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Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Waycross, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • and a beacon of the new South. A while back the President asked me to make a tour of Appalachia, the Southern highlands. There once again, as in the dimly remembered days of the depression, I heard the cries of hungry babies. I sat down with women who couldn't
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Paseo Del Rio Lighting Ceremonies, San Antonio, Texas, 4/1/1966" (Item)
  • in 1731, seeking a new life. Those 15 families -- some of whose descendants are here tonight -- established the first civil settlement in Texas. From the beginning, this river bas been the lifeline of San Antonio. The waves of settlement brought colonizers
Press release, "Excerpts from Notes of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at the Parent-Child Project, Glenwood Elementary School, Charleston, West Virginia, 3/13/1967" (Item)
  • 1 s pride gives ber child new enthusiasm -- and the good effects of tbat partnership in learning never stop. I know how glad my children were am what high marks they gave me when 1 attended a play or joined with the othe r parents to talk about
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Home of Mark Twain - Hannibal, Missouri, 9/21/1967" (Item)
  • was to conquer the spelling of Mississippi. Those eleven letters in that romantic, lyrical word took new meaning for me as I ventured into history and geography. But the real windows of the Mississippi were opened by your illustrious Missourian, Mark Twain. My
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Governors' Wives Luncheon, the White House, Washington, DC, 2/29/1968" (Item)
  • many of them have helped me discover their own states -- from the white church steeples and covered bridges of New England to the wide open spaces of our Great American West. Another group of our guests today are from the Arœ rican fashion industry
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at Ground-Breaking Ceremonies for Filene Center Auditorium, Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, 5/22/1968" (Item)
  • concerned her ­ self. Our country is the better for it. Wolf Trap Farm Park is a spot blessed and made beautiful by natu re. Now, thanks to Mrs. Shouse, this lovely site today begins to take on a new role -- one which will enrich the lives of us all
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Chester, South Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)
  • the Chester blacksmith who came out to inspect the first locomotive to come here and then announced he'd seen everythin g and was ready to die. I've seen a lot, but 1 want to go on seeing more. I am enjoying seeing the prog ressive new South. Especially, I
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Congressional Wives Prayer Breakfast, 2/4/1965" (Item)
  • , wise Deborah and courageous Esther, provides us with the timeless example of their lives . We can certainly profit from their wiodom in meeting the problems we face, problema aome as new as tomorrow and some ns old as man•o aspirations for a better life
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Women Doers Luncheon, 2/5/1965" (Item)
  • in the field.)"£ health research. lndee~: Jshe embodies the American spirit of promoting life, liberty, and fie pursuit of happiness. To Mary, the pursuit of happiness sometimes involves the pursuit of city fathers. And in the case of New York City
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 6/3/1965" (Item)
  • of teaching in what seemed to me a far-off, exotic place like Alaska or Hawaii. And I was a journalism major, with vague hopes of finding a place in those alluring news rooms where the clatter of events constantly breaks over typewriters. But whatever I
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Middlebury College Commencement Exercises, Middlebury, Vermont, 6/12/1967" (Item)
  • that- the chapters you co-authored are c oncluding. I congratulate all three of you. There are many reasons why l particularly covet this degree from Middlebury. There is something very reassuring about uncluttered New England villages and countrysides
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, the University of Texas Ex-Students Association Distinguished Alumnus Awards Banquet, 10/16/1964" (Item)
  • is only the beglnnin g of learni ng , and that one new horizon only open s the door to s till another . B y chance, I too!{ a Geology couroe and my whol e perspec ­ tive of the life of man on this physical planet was stretched and b roodened. It happened
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, University of Alabama and American Association of University Women Leadership Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2/25/1966" (Item)
  • . This, I am sure, is changeless. Today on this campus we see the signs of wise planning -- the careful preservation of the old and th e orderly development of the new. The University of Alabama is fortunate to have a man with the stature and vision of Dr
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/12/1965 (Thursday) (Item)
  • ■I' 1965 T h u r sd a y , A u g u st 12th . W as lik e a cam p aign d ay. I had w anted to spend at le a s t one day s e e in g PR O JEC T HEADSTART in o p era tio n . We ch o se New J e r s e y b e c a u s e it w as c lo s e and I could s e
  • New Jersey
  • Lady Bird visits Project Head Start in Newark and Lambertville, New Jersey; airplane filled with press; press conference in the classroom; Lady Bird to Governor's mansion; Lady Bird makes speech in Morven; Lady Bird is interviewed on plane by Los
  • New Jersey
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/28/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • looking - putting away the la s t things that w e re I h ers. I ’ m not about to say goodby to som ebody as dear as W a r r ie Lynn, ju st'^so long fo r now,^ A little a fte r 4 we choppered out to A n d rew s, and went to New Y o r k f or the New Y o
  • & Lady Bird to New York Gala; private dinner with Arthur Krims and Ed Weisl Srs.; reception at Arthur Krim's
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of the Syphax School Playground - Washington, 5/25/1967" (Item)
  • a wonderful display of art work about the playground which you have clone with Mrs. Schulson. Out here, you have cverything from a play giraffe to the new trash­ cans given by your, neighbor. Of course the se thing s don 1t just happen. They are here be cause
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Beautification Awards Ceremony, the White House, 6/6/1967" (Item)
  • , and J. heartily congratulate you on what you have done . At the parking lots, I loved seeing the ingenious bright new plantings t hd.t relieve the solid asphait and c ernent style of those essential parts of a city. B right geraniurns and petunias
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, University of Vermont, 8/20/1964" (Item)
  • but, as your b eloved New E ngland poet Robert Frost said, "The woods are lovely. dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." ### ..
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Petersburg, Virginia, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • state legislators see the new opportunities in education and vote their needed support. For all these reasons the President is proud of you and I came here to say to you that to this democratic President and his wife, the South is a respected, valued
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Ahoskie, North Carolina, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • t he olcl a nd the new South are so vividly joine d . I understand Ahoskie began as a railr oad town and I was advised the best thing I could do fo r it was to bring in a trainload of passengers . I've done my best. I ' m so rry we can 't stay long
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Barter Theater, Abingdon, Virginia, 5/11/1965" (Item)
  • thrilled a countless number of Americans in New York, on the road, in t'~eaters like this, on the stages of college campuses and in little theaters everywhere. To name only a few of the stimulating plays he has produced, let me cite "A Man for All Season
Press release, "Mrs. Johnson's Remarks at School Dedication, 12/6/1965" (Item)
  • . And it certainly is a day I've looked forward to. Coming here , meeting you, and seeing your schools with their new dress of greenery . It look s so nice n ow and you and I can remember how it looked last September when there was no g r ass a nd no plants a t all
Memo, Horace Busby to Lyndon B. Johnson, 1/15/1968 (Item)
  • to Kefauver in New Hampshire. I also agree with this course, generally. I have this doubt. In 1958, you had to go to the UN, et al, to keep the world from regarding Eisenhower as a lame-duck, impotent President. I think it possible that making yourself
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of Padre Island National Seashore, 4/8/1968" (Item)
  • here. For at every beach, there are new shells to find, new dunes to paint. And I believe you who hold Padre Island in your hand will feel very much as the survey party of Colonel Parilla did in 1766. Two hundred years ago, they paid the highest tribute
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Women Doers Luncheon on 'Rediscovering America' - the White House, 5/2/1968" (Item)
  • restoration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Miss Dorothy Vaughan, who first bad the idea of turning an urban renewal project into a whole living history of an early New England seaport town, is sitting in this room. Strawbery Banke does not He along a super
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks, Restoration Luncheon, the White House, 10/15/1968" (Item)
  • OC'I'OBER 15, 1968 It is a pleasure to have each and every one of you here ! As I have traveled about the country, I bave seen your handiwork from Salado, Texas, to Tarrytown, New York. Many of you 1 know through vieits to your restoration project
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Press Breakfast in Honor of Mrs. Johnson by Mrs. Richard Hughes and Mrs. John Bailey, Shelburn Hotel, Atlantic City. N.J., 8/27/1964" (Item)
  • school. Lynda will be a junior in colleg e. T h ey are intensely interested and very g rateful for the work of the Young Citizens for Johnson and have met with them in Wisconsin, California and New York and Washington. I believe
  • New Jersey
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication of Sam Rayburn Statue, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, 1/6/1965" (Item)
  • predicting: 11Sam Rayburn has served this district well in the Texas legislature. In the halls of Congress, he will go far. 11 Two days later, he sat with other new members of the House to hear the inaugural address of the college president who had entered
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/21/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • and Frances L ew ine, whom I think are p ra ctica lly twins; M a rie Smith of the Post; Isabelle Shelton of the Star; Eleanor P o llock of the Philadelphia Bulletin; and Nan Robertson, who w rote such good color s to rie s in the New Y o rk T im es about
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/29/11966 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • lin g s and th ere w as too m uch p u b licity fr o m h is end of it and I f e e l sa d a ll around. A tto rn ey G en era l. - I talked to C lark about the new H e told m e quite sim p ly and stra ig h tfo rw a rd ly that h e w ould not a c c e p t
  • Lady Bird works on remarks for luncheon; Madame Shoumatoff brings new FDR portrait for White House; Peter Hurd portrait of LBJ to be returned; Clark Clifford as possible Attorney General; Lady Bird sees doctors about arthritis in hand; Lady Bird
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Women Doers Luncheon and Panel Discussion on What Citizens Can Do to Help Ensure Safe Streets,' the White House, 1/18/1968" (Item)
  • to grips with it. None of us who read or hear the news can escape the shock of the headlines. A group of hoodlum s rnug an old man and leave him to die. A grocer is rnurdered by a strongarrn robber. The taxi driver is knifed. The quiet man murders hie own
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of the Buchanan School Plaza - Washington, DC, 5/7/1968" (Item)
  • -- emotionally, as weil as physically. They must be attuned to the tempo of our time s -- and how fortunate we are to have the people who see this need and are filling it. This kind of round-the-clock community playground is a new and constructive answer
Press release, "Excerpts from Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of the James Polk Birthplace Pineville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 5/20/1968" (Item)
  • find them. I hope we can encourage them and give them o pportuni ty. more , . The experiment has worked. The stars in their eyes matcbed tbe stars in their new flag. They brought tbeir genius as well as tbeir hearts. Albert Einstein, Andrew Carnegie
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Annual Awards Ceremony of the Committee for a More Beautiful Capital, the White House, 6/11/1968" (Item)
  • last sumrne r 1 - 1­ MORE A variety of projects have been carried out in the schools. ranging from tbe topographical map of the new Braille Trail at the Arboretum which the children of Webb School made , to the forcing and plant'lng of bulbs
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Luncheon for Conservation Leaders - the White House, 11/13/1968" (Item)
  • of our guesta -­ who in quite different ways have tried to do s omething about the cause of conservation. .. ·. „ 1 have asked Mrs. Helen Fena.1i:e to teil ua tbe graes roots story of why the people of New Jersey wanted to preserve a place called
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Introducing Miss Helen Browne, Associate Director of the Frontier Nursing Service, 7/29/1964" (Item)
  • , the more impressed I am with the remarkable things which remarkable women are doing -­ from my friend Ruth Johnson, who is the moving force for the Museum for Western Arts, Fort Worth, Texas, to Dr. Mary Bunting -- new arrival in Washington -- whom we
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Valdosta, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • income of only $186 a y ear to this new time in which Georgia 1s per capita income exceeds $1800. Just since 1960, it has gone up $255 and that 's $ 23 more than the national average. I think 1 can speak truly and proudly of the advances in the economy
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Savannah, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • on Georgia for bats made of Georg ia hardwood. Savannah itself is typical of the American melting pot. It grew from the English under Ogl ethorpe, Salzbugers under Baron von Reck, a colony of wealthy and cultivated Jews, a body of New England Puritans, French
Press release, "Excerpts from Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at Morven, Princeton, N.J., 8/12/1965" (Item)
  • New Jersey
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/10/1969 (Friday) (Item)
  • 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