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LBJ makes speeches in San Marcos and Lockhart.
1/6
LBJ meets with Austin city councilmen on planning for postwar employment of
returning servicemen. “I don’t want to see another leaf-raking program [after?]
the war.”
1/10
LBJ just returned
- on undisclosed mission. Warren Magnuson, in his oral history
interview, remembers accompanying LBJ to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to settle
Army-Navy feud. Picture taken at Dutch Harbor, Aleutians with Magnuson,
Admiral Theobald and Artemas Gates and Leslie E. Gehres
- of Alaska (Ernest Gruening and E. L. Bob Bartlett). LBJ is re-elected
majority leader; Everett Dirksen defeats John Sherman Cooper for the position of
minority leader left vacant by the retirement of William Knowland.
When the Senate opens, LBJ, exercising
- , then takes MMW to airport,
with Marie Fehmer. 12:45 p.m., goes to Marble Falls by car with J.C. Kellam and MF
to dedicate monument. CTJ is present. They go to Haywood Camp and later return
to LBJ Ranch.
5/27
1 p.m., goes to San Marcos with Kellams, CTJ
- , saying he will
impound any additional money voted by Congress.
4/16
LBJ apparently has cocktail party for editors.
4/17
Public Buildings Commissioner W. E. Reynolds testifies before a Senate
subcommittee that the White House is a firetrap and asks
- from oral history transcripts
and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive.
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May
5/1
LBJ is in San Marcos to discuss the program for the future of San Marcos Army
Air Field. Last week
- for civilian war housing project for the San Marcos
Navigation School is selected.
2/11
President Roosevelt nominates Thurman Arnold as an associate justice of the
Circuit Court for the District of Columbia.
2/16
Ida Nell Connally has a baby daughter.
1
- speech in San Marcos.
5/10
Rebekah Johnson marries O.P. Bobbitt in Monterrey, Mexico.
5/19
W. Lee O’Daniel announces his candidacy for Senate seat
Rebekah Baines Johnson (LBJ’s mother) has operation at Scott-White hospital in
Temple.
5/23
LBJ makes
- and San Marcos, and addresses a dinner
meeting of the business men’s club.
10/9
LBJ addresses a dinner meeting of the Texas Association of Broadcasters in
Mineral Wells.
10/10
LBJ drives from Mineral Wells to Dallas, where he rides in the State Fair
- Austin airport at noon, makes commencement address at San Marcos,
returns to Washington.
1961 Chronology ● p. 7 of 23
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REFERENCE: LBJ CHRONOLOGY
Drafted by LBJ Library archival staff from oral history transcripts
and other