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- holds the Sid Richardson chair at the
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
I recall that Washington, D.C. was arm and humid on
August 4, l 934. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been Pre i
dcnt for 17 months, boldly and enthusiastically exercising
- lead editorial 'Franklin
Delano Reagan.'
"Still, that shadow appears to be waning. If Nixon, Carter and
Reagan all have acknowledged the influence of Roosevelt, that
acknowledgment is largely ritualistic. In the 1980 campaign, Carter
failed Lo in. pirit
- restriction which would not be
admissible were domestic affairs
alone involved."
Nearly every
president
since
Franklin
Roosevelt has used that authority
to condu t diplomacy free from
congressional interference:
in
World War II, in the subsequent
Cold War
- -ton's first (April 30. 17891, Abraham
Lin
- ,
b , Paul Rzirk,
near the top, in terms of domestic
accomplishments in this century, his
chief competition being, of course,
ranklin Delano Roosevelt," WiL!iams
believes. "[T]he Vietnam War [will
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b j the single event that LBJ is most
critiqued
-
Galbraith RecalIs
FDR's 'Revolution'
The rrnblic part of the symposium opened on March 3
with an address by Harvard University economist John Ken
neth Galbraith. Excerpt~ from the Galbraith speech:
IL was Franklin D. Roosevelt who in the Uni1ed States led
- path the history
of Europe would have taken if an anony
mou an;her in l 066 had not gotten
incredibly lucky.
Finally, Geoffrey
Ward considered how things might have
gone had not Franklin Roosevelt defied
the odds and been elected president.
Everyone
- helped if
for some reason he is turned into a
folk hero:·
He gave this assessment
of
recent U.S. presidents:
Franklin Roosevelt: "Pretty
uniformly seen as a great President.
There has been less fluctuation than
almost any other case we can think
- , only thr e
Presidents
have immersed
themselves in matters relating
to the environment:
Theo
dore Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and Lyndon Baines
Johnson. With congressional
support, Theodore Roosevelt
established the U. S. For
est Ser ice
-
(no\\ University) when Lyndon Johnson wa a sllldent I her'c.
Symposium Will Assess
Impact of New Deal
On March 2, 3, and 4-thc final day coinciding with the
50th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration-the
Library will host a symposium on FDR's New Deal
- , 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
- faraway
places. C. P. and Catherine Little
came from their home in Winchester,
Virginia.
The NY A was an agency of the
federal government created by an
executive order of President Franklin
D. Roosevelt in 1935 to give part-time
employment and educational
- student at the University of
Wisconsin at Milwaukee, recently became the 9,000th
researcher to enter the Library's doors. Burke is workinn on
his master's thesis, a study of the relationship between LBJ
and Franklin Roosevelt. He has worked at all
- of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
which appears on the FDR dime.
Dr. Burke, who earned one doctoral
degree and has been awarded eight
honorary ones, has had her work
exhibited in institutions around the
world, and has been called "a legend
of African-American
- into a visual state
ment of power in America that year.
A recent acquisition in the Library's
collections is a bronze portrait of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, by
Robert Berks. It is a gift from Larry
and Louann Temple, Ben and
Melanie Barnes, Dee
-
Professor of Hi..tory at Texas A&M.
On this evening he proposed to
draw a line connecting two of his latest
works: the history of the California gold
rush, and his biography or Franklin. The
connection that Brands makes is that in
Franklin's time, Americans
- Heuvel, President of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
William Emerson, director of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library;
Clarence Lyons, in charge of the
Richard Nixon papers project at
the National Archives; and John
Fawcett, Assistant
- Douglass, which played
to a full auditorium at the Library.
2
OtherProgramsAt The Library.• •
. . . included Verne Newton, new
Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library in Hyde Park, New York
(below right), who discussed "The
Cambridge Spies," whose
- have been
destroyed or lost.
All that began to change in 1939 when
Franklin
Roosevelt set .isiJc a building for his
presidential
papers, whiL·li he then turned over
to the government
would maintain
with the agreement
that it
the library and make
- 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
- because it dove into a cloud
and he lost track of it. Aboard the
bomber, on a fact-finding mission for
President Franklin Roosevelt, was a
Texas congressman, Lyndon B.
Johnson." Martin Caidin and Edward
Hymoff have written a book titled
The Mission, which
- , John
Kenneth Galbraith. the economist,
teacher and writer whose history of
public service stretches back to the
adrninistration of Franklin Roosevelt,
gave a look into a book on which he
is working, calling for a "Good
Society"-·'not
precisely the Great
- A. Califano, Jr.
10:30a.m.
':4.ssessment.What Hvrked?
What Failed? Why?"
Moderator: Elspeth D. Rostow
Panelists: James MacGregor Bums
Stuart M. Butler
John Hope Franklin
Allen J Matusow
Charle· A. Murray
John E. Schwarz
Ben J. Wattenberg
Final Word: Bill D
- presidential library system wa nev r
intended to benefit retired residents directly. Modeled upon the
library set up by President Franklin D. Roose I in 1939, the
system wa officially established by Congr ss in 1955. Since then
the libraries ha evolved into ri
- and policymaker, he has been
associated with broad fields related to
human well-being. In the mid-1930-s, serv
ing in the Roosevelt Administration, he
was one of the original authors of the
Social Security program. In addition, in
1960, he served as chairman
- Bird Johnson.
5
THE PRESIDENCYSEEN IN P~-IOTOGRAPHS
On The Cover: Franklin Pierce
An exhibition titled "Photographing the American Presi
dency" came to the Library from the prestigious George East
man House in Rochester. New York. It includes
- are
loaded and the safety taken off. The
coxswain signals me that we're about
to touch down. The ramp is lowered,
and the sergeant and I stepped off."
Other such historic moments pre
sented in the exhibit include President
Franklin Roosevelt signing
- 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
- good, he
could also be ruthless, Caro told the
audience, as when he destroyed the ca
reer of Leland Olds, "an idealistic Ne,
Dealer. He had worked for Franklin
Roosevelt all his life .... His field of ex
pertise was public power; power from
dams
- of Washington,
Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kennedy and Carter. The
documents, lent by the National Archives, Library of Con
gress, the White House, and other presidential libraries,
have rarely been displayed. Lyndon Johnson's inaugural
address, from
- a beginning. The pro
jt'Ct will increase as more of the collection~ arc opened. he
Franklin D. Roosevelt Libran. \\h1ch has bt.-enoperating for 40
year, is still a major •nter of historical rc-.earch
Books ab0ut Lyndon John.son him~el are the mo t ob, iom
- ,uddenly
found himself the commander-in-chief of the greatest war of all
time. He wa to a large extent unknown by the country. He had
Roosevelt's very high powered cabinet to rea~sure. to guaran
tee that he would continue tht: policic • of the great man
- Concerts Under the
Stars," included a mixture of classic band pieces, selections
from musical comedies, marches, and songs associate with
the University.
William R. Emerson, Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library in Hyd Park, New York, spoke
- this nation's all about, and who understand the
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problems we face. And who get there without just passing a lit
mus t st of party loyalty.
"There haven't really been many presidents in our lifetime
who've done so," Strauss said. Franklin Roosevelt, Richard
- cherished goal: to com
plete the reforms begun 111 ranklin
Roosevelt's
ew Deal.
Califano confirmed the famous
story that LBJ ordered a telephone in
stalled in alifano's office bathroom, so
he would never to be out of touch with
the Oval Office.
The darkest
- ."' Phoro by Yoichi Okamoto
Franklin Roosevelt's administration
to help bring the country out of the
Great Depression. It provided assis1ance and training for young men
and women. LBJ had become Lhe
state NYA director in Texas in 1935.
He resigned in 1937
- . The Award is
given annually to honor a living American who has
made a substantial contribution to the betterment of
mankind in his or her field of endeavor. Past
Awards have gone to Roy Wilkins, for his work in
civil rights, and Ivan Allen and Franklin
- in the fit•ld of ,ivil Rights, and to
:-.tr. Ivan Allen and Mr. Franklin Thomas for their contribu
tions to the betterment of life in American cities.
I\ pioneer in the field of solar energy, Lof is Director of the
Sol; r Fnl•rgy Applications Lahoratory
- ~. 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
- gathered, a different
LBJ began to take form in his
mind. This new Johnson was the
last New Dealer, determined to
see Franklin Roosevelt's program
through to its proper fruition.
LBJ wanted to fight the War on
Poverty. Johnson was not inter
ested
