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- , and added that
From the very beginning, there was never a
disagreement on the committee between
Democrats and Republicans, or conservatives
and liberals, about one proposition: Washing
ton should never have the power to be able to
determine what
- vote provided
the margin of victory for Democratic
governors and congressmen-and
where Republicans such as the Bush
brothers attracted large percentages
of Hispanic and black voters, helped
roll up majorities with national im
p! ications.
The Voting
- political editor,
Dave McNeely.
Strauss
Robert Strauss i. worried that Americans don·t put their best
leaders in the White H use. The salty-talking Texan, who used
to head the Democratic National Committee, said that fear was
underlined la t week by a visit
- . there are
numerous tapes from various collec
tions of personal and organizational
papers. such as the Democratic
National Committee, Drew Pearson,
Wright Patman, and John Connally.
There arc approximately four thou
sand videotape recordings including
television
- including Wright Pat
man, whose papers are now located in the Johnson Library.
The records of the Democratic National Committee, a small
portion of which are available at the Johnson Library, will also
be vital, of course. This long list indicates
- by the ranch foreman describes the problems and the
reward. of a wo king anch. addles and the variety of branding
techniques utilized by the ranc ar •ncluded.
From LBJ's Senate day· in the 1950:, the ranch drew an
impressive list of national and world 1,aders
- Finance Committee anti you have
to get along with him."
When I got the me ·sage from Bess,
I changed course and took some steps to
get plans for a post office-but slowly.
Months went by, the election passed.
more Democrats moved into Congress,
and one clay
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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
- :
Reassessing Arms Control Goals in U .S.-Soviet
Relations," drew a distinguished array of leaders.
They included James Leonard, former U.S. dis
armament ambassador and now c~airman of the
Committee for National Security; Dimitri K.
Simes, director
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engraving of Austin\
famous Treaty
Oak, as it , ppeared in its prime. Th
reverse is etched with a likeness of Mrs.
Johnson
The Democratic National Convention hall in Atlantic City, August 24-28, 1964.
Photo by Cecil Staughton, LBJ Library Photo Archives
9
- , to be shown regularly at
the Library. The event was organized
and coordinated by Liz Carpenter, with
the help of a committee.
Tom Johnson, Chairman of the
BoardofDirectorsofthe LBJ Foun
dation, delivered a birthday gift on
behalf of the individual members
- .
Johnson headed a group of people
with two separate visions of beauti
fying the nation's capital. One group,
led by Committee members Walter
Washington and Polly Shackleton,
wanted to attack the ugliness of the
inner city by beautifying public
housing
- will be covered.
More than 1,500 entries of varying
length will be written primarily by
some of the nation's leading histo-
rians, political scientists, and jour
nalists in the field of congressional
studies.
Impetus for compiling an encyclo
pedia of Congress
- -being, democratic values, and individual opportunity.
Roosevelt thought education vital to the revival of the
economic life of the nation ... The human as well as the
physical capital of the country was to be conserved and
reconstructed by the New Deal
- was 10 go on the offensive - to
look at his emergence from rhe Checker.- speech as a triumph: the
people rcsf.X11ldedto him, they had tdegraphed Eisenhower. 1hc} had
telegraphed the National Committee. So he looked at that as a tn
umph. But for my mother
- ~~AmongFriends
ofLBJ
1ssue
NUMBER
xi, JANUARY
24 1978
NEW§LEIJEREUIEUP§
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A National Tribute
to Lady Bird Johnson
(See pages 2-41
A National Tribute
to Lady Bird Johnson
It was a tribut
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and Chancellor E. Don 'alker, Co-Vice
Presidents. Walker and Christian were
also appointed t ser.c on the E:x~uthc
Committee. Also elected Lo Board:
Library Dir ·tor Harry l\1iddleton.
Tom John,;on
LBJ School Fellowships Created
to Honor Strauss
One thousand
- administration and is tied for
the best among public universities."
A search committee has been
appointed to seek Sherman's replace
ment.
In Memoriam:
McGeorge Bundy, National
Security Advisor to Presidents
Kennedy and Johnson.
Johnson Saunders Covert
- was much more
conscrvali\C than most Democrats . . th foreign policy of the
nation wa, one that he had made ... When it came to playing
things carefully. Lyndon Johnson was a geniu~. and he pilled th
Republican Party against Eisenhower ... It worked
- that h would have had to face.
I had him chair the interdepartmental Cabinet committee
that dealt with our urban problem, he dealt with ur space
problem, he dealt with our national security problems, he
dealt with our political problems, frequently
- Among
Issue Number LXIV, January, 200 l
Lady Bird Johnson Receives National Parks Honor
National Park Foundation Officials Jim Maddy and George Bristol, with Mrs. Johnson and Daughter Luci
Story on Page Six
Senate Democratic Leader Daschle
- and Vice
Presidential papers of LBJ, and the White House files relating
to legislation during the Johnson Presidency.
Hardeman, age 64, donated the books in memory of Michaei
W. Mitchell, a son of former Democratic National Committee
chairman, Stephen
- . The
occasion: a presentation by the eldest
Johnson
granddaughter,
Lucinda
Robb. Ms. Robb, a co-curator of an
exhibit titled "Our Mothers Before
Us" for the National Archives (she
works in its Center for Legislative
Archives), brought that exhibit
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Lady Bird
recorded some of her favorite
moments of the 1964 campaign,
the Whistlestop train campaign
through the Old South, or as
Mrs. Johnson wrote in the diary,
"Here we go, marching through
Georgia!"
The Democratic
National
Committee
had
misgivings
- of the academic world and others that the
papers of a President constitute a vital part of our Nation's
historical heritage. We likewise believe that the richness and
ful nes of the Nation's knowledge and under'itanding of
that heritage depend in a large measure
- members of the Friends
living in the eastern United States will be
unable to attend this anniversarv event, this
year an appreciation party will also be
sponsored by the Library in Washington,
D.C. It will be held at the National Archives
Building on May
- document the nation ·idc conserva
tion programs and legislation spcarhcadcd by Mr:-. Johnson and
the accor1pli:.hment!-. of the Committee For A More Beautiful
Capital, for which she served as Chairman.
Include
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University, and is President of the International
Solar Energy Society. He and his family have Jived
in a solar heated home of his own design for nearly
20 years.
Dr. Lo£ was selected by a Committee co-chaired
by Mrs. Lyndon Johnson and Dr. William J. McGill
- , of
the Future Forum steering committee,
moderated the panel.
Mr. Baxter. a former aide and com
mittee clerk in the Texas house, was the
first Republican to be elected lo the Tra
vis County Commissioners Court. His
special interests are telecommunications
- of giving grants twice a year,
the university selection committee
met recently to determine grant win
ners for the second half of the
1993-1994 period. Tbe funds, which
total $25,000. result from a grant
from the Moody Foundation to help
defray travel
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courage.
"When
left the Johnson
2
White
House, I practiced law. I was able to
represent the Washington Post and the
Democratic Party during Watergate ....
We filed a suit against the Committee
to Reelect the President three days af
ter Watergate
- Zealand, and Lad)
Muld on, and World War II hero Harold Russell,
Chairman of the President' Committee on
Employment of the Handicapped. Al right, Luci
Johnson sh ws Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent through the Museum.
THE LIBRARY
Two alumni
- , which as held in April. in
concert with the LBJ School of Public ffairs. the University of
Texas and fl>xa. Momhly magazine. as somewhat differ nt from
tho:e of the past in two wa}'S"
-Rather than embracing a subject national in scope. it focuse
-
litical career as Mayor of Weathe1forcl,
Texas. He was a member of Congress
for thirty-five years, serving as Speaker
of the House from 1987 to 1989. He
was Chair of the National Democratic
Convention in 1988.
Wright recalls LBJ "leaning" on
him only once
- lady who was inter
ested: Mary Woodward Lasker. She
had developed her own company,
had married the adv rtising execu
tive Albert Lasker. Together they
had to some extent [brought] life to
the National Cancer Institute.
After the war Mary Lasker de
- of national significance
in the days preceding and during the
Civil War. Several Austin institutions
joined forces in bringing to the Library
Mr. Marshall, who has appeared in a
number of stage, film and television
productions.
In addition to performing
- manuscripts, diaries, and artifacts lent by individuals and
institutions around the world.
A cartoon of LBJ as gunslinger, by
Jack Jurden of the Wilmington News
Journal, adorns a banner hanging in
front of the National Archives build
ing in Washington
- and Public Economics.
Glen P. Wilson, Executive Director of
the National Space Institute. (left)
presented the Library with bound
volumes of the hearings and reports of
the Senate Committee on eronautical
and Space Sciences. Wilson served as
a staff member
- 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
