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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
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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
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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
- , 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
- described the new process and how i t had become
the very popular thing today.
He spoke casually, authoritatively, of
other Administrations, whole decades of them.
strong Republican.
Obviously he was a very
I think we had between the three of us a sense
- Breakfast; desk work; swimming; hair salon; new china for the White House; luncheon with Walter Hoving, Chairman of Tiffany's; photos in State Dining Room with White House Tour Office; tea for Independent Agency wives; Lady Bird records diary; talk
- halfway." Caro's first
book, The Power Broker, appeared in
1974. It was the story of Robert Mo
ses, the man who virtually created New
York City as it appears today. Caro
necessary to tell the story of New York
City. The resultant book won both
- C
f
Jan u ary
1966
72,
T hursday
B e s s a n d I l e f t t h e s n o wy Was h i n g t o n on an
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e a r l y p l a n e f o r New Y o rk .
to c a tc h th e t r a i n .
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,
.
. We t h o u g h t we w uo l d h a v e
But a l u l l
- New York
- Lady Bird goes to New York City to purchase clothing; Lady Bird attends dinner party given in her honor at Brooke Astor's home; Lady Bird mentions several people at the party; Charles Engelhard tells a funny story; Lady Bird recounts an earlier
- New York City
- 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
- 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
- , Rice University
ChandlerDavidson
Political Science, University of New
Orleans
Raul A. Gonzalez, Justice of the
Supreme Court of Texas
Judith Haydel, Associate Professor
of Government, McNeese State
Universily
ReneaHicks, Special Assistant Attarney
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Archives
Researchers-The
Library gave credentials to 312 new
researchers during the year. A survey revealed that 66% of
those using the collections are from out of town; 34 % are from
Austin (mainly from the University of Texas). It further showed
that most
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not qualify for either [program], has become the great albatross
of this new right in America." "It wasn't possible to put cost
controls in in 1965," Wilbur Cohen maintained. "It would never
have passed the Congress." In fact, Califano pointed out, Presi
dent
- tomb in New York City, seen from the Hudson River, on the day it was dedicated in 1897.
(Library of Congress, Division of Prints and Photographs.)
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GRANT SCHOLAR SPEAKSAT EXHIBIT OPENING
When the exhibitopened at the Library,John Simon, editor
- in d e d m e o f the H ans C h r is tia n A n d e r se n s to r y a b ou t
the e m p e r o r 's new c lo th e s .
If you can g e t enough p e o p le - - en ou gh
r e v ie w s - - to s in g , "Th is i s g r e a t, th is i s w o n d erfu l, th is is n e
- New York
- Lady Bird tours architecture at Yale University and New York; LBJ is in the hospital; Lady Bird likes rare books display at Beinecke Library at Yale; press are waiting outside the Beinecke for photographs; Lady Bird sees public housing units; Lady
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- mm
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
W ASHINGTON
M onday, F e b r u a r y 20, 1967
P age 1
It w a s a h ard w orking day.
I had m y f ir s t co ffee in L yn da's room .'
She is going b a ck to New Y ork for a w eek w ith M cC a lls, and she is fu ll
- ro u n d s of P r i m e M i n i s t e r
a n d M r s . H o ly o ak e of New Z e a la n d .
It i s a lw a y s a s p e c i a l a n tic ip a tio n w hen the g u e s t i s s o m e o n e I
have m et b efo re.
And I h a d s p e n t a p a r t of th is m o r
- Arrival ceremony for Prime Minister & Mrs. Holyoake, New Zealand; Lady Bird names guests; Leon Uris offers manuscripts to LBJ Library; Lady Bird has remarks about Lyn Nugent; lunch; recording diary; visit with Lynda Robb, Luci & Lyn Nugent; massage
- to
their own wages.
•"Husbands could will children
to someone else. If you died.
your husband could decide he
wanted to give your children to
his best friend down the road.
•"Widows in New York State
could not live in their house
more than 40 days after
- of The
Redwoods National Park, the
Wilderness Act, and the Land
and Water Conservation Fund.
Reminiscences in New
Willis Hurst, cardiologist
who
attended President Johnson through
the years, came to the Library to
launch a book of reminiscences
about LBJ
- p h o n e;
each.
T h e re w as a lo t of
In th e m o rn in g a long ta lk w ith L y n d a B ir d in New Y o rk .
She
is h a v in g a g ay tim e - th e a tr e s an d good dining s p o ts and p a r tie s
a n d b r ig h t p e o p le , an d sh e is s
- LBJ & Lady Bird breakfast and make plans for Camp David with friends; Lady Bird talks with Lynda on phone; phone calls to Horace Busby about LBJ exhibit, Bill Walton about New York Avenue, & Mrs. Paul Mellon about White House grounds and Lafayette
- LBJ Library meeting; Lynda Johnson joins the meetings; replies are received in response to LBJ Library acquisition letters; possible new fountain for White House ellipse; office work; phone call to Frances Lewine; new drapes for State Dining Room
- ivid u al.
The M arin es sa y th ey g et w ord
of a wounded o r k ille d m an to h is pa r e n ts w ithin 18 h o u rs, so this i s one
of those t im e s w hen no new s is good new s - and you sw eat it out.
I
,
MEMORANDUM
THE W H IT E HOUSE
- c a llin g L y n d a.
S h e 'd a r r i v e d in New
O r le a n s F r id a y n ig h t t o m e e t G e o rg e , being c h a p e ro n e d b y L in d y B o g g s,
w ho is p lay in g th e p a r t of a v e r y giving f a m ily f r ie n d t o m y c h ild
- takes nap; Lynda Johnson visits New Orleans; guests for dinner; talk at dinner about LBJ School for Public Affairs and Vietnam; to theater to watch films
- ken up t h e ir se a ts on the G ro u n d F l o o r ,
and had re fu s e d to budge.
A s i t - i n in the W h ite H o u s e !
So m e 12 o f
th e m , m o s tly young f o lk s .
T h e m e e tin g came to a q u ic k h a lt w h ile B u z z got the new s
- .
My good
f r i e n d , S e c r e t a r y U d a l l , M i s s S y l v i a P o r t e r , th e G o o d w i n s , a nd h e l i c o p t e r e d
o v e r to S a n M a r c o s to a t t e n d th e I n a u g u r a t i o n of t h e new P r e s i d e n t of the
C
- or a horse's hoof or a man's
head. They will of course put as many as they can back
together, and they haven't finished digging up the whole
thing, because China is a vast storehouse of man's life for
centuries. So whenever they build a highway or build a new
- , and current fellow workers1,000 in all-assembled to honor the
former First Lady in a salute that in
cluded serious tributes, hilarious hi-
jinks, a mammoth cake, and the
premiere of a new film, "Lady Bird
Johnson: A Life," produced by Charles
Guggenheim
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disarray.
The other group [believe] it was
a war about the balance of power in
all of Southeast Asia-from
the
South China Sea down to the critical
Straits
of
Malacca
including
Thailand and Malaysia. Indonesia
and Singapore. Australia and New
Zealand. While
- of them thirty years
from now? What kind of faciliti s
will they be, in this very new age of
high-tech c mmunications?
''Thirty years ago little attention
was paid to their museums. Today the
museums are an integral part of the
libraries and perform
- New Y e a r 's —
re s o lu tio n s-^ n -th e -m id d le -o f-A u g u st f r a m e of m in d .
And th en I h a d a r a t h e r
im p o r ta n t m e e tin g a t 1:30 in th e T r e a ty R oom w h ich I h av e b eg u n to c a ll
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m y B o a rd of D ir e
- e r in g .
A nd a t r i o of s o u th e r ners - - G o v e rn o r R o b e r t M c N a ir of S outh C a r o lin a , new
0
I b e lie v e ,: a n d M il l s G odw in o f Vir g in ia --^he h a d rid d e n o n th e t r a i n w ith m e
in ‘65.
A nd D
- 01:01 - should be '64, not '65; 03:58 - marble from "New" Mexico, not Mexico; 03:30 to end of tape is very fast and Lady Bird sounds like chipmunk
- r. G rover and D orothy T e r r ito , Juanita R o b erts and alas, ra th er la te
M ary L a sk e r fo r our seco n d m eetin g of the A cq u isitio n s C o m m ittee.
m a in new s w a s that D r. G rover had d rafted and L y n d o n
rsU'i- '-» rw m
- ra ry .
We w e r e going to,-^ ^ ^ rticu larly,ytelk about film in g a State D inner, w h ich
D r. Stanton m ig h t do, fo r the L ib ra ry only, not for CBS u s e .
But today ,/t h e p ic tu r e s took a sin g u la rly new tumy^isft. im p e r a tiv e
- o d e in w ith M u r i e l a n d O p al - - L yndon a h e a d w ith H u b e r t
a n d th e S e n a to r o v e r a new high w ay th a t w a s o pen ed to d ay f o r the
f i r s t ti m e .
And th en t h e r e w e r e g a th e r in g c r o w d s a n d
- staff; Johnsons fly to Houston Astrodome for Humphrey rally; new Houston highway; Lady Bird reminisces about 1941 campaign; Lyn Nugent walks with grandfather; speeches by Ralph Yarborough, LBJ & Hubert Humphrey; return to LBJ Ranch; LBJ's speech on tv
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periods a leader emerged and a
new majority part~· was. formed.
Nothing that has happened so far
would indicate that will not hap
pen again.''
Larry Saba to: "We "ill han politi
cal:parties, because as our founders
discovered, ifs really the only way
- s w i f e and come o v e r f o r a d r i n k .
he a r r i v e d a l i t t l e
news, t o o .
And
p a s t s e v e n . Todaywas f u l l o f f a m i l y
I t a p p e a r s t h a t L u c i on h e r own h a d g i v e n
an in inte r v i e w t o a C h i l
- a le n g th y
p ie c e on th e J o h n so n L i b r a r y fo r th e New Y o rk T im e s .
I me t w ith h im in th e L in c o ln S ittin g R oom a n d s p e n t a b o u t 45 m in u te s
d u r in g w h ic h he to o k n o te s going o v e r the g e n e s
- ; Abe Fortas' Supreme Court nomination; Lynda Robb tells stories about her family; New York Times interview on LBJ Library; tea with American Association of Nurserymen; reception for Junior Army Navy Guild Organization members; Clark Cliffords to dinner
- d th e F D R c r y s t a l - - v e r y e le g a n t a n d seldo m
u s e d now.
A n d th en u p s t a i r s in to m y new p in k w ool a n d one l a s t b o n in g -u p
on the g u e s t l i s t , an d th en b a c k d o w n s ta ir s to the G r e e n
- a t she h a d s p e n t h e r . l i f e t i m e c o l l e c t i n g .
g iv e n h e r o th e r c o l l e c t i o n s to
o f A r t i n New Y ork.
y ear.
She h a d
the M e t r o p o l i t a n Museum
T h is one she d o e s f o r us e a c h
She h a d
- r i c a and he s a i d ''I f you d o n ' t mind I ' d l i k e t o
t a k e my c r i s e s one a t a t i m
e ".I t i p - t o e d o u t g r e e t i n g
e a c h new c o u p l e and g e t t i n g d r i n k s w h ile we l i s t e n e d
s p e l l bound f
