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- predicting: 11Sam Rayburn has served this
district well in the Texas legislature. In the halls of Congress, he
will go far. 11
Two days later, he sat with other new members of the House
to hear the inaugural address of the college president who had
entered
- movies are in the Johnson Library.
This wealth of unique material is
drawn upon by people from a variety of
backgrounds, from scholars researching
biographies to producers of news
documentaries, from photo editors to
members of the public who simply want
- a
factor in a successful membership drive in Austin which
recently brought in almost 600 new members of the
"Friends of the LBJ Library." The total number of
members of that organization now stands at 2,575.
THE LIBRARY WITH
ROBERT FLYNN, author
-
Hyman, Professor of History at Rice
University; Dr. Morton Keller, Pro
fessor of History at Brandeis Univer
sity; Donald Bacon, formerly senior
legislative editor of U.S. News and
World Report and co-author of Ray
burn: A Biography; Dr. Raymond
Smock
- Douglass, which played
to a full auditorium at the Library.
2
OtherProgramsAt The Library.• •
. . . included Verne Newton, new
Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library in Hyde Park, New York
(below right), who discussed "The
Cambridge Spies," whose
- . E, c:r>girl there must
have kissed me!
h. la la' What a
vari ty of lip tick:·
"That co
ral gc l u nght ab ut
New )brk Ci on that d.t>:·
General
Powell aid. ··r knov. h • ,;
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Jimmie Allred writes LBJ letter of thanks for treatment LBJ gave him in
Washington when he was there and for “wonderful gathering out at your home.”
2/16
Banquet of New Dealers in Austin, attended by Texas federal, state and county
officials
-
THEECONOMY:
As The Cartoonist
Saw It Then
Inflatiun and rrcession command a stronghold
on today·.- nl'WS spotlight. A. they struggle with
the eronomy. President ford and the new Con
gress are faking more
an a few ja s rom
e
powerful pens of editorial
-
included vivid references to nature in
love letters to Lyndon Johnson.Several
of these lel'ters were released recent
ly in connection wirh rhe new "First
Lady's Gallery .. exhibit. One of them
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor.
6
includes this passage
- THING . END QUOTE.
YOU AND THE PRESIDENT HAVE MY CONTINUED LOYALTY, AFFECTION AND
IN SAN FRANCISCO, I HAVE ALWAYS FELT THAT QUO TE
FULL SUPPORT
GREGORY PECK.
3
2
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45 Wellington Road
Delmar, New. York 12054
January 21, 1968
Dear Mrs. Carpenter
- ranging across th
experiences a.-, ·1 Harvard stuJcnt. rough rider in the Spanish
American War. rancher. New York Police Comnm,sioncr. Gov
ernor of i\ew )nrk. Vit:c President President. and in rctire
mc.nt The text comes main!· from his diaries
- to grips with it.
None of us who read or hear the news can escape the shock of the
headlines.
A group of hoodlum s rnug an old man and leave him to die. A grocer
is rnurdered by a strongarrn robber. The taxi driver is knifed. The quiet man
murders hie own
- -- emotionally, as weil as
physically. They must be attuned to the tempo of our time s -- and how fortunate
we are to have the people who see this need and are filling it.
This kind of round-the-clock community playground is a new and
constructive answer
- find them. I hope we can encourage them and give them
o pportuni ty.
more
,
.
The experiment has worked. The stars in their eyes matcbed tbe
stars in their new flag. They brought tbeir genius as well as tbeir hearts.
Albert Einstein, Andrew Carnegie
- last sumrne r 1
- 1
MORE
A variety of projects have been carried out in the schools. ranging
from tbe topographical map of the new Braille Trail at the Arboretum which
the children of Webb School made , to the forcing and plant'lng of bulbs
- of our guesta -
who in quite different ways have tried to do s omething about the cause of
conservation.
..
·. „
1 have asked Mrs. Helen Fena.1i:e to teil ua tbe graes roots story of why
the people of New Jersey wanted to preserve a place called
- , the more impressed I
am with the remarkable things which remarkable women are doing -
from my friend Ruth Johnson, who is the moving force for the Museum
for Western Arts, Fort Worth, Texas, to Dr. Mary Bunting -- new
arrival in Washington -- whom we
- income of
only $186 a y ear to this new time in which Georgia 1s per capita
income exceeds $1800. Just since 1960, it has gone up $255 and that 's
$ 23 more than the national average.
I think 1 can speak truly and proudly of the advances in the
economy
- on Georgia for
bats made of Georg ia hardwood.
Savannah itself is typical of the American melting pot. It grew from
the English under Ogl ethorpe, Salzbugers under Baron von Reck, a colony
of wealthy and cultivated Jews, a body of New England Puritans, French
- , and therefore
his inactivity has deprived him of the
boost in his reputation that might
have come had he made more of an
effort to show [historians l the better
side of that period ... This may
change, however, because a new life
of Gerald Ford has just been
- .
Former President Jimmy Carter
inaugurated the series last year.
Luckinbill, currently appearing
in a play, "A Fair Country," in New
York, flew to Austin to make his
Darrow presentation on the one night
of the week when his play is not
given, to honor
- ,
playgrounds,
and open space.
Some 7,000,000 acres of new park
land and 38,000 recreation projects
in every county in the country were
made possible by the fund.
The Land and Water Con
servation Fund was created on the
recommendation of a Commission
made up
- in 1968, and Joe
Namath, the quarterback
of the unlikely New York
Jets in their Super Bowl
victory over the Baltimore
Colts.
7
Remains Not Viewable: An Evening With John Sacret Young
By Robert Hicks, Communications Officer
Award-winning
writer, director
- economist Robert
Reischauer, reminded his colleagues
that "we are not the only group
meeting and coming up with lists of
new initiatives ... People are meet
ing all over the country, doing the
same kind of thing ... the environ
mentalists, the energy folks
- as long as there are
communities like Allentown and public servants l ike your late
b e l ove d , Mayor John T. Gross. The lampost ga rdens, the hand
some town bourses and t he new Civic Center eloquently testify to
the £.act t hat h e was not only
-
Hardy Hollers speaks at Austin Rotary Club.
4/4
After three-hour session in Mayor Miller’s office, the strike called by IBEW
against KTBC is settled. At no time was the station off the air. Construction of
new 5 kw transmitter installations was slowed
- the Ohio
River Ba.sin. Then men of little vision cried out against
this as ' 1 pork barrel n. They were a gainst this progress.
Well, we ignored their warnings. we moved ahead . Since
\~o rld Jlar II alone, over >21 billion of new industry develop
ment has
- to the commission, but Johnson was appar
ently thinking of a new role for the commission along the
lines advocated by Goldman, Busby, Barrett, Marsh, and
Califano. On September 17, 1965, W. Marvin Watson
relayed a Presidential message to Goldman requesting
- news
photographer for the Houston Press. ov ring the years 19591965, ox's photograph, document national political cam
paigns. th earl days f the space program, and social and
ultural de lopmen
s seen from
Houston perspective.
1ong the political
- . Attends dinner at the French Embassy before attending opening of the
Mona Lisa exhibit at the National Gallery.
1/9
Attends WH congressional leadership breakfast, then Senate Democratic Caucus at
the Capitol. Opens the Senate and swears in new members
- of McCaiihy
ism. More successful in shap
ing the for ign policy f the
1960s and early 1970s were
the "new internationalists a
group of influential member
of Congr s • that included Stu
art Symington, J. William Ful
bright, Frank Church and Wi l
lian1
- /1
New Year’s Day at the Ranch. In Washington by 1/4. (1/2 & 1/3 missing)
1/4
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) flies to NYC. CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and girls already there).
Returns 1/6 to Washington on JFK’s plane.
1/11
LBJ flies to Fort Worth
- at the news, saying that
there were only two jobs in the White
House that were worth taking, that of
ational Security Adviser. already filled
by McGcorgc Bundy, and the other as a
senior domestic adviser, a position that
did not even exist. But LBJ insisted
- Calcutta. And the re ·ult
fwas) Vietnam ... Lyndon Johnson inherited it and was su,pi
cmus of it. but he couldn't pcrsuaJc hims If that he 1-..new
more
about the suhje t than the people whos good fortune it was to
know more about such things than the likes
- charge of introducing new
gods and corrupting the youth of
Athens. He didn't do ither ... but he
did bring on the wrath of powerful peo
ple in Athens, because he questioned
them; he made them look silly, he
humiliated them. . . . And then in that
great
- of ourselves as a very young,
very new nation. It is sometimes difficult for us to realize that
among the nations of the world we ha-Ye the oldest democ ratic
constitution in existence.
Surely the exper iences of your years here at school have
brought you very
- of this remarkable ins titution, a n d here you are
today -- ready to turn y our knowledg e and skills to new fi elds o
But with a ll you&.· per c ~pt:ion, with all your brainpower, I
w m1der if you know h ow gr eat i s the pride in you of those who are
i n th i s
- , Rice University
ChandlerDavidson
Political Science, University of New
Orleans
Raul A. Gonzalez, Justice of the
Supreme Court of Texas
Judith Haydel, Associate Professor
of Government, McNeese State
Universily
ReneaHicks, Special Assistant Attarney
- will please you as much as
it does me.
This morning , the Committee ! or the Preservat ion of the White House
acc epted a dist ing uished new possession -- a silver coffee urn purchased in the
late 18th Centur >' by John Adams in Eng land and described in his
