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- receh-ed your letter and
a•ked me to thank you for wriliD&,
It wa•
thoughtful of you to •end in your •ncgeatfon
foz honoring the lat• Preaidant Kennedy.
it nfi.i',o/_y f 'f ,(tl Wtdol.
lo_ fl
- . Kronheim; a
lithograph print of President John . Kennedy by Bernard
Fuch~. a gift from Edward Swayduck; and an m-;c.ribed
photograph of President John F. Kenned\ an his daughter
Caroline with Tex, a rcg1 t reJ Galice o ~tallion (gi" ·n to
Carolin by the J
- on television ... lt
was one of the finest moments of the
Kennedy presidency, and the man for
whom this building was named had a
great deal to do with that."
Richard Reeves, biographer of
John F. Kennedy, presented a fasci
nating look at that president. Some
- , "is just as bipartisan as
breathing."
Credit: Ausrin America11-S1ares111an
David Kennedy
LibraryMounts
Workof Black
Artists
An exhibition which proved to be
immensely popular was "Harlem
Renaissance: Art of Brack America,"
on display in the Library
-
Kennedy called me and said he wanted to see me. When I
went in he said, '' I want you to run with me on the ticket.'•
I said, "What you want is a good Majority Leader for
your programs " I didn't want to be Vice President. The
night before 1 had talked
- 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
-
ber of conversationsduring the period. AttorneyGeneral
Robert Kennedy (left), Senator Hubert Humphrey (cen
ter), and Senator Barry Goldwater (right) were among
the persons President Johnson talked to, all of them fig
ures in the political environment
- , bul I think lhis time you've
brought home a man."
Fast forward Lo November 22,
1963, and Mrs. Johnson's memories
of President Kennedy's assassina
tion: the startling crack of gunfire;
the wild ride to the hospital, the
return to Air Force One, where
- and
show some of their favorite wor~
(pages 2-3).
,..
Kennedy
photographer
Cecil
Stoughton caught a delightful
moment of a president at play with
his children (above). Jerry Pulley
preserved an historic meeting
between his president and Prime
Minister
- , Eisenhower,
Kennedy, and Johnson-joined with the Brookings
Institution in sponsoring a majOI' symposium on a
subject important to the Administrations of all four
Presidents-wage-price
policy. The idea for the
multi-Library endeavor was proposed by Walt Rostow
- will open in
the spring of l 995.
The Exhibition
The exhibit opens with a d,trk corri
dor recalling
ovcmber 22, 1963
the day of the assassination
of
President Kennedy. The captions
accompanying th photographs are
in Lady Bird Johnson·· words, taken
from
- changing selections from .the
Library's holdings. Currently, an
exchange of letters between President
Johnson and Senator Robert P.
Kennedy captures a poignant moment
in a frequently tense relationship.
Text of RFK Letter
Dated January 1966, to LBJ
- the entries she wrote
after the tragic day in Dallas in
1963 when President Kennedy was
assassinated and her husband,
Governor John Connally, was
wounded. Mrs. Connally put the
notes aside after writing them and
only discovered them last year.
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- , and Presid nt John .
Kennedy nominated him to be Commandant in
October, 1963.
Orville L. Freeman
Wallace M. Greene, 1907-2003
Photo by Yoichi Okamoto
Orville Freeman died of complications of
Alzheimer s disease on ebruary 20. President
Kennedy named him
- was instituted by
President Kennedy, who pre ented the first award on
July 4, 1963. The medal has smce been presented lo 133
Americans.
Mrs. Johnson's medal is on display at the Library.
Ford visits Library while planning his own
Former President Gerald Ford
- . It was supposed to have
taken place in November 1963,
when Lyndon Johnson was Vice
Pre 'ident. A grand tour of Texas
had been planned for President
Kennedy and his First Lady Jac
queline. An overnight visit to the
Ranch was on the agenda, with a
big barbecue
-
rable passages-at-arms with former
presidents. One reporter asked John
Kennedy, while aloft in Air Force
One what would happen if the air
craft should crash. "Well, I know one
thing," said JFK. "YOUR name
would just be a footnote."
Pr sident Ford once
- ?
What would he do if he came back
today? And how will the futme deal
with his programs and ideals?
LBJ's prowess in the Senate was
unequalled, Daschle asserted. and
recalled a remark attributed to then
Senator John Kennedy, who chose
LBJ as a running
- and Sciences.
He was Deputy Director of the
Peace Corps in the Kennedy Administra
tion, and was later special assistant and
then press secretary to President John
son. It all began. Moyers recalled, when
fifty years ago almost to the day, he and
his bride
- , 0eft) who
spent time as a lecturer at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs. He was escorted through the
museum by volunteer Susan Dimmick.
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Early Decisions on Vietnam Discussed
A scholarly conference to explore the
early decisions made by the Kennedy
- anything
else,
Eisenhower. .. was able to keep
clown inflation and thus helped the
country in a way that probably any
one else who might have been presi
dent in the late l 950s would not have
been able to do."
John F Kennedy: "When he
was tragically
- . Glancy, Jr., "Quid Pro Quo:
U.S. Approaches
Toward West
German Trade with Eastern Europe
during
the
Kennedy/Johnson
Administration"; Jussi M. Hanhimaki,
"In the Shadow of Vietnam: U.S.
Foreign Policy, Bridge-Building, and
the Specter of Neutralism
- to
childiren's health. Attending
were: Arthur Fleming,
10
Ro'bert Finch, Elliot Rich
ardson, Joseph Califano,
Richard Schw,eiker, Mar
garet Heckler, David Math
ews and the current secre
tary Otis Bowen.
Reflections of a Kennedy-Johnson Loyalist
by Walt
- of
nearly two thousand.
The
include conversations with Dean
Rusk, William Colby, Thurgo d
Marshall, and Hubert Humphrey.
Al. o available are fifty significant
entries from the President's Daily
Diary, including the week follow
ing the Kennedy assassination
- to the publication of it
tin ling , nothing has generated more
qu tions of Lyndon Johnson's admin
i tration than the way he handled the
Kennedy assassination.
ne major interpreter of that epi
• d i • Max Holland. Johnson biog
rapher Robert Dallek writes of him
- didn't like the New Dealers; th New Dealers didn't
like Truman. But if you look at him, particularly in foreign
policy, in looking back, he was a superb President.
On John F. Kennedy:
H was a great politician-the
best national politician,
except Roosevelt
-
Stone's film, "JFK," which is based
on the allegation that President John
F. Kennedy's as·sassination was a
conspiratorial effort invol,ving some
of the highest officers of government
in league with industrialists who
feared that Kennedy would end the
U.S
- .
Lyndon Johnson heard." Thanking
the President for his tribute and for
the reception, Mrs. Johnson said: "I
will remember it always.''
On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority
Leader George Mitchell (right) and
Senator Edward Kennedy (far
right), among other
- premises and offer new solutions.
The leaders of the party, Fritz Mondale and T ddy Kennedy, each
continues o be, in different ways, a Roosevelt legatee. No one then
will any longer live in FDR's shadow as Lyndon Johnson did, but it
may be sometime still
- A. Palermo,
"Robert F. Kennedy, The War in
Members of the University of Texsa faculty-Bruce
Buchanan, Government:
Schott, LBJ School-who comprise the committee that evaluates applications
to determine the bi-annual recipients.
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Vietnam, and De Til ·r i
- · rooms.
The Kennedys tried to g ·t the atholic
clergy t > dissuade those in the march
from staying overnight. Many govern
ment agents were assigned toke pan ey
throw Castro. Robert Kennedy ran the
committee, which came up with many
schemes, some of them
- Ameri ans in the United
States.
StiU, Vietnam overshadowed all.
The speakers at the Democratic
Convention of 2008 extolled
the historic achievements of
the heroes of their party
FD R, Truman, Kennedy-but
Johnson's name was not men
tioned
- · Helen Th mas, UPT. James
Deakin, St. LouL Ost-Dispatch; and Hugh Sidey, Time
Li[e In .
The panel of Whit . House Pres
ecretaries will be
composed of representatives .rom the four Administrations
from Kennedy t Ford. Pierre Salinger, Kennedy, Bill
Moyers
- of the year. They
included:
• enator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. who served as assistant
·ecretal) of lab r during the Kennedy anJ Johnson admin
istratiom,. and later as a-;sislant to Presid ·nt RichJrd
!\ ,on a
- from the collections of the
Library of Congress, the National Ar
chives, the Ohio Historical Society, the
Chicago Historical Society, and the
Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower
and Kennedy Presidential Libraries.
From March 15 to April 25, 1976
- '' of his career
that of LBJ-in a one-character play called "Lyndon",
which opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D. C. in f bruary. In preparation for his role, lugman
visited the Library to do res arch on Johnson.
Th· play, based on the boo by th
- personalities depicted are Dwight
Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard
Nixon, Barry oldwater, George Bush and George Wallace.
Although the ollectior will require time for reservation and
cataloging before becoming available for r search, it 1s
- . Kennedy Library in
Boston untHhis recent retirement,
served as personnel director in the
White House during the Kennedy
Administration. Speaking at the
LBJ Library recently, he reflected
on the implications of the recent
growth in the size of the White
- discusses public perceptions of the
Congress.
3
Speakersat the Library. .. Jim Ketchum
Jim Ketchum, presently curator of
the U.S. Senate, was curator of the
White House from the Kennedy
through the Johnson and into the
Nixon administrations. Among his
- of A life Wei/ lived,
Harry Middleton's tribute to Mrs.
Johnson. with written contribution~
from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
Presidents Nixon, Ford. Caner.
Reagan, and Bush; and posters of
..Breakfast at the Driskill,'" the original
artwork memorializing
