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- you
all you hope for-and some clays just
for yourself ...
If you are ever in
New York and have any free rime
you know I would always love to see
you ... "
!After the as assinationl
of
Senator
Robert
Kennedy
the
Johnsons immediately sent a tele
gram
- , 0eft) who
spent time as a lecturer at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs. He was escorted through the
museum by volunteer Susan Dimmick.
2
Early Decisions on Vietnam Discussed
A scholarly conference to explore the
early decisions made by the Kennedy
- LBJ Reminisces
(and a note on his
portrait for history)
See pages 2-7
Bronze Portrait
by Robert Berks
Lyndon Johnson'sImage for History
By Harry Middleton
Lyndon Johnson ... seems to be under atlllck from all sides now as
reviewers rub
- , "is just as bipartisan as
breathing."
Credit: Ausrin America11-S1ares111an
David Kennedy
LibraryMounts
Workof Black
Artists
An exhibition which proved to be
immensely popular was "Harlem
Renaissance: Art of Brack America,"
on display in the Library
- and
show some of their favorite wor~
(pages 2-3).
,..
Kennedy
photographer
Cecil
Stoughton caught a delightful
moment of a president at play with
his children (above). Jerry Pulley
preserved an historic meeting
between his president and Prime
Minister
- , and Wesley United Methodist Church Choir.
-I-
Vietnam Redux: McNamara Recants
Echoes from Vietnam-the
war that
will not end-sounded
again.
Robert McNamara, who as Secretary
of Defense in the Kennedy and
Johnson administrations was one of
the principal
-
ber of conversationsduring the period. AttorneyGeneral
Robert Kennedy (left), Senator Hubert Humphrey (cen
ter), and Senator Barry Goldwater (right) were among
the persons President Johnson talked to, all of them fig
ures in the political environment
- for TV coverage of the
anniversary of President Kennedy's
assassination,he accompanied Public
Relations Officer Robert Hicks and
observed the media at work.
Joshua also worked with Lynn
Bell, Curator of the Center for
American History. While there he cat
- walked in, Roosevelt looked up and said, "Claude,
have I ever told you about Robert Livingston? Robert Liv
ingston is an ancestor of my wife, and he signed the Declara
tion of Independence." And the President told him about
Robert Livingston for 15
- anything
else,
Eisenhower. .. was able to keep
clown inflation and thus helped the
country in a way that probably any
one else who might have been presi
dent in the late l 950s would not have
been able to do."
John F Kennedy: "When he
was tragically
- on Equal Employment Opportunity
RFK - Robert F. Kennedy
UT – University of Texas
WH - White House (but not always; sometimes it is spelled out)
WJ - Walter Jenkins
Please be aware that there may be misspellings of proper names.
07/2024
1
lbjlibrary.org
- of the Johnson family received a numhcr
of distinguished visitors lo the Librar Below, top
lo bottom, Mrs. John on welcomes Ambassador
and Mrs. Zhang Wenjin, from the People's Republic
of China; The Right Honorable Sir Robert
Muldoon, Prime Minister of 'cw
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•
F
o
Media Personality Addresses Audience of Friend
Cokie Roberts. star of television
and National Public Radio, and the
daughter of Congressman Hale and
Congresswoman Lindy Boggs. de
lighted an overflow audience with
her analytic deftness
- King. Jr. and Robert Kennedy,
and riots in the cities. But even when
LBJ became a lame-duck president
by taking himself out of the political
picture in March, be continued to get
legislation through the Congress.
When he delivered his State
- changing selections from .the
Library's holdings. Currently, an
exchange of letters between President
Johnson and Senator Robert P.
Kennedy captures a poignant moment
in a frequently tense relationship.
Text of RFK Letter
Dated January 1966, to LBJ
- the entries she wrote
after the tragic day in Dallas in
1963 when President Kennedy was
assassinated and her husband,
Governor John Connally, was
wounded. Mrs. Connally put the
notes aside after writing them and
only discovered them last year.
7
- and
Veterans
1968 Task Force on Workmen's
Disability
Income
Stewart
Orville
Udall
Freeman
12/1/67
10/26/67
Sargent Shriver
Alan Boyd
Robert McNamara
1/19/68
No date
11/22/67
10/19/67
Betty Furness
Ramsey Clark
No date
10/68
Eugene V. Ros tow
Wilbur
- 12, 1964
American Bar Association speech, New York City
October 14, 1964
Alfred E_.. Smith dinner, New York City
-October -15, 1964
Campaign speech, w /Senatorial Candidate
_:. ·. Robert F. Kennedy, Rochester .
. Campaign. speech, w /Senatorial
- Watkins, Ambas
sador Richard Holbrooke, and LBJ biog
rapher Robert Caro. The thirty-minute
programs began airing in May.
4
Lewis and Clark Exhibition Opens
It took an heroic effort. but the Mu
seum staff linished on schedule: Discov
ering America
- premises and offer new solutions.
The leaders of the party, Fritz Mondale and T ddy Kennedy, each
continues o be, in different ways, a Roosevelt legatee. No one then
will any longer live in FDR's shadow as Lyndon Johnson did, but it
may be sometime still
- · rooms.
The Kennedys tried to g ·t the atholic
clergy t > dissuade those in the march
from staying overnight. Many govern
ment agents were assigned toke pan ey
throw Castro. Robert Kennedy ran the
committee, which came up with many
schemes, some of them
- , but the elites
su:ffir also. Consider the Kenneclys.
Ethyl Kem ed '. son David lost his life
to heroin in a luxurious Palm Beach
hot I at age 28. Alcohol and drugs
have touched Robert Kennedy, Jr.,
Matthew Kennedy, Michael Kennedy,
Patrick Kennedy, Ted Kennedy
-
(By permission)
6
Cokie Roberts Continues Her Series On American Women In History
Newswoman Roberts Follows
Her NYT Bestseller, Founding
1lfothers.
There must be some connection
between first-class journalism and
writing good history. The talents
- was hired during the Kennedy Administration. But a clear division of labor
developed: Verdon prepared all of the VIP meals in the White House's basement kitchen while Wright
did all of the home cooking in a private kitchen on the White House's second floor
- was hired during the Kennedy Administration. But a clear division of labor
developed: Verdon prepared all of the VIP meals in the White House's basement kitchen while Wright
did all of the home cooking in a private kitchen on the White House's second floor
- . The selection committee,
appointed by the University President
at the Foundation's request, is com
posed of Bmce Buchanan, Government
Department; Robert Divine, recently
retired from the History Department;
and Richard Schott, LBJ School of
Publie Affairs
-
Eisenhower delivers the State of the Union address at 12:30; afterward LBJ
meets with JFK and Robert Kennedy.
The Democratic Conference meets at 3:30. At the conference, Gore introduces a
motion to expand the Democratic Policy Committee from 9 to 15 members
- by these artists. What
compels them is a necessity to
Back Row: Torkwase Dyson, Arleen Polite, Lillian Blades, David Newton, Channel Guice, Roy LaGrone, Marie Cochran,
Robert Pruitt, Rejina Thomas
Middle Row: Harry Middleton, Janine Jackson, Angelbert Metoyer
- ?
What would he do if he came back
today? And how will the futme deal
with his programs and ideals?
LBJ's prowess in the Senate was
unequalled, Daschle asserted. and
recalled a remark attributed to then
Senator John Kennedy, who chose
LBJ as a running
- Library
staffers Laura Harmon
and Kendra Mayer
dispensed cake and ice
water to students.
Photo by Robert Hicks
Future Forum and IBM Sponsor Education Inquiry
In February 2004 the LBJ Library
Future Forum convened a panel of four
experts to consider
- was instituted by
President Kennedy, who pre ented the first award on
July 4, 1963. The medal has smce been presented lo 133
Americans.
Mrs. Johnson's medal is on display at the Library.
Ford visits Library while planning his own
Former President Gerald Ford
- reunion. They are: Willard
Wirtz (labor), Alexander Trowbridge (Commerce), Joseph Barr (Treasury), John Gardner (HEW), Clark Clifford
(Defense), Robert Wood (HUD), Alan Boyd (Transportation), Rober,t McNamara (Defense), Anthony Celebrezze
(HEW), Orville
- been among my husband's
respected and trusted advisors.
Three years ago this month our g reat President Kennedy
acc epted from the city of Fort Smith the deed to this historic
ground. I feel certain that he would have considered it a privilege,
as I do
- A. Palermo,
"Robert F. Kennedy, The War in
Members of the University of Texsa faculty-Bruce
Buchanan, Government:
Schott, LBJ School-who comprise the committee that evaluates applications
to determine the bi-annual recipients.
8
Vietnam, and De Til ·r i
- to writing," (histo
rian) Robert A. Divine noted in a
1985 article on the LBJ Library.
"Johnson preferred to deal with
issues orally, either in face-to-face
discussion or by telephone." One
result, wrote Divine, is that the LBJ
Library's extensive holdings
- to the publication of it
tin ling , nothing has generated more
qu tions of Lyndon Johnson's admin
i tration than the way he handled the
Kennedy assassination.
ne major interpreter of that epi
• d i • Max Holland. Johnson biog
rapher Robert Dallek writes of him
-
STRAUSSDELIVERSSECOND ERWIN LECTURE
Ambassador Robert S. Strauss, U.S. Special Representative
for Trade Negotiations in the Carter Administration and
Board member of the LBJ Foundation, gave the second Frank
C. Erwin, Jr. Lecture December 12 in the Library.
The Erwin
- JFK and VP candidat LBJ at a
y
at Rice University. (Kennedy's sister Jean mith follows the candi
dates).
An rly pictur f six f the original Apoll astronauts with Robert
. Gilruth, director of Manned pace Center (center). The six: Vir •
(Gus) Grissom
- LBJaide; and from
the University of Texas: Vice Presi-
dent William Livingston, Historians
Robert Divine and Lewis Gould,
Political Scientist Melissa Collie and
Dr. Barbara Griffith from the Barker
Texas History Center.
Political Columnist Dave McNeely
- Pickle paid a
beautiful tribute to the memory of
Lyndon Johnson. Then Congressman
Ray Roberts in a moving talk
reminded those present of th man)
sterling qualities of Jesse Kellam.
Both Congressman Roberts and
Congressman Pickle were former
staffers of NY
