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  • /4 LBJ makes speeches in San Marcos and Lockhart. 1/6 LBJ meets with Austin city councilmen on planning for postwar employment of returning servicemen. “I don’t want to see another leaf-raking program [after?] the war.” 1/10 LBJ just returned
  • on undisclosed mission. Warren Magnuson, in his oral history interview, remembers accompanying LBJ to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to settle Army-Navy feud. Picture taken at Dutch Harbor, Aleutians with Magnuson, Admiral Theobald and Artemas Gates and Leslie E. Gehres
  • of Alaska (Ernest Gruening and E. L. Bob Bartlett). LBJ is re-elected majority leader; Everett Dirksen defeats John Sherman Cooper for the position of minority leader left vacant by the retirement of William Knowland. When the Senate opens, LBJ, exercising
  • , then takes MMW to airport, with Marie Fehmer. 12:45 p.m., goes to Marble Falls by car with J.C. Kellam and MF to dedicate monument. CTJ is present. They go to Haywood Camp and later return to LBJ Ranch. 5/27 1 p.m., goes to San Marcos with Kellams, CTJ
  • , saying he will impound any additional money voted by Congress. 4/16 LBJ apparently has cocktail party for editors. 4/17 Public Buildings Commissioner W. E. Reynolds testifies before a Senate subcommittee that the White House is a firetrap and asks
  • from oral history transcripts and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive. discoverlbj.org May 5/1 LBJ is in San Marcos to discuss the program for the future of San Marcos Army Air Field. Last week
  • for civilian war housing project for the San Marcos Navigation School is selected. 2/11 President Roosevelt nominates Thurman Arnold as an associate justice of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia. 2/16 Ida Nell Connally has a baby daughter. 1
  • speech in San Marcos. 5/10 Rebekah Johnson marries O.P. Bobbitt in Monterrey, Mexico. 5/19 W. Lee O’Daniel announces his candidacy for Senate seat Rebekah Baines Johnson (LBJ’s mother) has operation at Scott-White hospital in Temple. 5/23 LBJ makes
  • and San Marcos, and addresses a dinner meeting of the business men’s club. 10/9 LBJ addresses a dinner meeting of the Texas Association of Broadcasters in Mineral Wells. 10/10 LBJ drives from Mineral Wells to Dallas, where he rides in the State Fair
  • Austin airport at noon, makes commencement address at San Marcos, returns to Washington. 1961 Chronology ● p. 7 of 23 07/2024 7 lbjlibrary.org REFERENCE: LBJ CHRONOLOGY Drafted by LBJ Library archival staff from oral history transcripts and other