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Two historical figures came to life
on the stage of the LBJ Auditorium.
The first was. Abigail Adams, in ,the
person of Rebecca Bloomfield, who
has created a one-woman show on
the celebrated-and
outspoken
wife of America's second President
- and memorabilia
of servicemen who the day before
their deaths had been part of peace
time America are among the most
poignant items in the display.
Visitors study a mock-up of desert
tank action.
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Lifesize figures add interest to the
exhibit
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pany the document
on its travels. but on
October 28, 2003, he
made an exception
for the LBJ Library.
He has under
taken this project,
Lear says. as part of
his three-stage love
affair with America.
That affair began
when he was very
young. His grand
- preoccupied by the
crisis in Cyprus than events in Asia,
LBJ was acutely concerned about
launching any warlike action against
Hanoi unless he was assured "beyond
doubt" by his senior military and
civilian advisers that our destroyers
were indeed attacked
- which the exhibit labels ''The War
That Broke America's Wilt" They are poised
for action against a photographic backdrop of
a battlefield. The accompanying soundtrack
carries LBJ's voice expressing his own
anguish in committing them to war.
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- in these early
months cover events such as the pas
sage of a bill to cut taxes and congres
sional action on the civil rights bill
and the poverty bill. Listeners will
hear LBJ exhorting his staff and his
Cabinet to appoint African Americans
and women
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not qualify for either [program], has become the great albatross
of this new right in America." "It wasn't possible to put cost
controls in in 1965," Wilbur Cohen maintained. "It would never
have passed the Congress." In fact, Califano pointed out, Presi
dent
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at the Johnson Library and
Museum. The artist, Alban
B. "Bud" Butler, Jr., used
his travels around the
United
States,
Latin
America, Europe, and his
service in World War I as
fodder for his whimsical
and entertaining illustra
tions. A Romp Through
Peace and War
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operators wou'kljust move [out of the
city]. That meant they had to have the
Governor's Mansion, and also for the
first time they started looking seri
ously at the presidency.
The Democratic Party before the
Triangle Shirtwaist fire had been a
weird
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"Korea: America's First Limited
War," can be obtained from
the Library's museum store for
$8.95.
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deal f time thinking about the long
term consequences of his decisions.
hree, the President must look far
into the future at the consequences of
his actions, or there would not be
effective national planning. Only the
Presidential
- about the actions of our
adversaries in Hanoi, and our allies
in Saigon?
UT Professor Emeritus Ro rt
Divine put the Vietnam War into
context in his keynote address,
"Perpetual War for Perpetual Peac ."
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