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- dinner in honor of Tom Clark.
1/21
LBJ attends Alfalfa Dinner with Senator Tom Connally.
Late January – Early February
Over the opposition of Austin City Councilwoman Emma
Long [and?] organized labor, Herman Brown gets a $68,900 contract for the city
- Hannegan,
Arthur Bagby, Ed Clark, Albert Jackson, William Kittrell, Arch Underwood, Sam
Rayburn, Representatives Pickett, Combs and Lyle.,
1/23
LBJ went to see Grace Tully to tell her that the Federal Judge in Austin had died
and to remind her of Alvin
- with
Chalmers Roberts; Congressman Fisher and Lewis Seibert; Willard Simmons; J.R.
Parten. Addresses Big Brothers Dinner at Mayflower.
1/25
Smithsonian Board of Regents meeting. Meets during day with Sen. Hayden; Clark
Thompson; Roland Boyd; Fred Korth. Talks
- a gathering in Speaker Rayburn’s office with President Truman,
Stuart Symington, Tom Clark, et al.
1/5
LBJ is appointed to the Armed Services Committee and the Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee in the Senate.
President Truman delivers his State
- Alfalfa Clun dinner. Meets with Justice Tom Clark after the dinner.
1/27
Sunday. Breakfast at The Elms with Russell, Reedy, Busby. Later goes to Camp David
for the night with CTJ, the girls, and the Thornberrys.
1/28
LBJ, Lynda, Homer Thornberry return
- supporters hope that such pre-convention
meetings will spread throughout the state. The group adopted a resolution
calling for an uninstructed delegation and for support for a presidential nominee
who could lead the nation “out of chaos.”
3/26
Joseph
- Reception, 9 p.m.
2/11
Ed Clark is in Washington.
2/19
Truman speaks at Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel,
Washington, D.C. His speech is broadcast over nationwide radio; he criticizes the
reactionary response to his State of the Union
- and
to have the members selected by the entire Democratic senatorial caucus, not
LBJ. Clark makes a motion to establish regulations for calling meetings of the
caucus, criticizing LBJ for calling meetings infrequently. Clark withdraws his
motion after LBJ
- 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
- . They feel that they are entitled to a
pro-labor man in his place, since he had the best labor record of any member of
either house. Andy Biemiller would prefer someone like Church, while Meany
would like Clark to get the position. Reedy notes that they have
- Rayburn.
Stevenson, Kefauver, Fulbright, Tom Clark and Bill Kittrell also attend. Later LBJ
attends a stag dinner at Clark Clifford’s for Truman. Earlier in the week Clifford
had asked LBJ to attend saying that Truman had asked that LBJ be among the
eight
- . In the House, Charles Halleck defeats Joseph Martin for
minority leader. Martin had served as the Republican leader since 1939. Rayburn is
re-elected speaker.
The Senate consists of 64 Democrats and 34 Republicans, including 2 senators from
the new state
- is critical of the tight money policy
followed by the administration.
Ed Clark cables LBJ urging him to oppose passage of a bill sponsored by Senator
Neuberger which would regulate billboard advertising on federally-owned lands
next to federal highways.
Gerry
- regular Sunday radio broadcast, LBJ hosts five Texas congressmen and
gives them an opportunity to discuss specialized issues: Clark Fisher of San
Angelo spoke on the new defense program; Wingate Lucas of Fort Worth on the
outlook for labor legislation
- or July
LBJ meets CTJ in Marshall, goes to coast for rest. LBJ secures approval of Cen-Tex
Rural Electric Projects, largest allotment ever made by the Rural Electrification
Administration.
LBJ works on report of Economic Condition of the South with Clark
- successfully but disapproving letter from
Washington caused the Navy to give up.
2/13
LBJ meets with Tom Clark, Dept, of Justice, Dillard Lasseter, deputy NYA
administrator, re: establishment of war work centers in Washington and
California.
1942 Chronology
- Administration?).
2/5
LBJ, CTJ, Moyers, MMW to New York where LBJ addresses B’nai Zion dinner.
2/6
Phone calls with RFK, Speaker and Tom Clark re: Ramsey Clark (appointment in
Justice Department?).
2/7
White House leadership conference at 8:45.
2/8
- and prohibiting reduction in salaries.
3/25
Sam Houston Johnson goes to work for War Production Board. Senate confirms
Tom Clark’s appointment as assistant attorney general of Justice’s Antitrust
Division. Clark remembers LBJ being instrumental in his
- confirms nomination of James Forrestal as secretary of the navy.
5/20
LBJ in Dallas, en route to Austin, where he is met by Ed Clark, one of the leaders
of the group seeking an instructed delegation for FDR. LBJ will spend 2 or 3
weeks in his district.
5
- Services Committee approves the nomination of Roger Kyes as
deputy secretary of defense after Kyes, a former vice president of GM, agrees to
sell his GM stock.
LBJ meets with Don Cook, Clark Clifford and Stuart Symington to discuss what to
do about Drew
-
with Wirtz and George Brown.
1/13
CTJ attends a meeting of the Business and Professional Women’s Club.
1/16
LBJ and Truman attend a party at Clark Clifford’s home. Truman asks LBJ to come
see him soon.
1/18
The Air Force calls up 150,000 reserves
