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- could do so
politely. I remember early on that I
wished all of those old people would
hurry up so that I could get home to
my babies to yearning years later to
stay on at a good party! There was a
great network of Congressional
spouses sometimes
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Henry Ford II, Preston
Jone!!, Ed Clark, Linda
Tobias, Helen Hayes, Jake
Pickle, Mrs. Johnson, Kirk
Douglas and emcee Cactus
Pryor, after the program.
This hope has he n made a reality through the activities of the
Friends of the LBJ Library, and now
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The famed Variety headline which an
nounced the stock market crash of 1929
Pen and Ink drawing titled "And How Many Carbons, Sir?" by John Held, Jr., whose car
toons
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one day become the 38th
president on Thanksgiving
Day to wish him a happy
holiday and ask him to
serve on the Warren Com
mission. Congressman
Gerald Ford agreed, and
when asked where he was,
replied, "At home." "In
Michigan?"
Johnson
asked.
"No sir
- with credibility and
dignity, and this matter is going
to be resolved on the basis of the
rule of law. And I daresay, sir,
if this were happening in your
country, there might be tanks in
the streets." And occasionally
I'd get an acknowledgment that
that was true
- them by heart, of the
man who pushed us, dreamed out loud with us ...
I BJ believed that no job ·s too big and none too small,
even for presidents It gave him that quality he never lost,
th remarkable ab1hty to translate down-home folks to na-
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- boyhood home in Johnson City when she first
decided to write a play based on the former President's
early years. Her two.act musical, Texas Hill Country, is
about the Johnson family and the people of Blanco County
in the years 1918 and 1924. The production
- of the Johnson family received a numhcr
of distinguished visitors lo the Librar Below, top
lo bottom, Mrs. John on welcomes Ambassador
and Mrs. Zhang Wenjin, from the People's Republic
of China; The Right Honorable Sir Robert
Muldoon, Prime Minister of 'cw
- the North Korean
attack. It galvanized not only the
U.S., but Europe. After 1950, we
had the military structure of NATO.
Robert Divine: The significance of
the Korean War is that it brought
home to the American people and
their leaders the realities
- -mesmerizing-but
he was
never at home in a press confer
ence-undoubtedly
feeling there
was a booby trap in every question,
or more likely perhaps wondering
why his good intentions should be
questioned ....
'·. . . He was tough and rude-and
kind and sentimental
- . of the conversations
available through the web site, but
decided in 'tead simply to create a
"hot link" from our site to the C
SPAN web site, where sound
recordings of over eight hundred
segments and full tel phone con
versations are already available.
Home. Search
- a call
from Mrs. Johnson, who said, "Joe. I'm
having a little dinner for the President
tonight, and I'd like you to come." Cali
fano replied, "Mrs. Johnson, I haven't
been home this week. l 've got to see my
wife and kids." She replied, 'Tm having
all
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fairs Committee. he has fr)L1ghtfor
recognition of th Gulf War syndrome
so veterans can receive treatment. h
is the author of the 1-lomemak r IRA
legi lation, which is aimed at xpand
ing retirement opportunities for stay-at
home spouses. She has been
- are on display in the ret
rospective exhibition, David Douglas
Duncan: One Life, A Phorogmphic
Odyssey, which opened on March 6
al the LBJ Library and Museum. Co
sponsored by the University of exas
Harry Ransom
Center and the
Library, the exhibition celebrates
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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
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especially for the gallery. Visitors can
hear Kirk Douglas and I lelen Hayes
reading from rhe love letters the
young couple wrote during their
courtship. This part of the tour
includes never-before-seen footage
from family home movies which Mrs.
Johnson
- as First Lady, there
will be considerable space devoted to
her life before that time, and also to
her post-White House days at the
LBJ Ranch.
This new exhibit will display
video excerpts from Mrs. Johnson's
home movie , never before seen by
the public. One
- Court to work for Roosevelt in the White House,
wanted to be Vice President. However, labor vetoed Jimmy
Byrnes ... and that was the end of him. And, Bill Douglas
of the Supreme Court, was a favorite of Roosevelt's and
sort of wanted to be Vice President
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centrates on reports of military
action, the charged atmosphere on
the home front, and ,the political fig
ures of the day-Buder dearly loved
to lampoon politicos.
Bud Butler died in 1949. With
the assistance of his family and
friends, the LBJ
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without leaving their nursing home.
Three library tour guides have been presenting a one
hour slide show and narrative about the library to Aus
tin nursing homes since eptember. They've received
rave reviews for their sho, .
Their field trips
- in his home
state, the veteran of almost two dec
ades on Capitol Hill maintained that
the Congress "lost its way" when it
"became a fuJl-timc undertaking." The
change in the legislative body's origi
nal purpose came, Iriesaid, "when we
started passing
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century pursuit of that vision, the
Library has been a chronicler of his
tory and a witness to it~and on
occasion the setting for moments of
high drama.
Nineteenyearsago~on ,thestage of the
LBJ Auditorium,Helen Hayes and
Kirk Douglas read excerpts from
- to dedicate the tomb of Stephen A. Douglas, but actually to
rally public support for presidential programs. Grant observed
firsthand the disastrous effects of Johnson's vituperative attacks
on his opponents follow by his intemperate responses to heck
lers
- & Co.
George Kozmetsky, Dean, Graduate S~hool of Business, The
University of Texas at Austin
Rohert 0. Anderson, Chairman of the Board, Atlantic Richfield
Company
W. Donham Crawford, Chairman of the Board, Gulf States
Utilities Company
Douglas M. Costle
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preserving the written record has not
been neglected, he said, recalling that
on one occasion Archivist Nancy
Smith look a.II of five minutes to
retrieve a letter that Beschloss, as a
chi1d, had written to LBJ. That
brought home to him what the public
can g
- the Taylor's beautiful ante helium
home, bearing its precious cargo. Underneath the pic
ture he wrote:
' n December 22, such and such a year, the store in Karack, the T. J. Taylor Store, Dealer-in-Everything
closed. In every fireplace in the Taylor home
- 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
- voted
for the I964 Civil Rights bill which,
he said, ''was not an easy vote for this
district." He got home at 3 a.m. to
find a message to caH the President no
matter what time it was. When he
reluctantly made the late call, LBJ
to:ld him: "I ,made
- in
what I considered glamorous places
like Hawaii and Alaska. But all that
never happened because I met
Lyndon .... I knew I had met some
thing remarkable, but I didn't quite
know what."
Iler father approved. "Young
lady, you've brought home a lot of
boys
- some pictures of Mary Jane taken on the
Truman farm during the first World War. Harry went off 10 the
war and Mary Jane stayed home and ran the farm. She was a
beautiful young woman, really striking looking. And 'iuddenl_
it becomes a different story
- to take them
home. I could tell you more about how I felt at the time, but you
really should make your own discoveries-and there are enough
opportunities to fill a lifetime.
Fortunately. there are practically as many different types of
museums
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Home"; James Stever, "Presidential
Management of Intergovernmental
Relations"; Stephen Streeter. "U.S.
Guatemalan Relations, 1954-1969";
Qiang Zhai, "The Sino-Soviet Alli
am:e and the Western 'Wedge' Strat
egy Toward It, 1950-1968"; and
Thomas
- Connally, Barry Goldwater.
Middle row: Helen Hayes, Gloria
Steinem. Bottom row: David and
J uJie Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter,
Henry Kissinger.
On page 3, top row: Ann Landers,
Kirk Douglas, Hubert Humphrey.
Middle row: William Westmoreland,
Barbara Jordan
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ollection: '"I can't tell you how good it
is to be back home in Austin ... For you
who may not know, l was born in Austin
and grew up here ... It was just a few hun
dred yards from here that I experienced
love at first sight, and 1 still remember
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\\"t-dn1•,day. Sl•plt•mhl'r 1:;
l'an,•l:
TIIF: HIGHT TO A DECENT HOME IN A
llECE>,/T COM. I\ NIT\
Concept and Programs: Victor Bach, Assistant Professor LBJ School of Public Affairs
Impact on Housing Policy and Programs
- of the
'Johnson boys' has come home to Southwest
Texas."
Bob Hardesty, new president of Southwest Texas Slate University, ponders
a painting of the University's most distinguished alumnus, which hangs in
the Academic Center at the Universily.
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Library Docents
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"Baker Home," 195-'. Oil on masonite.
Some of Grandma Moses' tools. Note the jar lids she used to mix her colors.
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"Bennington," 1945. Oil tempera on masonite.
Some youngsters take advantage of the Museum's invi
tation (to adult-sponsored, approved
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War··; and Thomas Zoumaras, "C.
Douglas Dillon: The Philanthropic
Cold Warrior."
Scheduled for December 15 is the Li
brary's Christmas party for Head Start
children in the Austinarea. This will be
the second in what is planned to be an
annualevent
- of the home.
Everyone Smile!
Before bidding their tour guides "adieu," the staff
stopped down the road from the house for a peacefuJ
moment at the family cemetery and a brief visit to
the reconstructed Boyhood Home.
Photo by Adam Alsobrook
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Former House
- world is lockeu in
deadly struggle. Here then, for one
night only, each home throughout the
English-speaking world should be a
brightly-lighted island of happiness
and peace. And so in God's mercy, a
happy Christmas to you all.'.
"The tradition
