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- a r ly bed s e e m s im p o s sib le in our l if e .
I am c o n so led
b e c a u s e an ev en in g lik e th is is gen u in ely r e s tfu l to Lyndon.
w e w e r e h om e b y 12, I to s le e p , he for night read in g.
And
- rically most significant
Researchers using Library collections in Reading Room.
Volunteer Program
There are now 99 voluntei.:rs (including fiv• men) working in
the Library-71 as docents. giving tour to vLitors. the others
helping out in other parts f lhe
- backyard, in a quite
secluded spot. And very especially it would be a good place for four-year-olds to
have a "tea party," or watch the gold fish in the little pool-or for their mother or
grandmother to read about P ter Rabbit or Winnie-the-Pooh.
I shall
- , such as the draft-age Ameri
can man reading about the approach
of the war; the G .I. being forced into
the Bataan death march by his Japa
nese captor; A German solider; a
thirsty British infantryman and a
Soviet serviceman on the Eastern
front.
The famed
- ·1icc111pco
plt ate read)' lit send our trnop.-,in
th1.-re10 do lhc fit;hlin£... IJ it cam~·
d wn to 1hc plion of ~cn
- Lh, ma.-,terpie e
of his alreac..l) di Lrnnui hed
rie., of
'vVOrkson th Jae~ onian r.i or . S.
History. ··1 w uld t II prl.' l'nl members
of the Congres .. ·Read \\ch ter_... said
Rernini. " s he ,aid t th Congress.
'Generations tn t.: me v 111 h 1I
- ) The Declaration of In
dependence. Sometime the
night of July 4, 1776, or the
next morning. this first 1prin
ting of the Declaration -came
off the press to be dispatched
throughout
the colonies.
Twenty-one copies of this
printing have survived.
(Right) Letter
- , ignorant
questions an answered prompt!
with a smile,
important cross referen ·es are f und, and books
are checked out quickly in the evenings so lhal
investigators can do background reading- at nights.
One serious problem, however, doc exist. The
opening
- Shanker, President,
American ttderation of
Teachers:
Association:
• We really ought to concenrratc
much more on what happens to a
child in kindergarten. first. sec
ond and thin! grades. If a hild
.:mer~ rounh grade \till not know
ing how to read. write
-
around the Dunlap Broadside print of the
Declaration of Independence ...one of
only 25 in existence of the 200 printed on
the night of July 4, 1776.
Television producer Norman Lear
purchased this copy in 2000 with the goal
of bringing the "People's
- Great Hall on December 18. The invitation read:
"'Mrs. Johnson is best known for her love of nature and her tenacity in preserving and protecting our natural resources. Her efforts
led to tbe Highway Beautification Act or 1965. and she was a visible
- of the Johnson
tapes. As 1 began listening to them,
and then reading about him, there
were these amazing things that had
been completely overlooked in my
mind: his commitment to civil rights
... the liberal programs which are
still so important in our society
- , physically as sound
as they were two hundred y ars ago.
McCullough recalled the awe he felt
when he first took one of the letters in
his hands to read.
When no other lawyer dared to
defend the British soldiers accused of
murder in the Boston Massacre,
Adams
- of Texas culture, too, and
always have been.'·
Brian Lamb, president of C
Span. provided a look into its opern
rions. concerning
the books he
reviews and the authors he interviews
for his program "Book Notes.'' "1
read all the books myself.. .. Some
- historical, as well as artistic,
acquisition."
3
Renovation of the Museum and 0th
1.
Outside, cranes lift construction
the roof of the building.
4.
Three posters along lhe corridor which leads to the temporar!' exhibil lell the
whole story. (Read from
- to the
environmental movement of the late
60s and beyond."
Six women who have shared important parts of Lady Bird Johnson's life read excerpts from her writings that traced
some of her vivid and memorable experiences. They were college friend Cecille Marshall; Nellie
- Lyndon's s ta ff Dorothy Territo,
Juanita, and Harry Middleton on whom we have come to depend more and
more.
The dominant question was the short movies,
"Space" is under
way, Leonard reported. He read us a le tte r from [John] Secondari,
the gist of which
- administration.
She read from her diary. Some
excerpts are presented on the next
page.
Fromthe Diary Of An Ambassador'sLady
One of those days that has, ( sup
pose, changed ,the course of our
lives,. I feel keenly tonight tile brevity
of ltfe and the necessity
- ,
"Dear Daughter, I am sending you 1he last dollar from the
4
ca~h register. We don't know when the banks will open."
Times were hard and you could read it in the lrncs of letters
and faces.
In 1934 when Lyndon, who \\35 then secretary to a Con
gressman
- not
supposed to read this mail,
don't send it to me merely as a
formality. If it is sent, don't tell
me how to respond, if even by
coincidence I read it. The boy
will be brought here, and his
papa and mama if he has such,
so he won't be lonely in a
strange land
- to be lifted by fork
lift to the Library's second floor where the exhibition is installed (right).
The exhibit ends with a display of
life-size airbrushed images of mod
ern Tejanos by EI Paso artist
Gaspar Enriquez. The concluding
text reads: "These pilgrims
- ext y ea r or so I want to n ail down som e h isto r y .
Then w e had b re a k fa st in the kitchen and read w ith a little
pain, a little s a d n e s s , that te m p est that L u ci's c o n v e r sio n to C a th o licism
h a s ca u sed .
L iz sa id
- it
and then shepherded it through from plan to execution. Dr.
Livingston is editing the book based on the symposium
which will be published in the fall. Following are his reflec
tions on the conference.
As I rl!fkct on the sympo~ium and as I read through th
- are
(abO\'e left) Researcher. work in
the reading room,
(abo,·e right) Archi\ • t fill
numerou document request
for researchers each Ja •.
(right) The recoilecti ns of
people who knew Lyndon
Johnson ar taperec rded and
transcribed for the Oral History
- , child and
maternal health. national parks, the
environmental laws. But of course
Vietnam was his denouement."
Ms.
Thomas
credited
Liz
Carpenter with a story of LBJ scanning
the first draft of an addre.s he had
a signed to asp echwriter. As he: read,
he
- station will feature a
video of Kirk Douglas and Helen
Hayes, reading from letters which
rs. Johnson and LBJ exchanged
White House
Telephone Tapes
Project Continues
The latest release of tape record
ings of White House telephone con
versations during
- eB a k ey^who w e m igh t want to in v ite to le a v e th e ir p a p e r s.
;
As
D r. G ro v er sa id , you sp read a w id e net and g et a m ig h ty few f is h and yet
I, m y s e lf , can t e s t if y that to b e ask ed i s taken a s a com p lim
- techniciamj at work
Sights and sounds
in the Audiovisual Archives
by Philip Scott
It is March 31, 1968. The President
looks straight into the camera, reading
hi::.addres to th American people.
"We support a return to the essential
provisions of the Geneva
- ol
Freedom, the highest award that can b given to an
Am rican citizen
uts1de the military services, post
humously to Lyndon
aines Johnson and Hubert H.
Humphrey.
The c1tat1on accompanying President Johnson's medal
read: ' Lyndon B Johnson cared dee
- was to read some of his poetry At fiN. Lowell accepted
this invitation. but on May 30. 1965. he sent President Johnson
a letter which he had also released to the Ne\\' l'!,rf..7imt•~- In his
letter. Lowell saiu
"When I was telephoned last wed.. and askcd 10
- being the life
blood of T exas, and dams and irrigation the biggest interest Lyndon
during his fir s t four ye a rs in the C on g re ss, so we had our conversation
cut out for each other.
. / ?
And another thing, I had read with great delight aboutDr
- his teaching of men and worn n preparing
for careers in public service. "1 learned firsthand about
some subjects I had only read about," he said, referring
specifically to the regulatory process in the Department of
Labor. He said that, in addition
- !liamBundy, Assistnnt Secre
tary of State;
21. Ben Read, Executive Secretary
of Department of State
(22. 23, 24): Oral
Historian Ted Gittinger, and Library
Archivists Regina Greenwell and
David Humphrey; (25, 26, 27):
William Gibbons, George Herring
-
with the challenge, .. Let us contin
ue.' On display in this section is a
handwritten note from
rs. Johnson
delivered to the President at 2:00
a.m., as he and his staff labored to
complete the address. The note reads,
"In the name of tomorrow come
eat-then
sleep
- e p t e m b e r and O c t o b e r and November o f 1 9 3 4 , a n d f r o m
me t o h im a b o u t t h e same t im e a n d t h e r e were a few
f ro m hi m i n s u c c e e d i n g y e a r s on up t o 1 9 4 0 .
Though I
h a v e n ' t re-read them i n
- Lady Bird & Liz Carpenter to Boyhood Home in Johnson City; Lady Bird is recorded reading script; late lunch; Lady Bird records narrative to be used at the LBJ Birthplace; Lady Bird has tea for her restoration friends from Fredericksburg, TX; tours
- o m e o f h e r p i c t u r e s a n d s o m e of h e r p r i z e d b o o k s .
I read
a l i t t l e b i t i n U n c le R e m u s t h a t D ic k R u s s e l l h a d g i v e n h e r , p r a c t i c a l l y a
d e a d la n g u a g e now .
I l i k e d t
- at the White House; LBJ goes to office; Lady Bird tries to nap and reads script for Barbara Walter's interview; dinner party with friends; Lady Bird takes ladies through the tour she will give for Barbara Walters; John Gardner's resignation
- . or Promdheus-bo11nd. rather than unbound ...
And it isn't ;ust the Soviets, I tco11ld say. that have read the
lessons of the last tm years. It i.1·the OPEC countries. Jlere are
countries that are driving up the inflation into double digits,
creating a recession
- could do i go
and see this exhibit on the 80's, and look at it, read it.
It's not just things up on the wall. Read it. Everything is
a document of that past life. And that past life is still
with us, m attitudes and in fact, a Jot."
Mrs. Johnson gives
-
ha, ing written two other spc ches without a
break. It vas a bad draft-and
I knew it was bad But it had
lo be in his morning reading when he awoke, and I was com
plet ly drained of ideas and roo tir d 10 uite another line.
I was back at my desk arty
