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  • 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
  • , 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • and women home to the towns and cities of this state with a new thrust of ideas. We hope that you will put into the business and political community of Florida and your zest and intelligence. Surely a nation and a state which masters all the intricacies
  • , 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
  • Library archival staff from oral history transcripts and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive. discoverlbj.org A new office policy for LBJ’s Senate staff goes into effect today: Female staffers
  • 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
  • as long as there are communities like Allentown and public servants l ike your late b e l ove d , Mayor John T. Gross. The lampost ga rdens, the hand­ some town bourses and t he new Civic Center eloquently testify to the £.act t hat h e was not only
  • halfway." Caro's first book, The Power Broker, appeared in 1974. It was the story of Robert Mo­ ses, the man who virtually created New York City as it appears today. Caro necessary to tell the story of New York City. The resultant book won both
  • Hardy Hollers speaks at Austin Rotary Club. 4/4 After three-hour session in Mayor Miller’s office, the strike called by IBEW against KTBC is settled. At no time was the station off the air. Construction of new 5 kw transmitter installations was slowed
  • the Ohio River Ba.sin. Then men of little vision cried out against this as ' 1 pork barrel n. They were a gainst this progress. Well, we ignored their warnings. we moved ahead . Since \~o rld Jlar II alone, over >21 billion of new industry develop­ ment has
  • to the commission, but Johnson was appar­ ently thinking of a new role for the commission along the lines advocated by Goldman, Busby, Barrett, Marsh, and Califano. On September 17, 1965, W. Marvin Watson relayed a Presidential message to Goldman requesting
  • at the Lyndon Eames Johnson Library m Austin. -The Dallas Morning News November 5, 1978 World War I veteran salutes a11 members of service organizationr;i lay memorial wreathR C remon,>hegin~ at 2 The opening was a community affair. The Austin-Travis County V
  • 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
  • . Attends dinner at the French Embassy before attending opening of the Mona Lisa exhibit at the National Gallery. 1/9 Attends WH congressional leadership breakfast, then Senate Democratic Caucus at the Capitol. Opens the Senate and swears in new members
  • .... " 3 Reflections ofLBJ(continued) The Observations of a Young Idealist Reston The last few months brought re­ flections on Lyndon Johnson from several different sources. James Reston, Jr., a writer like his New York Times-man-father, is currently
  • 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
  • /1 New Year’s Day at the Ranch. In Washington by 1/4. (1/2 & 1/3 missing) 1/4 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) flies to NYC. CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and girls already there). Returns 1/6 to Washington on JFK’s plane. 1/11 LBJ flies to Fort Worth
  • 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
  • Calcutta. And the re ·ult fwas) Vietnam ... Lyndon Johnson inherited it and was su,pi­ cmus of it. but he couldn't pcrsuaJc hims If that he 1-..new more about the suhje t than the people whos good fortune it was to know more about such things than the likes
  • Among Issue umber LXXU, January, 2000 New Exhibit Features Work of Cartoon Genius Bud Butler Story on Page Two A Romp Through Peace and War: Illustrations and cari­ catures of everyday life in the early 20th century make up the newest exhibit
  • charge of introducing new gods and corrupting the youth of Athens. He didn't do ither ... but he did bring on the wrath of powerful peo­ ple in Athens, because he questioned them; he made them look silly, he humiliated them. . . . And then in that great
  • when to mow, when the land is most hospitable to seeding. But you have given us the biggest garden of the world in the roadsides of OID' state.'' She pointed out that Georgia, Oklahoma and New Mexico have developed programs of highway beautification
  • when to mow, when the land is most hospitable to seeding. But you have given us the biggest garden of the world in the roadsides of OID' state.'' She pointed out that Georgia, Oklahoma and New Mexico have developed programs of highway beautification
  • presents Mr. Sam Award to Joe Martin, Jr., at Touchdown Club Annual Awards Dinner. 1/14 Attends dedication ceremonies for new Alexandria, Va. hospital. 1/15 Meets with Sec. Hodges and members of Trade Commission going to Burma. At noon, hosts lunch in P
  • of ourselves as a very young, very new nation. It is sometimes difficult for us to realize that among the nations of the world we ha-Ye the oldest democ ratic constitution in existence. Surely the exper iences of your years here at school have brought you very
  • of this remarkable ins titution, a n d here you are today -- ready to turn y our knowledg e and skills to new fi elds o But with a ll you&.· per c ~pt:ion, with all your brainpower, I w m1der if you know h ow gr eat i s the pride in you of those who are i n th i s
  • , 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
  • will please you as much as it does me. This morning , the Committee ! or the Preservat ion of the White House acc epted a dist ing uished new possession -- a silver coffee urn purchased in the late 18th Centur >' by John Adams in Eng land and described in his
  • with water. Every drpp is precious. Yeste1·day, I dedicated a new, man-made lake in Hartland which embodies tllo concept of Water Harvestin[, Local, state, and national agencies have cxciting plans for the development of that lake. As 1 drove into Woodstock
  • , thr ough Head Start, many t housands of children are receiving the help and the challenge they need to enable them to enter school with hope. From the resaarch laboratories, new vaccines bave been created to p revent measles and German measles. - 1­
  • an America~ you have to know them, as well a s the cities like :New York, Francisco, and ';/auhing ton. It i s ver:1 appropriate the. t we end our trip in just the kind of set ting whe:!:' L our democracy b cgins. Over the past five da ys . I have had
  • in the van of the progressive spirit of the New South, historically it has unfailingly been in that vanguard. North Carolina has not only seemed to take the lead in pro­ viding to its boys and girls, young men and women that indispensable way to a better
  • . U11ore jobs than there otherwise could have been. Wirtz 1s In Oklahoma alone, when the tax reduction is totally effective, it will generate an increase in total income of $315, 000, 000 and create 21, 000 new jobs. The poverty bill is helping us
  • t o its nati ve Indians has come late but it haa come. And new we all face the hop eful but challenging fut ure togethe r. Not long ago , t he President t old a delegation of visitors: "Every night when I go t o bed I ask myself wh at did we do t
  • . 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