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  • , a street brawler at 11, and a mugger and shoplifter in his teens. He dropped out of school in the 9th grade and was into so much trouble that the Houston Police gave him a choice­ •olunteer for the Job Corps or go to jail. He chose the Job Corps. Ii
  • . In World War II and the following two years, 1300 titles and over I 00 million copies were brought out in abbrevi­ ated versions in a size to fit a soldier's cargo pocket. On May 15 Canoll came to the LBJ Auditorium to talk about this unusual book. received
  • . , '.11ional Ar;.d,•my nl 0 Sci,•nc•·~ (Ir. ,JJml' G. Ha11!{hton, Health • nd Ho~pilab Gov1•rning Commission of Cook County; Dr. R.iv E. Santos, Orthopat'di1· Surg-eon, Lubbn
  • correct: America will not be able to compete if ii decides to leave its large population of Blacks and Hispanics undereducated, under­ productiive and operating and living at the margin of society . . . How we deal with 1lhisquestion of an under­ class
  • ·: ..\ Comparison of '.\ledi ar and the Clinton Health R fom1 Plan": William Lammers. ··c paring Pre idents: Leadership e [ c P Ii y": Taeku Lee, "Two Nations. Separate Groves: Black Insurgency and the Dynamics and Distribution of Mass Opinion in the U.S., 1948
  • at chemotherapy-which made him sick-he refused to continue it, rea­ soning that there was no point in spending his last months being made miserable by a treatment that could not in any case make him well. During World War II, at the age of seventeen, Mr. Christian
  • was in the hangar, a panel in the wall was left open to acomodate its nose. At times, the hangar was used for important and f stive events, a· '"' II as a playhouse for the Johnson grandchildren and great-grandchildren. President Johnson's "amphicar." Photo
  • d t o J i m m y I o a w J o e K e n n e dy ge.t h im a jo b w it h lli5 ' Itq u u r -ii ii g xtist'a a r e t r y i n g t o do i t t o s o m e of m y s t a f f . n i g h t i s n ’t d o i n g a n y goo d. T h e y '^ ^ ' T h i s goin g out t o a p
  • . It was the War to End all Wars. It set the stage for World War II and ultimately, the wars in Korea and Vietnam. November 11 marks the 60th annwersary ,f the armistice that stopped World War I. [It] also marks the opening of a major exhib 't on World War I
  • of Congressman Buchanan. Upon LBJ's resignation, Jesse Kellam, the deputy state administrator, was appomted to the administrator's job and served in that capadty until the outbreak of World War II when he went into the navy Of th folks who attended the reunion
  • Zealand, and Lad) Muld on, and World War II hero Harold Russell, Chairman of the President' Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. Al right, Luci Johnson sh ws Prince and Princess Michael of Kent through the Museum. THE LIBRARY Two alumni
  • of rigid New Englanders and the son of sodalist parents who met in the summer of 1937 in Paris on their way to a seminar in Geneva. After World War II-during which he served first with the O.S.S., and then with the U.S. and British Air Forces in Lon­ don
  • in the Carter Administration was extensively ,involved in the Camp David negotiations, explored the challenges of the 1990s. Oliver Shewell Franks, whose experience as a British diplomat began with World War II, gave his reflections on the history of that era
  • Lh, ma.-,terpie e of his alreac..l) di Lrnnui hed rie., of 'vVOrkson th Jae~ onian r.i or . S. History. ··1 w uld t II prl.' l'nl members of the Congres .. ·Read \\ch ter_... said Rernini. " s he ,aid t th Congress. 'Generations tn t.: me v 111 h 1I
  • kept tbe word of L ndon Johnson, who remarked during the Library's 1971 dedication cer monies: "II is all here: tbe story of our time-with the b ·k off. There is no record of a mistake. nothing ritical, ugly or unpleasant that is not includ­ ed
  • that a democratic nation has an ob]i,ration lo promote imagination and understanding, rings hollow. The British beg·an their government support of the arts in the very darkest days of World War II, when London itself was under bombardment. It was a remarkable time
  • n c e d a t a f i v e - t h i r t y p res s D ) -ii- c o n f e r e n c e i n h i s b e d ro o m t o a s m a l l g r o u p o f newsp a p e r men. Sim ply s a y in g t h a t th e d o c t o r s h a d warned him a g a i n s t g o i n g " o n t h e
  • one nickel towards their own cultural institutions." The internationally acclaimed mger said "I.here 1s a need in II of us that draws us together in one common bond. And that is the need for little be uty in our live ... Our artists, our museums, our
  • Spain and acquir­ ing possessions oversea . American entry into World War I was followed by an attempted return to isolation but after World War II the onset of the cold war prevented any such re­ version. lnstead, as a deadly rivalry with the Soviet
  • most sixteen years .... " '·[II never trust a man with a southern accent; you know you could talk reason­ able English ... if you weren't a phony.·· If your talent is destroyed, you destroyed And to F. Scott Fitzg raid. now twenty years dead
  • : An evening in Old Austin with Liz Car­ penter, George Chris­ tian, Sue McBee, Cactus Pryor, Texana Faulk Conn, and Emmett Shelton will look back at what life was like in this town before World War II. Dec. 13: Chr,istmas Program­ Karen Kuykendall and Standish
  • at the LBJ Grove outside Washington, D.C. as an actor. II is simply-well, stand up there and try to allow a deep kind of "Amcricaness·· come through all the make-up and the thousands of words I must say. Just be there. and so will Lyndon. I believe Lyndon's
  • . in the years ahead. George Christian and Harry Middleton moderated, their discussion. Another return speaker was World War II historian Martin Blumenson, who described the resistance move­ ment that formed inside France after the German occupation
  • Dudziak, "Cold War Civil Rights: ivil Rights and Foreign Affairs after WW II"; Steve Estes, "I am a Man: Race and Masculinity in the Civil Rights Movement''; Alexandra Friedrich, "Awakenings: The Vietnam War and U.S.-West German Relations in the 1960s
  • Beschloss if he thought the archivists could find that le11er as well. Archivist John Wilson did. Here is what Williams wrote: Ncve..-.b .. ...- ~s.,1q,,< th e Qr HOw d O,
  • , I th ii^ it w as around th ree o ’c lo c k , Lyndon w ent o v er to h is o ffic e , and I talk ed to Lynda and to L u ci. Both o f them w e r e e m o tio n a l, L u ci cry in g , Lynda d istrau gh t. ■ th is do to the b o y s? What d oes / ' v
  • that the McNamaras had requested the Valentis. ~!/.t t i' II . l is always pleasant to have Florence Mahoney to a party. She was a request of the Gardners. Lynda Bird came. i She feels close to nearly everyone in the Cabinet:://>As soon as I greeted
  • " Henry Ford II, Preston Jone!!, Ed Clark, Linda Tobias, Helen Hayes, Jake Pickle, Mrs. Johnson, Kirk Douglas and emcee Cactus Pryor, after the program. This hope has he n made a reality through the activities of the Friends of the LBJ Library, and now
  • these notes and these things that identify this Deep Throat to Katherine Graham;·· the publisher of the Post. "The judge would have to think hard before he sent Kath­ erine Graham to jail for contempt; it's not Ii ke these two brash young reporters. Among us
  • make just one last point, Harry. M: Alright. D: He knew the model Frank Roosevelt and FDR had been brilliant at building a consensus and moving toward involveme11t of World War II. Johnson was there. He had seen this; he understood it. He
  • ld go u p i n p a r t of th e open s p a c e . A s I w a lk a d r i v e a r o u n d th e c a m p u s , ‘I a m c u jo U y a w a r e o f ‘ II : ’ . , how c r o w d e d i t i s b e c o m in g . .vT h e f o r t y a c r e s i s now j u s t a n a f f e
  • i t i a l e d i t " o . k . ". An d I d i s c u s s e d w ith h im h is own d e c i s io n of l a s t F r i d a y n ig h t a n d a s k e d if it w e r e i r r e v o c a b l e b e c a u s e L y n d o n ..................... -■i»ii^»i i ^ . ii
  • : "During World War II," And perhaps, ultimately, there is something in the national John Swearingen reminded the symposium, "the priorities of character that responds appropriately to crisis. "I just believe in the people of this country," Strauss said
  • out­ siders. That\ why you· II hear phrases like. 'the 0MB and the CBO clashed today over the appropnauon of UMTA.' That's a v.ay of keeping all citizens out of the discussion .. 2 Daniel Yankelovich, presi­ dent of the Public Affairs Foun­ dation
  • fighting in the night. '' And one night I ran down the hall. My mother had a rifle drawn, my father's 22. And I stood in the hall and I cried and I begged her not to shoot. But she could not put up with it any more. She pulled the trig~ II '' Did Lyndon
  • the exhibit on World War II, saying '"You must see this exhibit. This i Ameri a!" Currently a collection of great rarities. treasures from the University of Texas Ransom Center's collec- 6 tion ·, is on di play on the Library's second floor. The Museum has
  • decencies, and they outnumber the slicked-down crowd"-and here he would wrinkle his m ~e as ii. squinting through pince-nez­ "Lc.:11million to ont:." Bill Moyers, at the Johnson family cemetery: "... he touched me more deeply than any man, taught me more
  • tu rn ed the c o n v e r s a tio n tow ard h e r h u sb a n d , b u t in w hom I f e l t c o n s id e r a b le s tr e n g th . . ■• MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE W A .SHIN Q TO II F r id a y , S e p t e m b e r 9, 1966 Page 5 B ob and M a r g y M
  • I II I— - I, If •- •— . — ■VY''^ - V » ; > > . ■ w « , n w __ I H » I • ■ i li.iiW •— ! ^ T ,* - ^ r ^ ------ ■---- — ---------------------------------------- ------ . 'I ------- - ' -.1 FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 3 I had a t le a s t sle p
  • T I — t II .1 1.. ____ MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Sunday, O ctober 3, 1965 Page 6 I t w a s a blue ribbon gathering - - t h e N elso n R o c k e fe lle r s , Speaker and M r s. M cC orm ack, Dean and Virginia R usk, C ard in al S p