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  • 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
  • ) The Declaration of In­ dependence. Sometime the night of July 4, 1776, or the next morning. this first 1prin­ ting of the Declaration -came off the press to be dispatched throughout the colonies. Twenty-one copies of this printing have survived. (Right) Letter
  • , ignorant questions an answered prompt! with a smile, important cross referen ·es are f und, and books are checked out quickly in the evenings so lhal investigators can do background reading- at nights. One serious problem, however, doc exist. The opening
  • Shanker, President, American ttderation of Teachers: Association: • We really ought to concenrratc much more on what happens to a child in kindergarten. first. sec­ ond and thin! grades. If a hild .:mer~ rounh grade \till not know­ ing how to read. write
  • around the Dunlap Broadside print of the Declaration of Independence ...one of only 25 in existence of the 200 printed on the night of July 4, 1776. Television producer Norman Lear purchased this copy in 2000 with the goal of bringing the "People's
  • Great Hall on December 18. The invitation read: "'Mrs. Johnson is best known for her love of nature and her tenacity in preserving and protecting our natural resources. Her efforts led to tbe Highway Beautification Act or 1965. and she was a visible
  • of the Johnson tapes. As 1 began listening to them, and then reading about him, there were these amazing things that had been completely overlooked in my mind: his commitment to civil rights ... the liberal programs which are still so important in our society
  • , physically as sound as they were two hundred y ars ago. McCullough recalled the awe he felt when he first took one of the letters in his hands to read. When no other lawyer dared to defend the British soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre, Adams
  • of Texas culture, too, and always have been.'· Brian Lamb, president of C­ Span. provided a look into its opern­ rions. concerning the books he reviews and the authors he interviews for his program "Book Notes.'' "1 read all the books myself.. .. Some
  • historical, as well as artistic, acquisition." 3 Renovation of the Museum and 0th 1. Outside, cranes lift construction the roof of the building. 4. Three posters along lhe corridor which leads to the temporar!' exhibil lell the whole story. (Read from
  • to the environmental movement of the late 60s and beyond." Six women who have shared important parts of Lady Bird Johnson's life read excerpts from her writings that traced some of her vivid and memorable experiences. They were college friend Cecille Marshall; Nellie
  • administration. She read from her diary. Some excerpts are presented on the next page. Fromthe Diary Of An Ambassador'sLady One of those days that has, ( sup­ pose, changed ,the course of our lives,. I feel keenly tonight tile brevity of ltfe and the necessity
  • , "Dear Daughter, I am sending you 1he last dollar from the 4 ca~h register. We don't know when the banks will open." Times were hard and you could read it in the lrncs of letters and faces. In 1934 when Lyndon, who \\35 then secretary to a Con­ gressman
  • not supposed to read this mail, don't send it to me merely as a formality. If it is sent, don't tell me how to respond, if even by coincidence I read it. The boy will be brought here, and his papa and mama if he has such, so he won't be lonely in a strange land
  • to be lifted by fork lift to the Library's second floor where the exhibition is installed (right). The exhibit ends with a display of life-size airbrushed images of mod­ ern Tejanos by EI Paso artist Gaspar Enriquez. The concluding text reads: "These pilgrims
  • it and then shepherded it through from plan to execution. Dr. Livingston is editing the book based on the symposium which will be published in the fall. Following are his reflec­ tions on the conference. As I rl!fkct on the sympo~ium and as I read through th
  • are (abO\'e left) Researcher. work in the reading room, (abo,·e right) Archi\ • t fill numerou document request for researchers each Ja •. (right) The recoilecti ns of people who knew Lyndon Johnson ar taperec rded and transcribed for the Oral History
  • , child and maternal health. national parks, the environmental laws. But of course Vietnam was his denouement." Ms. Thomas credited Liz Carpenter with a story of LBJ scanning the first draft of an addre.s he had a signed to asp echwriter. As he: read, he
  • station will feature a video of Kirk Douglas and Helen Hayes, reading from letters which rs. Johnson and LBJ exchanged White House Telephone Tapes Project Continues The latest release of tape record­ ings of White House telephone con­ versations during
  • techniciamj at work Sights and sounds in the Audiovisual Archives by Philip Scott It is March 31, 1968. The President looks straight into the camera, reading hi::.addres to th American people. "We support a return to the essential provisions of the Geneva
  • ol Freedom, the highest award that can b given to an Am rican citizen uts1de the military services, post­ humously to Lyndon aines Johnson and Hubert H. Humphrey. The c1tat1on accompanying President Johnson's medal read: ' Lyndon B Johnson cared dee
  • was to read some of his poetry At fiN. Lowell accepted this invitation. but on May 30. 1965. he sent President Johnson a letter which he had also released to the Ne\\' l'!,rf..7imt•~- In his letter. Lowell saiu "When I was telephoned last wed.. and askcd 10
  • his teaching of men and worn n preparing for careers in public service. "1 learned firsthand about some subjects I had only read about," he said, referring specifically to the regulatory process in the Department of Labor. He said that, in addition
  • !liamBundy, Assistnnt Secre­ tary of State; 21. Ben Read, Executive Secretary of Department of State (22. 23, 24): Oral Historian Ted Gittinger, and Library Archivists Regina Greenwell and David Humphrey; (25, 26, 27): William Gibbons, George Herring
  • with the challenge, .. Let us contin­ ue.' On display in this section is a handwritten note from rs. Johnson delivered to the President at 2:00 a.m., as he and his staff labored to complete the address. The note reads, "In the name of tomorrow come eat-then sleep
  • . or Promdheus-bo11nd. rather than unbound ... And it isn't ;ust the Soviets, I tco11ld say. that have read the lessons of the last tm years. It i.1·the OPEC countries. Jlere are countries that are driving up the inflation into double digits, creating a recession
  • could do i go and see this exhibit on the 80's, and look at it, read it. It's not just things up on the wall. Read it. Everything is a document of that past life. And that past life is still with us, m attitudes and in fact, a Jot." Mrs. Johnson gives
  • ha, ing written two other spc ches without a break. It vas a bad draft-and I knew it was bad But it had lo be in his morning reading when he awoke, and I was com­ plet ly drained of ideas and roo tir d 10 uite another line. I was back at my desk arty
  • which we have witnessed for the last two years be pictured in that light? In which all the great nations of Europe were involved, wherein no bril­ liant battles such as we thrill lo read about were either lost or won, but few national figures decorated
  • Uohnsonj ... in his mind as to what he was going to do, or whether he had talked to six other people on the telephone in Lhe course of the next tv;o r three days, or had consulted Mrs. Johnson, or talked six more times to the Secretary of Defense, or read
  • the event. A plaque on the wall inside the the ter reads: Arthur B. and Mathilde K.riin, for whom this theater is named, were both alued and intimate advisers to President Johnson dur­ ing his administration. Arthur Kritn, an attorney and busineS! executive
  • a letter of reprimand. 'Dear Captain Blumenson,' the letter read, 'a VD rate of 50% in your command is unsatisfactory.'" (Left) A. Stuart Daley prepared a report-which later disappeared­ of one of the most bizarre episodes of the war: the riot of communist
  • , and she read intelligence for the O.S.S. in Washington-they returned to Europe and married in Oxford. Writing a memorandum for the State Department outlining a proposed structure for post-war Europe led to Walt's working in the late 1940s for Gunnar Myrdal
  • 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
  • all of the l!xhibits in the museum workshop beneath thr Library. Left, scho(i)I children huddle to read the exhibit of po'litical cartoons. The Record of Temporar11a11dTouri11gExhibitio11s The sales desk, which originally offered only postcards, has
  • ; in France it is over 1 It's called Death and the Maiden, by the Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman. Aside from its artistic me1;ts, just consider what has grown from that single, subsidized, cheap, rehearsed reading, in terms uf employment, and skill, and money
  • work force. if we have people who can read and write and compute and analyze. If we can take care of that human infra­ ~tructure. economic development will take care of itself." Texas has a good track record in education, it was pointed out . ..One
  • . They need treatment for common childhood ail­ ments such as strep throat and ear infections. Children who go to school sick cannot learn. Children who have trouble seeing cannot read. Children who have undiagnosed and untreated disabilities cannot flourish