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- David
Eisenhower, grandson of Presideni
Dwight Eisenhower. He sold a copy
of it to then-Vice President Richard
Nixon for fifteen cents. He has been
writing ever since.
Library staffers, docents and
guests from the University assembled
in the Library
- been very high. . ."
Dwight D. Eisenhower: ··very
popular but many people who liked
01im] felt that this was not a very
serious man, not terribly much on top
of his job; he allowed things to drift
for eight years, and therefore should
not be considered
- , and then G o vern o r H a rris o n o f V irg in ia gave a little talk.
Next
G en era l B ra d ley h im s e lf, and then G en era l Eisenhow e r - and a ll day long,
people r e fe r r e d to him as G en era l E is enhow er, not P re s id e n t Eisenhow e r
- Dedication of the George Marshall Research Library; to Virginia Military Institute; ideas for LBJ Library; Lady Bird describes ceremony with speeches by Omar Bradley, Dwight Eisenhower and LBJ; dinner at the Fortases; Lady Bird mentions Abe Fortas
- in the short run the
war in Vietnam was certainly won by
the Communists. they did not con
quer Southeast Asia.
Winston Churchill suggested
SEATO to Dwight Eisenhower in
1953 .. The Kennedy administration
inherited SEATO Plan 5. a plan for
defending all
- , he said, could be "eas
ily stated: Why didn't we take Berlin
ahead of the Soviets?" But "the
answers" he maintained, "are far
from easy. Although a single person
!General Dwight D. Eisenhowerj
was responsible for leaving Berlin to
the Soviets, he had
- Roosevelt.
(Below) Ronald Reagan with Nixon, Ford and Carter, October 8, 1981
(Right) WASHING10N, Jan. 20--THE SITUA
TION DRAWS MIXED REACTIONS-Outgoing
President Harry Truman, at right, and Mrs. Dwight
Eisenhower, in center, appear to be sharing a joke
- for a
variety of national security offices directed by such well
known figures as Dwight Eisenhower, George Marshall,
Nelson Rockefeller, Averell Harriman, and Walt Rostow.
In 1961, she began working for Rostow, then Deputy
Special Assistant to President Kennedy
-
The Eisenhowers: Famous Family Reminiscences
Da,id Eisenhower. grand
son of Dwight D. Eisen
hower. discussed hi!i work,
Eisenl,ower at War, an ac
count of his grandfather's
command of the allied ex
peditionary forces in Eng
land in World \.\'ar II.
\\hat I mi
- .-.omeother re ent acqu1s1tions
Three of the pieces-the drawing of oodrow Wilson the
pamting by Dwighl D. Eisenhower and the wood engraving of
Martin Luther King were donate by Mr. and Mrs. Larry E.
Temple. The others were acquired by the LBJ Foundatio
- personalities depicted are Dwight
Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard
Nixon, Barry oldwater, George Bush and George Wallace.
Although the ollectior will require time for reservation and
cataloging before becoming available for r search, it 1s
- that one
frantic guest captured on his film
An ebullient Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Athens, Greece, 1952. Photo cour
tesy of Peter Smith, Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center
Turkish cavalry in the snow, 1948. Photo courtesy of Peter Smith, Harry Ransom
- tclphonecalls and large
amounts of correspondence, mak it impossible
presently lo assign one archivist exclusively lo
one resident or visiting researcher. By contrast,
the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library sent me on my
last trip several ingle-spaced
- to the public as offi
cial souvenirs. For the next 15 years, however, they were
sold almost at cost; little profit was expected.
Dwight Eisenhower's inaugural committee was the first
to sell medals on a large scale - over 25,000 were sold in
bronze alone
- and the problems involve that has in
any way approached the significance of the P ley Commis-
PllDelblSDon Price, C. GirardDavichon, llDdCraufurdD. Goodwin
Eisenhower Administration. When Eisenhower was being
pressured to impose controls in order to support
- in the world. As he
often did, Harry Truman put it most
pungently when he called the White
House "the crown jewel in the penal
system." He advised his successor,
Dwight Eisenhower, "If you want a
friend in Washington, get a dog."
Thomas told a packed LBJ
- on Erwin\ nght
are Henry row/er and Lew Wasserman.
Library Names
New Chief
Archivist
Christina Lawson
John Wickman, D,recwr of the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas,
spoke at th Library tn May lO a
University of Texas group, joined together
- Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F.
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson w re always the bearers of good
news. A President in those days seeing on his appointment calen
dar that he had an appointment with his economist knew they
w r corning in to discuss
- by General Dwight D.
Eisenhower (left) and the compass
used in the North African cam
paign by German Field Marshall
Erwin Rommel. (right)
8
time the whole dramatic panoply of
World War II will be presented in one
display."
General Bowell's speech is sched
- , Beschloss stated. "[IJt's
almost a rule of thumb that each time
a president\ ... papers are opened, it
almost always causes his reputation
to go up .... Dwight Eisenhower is a
marvelou example of this .... "
'Should the libraries be centers of debate
- of President Dwight D. Eisenhower pamted
by J. Anthony Wills in I 969, acquired through purchase in
1969; (3) a bronze bust of President Abraham Lincoln by
Augustm Saint-Gaudens, presented to LBJ by a group of
special friends from Illinois, "Land of Lincoln
- and suggestions
into the Oval Office. What is missing is how and why Lyndon
Johnson reached his final policy positions. Unlike some of his
predecessors, notably Dwight Eisenhower, LBJ did not like to
commit himself in writing. There are nu long letters to friends
- ; Lady Bird to beauty parlor; LBJ meets with advisors about Vietnam; LBJ meets with and gives speech to White House Conference on Education participants; dinners with aides and James Hagerty; Lady Bird's tv show on beautification; Dwight Eisenhower
- isn't it? But nee ssaT1Jso
my guards thought - and they are the ones exposed to
danger.
14
A draft of Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech on February 29,
1956, announcing his dedsion l seek reelection, addresses
itself m part to the matter
- speeches by Harry Tru
man and Dwight Eisenhower are heard from a radio of around 1950.
The exhibit opened on July 4.
Scholars get grants for Library research
Twlnly-one scholars have been select
ed as lhe I 978 recipients of grants to
study in the LBJ
- , Eisenhower,
Kennedy, and Johnson-joined with the Brookings
Institution in sponsoring a majOI' symposium on a
subject important to the Administrations of all four
Presidents-wage-price
policy. The idea for the
multi-Library endeavor was proposed by Walt Rostow
- wrote a little note and sent some flow ers to M rs. Eisenhower,
w h o's out at Walter R eed taking some tests.
And then the dinner f o r
the Eshkols.
We m et them on the front steps
a little b e fo r e eight, and went upstairs fo r the usual get
- State visit of Israeli Prime Minister & Mrs. Eshkol; Lady Bird's speeches for Georgetown Visitation and Radcliffe; Lady Bird sends flowers to Mamie Eisenhower at Walter Reed; State dinner for Eshkols and exchange of state gifts; Lady Bird mentions
- page 12). Both
exhibitions will travel to all presiden
tial libraries. The art show was put
together by Dennis Medina, curator of
the Eisenhower Library.
"BobHope EntertainingTroops,Somewherein England."Artist:Floyd Davis,
U.S. ArmyArt Collection
- for Presidents Truman and
Eisenhower, represented the U.S. at
the coronation of Queen Elizabeth
and covered the Korean War cease
fire talks at Panmunjom, ranged
across her eventful life and some of
the world figures she has known.
Among them:
Bernard Baruch
- ''; Catherine
Gudis, "A Landscape of Signs:
Outdoor Advertising in America,
1920-1990'';
Byron C. Hulsey,
"Everett Dirksen and the Modern
Presidents:
Truman,
Eisenhower,
Kennedy and Johnson"; David K.
Johnson, "From Deviant Bureaucrats
to Homosexual
Citizens
-
imperatives
shaped the policie::. of Roosevelt's
successors, Presidents Truman and
Eisenhower, Gardner said. We want
ed France to give independence to
Vietnam, but at the same time we had
to avoid offending Paris-we needed
France on our side in Europe. We
- and the Foundations
which support them. At left,
Wilson (in center) convenes the
assembly. Flanking him are David
Eisenhower, representing
the
Eisenhower family; Martin Allen,
an associate of President Gerald
Ford; LBJ Library Director Harry
Middleton and Richard
- concerns about Vietnam
with numerous people, including
President D,vight Eisenhower, Sen
ators Mike Man ·field and Richard
Russell, and Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara.
There are approximately 18 hours
of recorded conversations from thi •
time p riod
- time. Earlier. he notes,
LBJ was instrumental during the Eisenhower administration in the
framing and passage of the National Defense Education Act, and the
Education Professions Development Act.
Rulon traces Johnson's youth, his education at Southwest
- that
moment on, I was a partisan.
On President Eisenhower
The first few days, in the
outer office of the EOB, I saw
President Eisenhower-he came
just to see if he could be of any
assistance-sitting
down with
Marie Fehmer. Ike had a yellow
tablet. He
- /show/loh/oh
LBJ Retrospective -- 24
sought President Eisenhower's advice all the time. He kept him informed; he had him
briefed constantly by the top people. So when he talked to Eisenhower, Eisenhower
would know where he was coming from, would
- Lady Bird travels to the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, and the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, to help plan the LBJ Library; Lady Bird received tour of Truman Library from President Truman and Phillip Brooks, Director; lunch
- factor, and it
wa:-.a very int resting one. It was that Eisenhower. who was th
President. was a man 1hat in a peculiar ,ort of way was on the
wrong tidet. After all. hi~ entire career had been managed
under Democratic presidents. and Ialthough! he
- Issue Number XLIV December 15, 1988
Symposium Probes Urban Problems
During the Johnson Administration,
three presidential commissions
known as the (Nicholas) Katzen
bach, (Robert) Kerner and (Milton)
Eisenhower Commissions-threw
a
glaring
- is the chair of the President's
Foreign
Intelligence
Advisory
Board, which reviewed the report.
The President's Foreign Intelli
gence Advisory Board, familiarly
known by the acronym PFIAB, or
"Piffy-ab," was begun during th
Eisenhower Administration
- to the LBJ Library; meeting about script for West Hall filming; bridge game with Lynda Robb; Lady Bird mentions headlines; President Eisenhower is critically ill
