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- the "place to
be'' n the party circuit-today his Embassy i • on the auction
block and h~'s in exile in Switzerland.
For all the changes, Washington is still a town ofpart1e,;. I sup
pose there will always be stories Ii c the one about the late Sena
tor
- . They have blocked the appointment and ask LBJ not to get involved
on either side.
2/11
The Dallas Morning News reports that LBJ says a survey will be made soon to see
how many combat-qualified men in the Armed Services can be moved into field
forces
- by LBJ Library archival staff from oral history transcripts
and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive.
discoverlbj.org
LBJ and CTJ attend a dinner as guests of Tom Pickett in honor of Herbert Hoover
- claimed that Eisenhower and budget
director Percival Brundage “trimmed” military spending requests over his
opposition.
1/3
The White House is blocking attempts of the Preparedness Subcommittee to obtain
copy or specific excerpts from the Gaither
- , it is con
sidered a permanent exh1b1l.
Radios are part of the new display techniques. From a vintage radio visitor·
listen to the voice of Woodrow Wilson. Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin
Roosevelt speak from a radio built in 1933 while campaign
- that the “Dump Nixon” movement is flourishing again.
High-ranking conservative Republicans in Washington are claiming that men such
as Herbert Brownell, Jr., General Lucius Clay, Paul Hoffman, and Sidney
Weinberg are discussing various alternative candidates
- other Steering Committee members to decide
on appointments.
Pearson also criticizes LBJ’s support of Price Daniel over Herbert Lehman for a
seat on the Judiciary Committee. Lehman has more seniority but is not a lawyer,
an unofficial requirement
- , the evenlng of his arrest, Jenkins went to a
party given by ~,rwswgs;_k magazine to
celebrate its· riiove into a new office,
I½ blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue
from the White House. Jenkins was in
good spirits. He had one or two highballs, chatted about his
- , the evenlng of his arrest, Jenkins went to a
party given by ~,rwswgs;_k magazine to
celebrate its· riiove into a new office,
I½ blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue
from the White House. Jenkins was in
good spirits. He had one or two highballs, chatted about his
- southern criticism of
LBJ’s handling of the civil rights bill. Reedy points out that the Senate is
determined to pass a bill and that efforts to block all legislation will have drastic
results.
2/23
LBJ phones Russell this morning about civil rights
- , the pursuit has transformed
cement into flowers, trees, lights.
She put it this way: ''Flowers in a city are like lipstick on a
woman; you have to have some color."
So Mary bought the lipstick -- 20 blocks of tulips and daffodils
to start
- to banish neglect and ugliness -- who combine on
an anti - litter effort or a block program of planting.
B ut -- I do not think any of us can rest on his laurels, --For the
m ore these bright att active corners of our city that show up -- the more
c leady we
- and its fulfillment.
Can we doit? Dare we do less ?
The clamor of city victime is a spur to progress. You have seen
the beacon of achievement in small and large measure. In a downtown
plaza, along a waterfront, in a city block program. You know how much
- , to serve their neighbors and their nation with such
distinction. These are the men my husband depends on and we
count them old and valued friends.
I am delighted to b e here in this lively City of Mobile.
By coming just a few blocks from the station, I have
- last summer.
There are other wonderful playgrounds and neigbborbood facilities in tbe
planning and construction pbase now: at Anthony Bowen School; at Bryan; and
at Kingsman. These are the building blocke far a better Washington; tbey
signal a pattern
- four blocks from the White House are
the busy facilities of the Y WC A residence. I have cut the ribbon
for their International Food Fair and like their stream of visitors
carried away honey from Mt. Olympus and Scandanavian chocolates.
Often, I have
-
-..
Let me tell you the tale of two citie s in Minnesota.
the beautification is good busine se.
Both illustrate
ln Minneapolis, a city of half a million people, businessmen have
created a ten-block mall wbere the pedestrian is king -- with ample parking
- stories can mean in helping along
the clean-up. p;;.int-up campaigns that get underwa.y in many cities.
Recently, in Wa ..hington, some members cf my committee
helped organi-ze 37 blocks in a low-income neighbc:rhood. They
pers~aded rne:-c.hau.ts ~o cor!t1
- these problems into the
building blocks of a robust economy that can provide the
jobs of the future."
The Joint Economic Committee will issue a report from
the ideas presented at the conference.
Jordan
Excerpts from
Barbara Jordan's
addres :
Joint appearances
- .
The Space display shows Vice
President Johnson superv1smg
American astronauts as they sign
their names in concrete blocks at the
LBJ Ranch.
A desk (partly visible in case), rocking chair and other memorabilia were lent
to the!Center by the Library.
11
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journalism and speech communica
tions. He is president of Martine
"I am here," said Vernon Sykes,
''to tell you about a little colored
boy born in the Mississippi delta in
Forrest City, Arkansas ... in a wood
shack that stood on concrete blocks
- , Wenonah
Linoleum block, 1943
Day Bell,
5
BROOKINGS SCHOLAR RECEIVESAWARD
FOR THE BESTBOOK ON THE CONGRESS
Larrv Reed, Assistant Director of the LBJ Foundation,
prize-\\ inning check to James Sundquist.
presents Foundation's
James L. Sundquist, senior
- ,
the Soviet Union, today a powerful
force for change is already at work.
Education, the bedrock of democ
racy, the enemy of dictatorship, is
plowing its way. Inside the Commu
nist block, powerful currents are
surging against the dam. Premier
Khrushchev
-
power plant in Austin.
1/24
Meeting of the Senate Ladies Club.
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman is confirmed as Chief of Naval Operations, after his
nomination was at first blocked by Senator Joseph McCarthy. Senator Millard
Tydings declared the opposition
- . It would just requir a egree in a
discipline as an academic building block upon which profes
sional skills would be added.
"TEXASIN TRANSITIO "
NOW A PUBLICATION
Kiran Dix
The June 15. 1986 edition of Among Friend~ r1,;pnrted on a ,ym
[I0sium
- achieve
block grants allocated with few restrictions on how or
where the funds are spent within certain broad guide
ment as well as its fru trations and mistakt>s."
lines. Expenditures began to shift away from ,;ervice
And if any one of those programs
- with new eyes at my
part of the world. . . . The open
fields and meadows had disappeared
and in their place were shopping
malls, suburbs chock-a-block with
housing developments and industrial
plants and spaghetti networks of
highways ....
The landscape I
- flash and vanish.
Ardeshir Zahedi, who made the Embassy of Iran the "place to
be" on the party circuit-today his Embassy is on the auction
block and he's in exile in Switzerland.
For all the changes, Washington is still a town of parties. I suppose
- flash and vanish.
Ardeshir Zahedi, who made the Embassy of Iran the "place to
be" on the party circuit-today his Embassy is on the auction
block and he's in exile in Switzerland.
For all the changes, Washington is still a town of parties. I suppose
- to discharge a measure to repeal the 10-cents-a-pound excise
tax on margarine after dairy interests tried to block it in the Agriculture
Committee. The bill passes 260-106. The bill is then successfully blocked in the
Senate by a combination of diary and feed
