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  • accord with Mr. Dewey Crowder, the President of your (Mobile) Historic Commission, who said, "There is no merit in recalling the past at all unless it helps us to a greater faith in a greater effort toward a richer future." So today, Mr. Mayor, you have
  • ] Fulbrights. And always our Texas delegation, Lyndon never lost contact with them. Lera [Mrs. Albert] Thomas was one of my good friends. We would go to dinner there occasionally. She was a great collector of antiques, one of those lively, undefeatable women
  • n o r and Mrs. Tom Dewey o f New York and one moment i n t h e l i n e he and I la u g h e d t o g e t h e r o v e r t h e l a s t t i m e he h a d been a t th e W hite H o u se . P ro b a b ly nobody e v e r s p e n t a more h e c t i c day and n ig
  • in Philadelphia, and Governor Thomas Dewey emerged from that as their nominee. Lyndon went on in the helicopter but got stopped. Well, first he did Hillsboro and Meridian. At Hillsboro, all of Mary Rather's folks turned out. Her younger brother, Ed Rather
  • had never sought anything himself. And he did--I don't remember how much, but I'm sure we put into it just as much as we could. My brother, throughout all this period, through every race that Lyndon had, Thomas Jefferson Taylor III was county man
  • Thomas E. Dewey. This precedent has spurred individual aspirations. Although Democratic Texas is not a doubtful populous state such as both parties traditionally favor for Presidential and ; Vice-Presidential nominees, one Texan, John Nance Garner
  • to the A stro n au ts. B u t not fo r m e - - I w a s s le e p in g soundly. But a t 8:00 I w a s e a g e r l y aw a k e b e c a u s e I w a n te d to s e e an d h e a r G o v e r n o r Dewey. He h a d c o m e dow n to t a l k to L yndon the d ay b e f o r e
  • Governor Tom Dewey, LBJ and Lady Bird have breakfast and talk about crime; Lucius Clay; ABC film on beautification; telephone conversation with Lynda Johnson; Luci Johnson receives Stingray car for graduation/birthday gift; Johnsons to Camp David
  • , vetera n o f 50 y e a r s of school teaching in the public schools, was there, b less her heart. She's one o f those people who always keeps the fa m ily together by w ritin g and telling what each one of us is doing. # Even Dewey T a y lo r with his
  • on Johnson City boyhood home; astronauts and wives to Paris Air Show; to State Department reception; astronaut wives borrow clothing from Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson; dinner with Governor Tom Dewey