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  • buttons including those endorsing William Taft, Dwight Eis nhower, and Douglas MacArthur. Others are "Keep Coolidge,'' "Garner for President," ''Kick Out Depression With A Demo­ cratic Vote," and a Barry Goldwater button, "In '- Yo r Heart You Know He's
  • (left). 3 ON THE COVER· Some of the leaders who have spoken at the Library Top: Kirk Douglas, Helen Hayes, Vernon Jordan, Henry Kissinger Middle: Nelson Rockefeller, Earl Warren, Dean Rusk,Hubert Humphrey Bottom: Sam Ervin, Beverly Sills, Walter
  • ; and Cathleen Douglas Stone, Chief of Environ­ mental Services, Boston, Massa­ chusetts. While he was at the Ranch, Rockefeller presented to Ellen Temple (right) a portrait of Mrs. Johnson he commissioned for the National Wildflower Research Center. Mrs. Temple
  • or in the homes of the poor, she made government human with her umqu compac:;sion and grace, warmth, and wisdom. Her leadership transformed the Ameri an landscape and preserved its natural beauty as a national treasure." The Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • ("who taught me how to increase my vocabulary"); Cary Grant ("best man at our wedding"); and Mardyn Moruoe ("who hid out at my home in Connecticut after she fled Hollywood to escape a oad film contrnct.") r Exhibit: Arnold Newman's Americans
  • president." C-SPA has put hundreds of the tapes on their web site, and with historian Michael BeschJos ·' first volume on the tape·, Taking Charge, !hey are bringing home to America the earth and inimitable character of Lyndon Johnson. This, plus said
  • Issue I umber LIX January 15, 1995 Welcome Home, Jake Congressman J.J. (Jake) Pickle, noted as a storyteller no less than an effective legislator, delighted a full­ house auditorium with reminis­ cences of his 30 years on Capitol I 0th Hill
  • : generation upon generation of healthy, well­ educated, adaptable and caring Americans, able to compete economically in a world of accelerating change while maintaining safe and prosperous communities at home. • Because that goal has been rnccding
  • journalist, which are part of the Library's collect1ons. The exhibit. which will run through September, document
  • "; Bruce Murphy, "Justice as Politician: William 0. Douglas and the Johnson White House"; Kevin V. Mulcahy, "The National Security Advisor: Walt W. Rostow and Lyndon B. Johnson"; Julie L. Pycior, "Lyndon Johnson, Mexican Americans, and the Ameri­ can Saga
  • hare wtlh you the truth that trul~ there was nothing like it. The home that I grew up in was a place of kindness, good order, serious purpose, raucous humor, and reasonable, but not excessive personal d1iscipline. It was a place of man~· friends, none
  • . The exhibition was as embled by the Smithsonian Institu­ tion from the collections of the Barra Founda­ tion, various Presidential homes and li­ braries, descendants of the Presidents, pri­ vate collectors, the White House and the Smithsonian itself. Because many
  • ." A welcome home rally had been organiz d, and a throng had gathered to greet him. Among them, only thirty feet from where Roosevelt's car was to stop, a crazed, would-be assassin was waiting with a .32 revolver in his pocket. When FDR'scar stopped, the man
  • have a fourth church. Mrs. Johnson and Nellie Connally shared happy memories. Photo by Sherry Justus, National Park Service "I recall his involvement. after he retired, in building a non­ profit nursing home in Austin. He wanted the private sector
  • faraway places. C. P. and Catherine Little came from their home in Winchester, Virginia. The NY A was an agency of the federal government created by an executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to give part-time employment and educational
  • nnd Regent Frank C. Erwin, Jr., Heath lobbied President Johnson in Washing­ ton nnd at home on the LBJ Ranch his the first presidential to make library to be built on university cc1mpus nnd to make that rnmpus the University of Texa~. 8 (above
  • realized their dreams for a decent education, a decent home, a decent job, and decent health care, who Daddy thought he might be able to help. They were all family to Daddy. 2 Looking backwards, there were very few moments in Daddy's life for just
  • have seemed to be coming unglued here at home, loosen­ ing our social and political ties and turning away from one another, we also have been turning away from the rest of the world insofar as it would let us. And both at home and abroad our self
  • through the 1880's Former President Grant (seated center) and his family on the porch or his home al Ml. M Gregor, .Y., June 19, 1885. Photo New York Stale Office of Park & Recreation, Granl Cottage Slate Historic Site "Chester A. Arthur" by Matthew
  • Smith, of United Press Internationat-··Jeak it to him first. lt gets home first that way, and when old Judge Moursund reads this, he'll know what we're trying to do out here with his money." He taught us ... that a nation of two hundred million
  • , a poliucal science pr fcssor from th University of Rochester, . . receiv d the Library's $1,500 D. B. Hardeman Award in April as author of Home Style: House Members in Their Distncts. judged the best book o the history and orkings of the Congress written
  • LBJRiding The Range(seepp 2-3) HILL COUNTRY DEPICTED he Library's ne, est, and current xhibition is "LBJ's Hill Country," visu disp ay-using original artifacts, photographs, paintings and sculprures-of the part f the world which was home
  • from June and July, 1965. In these two pivotal months, President Johnson faced critical deci­ sions at home and abroad, many of which are discussed in these record­ ings. He made several hi. toric appoint­ ments, including naming Thurgood Marshall
  • you know that it's all a part of the communist plot to take over America from the in­ side?" I went home and I called my campaign manager and I said, "You know, I'm really not cut out for pub­ lic service. I just don't think I can do this." And he said
  • Mary Woodward Lasker, promoter of medical research and driving force behind the National Cancer Institute, died recently at her home in Connecticut. A longtime friend and associate of President and Mrs. Johnson, she worked with the president on health
  • to return home. Here was an unsellling event: In those days, when the Shah reigned absolutely and sometimes ruthlessly, to be thus unexpectedly ordered back to Iran was not necessarily a thing to he eagerly anticipated. Hoveyda was therefore understandably
  • funeral process10n passes by lht Roosevelt home in New York City, April, 1865. The two small figures looking out the .~ccond floor window are 6 year old Theodore and his brother Elliot, age S. Photo Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library
  • pictur on page ne of the New 2 York Time. Lone Ran_ r. like Tont ,:· France l l' (Ill'- aroun Oval madet . hare \d ult. ad Jim o'cl ck going r ha, said. "Fine 1• Larry Tempi Presicll!n! Joi , Wair Rosto,, .ii Whit House ut day m ming. ar home andjm
  • . Engelhard. AddresRing lhc gueRt6 aller portrait unwiling, Mr... JohnMon aid: "Th., setting is mine. the country i~ mine and I feel at home there." Flunking the portrait are \. rnn Shikler, arli~t. and ~rN. harleH Engelhard, donor. The C\ening haluled
  • Library. They have also taken on a number of other missions-including takmg a slide show on museum exhibits to nursing homes and senior citizen groups. preparing educational materials for schools and translating the Library's brochures int panish. Sales
  • anything broke that couldn ·1 be fixed. Maybe that was our biggest mistake. You see. he talked privately. as he talked publicly, of conquering the vastness of space. of schools and jobs for everyone, of caring for the elderly, of constructing homes
  • Johnson's-urban residence from the late 1950's. Home, of course, is still the LBJ Ranch. The program of activities in the time ahead includes participating­ along with former First Ladies Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter-in a symposium on "Women
  • on the war was before it started, we can all be glad that the cnJ of the war seems in sight. Still, in the best of war-. not every­ one comes home safe and sound, and Holbrooke resents those who arlier triv­ ialized the hardship and sacritice borne
  • , "has been alluringly going round and round 111my mind for several years.·' Besides her 1:n1husiasm and inspiration. Mr.-. Johnson's contribution to th~ project indudes a 60-ai:re tract or land ten miles from Austin which will be the home laboratory
  • reacts to LBJ's decision for a total bombing halt in North Vietnam. Tom Johnson recorded Russell's remarks: " [The I Senate wants to get out of the war-some by exterminating North Vietnam­ others by bringing all troops home on the next convoy. My r enate
  • ... Vhatcver the reason for unemployment, th· ob"i us answer wa!>for the gover ment to provide jobs through Public and Ci,il Vorks Administration . Un mployment compen,ation, old age pensions, and publk homing \,ere also eminently relevant to the problems