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with many thousands of memos and
other messages prepared by White
House staff and agency officials. But
which did the President read? A file
called "Night Reading" will help
answer this question. (It) includes
lists of the memos, reports, and other
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Former President Jimmy Carter
inaugurated the series last year.
Luckinbill, currently appearing
in a play, "A Fair Country," in New
York, flew to Austin to make his
Darrow presentation on the one night
of the week when his play is not
given, to honor
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by a congressional committee, and a
woman who slept with a gun under
her pillow every night until she died,
several years ago."
Ms. Smith had also feuded
memorably with Frank Sinatra, and it
was she who broke the news of the
Donald/lvanna Trump divorce. "It
certainly
- months of conversations, packaged for research.
2
Dictabeh lli 1: ct:JUI
1. have been
reproduced and
.lJhle in the
Library·s Reading R m n Digital
Audio Tape. enablin; h kners to go
directly to the ocginnm_:-of the con
versation of interest to them I
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so far in liking with him that before
she went from the play, she ap
pointed him to come that night unto
her, by the name of Richard Ill.
Shakespeare, overhearing their con
clusion, went before, was enter
tained, and at his game ere Burbage
came
- . Then the Presi
dent reads. I doubt that there was a single day of the
Presidency, Sundays included, that I didn't give two or
three hours to just solitary reading. There was hardly a
night that I was President that I didn't read two or thre
hours. Even
- Connally's widow ellie shared her
memories or the JFK assassination.
peared, we have been besieged with re
quests for interviews. I can·, do any m re
than they already have me doing. They'll
just have to read-the-book."
Bui she began with a still older
- gy chani:r s
only complicates the picture further.
Will we even have ma hines that can
read Loda 's electronic records, fifty
years from now? But re arch is
going on to solve the e i sues, he
stated, and h is confident that there
are solutions
- a pledge to myself
I was not going to kt this night go by
until I could tell you that your Presi
dent was immensely proud of your
vote tonight." "That," said Pickle,
''is thoughtfulness and remembrance
beyond measure.··
There was, of course, another way
- , and the
Greek, Roman and Teutonic myths.
I fell in love with their heroes and
relied increasingly on books for my
enjoyment. Sometime soon after
Mother' death I must have appeared
sad to my father. I remember one
night he asked if I would like for him
to read
- to the
Library and on the night of its
opening spoke to an enthusiastic
audience about the long effort of
women to secure the vote.
"Our Mothers Before Us"-Continued
"Because of the women in my fami
ly," Ms. Robb said, "I always thought
wmnen ran the country
- with an account of entertain
ing during those years and in Washington generally.
FoJlowing are excerpts from her remarks .
. P.drues in Washington are seriom, bw,iness. On any given
night in Washington. there are dozens of them. Diplomats enter
tain to create
- . It read:
Monday: AlcoholicsAnonymous.
Tuesday:Ahmed Spouses.
Wednesday:Eating Disorders.
Thursday: Say No to Drugs.
Friday:Teen Suicide Watch.
Saturday:Soup Kitchen.
Suncla)'Sermon: "'America'sJoyous Future."'
The Modern Presidency: Offstage at the White
- and malicious a biography as I have ever
read ... lls importance, if in fact it can be said to have any at all,
resides almost entirely in the mind of the man who wrote it."
And these are just a sampling. So it would seem that Caro will
not have completely clear
- together to write gags • r it, and
we came up ith the line, "Now, about
my great-great-granddaddy
at the
Alamo. Y'all dicln 't let me fini h. It
was the Alamo Bar and Grill in Eagle
Pass, Tex·1s."
The President changed it to read
··The
Alamo
Hotel
in Eagle
- , but it is a cookbook
that is a good read too. Lynn
Boswell ofVillita Productions
produced the DVD specifically
for the exhibit, to chronicle
how electricity changed the Hill
Countrv., and LBJ's role in that
transformation. We are proud that
it features one of the LBJ
- , space contracts, aero
space plants. 'This is what your gov-
So I wrote him for a summer job.
I spent my first night in Washington,
from 5:00 p.m. until the following morn
ing. completing my tirst assignment for
Lyndon Baines .Johnson, addressing
- . Thus, all colleges
locked
female students in at night for their
own protection ... The war dramati-
cally changed political attitudes. In
the 30s most Americans fell that
entering World War I had been a big
mistake. Neutrality and unilateral
- years, and 28 mil
lion have not completed high school. . . . More than
30,000 schools have received funds under the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act to teach remedial math and
reading to disadvantaged students.
POVERTY In 1960, 22 percent
- in typical TRfashion to
a letter of condolence, in part: ' Qu nrin
me as much as it certainly must have
was [his mother's] baby, the last child left
done you.
'To be shot: Francis
in the home nest. On the night before he
Christiance deserter from the ranks
- Proxmire ....
Congress and the Cold War
will remain a must-read for
congressional scholars for
years to come.
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Sitting with Dr. Koed on the Har
deman Prize Committee are two
political scientists at The Uni
versity of Texas at Austin, Sean
Theriault
- , he said, will enable the Library to "provide
greater insight into the span of governm nt and history over
the half century which marks the Johnson era."
In her r marks to the assembled uests on opening night,
Mrs. Johnson cited two other Library
- wanted it."
The tribute was highlighted by the reading of reminiscences from
Pre. ident and Mrs. Johnson's letters and diaries by Helen Hayes
an Kirk Douglas, a staged by Preston Jones, author of 'A Texas
Trilogy." L ric coloratura Linda Loftis Tobias
- -RANGING LOOK AT RECENT HISTORY
People who came into Wa ·hington with Kennedy had read all
the books and knew all the doctrines. They were tht: fir-.t peo
ple who ever came mtn the White House who would know that
Lenin said the road to P.iris is through
- told them,
and aplendor
the time would
o( the Presidency
come wlien I would look lack
and !ind it hard
on the majeaty
to believe
that I had actually
in ~r•,
I slept
been there.
But on thh
~
night,
I went to bed then.
And for the first
- on the
night of February 7.
For the occasion, Miss Martin, perched on a trunk, sang
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy," looking back to her Broad
way debut in "Leave It To Me" in 1938. She also joined the
University of Texas Chamber singers in "My Favorite
Things
- and such Washington
journalists as Ray Scherer, Hugh
Sidey, Sid Davis. Marianne Means.
and Bonnie Angelo. will open the
event Wednesday night.
Thurstiay morning the confer
ence itself will begin with a keynote
address by Arthur Schlesinger. Jr.
Sheldon Hackney
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impossible to locate a [Taylor] book
(did Mr.Taylor not read?)."
Mr. Crook, a native of San
Mar 'OS, \ aat ional Director of
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VISTA during the LBJ Administra
tion. Presid nt Johnson named him
Ambassador to Australia in I 968.
Tht: Crooks decided some years
- .
Huey Long, I think, would have subvert
ed the system if he had to. Lyndon John
son never qu stioned th capitalistic
system, never questioned the bases of
capitalism.
One of the best of the several inter
views I have read in the LBJ Library
- into
the White House to live there, at [LBJ's I
request. I would bring him these reporrs
every couple of hours of what was hap
pening around the country, from the FBI.
And one of those nights I brought in this
report, it said "Stokely Carmichael is or
ganizing
- lived and a
time well spent-in excerpts from
her diaries, her speeches, interviews
and reflections over the years."
Three of Mrs. Johnson's grand
children-Nicole
Covert, Catherine
Robb, and Lyndon Nugenttook
the stage to read Mr. Middleton's
selections
- in my
family told stories. That's what
Jews do, is tell stories." Mamet
clarified; "The first stories the
J ws set down became known as
the Torah."
More seriously, Mamet explained
that as a boy he read everything.
Further, he was of the first
television
- , and an outdoor screening of the Beatles 1964 classic film,
A Hard Day's Night.
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Voices of a Generation
Literature from Tom
\Volt , Kurt Vonnegut,
Truman Capote, and
orman Mailer.
Sports Heroes of the
Decade, including Denny
McLain, who won thirty
one games
- Wyeth who had to leave midway through
the debate to catch early flights.
goes up-any kind of building-(must) have a concert hall. If
il's a small building. it eals 50 . . . 100 .
200 . . . 300
pE'ople. For prartirally nothing
vou could go every night
- for Sam Rayburn in Washington did
Hardeman become a serious collector. Then, what had begun
as a modest affinity for reading and books escalated into a
twenty-year passion and a colle tion of 9,000 volumes. In the
late 1950s and early 1960s, many rare
- eventful days
and nights, worn n from Texas and across lhe nation
enlhus1aslically joined in Lhe debates, list ned intently to the
panel discus. ions and speeches, and . queezed into crowded
corridor
- rically most significant
Researchers using Library collections in Reading Room.
Volunteer Program
There are now 99 voluntei.:rs (including fiv• men) working in
the Library-71 as docents. giving tour to vLitors. the others
helping out in other parts f lhe
- backyard, in a quite
secluded spot. And very especially it would be a good place for four-year-olds to
have a "tea party," or watch the gold fish in the little pool-or for their mother or
grandmother to read about P ter Rabbit or Winnie-the-Pooh.
I shall
- , such as the draft-age Ameri
can man reading about the approach
of the war; the G .I. being forced into
the Bataan death march by his Japa
nese captor; A German solider; a
thirsty British infantryman and a
Soviet serviceman on the Eastern
front.
The famed
- ·1icc111pco
plt ate read)' lit send our trnop.-,in
th1.-re10 do lhc fit;hlin£... IJ it cam~·
d wn to 1hc plion of ~cn
