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  • with water. Every drpp is precious. Yeste1·day, I dedicated a new, man-made lake in Hartland which embodies tllo concept of Water Harvestin[, Local, state, and national agencies have cxciting plans for the development of that lake. As 1 drove into Woodstock
  • , thr ough Head Start, many t housands of children are receiving the help and the challenge they need to enable them to enter school with hope. From the resaarch laboratories, new vaccines bave been created to p revent measles and German measles. - 1­
  • an America~ you have to know them, as well a s the cities like :New York, Francisco, and ';/auhing ton. It i s ver:1 appropriate the. t we end our trip in just the kind of set ting whe:!:' L our democracy b cgins. Over the past five da ys . I have had
  • in the van of the progressive spirit of the New South, historically it has unfailingly been in that vanguard. North Carolina has not only seemed to take the lead in pro­ viding to its boys and girls, young men and women that indispensable way to a better
  • . U11ore jobs than there otherwise could have been. Wirtz 1s In Oklahoma alone, when the tax reduction is totally effective, it will generate an increase in total income of $315, 000, 000 and create 21, 000 new jobs. The poverty bill is helping us
  • t o its nati ve Indians has come late but it haa come. And new we all face the hop eful but challenging fut ure togethe r. Not long ago , t he President t old a delegation of visitors: "Every night when I go t o bed I ask myself wh at did we do t
  • . Archives Researchers-The Library gave credentials to 312 new researchers during the year. A survey revealed that 66% of those using the collections are from out of town; 34 % are from Austin (mainly from the University of Texas). It further showed that most
  • not qualify for either [program], has become the great albatross of this new right in America." "It wasn't possible to put cost controls in in 1965," Wilbur Cohen maintained. "It would never have passed the Congress." In fact, Califano pointed out, Presi­ dent
  • tomb in New York City, seen from the Hudson River, on the day it was dedicated in 1897. (Library of Congress, Division of Prints and Photographs.) 3 GRANT SCHOLAR SPEAKSAT EXHIBIT OPENING When the exhibitopened at the Library,John Simon, editor
  • Aunt Effie dies on New Year’s night. 1/3 80th Congress convenes, controlled by Republicans for first time in fourteen years. Joseph Martin elected speaker of the House. Proceedings televised for first time. 1/4 Stag party for E.H. Perry at Driskill
  • but to lift each person to a new and higher degree of per­ sonal dignity and life. He believed in a divine destiny for this nation. Not that we should rule the world, but serve as an example and friend to the other societies. We do not live alone. We do n t
  • to their own wages. •"Husbands could will children to someone else. If you died. your husband could decide he wanted to give your children to his best friend down the road. •"Widows in New York State could not live in their house more than 40 days after
  • of The Redwoods National Park, the Wilderness Act, and the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Reminiscences in New Willis Hurst, cardiologist who attended President Johnson through the years, came to the Library to launch a book of reminiscences about LBJ
  • heard a woman tell me that she was saved from financial bondage because a new government program -- Medicare -- covered the staggering expenses of her mother's l t!.St long illness. That program bas touched the lives of 20 million otber Older Americans
  • Service Commission and as LBJ's "talent scout;' sets new guidelines for opening the voluminous Macy files in the Library's collections. 3 War Art RecordsImpressionsof Those Who "Profile of a Vietnam Veteran: Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Fade Away
  • . They have blocked the appointment and ask LBJ not to get involved on either side. 2/11 The Dallas Morning News reports that LBJ says a survey will be made soon to see how many combat-qualified men in the Armed Services can be moved into field forces
  • or a horse's hoof or a man's head. They will of course put as many as they can back together, and they haven't finished digging up the whole thing, because China is a vast storehouse of man's life for centuries. So whenever they build a highway or build a new
  • , and current fellow workers1,000 in all-assembled to honor the former First Lady in a salute that in­ cluded serious tributes, hilarious hi- jinks, a mammoth cake, and the premiere of a new film, "Lady Bird Johnson: A Life," produced by Charles Guggenheim
  • disarray. The other group [believe] it was a war about the balance of power in all of Southeast Asia-from the South China Sea down to the critical Straits of Malacca including Thailand and Malaysia. Indonesia and Singapore. Australia and New Zealand. While
  • of them thirty years from now? What kind of faciliti s will they be, in this very new age of high-tech c mmunications? ''Thirty years ago little attention was paid to their museums. Today the museums are an integral part of the libraries and perform
  • stations in 13 Atlantic Coast states, the District of Columbia, and parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia are asked to close between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. beginning 8/3 under a recommendation issued by Harold Ickes, defense petroleum
  • periods a leader emerged and a new majority part~· was. formed. Nothing that has happened so far would indicate that will not hap­ pen again.'' Larry Saba to: "We "ill han politi­ cal:parties, because as our founders discovered, ifs really the only way
  • ’, then leave for Texas. 4/11 CTJ has been ill with cold and fever but is better now. Ray Roberts in Washington working on LBJ’s subcommittee. 4/12 LBJ just back from New York City. FDR dies of cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia; Harry Truman sworn
  • :"es t.o be a ci t y planner, a landscape ::rchitect, a. forester , eve:~ a good ga1--denc:r, is assured of a place in t:;:-_i.s most e'.>l;citing new adventure, the r er.'.a king cf our cities 2rid towns . I b$lieve P.!nGricans a~e not just