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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 68, 1 May 1998," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Issue Number LXVIII May 1, 1998 Images of LBJ (see pages 2-3) A new and \ er~ popular exhibit in the Library is an auto­ mated talking and moving l"igureof President Johnson telling humor­ ous stories. The animatronic image was built by the Sally
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1943" (Item)
  • of 1942, the Johnsons have bought 4921 Thirtieth Place. Atmosphere in Washington in 1943: rubber and fuel oil shortages, gasoline rationing. Early in 1943 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) moves his office from 1320 New House Office Building to 504 Old House Office
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of the Syphax School Playground - Washington, 5/25/1967" (Item)
  • a wonderful display of art work about the playground which you have clone with Mrs. Schulson. Out here, you have cverything from a play giraffe to the new trash­ cans given by your, neighbor. Of course the se thing s don 1t just happen. They are here be cause
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Beautification Awards Ceremony, the White House, 6/6/1967" (Item)
  • , and J. heartily congratulate you on what you have done . At the parking lots, I loved seeing the ingenious bright new plantings t hd.t relieve the solid asphait and c ernent style of those essential parts of a city. B right geraniurns and petunias
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, University of Vermont, 8/20/1964" (Item)
  • but, as your b eloved New E ngland poet Robert Frost said, "The woods are lovely. dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." ### ..
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Petersburg, Virginia, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • state legislators see the new opportunities in education and vote their needed support. For all these reasons the President is proud of you and I came here to say to you that to this democratic President and his wife, the South is a respected, valued
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Ahoskie, North Carolina, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • t he olcl a nd the new South are so vividly joine d . I understand Ahoskie began as a railr oad town and I was advised the best thing I could do fo r it was to bring in a trainload of passengers . I've done my best. I ' m so rry we can 't stay long
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Barter Theater, Abingdon, Virginia, 5/11/1965" (Item)
  • thrilled a countless number of Americans in New York, on the road, in t'~eaters like this, on the stages of college campuses and in little theaters everywhere. To name only a few of the stimulating plays he has produced, let me cite "A Man for All Season
Press release, "Mrs. Johnson's Remarks at School Dedication, 12/6/1965" (Item)
  • . And it certainly is a day I've looked forward to. Coming here , meeting you, and seeing your schools with their new dress of greenery . It look s so nice n ow and you and I can remember how it looked last September when there was no g r ass a nd no plants a t all
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Legacy of the Sixties, 1999," LBJ Library (Item)
  • ,° In his r tirement LBJ had me to lunch on cla . The Dallas Morning New had published a story saying LBJ wanted to be chancellor f The niver:;ity of Texas. H glared at me and asked. '·Why in the hell would I want be the chancellor nf The University of Texas
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 27, 1 January 1983," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , in the New York Times, notes that Caro weighs the evidence to get the picture he wants and confuses the function of a biographer wilh that of a Judge "-and in this case, a hanging judge." For those seeking to understand Johnson, Donald says, "Mr. Caro's book
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of Padre Island National Seashore, 4/8/1968" (Item)
  • here. For at every beach, there are new shells to find, new dunes to paint. And I believe you who hold Padre Island in your hand will feel very much as the survey party of Colonel Parilla did in 1766. Two hundred years ago, they paid the highest tribute
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Women Doers Luncheon on 'Rediscovering America' - the White House, 5/2/1968" (Item)
  • restoration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Miss Dorothy Vaughan, who first bad the idea of turning an urban renewal project into a whole living history of an early New England seaport town, is sitting in this room. Strawbery Banke does not He along a super
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks, Restoration Luncheon, the White House, 10/15/1968" (Item)
  • OC'I'OBER 15, 1968 It is a pleasure to have each and every one of you here ! As I have traveled about the country, I bave seen your handiwork from Salado, Texas, to Tarrytown, New York. Many of you 1 know through vieits to your restoration project
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Press Breakfast in Honor of Mrs. Johnson by Mrs. Richard Hughes and Mrs. John Bailey, Shelburn Hotel, Atlantic City. N.J., 8/27/1964" (Item)
  • school. Lynda will be a junior in colleg e. T h ey are intensely interested and very g rateful for the work of the Young Citizens for Johnson and have met with them in Wisconsin, California and New York and Washington. I believe
  • New Jersey
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication of Sam Rayburn Statue, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, 1/6/1965" (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 40, 15 May 1987," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 51, 15 December 1991," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 52, 15 April 1992," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 53, 1 July 1992," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . 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 • ,;
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 5, 25 April 1975," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 71, 1 September 1999," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Women Doers Luncheon and Panel Discussion on What Citizens Can Do to Help Ensure Safe Streets,' the White House, 1/18/1968" (Item)
  • 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
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of the Buchanan School Plaza - Washington, DC, 5/7/1968" (Item)
  • -- 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
Press release, "Excerpts from Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of the James Polk Birthplace Pineville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 5/20/1968" (Item)
  • 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
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Annual Awards Ceremony of the Committee for a More Beautiful Capital, the White House, 6/11/1968" (Item)
  • 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
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Luncheon for Conservation Leaders - the White House, 11/13/1968" (Item)
  • 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
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Introducing Miss Helen Browne, Associate Director of the Frontier Nursing Service, 7/29/1964" (Item)
  • , 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
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Valdosta, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • 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
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Savannah, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • 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
Press release, "Excerpts from Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at Morven, Princeton, N.J., 8/12/1965" (Item)
  • New Jersey
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 57, 1 April 1994," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 63, 1 August 1996," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 67, 15 December 1997," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 86, December 2005," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 44, 15 December 1988," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 10/24/1964" (Item)
  • 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
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1946" (Item)
  • 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
Press release, "Remarks of the President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Dedication of Eufaula Dam, Eufaula, Oklahoma, 9/25/1964" (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 38, 20 October 1986," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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