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  • -----------------------------------------------------------------Mrs. Rockefeller, friends: Let me assure you that this book is going to be in daily demand at the White House Library. It is just the kind of meaningful reference that we have been needing. And I am sure that every fut ure inbabitant of the White House
  • of realizing it in our time. Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We ail 1Uently thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by experiencing stirring and satisfying sights. Let me sbare with you news of a few of the wonderful projects tbat have
  • from the collections of the Library of Congress, the National Ar­ chives, the Ohio Historical Society, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy Presidential Libraries. From March 15 to April 25, 1976
  • Service Commission and as LBJ's "talent scout;' sets new guidelines for opening the voluminous Macy files in the Library's collections. 3 War Art RecordsImpressionsof Those Who "Profile of a Vietnam Veteran: Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Fade Away
  • that it ie harder and harder to get their story in the paper or on the airo The explosion of news reduces their ~ha:ncea to teil the daily s truggle o! life am de~.;::·i which hae such unseen dramatic i·esulta. I am so glad that there are awards as we have
  • New York
  • Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Presentation of the Annual Albert and Mary Lasker Awards to Medical Journalists - St. Regis Hotel - New York City, 5/10/1968"
  • , Betty Ford. Bottom: Beverly Sills, Earl Warren, Nelson Rockefeller. Among the speakers have been many of the leaders of the Johnson administration. 2 Library Faces" 3 Initiating a new program to feature ex­ hibits in the lobby commemorating a local
  • groups and small communities will be the hardesl hit, but so will many important medium­ sized arts gnrnps and cities. "The major arts organizations in Los Angeles, and Atlanta, and New York,and Chicago, and probably Boston, will survive," said \ Villiams
  • a poverty bill 30 years ago, those former cotton farmers would have been retrained to a new skill, rather than remaining on in an economy that time has passed by. The lasting answer to wiping out poverty in this country is not just charity, but a full-scale
  • . Attends dinner at the French Embassy before attending opening of the Mona Lisa exhibit at the National Gallery. 1/9 Attends WH congressional leadership breakfast, then Senate Democratic Caucus at the Capitol. Opens the Senate and swears in new members
  • the high cost of neglect. In community after community, hopeful new initiatives are under way to lift up children and their families. There are beacons to guide us down a road to a better future for our children. Nearly a quarter century ago, President
  • to me.... " But she did know long-time LBJ aide Horace Busby, a childhood friend of hers. So when Ms. Smith was working at Cosmopo!ita11 maga­ zine, and its new owner Helen Gurley Brown asked her to do a story on the Johnson girls, she said, "Okay, 1
  • movies are in the Johnson Library. This wealth of unique material is drawn upon by people from a variety of backgrounds, from scholars researching biographies to producers of news documentaries, from photo editors to members of the public who simply want
  • ; Paul Chevalier; Ken Ryal/, Daily Texan staff; U. T. News & Information Service; Yale University, Office of Public Information. Staff Assistance: Yolanda Boozer, Len DePrang, Lou Anne Missildine 12
  • opinion so much.' Later his mother succumbed to typhoid- ·he too was only 46-on the same day that his wife died of complications r her first childbi1th. Luckinbill/TR recalled staiting in politics in the New ~ rk A sernbl when he was fre·h from Harvard. s
  • , former defense secretary who left the government on 10/8, but said this decision might be “reconsidered” in view of Wilson’s statements to a New York Herald Tribune reporter on 12/30 disclaiming responsibility for holding down military spending. Wilson
  • by Wasserman, Mrs. Johnson told the audi­ ence: "I was scared very minute But I'm glad I did ,t. Its been a fantastically wonderful life, mo. l all f whi~h i because of Lyndon. And I thank you all for being our friends.·· Before the film begins its daily
  • /1 New Year’s Day at the Ranch. In Washington by 1/4. (1/2 & 1/3 missing) 1/4 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) flies to NYC. CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and girls already there). Returns 1/6 to Washington on JFK’s plane. 1/11 LBJ flies to Fort Worth
  • THING . END QUOTE. YOU AND THE PRESIDENT HAVE MY CONTINUED LOYALTY, AFFECTION AND IN SAN FRANCISCO, I HAVE ALWAYS FELT THAT QUO TE FULL SUPPORT GREGORY PECK. 3 2 ----- 45 Wellington Road Delmar, New. York 12054 January 21, 1968 Dear Mrs. Carpenter
  • appearances by Johnson, special news broadcasts, news inter­ view programs, and beginning April I, 1968. daily morning and evening network local news programs. In addition to this large collection, there is the LBJ Library series, which contains coverage
  • . The new improvements are part of a construction pro­ gram to be undertaken by the University of Texas, which owns the Library building. The proposed renovations -the result of a study commissioned by the LBJ Founda­ tion-were approved by the University
  • ranging across th experiences a.-, ·1 Harvard stuJcnt. rough rider in the Spanish American War. rancher. New York Police Comnm,sioncr. Gov­ ernor of i\ew )nrk. Vit:c President President. and in rctire­ mc.nt The text comes main!· from his diaries
  • Calcutta. And the re ·ult fwas) Vietnam ... Lyndon Johnson inherited it and was su,pi­ cmus of it. but he couldn't pcrsuaJc hims If that he 1-..new more about the suhje t than the people whos good fortune it was to know more about such things than the likes
  • charge of introducing new gods and corrupting the youth of Athens. He didn't do ither ... but he did bring on the wrath of powerful peo­ ple in Athens, because he questioned them; he made them look silly, he humiliated them. . . . And then in that great
  • previously. Marking the cc:ntcnnialof Grants death. the cxh1hit pnw1des glimpses ol the man obtained 1hrough letters. award , 11ilitary docun1Lnt'i.broadsides. manuscripb. painting • nd phot 1graphs. Lenders to the exhibition include thL Chicago Histnrical l
  • Aunt Effie dies on New Year’s night. 1/3 80th Congress convenes, controlled by Republicans for first time in fourteen years. Joseph Martin elected speaker of the House. Proceedings televised for first time. 1/4 Stag party for E.H. Perry at Driskill
  • : “We are pretty well settled here. Patsy’s husband, with the help of Lewis, and some carpenters, is fixing the basement into a more livable place with lots of paint, more closets, new curtains, some new furniture, et cetera.” 1/20 Texas delegation
  • and competitive steel industry. ("We've got to re-tool America," sai Jack Conway.) • holding down unemployment, and in fact creatrng millions of new jobs - particularly for the hard core unemployed in the ghetto (thereby defusing- a "social time bomb.") Rohatyn
  • diplomacy ... " When Liz Carpenter launched her new book, Unplanned Parenthood, she brought with her her singing group, caliled G-Batts (named for her previous book, Getting Better All the Time). 2 Stravinsky upset people; Picasso upset people; Ibsen
  • to the comm\lllity - - t aaching and e?lriching the lives of the people of all ages. . In visiting some of the claesroorns of the se three stateo, I will be glirnpsing classrooms in every state where we are attacldng old problerns in new ways
  • to youth educati on. Each of you has added in a visible way t o the heritage of this country. We are daily conscious of the high c ost of blight that derneans people's lives. Ugliness -- the grey, dreary, unchanging world of crowded, d eprived neigbborhoods
  • Daily News Editor John "Q" Clearance. There was plenty to G.O.P. Vice-Presidential Candidate WilO'Rourke. "There was no pressure," liam Miller told a luncheon for Chica- investigate, since there had obviously .. recalled O'Rourke. "I agreed not to go's
  • Daily News Editor John "Q" Clearance. There was plenty to G.O.P. Vice-Presidential Candidate WilO'Rourke. "There was no pressure," liam Miller told a luncheon for Chica- investigate, since there had obviously .. recalled O'Rourke. "I agreed not to go's
  • Issue Number L Vlll August I, 1994 America in the Sixties Library Opens Permanent Exhibit Whar rhe nation looked like in the years of the Johnson Presidency is rhe subject of a new permanent exhibit at the Library. Designed and constructed
  • 6 Black Chefs (and 1 Inventor) Who Changed the History of Food - The New York nmes I may have heard Carver's name associated with peanuts (boy, did he love them). Contrary to pular belief, Carver did not invent peanut butter. But he did develop
  • 6 Black Chefs (and 1 Inventor) Who Changed the History of Food - The New York nmes I may have heard Carver's name associated with peanuts (boy, did he love them). Contrary to pular belief, Carver did not invent peanut butter. But he did develop
  • but to lift each person to a new and higher degree of per­ sonal dignity and life. He believed in a divine destiny for this nation. Not that we should rule the world, but serve as an example and friend to the other societies. We do not live alone. We do n t
  • new weapons" in the war on poverty. I have been working particularly on Project Head Start which we h ope will be an important breakthrough in edu
  • divisive influences associated with the passions of the people. 8 Columnist Liz Smith, whose observations are printed in the New York Daily News and some 50 other papers around the country, gave an entertaining and delightful evening. For lack
  • 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
  • Among FdJrunry 2007 Lady Bird Johnson, Daughter Lynda Bird Robb, and LBJ Museum Curator Sandy Cohen, posing before photos from LBJ's childhood, on their way to review the new exhibit on Rural Electrification in Central Texas. Story begins on Page