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- to the
Library on his return from
the Philippin s, where he
observed the election there
as a member of the L.S.
team.
It 1sa sad thing in many ways to refl ton Ferdinand Marcos·
career. He i;eemed when he was elected in 1965 and when
Hubert Humphrey and Jack
- to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the birth of
Lyndon Baines Johnson. Beginning Thursday, August 25,
in Washington, D.C., through Friday, August 26, in San
Marcos, and ending Saturday, August 27, at the LBJ Ranch
in Stonewall, they came from all parts
- said, there will still remain the memories of tho e of us
who knew him and respected him an liked him, ven loved him;
who took pleasure in his presence and mourned his passing and
miss him now. We knew his excesses and faults. He could be
querulous
- and Folk Sing r Bobby Bridger (See Cover.)
Mrs. Johnson, noting that "tonight
e set our pen to a
new cha ter" in the Library's history, quoted a line from
President Johnson's inaugural address ("lt is the excitement
of becoming-always becoming, trying
- decencies,
and they outnumber the slicked-down
crowd"-and
here he would wrinkle his
m ~e as ii. squinting through pince-nez
"Lc.:11million to ont:."
Bill Moyers, at the Johnson family cemetery: "... he touched me more deeply than any
man, taught me more
- of
planning.
The president's alma mater, Southwest Texas
State
niversity in San Marcos, which had
formally requested the Johnson papers in l 962
when he was vice president, was also seriously
considered as a site. And both campuses com
peted
- Cliris1ia11. Frc111ce.1
Lc:winc. Jim ./011,•s:
Follm1·i11g are
I/ugh Sieler: Li:: Carpl'nl!'r.
l'.\'Cl!f'JJIS/iv111!hat mllicki11g exl!l'cisc in noswl•
gia. (Ti!li's are.fi'mn 1!,e si.r1ies.1
id Davis (White House cunespo11clen1.
Westinghouse
Brooclrnstin
- , his times
and his presidency at
the LBJ Ranch, at the
LBJ Library, in San
Marcos and in Washing
ton, D.C.
In its early years the Library began
serving birthday cake to its visitors
on August 27. One year it decided
to drop the practice-but quickly
- , had reshaped the Republican Party. Grateful for his defense
by others when cruelly castigated, Grant defended private secre
tary Orville E. Babcock and Secretary of War William W.
Belknap during th ir expo.ure as wrongdoers who had disgraced
the Grant
- on public policy and history'!" John Shattuck; H. W. Brands; Frank Gavin;
Bruce Buchanan; panel chair Betty Sue Flowers.
Th LBJ tapes are an even beller
e, ample, Beschloss b lieves. When
LBJ DirecLor Harry Middleton decid
ed to open Lh mas qui kly
- of Texas.
Mr . Carter told an audience of 1,000 in the LBJ
auditonum that "if we can educate the nation about th
myths surrounding menlal health, and reduce the fear of
mental illness and t e stigma attached to it," the goal of pro
viding adequate
- of the per
formance of the duet "Home to
the Mountain,_•·in the last acL.
The LBJ Library Oral History Project
In May 1967 White Hou~e aide
Doug Cater called Professor Joe B.
Frantz of the hisLOry department at
The University
of Texas. The
President is very
- ("for years and
years my thought processor"); the
Shah of Iran; Gamal Abdel Nasser;
Walter Lippmann; Adlai Stevenson
("I saw [him] as two very different
men");
Evita Peron ([I was]
"exposed to her horrors in Buenos
Aires"); Imelda Marcos; Eleanor
Roosevelt
