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- 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
- at the University of Texas, made
the exhibit the subject of an editorial.
"The exhibit is not only a reminder of
what war really is, but a reminder that
wars begin all too easily ... "
And a columnist from the Minden, La.,
Press-Heral.d wrote, " ... Most of you
have
- .)
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5
I
Eveningsat the Library
George Reedy, Allen Drury and
Marijane Maricle provided three
lively and different kinds of pro
grams at the Library.
Reedy, aide to LBJ through the
Senate and vicepresidential years and
the first press secretary
- for
reform, unless some crisis mobilizes
the populace, none of the three morn
ing speakers saw any truly funda
mental change in the offing.
George Christian, fo1mer press
secretary to President Johnson, chaired
the afternoon session, which featured
spirited
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affect us all. We must face and deal with the energy
crisis on a truly national basis if we are to solve it. The
pressing need is to devise national policies which will at
tack our several problems in a total way - national pol
icies which will unify
- , so this
combination 'welcome back' and birthday party is particu
larly significant this year.''
The major address was made by Liz Carpenter, former
press secretary to Mrs. Johnson. Following are some ex
cerpts from her speech to the gathering
- and appreciation to a person for
a _jobwell done. not face to face. Instead
he would. at an introduction or a special
time. maybe even at a national press con
ference. tell a third person how great he
really thought they were. So the deserving
one heard it when
- that have been
done, [and] preservation of every
thing tbat has gone forward."
During the first year of the
Johnson adminic;tration, as the
President pressed for legislation to
eliminate racial injustices and aid
those in poverty. Mrs. Johnson made
several
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are drying up. If we cannot find ways
to prevent that happening, future his
tories will be written from press
"Accessissues."Robert Schulzinger;John Prados; W. Roger Louis; John Brademas;Martha Kumar; panel chair Hugh
Graham. (The panel is applauding
- , on which he bad
campaigned ... met division among the
Democrat , n ver gained the support
that it ought to have had, was postponed
time and again as the President pur
sued other initiatives that also divided
the Democrats ... free trade; [al crime
bill
- admission is free,
in four languages.
Marsha Sharp, Edu
cation Specialist with the
LBJ Library, gets an A+
for coming up with the
idea. "This is part of the
educational
services we
provide at tbe Library,'
Sharp explains. ·'In keep
ing with President John
- been produced
in the Golden Age of Greece. before the
death of Alexander. All that followed,
he insisted. was a decadent Hellenism
that produced only inferior copies of the
original Greek masterworks.
Further. Winklemann
was certain
that since on!_ free
- public! Women
ar n w in centerstage. You owe it to the movement not to
shun that spotlight. that mike, that printed page, but to use il
as a benchmark. Maybe to run for office, maybe to manage a
campaign, mayhe to press for an appointive position, m ybe
- for kitchen help,
blacks ,vere still barred from the
Forty Acres when we planned our
party there on December 3 I, 196 .
When we announced in the
press that the new President,
Lyndon Johnson, would be flying to
the BJ Ranch for Lhe holidays, we
knew that Horace
- for centuries is re-created in the panoramic displays which are part of the exhibition.
During a press preview of the exhibit, Lady Bird Johmson
observed, "I think it explains us to ourselves. It's sort of
an introduction of some of us to the rest of us
- , sponsored by U. T.'s His
tory Department and College of
Liberal Arts. His book, scheduled for
publication in the spring by Oxford
University Press, is titled Lyndon B.
Johnson, A PoliticalLife, 1908-1960.
lit will be the first of two projected
volumes.
2
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and hopeless effort.'· But he ex
pressed '·deep regret" over ·'the way
in which we allowed the Vi tmlm War
to become the totally defining vent
of those years and likewise of the his
tory. Jn the Johnson years it was the
Vietnam War and nothing else. And
so
- years of LBJ.
To the press, a few days before the opening of the
renovated area, Library Director Harry Middleton explained:
"No museum should go more than 10 years without taking a
look at itself and revising and updating its exhibits." The
new exhibits
- for research at the Library. (The
figure does not include students
who come into the research room
on tour or school groups for whom
research packets are prepared.)
Mr. Leeman 's project, for a jour
nahsm class, was "LBJ and the
Press."
8
Library in May
- toured the
Library in October did not noti e the
fountains or the panoramic view of the
University of Texas. They ignored the
size of the Great Hall and were unim
pressed by the thousands of red docu
m£>ntboxe behind four levels of glass
walls. They were
- of
Texas A&M Press' re-publication of
her Ruffles and Flourishes, a best
selling account of her service in the
Johnson White House.
RichardNorton Smith, directorof
the Herbert Hoover Library,
brought his just-publishedbiogra
phy of the first U.S
- all the present wars are
civil wars in which, by almost a IO
to- I margin, it is the innocent who
perish.
... At a time where for many people
the most
important
issue
1s
cyberspace. for other people in the
world, the most pressing concern is
firewood
- at The University
of
Texas; Elspeth Rostow, former dean
of the LBJ School of Public Affairs;
and George Christian, former press
secretary to LBJ. The audience was
encouraged to submit questions to
Dr. Dallek as well, and the discus
sion which ensued was lively
- can't sing for the Prime Mmister who's t.>ndingBritish
presence east of Suez. "On the Road To Mandalay'"' And you
can't sing for the President who just devalued the British pound.
"I've Got Plenty ofNothin!" Well. the British and the American
press w re
- the Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute; author,
The Years of MacArthur
WILLIAM J. JORDEN, Correspondent, Associated Press, 1948-1952; Correspondent, New York Times,
1952-1955; U.S. Ambassador to Panama, 1974-1978
Panel
- of his meeting with
Congressional leaders on 31 January
1968. Most of the notes are open for
research in whole m in part.
s
Tom Johnson Notes of Meetings:
Notes taken by W. Thomas Johnson,
deputy White House press secretary,
at 161 of the president's
- ": Birth of a Symposium
It began with a notion that the
Library organize a symposium to
examine LBJ's relationship with the
press. Then George Christian sug
gested broadening the focus to
include other themes from the sixties.
A special committee of Great
- relation
ship with the press-in
the later
years mostly the latter. He used to
summon us and his beagles for those
marathon walks around the South
Lawn which we irreverently dubbed
'the Bataan Death Marches.'
. . . He wa a spellbinding story
teller
- . DouglassCater, specialassistant;
17. Tom Johnson, who as Deputy
Press Secretary took notes at the
President's meetings on Vietnam:
18. Admiral Thomas Moorer,Chief
of Navy Operations;
19. General William Westmoreland,
Commander of U.S. forces in
Vietnam;
20. Wil
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case, because Ford has tended to be
ignored by historians. . .To some
extent he has somewhat the opposite
effect on his reputation that Nixon
has, in that he has been involved with
things not particularly related to the
press or scholarship
- Yarrington escorts Pierre Salinger, press secretary
in the Kennedy and the early part of the Johnson administration, and the
Honorable Rene Garrec, Governor of Normandy, through the Library's
new permanent exhibition.
Vice President I Gore speaks
- with President John F.
ew York: Rugged Land
Kennedv.
Press).
Mrs. Connally concluded by an
nouncing that she was giving the original
copy of her notes to the LBJ Library.
A member of the audience asked if
she disagreed with the Warren report, the
government
- .
This was the intention of the
President at the time, and its
significance was recognized by the
press in its reporting of the event.
The passage of more than a decade
has confirmed the assessment.
15
LBJSchool Graduates Coming Events
The Library's major exhibit
- back. "But ever since he got in here;• said
Roy Wilkins, pointing to the Oval Office, "ever since he
got in here it's been rock around the clock."
So it was, and the President never missed a chance to
press it publicly ....
Of course, our faith
- Foundation Board of Directors,
was special assistant to the President
and assistant press secretary during
the Johnson Administration.
At the LBJ Grove in Washington,
D.C., long-time friend Dale Miller,
in the tradition of LBJ-style racon
teurs, told
- that the outcome in Congress
will "reverberate for good or ill through the states,
and the local institutions, and through the lives of
each of us."
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think we have the will to do it. I think tee har;e the intelligence to
dn it, and I think our record demomtrales that in the past tee hai:e
rt'sponded to challenges.
Nancy Teeters
The most pressing economic problem, not only of today
