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  • cum:nt subject , President Ham S Truman. • Lari) r Tt.mple once spr..:Lialcoun:cl to Pn..sident fohn­ ,on, now an
  • in Congress. Speaker Sam Rayburn took Congressman Johnson under his wing. LBJ w· s a court favorite of Franklin Roosevelt's. And formidable Georgia Senator Richard u sell first made LBJ minority leader and then majority leader of the Senate. Harry Truman did
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson Library 2313 Red River Street Austin, Texas 78705 5/19/93 MEMOFOR THE RECORDFROMRet'd The following Presidents did not return personnel with ~alutes of their own: Prof. Paul F. Boller, the salutes of military Harry S
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson Library 2313 Red River Street Austin, Texas 78705 5/19/93 MEMOFOR THE RECORDFROMRet'd The following Presidents did not return personnel with ~alutes of their own: Prof. Paul F. Boller, the salutes of military Harry S
  • 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
  • apply to New Dealers: "Through our great good fortune in our youth, our hearts were touched with fire."* On Harry S. Truman: I wrote two long memoranda [for him] ... one on how a President should handle an opposition Congress, and in 1947, a long
  • President Clinton never men­ tions are ""Lyndon Johnson""----cven ··1ast year when he rattled off the names of other presidents besides himself who had tried to reform America's [healthl system. he cited Harry Truman, John Kennedy. and Richard Nixon. I
  • of." Harry Truman: ·'Very few peo­ ple, even those who in 1948 would have voted Republican. doubt that this was one of our great figures. Yet at the time Truman left the White House in 1953 his public approval ratings were something above 27%, sometimes
  • that Senator McFarland hopes LBJ will be in Washington to attend. 2/26 The Washington Times Herald reports that Donald Cook was appointed by Truman today as chairman of the SEC to succeed Harry McDonald, who takes his oath of office as head of the RFC on 2/27
  • Issue Number XLIX April I. 1991 White HousePhotographers at Work Photographerswho have been a ·signed to the White House to record on film the activitiesof every presidentsince Harry Truman assembled at the Library to remini ce about their subjects
  • ISSUENUIIEIIW,JM~Um • ~mongFriends ofLBJ NEWSLETTER OFTHEFRIENDS OFTHELBJUIIIAIIY Dr.a.wing Givento Friends of Library FourLibraries Sponsor Seminar In a trial cooperative effort, this fall four for the six Presidential Libraries-the Truman
  • , beginning with a statement by Forrestal. As a member of the subcommittee, LBJ attends hearings, which continue until 3/22/48. 1/20 LBJ, Carl Vinson and other members of the House Armed Services Committee meet with Truman to discuss General Laurence S
  • Issue Numbe r LXII April I, 1996 LBJ Reminiscences (see page 6) Programs at the Library Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of President and Mrs. Harry Truman and son, of Clifton and Margaret Truman Daniel, recount­ ed his memories of his
  • in Austin condemned the civil rights portion of Harry Truman ·s Fair Deal as a farce and a sham, an effort, he said. to set up a police state in the guise of history. But if Ronald Reagan, who voted four times for Frank­ lin Roosevelt, could change his mind
  • Americans-the black the Hispanic, the elderly, the poor. More than once, he said he would not let Vietnam shatter bis Great S ciety, as President Truman's Fair Deal had been killed by charges that he had lost China to the Communists and the Korean War. Th
  • and Chancellor E. Don 'alker, Co-Vice Presidents. Walker and Christian were also appointed t ser.c on the E:x~uthc Committee. Also elected Lo Board: Library Dir ·tor Harry l\1iddleton. Tom John,;on LBJ School Fellowships Created to Honor Strauss One thousand
  • . (Below) President Cleveland delivering his Inaugural Address, 1893. (Above) James Polk and party (Above) Theodore Roosevelt with envoys of Japan and Russia, 1905 6 (Left) Harry S. Truman talcing the oath of office after the death of President
  • their impressions and reactions to the Vietnam war. All are combat veterans who served at least one tour of duty in Vietnam. Five of the veterans were on hand for the official opening of the exhibit. Library Di rec or Harry Middleton called the exhibit "the most
  • acclaimed biogra­ phy of President Harry S. Truman, titled Truman; in introducing him, Library Director Harry Middleton said, "In David McCullough, Pres­ ident Truman has found for poster­ ity a biographer who understands and respects him." 7 Los Angeles
  • Folder Title or File Symbol (Include dates, volume #s and folder #s, _as appropriate) Form of Document Lh-. dtA'ANt: £;:t .. Document Document Descripti.on: Correspondents, Title, or N1.,1mber Page Number{s), as a.ppropriate {Please
  • Cliris1ia11. Frc111ce.1 Lc:winc. Jim ./011,•s: Follm1·i11g are I/ugh Sieler: Li:: Carpl'nl!'r. l'.\'Cl!f'JJIS/iv111!hat mllicki11g exl!l'cisc in noswl• gia. (Ti!li's are.fi'mn 1!,e si.r1ies.1 id Davis (White House cunespo11clen1. Westinghouse Brooclrnstin
  • model. Johnson w,b certain that in act111g a~ he did in Vietnam he wa~ doing only \\ hat Roosevelt 1\ould h,ne done It seems dear that no one will any longer live in l·DR's ~hado\\, as each in their fashion, Harry Truman, John Ken­ nedv, and Lyndon
  • Franklin D Roos veil'· m•'C lings with thc pre ·s as "loo cozy and one sided," yet with enough give-and-ta k t he called th first mod rn prl'ss c nference. "Roosevelt mast red the pres a. has nu other President I have ever known." Harry S Truman was "salty
  • consisting of Harry Middleton, Elspeth Rostow, and George Christian (right) about her memoir, Personal History. Among her observations: • She does not know who ''Deep Throat" of Watergate fame is. • The Nixon administration was the most dangerous in her
  • Dunar, "Harry S. Truman: The Retirement Years"; Catherine Forslund, "Anna Chennault: China, Asia, and U.S. Foreign Policy, I 950-1985": William Gibbons, "The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War, Part V": Jill Jonnes, "A History of Illegal Drugs
  • ? But former President Harry Truman once told Johnson that a Jot ofrurai folk don't know where the airport is, but they know where the depot is. Go and find them. Her choice of transportation? A pull train of 19 cars complete with supporters and press and 15
  • ? But former President Harry Truman once told Johnson that a Jot ofrurai folk don't know where the airport is, but they know where the depot is. Go and find them. Her choice of transportation? A pull train of 19 cars complete with supporters and press and 15
  • . (For an account of the second symposium, see page 7 .) Titled "Energy Policy in Perspective. Solutions, Prob­ lems and Prospe ts,'' the conference drew representatives from every Administration from Harry Truman's through Jimmy Cart r's. Experts from industry
  • to 125 milliori nor what changes there would be in transportation The text of Harry S. Truman' last Fireside Chat, drhvered a few days before leavmg office, gives an msight mto his concept of Presidential responsibility and also int the unpretentiousness
  • so many sc nari s going on at once. While Harry McPherson and oth rs were working on the c sation-of-the-bombing speech at midnight n turday the 30'1\ my faU1ergot a call at our resi­ dence in Maryland that the Presi­ dent would like him
  • . and Development or Industry in Central America." Deputy Di.rector Tina Houston pre­ sented M . Warnock with a signed copy of LBJ: The White House Years, by for­ mer Library Director Harry Middleton, and a sample CD of President Johnson ·s telephone tape
  • Among Issue Number LXVI, October, 2001 Retiring LBJ Library and Museum Director Harry Middleton, with Incoming Director Betty Sue Flowers Story on page two Our Next Director Archivist of the United States John Carlin has named Betty Sue Flowers
  • . 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
  • 9,000volume library on Congress and pro­ vided some funds to promote the scholarly study of Congress. The chief representatives of the two institutional sponsors who have been most involved in plans for the encyclopedia are Harry Middleton, Director of the LBJ
  • Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson w re always the bearers of good news. A President in those days seeing on his appointment calen­ dar that he had an appointment with his economist knew they w r corning in to discuss
  • in the world. As he often did, Harry Truman put it most pungently when he called the White House "the crown jewel in the penal system." He advised his successor, Dwight Eisenhower, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." Thomas told a packed LBJ
  • ~. Lyndon 8. Johnson; an mscnbed pholograph ol President Harry Trumar1, 1964, a gift from Pr s1d nt Truman to Presid nt Johnson: bronze pres11.lential m dais set in silver of Pr sidcnts H 'rbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, a gift from l'v[ilton S
  • present Dr. George Lo[ with a check for $25,000. Left to right, former Johnson cabinet officers Ilenr~ Fowler, Secretary of the Treasury, and C. R. Smith. Secretary of Com­ merce, with President Roosevelt's Postmaster Gl•neral. James Farley. '.S. upreme