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- addition to being one of Lady
Bird Johnson's closest advisers
and closest friendsash Castro
is the former Director of National
Parks in Washington, D. . On
August 27, 2006, he came to de
liver the address at the laying of
the wreath at President Johnson's
- , columnist Liz Smith and
actress Fannie Flagg.
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J. Jackson Walter, President of the National Trust for His
toric Preservation (right) toured the Library with Curator
Gary Yarrington.
NEW INTERESTIN LBJSURGES
University of Texac; history professor Lewis
- of
guests ... children, diplomats. friends, democrats . . Mrs.
Johnson even had a party for Lassie when Lassie was the poster
dog for the Ann-Litter Campaign! And long before the days of
Women's Lib, Mrs. Johnson honored women of achievement at
White House
- Committee'';
Robert l . Peabody, "Co;gression~I
Leadership. From Rayburn to O'Neill; John~on to Baker";
David Plotke, "The Democratic Party-New
De I Political
Order, 1936-1972"; Charles Ritter, "Keeping the rai1h:
Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights Polley, 1965
- of the Library's dedication at
special parties in Washmgton, D.C., and Austin. The May
17 and 23 parties were the occasion for the third annual
gathering- of Friends hosted by the Library.
Following the Washington reception in the National
Archives Building
- degraded at an alarming
rate."
"The ancient, cancerous Ameri
can race problem a,te at the nation's
vitals," with segregation the rule,
and black citizens dtsenfranchised in
the South.
Poverty was rampant throughout
the nation.
Joe Califano reviewed
- joined the
staff of National Security Adviser
Walt Rostow. Later that year he
became President Johnson's press
secretary. Ir was not an easy job: the
civil rights struggle, riots in the
cities, the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War,
and the Vietnam conflict saw
- , Lady
Bird al
buried in thi hal
low d ground
Ii es on-in
the pccta ular b auty that can
be found not ju t in wildflow
er acr . our ranges and prai
ries, but in p ckets of natural
beaut in ju t about very city
in our nation.
Colonel Clark recalls
- call for a "revival of the spirit" among the
developed nations of the world.
Miss Ward noted that the Western nations ar
emerging from a 25-year bonanza, a remarkable
period graced with unusually good growing weather
(a period that brought a tripling
- the administration was planning a congres
sionally-established commission to coordinate bicentennial
activities throughout the nation rather than a Presiden
tially-appointed committee to plan a world's fair.
Late in January, 1966, Califano, by now a Johnson aide
- for the
American people. So what I try to do
in this book is to see the war from
LBJ's eyes."
Katharine Graham, long-time
publisher of the Washington Post
and now chairman of the executive
committee of the Washington Post
Company,
was interviewed
by a
panel
- envi
ronmentalists" in the nation,
Former Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator William
Reilly,a member of the committee
selecting the award winner, intro
duced Chafee, calling him "The
Senate's premier environmentalist."
Chafee
- Endowment for the Arts, the Library will host a
majur national Symposium on "THE ARTS: Y ars of
Development, Time f Decision." That evening, as the
major event in this year's program, the Friends of the
LBJ Librar ,,..-it be invited with the symposium
- ; John M. Newman, Univer
sity of Maryland;
John Prados,
specialist on national security and
military history; and Brian VanDe
Mark, U.S. Naval Academy.
Professor Cable was lead speaker at the conference, which attracted some 200
scholars from across
- , Gerald F rd awarded
the Presidential Medal f Freedom to Mrs. Lyndon
Johnson and 16 other Americans who have distin
guished themselves in serving their country. Mrs.
Johnson is the first First Lady and only the twe fth
woman to receive the nation's highest
- of
some of the hard choices facing the
country. ".\t risk." he said. "is not
simply much of our national
wealth. but much of our industrial
and national self esteem and our
claim to moral integrity.''
Califano
McPherson
More Evenings at the Library
- Security File document
LBJ's performance a,; chainnan of the
National Aeronautics
and Space
Council. Those earching for the offi
cial r cords of tht! Preparedness
Subcommillec. the Space Committees
and the pace Council. however,
should contact the ational
- Issue Number LV June 1, 1993
EveningProgramsat
Cactus Pryor (cover) has been a top
entertainer in Austin for almost S'O
years. During the Johnson admin
istrationhis fame became national
as the President and First Lady
asked him to performat
- terans Day
Committee, which for many ye rs past
has had its annual Veterans Day observ
ance on the State apitol ground , thi
year brought its ceremony to the Li
brary Plaza. The program included muic by the Fort Hoo Army B nd,
flyover by ergstrom Air
- 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
-
Foundation to honor the late D. B.
Hardeman, former aide to Speaker
Sam Rayburn and noted authority on
the history and operation of the
Congress.
Members of the committee are:
Donald C. Bacon, coeditor of the
Encyclopedia o/ rhe United States
Congress; Dr
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architeclllrc. economics. reli 0 ion.
wars and government, as well as tht:
history of families, towns and cities
the National Archives gathers up the
chronicles of this nation, transmitting
them from generation to generation.
and in doing so creates a spirit
- . Polk, who
added more to our national empire
than anybody. There is where Daniel
Webster stood and said, ''I know no
north or south, no east or west."
Then I stopped ·rnd said, 'But I know
many of you are here in the Capitol
for the first time and I know
- .
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SymposiumProbesTensionBetweenPresidencyand Press
A political phenomenon of recent
times is a growing antagonism
between the White House and the cor
respondents who cover it. In March, a
symposium co-sponsored
by the
Library and the National
- Issue Number L Vlll August I, 1994
America in the Sixties
Library Opens Permanent Exhibit
Whar rhe nation looked like in the
years of the Johnson Presidency is
rhe subject of a new permanent
exhibit at the Library. Designed and
constructed
- staff and now Director of the
Center for Legislative Archives in the
National Archives and Records
Administration,
memorialized the
At the conclusion of the wreath-laying at the Ranch, those of the Johnson family who were able to attend posed
- the nation's consciousness th.at
it is now called "the forgotten war."
This exhibition, ,the first major dis
play of the Korean War to be
mounted in the U.S., calls it "Amer
ica's First Limited War."
Along with the exhibition, the
Library, with the co
- preparedness or ch ii rights-he bored in with :in instinctive drive. As
lajorit, Leader :ind hcud or lhe ,mat 's mo~t pmn•rful committee , nothing im
portant to his nation' w 11-b in~ es np d his nltcntion no v-aud he applied where
nee • nry. 'the fnll tn'ntm
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bunch), when I see everyone at the
State and National Park facilities in
the Texas Hill Country that my grand
father loved so, I am touched by how
his legacy continues and how you
have helped to nurtur that.
The tribute concluded with an
emotional
- , for the
reputation of people who are called
before these committees. If it were in a
court of law, a great majority of what
is being testified to would be excluded,
either in hearsay or as not relevant.
There are no such safeguards in Con
gressional hearings
- .
World Crise Provide
Conference Backdrop
Planning began in January 1979 for "The International
ChaUenge of the 80's: Where Do We Go From Here?" At that
time, the symposium planning committee, composed of members
of the Univer~it) of Texa~ faculty
- quarter-century.
During
those years, the magazine gained an
international reputation for its inno
vative and powerful use of photogra
phy, earning a National Magazine
Award for Photography in 1990.
The themes, logically, are Texas,
and the images
- Among
Issue Number LXVIl. March, 2002
The Future of Presidential Libraries: A Symposium
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Congress created tbe nation's
presidential libraries system in order
lo provide facilities which, a a min
imum, maintain the papers of the
nation's chief
-
An Evening with Norman Lear
orman Lear has brought the nation
some of its most memorable television
series, among them "All in th Family,"
"Sanford and Son," "Maude," ·'Good
Times," and "The J ffersons.'' His movie
credits include "Fried Green Tomatoes
- the Civil Rights programs-once
considered
inviolable-were seen as threatened. "There is an effort," Vernon
Jordan warned, "to tum the clock back,'' an effort fueled by a
change in the national mood-which in tum reflects, according to
James Farmer, a change
