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STRAUSSDELIVERSSECOND ERWIN LECTURE
Ambassador Robert S. Strauss, U.S. Special Representative
for Trade Negotiations in the Carter Administration and
Board member of the LBJ Foundation, gave the second Frank
C. Erwin, Jr. Lecture December 12 in the Library.
The Erwin
- Strauss, Special Representative for Trade egotiations
Jack T. Conway, Senior Vice President, United Way of America
William K. Coors, Chairman and Executive Officer, Adolph Coors
Company
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from page 1
John E. Swearingen, Chairman of lhe Board, Standard
- that the
final years of life can be an adventure to be welcomed rather
than a problem to be dreaded. She explored this idea in a
dramatic presentation.
Ambassador Robert Strauss, who represented the U.S. in the
last days of the Soviet Union and the early period
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Reflections
onLadyBird
A First Lady 'Pays Her Rent' With Environmental Wo
Tile Johnson Years,
Volume Two probes not
only the programs of
President Johnson, but
those in which Mrs.
Johnson was involved as
well. Historian Lewis
Gould, who has turned
scholarly
- is described demographically: "The fastest growing new
population in Texas is black and brown," declared Representative
Wilhelmina Delco. Ear! Lewis made it even more specific: "One
estimate suggcs that by as early as the year 2000. which almost
seems comorrow
- the development
of "realistic criteria" in assessing
the impact of reforms in the Soviet
Union. Lewis Gould, U.T. historian
(below). discussed his book, Lady
Bird Johnson and the Environment.
8
Philip Bobbitt (left) outlined the dy
namics of nuclear deterrence
- and less John L.
Lewis," Ward recalled Garner telling the
cabinet. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Worker , returned the compli
ment. The Vice President her portedly
said, w:L, an evil, , hiskey-drinking old
man.
No one can say how Gamer would
have
- Krim, Clark Clifford, new
member Roben Strauss, making his first Board meeting, Perry
Bass Lady Bird Johnson. Foundation staff member )blanda
Boozer. Secretary-Treasurer John Barr, President Tom Johnson
and Henry Fowler. Present but not pictured
- at the
Library to a group which in
cluded the committee mem
bers-Lewis Gould, Barbara
Jordan and Melissa Collie
who every two years select as
prize winner the author of the
best book on ,the Congress
written in that period.
Friends of the LBJ Library were
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and Chancellor E. Don 'alker, Co-Vice
Presidents. Walker and Christian were
also appointed t ser.c on the E:x~uthc
Committee. Also elected Lo Board:
Library Dir ·tor Harry l\1iddleton.
Tom John,;on
LBJ School Fellowships Created
to Honor Strauss
One thousand
- . Krim
Mrs. Albert D. Lasker
Harry J. Middleton
LyndaJohnson Robb
Hugh G. Robinson
Max Sherman
Robert S. Strauss
Larry E. Temple
Jack Valenti
Lew R. Wasserman
Notes on other Board Members:
Chairman Tom Johnson, President
of Cable News Network, received
- Burnham
of the
University of Texas led off the morn
ing session, with Robert Strauss, for
mer Chairman of the Democratic
Party and one-time Ambassador to
the Soviet Union. The three joined in
agreeing that, overall, the political
culture in Washington
- that I wasn't on drugs.
[Laughter]
That's P-A-S-S- -D.
[Laughter]
l 've not talked a lot about v hat
happened in [the election cri
sis in] Florida, but I do in this
book.
My really good pal,
Bob Strauss, for whom you've
named the Robert S. Strauss
Center
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Leonard S. Silk, Member Editorial Board
The New York Times
William I. Spencer, President
Citibank, N.A.
1:45-4:00p.m.
Panel 2:
Priorities for Partnership
Speaker:
Robert Strauss
Special Representative for Trade Neg-otiations
Moderator: Ben Love, Chairman
- at the 1976
Demo ratic Convention, she required
a cane. When Bob Strauss felt moved
to advise Jordan on how to give that
famous speech, . he retorted, '·Bob, if
you can get me up the damned st ps,
I· 11111ukethe damned sp ech.''
Other factors were al play
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for reflection before action.
Robert
Strauss,
former
Chairman of the Democratic
National
Committee
and
Ambassador to the Soviet Union,
does not envy future presidents.
"Today," he declared, "a president
has a helluva time just marginally
influencing the course
- , Strauss, Hauer and Feld
William Ru-.her. Sen .. Jenning-. Randolph
Jack Kemp
United States Representative, 31st District,
New York
President Ford
Mary Dublin Keyserling
President,
Clearinghouse of Women's lssuei.
Former Director,
Women's Bureau
- Intelligence); Media and Popular Culture-Rod Hart (Director, Annette
Strauss Institute for Civic Participation). 6:00 p.m., LBJ Auditorium.
May I
An Evening With: "What If?" Three distinguished writers examine some crucial turning points in
history: What
