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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Ten Year Progress Report, 1981," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , entertainers, and Hill Country neighbors. Among them were repre­ sentatives of the American political scene from the New Deal to the Nixon Administration. ln a nationally televised ceremony the University of Texas, which built and continues to own the Library
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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Government's Stake in American Culture, September 14, 1995," LBJ Library (Item)
  • the Endowments for Len years, and he sponsored legislation that established th Institute of Museum Services, which provides modest 6'Tants lo museums of every kind. Now president emeritus of the nation's largest private university, New York University, Brademas
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 21, 15 January 1981," LBJ Library (Item)
  • -=-; _Among Friends ofLBJ ISSUE NUMBER XXI,JANUARY15, 1981 A NEWSLETTEROF TH£ FRIENDS OF THE LBJ LIBRARY Mrs. Johnson greets new Board member George Christian. Foundation Board Meets in Special Session Members of The Lyndon Baines John­ son
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks Accepting the Eleanor Roosevelt Candlestick Award at the Women's National Press Club Dinner, 12/2/1968" (Item)
  • was I unable to find that she had made a previous visit. The process of leavi‫ם‬g Washingto ‫ ם‬after 34 years is a Uttle like drowning. All your past flashes before you. We shall alwaye love this town• We came here in the high elation of the New De al
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, United Church Women Luncheon, 3/24/1965" (Item)
  • new weapons" in the war on poverty. I have been working particularly on Project Head Start which we h ope will be an important breakthrough in edu
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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Five Year Report," LBJ Library (Item)
  • leaders. film stars, educators, entertainers, friends and neighbors from the Texas hill country - and representatives of t.hc highcsl echelons of the American political scene from the New Deal to the ixon Administration. At President Johnson's request
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, 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 14, 10 November 1978," LBJ Library (Item)
  • movies are in the Johnson Library. This wealth of unique material is drawn upon by people from a variety of backgrounds, from scholars researching biographies to producers of news documentaries, from photo editors to members of the public who simply want
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 35, 1 November 1985," LBJ Library (Item)
  • A New Portrait of LBJ LIBRARYVOLUNTEERSBEGIN SIXTH SEASON The LBJ Library program hegan in 1980 \\ ith 16 dcxcn1s (those who prm 1de guided tours) and ha!-.stcadtl) grown to 105 volunteers-both men ,rnd \ ·omen-working in four different areas
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 40, 15 May 1987," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 51, 15 December 1991," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Hyman, Professor of History at Rice University; Dr. Morton Keller, Pro­ fessor of History at Brandeis Univer­ sity; Donald Bacon, formerly senior legislative editor of U.S. News and World Report and co-author of Ray­ burn: A Biography; Dr. Raymond Smock
Folder, "Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)," Reference File (Item)
  • !Plfj. 4 ' u. J am uvzi.i:1..ng, M /Ji.Aedo11. o/. t.Ae Natwnal !ln.v~M CorrmU.i:.ee on F. O-:1. (!]ff 1fledi..on aAiAM /Mm ma.nu pM an4, ·i?p,i 'CJJnmerd:✓.J . . made b!J, t.h.e 'Pll.e44 and. oih.eA new-:1 medi.o.. AILe !JOU adve.lt.4e
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 5, 25 April 1975," LBJ Library (Item)
  • THEECONOMY: As The Cartoonist Saw It Then Inflatiun and rrcession command a stronghold on today·.- nl'WS spotlight. A. they struggle with the eronomy. President ford and the new Con­ gress are faking more an a few ja s rom e powerful pens of editorial
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, National Convention of American Home Economics Association, Detroit, Michigan, 6/24/1964" (Item)
  • that the cities r each out for you - ­ to help people in the public housing units and the crowded slum areas who do not know how to cope with the new and unaccustomed conditions of city life. Indeed, as I consider your pr ofe ssion, there are so many ways in which
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, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • 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
Press release, "Excerpts from Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at Morven, Princeton, N.J., 8/12/1965" (Item)
  • New Jersey
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 57, 1 April 1994," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 63, 1 August 1996," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . 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
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 10/24/1964" (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 82, October 2003," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 6, 18 July 1975," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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