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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Douglass, which played to a full auditorium at the Library. 2 OtherProgramsAt The Library.• • . . . included Verne Newton, new Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York (below right), who discussed "The Cambridge Spies," whose
  • . E, c:r>girl there must have kissed me! h. la la' What a vari ty of lip tick:· "That co ral gc l u nght ab ut New )brk Ci on that d.t>:· General Powell aid. ··r knov. h • ,;
  • Jimmie Allred writes LBJ letter of thanks for treatment LBJ gave him in Washington when he was there and for “wonderful gathering out at your home.” 2/16 Banquet of New Dealers in Austin, attended by Texas federal, state and county officials
  • 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
  • included vivid references to nature in love letters to Lyndon Johnson.Several of these lel'ters were released recent­ ly in connection wirh rhe new "First Lady's Gallery .. exhibit. One of them Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor. 6 includes this passage
  • THING . END QUOTE. YOU AND THE PRESIDENT HAVE MY CONTINUED LOYALTY, AFFECTION AND IN SAN FRANCISCO, I HAVE ALWAYS FELT THAT QUO TE FULL SUPPORT GREGORY PECK. 3 2 ----- 45 Wellington Road Delmar, New. York 12054 January 21, 1968 Dear Mrs. Carpenter
  • ranging across th experiences a.-, ·1 Harvard stuJcnt. rough rider in the Spanish American War. rancher. New York Police Comnm,sioncr. Gov­ ernor of i\ew )nrk. Vit:c President President. and in rctire­ mc.nt The text comes main!· from his diaries
  • by the Bureau of the Budget. The Vice President reported that he had written to department heads within the month asking for a report on new agency actions taken to carry out equal employment opportunity in Government employment. He stated that the problems
  • 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
  • -- 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • in 1968, and Joe Namath, the quarterback of the unlikely New York Jets in their Super Bowl victory over the Baltimore Colts. 7 Remains Not Viewable: An Evening With John Sacret Young By Robert Hicks, Communications Officer Award-winning writer, director
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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