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  • an advance copy of a column by Holme• Alexander, known Waahia1ton columniat, which la devoted to a diacuaaion of Seaator Johaaon and American forelan policy. I underatand McNau1ht i• ae'Ddina you a copy of thia column. The Syndicate baa informed ua that aay
  • . Mark B. Lewis . Asst. Dir., USIA {{_Mr. William M. Steen Dept. of Labor, Wash. , D. C. Russell B. Adams Vice Pres., Pan American Airways,· Wash., D. C. Mr. Alvin Ailey Choreographer, NYC Hamilton Fish Armstrong Editor, Foreign Affairs, NYC Mr. William
  • The Whit e Hous e today announced tha t a selectio n o f American painting s fo r th e Executive Win g o f th e Whit e Hous e chose n by th e Nationa l Collectio n o f Fin e Art s have bee n loaned fo r us e i n th e Executiv e Win g i n th e Pres s
  • Corps d. Monetary Policy e. Foreign f. Aid of space exploration) Significance EPILOGUE: (a few words wri.tten especially his faith for this by ,the President compilation, as a statesman summarising of American democracy) ... '\ I. We have
  • probably know it better than the natives. Way back there in the spring of 1937 I had an instructor named Ray E. Lee, who had been editor of the Austin American- 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Austin; George Reedy; examining FBI files for potential oral history board members; LBJ’s involvement in the oral history program and reaction to what was said; H.T. Zachary and other failed interviews; Everett Dirksen; Rufus Youngblood and Dorothy
  • . Sincerely yours, eefe i s trative Assistant to senator Taylor JAK. nip THE NEWS AND OBSERVER .JOSEPHUS DANIELS, PRHIDKNT RALEIGH, N. C. August 26., 1947 Dear Mr. Marsh: It was good to receive your letter and to recall our meeting at Austin., Texas
  • Roosevelt was its eager servant and faithful defender before th11 whole world. Tens ot mil.lions of Americans shared the Roosevelt belief in 1933. But not one in a million saw so early and so clearly as he_ thte world-shaking significance of the Hitler
  • for the report of The Austin-American Statesman. Thank God it was Adenauer. Erhard, I would have been completely lost. G: Okay. Johnson had, as vice-president, been chairman of the Space Council. R: Right. G: I know early on there was some question about
  • Nichols about when she was his pupil down at Cotulla--and I think Dorothy was one of the few white children in the school. At least 80 per cent of them or 90 per cent of them were Chicanos, or MexicanAmerican or Spainish Americans or whatever they wanted
  • in Austin. The Percy V. Pennybacker wrote a history of Texas which was a textbook which we had studied in school. So I happened to see the paper that morn- ing--the Austin American-Statesman, I suppose--announcing the death of this member. It wasn't
  • • coa.li6arlq 0. .,.taetlc American pilblic .• od it• fm\Mtl.call7 lft•ff•cti•• .,...t'1*Ule, rec•gt.1" tN tna threat of w.-1• ,o-at• '. M4. are vllliaa to fipt. lt u. &:M i .. c. ltrotll. 1'M •urrender of h7 ,Allu4 .d.alat4. la lad.ln will ....a . . M4 of 11
  • , particularly the [Austin] American-Statesman, our main paper in our district. She interviewed him on atomic energy and he said something like, "It's going to take a lot of prayer and a lot of work to control it." She said, "All right, I'll do the praying; you
  • ; the Johnsons' desire to have a son; James Forrestal; the 1901 Dillman Street house in Austin and its residents; a trip through South Texas with John and Nellie Connally; visiting Jim West's garage; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fore; measuring support for a 1948 Senate
  • in Northeast Texas, thirty-six miles from Dallas, Texas, and went from there, when I graduated from high school, to Baylor University at Waco, then worked a year in Austin and then moved to Alice in 1941. G: And you took a law degree? D: Yes, I
  • biographical information; how Dean got a position as a lawyer in Austin; Dean's military and law career history; the political situation in Jim Wells county in the mid-1940s; the connection between Dean's law firm and the George Parr family
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: ROBINSON RISNER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Risner's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: May we begin by my asking you when you were assigned to Southeast Asia originally? R: I was assigned to Kadena Air Base
  • as the president who refused to stand for reelection in order that he might use his great talents in the statesmanship of the cause of peace in Viet Nam and the world. President Johnson is a great leader, a great statesman, he's a great American, he's a great man
  • , you know, "Fine. I'd like to have you work on the staff." I had been working for Charlie Green, who was the editor of the [Austin] American Statesman, and before that I had been working in journalism and for the journalism director at North Texas
  • [Homer] Thornberry, then Congressman Thornberry from Austin, asked me to come to Washington as his administrative assistant in June of 1955. of 1955 as his aide. Fortunately, I accepted the offer and came in June And then, like so many Texans, I am still
  • imitators an.d American imitators went different routes. The United States was an expanding market of its own with .a country btgger than western Europe to grow in. Germany fooght. for raw ma tar - ials and trade outlets in among her neighbors~ resulting
  • Austin (Tex.)
  • INN, ALBEN W. BARKLEY, KY , WARREN R , AUSTIN , VT, JOSEPH F . Ci,UFFEY , PA . STYLES BRIDGES . N , H . CARTER GLASS, VA. ALEXAND ER WI L EY , WI S. JAMES M . T UNNELL, DEL. CARL A, HATCH, N , MEX. L IS T ER H ILL , ALA. aeon w. LUCAS , IL.L
  • nationalities and set­ ting up a schedule under which we can all live; but we are in it and must go through to the end and we Americans are so sure we are in the right that we can not see anything but victory for the Allies. Tpere is not a lot going on in Austin
  • . :. ! • 2. ..~ State and Defense to prepare position on Latin American arms in Senate in response to Mansfield. ·. ....,.. ~~ ~. (" 9. Sec. Rusk to respond immediately to Mansfield's suggestion about - . Ambassadorial appointment (Sec. Rusk has
  • and market changes. All of these sharply affect the American farmer and the related Agri-business sector of our n£.tion. Obviously, it is impossible to forecast or control these f orces. To protect the farmer, the Congress developed farm programs -w:·. th
  • a southern manifesto I would think would be very similar to how he would feel about a northern manifesto, one that said we must, at whatever cost to a civic or political peace that is bought on the backs of disenfranchised black Americans, we must move
  • -(Interruption) We landed in Fredericksburg--my sister Josefa was there and her husband and little Rodney--and went there. That was the twenty-fifth. Then I came on in to Austin. Yes, August 25. All right, August 26, 1955, I went down to the American
  • - Is it time for Labor peace and Labor racketeers? factory racketeers and fifth colunmists? If there are to be Are we to put an election eye on Labor? · It is alright f or a candidate , but not for a statesman who is going into the winter seeing
  • • • ,.r,• "' • ... I t fl I • J • "" .. ..- ., - .. ..... l. ..... 'I: I !II,~ ,,t •• I ■ - ~ > .-< ..•••.,....,, .. '" ,._.,, "1 • Ir' .. ~ I' 33 --UNITED STATES INFORMATION AMERICAN SERVICE. EMBASSY TELEPHONE 56
  • with the commission or the State Parks and Wildlife Department, or that had any matters pending before that agency. And I think only two papers have ever published--the San Angelo Standard Times and the Austin Statesman are the only ones that ever published the fact
  • of Foreign Affairs, the concern of the American Government in view of informa.tion about an imminent Turkish landing in Cyprus. He also informed Mr. Costopoulos of the action taken by the American Govern­ ment with the Government of Turkey, in order to avert
  • a conservative. And I think his Great Society program was a one-way road to dissolution of the American way of life. I think his poverty program is going to haunt us for years to come. Those of us who supported him for president, and I'm one of them, when
  • Biographical information; 13 years in DC; disillusioned with LBJ after he became President; Great Society Program to haunt us for years: it awarded indolence; LBJ a politician, not a statesman
  • INTERVIEWEE: CALLAN GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Graham, very briefly sketch where you came from and how you ended up working with Coke Stevenson. CG: I have lived in Junction, Texas
  • back as director of the National Youth Administration. I suspect it was not long after he came back because Austin was a small town in those days and those in the political world all knew each other pretty well. I know that I did not know him
  • , either one, have made any ser­ ioua erro•s ot commission. Your errors have been of omission. One year aco on February first, you were a &reat shining li&ht be­ fore the .American people. Today I hear neither your name or Wal­ lace's one-tenth as much as I
  • THE DENVER POST September 28, 1965 .\ .' . American ' political motivations, ·. India had no alternative but to WASHINGTON-The United accept the offer, for without the · States has offered India 500,000 additional shipments it would tons
  • 29, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: WILLARD DEASON INTERVIEWER: Walter Richter PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 R: What we're doing here today--this is April 29, 1986, and Bill Deason and I, Walter Richter, have decided that it would
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: "Years later, when I was on Johnson's staff, Sam Houston felt only irritation when the Majority Leader was hailed in newspapers
  • . sto·ry partly ofi, and appealed to him not to sp~ead it. a.rrison said he 1ad story fr·o:m ' 1a loyal American pretty high . •. ' 1 e doubt he got it from his br·ather in lhi ( "..'•owles. isn't that dumb). April 15, 1965/5:30 pm AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD MOREHEAD INTERVIEWER: Christie L. Bourgeois PLACE: Mr. Morehead's office, Barker Texas History Center, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 M: When we were talking before, we were talking about some things I'd like to add a little
  • and the 1947 Texas right-to-work law; organizing urban African Americans in the 1930s under Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Price Daniel's 1952 U.S. Senate campaign based on tidelands issues; the Heman Sweatt lawsuit against the University of Texas Law School
  • Washington, D. c. Mr. Vice President, Please consider this note as an endorsement of the Adminis­ tration's stand on the Berlin issue. I am proud that you have been one of the firmist leaders on this problem. Right. now we need every true statesman to stand
  • the force (with conventional capability for use or threat in Asia). · 5. A British c 'o ntribution of three or four POLARIS submarines to be matched by an equal number of American POLARIS subs (or, as second best, by an equivalent American contdbution
  • know how to read the figures at that time. We weren't aware of the fact--you know, most Americans have the concept that figures don't lie. Well, of course they don't, but people looking at the figures can lie to themselves if they don't understand