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- , 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
- 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.
7
- , 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
- , 0eft) who
spent time as a lecturer at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs. He was escorted through the
museum by volunteer Susan Dimmick.
2
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
- 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
-
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
- 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
- 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
- . 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
-
of Te\as at Au,lln.
Women and the \;ew l>eal. Susan E. Kennedy, 'irginia Com
monwealth University; Ruth M. Milkman, Que ns College, City
l'ninrsily of New York; Winifred D. \\ ander,,ee, Hart\\irk ·01lege; Le\\h L ould, l'niver,,ily of Te'\as at Au,tin
- President John F. Kennedy
was shot, Ho pice Austin patient
Mary Da is Williams r calJs preci c
ly what she was doing when she
h ard th news.
"I was ta.kin" three pies out of
the oven h n I h ard. I just couldn't
be! ie e ir,'· she said.
What's important
- . Kennedy ... had his eyes
on the stars. . . . He created the Peace
Corps. He signed the first nuclear test
ban treaty. Once we asked Kennedy,
on Air Force One, what would happen
if the aircraft era. bed? He aid, •I
know one thing. Your name will be
just
- . Kennedy mourning his assassination, was
given to the Library by Ann Cofrin Baldeschwiler,
Austin art patron. The painting was displayed in
the Library lobby until the renovation began.
Gary Yarrington, curator of the museum, calls it
an "important
- days into the
Presidency Reedy focused on LBJ's role as Senate Majority
Leader.
Dave Powlfs. assistant o Pres1
- rebels with
out a cause, "with their contempt for
the squares of the world," and for
America at large, "an old country
ruled by old men."
The election of John Kennedy in
1960 signaled a seismic shift. A
new generation was taking over.
The New Frontier
- of President
Kennedy's task force on health and social
security. 'ow he is a· member of the
National Commission on Social Security
and chairman of the NationaJ Commission
on Unemployment Compensation.
Professor Cohen·s experience with
HEW began in 1961 when
- Kennedy won the Democratic nomination over
Stuart Symington. Hubert Humphrey. and Lyndon Johnson,
Strauss said In 1976,Jimmy Carter won it over Sen. Henry Jack
son. Morris Udall. and Humphrey. ln 19 O. Ronald Reagan beat
out G rge Bush and Sens. Howard
- when
Strongbow IEarl of Pembroke] landed
in County Wexford to start the long
march of Irish misery voted for him.
Once Kennedy was elected, that was
the end of the American Irish.
... You see, there is never a real ma
jority in the United States
- are available on cassette tapes. The
tape may be purchased at the sales de k in the
Library or by mail for $5 each. The speeches are:
President Johnson's fir t address to the joint session
of Congres after the assassination of President
Kennedy, November 27
- from Attorney General Robert Kennedy,
offering to serve in Vietnam "in any capacity."
THE VICE PRESIDENT features a bold "pop-art" painting of
Hubert Humphrey by Edward Weiss, and documents tracing the
long relationship between HHH and LBJ. After
- . 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
- , Department of
Art, University of Texas at Austin.
Panel III: Art and the Community
Presenter: Nancy Hanks, Chairman, National Endowment
for the Arts
Moderator: Roger Stevens, Chairman, John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts, Former Chairman,
National
- 29, 1963
Bernard Safran
8
MARTIN LUTHER KING
February 18, 1957
Boris Chaliapin
BOB HOPE
December 22, 1967
Marisol
LADY BIRD JOHNSON
August 28, 1964
Boris Artzybasheff
BOBBY KENNEDY
May 24, 1968
Roy Lichtenstein
BARRY COLDWATER
June 12, 1964
- undersecretary of state in the
Hoover cabinet; Hoover and Truman.
(Above) Lyndon Johnson bemg sworn in aboard Air Force One with Mrs.
Johnson and Mrs. Kennedy.
7
WHITEHOUSE
PHOTOGRAPHY
Another view of the Presidency is recorded in the annual
xhibition
- , music. movies, scriptures,
flowers, places to eat, fun things to
13
do, even his after-shave lotion.) And
the staff is adding video and sound
recordings. Visitors to the web page
can hear LBJ's oath of office on Air
Force One following the Kennedy
- ,
and all future chief executives.
Consequently,
there now exist librnries bear
versity of Texas anJ are operated
by the
:..1tiunal
Services
Archives
of the General
ing the names of Presidents Hoover, Roose
velt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy
- of
the Industrial and Agrkultural Revolution.
We did it in the building of the atomic bomb. We did it when
President Roosevelt called for the building in one year of 60,000
plane.1. and we did it again tehen President Kennedy set the
timetable for our landing
-
the White House afterward. from New York's Senator Rob
ert Kennedy to a housewife in Utah.
11
Austin's Loss Is Washington's Gain
John Fawcett, former Chief Archivist of the LBJ
Library, and his wtfe Sharon have accepted positions with
the National
- ,
and it witnessed a growing Democratic innucnce ithin the ju
dicial branch as well. A student of the party will journey to the
Roosevelt Library in New York, the Truman Library in Mis
souri, and the Kennedy Library in Massachusetts as well as
the Johnson Library
