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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
- on the second floor~
Renderings by Graeber, Simmons & Cowan, A.I.A. Architects, Inc. In association with R. Max Brooks, FA/A
3
Foundation Board Meets
At LBJ Ranch
Members of the LBJ Foundation Board of Directors,
meeting at the LBJ Ranch on June 7-8, approv d
- , 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
- mate because.
among other reasons, "It wouldn't be
worthwhile being president if Lyndon
were majority leader." rEd. note: A
number of LBJ's associates have
recalled him saying that one reason
among many that he accepted the
vice-presidential nomination
- for
the American society ...
(He) established this series of national symposia. He
lived to participate in the first two. As President,
Johnson had been an activist and no stranger to con
troversy, and he made no effort to hide or moderate
either of those
- , announcing an
archives exhibit of Presidential cari
catures. The exhibit is titled, "Draw!
PoUtical Cartoons From Left to
Right." The title of the cartoon itself,
which was lent to National Archives
by the LBJ Library, is ''Alright You
Editorial Cartoonist
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S't>.P,.
'NOW, l\'30UT THIS BEAUTIFICATION PROGRAM-.''
called for controls on billboards and
junkyards along highways. In 1965.
editorial cartoonist Gib Crockett
published a cartoon showing Lady
Bird Johnson giving her husband a
taste
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,;_t.\mong
Frien~~,,2f
..h~J
Th1-; plall' from lhl' statt• dinin,
Sl'f\ kl' of l'rl'sidl•nt Iknjamin
llarri-;on j.., onl• of morl' than l:iO
pil'Cl'S of lhl hin·nlt•nnrnl l'Xhihilion
of American Presidential China,
which
- book,
LBJ: The White House Years; and an
exhibit catalog from "Cartoonists'
Ink and LBJ." Mrs. Johnson sent the
school a bust of LBJ.
The school is a $21 million
facility. The majority of the students
are Mexican-Americans from the Rio
Bravo and El
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The cartoon colkct ion began
when a well-meaning :ind generous
cartoonist sent Congressman Johnson
an original autographed drawing. By
1960. Johnson had as mbled 150
drm ing-;, making releph ne calls and
occasi nally s ncling a letter to the
cartoonist. During
