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  • Foundation Boar of Directors met November 15 in special session lo elect new officers following the death of the Board's longtime Chairman Frank C. Erwin, Jr. (see story on p. 9) Newly elected officers are W. Thomas Johnson, President, George Christian
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  • soil gave him a sense of compassion that remained with him. "Lyndon Johnson never served m the Texas Legisla• ture but his father, Sam Ealy John on Jr. did. And it was through his father's service there that Lyndon Johnson learned his first lessons
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  • of Texas Press, presents the first copy of "Lyndon B. Johnson: A Bibliography" to Mrs. John- son. With them are Bennie and Joe M. Green, Jr., President of the RockwellFund, Inc., which funded the project. • JohnsonBibliographyIS Published After years
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  • ITiffi TH LYN N 841 LIBRAR'I' ND M\! . The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museu111 A Progress Report Produced by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation What Is a PresidentialLibrary? Most of the half million people who come here each year
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  • . William M. Wolff Jr., "Peak Business Associations in National Politics: The Business Council and tl:ie Committee for Econom­ ic Development." A University of Texas committee advises on the grants pro­ gram. Its members are Dr. Eldon Sutton, Professor
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  • communities and the ugly sprawl of car lots and franchise chicken joints and prefab warehouses that issue out of the heart of every city in our state and crawl along our highways like a poison vine. Look at Texas in the wake of the boom and you see the broken
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  • Participants Named For Symposium On Energy and the Environment 11.:m,tal to ft b I, r1d sflrt 1111 Ill
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  • Foundation; Thoma,. Bradll•v, Mavor, Lo, Ang-el,•s, Ma)nard .Jackson, M.1vor, Allantd; Estht'r l'etrr,on. formt•r Ass1sL1nt S, ·ret,1n. D1·partment of Labor; WC'ndell Ander on GovNnor. Minn,·,nt.1, Eur! Johnson. Jr, Proft•,~or of Law, llnivrrsll\' o
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  • ident Johnson s chief as­ sistant for domestic legislation, Joseph A. Califano Jr. had unique insights into LBJ's deepest fears about the impact that the Viet­ nam War might have on his be­ loved Great Society. He began his remarks under the live oaks
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  • that. Despite that. these activities have been the most diffi ult. the mo t controversial. the most criticized and condemned ... It is very intere ting to see how intense­ ly many people oppose a good-faith effort at peacekeeping.'' Carter on LBJ I want
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  • occasions they gave a review of American musical comedy and a presentation of the songs of Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Taylor Branch, author of a Pulitzer Prize winning book about the U.S. in the time of Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a recounting of his
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  • " (whose faces are visible) include Joe Frantz, Henry Cisneros, Norman Bonner and LarryMcMurtry. Texa~ uf 1.:owb11y, anJ Lhe range and the herds. Those dominalc our m) th~ ot Tc •as. but the truth is lhat there 1sn t a more urban state in America." The pa
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  • Treasures of the University's First Hundred Years (See pages 6-7) Reproduction of PrP-Columbian Manuscript Painting, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection Red-Figure Kalpis, 400-390 B.C., The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery Portrait
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  • Walt Whitman visits the LBJ Library (See "The American Image,t' pp. 4-7) COLUMBIA SCHOLAR SPEAKSON LBJAND FDR Dr. William Leuchtenburg, of Columbia University, recognized as one of the nation's scholarly authorities on Franklin D. Roosevelt, spoke
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  • A. Califano, Jr. 10:30a.m. ':4.ssessment.What Hvrked? What Failed? Why?" Moderator: Elspeth D. Rostow Panelists: James MacGregor Bums Stuart M. Butler John Hope Franklin Allen J Matusow Charle· A. Murray John E. Schwarz Ben J. Wattenberg Final Word: Bill D
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  • are Texas residenl5 and 51 come from other stat s. JORDAN NAMED TO UN GROUP Krueger ROBERTKRUEGER HOLDS VISITING LLOYDM. BENTSEN JR. CHAIR The hnldcr of the Vi~1ting Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relation: for 1985/86 is Robert C
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  • HER HEART BELONGSTO THE LBJLIBRARY Mary Martin Launches New Exhibit See Story on Page 7 James Rowe Reflectson PresidentsHe Knew James H. Rowe, Jr., Washington attorney who has known every President since Franklin Roosevelt, for whom he worked
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  • ming, Politics and the PubhL Interest: An Adrninistrntivc Biograph) of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting' • Julie L. Pycior, 'Lyndon Johnson and M xican-Amcril-ans in the Great Depression"· Jame; Ralph. "Northern Protest· Martin Luther King, Jr
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  • the Vietnam Era" "A tudy of the Detroit Riot of 1%7' Thomas M. Gaskin Roy Kim Paul M. Kozar Robert J. McMahon Thomas G. Paterson Quing-Guo Jia Stephen G. Rabe Priscilla M. Roberts David A. Rosenberg Witncy W. Schneidman Glenn F. Sheffield Frank J. Smist, Jr
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  • f'DR and lhe press was "electric and wonderful"), Wilbur Cohen (being part ot' the, 'ew Deal was "one ot' the most thrilling experiences of m~ life") and James Rowe. s Speakers See Different Directions for Different pen,pectives on the legac
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  • . The Rockwell Fund grant was made by Mr. Joe M. Green, Jr., President, for the specific purpose of financing the bibliography. Symposium Probes Role of Press In March, a distinguished assembly of journalists, jurists, and scholars (see box below) met
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  • ~~AmongFriends ofLBJ 1ssue NUMBER xi, JANUARY 24 1978 NEW§LEIJEREUIEUP§ PETHE PETHE LBJ8RAQY b1 ; :,;~;;~- ..~ ,_./!~ .... A National Tribute to Lady Bird Johnson (See pages 2-41 A National Tribute to Lady Bird Johnson It was a tribut
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  • your big brothers on your honeymoon." Ms. Johnson mused that she saw more of her pments in the White House than she had e:ver seen of them before in her life, and that she actually got to see her father at lunch fr m time to time. She also remembered
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  • DO YOU KNOWWHO THIS PRESIDENT IS? See page 6 LBJLIBRARYDEDICATESERWIN ATRIUM The atrium on the L1br ry·s eighth floor \\!as dedicated last October to the late Frank C Erwin. Jr. who served as President of the LBJ Foundatmn from 1969 until his
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  • that the m@ary-industrial complex con­ trols America. ''I thought to myself. 'We're going to have our hands full deal­ ing with this fellow. He's going to be a handful.' " Strauss said. "He doesn't give you the impression of being cruel. You don't see cruelty
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  • en cc tS I- - - z: t; = cc ► D:: cc D:: - m ....I ~ m ..... en LM. D:: i= 5 et: 5 - olJ, en z: 0 ~ -------- a:: -.:;-. .. ......... (See page 14) 5 Mrs. Johnson awarded Medal of Freedom As one of his final acts in office
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  • 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
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  • stay, more than 51I,000 visitors came to the Librn1·y to see it. Corporate sponsor of the exhibi­ tion, which was organized in the Stu­ dio Museum in Harlem, was Philip Morris Companies, Inc. Palmer Hayden, The Subway. c. 1930 oil on canvas, 31x26
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  • of the LBJ Foundation Board of Directors at the Board's annual m etin in the Library June 2. Flanking Mr . Johnson are Llspeth Rostow, Dean of the LBJ School. Mrs. Charles Engelhard, John Barr, Secretary-Treasurer, and ChJirman Frank C. Erwin Jr. Visible
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  • Emeritus of Texas A & M, discussed the underlying reason for his recent book, Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's War. ''I was after the man who made the decisions, agonized over the Americans and Vietnamese who were being killed every day. The man who
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  • ,..u••uM•·• ...•ucun,.~mong Frien~~ ..?.f ~~-~J England's Magna Carta Comes to Library. See story on pages 8 and 9. Museum to Receive The Library will soon have a renovated museum with twice as much exhibit space and an orieniation 1.heater
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  • , "A History of State and Federal Poli­ cies for the Aging: Michigan·~ Expenem.e, 1930\ to 1970 "; Frederick P. Bunnell, "The Watershed Period in American­ Indonesian Relations, 1963-1967", Dennis C. Dickerson, Terrence R. "Whitney M. Young, Jr .. A Biography
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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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  • Lyndon Johnson. As I see him now, he was a liberal with a real compassion for poor people and a great believer in using the power of gov­ ernment to solve problems. But he was not, m my opinion, a radical, as Huey Long was. I see Huey Long as a radical
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  • are indebted to M . Ali-a Malechek Sell, imd esp ciaH to Ms. Ian Turpin and Colonel Graper lay the wr1 Colonel Mark Graper, USAF ay Observed (daughter Lucinda could not attend). evcral others who worked for LBJ in his Cabinet and at the White Hou ·e were
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  • (See story 011 page 5) Washington "Friend " salute retiring members of Texas delegation Members of the Friends of LBJ Library in Washington attended a reception October 3rd at the National Geograp ic building honoring the retiring members
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  • . Until he m t Socrates, the ymmg Plato was inclined to study politics, or poetry. o Socrates; no Plato the philosopher. Some crucial ingredients in the recipe for western civilization would have been lost. 'We are all lucky ... that in 424 BC. that fat
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  • OSSUENUMa,,, .. ,, ...... Frie~~~,.?.! M.,,!:mong LADY BIRD IN CHINA ( p.1 •(' I ) Visitors to the Library August 27: Once again the Library served cake and punch lo it.svisilon, to commemorate the birthdate of Lyndon Baines Johnson
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  • . Glancy, Jr., "Quid Pro Quo: U.S. Approaches Toward West German Trade with Eastern Europe during the Kennedy/Johnson Administration"; Jussi M. Hanhimaki, "In the Shadow of Vietnam: U.S. Foreign Policy, Bridge-Building, and the Specter of Neutralism
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  • of all ages rank near the bottum i11math and science com­ pared with students from all the m..tjor industrialized 11at,ions. There are more American black males ages 18-24 in jail than there are in col­ lege. The FBI reported in August 1992 that I ,429
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