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  • -a blazing wall of blooming plants and flowers kept com,tantl) fresh. THE EXHIBITION (continued) A tourist examines the bronze portraits of Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson by the sculptor Robert Berks. The President's sittings for his portrait, Mrs. Johnson
  • , and Taylor by an appoint­ ment he igned naming one Robert Gamble to be Navy Agent for the port of Pensacola, May 4, 1850.) Eleanor Crook regretted the two sub­ stitutions in a letter to Library Director Harry Middleton: "As with Andrew Jackson, it has proven
  • rendition of 'Taps." LBJ Library public relations officer Robert Hicks served birthday cake and lemonade to UT students on the campus West Mall. atb. Catherine Robb spoke at the LBJ Grove. 2 From the Photo Archives The continuing Middle East cri
  • Margaret Wiley P-38 – LBJ’s Capitol office PCEEO - President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity RFK - Robert F. Kennedy UT – University of Texas WH - White House (but not always; sometimes it is spelled out) Please be aware that there may
  • for much of the three days of debate. 1/16 LBJ reports that Eisenhower’s budget is nearly $6 million above the goal the President set for this year as a candidate in 1951. 1/17 LBJ meets with Walter Reuther, Hubert Humphrey and Robert Oliver. 1/18 LBJ
  • of President Kennedy's task force on health and social security. 'ow he is a· member of the National Commission on Social Security and chairman of the NationaJ Commission on Unemployment Compensation. Professor Cohen·s experience with HEW began in 1961 when
  • a factor in a successful membership drive in Austin which recently brought in almost 600 new members of the "Friends of the LBJ Library." The total number of members of that organization now stands at 2,575. THE LIBRARY WITH ROBERT FLYNN, author
  • to go head-to-head. The 1960 contrast between Nixon and John F. Kennedy illustrated Marshall McLuhan's dictum about the risks "hot" personalities face on television when confronting "cool" personalities. And, under the klieg lights, JFK was definitely
  • to go head-to-head. The 1960 contrast between Nixon and John F. Kennedy illustrated Marshall McLuhan's dictum about the risks "hot" personalities face on television when confronting "cool" personalities. And, under the klieg lights, JFK was definitely
  • : Charles Corkran, Joan Kennedy, Tina Lawson, Walt Roberts, Cary Yarrington, William Thompson-Wa~hington o//ege Photography: Paul Ch va/ier, Frank Wolfe, J. Tyler Campbell-Washington Staff Assistance· Yolanda 8001er, Lou Anne Missildine 12 College
  • of the reciprocal trade (tariff-lowering) and foreign aid programs. 1/10 News report: Senate Labor Subcommittee chairman, John Kennedy--often considered too right-wing by many Democrats--will strike a deft coup by unveiling his own labor program for the Senate
  • 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
  • Employment Opportunity RFK - Robert F. Kennedy S212 - LBJ’s Capitol office UT – University of Texas VM – Vicki McCammon WH - White House (but not always; sometimes it is spelled out) WJ - Walter Jenkins Please be aware that there may be misspellings of proper
  • press conference jointly held by her and six other persons identifiE>d with the Kennedy and Johnson Administra­ tions: Senator Hubert Humphrey, Robert Kennedy Jr., Clarence Mitchell, Joseph A. Califano, Kenneth O'Donnell, and E:sther Peterson
  • from the collections of the Library of Congress, the National Ar­ chives, the Ohio Historical Society, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy Presidential Libraries. From March 15 to April 25, 1976
  • to Charles S. Robb went on tem­ porary exhibition in the Library on the 20th anniversary of that event, December 9, 1967. It wm be on display until June of this year. beck as Lyndon Johnson's Mifitary Advisor"; Robert Hilderbrand, "The Johnson
  • . Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense: "Today there are 50,000 nuclear weapons m the world, roughly 25,000 U.S. and 25.000 Soviet Union. I don't know any anns control negotia­ tor ... who i so optimistic as to believe that in the next 10 years
  • the conversations from November 22, 1963 through March 1965, and plan to open the conver ations for April and May 1965 early next year. 4 Changing of the Guard: Director Middleton to Retire By Robert Hicks Public Relations Ot'ficer Harry Middleton, long-time
  • )' The LBJ School of Public affairs and The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Emeritus Robert Divine stressed that the U.S. fought in Vietnam for many of the same reasons it fought the other wars of this century. 4 Vietnam War Professors Qiang Zhai
  • . G. Lo£ of Colorado, a leader in solar energy development. The Award Com ittee of the LBJ Foundation is chaired by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and Dr Wil­ liam McGill and includes George R. Brown, Dr. Robert A. Good, Miss Linda Howard, Arthur Krim, Mrs
  • Stone's film, "JFK," which is based on the allegation that President John F. Kennedy's as·sassination was a conspiratorial effort invol,ving some of the highest officers of government in league with industrialists who feared that Kennedy would end the U.S
  • President John F. Kennedy was shot, Ho pice Austin patient Mary Da is Williams r calJs preci c­ ly what she was doing when she h ard th news. "I was ta.kin" three pies out of the oven h n I h ard. I just couldn't be! ie e ir,'· she said. What's important
  • senators receive choice assignments: Robert Byrd, Thomas Dodd, Gale McGee on Appropriations; Clair Engle, Bob Bartlett and Howard Cannon on Armed Services. The Johnsons’ dog, Little Beagle Johnson, is returned home after being lost for 2 days. He apparently
  • the Library's doors including Robert Wood, former Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; K. LeMoyne Billings. Board Member of the John F. Kennedy Library Corporation; House Democratic Majority Leader Thomas (Tip) O'Neill and Congressman J
  • •30a-President at Camp David, Maryland A.mbassador Ellsworth Bunker, U.S.Amb. w/ to Vietnam l. ... i ..... ... ..w ~ Secretary of State Dean Rusk Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara General Earle Wheeler George Christian, Walt Ro stow, Jim Jones
  • •30a-President at Camp David, Maryland A.mbassador Ellsworth Bunker, U.S.Amb. w/ to Vietnam l. ... i ..... ... ..w ~ Secretary of State Dean Rusk Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara General Earle Wheeler George Christian, Walt Ro stow, Jim Jones
  • from Attorney General Robert Kennedy, offering to serve in Vietnam "in any capacity." THE VICE PRESIDENT features a bold "pop-art" painting of Hubert Humphrey by Edward Weiss, and documents tracing the long relationship between HHH and LBJ. After
  • cities and a campaign of vitriol by racist Alabama Governor George Wallace, a Demoetat who challenged Johnson in several primaries. LBJ, who assumed the presidency on the death of John F. Kennedy the year before, was running fot election in his own right
  • cities and a campaign of vitriol by racist Alabama Governor George Wallace, a Demoetat who challenged Johnson in several primaries. LBJ, who assumed the presidency on the death of John F. Kennedy the year before, was running fot election in his own right
  • Archives of the Foreign Service; Federal Republic of Germany; A us tin-Travis County Collection; Harry Ransom Center; National Trust for Historic Preservation; Texas Memorial Museum; John F. Kennedy Library; the Adjutant General's Office, State of Texas
  • in the Kennedy & Johnson dministration ": Robert Daile!-, "Lyndon B. Johnson. A Biography"; Sally Davenport, "Policy Stralegies for a Progres­ sive Agenda: Adopting and Implementing the Higher Education Act"; Dorothy C Donnell , ·•u Strategic Options in Viet­ nam
  • when Strongbow IEarl of Pembroke] landed in County Wexford to start the long march of Irish misery voted for him. Once Kennedy was elected, that was the end of the American Irish. ... You see, there is never a real ma­ jority in the United States
  • that I wasn't on drugs. [Laughter] That's P-A-S-S- -D. [Laughter] l 've not talked a lot about v hat happened in [the election cri­ sis in] Florida, but I do in this book. My really good pal, Bob Strauss, for whom you've named the Robert S. Strauss Center
  • ; Hanard ';itkol'I, l!nhersity of !'t'\\ llampshirc; Robert H. Ah,ug, l nhersity of Te a, al Au,tin. Radical Politic, in the Thirties Oa,id A. Shannon, Lnh·er, ity of \ irginia; Da,id H. Bennett, Syracuse linhersity: Donald R. McCo), llnhersily of Kan
  • of the year. They included: • enator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. who served as assistant ·ecretal) of lab r during the Kennedy anJ Johnson admin­ istratiom,. and later as a-;sislant to Presid ·nt RichJrd !\ ,on a
  • Symington is placed on Armed Services, Mike Mansfield on Foreign Relations, John Kennedy on Labor and Public Welfare, Price Daniel and Henry Jackson on Interior and Insular Affairs. Kennedy, Symington and Jackson will also serve on Government Operations
  • rebels with­ out a cause, "with their contempt for the squares of the world," and for America at large, "an old country ruled by old men." The election of John Kennedy in 1960 signaled a seismic shift. A new generation was taking over. The New Frontier
  • by the acquisition of the personal papers of columnist Drew Pearson and former Johnson cabinet members John Gardner and Robert Wood, and the diary of Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson. In its continuing solicitation program the Library has now acquired the papers of more
  • by Robert Knudsen Some 600 members of he Friends f the LBJ Library from around Washington, D.C. gathered in the nation's capital on \1arch l J for the premiere of the film, ''The First Lady: Portrait of Lady Bird Johnson." The e\ent brought out much
  • Government, but the University owns il. The LBJ Library was the first Presidential Library to be built on a University campus. (The John F. Kennedy Library has since risen on the University of Massachusetts' Dor­ chester campu , and the Gerald R. Ford