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turned on the television set."
'
Martin Blumenson, a widely
respected military historian who has
spoken at the Library several times,
returned, this time to discuss "The
Problems of Berlin in World War 11."
That problem, from an American
point of view
- the coalit1un and
he ,l',sumcd that e\'erybod:, ebe w 1s de~ptte uutv.ard difference,. I
bdic\.e thar the outi:omc vmd1cated hi', 1udgmcnt.
I th-nk hat (the i:-.su1:of! Berlin c01m:~ duwn 111 1, thdl there h thi,
[period - h.:• ,ay about four or five weeks
- becausetheir cul
tures and political systems had so lit
tle in common, neither really under
stood the other. Misunderstandings
and confrontations thus were fre
quent: Suez, Lebanon. Berlin, Laos
and Cuba.
A mythology has developed
about the 1962 missile
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Cover: "Funeral Pyres." Artist: W. G. Laurence; U.S. Coast Guard Art
Program
2
High SchoolTeachersStudyThe U.S. Congress
Senate Historian Richard Baker speculates on "What the framers [of the Constitution] would recognize and what would
surprise them
- , Oxford
University
Richard W. Bolling
Former United States
Representative
Fifth District, Missouri
Lecturer and Author
Thomas E. Cronin
McHugh Professor of American
Institutions and Leadership
The Colorado College
Catherine Hancock
Associate Professor
-
for all of us."
Memories of a Royal ·visit
By Harry Middleton,
LBJ Lihrary and Mmeum Direcl/lr, E111erit11.1·
Queen Elizabeth'sGoldenJubileecal.led
to mind her trip to Austin in May, 1991.
Governor Ann Richards was host
ess to Lbe royal visit. She
- warned of tragedy. In mid1964 Senator Richard Russell or
Georgia told LBJ that Vietnam wa.
·'the damned worst mes. J ever . aw,
and I don't like to brag." And LBJ
responded glumly, "I've been think
ing that way for the past six months."
An occasional
- , is gaining strong bipartisan
support in Congress, although it is opposed by Richard Russell in the Senate.
Carl Vinson on 1/4 says that single chief of staff would mean “national suicide” and
praises the present system of the joint chiefs of staff. The Vinson
- passage of U.S. and British military trains
through their occupation zone in Germany to Berlin.
4/2
LBJ delivers speech in House on the Marshall Plan bill. Later that day he takes the
train to New York to join the others.
Truman’s veto of the income tax
- inter
viewed
Richard
Burton
and
Elizabeth Taylor in all the world's
capitals-Paris, Rome, New York,
Hollywood, London, and Leningrad.
I had been the only journalist at
"I'm just as amazed as you are that all of this happened to little Mary
Elizabeth
- in
American history. Luck and accident,
Poor Richard notwithstanding.
The greatest accident in American
history, Brands argued, occurred on
January 24, 1848, when "on the middle
fork of the American River, in the foot
hills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
- .
We had just won the Cold War.
Communism had collapsed.
The Berlin Wall came down.
We were the only remaining
superpow r; everybody want-
ed to get close to the Unit d
States. There were only four
or five countries that didn't like
us ....
The Soviet
- ,
Richard Nixon used a dog as a prop. Nixon was Dwight Eisenhower's vice presidential running mate, and
the speech - unofficially named after the dog - saved his spot on the ticket. In rebutting allegations that a
group of supporters had created a slush fund
- ,
Richard Nixon used a dog as a prop. Nixon was Dwight Eisenhower's vice presidential running mate, and
the speech - unofficially named after the dog - saved his spot on the ticket. In rebutting allegations that a
group of supporters had created a slush fund
- to end Russia’s 10-month blockade
of Western occupation zone of Berlin.
4/27
Breakfast for Mrs. Truman.
Chiang Kai-shek flies to Shanghai, urges the Chinese to resist Communists.
4/28
The Armed Services Committee meets to mark up S.1269, the military
- .
discoverlbj.org
LBJ meets with members of the National Home Builders Association who are
attending their convention in Chicago. At 10 a.m. he meets with Mayor Richard
Daley in his office.
At noon LBJ addresses the Southtown Economist Club in Chicago. He and John
- .'s shop with quiet efticiency since
Johnson moved into the White Hlmse.
He supervises such speechwriters as
Richard Goodwin, Douglass Cater and
Horace Busby, tosses in the scriptural
citations of which Lyndon is so fond.
Better than any other staffer
- .'s shop with quiet efticiency since
Johnson moved into the White Hlmse.
He supervises such speechwriters as
Richard Goodwin, Douglass Cater and
Horace Busby, tosses in the scriptural
citations of which Lyndon is so fond.
Better than any other staffer
- . Hosts dinner for Pres. Aleman and his party. Later attends Cherry
Blossom ball.
4/7
10:30 a.m., meets with JFK on Berlin negotiations (in cabinet room or his office),
arriving at P-38 at 2 p.m. 2:25 a.m., President calls to ask if he could be at Glen
- convicted of any subversive activity in this country could be
exiled.
2/22
LBJ attends a conference at the State Department to discuss the Berlin
conference.
1954 Chronology ● p. 7 of 36
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REFERENCE: LBJ CHRONOLOGY
Drafted
- Hotel.)
6/23
Lunch with JFK, Rusk, etc. re: Berlin.
6/25
To Los Angeles (w/Reedy, CTJ, MMW, Williams, Tschursin, Sen. Fong, Dick Bird,
Inouye, Fred Dutton), dedicates LA airport before flying to Honolulu for
Governors Conference. Returns 6/28.
6/29
- of the U.S.S.R. Mikoyan, on a tour of the
U.S., urges East-West talks about Berlin. In November 1958, Khrushchev had issued
an ultimatum, saying the Soviets would sign a separate peace treaty with East
Germany in 6 months thereby terminating Allied rights in West
- £
.. .
A rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler
regime once said: 0 The most important thing 1 learned is that
bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problems. The most
urg e nt, the most disgraceful, the most shameful, and the most
tragic
- has breakfast with Tom Clark.
LBJ goes to New York with John Connally. They planned to have dinner with
Eddie Weisl and Dick Berlin of INS.
4/2
LBJ has appointment to see Bill Paley of CBS and also the SeSac people.
4/6
CTJ contemplating moving
- . . . . The next
90 days will tell which direction we go from here.”
Mussolini put to death by firing squad of Italian partisans.
May
5/1
Hamburg radio reports that Adolf Hitler has fallen in battle at his command post
in the Chancellory in Berlin.
5/3
