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  • Grande Valley. 6/20 LBJ speaks in Waco. 6/22 Germany invades the Soviet Union. 6/23 Amarillo 6/24 Cuero and Fort Worth; FDR promises all possible aid to Soviet Union, orders Treasury to release 40 million in Soviet credits which had been frozen
  • 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
  • plans to attend. 1/10 First assembly of the United Nations opens in London. 1/12 LBJ is apparently ill, and Welly Hopkins writes him: “By this time I trust that your scarlet fever experience has cleared away.” 1/14 Congress convenes. 1/19 Office
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  • the world's, major powers. By all the good old rules of political reaction, these events should have strengthened President Johnson in his 1964 election run. In times of crisis, U.S. voters ordinarily flock to the cause of the man in office. Johnson, who
  • the world's, major powers. By all the good old rules of political reaction, these events should have strengthened President Johnson in his 1964 election run. In times of crisis, U.S. voters ordinarily flock to the cause of the man in office. Johnson, who
  • and strategy, and political problems. Truman delivers his final State of the Union Message. Senator Bricker and 63 other cosponsors introduce a proposed constitutional amendment that provides that a treaty that denies or abridges any right enumerated
  • his State of the Union Message to Congress, calling for a cost-of-living tax credit, an anti-inflation program, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii and support for the Marshall Plan. According to James Forrestal, Secretary of Defense, the response
  • . No business is conducted until after Eisenhower’s State of the Union Message on 1/9. At a conference of Democratic senators held before Senate convenes, LBJ gives a Democratic message on the state of the Union, in advance of Eisenhower’s message. In it he sums
  • the State of the Union Message. CTJ hosts the first of two luncheons for wives of new senators. The second is 1/14. 1/10 Soviets send message to Eisenhower and 26 other nations calling for a conference to discuss the reunification of Germany through
  • , Oregon. 4/11 LBJ surveys labor supply in Portland shipbuilding industry. 4/13 LBJ meets with NYA personnel re: war work centers, leaves Portland via Union Pacific. 4/15 LBJ arrives in Denver, Colorado, meets with Orren Lull, Colorado NYA director
  • to the next. Reedy had previously written a memo saying that without some concessions, Senate rules would probably be drastically rewritten at the beginning to the next session of Congress. 1/10 Eisenhower delivers the State of the Union Message to a joint
  • attend a reception in his honor at the Women’s National Democratic Club. They also attend the traditional birthday dinner in his honor given by long-time friend and recent widow, Mrs. J.L. Aston. In the late evening, Rayburn and LBJ attend the annual stag
  • elected Speaker of the House. 1/6 Eisenhower delivers his State of the Union Message before a joint session of Congress. In foreign affairs Eisenhower promises that “America’s response to aggression will be swift and decisive” and calls for a military
  • , and the cook has recovered. . . . For the time being we seem to be getting along very well.” 4/26 On FDR’s orders, Army troops take possession of Montgomery Ward and Company after Sewell L. Avery, company chairman, and company directors refused to obey
  • Stassen. 1/9 Truman delivers the State of the Union Message. [?] is appointed to the committee to escort Truman to the chamber. 1/11-1/12 LBJ, Estes Kefauver, Lester Hunt and John Stennis conducted hearings in New York City, checking on the cost
  • with Texas delegation. During afternoon meets with Walker Stone, talks with Thornberry re: Will Wilson wire (?), and later to Lee White and Arthur Goldberg re: Bobby Troutman. 1/11 Talks with Goldberg re: Troutman. At 12:30 Kennedy delivers State of Union
  • . Senator Douglas is going to attempt to tack an anti-lynching amendment onto the natural gas bill. Eisenhower delivers State of the Union Message to Congress, outlining foreign, farm, tax and other major election-year issues. He calls for payments
  • sent this stO('yto my good pal. Al Spivak of UPI. SOIM time ago it is an account of one of L8Js great political trips, New Or1eans.1964 that I never got published.The trip coincided with the famous Lady Bird Special. LB j took the (ace lS$UI head oc,, I
  • sent this stO('yto my good pal. Al Spivak of UPI. SOIM time ago it is an account of one of L8Js great political trips, New Or1eans.1964 that I never got published.The trip coincided with the famous Lady Bird Special. LB j took the (ace lS$UI head oc,, I
  • Hawaii or Alaska to the Union at this time. Dudley Dougherty writes the general managers of Texas radio stations carrying LBJ’s weekly radio broadcasts and asks them to provide him with the same services they provide LBJ. 3/21 In his Sunday radio
  • Eisenhower delivers the State of the Union address at 12:30; afterward LBJ meets with JFK and Robert Kennedy. The Democratic Conference meets at 3:30. At the conference, Gore introduces a motion to expand the Democratic Policy Committee from 9 to 15 members
  • of the Union Message to Congress, recommends “an eight-point anti-inflation program, public housing, Universal Military Training, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, an increase in the minimum wage--from 40¢ to 50¢ an hour, and compulsory national health insurance
  • it to you. many of the other sources included Time Life magazine from those years, and the books First Dogs, Presidential Pets and Margaret Trumans White House Pets. On Feb 15, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Bess & Tyler Abell wrote: Jennifer You said in an email you
  • it to you. many of the other sources included Time Life magazine from those years, and the books First Dogs, Presidential Pets and Margaret Trumans White House Pets. On Feb 15, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Bess & Tyler Abell wrote: Jennifer You said in an email you
  • of the Union Message to the joint session of Congress at 1 p.m. 1/6 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) and Wright Patman arrange a birthday luncheon for Rayburn at which Truman is a surprise guest. 1/12 Tea for Mrs. Truman at Blair House. 1/13 LBJ writes Dorothy Plyler
  • the wildflowers grow and showing the rest of the state what has been done. "They always claim If you have beautiful flowers, to take pictures of them and send them in," Landry said. "We normally cut them about six times a year. but last year we just let them grow
  • the wildflowers grow and showing the rest of the state what has been done. "They always claim If you have beautiful flowers, to take pictures of them and send them in," Landry said. "We normally cut them about six times a year. but last year we just let them grow
  • residence. 1/7 Meetings with JFK, part of the time on the Honey Fitz. 1/8 Meeting with JFK this morning at Kennedy residence and aboard Honey Fitz. Returns to Washington that afternoon, meets with JFK and congressional leaders at This chronology
  • Clark at 10:30 (on same subject?). 3/15 Senator Frear sworn in as SEC commissioner, NSC meeting at 2:00, WH black tie dinner for Prince and Princess Radziwill. 3/16 LBJ addresses Farmer’s Union at 3:45, 4:00 attends WH meeting on Cuba. 1961