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hearings.
Oliver Stone's film
"Nixon" included a part based on
Butterfield s character; and the
part was played by-Alexander
Butterfield.
Mr. Butterfield began by ob
serving that the title of his talk
could well be "Richard Nixon:
The Oddest Man I Ever
- a pathetic picture of kCarthy in his final
days: "He was not going t his Senate office any more. he was
drinking hea ily, he was talking about th betrayal fall of his
riend . ineteen fifty-six as an election ear, and Richard
Nixon was giving a speech
- at the Library in October. Although Dr. Leuchtenburg's par
ticular subject was the relatiomhip between FDR and Lyndon
Johnson, he concluded his remarks with an observation about the
shadow "Roosevelt continues to ca~t" over all modern presidents.
"Even Richard
- , especially
journalists, and in some cases
people who were too young to
remember
that period, how
absolutely taken aback they
were, floored, by his enormous
skill, especially in dealing with
Congress.
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again and treat him with some dis
passion.
Richard
- President Clinton never men
tions are ""Lyndon Johnson""----cven
··1ast year when he rattled off the
names of other presidents besides
himself who had tried to reform
America's [healthl system. he cited
Harry Truman, John Kennedy. and
Richard Nixon. I
- Heuvel, President of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
William Emerson, director of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library;
Clarence Lyons, in charge of the
Richard Nixon papers project at
the National Archives; and John
Fawcett, Assistant
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Cover: "Funeral Pyres." Artist: W. G. Laurence; U.S. Coast Guard Art
Program
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High SchoolTeachersStudyThe U.S. Congress
Senate Historian Richard Baker speculates on "What the framers [of the Constitution] would recognize and what would
surprise them
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Included is a written account by Benedict Arnold of his
act of treason that nearly led to loss in the nation's fight
for freedom. Another original letter, from Richard Henry
Lee to General George Washington, was the first notifica
tion Washington received
- them all with him from
Capital Hill to the White House. In the very early days of his presidency he called the
man in the Senate who had been his mentor, the venerable, Richard Russell. And we
have a recording of a little part of that conversation
- the Vietnam War changed under Richard Nixon's leadership; fear of Chinese and Soviet involvement in Vietnam; comparing LBJ's and Bill Clinton's sources of information; the relationships between presidents and former presidents; LBJ's great capacity for taking
- gone to b e d a little p a s t
m i d n i g h t w ith H u b e r t ru n n in g n e c k a n d n e c k w ith Nixon - - a s u r p r i s i n g ,
p o u r - t h e - s t e a m - o n , m a g n if ic e n t r a c e .
B u t the o u tco m e too c l o s e to
know f
- Richard Nixon wins Presidential election; LBJ & Lady Bird call Hubert & Muriel Humphrey; Gerard Nugent has back surgery; Hubert Humphrey & Richard Nixon give speeches; Johnsons make additional election phone calls; Johnsons & Arthur Krims drive
- consisting of Harry Middleton,
Elspeth Rostow, and George Christian
(right) about her memoir, Personal
History.
Among her observations:
• She does not know who ''Deep
Throat" of Watergate fame is.
• The Nixon administration was the
most dangerous in her
- point you saw something that
stood out from the normal crowd shots
as impressive as those crowd shots
could be.
Richard Nixon was elected Presi
dent in 1968. It seems like ,the blink of
an eye-the time from taking those
photographs of the new President
- David
Eisenhower, grandson of Presideni
Dwight Eisenhower. He sold a copy
of it to then-Vice President Richard
Nixon for fifteen cents. He has been
writing ever since.
Library staffers, docents and
guests from the University assembled
in the Library
- their hands over the first volume of Robert A. Caro's
hostile biography ... Some Washington reporters gasp. Sure, there
was much lo attack. But was thi the man we watched In Congress
and the White House all those years? How did the nation survive?
- Richard L
- , Alvia J. Wardlaw
Not Pictured: Radcliffe Baile);, John T. Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Michael Ray Charles, Michael Cummings, Colette
Gaiter, Richard Gary, Greg Henry, Jacob Lawrence, Steiphen Marc, Erick M. Murray, Gordon Parks, Faith Ringgold,
John T
- . in my opinion.
Julie Eisenho\\er, daughter
or former Pr sident and
Mr . Richard Nixon. talked
about Pat Nixon; TJ,e l. n·
told Story, her poignant
memoir of her mother.
I thmk her particular contrihut1un - one that she will prohahly be
most rcmemhercd
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for all of us."
Memories of a Royal ·visit
By Harry Middleton,
LBJ Lihrary and Mmeum Direcl/lr, E111erit11.1·
Queen Elizabeth'sGoldenJubileecal.led
to mind her trip to Austin in May, 1991.
Governor Ann Richards was host
ess to Lbe royal visit. She
- their annual meeting at the Library at the time of the opening of the World War II
exln'bition. Standing are: Ralph Bledsoe, Reagan Library; John Taylor, Nixon Library; Ben Zobrist, Truman Library;
Richard Norton Smith, Hoover Library; John Fawcett, Assistant
- this nation's all about, and who understand the
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problems we face. And who get there without just passing a lit
mus t st of party loyalty.
"There haven't really been many presidents in our lifetime
who've done so," Strauss said. Franklin Roosevelt, Richard
- Among
lssuc Numb-er LXXI April 30, I 999
Famed Photographer Duncan on Exhibit
The blank stare of a weary Khe
Sanh defender ... the raised fist of a
combative Richard M. Nixon ... the
Japanese surrender aboard the U. .S.
Missouri ... a jubilant
- , they encountered
an outlook thar was uniquely
American, albeit mythically so.
The ranch became Johnson's
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retreat, just as John F. Kennedy had
Hyannisport and later. Richard M.
Nixon had San Clemente and George
H. W. Bush had Kennebunkport.
During his presidency
- Cyrus Vance, Dick Helms & Dean Rusk fly to LBJ Ranch; Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew arrive by plane; lunch; guests depart; Lady Bird still feeling ill, lies down to read; tours of Danz & Martin Ranches; Marvin & Marion Watson arrive by plane; George
- of security-classified documents is
strictly governed by law and executive
order
President Nixon's Executive Order
11652 in 1972 provided that when
security-classified documents became 30
years old, they were to be declassified
automatically (except
- Roosevelt.
(Below) Ronald Reagan with Nixon, Ford and Carter, October 8, 1981
(Right) WASHING10N, Jan. 20--THE SITUA
TION DRAWS MIXED REACTIONS-Outgoing
President Harry Truman, at right, and Mrs. Dwight
Eisenhower, in center, appear to be sharing a joke
- !.rdcncy.
(The actual recordings amounted to seven times thi.: material
ultimate!) used in the book.)
Beginning with the :.iss ssination of President
cnnedy and
nding with th' return to the LBJ Ranch Lh day Richard Nixon
was inaugurated. thl.! diary
- warned of tragedy. In mid1964 Senator Richard Russell or
Georgia told LBJ that Vietnam wa.
·'the damned worst mes. J ever . aw,
and I don't like to brag." And LBJ
responded glumly, "I've been think
ing that way for the past six months."
An occasional
- concerns about Vietnam
with numerous people, including
President D,vight Eisenhower, Sen
ators Mike Man ·field and Richard
Russell, and Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara.
There are approximately 18 hours
of recorded conversations from thi •
time p riod
- , contains more than 4,000
items of political memorabilia
from the campaigns of
George Washington through Richard Nixon. In this bicen
tennial year. the Library sponsored four special exhibits:
The Presidents
on the Presidency,
American Politics
Through
- and
Charlie Parker replacing the big
bands. And there were Chuck Berry,
Little Richard. and of course Elvis.
In literature there was the con
tentious fiction of Norman Mailer,
Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, and
Kerouac's 011 the Road. Hollywood
mirror d
- than 4,000 polilical items ~ from Washington's campaign to Nixon's. Smet>
then this "instant collection" has been expanded by purchases and donations. The
collection now includes buttons, medallions, photos, a painting of George Washing
ton, and Jimmy
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O'Neil Ford, architect; Richard Hunt, sculptor; Judith
Jamison, dancer; Robert Merrill, opera singer; Joshua
Taylor, Director, National Collection of Fme Arts,
Smithsonian Institution; and James Wyeth, painter.
Summarizer: Kenneth Prescott, Chairman
- . Then the publisher sub
stantially raised the amount of the
offer. Ms. Smith's memory suddenly
improved; she had done some inter
esting things, after all. "l had flown
around the world with Malcolm
Forbes. I sat next to Richart.I Nixon
at Malcolm's funeral. l had
- ; the Johnsons, Wests, Krims, Lyn Nugent & Yuki walk on White House grounds; Lady Bird walks on West Ellipse; the Abe Fortases to dinner; Richard Nixon & Hubert Humphrey campaigns; LBJ made speech in Kentucky on September 28
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in Texas and with the FBI alone. But
eventually, over a matter of days and
after a lunch with Richard Russell,
the senator from Georgia who had
been Johnson's mentor in the Senate,
Johnson changed his mind.
"l became interested in the Johnson
tape
- on which he was speaking. Win
ter had arrived. Richard Nixon had been re-elected just one
month earlier. Watergate was just surfacing. The war in Viet
nam dragged on. There were many opportunities for LBJ, if he
wanted, to reflect on hi successor
- in Congress. Speaker Sam
Rayburn took Congressman Johnson
under his wing. LBJ w· s a court
favorite of Franklin Roosevelt's.
And formidable Georgia Senator
Richard
u sell first made LBJ
minority leader and then majority
leader of the Senate.
Harry Truman did
- , Richard Baker, Historian of the U. S. Senate; Don
Bacon, former correspondent, U S. News and World Report; Raymond Smock, former Historian of the U. S.
House of Repres__,ntatives and Director of the Robert C. Byrd Center for L gislative Studies at Shepherd
- .... We didn't really know
where it was going, but as you'll see in
this book. that suit was a very big part or
what happened, and Richard Nixon real
ized that, as we learn from the tapes.
'·In the course of that suit. Wood
ward and Bernstein, the two
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He's a solid, gray-haired man,
important looking, and affable enough, almost exactly like he ought to
somehow for the Nixon cabinet.
As we drove back to the house he said to
me, "You know, my wife always speaks mighty highly of you.
were a good f ir
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along w1th one on the Nixon Administration, ·were
present~d at the symposium to a fonn,idable array of
econormsts-a panel of former Presidential economic
advisors. Among those present were John Dunlop,
Roger Blough, Leon Keyserling, Don Paarlberg,
James
