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- To Scholars
Seventee scholars have been selected to receive
more tha $12,000 m grants-in-aid of research [rom
the LB.I Foundation and the Friends of the LBJ
Library
he annual grant program was established
with a· islance from the Moody Foundation for the
pur o
- . Kennedy ... had his eyes
on the stars. . . . He created the Peace
Corps. He signed the first nuclear test
ban treaty. Once we asked Kennedy,
on Air Force One, what would happen
if the aircraft era. bed? He aid, •I
know one thing. Your name will be
just
- legislation alone during thr
presidential period proved slaggenng. Besides the
personal papers, relevanl data had to he extracted
from Aides Filt>s, the Bureau of th Budget, the
United Stales
ffice of Education, the various
Task Forces, dmmistrative rnd Oral
- resources by provid
ing support for travel and living
expenses.
Those receiving grants-in-aid and
the titlesof their proposed projects are:
John Adams, "Alvin Wirtz: Central
Texas Power Broker"; Odin W.
Anderson, "Wilbur J. Cohen as a Pro
fessionalSocial
- . Engelhard.
AddresRing lhc gueRt6 aller portrait unwiling, Mr... JohnMon aid: "Th., setting is mine. the
country i~ mine and I feel at home there." Flunking the portrait are \. rnn Shikler, arli~t. and
~rN. harleH Engelhard, donor.
The C\ening haluled
- aid to
needy young people between th ages
of 16 and 24.
Lyndon Johnson was the first
state administrator of the NY A
program in Texas and served in that
capacity from July 1935 until he
resigned in the spring of 1937 to run
for Congress upon the death
- for the movement to
ward highway beauty and billboard
control. He attributes the passage of
the Highway Beautification Act of
I 965 to Mrs. Johnson's direct in
volvement, stating that she played
"a new role as First Lady by serving
as a legislative aide
-
University Press.
The prize is awarded every second
year for the best book on the Con
gress published during that period.
It is named for the late aide to
Speaker Sam Rayburn. Mr. Harde
man left his extensive coflection of
books on the Congress
- Lh, ma.-,terpie e
of his alreac..l) di Lrnnui hed
rie., of
'vVOrkson th Jae~ onian r.i or . S.
History. ··1 w uld t II prl.' l'nl members
of the Congres .. ·Read \\ch ter_... said
Rernini. " s he ,aid t th Congress.
'Generations tn t.: me v 111 h 1I
- , 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
- the symposium,
Opera Star Beverly Sills calle for $1 billion a year
in federal fund, o the arts. h m ·ntain d th t
tht> puhlir would endor'le that support, citing a
recent Harris poll survey which indicated, she aid.
that "64 per cent - r 93 million Americans
- , a junior at Southwest
Texas State University.
Horace Busby, long-time aide to
and associate of Lyndon Johnson
and now a consultant in Wash
ington, D.C., reminisced about
the man he knew at a breakfast
meeting of Washington alumni of
the LBJ School
- the Library's
resources.
Those receiving grants-in-aid and
the titles of their proposed subjects
are: Randall Beeman, "Permanence
and Sustainability: Agriculture in
the Age of Ecology";
Robert
Brigham,
"The NLF's Foreign
Relations and the Vietnam War";
Andrew
- and living expenses for
researchers
using the Library's
resources. The selection committee is
composed
of Bruce Buchanan,
Government
Department:
Robert
Divine, History Department:
and
Richard Schott, LBJ School.
Those receiving grants-in-aid
and the titles
- -1992 period, is the seventh winner of the Library's D.B. Hardeman Prize.
Funded by the LBJ Foundation, and named for the late aide to Speaker Sam
Rayburn, the $2,000 prize is awarded biannually to encourage scholarly
research on the Congress
- a grant
from the Moody Foundation to help
defray travel and living expenses for
researchers using the Library's
resources.
Those receiving grants-in-aid
and the titles of their proposed pro
jects are: David G. Annstrong, "The
Stages of Growth of Walt
- for Justice:
The Passion and Politics of Phillip
Burton.
The $1,000 award was created
from a bequest left to the Library in
1981 by D. B. Hardeman, long-time
aide to Speaker of the House Sam
Rayburn and, later, House Majority
Whip Hale Boggs. Hardeman wanted
- Library Grants
Fourteen recipients were award
ed grants-in-aid of research for the
second half of the year. The funds
result from a bequest from the
Moody Foundation to provide travel
and living expenses to students,
teachers, and writers, enabling them
- or the
President's request. She was adamant:
one of the pieces was an heirloom and
she was not about 10 give it up.
Markman offered to have a per
fect replica made to replace it. No
dice, said Mrs. Robinson.
The harried aide relayed the
refusal to the President
- " '.'lnht111nlProduct for th,: public
~lum "'For nw," she :-aid, "it I a lhrillln)t
... tlut \\1• 1m m.1kmg 110 .:.urrons I fTort pn>,JWC1to comid,:,r thnt ,•vcn one spJrk
s~Ltor l>-O\Oncl
"lint we llfN hn,1
"
111deal \\ith the 11!,to,ltdus nf ,ul111rl,.,11 -,md mn)hc
-
Director
Bradley
Gerratt Lady Bird John on vis
ited U1at institution in August,
and wa greeted by members of
the taff, public, and press.
Asked for her reflections, she
aid to tho e assembled: "They
came from their two different
perspective. -Kennedy
from
- hang-out for the Secret
ervice agents , ho would get sam
ple • of her realions.
Williams and York. aid their tam
ily was treated as part or the Johnson
family. The family was included in
holiday celebrations, surprised with
gifts-even swimming
- of Texas. "Cactus Jack" would
have led the country during the Great
Depression and the prelude to World
Warn, 'the gravest crisis since the Civil
War."
And, . aid Ward, there was precious
little to suggest that Gamer was up to
that challenge, or interested
- remember . eeing LBJ in a crowd or
hakin his hand. Som recalled seeing him at the LBJ
Library. Still others insist on seeing certain slides that a
guide may ha e lefl out.
"One woman pointed out, 'You forgot the wedding
dresses,'" Sand~ . aid. And another
- !)
Correspondent Mark Klohn
Sincerely,
Mark J. Klohn
6
Former Bush Aide Hughes Reflectson Her Days in Washington
On October 15 the Student
Endowed Centennial Lectureship, a
University of Texas at Austin srudent
service organization, joined the LBJ
Library
- by Barbara Constable
Shirley James describes events held in the hangar.
Photo by Charles Bogel
5
After a breezy and cool sack lunch and delectable lemon bars provided by Mrs. Johnson
on the front lawn, Adam Alsobrook, Archives Aide, took a photo in front
- to the Foundation. amounted to S83.000.
Mrs. Roberts· is the second bequest to come to the Library under the terms
ot a will in recent year~. The first was from D. B. Hardeman. who died in
1982. having served as aide to both Speaker Sam Rayburn and Congressman
Hale
- for abandoning or corrupting the original Con:titu
tion. He called for a "restoration."
Nearly evervbody from then on used eynolds as a point of
depurt re. a stalking horse. ur a hobby hmsc. Some
- for the
late aide to Sam Rayburn and Hale
Boggs, is funded from a bequest
made to the Library by Mr. Harde
man, who himself was recognized as
an authority on the Congress. The
award is given for the best book on
the U.S. Congress published within
a two-year
- Baines
Johnson Foundation by virtue of a
grant from ,the Moody Foundation to
help students, teachers, and writers
use the Library's resources by pro
viding support for travel and hiving
expenses.
Those receiving grants-in-aid and
the titles
- . E, c:r>girl there must
have kissed me!
h. la la' What a
vari ty of lip tick:·
"That co
ral gc l u nght ab ut
New )brk Ci on that d.t>:·
General
Powell aid. ··r knov. h • ,;
- , will
participate. D. B. I lardeman was a
long-time aide to Speaker Sam
Rayburn and a serious historian of
Congress. He donated his extensive
14
collection of rare books on Congress
to the LBJ Library and the funds to
award a prize each year for the best
book
- . Arms Control and Disam1ament
Agency. Other c llections of interest
ar the Recordings of Johnson's
Telephone Con ersations,
Office
File· of White House Aides. papers of
th President'· Advisory Committee
on Supersonic Transporl, the larg
collection
-
of the scholars. working in l'he Library are
recipients o.f research grants-in-aid from
the Friends of the LHJ Library. More than
887,000 has been awarded to provide travel
and li\•,ing assistance to scholars who could
not otherwise aUord to visit the Library_
- event of the period, h maintained, and Johnson
and Rayburn regrouped the Democratic Party after it
had been fra •mented b • the issue.
"Great politicians bring order out of chaos," agr ed
Huitt, a former aide to Majority Leader Johnso .
Johnson convinced
- puzzle.
Scraps of information from an appointment book, guarded
phrases in brief memos to aides, and records of telephone calls
became precious clues in the search for information. The oral
histori~ of cabinet members on file in the LBJ Librar were
- of interest is late 19th century America, spa e at
the Library on the art, architecture and literature of the
U.S. a century ago. At the conclusion of his address,
Dr. Morgan aid: "I would say that the very best thing
the person interested in American culture
- that
a white man could do justice to a rev
olutionary black man like Turner;
they deeply resented Styron 's effort,
and aid so with great emphasis.
But Nat Turner also had its
defenders in the black community,
among them author James Baldwin;
the historian
- mysteri
ously turned up in the White House.
According to Blumenthal, a senior
aide to independent counsel Kenneth
Starr confessed to him that there was
nothing of substance to any of these
matters. But Blumenthal believes that
Clinton's guilt
