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- in the cover photo.
The Exhibition (continued)
The Vietnam War is traced in sev
eral panels. The first, featuring a
scale reproduction of the U.S.S.
Maddox (above) recalls the Tonkin
Gulf incident in 1964 which led to
congressional
passage of the
Tonkin
- in formal settings
such as the Congressional Club, the
Senate Red Cross, the Woman's
National Democratic Club-and
always with informal weekend family
get togethers, car-pooling for the chil
dren and their activities.
Then came the shockof Pearl Harbor
- Connally, with whom
a friendship began when John Connally served as an aide to young Congressman Johnson; daughters Lynda Johnson
Robb and Luci Baines Johnson; Lindy Boggs, who shared the life of a congressional wife; and Mary Love Bailey, whose
long
- -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
- weren't there. Thal
was the agony shared by all who were
close to him.
Joe Califano (back to camera) and Charles Haar confer with LBJ. Taken in
1966, the picture predates Mr. Califano's present anti-smoking position.
9
From Indian Clubs to Golf Clubs
- . The book which
won for Dr. Schick, who is Senior Specialist in American
Government and Public Administration, Congressional
Research Service of the Library of Congress, is entitled Con
gress and Money: Budgeting, Spending and Taxing. His
address
- , Lyndon
Johnson himself was the subject.
Members of the press who had
covered him when he was President
met at the National Press Club in
Washington to pool their recollec
tions of him. At the Library in Austin
the next month, a mixed group who
had known
- place at the Austin Country Club, and those pictured below
were selected for special recognition. These volunteers lunched at Mr,_ Johnson's table, in recognition of their
ten years of service in the program. Seated at Mrs. Johnson. right (the viewer's
- arrangements to take the display to Wash
mgton.
The evening's reception will also salute the retiring
members of the Texas Congressional Delegation.
Invitations to Friends in the Washington area will be sent in
September.
A reception for Texas members
- birthday.
I am an African American who was raised in the 18th Congressional District (created in no small part by LBJ) that
the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan once represented.
I was talking with my mother, who worked for Rep. Jordan and was a long
- . Penner, Direc
tor. Congressional Budget
Office:
':As I understand the public
they're telling us they don·t liki:
deficits: they certainly don ·1 like
taxes. Then: ·ecm~ to he a gen
eral feeling th problem could be
cured by cutting spending
- . We used to have all these
secret clubs and we'd meet behind a
big statue of Jesus where the nuns
didn't know where we were operat
ing. We hid our secret codes there. ln
the afternoons after school we'd play
Tarzan and Jane on the grounds
- ; for the registrar
with the collection; operating the word procc~sor for the oral
history department and for the past two year!), in the archives.
At the luncheon held at the Austin Country Club nine volunteers
were recognized for their service to the Library
- Press Foun
dation looked at this problem. Held at
the National Press Club in Washing
ton, D.C., it brought together some
re(X)rters who cover the White House
(or have in the past), and Presidential
press secretaries from the last five
administrations
- to be a Book Of The
Month club selection.
"A Call to Conscience: The Plight
of America's Children" is the title
of a symposium scheduled for Sep
tember 19-20. Planned by a group
consisting of the Library, The Uni
versity of Texas and community
representatives
-
the right to sit where they wish on the
bus? Impossible! Give them the priv
ilege of staying at the same hotel,
using the same restroom, eating at
the same counter. joining the same
club, attending the same classroom?
Never! Never!
"Well this cry of 'never
- and Presidenl, Washington Press Club: Isabelle Shelton, W· shington tar
columnist; Molly Ivins. co-ed1tor, The Texas Ob
server; Susan Caudill, KERA TV, Dallas; Scott
Tagliarino, editor, The Daily Texan_
Re.~ponder.~:Judith Moye s, 'O-moderator. Jill Ruckel
- -not
the historical Crockett, but the Di ney
television version of him, played by
UT alumnus Fess Parker. who in 1958
thundered onto the American cultural
seen like an avalanche.
The TV imag of Cro kett ', last
stand, swinging his empty rifle like a
club
- on "The Women's Movement
Through the Eyes of the Media." Panelists will include Sey
Chassler, Editor of Redhook Magazine; Peggy Simpson,
President of the Washington Press Club; and Isabelle Shelton
with the Washington Star.
Tuesday will be devoted to state
- of it."
The President said, "I don't care
what Sid Davis recorded. T didn't
S'ty that."
So, unlike the d f nders of the
Alamo, I ju t un-endered.
Ar the encl of the administration the
President was going to make a speech
at the National Press Club. Liz gc t a
group
