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- to prepare to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you irnpoverish yourself if you forget the errand." I believe
- . In many u ays, it still is. For from the small to"l-ms of America wi th their courthouse s o_u a r es come rnuch of the s pirit and hope o f our country. Therc are, acro s::o this lan d , 17, 000 t01ms about the s ize of thi s on e . To di s cover ~-j
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks, Restoration Luncheon, the White House, 10/15/1968"
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- , and others because all heritage-minded Americane know your deeds. 1 hoped we could gather thie afternoon „ . in a house where history is treasu!"ed and history is made -- to sbare a bit of fellowship and compare notes on tbe pa.ce of preservation. So much has
- a.nti-litter efforts during the past four years• I am convinced we must find packaging that wiU disintegrate or is worth re deeming. A number of packaging concerns are represented on the Board of Keep America Beautiful, and 1 hope sonזe day soon
- of these freshmen was asked to give a tribute at a dinner in Washington. I would like to read from that tribute now, and in doing so, to dedicate this statue to all new members of the 89th Congress and all future Congresses in hopes that -- like Sam Rayburn
- is poor means that he needs the help of others -- that he probably lacks the education and often the hopefulness to lift himself unaided. Changing his lot is a decidedly practical matter for everyone. Millions of the impoverished place a heavy drag
- of the areas we have staked out. That is why I hope you who are the key to the knowledge of nature will continue to open new door a to us. I was so g lad to hear about several park systems which hired 14 and 16 year old boys this summer in a Youth Workreation
- , but also the totality of human experience and the sum of human hope. Rather possessively, and in a proprietary fashion, I want to see my University excel in this new Age of the University. I am delighted to be able to say, what you all know so well
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Children in Crisis, 18-19 September 1992," LBJ Library
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- Symposium A CALL TO CONSCIENCE: CHILDREN IN CRISIS By Martha Angle America's chi'ldren are :in crisis, and we can no longer escape the consequences. We have w~iitedtoo long to build the only lasting securi1ty our nation can hope to achieve
- the Dome would become the beacon of hope for all the struggling peoples of the world. And so it did and so it has remained. Elizabeth Crook (above left) and Marshall De Bruhl (above right) together presented a program moder ated by Liz Carpenter, called
- Society of LBJ. but our best hope in these more than slightly retrograde times.'· Even though, he said. his title is "one grade down from the long standing, deathless expression which Lyndon Johnson gave us.'' there should be "no doubt as to where
- not exist, however remote, where you are without the r evolution of rising expectations of women. I think women want to help their countries find the way to peace more than ever before. And that is why I hope we in this country ..... you
- are engaged in an attack on the slums, instead of our fellow man; that our hands are free to pick up the plowshare, is evidence that we live in an envied hour in historyo Our battlecry of hope is that while 30 years a g o a President could stand up and say one
- - the week of Feb. 12-18. We hope your readers will again let our veterans know they are appreciated. - Jesse Brown, secretary of Veterans Affairs DEAR JESSE BROWN: I've always known that my readers are the most warmhearted, responsive people in the world
- or in conjunction with others, by your talents or by your powers of perseverance -- and sometimes by both -- as women you will a dd to your deeds the grace of understanding and the strength of your hopes. For it is women who will give the Great Society its
- forget thi s visit. Standing with all of you here in this state that is my home , cannot leave without speaki ng to you of the things that are closest to my heart . I have shared my husband's politi cal hopes and dreams for 29 years , and although
- of teaching in what seemed to me a far-off, exotic place like Alaska or Hawaii. And I was a journalism major, with vague hopes of finding a place in those alluring news rooms where the clatter of events constantly breaks over typewriters. But whatever I
- and traditions urge upon us a special mission in this world to help and to lead. The new revolution should be our revolution. Our interesl\ demand it. In the course of the 20th Century, America has grown up, or we hope it has. We have turned in some spectacular
- the overriding question for any of us, Texans or Polynesians, is whether there will be anything to transition to." He xpressed the hope that "while preserving and celebrat ing our uniqueness as a state and working together on our present chances and problems, we
- . a completely opposite reaction. She looked. at it as ~uch a painful incident that \\ hen I interviewed her for the txiok she couldn t even bear to bring herselt to lalk about it. I should hope that the letters that my parents v. role to each other during
- in the Johnson Library. He was hopeful that there could be a spee y declassification of this material But whereas ¼bite House papers on domestic matters are opened for research in accordance with the wishes LBJ set forth in his deed of gift, the open ing
- 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
- outlined his own mix of hopes and predictions for the national political process: • Perhaps a hybrid system for n01ni nating presidential candidates, including state caucuses as well as conventions, would be an improve ment. (We are not likely to get
- libraries as educational sites. "If you walk into the Lyndon Johnson Library, you learn not only about Lyndon Johnson and his tim s, but a lot atiout Texas, and Mexican Americans, and these won derful temporary exhibitions that tell you a lot. ... I hope we
- " Henry Ford II, Preston Jone!!, Ed Clark, Linda Tobias, Helen Hayes, Jake Pickle, Mrs. Johnson, Kirk Douglas and emcee Cactus Pryor, after the program. This hope has he n made a reality through the activities of the Friends of the LBJ Library, and now
- . Happy women, with a sense of what they can do and where they are going , must create the homes in which children can learn young that habit of happiness which , more than anything else, lessens the darker strain in human nature and gives us hope
- and helped, both emotionally and in sub stance, to make them the memorable events they were. But perhaps this one, which we inaugurate today, pro vides a better test than any of the strength of President Johnson's hope for this institution. He perceived
- black district in the state of Texas, and the poorest" - voiced his own hope that public opinion would express itseir firmly: "I wish to heck that the people of Texas . . . would rise up and tell their legislators and their executors that it's high time
- of Chicago Law School because of the environment he created. Whenever the history of the Johnson presldency is written, I sincerely hope that this part of that legacy is not dismissed nor forgotten. PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER This letter from Senator Carol
- said later. "you never forget what poverty and hatred can do when you see its scar~ on the hopeful face of a young child .... " "lt was extraordi nary skill, combined with extraordi nary moral courage, that made Lyndon Johnson the most effective
- than ordinary people. But it also made him more gener ous, more intelligent, more progressive, and more hopeful for the country. He was. inside, a soft man. 1 saw him weep as he watched television reports from Selma. "My God!" he said. ·Those
- a reality." On the Environment: "All my life I have drawn suste nance from the rivers and from the hills of my native state ... I want no less for all the children of America than what I was privileged to have as a boy." On his Presidency: "I hope it may
- an endowment to the LBJ Foundation and a nine thousand lume book collection to the Library m the hope that thes gifts could be used t pr mote a definitive history of Congr ss. The Washington meeting, which was he d in the new Jame·· Madison Building. attracted
- : The Constitution, once adopted, succeeded beyond the hopes of its most ardent advocates; and I hope I'm not overdoing it when I say I think in a broad spectrum we are still part of the Constitutional (onvention, and I think it sort of keeps us in that sort
- and women without resource and without hope. We have come to tolerate the intolerable. --we need you to help us through these difficult times:· the Governor told the graduates. "We need your energy. your ideas and your optimism as we seek to revitalize
- a small swing be nice there! I hope there will be some crocus among the flagstone for early Spring blooming. l think of the spot as the sort of place a First Lady who is a grandmother might wheel a baby carriage and sit in the shade and enjoy her own
- and promise that "We Shall Overcome" -all of that rich memory can still be sum moned to fuel our sat·isfaction ,in what has been achieved, and stir our hope that ,the future will work as well. But if we are realistic, we have to acknowledge a sense
- the president and the CongTess, launching a Great Society whose hopeful purpose was to improve the quality and condition of Am rican life, saw art and literature and history and music as necessary parts of a nation's sustenance." Other landmark legislation
- , Paul Douglas, and Herbert Lehman. 7/24 LBJ writes his mother that CTJ, Mrs. Will Odom, and the children have left by car for Karnack, and will arrive in Austin in about a week. LBJ hopes to leave for Texas by the weekend. Sam Houston and Josefa
- , for which there was some hope of Senate acceptance. A second cloture attempt fails on July 12. 5/21 CTJ and LBJ are invited to Rosemont, the home of Harry Byrd, for a luncheon. 5/22 81st Club luncheon. 5/23 CTJ attends Mrs. Truman’s luncheon