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sion on White House Fellows.
Lady Bird Johnson Honored at Nash Castro Evening
On December 20, 2000, hun
dreds of Friends of the LBJ Library
gathered in the LBJ Auditorium to
honor Lady Bird Johnson and to
enjoy An Evening With Nash Castro,
former
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From lhat moment on I was a partisan.
But I can't honestly say that l believe that we still have all
the answers. I know that when I came in as President, l
heard that we had sent teams into Cuba to try to assassinate
Castro and those people
- to the top and overflowing.
Jim Ketchum, who was White House curator in the Johnson years, Bess Abell, social secretary, and Nash Castro, liaison
between the White House and the National Park Service, with humor, affection and seriousness discussed life
- addition to being one of Lady
Bird Johnson's closest advisers
and closest friendsash Castro
is the former Director of National
Parks in Washington, D. . On
August 27, 2006, he came to de
liver the address at the laying of
the wreath at President Johnson's
- · rooms.
The Kennedys tried to g ·t the atholic
clergy t > dissuade those in the march
from staying overnight. Many govern
ment agents were assigned toke pan ey
throw Castro. Robert Kennedy ran the
committee, which came up with many
schemes, some of them
- in the years since the White House Confer
ence on Natural Beauty in 1965.
Participants will include Laay Bird Johnson, Lauranc
Rockef Iler, Henry Diamond, William Ruckelshaus,
Nathaniel
vings, Ian McHarg, Nash Castro, William K.
Reilly, Charles Haar, Robert
- projects and schools in the
poorer neighborhoods, and by turn
ing vacant lots into playgrounds.
The other approach, championed by
Mary Lasker and Nash Castro, fa
vored beautifying the parts of the
city seen by the greatest number of
people around
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Washington, such as Supreme Court
Justice and Mrs. Thurgood Marshall
(right), and friends from her years in
the nation's spotlight, at a number of
events honoring her, including a din
ner in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill,
which Nash Castro M.C. 'd (below
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December 20:
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Celebration of Lad Bird John on 's birthday. ash Castro. former Executive Secretary of the
Cornmillee for the Preservation of the White House, will give a presentation on the new exhibit,
'·Holidays in the Whit Hou 'e."
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Among the guests were ·evera
members
the N tional Comm1tte( for
the Grove: Mr. and Mrs. Laurance
Rockefeller, Mr:. Alberl L skc.-r. Mr .
Charles Enf!elhard, Mrs. incent Astor,
Mr. nsh Castro, and Mr. Gilbert O£>n
man. Liz Carpenter and Mrs. Marshall
- concerns generally fo
cused on two major subjects. In
Washington, D.C. she sought to im
prove the appearance and quality of
life in the nation's capital. Her most
visible activity was her collaboration
with Mary Lasker and Nash Castro
of the National Park
- in Russia (which the
speaker described as an economy
based on thievery), and his father's
career, Dr. Khrushchev was asked
about the future of Cuban/U.S. rela
tions. His response was gloomy:
Castro will likely be succeeded by
someone even more aggressively
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dy want any comment on the Warren
Report?"
A: 'RFK would never comment,
evading questions about it, because he
knew about the attempts on Castro and
didn't want that made public."
Author Holland does not subscribe to any conspiracy theory
