain, America ha, ma e o, er thl'. pas 40 year.
and
-: p the great commitrr tnt, madt b) at least !iv
ad mini. tratiom during those decade,, we're g ng to ha,c 10
ta e act1on-t
ugh, painful, action
- carried in government service as a soldier in
action. An interesting and heartening note is the barrage of mail he has
received in the aftermath, much of it from the general public, which
seems so understanding of a man who had, indeed, reached the end
- carried in government service as a soldier in
action. An interesting and heartening note is the barrage of mail he has
received in the aftermath, much of it from the general public, which
seems so understanding of a man who had, indeed, reached the end
- Johnson was dis
covering America."
An elocution teacher, and a jour
nal.ist with a sense of history,
"Miss Rebekah," as she was
known to friends, felt the need to
record this most momentous mo
ment in her family's life.
From the beginning Lyndon
Bain
- , and added that
From the very beginning, there was never a
disagreement on the committee between
Democrats and Republicans, or conservatives
and liberals, about one proposition: Washing
ton should never have the power to be able to
determine what
- and
economic action. But not all of them.
The white America ·s almost total
ignorance of Black culture-and the
Black America's resentment of that
insensitivity-are Il()t matters for leg
islation ... a11y more than are the
Gentile's appreciation of Jewish tra
- and competitive steel industry.
("We've got to re-tool America," sai Jack Conway.)
• holding down unemployment, and in fact creatrng
millions of new jobs - particularly for the hard core
unemployed in the ghetto (thereby defusing- a "social
time bomb.")
Rohatyn
- , demonstrating what American artists
thought and felt about World War II, are shown together
for the first time in almost forty years.
In 1943 the organization Artists for Victory, Inc.
assembled
a compet"tiv
print exhibition
entitled
"America in the War
-
for reflection before action.
Robert
Strauss,
former
Chairman of the Democratic
National
Committee
and
Ambassador to the Soviet Union,
does not envy future presidents.
"Today," he declared, "a president
has a helluva time just marginally
influencing the course
- CORPS. THOSE WHO DOUBTED HIS SINCERITY. IT CAME IN THAT ELECTRIC
MOMENT TO SEVERAL HUNDRED DEMOCRATS IN THE PENTHOUSE BALLROOM OF THE JUNG HOTEL,
WHEN LBJ OUOTED AN UNAMED SOUTHERN SENATOR CONFIDING IN SAM RAYBURN ABOUT HIS
CONSTITUENCY."ALL THEY EVER
- CORPS. THOSE WHO DOUBTED HIS SINCERITY. IT CAME IN THAT ELECTRIC
MOMENT TO SEVERAL HUNDRED DEMOCRATS IN THE PENTHOUSE BALLROOM OF THE JUNG HOTEL,
WHEN LBJ OUOTED AN UNAMED SOUTHERN SENATOR CONFIDING IN SAM RAYBURN ABOUT HIS
CONSTITUENCY."ALL THEY EVER
- rights for very body. II we re
trying to do is to make this government of the United States
of America honest. We only ask that when we i;tand up and
talk about ·one nation under God, liberty. justire for
ever bod;,' Lo be able t look at that flag and put
-
Electoral Politics
Douglass Cater, in a second lecture co-sponsored by the
Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs during 1980,
took a searching look at the way America elects its
Presidents and uggested the following reforms for
Presidential campaigns
- a k them: Who will
Photo by Charles Bogel
Johnny Ray Watson gives a memorable a cappella rendition of "America the Beautiful."
Speaking under the live oaks at the family plot, Joseph Califano reminds the crowd that
LBJ's spirit lives
- of the
education legislation so dear to Lyndon's hean-legislation
and appropriations that woulJ underscore America's belief
in investing in the minds and talents of its young people.
Those were heady days of action for we believed that a civil
ized soci ty is best
- will significantly strengthen
and enrich the educational programs in which that great
institution is engaged. I would also hope that your action
would enhance the opportunity for improving the academic
endeavors of all institutions of learning, and provide addi
- in 1940, in order to wrest from
Rayburn the leadership
of the
Democratic forces in Texas.
Former
Congressman
Ray
Roberts, who was on Rayburn's staff
at the time, disputed the charge. "I
know that the action that LBJ took
was after full concurrence
- to the White House.
As presid nt, TR oversaw the
constru lion of the Panama anal, that
stupendous feat of engjneering. (It was
a dm-ing and perhaps unscrupulous
exploit in int rnational politics as
well.) To dramatize America's com
ing of age in the family
- memoir. On ep
temb r 27 he came to th LBJ Li
brary Auditorium to comment on
his career as Secretary of the Trea
sury, Secretary of State, and White
House Chief of Staff, which includ
ed dealing with the Iraqi crisi , the
conflicts in Central America
- 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
- editors at
was America's Public Enemy No. 1,
the infamous John Dillinger.
From this serendipitous begin
ning, Duncan went on the become one
of the world's great wartime photog
raphers. Of his combat photography,
Duncan himself wrote, '·I wanted to
show
