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  • , and therefore his inactivity has deprived him of the boost in his reputation that might have come had he made more of an effort to show [historians l the better side of that period ... This may change, however, because a new life of Gerald Ford has just been
  • . Former President Jimmy Carter inaugurated the series last year. Luckinbill, currently appearing in a play, "A Fair Country," in New York, flew to Austin to make his Darrow presentation on the one night of the week when his play is not given, to honor
  • , playgrounds, and open space. Some 7,000,000 acres of new park land and 38,000 recreation projects in every county in the country were made possible by the fund. The Land and Water Con­ servation Fund was created on the recommendation of a Commission made up
  • in 1968, and Joe Namath, the quarterback of the unlikely New York Jets in their Super Bowl victory over the Baltimore Colts. 7 Remains Not Viewable: An Evening With John Sacret Young By Robert Hicks, Communications Officer Award-winning writer, director
  • described the new process and how i t had become the very popular thing today. He spoke casually, authoritatively, of other Administrations, whole decades of them. strong Republican. Obviously he was a very I think we had between the three of us a sense
  • Breakfast; desk work; swimming; hair salon; new china for the White House; luncheon with Walter Hoving, Chairman of Tiffany's; photos in State Dining Room with White House Tour Office; tea for Independent Agency wives; Lady Bird records diary; talk
  • economist Robert Reischauer, reminded his colleagues that "we are not the only group meeting and coming up with lists of new initiatives ... People are meet­ ing all over the country, doing the same kind of thing ... the environ­ mentalists, the energy folks
  • C f Jan u ary 1966 72, T hursday B e s s a n d I l e f t t h e s n o wy Was h i n g t o n on an "*V ' ■ . ■ e a r l y p l a n e f o r New Y o rk . to c a tc h th e t r a i n . ■ . , . . We t h o u g h t we w uo l d h a v e But a l u l l
  • New York
  • Lady Bird goes to New York City to purchase clothing; Lady Bird attends dinner party given in her honor at Brooke Astor's home; Lady Bird mentions several people at the party; Charles Engelhard tells a funny story; Lady Bird recounts an earlier
  • New York City
  • news photographer for the Houston Press. ov ring the years 19591965, ox's photograph, document national political cam­ paigns. th earl days f the space program, and social and ultural de lopmen s seen from Houston perspective. 1ong the political
  • of McCaiihy­ ism. More successful in shap­ ing the for ign policy f the 1960s and early 1970s were the "new internationalists a group of influential member of Congr s • that included Stu­ art Symington, J. William Ful­ bright, Frank Church and Wi l­ lian1
  • at the news, saying that there were only two jobs in the White House that were worth taking, that of ational Security Adviser. already filled by McGcorgc Bundy, and the other as a senior domestic adviser, a position that did not even exist. But LBJ insisted
  • , Rice University ChandlerDavidson Political Science, University of New Orleans Raul A. Gonzalez, Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas Judith Haydel, Associate Professor of Government, McNeese State Universily ReneaHicks, Special Assistant Attarney
  • . Archives Researchers-The Library gave credentials to 312 new researchers during the year. A survey revealed that 66% of those using the collections are from out of town; 34 % are from Austin (mainly from the University of Texas). It further showed that most
  • not qualify for either [program], has become the great albatross of this new right in America." "It wasn't possible to put cost controls in in 1965," Wilbur Cohen maintained. "It would never have passed the Congress." In fact, Califano pointed out, Presi­ dent
  • in d e d m e o f the H ans C h r is tia n A n d e r se n s to r y a b ou t the e m p e r o r 's new c lo th e s . If you can g e t enough p e o p le - - en ou gh r e v ie w s - - to s in g , "Th is i s g r e a t, th is i s w o n d erfu l, th is is n e
  • New York
  • 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
  • Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
  • mm MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE W ASHINGTON M onday, F e b r u a r y 20, 1967 P age 1 It w a s a h ard w orking day. I had m y f ir s t co ffee in L yn da's room .' She is going b a ck to New Y ork for a w eek w ith M cC a lls, and she is fu ll
  • ro u n d s of P r i m e M i n i s t e r a n d M r s . H o ly o ak e of New Z e a la n d . It i s a lw a y s a s p e c i a l a n tic ip a tio n w hen the g u e s t i s s o m e o n e I have m et b efo re. And I h a d s p e n t a p a r t of th is m o r
  • Arrival ceremony for Prime Minister & Mrs. Holyoake, New Zealand; Lady Bird names guests; Leon Uris offers manuscripts to LBJ Library; Lady Bird has remarks about Lyn Nugent; lunch; recording diary; visit with Lynda Robb, Luci & Lyn Nugent; massage
  • to their own wages. •"Husbands could will children to someone else. If you died. your husband could decide he wanted to give your children to his best friend down the road. •"Widows in New York State could not live in their house more than 40 days after
  • of The Redwoods National Park, the Wilderness Act, and the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Reminiscences in New Willis Hurst, cardiologist who attended President Johnson through the years, came to the Library to launch a book of reminiscences about LBJ
  • p h o n e; each. T h e re w as a lo t of In th e m o rn in g a long ta lk w ith L y n d a B ir d in New Y o rk . She is h a v in g a g ay tim e - th e a tr e s an d good dining s p o ts and p a r tie s a n d b r ig h t p e o p le , an d sh e is s
  • LBJ & Lady Bird breakfast and make plans for Camp David with friends; Lady Bird talks with Lynda on phone; phone calls to Horace Busby about LBJ exhibit, Bill Walton about New York Avenue, & Mrs. Paul Mellon about White House grounds and Lafayette
  • LBJ Library meeting; Lynda Johnson joins the meetings; replies are received in response to LBJ Library acquisition letters; possible new fountain for White House ellipse; office work; phone call to Frances Lewine; new drapes for State Dining Room
  • ivid u al. The M arin es sa y th ey g et w ord of a wounded o r k ille d m an to h is pa r e n ts w ithin 18 h o u rs, so this i s one of those t im e s w hen no new s is good new s - and you sw eat it out. I , MEMORANDUM THE W H IT E HOUSE
  • c a llin g L y n d a. S h e 'd a r r i v e d in New O r le a n s F r id a y n ig h t t o m e e t G e o rg e , being c h a p e ro n e d b y L in d y B o g g s, w ho is p lay in g th e p a r t of a v e r y giving f a m ily f r ie n d t o m y c h ild
  • takes nap; Lynda Johnson visits New Orleans; guests for dinner; talk at dinner about LBJ School for Public Affairs and Vietnam; to theater to watch films
  • ken up t h e ir se a ts on the G ro u n d F l o o r , and had re fu s e d to budge. A s i t - i n in the W h ite H o u s e ! So m e 12 o f th e m , m o s tly young f o lk s . T h e m e e tin g came to a q u ic k h a lt w h ile B u z z got the new s
  • . My good f r i e n d , S e c r e t a r y U d a l l , M i s s S y l v i a P o r t e r , th e G o o d w i n s , a nd h e l i c o p t e r e d o v e r to S a n M a r c o s to a t t e n d th e I n a u g u r a t i o n of t h e new P r e s i d e n t of the C
  • or a horse's hoof or a man's head. They will of course put as many as they can back together, and they haven't finished digging up the whole thing, because China is a vast storehouse of man's life for centuries. So whenever they build a highway or build a new
  • , and current fellow workers1,000 in all-assembled to honor the former First Lady in a salute that in­ cluded serious tributes, hilarious hi- jinks, a mammoth cake, and the premiere of a new film, "Lady Bird Johnson: A Life," produced by Charles Guggenheim
  • disarray. The other group [believe] it was a war about the balance of power in all of Southeast Asia-from the South China Sea down to the critical Straits of Malacca including Thailand and Malaysia. Indonesia and Singapore. Australia and New Zealand. While
  • of them thirty years from now? What kind of faciliti s will they be, in this very new age of high-tech c mmunications? ''Thirty years ago little attention was paid to their museums. Today the museums are an integral part of the libraries and perform
  • New Y e a r 's — re s o lu tio n s-^ n -th e -m id d le -o f-A u g u st f r a m e of m in d . And th en I h a d a r a t h e r im p o r ta n t m e e tin g a t 1:30 in th e T r e a ty R oom w h ich I h av e b eg u n to c a ll - m y B o a rd of D ir e
  • e r in g . A nd a t r i o of s o u th e r ners - - G o v e rn o r R o b e r t M c N a ir of S outh C a r o lin a , new 0 I b e lie v e ,: a n d M il l s G odw in o f Vir g in ia --^he h a d rid d e n o n th e t r a i n w ith m e in ‘65. A nd D
  • 01:01 - should be '64, not '65; 03:58 - marble from "New" Mexico, not Mexico; 03:30 to end of tape is very fast and Lady Bird sounds like chipmunk
  • r. G rover and D orothy T e r r ito , Juanita R o b erts and alas, ra th er la te M ary L a sk e r fo r our seco n d m eetin g of the A cq u isitio n s C o m m ittee. m a in new s w a s that D r. G rover had d rafted and L y n d o n rsU'i- '-» rw m
  • o d e in w ith M u r i e l a n d O p al - - L yndon a h e a d w ith H u b e r t a n d th e S e n a to r o v e r a new high w ay th a t w a s o pen ed to d ay f o r the f i r s t ti m e . And th en t h e r e w e r e g a th e r in g c r o w d s a n d
  • staff; Johnsons fly to Houston Astrodome for Humphrey rally; new Houston highway; Lady Bird reminisces about 1941 campaign; Lyn Nugent walks with grandfather; speeches by Ralph Yarborough, LBJ & Hubert Humphrey; return to LBJ Ranch; LBJ's speech on tv
  • periods a leader emerged and a new majority part~· was. formed. Nothing that has happened so far would indicate that will not hap­ pen again.'' Larry Saba to: "We "ill han politi­ cal:parties, because as our founders discovered, ifs really the only way
  • s w i f e and come o v e r f o r a d r i n k . he a r r i v e d a l i t t l e news, t o o . And p a s t s e v e n . Todaywas f u l l o f f a m i l y I t a p p e a r s t h a t L u c i on h e r own h a d g i v e n an in inte r v i e w t o a C h i l
  • a good c o m p a n io n L iz O dom i s ! re m in is c e d about v ario u s tr ip s . We We h ad a d r i n k in r o u t e , a n d th e n w h e n w e la n d e d J e s s e m leaKj o i n e d us and t h e D e a th e s a n d w e w e n t to a new S p a n ish
  • a le n g th y p ie c e on th e J o h n so n L i b r a r y fo r th e New Y o rk T im e s . I me t w ith h im in th e L in c o ln S ittin g R oom a n d s p e n t a b o u t 45 m in u te s d u r in g w h ic h he to o k n o te s going o v e r the g e n e s
  • ; Abe Fortas' Supreme Court nomination; Lynda Robb tells stories about her family; New York Times interview on LBJ Library; tea with American Association of Nurserymen; reception for Junior Army Navy Guild Organization members; Clark Cliffords to dinner
  • d th e F D R c r y s t a l - - v e r y e le g a n t a n d seldo m u s e d now. A n d th en u p s t a i r s in to m y new p in k w ool a n d one l a s t b o n in g -u p on the g u e s t l i s t , an d th en b a c k d o w n s ta ir s to the G r e e n
  • a t she h a d s p e n t h e r . l i f e t i m e c o l l e c t i n g . g iv e n h e r o th e r c o l l e c t i o n s to o f A r t i n New Y ork. y ear. She h a d the M e t r o p o l i t a n Museum T h is one she d o e s f o r us e a c h She h a d
  • r i c a and he s a i d ''I f you d o n ' t mind I ' d l i k e t o t a k e my c r i s e s one a t a t i m e ".I t i p - t o e d o u t g r e e t i n g e a c h new c o u p l e and g e t t i n g d r i n k s w h ile we l i s t e n e d s p e l l bound f
  • New York
  • 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
  • New York City