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- 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
- , 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
- . 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
- 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
- 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
- by Museum Curator Gary Yarrington and his staff, the exhibition-temporarily titled, "U.S.A. 1963-1969"-depiets with photographs, documents and memo rabilia the major developments of that turbulent time. The pictorial dis play is augmented by a sound track
- -a massive display two years in the making-documents the contributions of people of Mexican ancestry to the creation and develop ment of the state of Texas. Titled "Los Tejanos: Sus Huellas en Esta Tierra (The Texas Mexicans: Footprints on the Land
- of which were not so pleasant. " ... The scenes were so realistic that I actually experienced the same sickening feelings of dread and fear that come over a soldier to giv him courage enough to move and do the things he is called on to do in such times. "I
- of American education is irnprovmg princi pally ecause what we have seen 1s the grcatcM renewal effort in this nation\ history as it relates lO education ... This does not !suggest that reform can take. place without doll· rs . . . But the first thmg we ha, c
- Ce111etery, LBJ Runch. Judith and I were deeply honored to be asked by Lady Bird to be here today. lo take part in and preside over these ac tivities. I wrote this in an essay Lhat appeared in the New York Times on the day after President Johnson was buried
- of th times when h wou d ask m lo ome ov r it would be when all or most of his advisers were taking one position, the same position. and he would ask me to tell him what the other side was. Johnson, more so than anybody I have ever worked with, wanted
- vious Lhre conferenc s focu, d on hm .S. policy toward Vietnam evol ed in Wash·ngton and was applied in the Field. This time, twenty prominent scholar, met to con sider ho, the Johnson Admini tration search d for peace in Vietnam. Pr . ident Johnson's
- 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
- in Wahington, D.C. On Tue, day, Augu l 27, LBJ would have been ninety-four. Just under f ur hundred peopl visited lhe Library that day-very good attendance, for a weekday at that time of year-and contributed to the celebration. The crowd disposed of five ery
- , weapons, uniforms, paintings, car toons and memorabilia lent by a dozen institutions and individuals across the country. Also shown are some newsreels of the time. The exhibition will run until January 8, 1989. TO G i'ERAL A catalogue of the exhibition
- , probing, falling. resting and trying again") to describe what the e ening's celebration was all about: "That's why we're here tonight," she said. "Inside this building, we have tried to portray for the future a time when men and women of good will did
- : One Artist's Engaging Look at Life is an eye-opening look at the life and times of America and the world, through the peri od covering much of the first half of the twentieth century. Throughout his life, Butler's observant eye and scalding wit
- sails on.' Mrs. Johnson, Luci Baines Johnson, and long time LBJ staffer and family friend, Mildred Photo by Charles Bogel Stegall. 2 "As we celebrate the 95th birthday of Lyndon Baines John son. those of us who knew him can reminiscence about him
- 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
- . Driven by the necessity of earning money to upport his family. Grant began to write magazine articles about his battles. and found the work so satisfying that he decided to prepare his Mem oirs. Almost at the same time. he began to feel the pain in his
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Children in Crisis, 18-19 September 1992," LBJ Library
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- . This time, however, ''we th,ink the ti.me has corne to mobilize an effort to do something" about the plight of children in America. Therefore, leading educators, heahh professionals, political leaders, comnumity activists and scholars as sembled not just
- figure by T. P. Mo) nihan (left) and ''The Ccnta tr" b Pat Oliphant (below). Along with contemporary newsp:ipers and a select i n of repr sentational caricatur 'i. the cnrtoo illustrate both th high and lo\, points of lh pr siJency and LBJ's later y ars
- will tell you it resulted in the greatest single change in the agenda of the American polttical system in all of our history. Suddenly, for the first time almost anywhere law became used as an in. trument lo build a humane society. [t took the 10- ear old
- . 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
- , to restling oil rigs, to football. there is a myth of the supporting women who fostered these male enterprises, diminished nowadays t the exhibition of furs and bangles in the sky boxes, and pompons and pomty bras at half time on the field. I distrust
- , his times and his presidency at the LBJ Ranch, at the LBJ Library, in San Marcos and in Washing ton, D.C. In its early years the Library began serving birthday cake to its visitors on August 27. One year it decided to drop the practice-but quickly
- a time of diplomatic dia logue with the People's Republic of China. "We in the Umted States," he said, "have rare gifts lo bring to the eternal pursuit of peace. Who lead!>our land, who con trols the political vantage point are - or ought to be - only
- special intere\t. I don't think at that time the Founding Fathers really understood what spe cial intere
- Among Issue um ber LX'Vlll ' July 2002 What If: No Socrates? No William the Conquerer? No FDR? Victor Hanson: For want of a Socrates, a Plato was lost. .. 2 On Ma L. for the e nd time in the LBJ Library' Evening With series, a panel