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- of Texas committee
composed of Lev. is Gould, Chairman of th, Department
of History· Barbara Jordan, LBJ School of ublic Affairs
a d Terry Sullivan.
JohnsonAdministration
Appointeesof
"High Caliber"ReportFinds
1\.vo University of Texas scholc1rs
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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
- . Congress.
Prof. Barbara Jordan of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Dr.
Lewis L. Gould of the Department of History and Dr. Terry G.
Sullivan of the Government Department make up the committee
that will select the best book on the Congress in the 20th Cen
- .
Monday was the big day. The
schedule read "JO: 16 Rolls Royce
No. I, carrying Mr. Hall and Mr.
Prettyman, will call at the American
Embassy for Ambassador Crook and
Mrs. Crook. At 10:21 Rolls Royce
No. 1 will depart for Government
House, foUowed by No. 2
- presenta
tion both to members of the LBJ
Library and to a packed audito
rium of school children.
5
AdministrativeOfficialsReview
Veterans of the Johnson Administra
tion who had been in or near the deci
sion making process on the Vietnam
War gathered
- 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
- as a secretary for the Chicago
Academy for O11hopedic Surgeons and for the Veterans
Administration, has b en a teaching assistant, and has
worked as a legal secretary for the .S. Attorney's office in
Pho nix, Arizona. She enjoys crossword puzzles, fishing
- for Space Explo
ration, and that was the foctt of
his address.
Before taking the helm at
NASA, Griffin served as a NASA
Chief Engineer and as Associate
Administrator
for Exploration.
Before that, Griffin served as
Spac Department Head at Johns
Hopkins
- The Sights and Sounds of an America that was ...
see pag 4
Cohen Joins LBJ School
Cohen
Wilbur J. Cohen, who was Secretary
of the U S Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare in 1968, has been
appointed first occupant of the Sid Richard
- -sponsorship of
the LBJ School of Public Affairs and
the Austin American-Statesman, held
a symposium in which scholars and
veterans of the war looked anew at
some of the highlights of that
conflict, and explored its effect on
American institutions.
Some
- 10 and
11. The Conference on Women in Public Life will be jointly
hosted by the Library and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of
Public Affairs. Liz Carpenter will coordinate the event.
The program will feature a variety of women prominent in
national
- determine the grants to be
awarded, appointed by U.T. Presi
dent William Cunningham at the
Library's request, are Dick Schott,
LBJ School of Public Affairs, Lewis
Gould, History Department,
and
Bruce Buchanan,
Government
Department (2nd, 3rd and 5th from
- appointee in a new Richardson Fellows Pro
gram for Distinguished Public Officials in the Lyndon B.
Johnson School of Public Affairs.
Supported by grant from the Sid Richardson Founda
tion to the LBJ Foundation, the new program will bring
di tingu1shed past
- spotlight on the crisis that
was festering in American cities. In
October, a symposium at the Library,
composed of scholars, educators,
public officials and others working
in urban affairs, looked at the urban
coJ1dition today, two decades later.
Out
- . Christian never compro-
2
mised his own integrity, he kept the
respect of all.
When President Johnson left
office, Mr. Chri. tian bt:gan a career
in Austin as a political and public
affairs consultant. Although a regis
tered Democrat, he did not hesitate
- :, unpopular in the South,
and Mrs. Johnson wanted to cam
paign there. She explained her rea
sons in a speech to the crowd as she
departed Alexandria, Virginia: "I
want to tell you from Alexandria Lo
New Orleans that lo Lhis Preside111
and his wife the South
-
Yance, who had gone to the Department
of Defen e, asking for a job. He got one,
helping to reorganize the Pentagon, and
then was named General
oun. cl to the
Secretary of the Army.
During the March on Washington
August of 1962. Califano said, the
Kennedy
- ."
Edwin Dorn, Dean, LBJ
School of Public Affairs, The
University of Texas at Austin.
"It is due in large part to the
changes
brought
about
by
President Johnson's vision that
these artists have enjoyed the abil
ity to fully recognize their poten
tial
- ol Tc,as at Austin. He wa~
particularly interested in the Six-D,1y-War Middle East
exhibit and the Vietnam exhibit located in the Foreign
Affairs area on thL fir~t tloor of the Library.
5
A Centennial Exhibition:
Treasuresof the University's
First
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cratic politics when Adlai Stevenson was
a candidate for president. He came to
Washington in 1965 to work at the State
Department and then as Special Assistant
to LBJ.
Markman began this evening's pro
gram by explaining how hr\'in Wat. on
came to write
- Relations meets annually.
This year, the society gathered on The
University or Texas campus. The event
was jointly hosted by the LBJ Library,
UT's College of Liberal Arts anu History
Department, and the LBJ School of Pub1ic Affairs. Approximately three hun
-
Robert Strauss, veteran servant of
both the public and his political
party, will hold the Lloyd M. Bent
sen, Jr. Chair in Government/Busi
ness Relations at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs this semester.
Along with three other promi
nent leaders, he
- . Executive Director of
the Theodore Roo evelt Association in Oyster Bay, New York,
and Dr Lewis Gould of the Department of History, University
of exas at Austin
Kathleen Dalton: "Theodore
Roosevelt enjoyed being the
center of attention so much
that members
- ouncil, Department of State.
ln early 1966 Pr ·idcnt Johnson cal led
him back to the White House as his spe
cial ssistant for ational S curity
ffairs. In February 19 )9 Mr. Rosio
returned to teaching, at The niversity
of Texa at Austin, as Professor
- Evokes Memories of President
Along with the Library, the LBJ
School of Public Affairs also ob
served its twentieth anniversaryin
May. At the School's commence
mentexercise,the man who gave his
name and inspirationto the institu
tion was remembered
- and ready wit.
Ruefully admitting her veteran
status. Roberts noted how the pas
sage of time affects her perspective.
"Each successive election gets
me more upset.... All these beautiful
boys, who do their hair with blow dry
ers. and they call me 'Ma'am
- . A year later she
moved with him to the Department of State, and in April,
1966, returned to the White House when Rostow became
Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs.
She returned to Texas in January, 1969, with the transi
- rvice in 1961, Jorden was a
member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council
and then Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of State for
Political Affairs. He also was Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for Public Affairs. He was a member
- , 0eft) who
spent time as a lecturer at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs. He was escorted through the
museum by volunteer Susan Dimmick.
2
Early Decisions on Vietnam Discussed
A scholarly conference to explore the
early decisions made by the Kennedy
-
presidency and the audio tapes The
Humor of LB.I. Also remaining is the
wealth-filled display of sculpture,
swords and other gifrs given lo the
president by foreign leaders.
,Wall Honors Vietnam Veterans
The one uncompleted section of the
Library's
- also
want to see the necessary investment
for future growth, future tax rev
enues out of which future l..lxes will
be paid.''
.James K. Galbraith, professor in
the LB.J School of Public Affairs,
introduced his illustrious father.
During the question
- LBJSCHOOL
Dr. Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor during the four
years of the Carter administration, 1s teaching a course
on labor and conomic policy at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs.
Dr. Marshall view, his Cabinet years a~ an experience
that will enrich
- the White
House and to M. C. barbecueson
the banksof the Pedernates.
In April, the Libraryrealized a
long-standinghope by offering "An
Evening with Cactus Pryor" to a
crowdedauditorium.
The veteran performersang, did
a vivid impersonationof the fabled
J
- takes LBJ School deanship
Dean Elspeth Rostow
Mrs. Elspeth Rostow is the new Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public
Affairs. She was appointed by University of Texas President Lorene Rogers to suc
ceed Dr. Alan Campbell, who had been chosen
- be all education and civil rights,' he said. That
divergence begins now."
With the conclusion of Middleton's remarks, the sym
posium participants plunged themselves into the debate of
this critical question of the 1970's - departing from the
issues
- political alll s and foes of Robert Strauss
gathered rn Washington in December to salute him-and in
the process to create an endowment in his name to provide
fellowships for students in the Lyndon B. Johnson School
of Public Affairs. Leaders from both
- . The selection committee,
appointed by the University President
at the Foundation's request, is com
posed of Bmce Buchanan, Government
Department; Robert Divine, recently
retired from the History Department;
and Richard Schott, LBJ School of
Publie Affairs
- A.'isistant
Secretary for Public Affairs in the new Department of Education
Her return did not go unheralded. Editorialized the Washington
Star: "Hold everything, you people who go around bad-mouthing
the Education Department. The new Federal agency can't
- , and at the Library a
symposium traced the development
and results of the Johnson Adminis
tration programs.
The festivities ended with a nostal
gic "round-up" at the LBJ Ranch for
those veterans of the administration
who made the trip to Texas.
A report on all
- Zoumaras, ·•c. Douglas
Dillon: The Philanthropic Cold War
rior."
Committee members who deter
mine grants-in-aid, appointed by
U. T. President William Cun
ningham at the Library's request,
Public Affairs, Lewis Gould, His
tory Department,
and Bruce
