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- divisive influences associated with the passions of the people.
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Columnist Liz Smith, whose observations are printed in the New York
Daily News and some 50 other papers around the country, gave an
entertaining and delightful evening.
For lack
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- from
the artist. The drawing was used on in
vitations to a U.S.O luncheon in New
York in the spring, where Mrs. Johnson
was honored as U.S.O's "Woman of the
Year." Hirschfeld, whose work is
represented in some of the country'5 ma
jor museums, has been
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- The Looming
Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to
9111. In its August cover story on
the book, the New York Times Boo!<
Review said:
In its simplest terms, this is the story
of how a small group of men, \vith
a frightening mix of delusion and
calculation, rose from
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of Political Science, City University of
New York
Martin J. Schram, Syndicated NewspapcrColumnist. Washington, D.C.
Philip Stern, Author and co-chair.
Citizens Agains PACs, Washington,
D.C.
Richard Engstrom
Dan Morales
Francis Fox Piven, Martin J. Schram
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . There are moments when I still pinch
myself lo make sure I'm not dreaming the
life I've led. Of course there have been
plenty of ups and clowns, the high or being
tapped by President Lyndon Johnson ro
be. as the New York Times
put it, 'deputy president
for domestic
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
-
Leonard S. Silk, Member Editorial Board
The New York Times
William I. Spencer, President
Citibank, N.A.
1:45-4:00p.m.
Panel 2:
Priorities for Partnership
Speaker:
Robert Strauss
Special Representative for Trade Neg-otiations
Moderator: Ben Love, Chairman
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- halfway." Caro's first
book, The Power Broker, appeared in
1974. It was the story of Robert Mo
ses, the man who virtually created New
York City as it appears today. Caro
necessary to tell the story of New York
City. The resultant book won both
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- majored in
journalism and became sports editor
of the student newspaper. the Daily
Texan. After a stint as capitol corre
spondent for International News
Service, he became press secretary to
Texas Governors Price Daniel and
John Connally. ln 1966 he
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- colum
nist for the Dallas Times Herald,
who in the course of her award
winning career has worked for the
Minneapolis Tribune, the Texas
Observor and the New York Times,
covered the recent revelation of pay
ments to football players at SMU
that became
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
-
Adler. "He hooked me up with a very
creative new publishing tirm called Rug
ged Land, and a dear old friend. Mickey
Herskowitz, a writer.
"I never dreamed that my story
would appem on the front page of the
New York Times... Since that artide ap-
Ms
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- .
Former President Jimmy Carter
inaugurated the series last year.
Luckinbill, currently appearing
in a play, "A Fair Country," in New
York, flew to Austin to make his
Darrow presentation on the one night
of the week when his play is not
given, to honor
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- .
. . . It was toward the end of his
presidency. Mrs. Johnson had invited
me and my successor Pulitzer Prize
winner, Harper Lee, who won it in
1961 for To Kill A Mockingbird, to
MarijaneMaricle,who studied music at the Universityof Texas, went on to
New York
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of efforts to establish
the endowment. A program featurmg performances by Hel
en Hayes and Kirk Douglas wa attended by more tha
1,000 persons.
The ribute was co-chaired nationally by Henry Ford II of
Detroit and Mrs. Albert L sker of New York.
Amb. Ed Clark
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- tomb in New York City, seen from the Hudson River, on the day it was dedicated in 1897.
(Library of Congress, Division of Prints and Photographs.)
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GRANT SCHOLAR SPEAKSAT EXHIBIT OPENING
When the exhibitopened at the Library,John Simon, editor
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- in 1968, and Joe
Namath, the quarterback
of the unlikely New York
Jets in their Super Bowl
victory over the Baltimore
Colts.
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Remains Not Viewable: An Evening With John Sacret Young
By Robert Hicks, Communications Officer
Award-winning
writer, director
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- in several
northern cities, In New York City, mobs
take to the streets, invade neighborhoods
where black citizens live, and lynch
many of them. The Governor of ew
York State demands that Lincoln end
conscription: "If the President does not
suspend the draft
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- .... "
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Reflections
ofLBJ(continued)
The Observations of a Young Idealist
Reston
The last few months brought re
flections on Lyndon Johnson from
several different sources. James
Reston, Jr., a writer like his New
York Times-man-father, is currently
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- in
Government/Business
Relations
at the Lyndon B. Johnson School
of Public Affairs, The Unjversity
of Texas at Austin, and is a senior
scholar of the Levy Economics
Institute in New York. On this
evening he met in the LBJ Library
Auditorium with his famous fa
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- General of the United Nations. and
Konstantin Kolev of Bulgaria. chairman of the U. N.
Functioning under the aegis of the U. N. Commission on
Transnational Corporations. th pand h•ld public hear
ings in New York in September to examine the cxt~nt to
which
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- will be the publication of
a book, LBJ: Die White House Years,
by Harry Abrams, Inc., of New
York. The book is based on some
340 photographs taken by Yoichi
Okamoto and his team during the
Johnson years. The text is by Harry
Middleton, Director of the Library.
Bill
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ( 1961 ).
In 1972 Duncan set a new stan
dard in photographic achieYement,
becoming the first photographer to
hold a one-person exhibition
New
York's prestigious Whitney Museum
of Art. His career was apt I_ described
by the esteemed foreign c rrespon
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to
their own wages.
•"Husbands could will children
to someone else. If you died.
your husband could decide he
wanted to give your children to
his best friend down the road.
•"Widows in New York State
could not live in their house
more than 40 days after
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- on LBJ
In a recent letter 10 the New
York Times. former Senator
George McGovern, another staunch
opponent of Pre. ident J hnson 's
policy in Vietnam, agr ed that a
fresh look at LBJ's legacy is need
ed. He wrote:
John Kenneth Galbraith called
recently
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- on the front page of the New York Times that
came fr m somebody i the Justice Department and I want you to
find ut who it is and I want you t fir him." I said, " can't d
that," and he said, "Wha do ou mean you can't d that?" I said,
"Only you can fire him. I
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- commitm nt to educa
tion began with his post high
school education at Southwest
Texa State Teachers College.
During an internship in Cot
ulla, Texas, he saw first-hand
the hardships U1at lower-clas
and immigrant children fa ed
trying to get an education
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
-
Service Commission and as LBJ's "talent
scout;' sets new guidelines for opening the
voluminous Macy files in the Library's
collections.
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War Art RecordsImpressionsof Those Who
"Profile of a Vietnam Veteran: Old Soldiers Never Die,
They Just Fade Away
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . Executive Director of
the Theodore Roo evelt Association in Oyster Bay, New York,
and Dr Lewis Gould of the Department of History, University
of exas at Austin
Kathleen Dalton: "Theodore
Roosevelt enjoyed being the
center of attention so much
that members
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Calcutta. And the re ·ult
fwas) Vietnam ... Lyndon Johnson inherited it and was su,pi
cmus of it. but he couldn't pcrsuaJc hims If that he 1-..new
more
about the suhje t than the people whos good fortune it was to
know more about such things than the likes
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of them thirty years
from now? What kind of faciliti s
will they be, in this very new age of
high-tech c mmunications?
''Thirty years ago little attention
was paid to their museums. Today the
museums are an integral part of the
libraries and perform
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
-
eighty hours of recordings
of
President Johnson's telephone con
versations, covering the months of
January through March 1964. This
new opening, along with the record
ings for November 22 through
December 31, 1963, which previous
ly were opened
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to the public on
June 5. On the evening before, 800 members of the Friends
f the Library gathered for a preview of the new displays, a
buffet supper on the plaza and a gala program of entertain
ment by Opera Diva Leontyne Price, Broadway star Carol
Channing
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . in the
post-cold war era.
Betty Friedan, who a generation ago was a leading force in
the women's movement with her book, The Feminine Mys
tique, is now ploughing new ground with her just-published,
The Fountain of Age, which poses the proposition
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- El Rancho, 2613 S. Lamar Blvd .. Austin, TX.
When:
Thursday, January 23, 7:00 pm.
Happy New Year! Please come join other Future Forum members for a post-holiday season Re-Gift Party at Matt's El Rancho.
Bring your least favorite holiday gift, that old
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
-
son Chair in Public Affairs at the Lyndon
B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. His
appointment was approved on Octo r 12
by The University of T xas Board of
Regents.
Prof~or Cohen will assume his new
post in January. He will teach seminars on
weUare
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- with a call for a "cultural re
volution" in the
stern nations. Conceding that this
possibility seems "far removed from present political
realities." he stated that present conditions must
compe ex1stmg political realities themselves o give
ay to new
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . President,
Patriarch: George Washington and
the New American Nation. He
describedWashingtonas a "politi
cal genius" who "was able to per
suade almost everyone, including
himself, that he was no politicianat
all."
oven door and pulled out two pecan
pies
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- leaders. film stars,
educators, entertainers, friends and neighbors from the
Texas hill country - and representatives
of t.hc highcsl
echelons of the American political scene from the New
Deal to the ixon Administration.
At President Johnson's request
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- wars of the 20th century."
1n J991, al the first LBJ Library
symposium on Vietnam, McGeorge
Bundy asserted that there had never
been any prospect of meaningful
negoti'ttion • with Hanoi: "The J ew
York Times ... told us that we must
go to the bargaining
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , entertainers, and Hill
Country neighbors. Among them were repre
sentatives of the American political scene from
the New Deal to the Nixon Administration.
ln a nationally televised ceremony the
University of Texas, which built and
continues to own the Library
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
-
THEECONOMY:
As The Cartoonist
Saw It Then
Inflatiun and rrcession command a stronghold
on today·.- nl'WS spotlight. A. they struggle with
the eronomy. President ford and the new Con
gress are faking more
an a few ja s rom
e
powerful pens of editorial
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
