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- Issue NumberLI December 15, 1991
WorldWar II
"Wounded at War: Now The Day is Over." Artist: W. G. Laurence; U.S. Coast Guard Art Program
Reproduced here and on the cover are
three paintings by men who served in
the armed forces in World War II
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You could see It,"
"When he'd gel up against the wall, even when he didn't, he'd
say, 'Bird, what do you think?' She had far more influence than
anybody with any President. Much more to say, and he
Ii tened."
"He cared deeply about doing what
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MajorWorldWarII Exhibit
General Colin Powen, Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will speak at
the Library on April 21, at the open
ing of the long-planned exhibition on
World War II.
The exhibit, a major undertaking
by the National Archives commemo
rating
- exhibition
ever executed by the Library's
museum staff: a documentation, in
poignant letters, rare memorabilia,
priceless historical documents and art,
of the greatest war ever fought.
Titled "World War II: Personal
Accounts Pearl Harbor to V-J Day
- rights for very body. II we re
trying to do is to make this government of the United States
of America honest. We only ask that when we i;tand up and
talk about ·one nation under God, liberty. justire for
ever bod;,' Lo be able t look at that flag and put
- this to say that evening:
We know how depressed LBJ
was in tho e four year after
he left the White House. I
wi h he were here today to see
the budding appreciation of
his greatness.
"The war in Vietnam is not
like World War II and Ko
r a. . . . Yet, finally
- Room will be removed. A sliding glass wall will be installed between lhe courtyard and
the West Conference Room so that when the wall is fully opened the two rooms will function
BS II single room. When the waJIis dosed, the rooms can function separately
- histor)
1."
Military historian Martin Blumenson
gave a lyrical account of the libera
tion of Paris, which he called "the
most romantic event of World War
II. It was not necessarily the most
dramatic, or the most impor
tant ... but for sheer romance
- to send it')" I said. "Send it to the
White House." There wa ·along pau e, an
- cent
peacekeeping
operations, all catastrophi-: failures: So
malia. Rwanda-wh
re the worst geno-
II
eide since World War II took place-and
Bosnia.
On the issue of how to supply
humanit,u·ian assistance_ Holbrooke de
clared. there is a '·raging
- agreed that there would be
an election, and that the par
ties would respect the results
of it. A woman named Violeta
Chamorro \.Von.The Sandinista
lea er Daniel rtega, lost. But
1'II b t you he would never have
left office if it had not been
- . The first, jointly sponsored with the LBJ
School of Public Affairs and the Brookings Institution in
February, traced the nation's effort to develop an energy
policy since the end of World War II and then focused on
current problems and poten11al solutions
- , weighing in at 8 pounds, 2
ounces.
The new baby is the seventh
Johnson grandchild.
Seminar at Library studies
impact of "Ultra" on World War II
When The Ultra Secret, by F. W. Winterbotham, was published in 1974
revealing that the allies broke the most
- for the first time.
The LBJ Library oral history
project is the largest in any of the
presidential libraries, and ii is still a
work in progress. While the Library
is no longer actively seeking inter
views. an occasional "walk-in'· does
happen. A recent
- pictur on page ne of the New
2
York Time.
Lone Ran_ r.
like Tont ,:·
France l l'
(Ill'-
aroun
Oval
madet
. hare \d
ult. ad
Jim
o'cl ck
going r ha,
said. "Fine 1•
Larry Tempi
Presicll!n!
Joi ,
Wair Rosto,, .ii
Whit House ut
day m ming. ar
home andjm
- foolishness.
"With the limitation of the number of missiles that
each sidl may deploy being approximately 2,400," Rusk
warned, \\-e will still have "three times the number of
MIRVs 1l would take to completely destroy the orld.
After World Wars I and II
- in o exhibit on the 1920s
1980
Walter Cronkite and II panel of national leaders pursued the ques
lion: "Amerlc lo the 1980's: Where Do We Go From Here?"
1980
In the course of one week, 35,000 visitors filed through the Library
to i.ee Great Britain's
- States Steel. September
18, 1918. (Photographer: R. Gallivan)
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''The American Image''
(continued)
Son or Caleb Hicks, miner. Bradsha , McDowell County,
West Virginia. August 27, 1946. (Photographer: Ru~II Lee)
Burial at ·ea for the officers :md men
- Department;
7. Roger Hilsman, Assistant Sec
retary of State;
8. Harry McPherson, Special
Counsel to the President;
9. Nicholas Katzenbach, Under
Secretary of State:
10. Ray Cline, Deputy Director for
Intelligence, C.I.A.;
ii ii. McGeorge Bundy, National
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The Sm:iet U11inn u·as challmged /Jy a Muslim in.rnrge11cy i11
Ajgha11Ma11. a chaflc11ge to a puppet rrgime that it had itself
installed through a coup. and ii respo11deciu;ith 100,()()0 troops.
i\'ou; the difference betu;een tho,\e t1ro rcsponscs is 1wt lost
- House years
The importance of th papers and records in the Johnson
Library Ii s in the insight it gives scholars into the key issues of
the 1960s. The Library archives are most helpful on Great Soci
ety domestic questions, and there arc extensive
-
The Eisenhowers: Famous Family Reminiscences
Da,id Eisenhower. grand
son of Dwight D. Eisen
hower. discussed hi!i work,
Eisenl,ower at War, an ac
count of his grandfather's
command of the allied ex
peditionary forces in Eng
land in World \.\'ar II.
\\hat I mi
- At The Library
The year (we start it in September)
began with a rousing program
bringing the music of America
through seven pre idents by Ken
Ragsdale and his orche tra.
Historian Stephen Am bro ·e. whose
D-Day: The Climactic Battle l
World War II was widely
- the Southwest to New England
and from Europe to Mexico.
During World War II Butler
r mained stateside, anxiously scan
ning the newspaper and listening to
radio reports of the war. Frustrated at
being a mere second-hand observer
of thi his second war, his work
- of nations
TR ·ent America's Gr at White Fleet
of battleships around th world. But
Congress would only appropriate
half of the mone • ne es-.,an. Quit all
right, niffcd Ro c\·elt. I"II only
send them halfv,a): C n""ress can get
them ba ·Ii..
Lu kinbill R's
- to
the dedication of the horseshoe pit."
Clinton's heart was in the right
place, "but he made terrible mistakes
, ith his personal Ii fe."
George W. Busb'i "A work in
11s.
pr gress" -but
Thomas was
gloomy about his prospect . especial!_
with regard to Iraq.
Speaking
- following Dr. Schick's address, a Library
tribute was paid to D. B. Hardeman by Maury Maverick,
Jr., San Antonio attorney and long-time friend of Mr.
Hardeman.
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Schick
Hardeman
"Texas Women ..
II
Exhibit Opening Draws Mary Martin
and Large Cast
Mary
- , 112,862 ........
Cleaning, Utilities, Mechanical Services
$311,239 ........
Guard Services
Personnel-The Library now has 28 persons on its staff. To
supplement this, the LBJ Foundation pays the salaries of II per
sons who work on Library programs
- President_ how to push
hut1ons to make things happen. But in addition to being a
consummate legislator he ,,.as also a \'Cry able admini~tra
tor. He kept the operation in the White House on its toes, he
delegated frmly w II-not all the way. I don ·1 think he
- of
alien influences. American labor
unions, to their great credit, have
stood resolutely against the incur
sions and influence of communism
s,ince World War II. At the same
time, American business has played
a part much larger than it receives
credit
- who per
Camp/Jell and the Power ()j' Myrh; A
World of Ideas; Healing and the
sonify Th Univ r ity'. ommitment
to the ta k of transfom1ing Ii es."
Mind; and Genesis. She has pub
lished two books of poetry-Four
2
Author McCullough Reflects on Latest
- forces with Huston-Tillotson
Collegt> of Austin lo
co-sponsor an exhibit of Afro-American art, featuring 83
contemporary works of black American artists.
Tht> title of the exhibit, "Ami
- with significant
increase~ of government regulation, both by law as well as
1 executive
mandate.
The ,urge f (social) legislation in the late 1930s, which is
the hallmark of the New Deal, continued to a le ser degree in
the post-World War II period in the Truman
-
and CNN may get over 30 million
viewers. CN and the traditional
broadcast networks are the nearest
thing we have to a public square.
Paul Taylor: "The era of broadcasting is now giving way to an era of narrow
casting."
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The Modern Presidency
- of curiosity
and wonder that stays with you and never stops. Relatively
few of you will yourselves become scholars. But all of you
will be citizens-thinking,
participating citizens. Your lives,
the Ii es of your children and your country will be enriched
if you
- , a
street brawler at 11, and a mugger and shoplifter in his
teens. He dropped out of school in the 9th grade and was into
so much trouble that the Houston Police gave him a choice
•olunteer for the Job Corps or go to jail.
He chose the Job Corps. Ii
