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  • event of the period, h maintained, and Johnson and Rayburn regrouped the Democratic Party after it had been fra •mented b • the issue. "Great politicians bring order out of chaos," agr ed Huitt, a former aide to Majority Leader Johnso . Johnson convinced
  • puzzle. Scraps of information from an appointment book, guarded phrases in brief memos to aides, and records of telephone calls became precious clues in the search for information. The oral histori~ of cabinet members on file in the LBJ Librar were
  • of interest is late 19th century America, spa e at the Library on the art, architecture and literature of the U.S. a century ago. At the conclusion of his address, Dr. Morgan aid: "I would say that the very best thing the person interested in American culture
  • that a white man could do justice to a rev­ olutionary black man like Turner; they deeply resented Styron 's effort, and aid so with great emphasis. But Nat Turner also had its defenders in the black community, among them author James Baldwin; the historian
  • mysteri­ ously turned up in the White House. According to Blumenthal, a senior aide to independent counsel Kenneth Starr confessed to him that there was nothing of substance to any of these matters. But Blumenthal believes that Clinton's guilt
  • e us w hen he p aid us a v i s i t s o m e y e a r s a g o , and i f you w e r e at th e r a n c h w ith m e you w ould s e e th e lo v e ly b ird s th at C h a n c e llo r E rh a rd g a v e u s . ''I h a v e ", s a id M r s . K i e p . It tu r n s
  • s e x p e r i e n c e a, ■ i n a u t h o r i t y aro u n d h im - —/ Aid e to a b o u t f i v e p r e s i d e n t s , I t h i n k i t is,^— I was p ro u d t o h a v e him on o u r team . We c a l l e d him and M arie a l s o and th e n C a t h e r i
  • ; Lady Bird to beauty parlor; LBJ meets with advisors about Vietnam; LBJ meets with and gives speech to White House Conference on Education participants; dinners with aides and James Hagerty; Lady Bird's tv show on beautification; Dwight Eisenhower
  • potential in the Library, cover the arts, foreign aid, Presidential policy making, the FCC, the pro lems of presidential Iran i lion, the meri
  • for April 16 The former Secretary or Statc 1:aptivatcd an audi­ cm:c on the Lihral} • ighth lloor \\ ith his observations on the state of the world wday. A similar program was held on March 7 with George Reedy, fonner aide tO Lyndon Johnson from his Senate
  • banks and profes­ sional aides. You look at candidates today [and] you wonder whose words are being spoken, really, be­ cause of all the professional help, and you wonder what your candi­ dates think. You get a feeling today that all of the candidates
  • and teachers; that must change. Schools often do not encourage parents to get involved in the education of their children, beyond bringing cookies and kool-aid to PTA meetings. Next, we are losing too many quality teachers. A lot could be done to encour­ age
  • with McPher:on and d me tic adviser Joseph Cali fan . LBJ casually announced that he might not run fi r reelection. The two aides sat stunned. Finally McPh r­ son stammered, "You have to run." LBJ's eyes fixed upon him with laser-like intensity. "Why do I have
  • . And these are the recordings he made of telephone conversation.s. We don't know why but we do know that he was a man uniquely of the telephone. This president who did not compose memorandum or write letters, or compose letters used the telephone, as one of his aides once said