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- 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
- , "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
- , 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
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Those receiving grants-in-aid
and the titres of their proposed topics
are: Joseph A. Bongiorno, "Doves
and Eagles: The History of the
Relationship Between U.S. Presidents
and U.N. Secretaries-General since
1945"; Pamela A. Conn, "Losing
Hearts and Minds
- ident Johnson s chief as
sistant for domestic legislation,
Joseph A. Califano Jr. had unique
insights into LBJ's deepest fears
about the impact that the Viet
nam War might have on his be
loved Great Society. He began
his remarks under the live oaks
- ?
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
- of
Economics, Wesleyan University
Ed Fried
3
Kennedy Administration.
. . We had no idea what was
down the road. And if we had, I'm not sure we would have
been any wiser or any more attentive. You respond to issues.
I don't think I would quite call
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agenda-setting
works intermittently, contfr,gent
ly, under c rtain circumstances,
but it looks like c ngressional
agenda-setting, especially without
the involvement of the presid nt,
Joseph Califano: "You've got to be willing to risk your presidency
- 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
- , or in the concentration
camps of the Third Reich.
One member of the audience
wanted to know if Styron found his
trade to be hard work. Like Joseph
Conrad, replied the author, "I never
approach my writing desk in the
morning without wanting to burst
into tears."
Front
- 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
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"Lyndon Johnson ;md the Imperial
Mind: The Dominican Intervention'';
Charles
M. Lamb, "Presidents,
Federalism,
and
Fair
Housing
Policy";
Rodney
K.
Longley,
"Southern Maverick: The Life and
Times of Senator Albert A. Gore, Sr.
of Tennessee"; Joseph
- , the exhibition trace. the
development of carloonmg and the graphic arts in America, and presents
a visual and narrative commentary on America's President ., epresented
are the works of such cartoonists as Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler,
Herblock. Jules Feiffer
- 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
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Archives of the Foreign Service; Federal Republic of Germany; A us tin-Travis County
Collection; Harry Ransom Center; National Trust for Historic Preservation; Texas
Memorial Museum; John F. Kennedy Library; the Adjutant General's Office, State of
Texas
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ACQUISITIONS
(CONTINUED)
Landscape painting (oil) by Dwight D. Ei enhower
Terra Cotta Sculpture of Ulysses S. Grant
Puck cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt. 1904
One of fiv editorial cartoon drawings
by Jon Kennedy
8
Sculptur d ma k (carved wood)
by Randolph
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at the women's underwear in the Sears' catalogue ..
• • •
SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN OF DELAWARE:
Excerpts:
In the next few years we will do one of two things: We'll
either deploy a new, so-called strategic defense system - Star
Wars - or we will achieve the most far
- maintenance organization (HMO).
The 25,000 award, designated to be
given in 1977 for health and medical
services, was presented at a luncheon
in New York on October 27. Secretary
of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph
A. Califano spoke on national health
- reunion. They are: Willard
Wirtz (labor), Alexander Trowbridge (Commerce), Joseph Barr (Treasury), John Gardner (HEW), Clark Clifford
(Defense), Robert Wood (HUD), Alan Boyd (Transportation), Rober,t McNamara (Defense), Anthony Celebrezze
(HEW), Orville
- 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
- 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
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press conference jointly held by her and six other persons
identifiE>d with the Kennedy and Johnson Administra
tions: Senator Hubert Humphrey, Robert Kennedy Jr.,
Clarence Mitchell, Joseph A. Califano, Kenneth O'Donnell,
and E:sther Peterson
- '' 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
- 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
- in 1995 and 1998. he orked
with an international ream to write
Global Scenarios f r Shell Inter
national in London-. to1;es about
the future of the world for the next
thirt year·. he has r cently edited a
book in conjunction with Joseph
Jaworski
- occupation."
"Johnson," Cater said, "was a tra ic president-not in
the sens that Kennedy and Lincoln were tragedies, they
were sad-but
in the sense that all men who try to
accomplish good deeds fall v1i.:timto erv rse !ate."
IO
Joseph A. Califano, one-time
- Among
Bob Hope's daughter Linda opened the exhibit
honoring her father at the Johnson Library.
Story on page 23.
Photo by Charles Bogel.
An Evening With Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Joe Califano was LBJ's top aide
for domestic legislation. He oversaw
- awarded to
David M. Barrett, for his book The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy (University
Press of Kansas). Don Bacon former editor of the Encyclopedill of the Congress and a member of the award
committee, had this to say
- and will continue through
November 3.
"Ruth Harding," by Thomas Eakins was a gift to the White House
in 1967 from Joseph Hirshhorn. (In her diary, Mrs. Johnson
recorded: "I hope ... that one of the 32 Eakins Mr. Hirshhorn
owns will come to rest in the White House
- created by the subjects
of the portraits. The bronze pieces,
representing Berks' output over a
long career, included leaders in the
worlds of politics (Presidents John
son, Kennedy and Truman); religion
(Pope Paul VI, Martin Luther King,
Jr.); industry
- , Texas Attorney General; Iris Lav, Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities; Jon Powell, American Civil Liberties Union; Jude
Filler, Texas Alliance for Human Needs, and Joseph Higgs, Industrial Area
Foundation
Presidential Library Directors held
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he takes off his shoes and gets up on
the chair, stands and raises his voice,
his face up directly into the chan
delier. He said, "Buzz, if that outfit
doesn't get this room cool by the
time I get back from lunch I'm going
to call Jack Kennedy
- JJretty well sold America on ... is that "it 1vas11
't
Johnson's popularity .... It was the hate andfear iJf'Goldwater." Now the lib
eral Republicans have sold that. and the Kennedy people have sold that, and the
country has bought that . ... Now
- his talk.
"National Security: A Broader Strategy." An Afternoon with U.S. Senator Joe Biden
On February 23, 2006, Sena
tor Joseph Biden spoke to a packed
house in the LBJ Auditorium. The
LBJ School co-hosted the event.
Senator Biden is the ranking
- 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
-
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
- 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
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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
