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  • Counsel (Le_gislation-M ility) for the Post Office Department. Mr. Abell originally came to the artment on February 5, 1961 as Special Assistant to the Postmaster Gen ral working under Michael Monroney in the field of legislative affair§ d Co~:._5sional
  • Counsel (Le_gislation-M ility) for the Post Office Department. Mr. Abell originally came to the artment on February 5, 1961 as Special Assistant to the Postmaster Gen ral working under Michael Monroney in the field of legislative affair§ d Co~:._5sional
  • with the scholars who use those collections, Cohen and Evron Appear in Distinquished Lecture Series Wilbur Cohen, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1968, and Israel's ambassador to the United States, Ephraim Evron. spa e
  • in Washington. Because Lyndon Johnson cared, a little lad from Sicily was brought to the United States for needed complex surgery. The case had reached the president through the "sample correspondence" from all the departments and agen­ cies that regularly
  • , and she read intelligence for the O.S.S. in Washington-they returned to Europe and married in Oxford. Writing a memorandum for the State Department outlining a proposed structure for post-war Europe led to Walt's working in the late 1940s for Gunnar Myrdal
  • . The first, jointly sponsored with the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Brookings Institution in February, traced the nation's effort to develop an energy policy since the end of World War II and then focused on current problems and poten11al solutions
  • was nation­ al security advisor during the Johnson Administration and now professor emeritus of political economy at the University of Texas, and Elspeth Rostow, former dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and now a professor of government
  • , ambassador in the State Department's Bureau of Politico-Mili­ tary Affairs; Joseph Nye, Harvard professor who was Deputy Undersecretary of State in the Carter Administration; William Hyland, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment; Paul Warnke, former
  • Bradford Reynolds Assistant Attorney General Chit Rights Dhision United States Department of Justice Panel: THE CONSTITUTIONAL CULTURE OF AMERICA Moderator: Sanford V. Levinson Charles Tilford McCormick Professor of Law The University of Texas at Austin
  • Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs departed from the usual procedure of holding symposia in Austin when they carried the flag to two different cities recently. In cooperation with the Brook­ ings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute
  • . Senator Joseph McCarthy makes a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, charging that 205 known communists are currently working in the State Department. 2/11 LBJ and Rayburn meet with Truman. LBJ and Senator Connally meet to discuss pending Texas
  • communists. 11/25 Robert Phinney is sworn in as postmaster of Austin to replace Ray Lee, who resigned to serve as foreign affairs adviser to the Department of Army in Vienna. 11/26 Big Four Conference in London opens to renew discussion of peace terms
  • , not drawing closer, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the University of Texas at Austin sponsored a two-day conference Sept. 18-;19, 1992. As explained by Hany Middleton, director of the Library, aod Wilham S. Livingstof!I
  • Talks": New TV Interview Series Texas Monthly has partnered with KLRU-TV to produce a series of public affairs interviews. Taped in the LBJ Li­ brary, four segments have been recorded. with former ~enator Bill Bradley. Enron whistle blower Sherron
  • , to be followed by the Senate papers, the Vice Presidential papers, the post-Presidential files, and finally the personal papers of associates. Of the Library's one million security-classified docu­ ments- primarily concerned with foreign affairs - more than
  • bombings, give the Department of Justice subpoena powers in the investigation of voting rights cases, and to establish a Federal Community Relations Service to assist in conciliation of desegregation disputes. Eisenhower introduces a similar plan on 2/5
  • stres ed 5 that the new lectronic records pose huge problems. For exm11ple,he said. ' The Department of Defense has made it very clear th y're out of the paper business when it c mes to mil­ itary p rsonnel records." Th rapid rate at which the technol
  • for International Secu­ rity and Law in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, told me not to take that job. He said, "It's going to diminish your aura as a statesman. You're going to get hurt." I said, 'Bob, that may be true, but I have to do this. It's not something I
  • national security team, so that he could focus on domes­ tic affairs, Blumenthal noted. [nstead Mr. Clinton was forced to deal with successive crises in Bosnia, Somalia, and Haiti. It took two years, said Blumenthal, for Clinton to learn that foreign policy
  • disappeared and were never heard from again. And I've always wondered if this wasn't Castro's answer, I tried to find out, but I couldn't get a damn thing out of the Justice Department's files. Abe Fortas Abe Fonas is as good, fine, patriotic, and concerned
  • . Mohammad Heikal, President Nasser 's confidant, argues in one ofhis books (in Arabic) that shortly after the 1967 war President Johnson invited a number ofArab ambassadors to a meeting at the State Department. According to Heikal's story, the president
  • . Mohammad Heikal, President Nasser 's confidant, argues in one ofhis books (in Arabic) that shortly after the 1967 war President Johnson invited a number ofArab ambassadors to a meeting at the State Department. According to Heikal's story, the president
  • of the Great Society, In April, the LBJ Library and LBJ School of Public Affairs joined with the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the Texas Bar Foundation in a con­ ference held at the Library to . urvey the status of the program. Panelists Dan Morales
  • of bribery in a military procurement mean that we should close the doors of the Department of Defense. I Transminin~Wor~s t~e ~cclaime~ AgTesto declared that "The Endowments would have flourished if they devoted themselves to one great task: transmitting
  • at 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W. in Washington, D.C. as the yndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building. At the LBJ Li­ brary the occasion was marked by a vi:it from .S. Congre . man Mi­ chael Mc au!, (R-10 th District), wh presented the red-line
  • First Lady Rosalynn Carter speaks at LBJ Library Barbara Jordan to teach at LBJ School Barbara Jordan, U.S. Rep­ resentative from Hou ton who is leaving Congress after three terms, has ac­ cepted a professorship al the LBJ School of Public Affairs
  • would want for the two of you, his children, to lay the wreath. After all, birth­ days are family affairs, and this is such a BIG birthday." And so Lynda and I have come here to do the honors. But we come knowing that family for Lyndon Johnson was always
  • is an example for schoola and farnilies all across the country. For you are proving an important point: Teachers cannot teach alone; students cannot learn alone; education must be a family affair. A parent 1 s interest heightens the child 1 s interest; a mother
  • generosity in granting amnesty to former Confederates, his reform mitiatives in civil service and Indian affairs, and his peaceful settlement of grievances with England through the Treaty of Washington. Only his persistence in attempting to annex Santo
  • such as The University of Texas at Austin would provide the best setting for the Johnson Library and School of Public Affairs. multi-faceted institution that the vital, that the president sought to build-a place where "scholars can study the past for the sake
  • by the Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The program, supported through a grant from the Moody Foundation, brings prominent speakers to the Library each year. Other distin­ guished lecturers have been Averell Harriman, Elliot Richardson and British
  • in the expanded galleries, produ d with a grant from the LBJ Foundation, go substantially more into detail in both dom­ estic programs and foreign affairs than did earlier exhibits. In addition, displays focu for the first time on the Congres­ sional and Senate
  • from the West was in the White House -- for, as you know, Tennessee in thos days was regarded as a western frontier state. After Jackson•s inauguration, a new spirit pervaded national affaire. '1t was a proud day for the people~ ' wrote a Kentucky
  • ' Dirl'dor ol the . ·alio11al Association for he Acln111c1•m(•11t of r.olon·d l'l'oph·, for his work i11Ci, ii Rigl1ts. \Ir.\\ ilki11s,,·as presf'nl at tlil' affair hcmori11g . Ir Alll'11 a11cl\lr. Thom.Ls. Beea11se the field of mha11 affairs emlmtt'l'S 1na11
  • at the Pedernales Hotel. Walter Jenkins joins the congressional staff. 11/17 LBJ announces federal grant for recreational park program. 11/17 11/17 House Naval Affairs Committee to visit Corpus Christi. LBJ announces Austin gets US fish hatchery. Late November
  • 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
  • can do much in th e ir civic life. They can alert citizens to be interested in the affairs of their city. They can push a1'ld prod legislators. They c a n raise sights and set standards. Today, the resources available in our society are so vast. We
  • in my lifetime. I was a college student in the Sout h , in a different decade and in a different atate of affairs. If you will look back with me for a moment to th e 1930s, it may make much clearer to you the challenge of the Sixties - - the challenge
  • into the tides of human affairs. I am glad that I have had the opportunity to share this milestone with you. #### -~ ­
  • at the LBJ emor rofcs 01 •_ \ huol 1,f Public Affair· lCJ be named m· fom1 •1 • L'l:I l 1ry of ·t.1tt' D •,111 1 11:k. The H11sk .,hn1r, rnclm,t d hy ,1 :-ou,0110 Tra11l from th• Fo1111datio11will attmd ,11111utst.111di11~ s holnr tu th S hool