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- that a
democratic nation has an ob]i,ration lo promote
imagination and understanding, rings hollow.
The British beg·an their government support of the
arts in the very darkest days of World War II, when
London itself was under bombardment. It was a
remarkable time
- acclaimed biogra
phy of President Harry S. Truman,
titled Truman; in introducing him,
Library Director Harry Middleton
said, "In David McCullough, Pres
ident Truman has found for poster
ity a biographer who understands
and respects him."
7
Los Angeles
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lobby.
Library Security Gets New Look
Officer Phil Guerra takes a last look at the old ...
. . . and Officer David Samuelson models the new.
14
A Narrow Escape in World War II
The Los Angeles Times recently
reported the death, at age 84, of Saburo
- . Everything about that event
impressed him, particularly LBJ's
style. As they were leaving, he
asked his mother: "Why does the
President talk like a cowboy'?"
Irving Bernstein, Professor of
Political Science at the University of
California at Los Angeles
- Officer, The Cleveland
Foundation; Thomas Bradley, Mayor, Los
Angeles; Maynard Jackson, Mayor, Atlan
ta; Esther Peterson, former Assistant
Secretary, Deparlmen o[ Labor; Wendell
Anderson, Governor, Minnesota; Earl
Johnson, Jr., Professor of Law. Universi
- biography of Lyndon
Johnson, spoke at the Library on the
subject of LBJ and the rise of liberal
nationalism. Dallek, a professor of
history at the University of Califor
nia at Los Angeles, gave the third
Littlefield Lecture Series in Ameri
can History
- Negotiations,
and is now a Washington attorney, will be the LBJ School's Commencement speaker on May 22.
5
At Southwest Texas State University
Tom JohnsonReflects on LBJ
Tom Johns n, Publisher of the Los Angeles Times and
President of the LBJ Foundation
-
Society of LBJ. but our best hope in
these more than slightly retrograde
times.'· Even though, he said. his title
is "one grade down from the long
standing, deathless expression which
Lyndon Johnson gave us.'' there
should be "no doubt as to where
- . Taul, "Government,
Development & Poverty in Southern
Appalachia: The Origins of the
Appalachian Regional Commission";
Robert J. Topmiller, "The Unleashing
of the Lotus: The Buddhist Struggle
Movement in South Vietnam, 19641966"; and Maria De Los Angeles
- Gerstenzang, Los Angeles
Times: Eleanor Clift, Newsweek; and
Sid Davis, formerly with Wes
tinghouse and NBC (and the only cor
respondent representing television:
Sam Donaldson of ABC and Andrea
Mitchell of NBC, were scheduled to
take part, but were unable
- have
also appeared in The Atlantic, American
Heritage. the Washington Post. the Los
Angeles Times. and the Boston Globe.
From 1998 to 2003 he was a research
fellow at the University of Virginia's
Miller Center of Public Affairs.
"And that was the story
- "class" of White House Fellows-selected in 1965 to serve for a year in government-held their annual meet
ing this year in the Library. The meeting was chaired by class member Tom Johnson, now publisher of the Los Angeles Times
and President of the LBJ
- University
Professor, H ■ rnrd I.aw School
Anthony Day, Editor of the Edilori11IP11ges,Los
Angeles Times
Thomas Gibbs Gee, Judge, United Slates Court of
Appeals for the Hfth Circuit
Joseph Krafl, Syndicated Columnist
Mark McKinnon, Editor. The Daily Texan
- Among
Issue Number LXVIl. March, 2002
The Future of Presidential Libraries: A Symposium
2
Congress created tbe nation's
presidential libraries system in order
lo provide facilities which, a a min
imum, maintain the papers of the
nation's chief
- , 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
- IssueNumberL August1, 1991
"It's all here-The story of our
time, with the bark off!'
-LBJ at dedicationof
Library,May 22, 1971.
20 years of Library faces,
pages2-3.
"20 Yearsof
The faces on these pages and the
cover are some of the leaders
-
ab ut Vietnam and how
ever politician shrink from
the liberal label, it i time to
recognize the reality of this
revolutionary's
remarkable
achievement . To the point
of nagging, he reminded us
that raci m and poverty amid
unpr cedented affluence
- Rostow
(excerpted from an article in the
Los Angeles Times-Ed)
There is in our country a little noted
tribal rite. On the birthday of each
former president no longer alive a
wreath is delivered in the name of
the incumbent and placed on the for
mer
- W
Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.),
Douglas Kiker (New York Herald
Tribune), Francis Lewine (As
sociated Press), John Chancellor
(NBC), Marianne Means (Hearst
Newspapers; Look Magazine), Bob
Thompson (Los Angeles Times,
Hearst), Helen Thomas (United
- .
documentary got enthusiastic ap
and Los Angeles and has most
plause from the large audience,
recently produced M,~ Conserva
which one Dallas Morning News
tive: Goldwater on Goldwater, a
reporter described as "decidedly
19
After 37 Years, Lady Bird
- Symposium on Janu
ary 24, 1972. Since that time, virtually all of the 17 million
Presidential papers have been opened on request to re
searchers. Attention has now shifted lo processing non
Presidential
materials: the House of Representatives
papers
- ?
Williams likened LBJ's tele
phone style Lo a famous painter's
technique. "[lJt was during the long
conversations, like Jackson Pollack's
broad strokes, that the poetry was Lo
be found, the philosophy of Lyndon
Johnson, and the beauty of it and, at
times
- Lands
lakes place al the time of Texas' fight
for independence from Mexico. TruC'
Women is based on the lives of three
of Ms. Windle 's ancestors.
Michael Beschloss Assesses Presidential Greatness
Historian Michael Beschloss gave a
penetrating insight
- shared the ideal expres cd by President Johnson at
the opening of th Library in 1971: "We are not here today lo
celebr te the breakthroughs of yesterday, bu to try to chart the
hould
breakthroughs of tom rrow. It is the future to which
address ourselves
-
gnarled cypress trees," and the '·first
wild violets" of spring. She speaks of
a '·Jove affair wirh nature" that began
in childhood. Mrs. Johnson's mother
died when Lady Bird was only five
years old, and her mother's maiden
sister, Aunt Effie, came lo
- of the Johnson family received a numhcr
of distinguished visitors lo the Librar Below, top
lo bottom, Mrs. John on welcomes Ambassador
and Mrs. Zhang Wenjin, from the People's Republic
of China; The Right Honorable Sir Robert
Muldoon, Prime Minister of 'cw
- with the insight of a philo opher."
She ended with a few "final words Lo the students who are
privileged to be here at this time. Your attentions are going
to be concentrated on gaining practical skills and that is as it
should be in our expanding adventure
- of the library prior to reviewmg the bulk
of the documents, the processing of requests to
declassify items, I he need to provide information
Lo governmental agencies, the time required to gel
ready for symposia, and the Lask of simply having
lo answer innumerable
- \\TOIi!
>0t1
in your
to 10,000 given
h, th 7 Im, ~fim>r of Los Augcle.,,
I\! ml.1trfil1(11,
of 1:nurse. is still open.
All m11nh n: ore 1:-ncour.igt-dto in,,t..,
fr1c11cknm1 ~ocl lies to JOU\m :.ul'}J(lrt
t.11th Lil min ·s ncthitfo .
Smn, of ti fl~c
- by Marvin
Watson, former Postmaster General, and U.S. Represen
tative Tom Loeffler from the 21st Congressional district.
Mrs. Johnson ended the program on a poignant note:
"Tonight is full of memories, a time of reunions and
thoughts of dreams pursued
- Foundation Boar of Directors
met November 15 in special session lo
elect new officers following the death
of the Board's longtime Chairman
Frank C. Erwin, Jr. (see story on p. 9)
Newly elected officers are W. Thomas
Johnson, President, George Christian
- Endowment for the Arts, the Library will host a
majur national Symposium on "THE ARTS: Y ars of
Development, Time f Decision." That evening, as the
major event in this year's program, the Friends of the
LBJ Librar ,,..-it be invited with the symposium
- GREAT
SOCIET'Y
ALUM l
LBJ Remembered
The fi"rxl n·!'nl 11( I/ie 1·0111·ocario11w1Is cm
e1·('fli11g of' r!'minisccnce hy 1/icse Washi11g1011
I•ererc11Is Frum lc:/i lo righr • Lurry Tl'111ple:
Sic/11ey Om·is; Bill Mm·ers: Bom,ie Angelo:
George
- Burnham
of the
University of Texas led off the morn
ing session, with Robert Strauss, for
mer Chairman of the Democratic
Party and one-time Ambassador to
the Soviet Union. The three joined in
agreeing that, overall, the political
culture in Washington
- qualities when he spoke from this stage in
the final months of his life ...
But he was also a realist, and he saw the pendulum
begin lo swing the other way, and he instructed us in the
virtues of contention. He made it clear that he wanted us
to create
-
time. They have made a differ
ence, said York, in more ays
than one. John Barrymore,
when earnestly a ked as lo
whether he thou 0 ht omeo and
Juliet,
as teenagers,
had
enjoyed a full physical rela
tion hip, "he famously replied,
'W 11 th y certainly
- and private
s(h(1ols. nursing ,tn
- ''
The following comments are extracted from
Mr. Cronkite's address:
The 1980s have not gotten off lo a very auspicious beginning.
In that time we have heard America mocked and taunted as an
impotent giant, gutless and evil-the
most powerful and
technologically
- of the time--Kennedy
and Humphrey because Johnson eliminated one and
selected ,theother as his vice presidential running mate,
Goldwater because he would be the Republican candi
date in the election.
"An Evening With .... "
Frank
Vandiver,
President
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families do not endurt forevt•r. It is time, in th(• year
1976, that the meetings of women aJI arross the
country should join together. "l'ize thl· power they
are enlitlt:'d to under thl' 19th amendml'nl and l"reale
a just world nearer lo their heart's
