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- is your stories of
these trips that will be cherished most and read and r e -read.
And let me confess sornething right now. The President is going to
have a b (J.rd time talking me out of this citation and candlestick for the Library•
I want th ~ m with me
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that night.
2/18
LBJ spends day in Austin.
2/19
LBJ Co. Convair crashes en route to LBJ Ranch, pilot and co-pilot die in crash.
2/20
LBJ visits site of plane crash, goes to Austin to visit widow of pilot.
1961 Chronology ● p. 2 of 23
07/2024
2
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No one knows tbat promise better than the teacbers of Appalachia fo r
the g reat transformation of the reg ion i s taking place in their schoolr ooms.
Scbools don't close thei r doors at 3:30 a!ly more. Late into the night they
a're beaconlights
- to grips with it.
None of us who read or hear the news can escape the shock of the
headlines.
A group of hoodlum s rnug an old man and leave him to die. A grocer
is rnurdered by a strongarrn robber. The taxi driver is knifed. The quiet man
murders hie own
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with many thousands of memos and
other messages prepared by White
House staff and agency officials. But
which did the President read? A file
called "Night Reading" will help
answer this question. (It) includes
lists of the memos, reports, and other
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Former President Jimmy Carter
inaugurated the series last year.
Luckinbill, currently appearing
in a play, "A Fair Country," in New
York, flew to Austin to make his
Darrow presentation on the one night
of the week when his play is not
given, to honor
- the other
morning as he strode through our little family sitting room on the
second floor of the White House on his way to the office -- arms
loaded with envelopes marked, ''Night Reading". I said, "Listen.
You had better fortify me with some facts for our
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by a congressional committee, and a
woman who slept with a gun under
her pillow every night until she died,
several years ago."
Ms. Smith had also feuded
memorably with Frank Sinatra, and it
was she who broke the news of the
Donald/lvanna Trump divorce. "It
certainly
- months of conversations, packaged for research.
2
Dictabeh lli 1: ct:JUI
1. have been
reproduced and
.lJhle in the
Library·s Reading R m n Digital
Audio Tape. enablin; h kners to go
directly to the ocginnm_:-of the con
versation of interest to them I
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so far in liking with him that before
she went from the play, she ap
pointed him to come that night unto
her, by the name of Richard Ill.
Shakespeare, overhearing their con
clusion, went before, was enter
tained, and at his game ere Burbage
came
- . Then the Presi
dent reads. I doubt that there was a single day of the
Presidency, Sundays included, that I didn't give two or
three hours to just solitary reading. There was hardly a
night that I was President that I didn't read two or thre
hours. Even
- Connally's widow ellie shared her
memories or the JFK assassination.
peared, we have been besieged with re
quests for interviews. I can·, do any m re
than they already have me doing. They'll
just have to read-the-book."
Bui she began with a still older
- gy chani:r s
only complicates the picture further.
Will we even have ma hines that can
read Loda 's electronic records, fifty
years from now? But re arch is
going on to solve the e i sues, he
stated, and h is confident that there
are solutions
- a pledge to myself
I was not going to kt this night go by
until I could tell you that your Presi
dent was immensely proud of your
vote tonight." "That," said Pickle,
''is thoughtfulness and remembrance
beyond measure.··
There was, of course, another way
- , helpng them wi th remedi a l reading so tha t
they have a better chance to become self - sustaini ng , useful
citizens . They have worked in the Widening Horizons pr ogram to
help t eenagers find summertime jobs and part- time jobs.
MORE
.
l
- , and the
Greek, Roman and Teutonic myths.
I fell in love with their heroes and
relied increasingly on books for my
enjoyment. Sometime soon after
Mother' death I must have appeared
sad to my father. I remember one
night he asked if I would like for him
to read
- to the
Library and on the night of its
opening spoke to an enthusiastic
audience about the long effort of
women to secure the vote.
"Our Mothers Before Us"-Continued
"Because of the women in my fami
ly," Ms. Robb said, "I always thought
wmnen ran the country
- night.
4/21
Sunday. LBJ plans to attend church services at College Station and drive to Austin
Sunday evening, stopping at the Austin Hotel. He expects to be in the district
about 10 days and then return to Washington about the first of May
- with an account of entertain
ing during those years and in Washington generally.
FoJlowing are excerpts from her remarks .
. P.drues in Washington are seriom, bw,iness. On any given
night in Washington. there are dozens of them. Diplomats enter
tain to create
- . It read:
Monday: AlcoholicsAnonymous.
Tuesday:Ahmed Spouses.
Wednesday:Eating Disorders.
Thursday: Say No to Drugs.
Friday:Teen Suicide Watch.
Saturday:Soup Kitchen.
Suncla)'Sermon: "'America'sJoyous Future."'
The Modern Presidency: Offstage at the White
- to Acapulco the next day.
2/10
The Johnsons, Kellams, Baileys, Wiley and Bob Armstrong leave at 1 p.m. for
Mexico on Wesley West’s plane. They are forced to spend the night in
Monterrey after the pilot refuses to fly into the unfamiliar terrain around
- and malicious a biography as I have ever
read ... lls importance, if in fact it can be said to have any at all,
resides almost entirely in the mind of the man who wrote it."
And these are just a sampling. So it would seem that Caro will
not have completely clear
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Bellows recalls boisterous
gatherings of the extended
family, and quiet mornings
when the grandchildren would
ride bikes around the ranch,
and she would read Lady Bird
.the Sunday paper.
"I really never thought that
she would die," Bellows said.
Johnson
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Bellows recalls boisterous
gatherings of the extended
family, and quiet mornings
when the grandchildren would
ride bikes around the ranch,
and she would read Lady Bird
.the Sunday paper.
"I really never thought that
she would die," Bellows said.
Johnson
- together to write gags • r it, and
we came up ith the line, "Now, about
my great-great-granddaddy
at the
Alamo. Y'all dicln 't let me fini h. It
was the Alamo Bar and Grill in Eagle
Pass, Tex·1s."
The President changed it to read
··The
Alamo
Hotel
in Eagle
- seat;
FDR suggests he read it from White House steps.
Juanita Roberts remembers being present at a tea given by CTJ for Nan
Honeyman, congresswoman from Oregon, when LBJ called to tell CTJ that he had
announced for Sheppard’s seat; she remembers
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Here I Am, Lord
The Rev. Lynn Jostes
Katherine Gonella & Jacqueline Gonella
*AFFIRMATION
OFFAITH(read responsively)
Leader:
Father Mark Hughes
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation or distress?
Or persecution or famine
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Here I Am, Lord
The Rev. Lynn Jostes
Katherine Gonella & Jacqueline Gonella
*AFFIRMATION
OFFAITH(read responsively)
Leader:
Father Mark Hughes
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation or distress?
Or persecution or famine
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- , but it is a cookbook
that is a good read too. Lynn
Boswell ofVillita Productions
produced the DVD specifically
for the exhibit, to chronicle
how electricity changed the Hill
Countrv., and LBJ's role in that
transformation. We are proud that
it features one of the LBJ
- , space contracts, aero
space plants. 'This is what your gov-
So I wrote him for a summer job.
I spent my first night in Washington,
from 5:00 p.m. until the following morn
ing. completing my tirst assignment for
Lyndon Baines .Johnson, addressing
- . Thus, all colleges
locked
female students in at night for their
own protection ... The war dramati-
cally changed political attitudes. In
the 30s most Americans fell that
entering World War I had been a big
mistake. Neutrality and unilateral
- would share it.
But I am afraid she is a little too dependent upon us, upon the haven and
privacy of home-now this house.
When I look at the newspapers and read, "President Comes Badefrom
Texas," "NATO, Vieb1am, Among Problems Crowding Calendar," and
I
- would share it.
But I am afraid she is a little too dependent upon us, upon the haven and
privacy of home-now this house.
When I look at the newspapers and read, "President Comes Badefrom
Texas," "NATO, Vieb1am, Among Problems Crowding Calendar," and
I
- years, and 28 mil
lion have not completed high school. . . . More than
30,000 schools have received funds under the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act to teach remedial math and
reading to disadvantaged students.
POVERTY In 1960, 22 percent
- in typical TRfashion to
a letter of condolence, in part: ' Qu nrin
me as much as it certainly must have
was [his mother's] baby, the last child left
done you.
'To be shot: Francis
in the home nest. On the night before he
Christiance deserter from the ranks
- Proxmire ....
Congress and the Cold War
will remain a must-read for
congressional scholars for
years to come.
9
Sitting with Dr. Koed on the Har
deman Prize Committee are two
political scientists at The Uni
versity of Texas at Austin, Sean
Theriault
- at the Senate Office Building. Reedy sends LBJ a memo recommending that
Carter and Spann act as “eyes and ears” for them in Texas, keeping the office
informed of rumors and information.
1/26
Reedy reports to LBJ on a meeting last night with Andy Biemiller
- , he said, will enable the Library to "provide
greater insight into the span of governm nt and history over
the half century which marks the Johnson era."
In her r marks to the assembled uests on opening night,
Mrs. Johnson cited two other Library
