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May
5/1
LBJ is in San Marcos to discuss the program for the future of San Marcos Army
Air Field. Last week
- for civilian war housing project for the San Marcos
Navigation School is selected.
2/11
President Roosevelt nominates Thurman Arnold as an associate justice of the
Circuit Court for the District of Columbia.
2/16
Ida Nell Connally has a baby daughter.
1
- speech in San Marcos.
5/10
Rebekah Johnson marries O.P. Bobbitt in Monterrey, Mexico.
5/19
W. Lee O’Daniel announces his candidacy for Senate seat
Rebekah Baines Johnson (LBJ’s mother) has operation at Scott-White hospital in
Temple.
5/23
LBJ makes
- /4
LBJ makes speeches in San Marcos and Lockhart.
1/6
LBJ meets with Austin city councilmen on planning for postwar employment of
returning servicemen. “I don’t want to see another leaf-raking program [after?]
the war.”
1/10
LBJ just returned
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8/13
News Report: During LBJ’s absence, CTJ opens his Austin congressional office.
8/19
LBJ just returned from Alaska.
News Report: LBJ makes major speech at commencement in San Marcos
commemorating Dr. Evans’ retirement, broadcast over the state
- and San Marcos, and addresses a dinner
meeting of the business men’s club.
10/9
LBJ addresses a dinner meeting of the Texas Association of Broadcasters in
Mineral Wells.
10/10
LBJ drives from Mineral Wells to Dallas, where he rides in the State Fair
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Defense Secretary McElroy informs LBJ of the decision to close Camp Gary in San
Marcos. LBJ writes McElroy questioning the economy of moving Camp Gary’s
activities to Fort Rucker, Alabama and informs McElroy he is requesting a GAO
audit of the army’s
- Austin airport at noon, makes commencement address at San Marcos,
returns to Washington.
1961 Chronology ● p. 7 of 23
07/2024
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REFERENCE: LBJ CHRONOLOGY
Drafted by LBJ Library archival staff from oral history transcripts
and other
- , then takes MMW to airport,
with Marie Fehmer. 12:45 p.m., goes to Marble Falls by car with J.C. Kellam and MF
to dedicate monument. CTJ is present. They go to Haywood Camp and later return
to LBJ Ranch.
5/27
1 p.m., goes to San Marcos with Kellams, CTJ