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  • cum:nt subject , President Ham S Truman. • Lari) r Tt.mple once spr..:Lialcoun:cl to Pn..sident fohn­ ,on, now an
  • in Congress. Speaker Sam Rayburn took Congressman Johnson under his wing. LBJ w· s a court favorite of Franklin Roosevelt's. And formidable Georgia Senator Richard u sell first made LBJ minority leader and then majority leader of the Senate. Harry Truman did
  • apply to New Dealers: "Through our great good fortune in our youth, our hearts were touched with fire."* On Harry S. Truman: I wrote two long memoranda [for him] ... one on how a President should handle an opposition Congress, and in 1947, a long
  • President Clinton never men­ tions are ""Lyndon Johnson""----cven ··1ast year when he rattled off the names of other presidents besides himself who had tried to reform America's [healthl system. he cited Harry Truman, John Kennedy. and Richard Nixon. I
  • of." Harry Truman: ·'Very few peo­ ple, even those who in 1948 would have voted Republican. doubt that this was one of our great figures. Yet at the time Truman left the White House in 1953 his public approval ratings were something above 27%, sometimes
  • Issue Number XLIX April I. 1991 White HousePhotographers at Work Photographerswho have been a ·signed to the White House to record on film the activitiesof every presidentsince Harry Truman assembled at the Library to remini ce about their subjects
  • ISSUENUIIEIIW,JM~Um • ~mongFriends ofLBJ NEWSLETTER OFTHEFRIENDS OFTHELBJUIIIAIIY Dr.a.wing Givento Friends of Library FourLibraries Sponsor Seminar In a trial cooperative effort, this fall four for the six Presidential Libraries-the Truman
  • Issue Numbe r LXII April I, 1996 LBJ Reminiscences (see page 6) Programs at the Library Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of President and Mrs. Harry Truman and son, of Clifton and Margaret Truman Daniel, recount­ ed his memories of his
  • in Austin condemned the civil rights portion of Harry Truman ·s Fair Deal as a farce and a sham, an effort, he said. to set up a police state in the guise of history. But if Ronald Reagan, who voted four times for Frank­ lin Roosevelt, could change his mind
  • Americans-the black the Hispanic, the elderly, the poor. More than once, he said he would not let Vietnam shatter bis Great S ciety, as President Truman's Fair Deal had been killed by charges that he had lost China to the Communists and the Korean War. Th
  • and Chancellor E. Don 'alker, Co-Vice Presidents. Walker and Christian were also appointed t ser.c on the E:x~uthc Committee. Also elected Lo Board: Library Dir ·tor Harry l\1iddleton. Tom John,;on LBJ School Fellowships Created to Honor Strauss One thousand
  • . (Below) President Cleveland delivering his Inaugural Address, 1893. (Above) James Polk and party (Above) Theodore Roosevelt with envoys of Japan and Russia, 1905 6 (Left) Harry S. Truman talcing the oath of office after the death of President
  • their impressions and reactions to the Vietnam war. All are combat veterans who served at least one tour of duty in Vietnam. Five of the veterans were on hand for the official opening of the exhibit. Library Di rec or Harry Middleton called the exhibit "the most
  • acclaimed biogra­ phy of President Harry S. Truman, titled Truman; in introducing him, Library Director Harry Middleton said, "In David McCullough, Pres­ ident Truman has found for poster­ ity a biographer who understands and respects him." 7 Los Angeles
  • Cliris1ia11. Frc111ce.1 Lc:winc. Jim ./011,•s: Follm1·i11g are I/ugh Sieler: Li:: Carpl'nl!'r. l'.\'Cl!f'JJIS/iv111!hat mllicki11g exl!l'cisc in noswl• gia. (Ti!li's are.fi'mn 1!,e si.r1ies.1 id Davis (White House cunespo11clen1. Westinghouse Brooclrnstin
  • model. Johnson w,b certain that in act111g a~ he did in Vietnam he wa~ doing only \\ hat Roosevelt 1\ould h,ne done It seems dear that no one will any longer live in l·DR's ~hado\\, as each in their fashion, Harry Truman, John Ken­ nedv, and Lyndon
  • Franklin D Roos veil'· m•'C lings with thc pre ·s as "loo cozy and one sided," yet with enough give-and-ta k t he called th first mod rn prl'ss c nference. "Roosevelt mast red the pres a. has nu other President I have ever known." Harry S Truman was "salty
  • consisting of Harry Middleton, Elspeth Rostow, and George Christian (right) about her memoir, Personal History. Among her observations: • She does not know who ''Deep Throat" of Watergate fame is. • The Nixon administration was the most dangerous in her
  • Dunar, "Harry S. Truman: The Retirement Years"; Catherine Forslund, "Anna Chennault: China, Asia, and U.S. Foreign Policy, I 950-1985": William Gibbons, "The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War, Part V": Jill Jonnes, "A History of Illegal Drugs
  • . (For an account of the second symposium, see page 7 .) Titled "Energy Policy in Perspective. Solutions, Prob­ lems and Prospe ts,'' the conference drew representatives from every Administration from Harry Truman's through Jimmy Cart r's. Experts from industry
  • to 125 milliori nor what changes there would be in transportation The text of Harry S. Truman' last Fireside Chat, drhvered a few days before leavmg office, gives an msight mto his concept of Presidential responsibility and also int the unpretentiousness
  • so many sc nari s going on at once. While Harry McPherson and oth rs were working on the c sation-of-the-bombing speech at midnight n turday the 30'1\ my faU1ergot a call at our resi­ dence in Maryland that the Presi­ dent would like him
  • . and Development or Industry in Central America." Deputy Di.rector Tina Houston pre­ sented M . Warnock with a signed copy of LBJ: The White House Years, by for­ mer Library Director Harry Middleton, and a sample CD of President Johnson ·s telephone tape
  • Among Issue Number LXVI, October, 2001 Retiring LBJ Library and Museum Director Harry Middleton, with Incoming Director Betty Sue Flowers Story on page two Our Next Director Archivist of the United States John Carlin has named Betty Sue Flowers
  • 9,000volume library on Congress and pro­ vided some funds to promote the scholarly study of Congress. The chief representatives of the two institutional sponsors who have been most involved in plans for the encyclopedia are Harry Middleton, Director of the LBJ
  • Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson w re always the bearers of good news. A President in those days seeing on his appointment calen­ dar that he had an appointment with his economist knew they w r corning in to discuss
  • in the world. As he often did, Harry Truman put it most pungently when he called the White House "the crown jewel in the penal system." He advised his successor, Dwight Eisenhower, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." Thomas told a packed LBJ
  • ~. Lyndon 8. Johnson; an mscnbed pholograph ol President Harry Trumar1, 1964, a gift from Pr s1d nt Truman to Presid nt Johnson: bronze pres11.lential m dais set in silver of Pr sidcnts H 'rbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, a gift from l'v[ilton S
  • present Dr. George Lo[ with a check for $25,000. Left to right, former Johnson cabinet officers Ilenr~ Fowler, Secretary of the Treasury, and C. R. Smith. Secretary of Com­ merce, with President Roosevelt's Postmaster Gl•neral. James Farley. '.S. upreme
  • years of LBJ. To the press, a few days before the opening of the renovated area, Library Director Harry Middleton explained: "No museum should go more than 10 years without taking a look at itself and revising and updating its exhibits." The new exhibits
  • a chapter of history in which their grandfathers might have participated. Among the documenls on display is the draft of the order by which Presi­ dent Truman relieved General Doug­ las MacArthur of his commands. Among the most stirring episodes of the war
  • misery." Harry Truman called the White House the nation's most preten­ tious prison. As for LBJ, Ms. Carpenter recalled his musing, '1f there were easy solutions for problems, they wouldn't get to the president. That's what presidents are for." Richard
  • sentatives of the Veterans Adminis­ tration to discuss veterans' issues. OtherUpcomingEvents at the Library: David McCullough, noted author, will speak on June 15. His subject will be Harry S. Truman, who also is the subject of his forthcoming book, slated
  • com­ plete some of the programs of his predecessors. Medical insurance for the elderly had been on the Demo­ cratic agenda since Harry Truman's time. The hope of federal aid for ed­ ucation went back as far as Franklin Roosevelt. The Civil Rights law
  • Foundation Award Committee: Harry McPherson, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard and McPher on; Miss Linda Howard, Professor, Ohio State University; Dr. William J. McGill, President of Columbia University; Mrs. Johnson; Arthur Krim, Chairman of the Board, Orion
  • The Sights and Sounds of an America that was ... see pag 4 Cohen Joins LBJ School Cohen Wilbur J. Cohen, who was Secretary of the U S Department of Health, Educa­ tion and Welfare in 1968, has been appointed first occupant of the Sid Richard­
  • )' about foreign affairs. There ·s a lot of missed opportunity going on here, because we are the onl) \Uper­ power. l think there are times when we do have to be the world\ police­ man, and lrn4 is probabl~ the best example of that." "The Last Roundup
  • s Johnson was BIG, esti­ mated at about ten pounds. Her husband, "Mr. Sam," a mem­ ber of the Texas legislature, got on his horse to ride to tell his fa­ ther that a "United States Sena­ tor" had been born. What an insightful proclamation
  • resumed it when the lapse brought unfavorable attention. Now it's a tradition. Placing the wreath sent by Presi­ dent Reagan on President Johnson's grave at the LBJ Ranch, Library Director Harry Middleton recalled for a group of visitors LBJ's plea early