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- and administration and LBJ
Library staff, . imp!_ ,aw th role of the U. in the world as a
natural sour e of interest at the beginning of a new decade: the
urgency which Iran and A!ghanbtan brought to that inten~t
could not then be foreseen.
The ~ymposium's discussion
- Ce111etery, LBJ Runch.
Judith and I were deeply honored to
be asked by Lady Bird to be here today.
lo take part in and preside over these ac
tivities.
I wrote this in an essay Lhat appeared
in the New York Times on the day after
President Johnson was buried
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_Among
Friends
ofLBJ
ISSUE NUMBER XXI,JANUARY15, 1981
A NEWSLETTEROF
TH£ FRIENDS OF THE LBJ LIBRARY
Mrs. Johnson greets new Board member George Christian.
Foundation
Board Meets in Special Session
Members of The Lyndon Baines John
son
- Issue Number LXVIII May 1, 1998
Images of LBJ
(see pages 2-3)
A new and \ er~ popular
exhibit in the Library is an auto
mated talking and moving l"igureof
President Johnson telling humor
ous stories. The animatronic image
was built by the Sally
- opinion so much.' Later his
mother succumbed to typhoid- ·he
too was only 46-on the same day
that his wife died of complications r
her first childbi1th.
Luckinbill/TR recalled staiting in
politics in the New ~ rk A sernbl
when he was fre·h from Harvard. s
- on Erwin\ nght
are Henry row/er and Lew Wasserman.
Library Names
New Chief
Archivist
Christina Lawson
John Wickman, D,recwr of the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas,
spoke at th Library tn May lO a
University of Texas group, joined together
- . President,
Patriarch: George Washington and
the New American Nation. He
describedWashingtonas a "politi
cal genius" who "was able to per
suade almost everyone, including
himself, that he was no politicianat
all."
oven door and pulled out two pecan
pies
- Among
Photo by Charles Bogel
Wearing historically correct uniforms, these bluejackets
from the USS Constitution heave a gun into battery.
Story on page 3
Future Forum Rings In New Year . ..
The invitation read:
Future Forum.
l.ocation:
Matt's
- leaders. film stars,
educators, entertainers, friends and neighbors from the
Texas hill country - and representatives
of t.hc highcsl
echelons of the American political scene from the New
Deal to the ixon Administration.
At President Johnson's request
- ,°
In his r tirement LBJ had
me to lunch on cla . The Dallas
Morning New had published a story
saying LBJ wanted to be chancellor f
The niver:;ity of Texas. H glared at
me and asked. '·Why in the hell would
I want be the chancellor nf The
University of Texas
- Dir1'clnr of tht• LRJ Library. Corkran, who joint·d th1• Library
staff in 196H, is a naliw of El Paso, Tt•xas. 111·is a past dirl'1·tor of
thl' Tt•xas State Arrhiws. Corkran assumt'd his new position on
April 12.
A very special occasion for the Library
- , in the New York Times, notes that Caro weighs the
evidence to get the picture he wants and confuses the function of a
biographer wilh that of a Judge "-and in this case, a hanging
judge." For those seeking to understand Johnson, Donald says,
"Mr. Caro's book
- and books. Ms. Robb high
lighted LBJ's passion for helping
people, and concluded with the
hope that her new program,
uture
Forum (see article on page 13),
would continue
to serve LBJ's
memory and dedication to public
service. She said,
When I see a!I of you
- movies are in the Johnson Library.
This wealth of unique material is
drawn upon by people from a variety of
backgrounds, from scholars researching
biographies to producers of news
documentaries, from photo editors to
members of the public who simply want
- A New Portrait of LBJ
LIBRARYVOLUNTEERSBEGIN SIXTH SEASON
The LBJ Library program hegan in 1980 \\ ith 16 dcxcn1s
(those who prm 1de guided tours) and ha!-.stcadtl) grown to 105
volunteers-both men ,rnd \ ·omen-working in four different
areas
- a
factor in a successful membership drive in Austin which
recently brought in almost 600 new members of the
"Friends of the LBJ Library." The total number of
members of that organization now stands at 2,575.
THE LIBRARY WITH
ROBERT FLYNN, author
- Library, and Dr.
William S. Livingston, UT Austin
Vice-President and Dean of Graduate
Studies.
Middleton says he is confident the
proposed encyclopedia "will repre
sent the best congressional scholar
ship of the last 30 years." Livingston
New members
-
Hyman, Professor of History at Rice
University; Dr. Morton Keller, Pro
fessor of History at Brandeis Univer
sity; Donald Bacon, formerly senior
legislative editor of U.S. News and
World Report and co-author of Ray
burn: A Biography; Dr. Raymond
Smock
- Douglass, which played
to a full auditorium at the Library.
2
OtherProgramsAt The Library.• •
. . . included Verne Newton, new
Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library in Hyde Park, New York
(below right), who discussed "The
Cambridge Spies," whose
- . 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 • ,;
- .
Former U.S. Ambassador Edward A. Clark and Congressman J. J. Pickle, Co
Chairmen, originally set their goal at $1 million. However, public interest spurred
them to double that effort. Announcing the realization of the new goal, Am
bassador Clark said
- majored in
journalism and became sports editor
of the student newspaper. the Daily
Texan. After a stint as capitol corre
spondent for International News
Service, he became press secretary to
Texas Governors Price Daniel and
John Connally. ln 1966 he
-
THEECONOMY:
As The Cartoonist
Saw It Then
Inflatiun and rrcession command a stronghold
on today·.- nl'WS spotlight. A. they struggle with
the eronomy. President ford and the new Con
gress are faking more
an a few ja s rom
e
powerful pens of editorial
-
included vivid references to nature in
love letters to Lyndon Johnson.Several
of these lel'ters were released recent
ly in connection wirh rhe new "First
Lady's Gallery .. exhibit. One of them
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor.
6
includes this passage
- ~~AmongFriends
ofLBJ
1ssue
NUMBER
xi, JANUARY
24 1978
NEW§LEIJEREUIEUP§
PETHE
PETHE
LBJ8RAQY
b1
;
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....
A National Tribute
to Lady Bird Johnson
(See pages 2-41
A National Tribute
to Lady Bird Johnson
It was a tribut
- , and therefore
his inactivity has deprived him of the
boost in his reputation that might
have come had he made more of an
effort to show [historians l the better
side of that period ... This may
change, however, because a new life
of Gerald Ford has just been
- .
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
- ,
playgrounds,
and open space.
Some 7,000,000 acres of new park
land and 38,000 recreation projects
in every county in the country were
made possible by the fund.
The Land and Water Con
servation Fund was created on the
recommendation of a Commission
made up
- in 1968, and Joe
Namath, the quarterback
of the unlikely New York
Jets in their Super Bowl
victory over the Baltimore
Colts.
7
Remains Not Viewable: An Evening With John Sacret Young
By Robert Hicks, Communications Officer
Award-winning
writer, director
- economist Robert
Reischauer, reminded his colleagues
that "we are not the only group
meeting and coming up with lists of
new initiatives ... People are meet
ing all over the country, doing the
same kind of thing ... the environ
mentalists, the energy folks
- halfway." Caro's first
book, The Power Broker, appeared in
1974. It was the story of Robert Mo
ses, the man who virtually created New
York City as it appears today. Caro
necessary to tell the story of New York
City. The resultant book won both
- to the commission, but Johnson was appar
ently thinking of a new role for the commission along the
lines advocated by Goldman, Busby, Barrett, Marsh, and
Califano. On September 17, 1965, W. Marvin Watson
relayed a Presidential message to Goldman requesting
- at the Lyndon Eames Johnson
Library m Austin.
-The Dallas Morning News
November 5, 1978
World War I veteran salutes a11 members
of service organizationr;i lay memorial
wreathR
C remon,>hegin~ at
2
The opening was a community affair.
The Austin-Travis County V
- news
photographer for the Houston Press. ov ring the years 19591965, ox's photograph, document national political cam
paigns. th earl days f the space program, and social and
ultural de lopmen
s seen from
Houston perspective.
1ong the political
- .... "
3
Reflections
ofLBJ(continued)
The Observations of a Young Idealist
Reston
The last few months brought re
flections on Lyndon Johnson from
several different sources. James
Reston, Jr., a writer like his New
York Times-man-father, is currently
- at the news, saying that
there were only two jobs in the White
House that were worth taking, that of
ational Security Adviser. already filled
by McGcorgc Bundy, and the other as a
senior domestic adviser, a position that
did not even exist. But LBJ insisted
- Calcutta. And the re ·ult
fwas) Vietnam ... Lyndon Johnson inherited it and was su,pi
cmus of it. but he couldn't pcrsuaJc hims If that he 1-..new
more
about the suhje t than the people whos good fortune it was to
know more about such things than the likes
- Among
Issue
umber LXXU, January, 2000
New Exhibit Features Work
of Cartoon Genius
Bud Butler
Story on Page Two
A Romp Through Peace and War:
Illustrations and cari
catures of everyday life in
the early 20th century
make up the newest exhibit
- charge of introducing new
gods and corrupting the youth of
Athens. He didn't do ither ... but he
did bring on the wrath of powerful peo
ple in Athens, because he questioned
them; he made them look silly, he
humiliated them. . . . And then in that
great
- , Rice University
ChandlerDavidson
Political Science, University of New
Orleans
Raul A. Gonzalez, Justice of the
Supreme Court of Texas
Judith Haydel, Associate Professor
of Government, McNeese State
Universily
ReneaHicks, Special Assistant Attarney
