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- —she had been the real general.
Our enemy had been trying to turn an idea of mine into an elegant
reality worthy of the White House, and of T iffany's, and I hoped of
the Johnson Administration.
I t turned out to be a formidable enemy.
All
- Among
Bob Hope's daughter Linda opened the exhibit
honoring her father at the Johnson Library.
Story on page 23.
Photo by Charles Bogel.
An Evening With Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Joe Califano was LBJ's top aide
for domestic legislation. He oversaw
- he said "Hello, Bob, how are you,
how is your wife Maisy, how are the children (calling them
all by name), you haven't been in to see me, I don't know
why you haven't ... how's everything out there? But Bob,
I've been looking at your registration
- 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
- often reminisce. B cause
we hoped his book would capture the flavor of the essential LBJ, we
tried Lointroduce a tape recorder into those reminiscing ses ion . But
he was no better with that machine than he had been with a TV
camera in the White House
- and know you arc
loved." The note was recently discov
ered in his personal effects by long
time Johnson friend Bob Waldron,
who turned it over to the Library.
photo by Ccci I Stoughton
2
'l\vo panels address issues the new
President embraced as his
- ." The idea
for the exhibit actually began with Mrs. Johnson, who
expressed the hope to Library staff members several
years ago that the museum would one day undertake to
show the Mexican influence in her nath·e state.
Former Congressman Jake Pickle
-
son's legacy of reaching
out to everyone, we hope
this adds a welcoming di
mension for our non-Eng
lish speaking visitors."
Photos by Charles Bogel
Archivist Bob Tissing here shows a group of African
French-speakers a few tips on the new device.
2
- government to
be a force that could be harnessed for
LBJ's Remarks at Library Dedication
We are all partners in this hopeful
undertaking. The people of Texas
built this Library. The national
archives will manage the Library.
The documents I have saved since
- and I m ade a point of
sittin g down on the so fa w ith Bob M cN am ara and te llin g h im a b it about
the S ch ool of P u b lic S e r v ic e and the L ib ra ry and that when it opened I
hoped that w e w ould h a v e a big s o r t of co n cla v e on g r
- Civil Rights Act of 1968 & gives speech; Lady Bird visits with Pat & Luci; Pat Nugent leaves for Vietnam; LBJ & departing Cabinet members gives speeches at reception; Lady Bird asks Bob McNamara to speak at LBJ Library; small dinner party
- .
And from
the House there were the Jack Brooks, and the Bob Poages.
It is
i nteresting how at times lik e this one breaks through normal barriers
of c iv ilitie s and expresses real feelings and they were sad to see us
go.
And the George Mahons.
From my
- hands on the c lip p in g s, so hoped th ey
w ould be w a rm and c o lo r fu l and liv e ly .
And th ey w e r e .
Then I w ent down to the m o v ie to s e e D avid B r in k le y 's h o u r -lo n g
show on W ashington, a la r g e p art of it b e a u
- of the
'Johnson boys' has come home to Southwest
Texas."
Bob Hardesty, new president of Southwest Texas Slate University, ponders
a painting of the University's most distinguished alumnus, which hangs in
the Academic Center at the Universily.
2
Library Docents
- include Bill Moyers. Jack Valenti. Registration fee required. Contact Kristie Kimbell,
512-471-3200; www.utexas.edu/lbj/civilrights
March 6-April 25
Special exhibit, "Bob Hope: American Pai-riot."
April 13
An Evening with Joseph A. Califano, Jr
- for so
many years: thank you, thank you,
thank you."
Library Travels the Information Superhighway
by Bob Brewin
The following is excerpted from an
article that appeared in Federal
Computer Week magazine. rt is
reprinted with the magazine's per
mi ion
- e e d s for the fu tu re, and w e hoped it w ould be p o ss ib le to f ill in sta ff, w h e r e e v e r the gaps m ade fo lk s lik e Bob Knudsen. w ork a ll day and a ll night.
And then, c lo s e to 2:30, I w ent in and w orked with B e s s ,
the o
- that I wasn't on drugs.
[Laughter]
That's P-A-S-S- -D.
[Laughter]
l 've not talked a lot about v hat
happened in [the election cri
sis in] Florida, but I do in this
book.
My really good pal,
Bob Strauss, for whom you've
named the Robert S. Strauss
Center
- comfort: "Strom
Thurmond is ninety-five years old.
And all of his children are younger
than mine."
And that recollection led her to a
not unrelated observarion: '·Bob Dole
goes and tells the world that hc'".i on
Viagra. Who needed 10 know that?"
Ms
- , there was
the unconditional
love of her
Grandpa Patton. a junk dealer and
ex-convict. He told her she was spe
cial and worthy of God's love.
Then there was the Good Hope
Missionary Baptist Church with its
emphasis on respectability, educa
tion, and responsibility
- 29, 1963
Bernard Safran
8
MARTIN LUTHER KING
February 18, 1957
Boris Chaliapin
BOB HOPE
December 22, 1967
Marisol
LADY BIRD JOHNSON
August 28, 1964
Boris Artzybasheff
BOBBY KENNEDY
May 24, 1968
Roy Lichtenstein
BARRY COLDWATER
June 12, 1964
- .. The three most cl scly identified with it werr
Wilhur Cohen, Bob Hardesty, and Jack Otis, Dean of
the University of Texas' Graduate School of Social
Work. Each proposal carried the saml' rea~ ing:
Th, i;ocial programs
C'71aL
tr•d in the 196()"s slirrE:d
hope
- , and I was a speech writer and there wasn't anything much lower than a
speech writer.
(Laughter)
But I have come on to much more exalted planes.
Now, in this library there are some forty some million papers and they are very--I
think Mr. [Robert "Bob
- does
not ome into play. But the "nd result.
Faulkner hopes, will be roughly the
same: increa.-ed minority enrollment.
Final! , Faulkner vow d that he
would not allow any compromise in
UT's high academic stan lards. Since
most of the undergraduates at
T
- L.B.J.
I have enclosed a copy of my
essay for you to read. I hope you
enjoy reading it. They would only let
us write about a page. I had many
pages of notes about President
Johnson and even have a book of
some of his White House tapes. I
could have
- and books. Ms. Robb high
lighted LBJ's passion for helping
people, and concluded with the
hope that her new program,
uture
Forum (see article on page 13),
would continue
to serve LBJ's
memory and dedication to public
service. She said,
When I see a!I of you
- with
smiles on our faces. Those of you who did not know him missed
the rarest human being of a lifetime. But I hope that you and
the legions of others who benefited from his activities will take
pleasure that you, too, share his legacy."
Larry Temple
-
er for his alma mater. where hi~
friends have endowed a $500.000
professorship in his name. He was
vice chairman of the Bob Bullock
State Museum Foundation,
and
served on the boards of the
Vice Chairman,Passes Away
PhOlos hy Yoiclti Okw11010
- , in the Senate part1cula 1 , was
heels of the election, the matter which I and have long hoped to be able to assist
that they never knew where the votes
were. He knew, they didn't. ne of his wish to call to your attention is just a bit him in advancing hi
- in Austin.
I'd been around the capitol a lot, edi
tor of The Daily Texan. and to hear a
man talk this way three days after I
left [ there] was kind of boggling.
And he said, 'We're in a race with
time, and I hope we can succeed be
cause if we don't
- in class
for a more meaningful visit to the Library.
The staff hopes to complete several brochures in the near
future. ow in preliminary stages are an "ABC Book" and a
coloring book on the library in general. Also planned is a
guide to the political
- of their proposed
projects are: Emmanuel N. Ama
dife, "Official Humanitarianism and
the Politics of Conquest: U.S. Policy
& the Nigerian Civil War 196770"; Nancy Brendlinger, "Presi
dential Influence on the American
Space Program"; Bob Buzzanca.
"U.S. Military
- t e a .
Bob K n u d s e n to o k a p i c t u r e ,
I d is p a tc h e d t h e m on a
t o u r of t h e W h ite H o u s e w ith m y e a r n e s t th a n k s an d high h o p e s .
T h e a t h e r e b e g a n u n d o u b ted ly one of t h e f u n n ie
- Vermeil[?] Room.
From
A r t s and Le t t e r s t h e r e were t h e R a lp h E l l i s o n s ,
The
n e g ro a u t h o r , D r . John Hope F r a n k l i n an d h i s w i f e ,
p r o f e s s o r and a u t h o r ,
as her e s c o r t.
Lynda B i r d h a d
- voice and sing. ..
Sing a song full of the hope
that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our
new day begun
Let us march on till victory
is won.
-Jam.es Weldon Johnson, 1900
The
LBJ
Library
and
Museum's major exhibit for the
year featured
- ~siclentialappointee and secure thei1· alone could not solve social problems. In
agreement to two conditions of appoint earl I mnnhood. yndon 8. Johnson had a
ment: "One, to retire no later than age sev burden that became a vijon of hope for ev
enty, so a. to make
- Johnson's Mailbox: A Young Fan Writes
February 2, 1967
Dear President,
I and my friends Bob and David would like to go up into a space a week from next Monday. We always wanted
to go up into space. Do you have space suits that would fit us? We would fit
- in g up on the s ta g e ju st a s e v e r y b o d y b eh in d
it g e t s into th e ir p o s itio n w e a r e d o w n s ta ir s and out on the N o rth P o r t i c o - c a lm and s e r e n e - - I hope it lo o k s that w ay, a s the b ig b la c k c a r w
- y q u ic k ly w e w e r e in s id e in th e D ip lo m a tic R e c e p tio n R o om
g r e e t i n g th e r e s t of the p a r t y f r o m I r a n .
And w h e n L yndon to o k
the P r i m e M i n i s t e r a w a y , B e s s had Bob K nu dse n h an d
- by Antonia Handler Chayes,
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, at opening
ceremony
Hope for a lasting peace did emerge [out of World War I]. Yet here we are,
some years rPmoved from our last and painful war, not content with peace, nor
with the institutions
- ." And
"this 1s where our special e hibits, ever changing, capture
for a time some past but significant events in our national
story.''
"As I look into the future," she said, "I hope this Library
will be always animated by those words-'always trying and
always
