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- Press relations
- LBJ on phone with McGeorge Bundy about foreign problems; LBJ meets with Dale Malechek about LBJ Ranch; lunch with staff, helicopter to Bergstrom and flight to DC; LBJ talks with press pool about Vietnam; Foreign Aid Bill; stop in Columbia, SC
- Press relations
- Lady Bird at meeting on LBJ Library; Lady Bird hosts tea for Mount Holyoke and Connecticut College women; Bill Moyers has press conference about LBJ Library; Lady Bird continues with the tea event; LBJ signs a bill in the Rose Garden; Johnsons
- with
the Associated Press and The ew York Times for many years
in the Far East, especially in Japan and Korea. He was chief of
The Times' bureau in Moscow in the mid-1950's and then was
that paper's diplomatic correspondent in Washington.
When he entered Governments
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and/or the Library, there is a pressing need for a major
modification of several ar as of space ... in order to make
those areas more usable and effective."
I
'
Along the north wall of the building on the first floor will be 11
new !>etof display cases
- session of Congress
about coming in to see Roosevelt. He had a project in
Florida he was really very worried about and he needed
some help. And he said he rather got the feeling that
Roosevelt didn't want to help him but he was going to press
him. He
- can't sing for the Prime Mmister who's t.>ndingBritish
presence east of Suez. "On the Road To Mandalay'"' And you
can't sing for the President who just devalued the British pound.
"I've Got Plenty ofNothin!" Well. the British and the American
press w re
- the Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute; author,
The Years of MacArthur
WILLIAM J. JORDEN, Correspondent, Associated Press, 1948-1952; Correspondent, New York Times,
1952-1955; U.S. Ambassador to Panama, 1974-1978
Panel
- of his meeting with
Congressional leaders on 31 January
1968. Most of the notes are open for
research in whole m in part.
s
Tom Johnson Notes of Meetings:
Notes taken by W. Thomas Johnson,
deputy White House press secretary,
at 161 of the president's
- buy with $50) held over his
breast and the perfectly pressed long
coat covering most of the striped
trousers. The whole scene was per
fectly framed by the ivory-colored
Doric columns which line the curved
drive. The music was marvelously
clear
- , by
This cartoon by Pat Oliphant ran in a number of newspapers following
White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater's effort to link the Los
Angeles riots with Great Society programs. Oliphant is represented exclu
sively by Susan Conway Galleries, Washington
- ": Birth of a Symposium
It began with a notion that the
Library organize a symposium to
examine LBJ's relationship with the
press. Then George Christian sug
gested broadening the focus to
include other themes from the sixties.
A special committee of Great
- coverage of his major
addresses and press conferences.
To make thesr materials aeces ible lo researchers, the
Audiovisual Division provides specially equipped carrds
in which researchers
revirw requeBted tapes and films.
Periodically these holdings are used
- Press relations
- LBJ has a fever; Lady Bird and Liz Carpenter work on beautification; lunch and discussion about presidential libraries; Lady Bird meets with Bess Abell; LBJ has press conference; representatives chosen for Churchill funeral; Nicholas Katzenbach
- Press relations
- Lady Bird & Lynda Robb to Smithsonian for "Reading is Fundamental;" welcoming speech by Dillon Ripley; speeches by Lady Bird & Margy McNamara; LBJ Library meeting covered by press; Lady Bird bowls with Muriel Humphrey & Jane Muskie; press take
- relation
ship with the press-in
the later
years mostly the latter. He used to
summon us and his beagles for those
marathon walks around the South
Lawn which we irreverently dubbed
'the Bataan Death Marches.'
. . . He wa a spellbinding story
teller
- that have been
done, [and] preservation of every
thing tbat has gone forward."
During the first year of the
Johnson adminic;tration, as the
President pressed for legislation to
eliminate racial injustices and aid
those in poverty. Mrs. Johnson made
several
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are drying up. If we cannot find ways
to prevent that happening, future his
tories will be written from press
"Accessissues."Robert Schulzinger;John Prados; W. Roger Louis; John Brademas;Martha Kumar; panel chair Hugh
Graham. (The panel is applauding
- . DouglassCater, specialassistant;
17. Tom Johnson, who as Deputy
Press Secretary took notes at the
President's meetings on Vietnam:
18. Admiral Thomas Moorer,Chief
of Navy Operations;
19. General William Westmoreland,
Commander of U.S. forces in
Vietnam;
20. Wil
- , but isn't elusive on the
tapes."
George Christian,
who
served as the president's
Press
Secretary and who was present at the
Library when the transcripts were
opened, echoed that assessment.
"The telephone transcripts,"
he
said, "reflect how he did business
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case, because Ford has tended to be
ignored by historians. . .To some
extent he has somewhat the opposite
effect on his reputation that Nixon
has, in that he has been involved with
things not particularly related to the
press or scholarship
- Yarrington escorts Pierre Salinger, press secretary
in the Kennedy and the early part of the Johnson administration, and the
Honorable Rene Garrec, Governor of Normandy, through the Library's
new permanent exhibition.
Vice President I Gore speaks
- .
In Memoriam
George Reedy, 19J7-1999
Of
President Johnson's press secretary, 1964-1965
·oy JR.
When the Library staff learned of the tragic loss of John
Kennedy, Jr., they searched the archives for items to
assemble a remembrance to him in the Library foyer
-
and applause. Because of that,
Mamet said, he spent ten years
without giving interviews to th
press, because they are a waste of
time. Once he fell off the wagon
and granted an interview. The
reporter asked him why he had
avoided interviews. "Because
- Press relations
- LBJ & Lady Bird to Hemis Fair, San Antonio; gun control legislation; ceremony at Hemis Fair; speeches by Ed Clark, Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, John Connally & LBJ; LBJ & Lady Bird tour exhibits; LBJ receives questions from the press; painting for LBJ
- , so this
combination 'welcome back' and birthday party is particu
larly significant this year.''
The major address was made by Liz Carpenter, former
press secretary to Mrs. Johnson. Following are some ex
cerpts from her speech to the gathering
- and appreciation to a person for
a _jobwell done. not face to face. Instead
he would. at an introduction or a special
time. maybe even at a national press con
ference. tell a third person how great he
really thought they were. So the deserving
one heard it when
- Press relations
- Bombing halt in Vietnam; Mar-a-Lago becoming part of National Park Service; Lady Bird describes china for Preservation & Restoration luncheon; Lady Bird names speakers & guests; press are invited to speeches; Lady Bird gives remarks & introduces
- Press relations
- Lady Bird tours architecture at Yale University and New York; LBJ is in the hospital; Lady Bird likes rare books display at Beinecke Library at Yale; press are waiting outside the Beinecke for photographs; Lady Bird sees public housing units; Lady
- Press relations
- some of the guests, the press, and the entertainment for the night; Lady Bird visits with Erhard about Germany; toasts; LBJ mentions Vietnam & Great Society in toast; visits with houseguests upstairs; Lady Bird introduces entertainers
- Press relations
- LBJ and Lady Bird attend National Christian Church with guests; LBJ whispers a joke to Lady Bird during the service; press stories about Johnson family; lunch at White House and watching Senator Russell Long and Averell Harriman on television; Lady
- Press relations
- Lady Bird and Luci Johnson have clothing trip to New York; possible trip by Lynda Johnson to Spain; press stationed in hotel; tea for Mrs. Diaz Ordaz of Mexico; Elizabeth Arden hair stylist does Lady Bird's hair for party; Lady Bird to Mary Lasker's
- of the press and of public opin
ion. Probably the worst distortion is this picture of the
President walled off by his advisers, his courtiers. Well,
perhaps this could happen if a President were blind and
deaf and lazy and a fool as well. I think it is fair
- 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
- the confidence that a
campaign is not being unduly influ
enced ... "
Should there be limitations on
spending as well? Only Rove ex
pressed himself on th,is question, and
to him the answer is no. "As much
as I'm horrified by the huge sums of
money we have
- with President John F.
ew York: Rugged Land
Kennedv.
Press).
Mrs. Connally concluded by an
nouncing that she was giving the original
copy of her notes to the LBJ Library.
A member of the audience asked if
she disagreed with the Warren report, the
government
- during his c,u-eer; it was
when Presid nt Johnson was pressing
for support for the Highway Beauti
fication Act, a favorite of Lady Bird
Johnson's.
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Photo by Charles Bogel
to write more, eventually becoming a
book. Although current times are simi
lar
