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- IssueNumberXLVIIIDecember 15. 1990
Fifteenth Century Painting
given to
President Johnson
by Pope Paul VI.
MerryChristmasto a[[ our _friends
Eveningsat the LibraryProvide
Friends of the LBJ Library were
invited to "An E ening With ... •• Dr.
Don
- created by the subjects
of the portraits. The bronze pieces,
representing Berks' output over a
long career, included leaders in the
worlds of politics (Presidents John
son, Kennedy and Truman); religion
(Pope Paul VI, Martin Luther King,
Jr.); industry
- objects selected from the West Wmg
rooms - uch as th . Augustus Saint-Gaudens bronze
portrait of Lincoln, the President's Cabinet Chair, and
the telephone from the Little ounge - add realism
t the exhibit.
The photograph hove hows Library vi itor studying
- .
Ambassador from Ecuador and Mrs. Richard Crespo,
who vi~iled the Library in June, look al a gift from the
people of Ecuador to President Johnson.
A group of blind or visually impaired students from a summer camp in 1-'ortWorth toured the
Library in July
-
The exhtbilion,
vi ich i' louring nationally through
1985 is drawn fro 1 d c0lleclic)!1 of photographs assem
bled by the late Roy Em rson Stryker who in 1943 com
misston d some thirty photographer:, lo travel across the
country, 1 cording Amer·u1 and 1t
- there. a presence at the delibera
tions. ''We Texans do have a sense of destiny about us," said Paul
Burka. "We arc a state that was once a nation, and Texans are
very a are of that."
But there have been some glaring omissions in the commonly
perceived heritage
- , former Secrelary of HEW managed lo smu~gle hil>
successor, Secrrlar} of Education. hirley Hufsledler, past the rope
barrier for II picture in the Oval Office e,hibit when Mrs.
HuMedler vi..~itedlhe Libntr}' in Seplember. Cohen b currently an
occupant
- , University of
isconsin; Donald Ritchie, enate Historical ffice; Joel Silbey,
Cornell University; and Margaret Thompson. Syracuse Uni er-
sity. epresenting the press 1/ere Donald Bacon, U.S. News and
World Report; Paul Duke, W.E.T.A.; Nick Kotz, free lance
- a combination of Saint Paul
and Saint Vitus-no exaggeration.
Under
the
first
President
Roosevelt, th Whit House itself
became a crowded stag featur
ing a never-ending morality play,
script d, dire ted and performed
by the President himself. In fact
- , rnmi.offil'1atccl It till'
\Inst 11m's gro1111cl hrcaki11' l'l'IC'
moriir•~-
Lhetll- (Fcmml' Pcrs::m ). Pendl on paper
hy Henri ~latis,t:, 19:10
C'
Ln1clrnt
StancH11" ~.\'oman
nrun,c hy
Alb("rt.OC.iac.:nnu•U1,
1960
Library vi~iton, vit·w the Ilirshhom
- of the National
Security Council Staff from 1966 to 1968. In 1968-69 he was a
member of the U.S. Delegation to the Vi tnam Peace Talks in
Paris. In 1969 he came to Austin to work with President
Johnson on his foreign policy papers and memoirs. He
returned
- . Gregory
Peck. Peter Yarrow (of Peter. Paul,
and Mary), and Van Cliburn.
The Library's special thanks go
to the planners who have helped put
this program together: Ed Dorn. Lit.
Carpenter. George Christian. Betty
Sue Flowers, Bob Hardesty, Robert
King
- . world policy in a 40minute presentation, then answered
questions from the audience.
The 1,000-seat LBJ Auditorium was
filled 1. minute before the doors wen
scheduled to open. Closed-circuit le e
vi ion was set up in an adjoining lec
ture hall
- : Fran/.. Wolle, Paul Chevalier
Staff AS\tstance: Yolanda Boozer, Lou Anne Missildine
I BJ Library
/1.·farlene Whtte, J
- kept aying, "You
forgot the helicopter," referring to LBJ's usual means of
visiting the library.
"The first woman had vi ·ite the library and remem
bered the dresses. And she was right, we forgot lhe
slide The other woman used to live by the library
- ,11lure. It is thL failure f the profe\sionab. the p anner~.
the intel 1:ctual and the architect. tu provide the mayors and the politi
cal leader~ \\ ith the vi ion. th..: inform t on and the awarcne\s ·h 1t i
necessal) to bring dcca ·mg m1:ncan dues
- Hemingway; Lincoln's
Emancipation Pr clamation.
Library visitors formed long
lin to vi w an original copy of the
Magna Carta (a journalist a ked one
boy if he had ever before seen any
thing that old. Aft r a moment's
reflection the young man replied, in
all
- , 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
- , Bob Piere: and J 1y
Cas id of Cuggrnhellll P1m.luctions, Inc.
Work 011 the .film bcgau with p:unstaking
research into Lh bm:kground of Pr ·sid nl
Johnson. The produolion team inter
vi wed numerous a so ·iatc~ of the l'r si
tlenl, re, iewed more than
- House. J\lounted against the photograph
is the primitive machine with \\hich she recorded her first entries.
(Later she gradual d to more profe.
- out
to be his last public pronouncement.
"T give you independence forever,"
he said.
Sy1nposium Explores the Search for Peace During the
On pril 20-12. the LBJ Library
hosted the f urth in a seri s of ym
po. ia to tudy th Vi Lnarn conflict.
Th pr
- at
the Johnson family gravesite this
way:
Those of u who worked for
LBJ have known all along
that, to him, Vi tnam was at
least as much a threat to his
revolution at home as were
right wing conservatives and
die hard segregationjst •. In
deed I believe his
- , and
probably r ach report· that, de pite the
facts, might point the finger at either
the Soviet Union, where Lee Harvey
0 wald had lived for two and a half
years, or Communist Cuba, for Os
wald had vi ited the Cuban consulate
in M xico City, bare! six weeks
- closing remarks, Pn·sidl•nt .Johnson sum
rnarizl'd his thoughts nn publi1: t·durntinn, "Thl· lnikd Stall's has thl•
1110,0l'Y
to do anything it has thl• guts In do, and thl' vi,;jon to do, and lhl•
will to do ... This country rnn rinanrc all thl· highrr
- mounted by the
Museum itself me sponsored by rhe Friends
of rhe LBJ Library. The. e major exhibi
tions are on view fur a minimum of six
A World War I doughboy's uniform was
part of the exhibit "The War to End All
Wars."
(above) Vi itors take a dose look
-
and hopeless effort.'· But he ex
pressed '·deep regret" over ·'the way
in which we allowed the Vi tmlm War
to become the totally defining vent
of those years and likewise of the his
tory. Jn the Johnson years it was the
Vietnam War and nothing else. And
so
- , cam in to r c rd the vi it.
Frank, who as White Hou e cameraman
had phot graphed at least three
American presidents and a number of
other heads o state, went swiftly to the
business he was so experienced in. But,
as he kn It and focured, he dropped his
- . Aust-in was the fiftieth ~top on
the document's national tour, which has
included visit to the Bush, Carter, Ger
ald Ford, and Truman libraries.
A Traveling Vietnam Memorial
All who served in the Vi tnam War
will never forget th sound: "Whop.
Whop
- -thirds levelto defeat
the filibuster by the southern
Democrats,and Lyndon Johnson
also knew the key to that was
malting Everett McKinleyDirksen
full partner in that effort.. .. The
margin of vi tory and the notion of
an idea whosetime has come made
it e
- inevitably follow.
If Johnson could be judged only
on hi· fforts to build and perfect
a just society at home, Woods
observed, liberals at least would
consider him a great president.
But the Cold War has thus far
trumped any such rating in th ir
eyes. Vi tnam
