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for reflection before action.
Robert
Strauss,
former
Chairman of the Democratic
National
Committee
and
Ambassador to the Soviet Union,
does not envy future presidents.
"Today," he declared, "a president
has a helluva time just marginally
influencing the course
- Among
Issue
um ber LX'Vlll ' July 2002
What If: No Socrates?
No William the Conquerer?
No FDR?
Victor Hanson: For want of a Socrates, a Plato was lost. ..
2
On Ma L. for the e nd time in
the LBJ Library' Evening With series, a
panel
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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
- curator last year. He contin
ued to supervise its execution on a
part-time basis as a consultant. Lupita
Barrera Bryant, guest curator, was
responsible for the research and acqui
sition of artifacts and the exhibit text.
The land as it has existed
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Office.
SoreJ Etrog, a Romanian-born artist
who studied in New York City, pro
duced this bronze abstract. Titled
simply "The Source," and massive
in appearance, it weighs less than
six hundred pounds. Its permanent
pedestal had not arrived at the time
- of those interv1ew!>-involving
91 persons-were accomplished in the past year Most of the
interviews-962-are
available for research; 56 others have
been deeded over to the Library but they are not yet open for
research because of time restrictions. Th
- of the time--Kennedy
and Humphrey because Johnson eliminated one and
selected ,theother as his vice presidential running mate,
Goldwater because he would be the Republican candi
date in the election.
"An Evening With .... "
Frank
Vandiver,
President
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weapons, uniforms, paintings, car
toons and memorabilia lent by a
dozen institutions and individuals
across the country. Also shown
are some newsreels of the time. The
exhibition will run until January 8,
1989.
TO G
i'ERAL
A catalogue of the exhibition
- for Justice:
The Passion and Politics of Phillip
Burton.
The $1,000 award was created
from a bequest left to the Library in
1981 by D. B. Hardeman, long-time
aide to Speaker of the House Sam
Rayburn and, later, House Majority
Whip Hale Boggs. Hardeman wanted
- and memorabilia
of servicemen who the day before
their deaths had been part of peace
time America are among the most
poignant items in the display.
Visitors study a mock-up of desert
tank action.
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Lifesize figures add interest to the
exhibit
- and
commemorated in 1990, the 25th an
niversary year of that event.
It all culminated in a series of re
unions and conferences that lit up the
spring for alumni of the Great Society
and members of the Friends of the
LBJ Library. Men and women who
served
- it to be We
had efforts all the time to try to reach accommtxlations
with the Russians and he signed a lot of treaties of one
kind or anoth r with the Soviet Union during that time. It
was a period of tension . . but with all of th"s a social
revolution
- the
Watergate scandal, and the Per ian
Gulf War. His hallmark has been
quiet and effective diplomacy; hi
mantra was always " ever l t the
other fellow set the agenda." Time
magazine once called him "the
Velvet Hammer."
In his first statevvide campaign
- of a master politician at
work," Burka noted that the passage
of time and a new appreciation of
Johnson's social programs clearly
contributed to !his new look. But
without the release of the tapes at
this time, a quarter-century before
the schedule set
- the same time. meaning
more elderly people depending upon a
shrinking work force for support. The
proces is already taking hold in Japan.
-uropc. and the European parts of the
former Soviet Union-and may be
beginning in China.
Young History Researcher
- IssueNumberL August1, 1991
"It's all here-The story of our
time, with the bark off!'
-LBJ at dedicationof
Library,May 22, 1971.
20 years of Library faces,
pages2-3.
"20 Yearsof
The faces on these pages and the
cover are some of the leaders
- topic
of the conversations in June 1967.
For the first time, the "Hot Line
between the leaders of the United
States and the Soviet Union is put
into use dw;ng a crisis. Later that
month, the conversations tum to
the summit meeting between Pre ident
- for
the Inks and Buchanan dams in the 1920s, fondly recalled
the times "Lyndon helped me out. Ile helped me in just
about anything ... personal problems ... anything. Took
care of 'em too."
Cotten said be met LBJ in the first ear he ran for
Congress.
"I met him
- vious Lhre conferenc s
focu, d on hm
.S. policy toward
Vietnam evol ed in Wash·ngton and
was applied in the Field. This time,
twenty prominent scholar, met to con
sider ho, the Johnson Admini tration
search d for peace in Vietnam.
Pr . ident Johnson's
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Society of LBJ. but our best hope in
these more than slightly retrograde
times.'· Even though, he said. his title
is "one grade down from the long
standing, deathless expression which
Lyndon Johnson gave us.'' there
should be "no doubt as to where
- to that.
Yet George Christian did what
few White House press secretaries
have been able to do: he conscien
tiously served a President who was
wary of the press; at the same time he
conscientiously served a press that
was wary of the President. And
because Mr
- was wa[kjng down the campus
toward the Student Union Building, and I
looked across at the other sidewalk ... and
I saw the be. I-looking f IIO\ I ever saw
in my liJe ... He had black hair and brown
eyes, and I thought, 'Hm. I wonder what
I can do
- , to restling oil rigs, to football.
there is a myth of the supporting women who fostered these male
enterprises, diminished nowadays t the exhibition of furs and
bangles in the sky boxes, and pompons and pomty bras at half
time on the field. I distrust
- 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
- , 0eft) who
spent time as a lecturer at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs. He was escorted through the
museum by volunteer Susan Dimmick.
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Early Decisions on Vietnam Discussed
A scholarly conference to explore the
early decisions made by the Kennedy
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by Museum Curator
Gary Yarrington
and his staff,
the exhibition-temporarily
titled,
"U.S.A. 1963-1969"-depiets
with
photographs, documents and memo
rabilia the major developments of
that turbulent time. The pictorial dis
play is augmented by a sound track
- -2 a distinguished array
f leaders from board room and bureaucracy, congressional
committee, campus and union hall. (See box on page 2 for par
ticipants.) The two-day conference was jointly sponsored by
the Library, the LBJ School of Public Affairs
- sails on.'
Mrs. Johnson, Luci Baines Johnson, and long
time LBJ staffer and family friend, Mildred
Photo by Charles Bogel
Stegall.
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"As we celebrate the 95th birthday of Lyndon Baines John
son. those of us who knew him can reminiscence about him
- leader of the Union armies who
wenl on to become the country'.- 18th
President, the exhibit opened in January and
will run through May 4.
The exhibit is jointl_ ·rxmsored with the
National Portrait Ga lcry in Wa.hingt
D.C .. when~ it \\JS sho,\.n
- of
alien influences. American labor
unions, to their great credit, have
stood resolutely against the incur
sions and influence of communism
s,ince World War II. At the same
time, American business has played
a part much larger than it receives
credit
- llf him A scnil1r
offo:ial of the .Johnson adrrnn1,tration someone in h1 White
Haus~. satd tu me rec ntly that by the time John.on c..ime lll
office his predecessors had created such a myt or inv1m:1blc
communism that Johnson and his adviser-. could
- to be able
to prevent the other side-in this case, the Soviet Union-from ever
thinking about using their nuclear weapons. To maintain deterrence,
you have to keep modernizing .. You have to simultaneously seek
anns reduction. But in order to do that you have
- . Abon>, Prt•si
dt>nl Johnson addresses the crowd of 4.000
friends,
1H·ighbors, long-time allies and
political opponents.
Although the race to complete last minute details was,
in Mrs. Johnson's words, a ''cliff-hanger," at 11:30 a.m. on
May 22, 197 l
- . On January 2 l he came to
the LBJ Auditorium to share his thoughts
on where the world sta11ds today. and
where it is headed.
Not long after
lapsed. Dr. Bobbitt
ars proposed that
an end. The great
the Soviet Union col
recalled. s me schol
history had come
- the four of us. But
Lynda and I understood that time
was precious and there was a
BIG family to help.
Tomorrow Daddy's political par
ty and ours, the Democrats, will
formally choose Barack Obama
as their presidential candidate.
Senator Obama is a man
- Ce111etery, LBJ Runch.
Judith and I were deeply honored to
be asked by Lady Bird to be here today.
lo take part in and preside over these ac
tivities.
I wrote this in an essay Lhat appeared
in the New York Times on the day after
President Johnson was buried
- to undertake extensive new exhibit on the life, time
and programs of Lyndon Johnson.
The new orientation theater will be carved out of the area
which now contains large transparencies of rooms in the
White House. Those transparencie will be moved to a ne,"
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When President Lyndon Bainesjohnson sig11ed
the National Foundalion on the Arts and the Humani
ties Act in EHiS, it wa.~a time of limitless possibilities.
The economy
- , his times
and his presidency at
the LBJ Ranch, at the
LBJ Library, in San
Marcos and in Washing
ton, D.C.
In its early years the Library began
serving birthday cake to its visitors
on August 27. One year it decided
to drop the practice-but quickly
- Burnham
of the
University of Texas led off the morn
ing session, with Robert Strauss, for
mer Chairman of the Democratic
Party and one-time Ambassador to
the Soviet Union. The three joined in
agreeing that, overall, the political
culture in Washington
