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- -Jackson Day Dinner, then returns to Washington.
3/31
Attends brunch at Larry O’Brien’s; hosts dinner at The Elms with Congressmen
Thornberry, Thomas, Brooks, Bulling and their wives, the Busbys and the Bill
Whites.
April
4/1
Attends Bobby Baker’s
- my ‘television debut’ over one
of the local stations where I was interviewed by the news commentator.”
4/11
Aunt Kitty writes to LBJ that Uncle Tom Johnson is confined to bed with another
heart attack.
4/12
Marietta Brooks arrives in Washington
- National Committee. Other
speakers included: Harry Truman, Coke Stevenson, Ed Pauley, Myron Blalock,
W.A. Brooks, Hatton Sumners and LBJ. The dinner climaxed a month-long
fundraising drive for the DNC.
March
Early March
Pat Adelman chosen as general
- Brooks today regarding the new KTBC building. That evening
he attends a cocktail party at Drew Pearson’s in honor of Earle Clements.
1/25
The Clean Elections Bill passes the Senate after Senator Hennings leads the fight
to include primary elections
- /14
White House leadership meeting at 8:45 a.m., meeting with JFK at 2:45 p.m., to
Ranch at 5 p.m. with CTJ, Jenkinses, Thornberrys, MMW, Warren Woodward,
Kellam.
2/16
To San Antonio for tour of Brooks Aerospace Medical Center, back to the Ranch
- in EOB. Hosts
reception at home for President’s Commission on Status of Women.
2/13
Speaks to compliance officers at Brookings Institute. Attends luncheon meeting
with Rusk and senators on Congo policy, at State. Meets with Goldberg, Reedy and
Fortas
- Harman from serving as county chairman.
CTJ is in Texas making important decisions about the house in Stonewall. She is
working with Max Brooks, Melvin Winters and Marcus Burg on renovations on
the house and repairs on the roof and dam. There have been
- . Eisenhower at the Congressional Club.
5/11
LBJ goes to Austin and then to Houston to attend the funeral on 5/12 of Wesley
West’s mother.
5/14
LBJ flies from Houston to Hillsboro to attend the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Rather, who died in an auto
- to entertain.
Tex Easley’s column notes that Mrs. Dale Miller was recently elected president of
the Texas State Society. Other officers are: Robert Anderson and CTJ, vice
presidents; Mrs. Herbert Brownell, Sarah McClendon, Price Daniel, Jack Brooks,
Tom Bartle
- to make the commencement address at
Bethany College. That evening he flies to Baltimore to attend a testimonial dinner
honoring Congressmen Edward Garmatz, Samuel Friedel and George Fallon.
6/8
LBJ attends meeting of the State-Justice-Judiciary
- rights amendments must clear a committee also.”
4/29
LBJ performs ground-breaking ceremonies at the site of the new Washington
headquarters of 16 railroad unions at 1st and D Sts., N.W. With him were Rayburn
and Edward Keating, editor and manager
- spends the day in Austin looking at building sites for KTBC with Max Brooks and
Jesse Kellam.
4/25
In the first test of the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Sixth Fleet is ordered to the Eastern
Mediterranean because of unrest in Jordan.
1957 Chronology ● p
- Deathe, Bolton, Elmo Brown, Chuck Brooks
and Charles Howell.
2/14-2/25
At the 20th Congress of Soviet Communists Party in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev
proclaims a new party line, including destruction of Joseph Stalin as national idol.
The rush to “de
- rancher and oilman,
announces that he will run against LBJ for the Senate.
LBJ sits at the head table at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents
Dinner.
2/7
LBJ interviews George Mahon, Bob Poage, Lloyd Bentsen and Jack Brooks on his
weekly radio
- and I have been away
from Austin--and away from Texas.”
12/14
LBJ, Wesley West, A.W. Moursund, Max Brooks, Melvin Winters and Clyburn
Montgomery inspect a low-cost housing project in San Angelo and return to
Johnson City that day.
12/16
Stuart
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products; also preserves rent control. LBJ votes for the bill.
6/26
LBJ announces he will be unable to return to district to open campaign until 7/6
due to pressures of Congress. Mrs. Max Brooks named chairman of women’s
division of LBJ’s campaign, calls
