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Issue Number LXVIl. March, 2002
The Future of Presidential Libraries: A Symposium
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Congress created tbe nation's
presidential libraries system in order
lo provide facilities which, a a min
imum, maintain the papers of the
nation's chief
- , a junior at Southwest
Texas State University.
Horace Busby, long-time aide to
and associate of Lyndon Johnson
and now a consultant in Wash
ington, D.C., reminisced about
the man he knew at a breakfast
meeting of Washington alumni of
the LBJ School
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ly probing as searchli!{hts for new and exciting
ways to advanc£• scholarship."
Seven major national sympos.ia ha vr been
hosted by lhe Library. Each has been open to
the puhlil' at no charge. This serit's, jointly
sponsored with tht' University
- have a
fourth church.
Mrs. Johnson and Nellie Connally shared happy memories.
Photo by Sherry Justus, National Park Service
"I recall his involvement. after he retired, in building a non
profit nursing home in Austin. He wanted the private sector
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uncle, grandfather, teacher, sec
retary, National Youth Agency
director, congressman, senator,
minority leader, majority lead
er, vice president, president
Lyndon Johnson was a man with
many titles and many roles, for
many people.
But in all of them
- , Nan Robertson suggested, is that ·'nobody remembers
what happened the day before yesterday." From the floor, Lynda
Robb echoed the thought: Many people "don't remember that
the big advances only came about 20 years ago. some of them."
The problem
- the people Lyndon likes .... I want to
make it a very pleasant night for Lyn
don. You've been the messenger of a lot
of bad news, and sometimes Lyndon can
mistake the messenger and the message,
and I never want that to happen to you.··
Califano went
- for making people laugh at themselves.
and traveled everywhere together, as
he tended to the family oil business.
His diary sketchbooks, begun in
1923, recorded the people and places
that he saw as he and his bride criss
crossed the Western Hemisphere,
from
- of Texas.
Mr . Carter told an audience of 1,000 in the LBJ
auditonum that "if we can educate the nation about th
myths surrounding menlal health, and reduce the fear of
mental illness and t e stigma attached to it," the goal of pro
viding adequate
- ." And
"this 1s where our special e hibits, ever changing, capture
for a time some past but significant events in our national
story.''
"As I look into the future," she said, "I hope this Library
will be always animated by those words-'always trying and
always
- . That was a
big advance; it was so nice he didn't bury alive with him
6,000 people and horses to commemorate his death and to
accompany him into the next life! That habit had existed
prior to his time. After him there was less burying concu
bines, soldiers
- Arts anJ the
Center for merican History of The Uni
versity of Texas at Austin. Major funding
came from the We th People grant pro
gram of the National Endowment for the
Humanities whose chairman, Dr. Bruce
Cole. participated in the openings
ion
along
- ;.,eparate session~. probed
three issues of compelling concern: prioriti1:, m c
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Johnson headed a group of people
with two separate visions of beauti
fying the nation's capital. One group,
led by Committee members Walter
Washington and Polly Shackleton,
wanted to attack the ugliness of the
inner city by beautifying public
housing
- with
urator Gary Yarrington.
Lyndon Johnson'. active lir:t day~ as
President, as he strove to assure the
American people of the continuity of
their government, was climaxed with
an appearance before the congress
when he rallied the stricken nation
- Endowment for the Arts, the Library will host a
majur national Symposium on "THE ARTS: Y ars of
Development, Time f Decision." That evening, as the
major event in this year's program, the Friends of the
LBJ Librar ,,..-it be invited with the symposium
- of national significance
in the days preceding and during the
Civil War. Several Austin institutions
joined forces in bringing to the Library
Mr. Marshall, who has appeared in a
number of stage, film and television
productions.
In addition to performing
- representing
Texas'
Congressional District. The occasion
was the Librar ·s salute to Pickle on
his retirement.
Among his stories:
"Just a few years ago, I had a
group of young people come to
Washington. They said they wanted
to get a picture of me
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architeclllrc. economics. reli 0 ion.
wars and government, as well as tht:
history of families, towns and cities
the National Archives gathers up the
chronicles of this nation, transmitting
them from generation to generation.
and in doing so creates a spirit
- Mary Woodward Lasker,
promoter of medical research and driving force behind the
National Cancer Institute, died recently at her home in
Connecticut. A longtime friend and associate of President
and Mrs. Johnson, she worked with the president on health
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SymposiumProbesTensionBetweenPresidencyand Press
A political phenomenon of recent
times is a growing antagonism
between the White House and the cor
respondents who cover it. In March, a
symposium co-sponsored
by the
Library and the National
- archives
staff has been processing for the past
three years-bring
LBJ to life in a
way no paper document ever could,
dramatically demonstrating his per
suasive ability, his humor, his determi
nation, and at times his frustration.
The conversations
- -a
massive display two
years in the making-documents
the
contributions of people of Mexican
ancestry to the creation and develop
ment of the state of Texas.
Titled "Los Tejanos: Sus Huellas
en Esta Tierra (The Texas Mexicans:
Footprints on the Land
- single mission - to get
something for the people who are paying them ... and they
have no regard as to what the success of their efforts might
have on the future of our country ...
The president. really. has only two jobs. Om.. i~ foreign
policy
- Southern town-friendly, congenial, with
distinctive neighborhoods and emphasis on the social ameni
ties and racially segr gated-the capitol of a nation with an
historical pasL and an unknown future. But the infusion of
bustling young people and other
- of our people. United we
have kept that commitment, and
united we have enlarged that com
mitment, and through all time to
com , I think An1erica will be a
stronger nation a more just soci
ety, a land of greater opportunity
and fulfillment, because
- is to be misunderstood.
And when we say we stand or snmc things wc must never be
seen to have done che opposite. And people associated with
!hat have to leave. It doesn't matter which party.
As an ambassador you use back-channel communications
occasionally to get
- or a
bad Christian depended upon your politi
cal point of view.' And the man conclud
ed, 'That's not the American way.'"
Around that TV spot a national
movement coalesced into People for
the American Way, Lear said, which
produced a two-hour tele ision
- . The
occasion: a presentation by the eldest
Johnson
granddaughter,
Lucinda
Robb. Ms. Robb, a co-curator of an
exhibit titled "Our Mothers Before
Us" for the National Archives (she
works in its Center for Legislative
Archives), brought that exhibit
- their hands over the first volume of Robert A. Caro's
hostile biography ... Some Washington reporters gasp. Sure, there
was much lo attack. But was thi the man we watched In Congress
and the White House all those years? How did the nation survive?
- Richard L
- Walt Whitman visits the LBJ Library
(See "The American Image,t' pp. 4-7)
COLUMBIA SCHOLAR SPEAKSON LBJAND FDR
Dr. William Leuchtenburg, of Columbia University, recognized as
one of the nation's scholarly authorities on Franklin D. Roosevelt,
spoke
-
municate to the American people why
he was convinced we had to be in Viet
nam and if there, why it made sense to
walk his line between all out war and
surrender so that the nation could deal
with its domestic problems."
Califano offered his own refle tion
- 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
- war LBJ wanted to wa 0
wa the ne again t poverty
and di crimination. I !is com
mitm nt wa fi r e and articu
lated most p \ r ull in hi
1966 Stat of th Union m sage:
We will continue to meet the
needs of our people by con
tinuing to develop
- envi
ronmentalists" in the nation,
Former Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator William
Reilly,a member of the committee
selecting the award winner, intro
duced Chafee, calling him "The
Senate's premier environmentalist."
Chafee
- . and finally a freelancer, for the
past sixty years
uncan 's images or
the world's great events and people
have been etched into the popular
consciousness.
Highlights
of his
career include award-winning cover
age of the Korean and Vietnam Wars;
a close
- : "What
fun!'' he chortled).
When war with Spain broke out,
Roosevelt led the nation s most
famous unit in the war s most cele
brated battle. "San Juan Hill,"
intoned Luckinbill/TR, "made the
Rough Riders, and me, known across
the nation."
Six months
- old-a great art museum 111 Kansas City, Missouri (you
museum people know the one).
It was an awe-inspiring expcrience-c ol marble courtyards,
life-size sculptures of people who lived in ancient Rome.
paintings of so many del1ghtful colors I wanted
- ...
Medicare, Medicaid, federal assis
tance to education, the most sweep
ing series of environmental laws that
have ever been passed at any one
time, a program such as had never
been instituted on a national scale
the War on Poverty. So that's how I
became
- quarter-century.
During
those years, the magazine gained an
international reputation for its inno
vative and powerful use of photogra
phy, earning a National Magazine
Award for Photography in 1990.
The themes, logically, are Texas,
and the images
