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President Ford.
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On the other side were the men and women of the Press:
Frank Cormier, Associated Pr
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On the corresix1ndents' panel were
Frank Cormier, for a long time with
the Associated Press and now retired;
Helen Thomas, United Press Interna
tional and dean of the Whjte House
press corps: Marianne Means, Hearst
Newspapers and l(jng Features syndi
cate: James
- , sponsored by U. T.'s His
tory Department and College of
Liberal Arts. His book, scheduled for
publication in the spring by Oxford
University Press, is titled Lyndon B.
Johnson, A PoliticalLife, 1908-1960.
lit will be the first of two projected
volumes.
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- to his predeoessor, Mr. Bush
called LBJ •'a towering and passion
ate figure" who "tried with all his
heart to be the best President that this
country ever had for the people who
are pressed against the wall, whose
cries are not heard. But he heard
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The Ilonorahle Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the
Left to right. former Secretary of Commerce Alexander Tro\\
bridge, Mrs. Charles Engelhard and Associate Justice Thur
good .Marshall await the luncheon ceremonies.
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Dr. McGill. IeH, and Mrs. Johnson
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and/or the Library, there is a pressing need for a major
modification of several ar as of space ... in order to make
those areas more usable and effective."
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Along the north wall of the building on the first floor will be 11
new !>etof display cases
- the Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute; author,
The Years of MacArthur
WILLIAM J. JORDEN, Correspondent, Associated Press, 1948-1952; Correspondent, New York Times,
1952-1955; U.S. Ambassador to Panama, 1974-1978
Panel
- by Charles Taunadi of the Associated Press, won Honorable Mention.
AMONG FRIENDS OF LBJ is a publication
of the Friends of the LBJ Library
Editor- Lawrence D. Reed
Research Assrstance: Charles Corkran, Cary Yarrington, Marlene White
Photography: Frank Wolfe
- news
photographer for the Houston Press. ov ring the years 19591965, ox's photograph, document national political cam
paigns. th earl days f the space program, and social and
ultural de lopmen
s seen from
Houston perspective.
1ong the political
- degrees
from the University of Texas at
Austin.
She ha represented the Library,
sometimes presenting papers and
serving on panels, at meetings of the
Texas Library Association, Society of
Southwest Archivist, Society of
American Archivist, Organization
- Presidential
papers, 6 million pre-Presidential
pages, 6 million papers donated by associates of LBJ, and
2 million federal records. They are stored in 46,000 r,ed
boxes, visible to Library visitors through the glass walls
of the four floors that rise above
- to enjoy in
full measure.
I am grateful that the great constant
in my life for 50 years has been my
political association and my most
affectionate friendship with Lady
Bird Johnson.
Another constant has been my love
of the Capitol Dome and all
- mate because.
among other reasons, "It wouldn't be
worthwhile being president if Lyndon
were majority leader." rEd. note: A
number of LBJ's associates have
recalled him saying that one reason
among many that he accepted the
vice-presidential nomination
- Gowen, who was honored for her 3,000 hours of service.
Florence Nightingale and Her Legacy for Nursing
In association with The University
of Texas at Austin School of Nursing,
the LBJ Library and Museum opened
an exhibit on April I. honoring the
founder
- toured the
Library in October did not noti e the
fountains or the panoramic view of the
University of Texas. They ignored the
size of the Great Hall and were unim
pressed by the thousands of red docu
m£>ntboxe behind four levels of glass
walls. They were
- was then briefed
on the Library's Oral History Project, in which inter
views with md1viduals who ere associated with Presi
dent Johnson are taped and transcribed for researchers
working with the Library's collections.
Ford and Mrs. Johnson examine a document
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Texas A&M Press' re-publication of
her Ruffles and Flourishes, a best
selling account of her service in the
Johnson White House.
RichardNorton Smith, directorof
the Herbert Hoover Library,
brought his just-publishedbiogra
phy of the first U.S
- , that splendid moment."
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Former Congressman Jake Pickle
made a return to the library to
delight an audience composed of
old friends and former constituents
with tales from his colorful career.
His appearance coincided with the
publication (by the U. T. Press
- at The University
of
Texas; Elspeth Rostow, former dean
of the LBJ School of Public Affairs;
and George Christian, former press
secretary to LBJ. The audience was
encouraged to submit questions to
Dr. Dallek as well, and the discus
sion which ensued was lively
- , President's Commission on
White House Fellows
Frank Ikard, Sr., Danzansky, Dickey, Tydings, Quint & Gordon
J. J. Pickle, United States Representative, 10th District, Texas
Charis Walker, Charis E. Walker Associates, Inr.
system up for ransom." It represents
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electric utilities, juvenile justice, and
family issues.
Hood gets a lot of good press. he was
still a thief. Baxter favored eliminating
the Robin Hood system entirely, and
replacing rhe lost revenues wiU1state ap
propriations.
The ensuing con ersalion
- to succeed Han-y Middleton
as Director of the LBJ Library
and useum.
The University of Texas at
Austin has re ently named Dr.
Flowers, Professor of Engli h and
former Associate Dean of Graduate
Studies, a Distinguished Alumna of
the University. She has served
- ;.,eparate session~. probed
three issues of compelling concern: prioriti1:, m c
- for research at the Library. (The
figure does not include students
who come into the research room
on tour or school groups for whom
research packets are prepared.)
Mr. Leeman 's project, for a jour
nahsm class, was "LBJ and the
Press."
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Library in May
- , a junior at Southwest
Texas State University.
Horace Busby, long-time aide to
and associate of Lyndon Johnson
and now a consultant in Wash
ington, D.C., reminisced about
the man he knew at a breakfast
meeting of Washington alumni of
the LBJ School
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the Associated Press and The ew York Times for many years
in the Far East, especially in Japan and Korea. He was chief of
The Times' bureau in Moscow in the mid-1950's and then was
that paper's diplomatic correspondent in Washington.
When he entered Governments
- A.
Baker, Historian of the U.S. Senate;
Raymond W. Smock, Historian of
the U.S. House of Representatives;
Roger Dav,idson, a University of
Maryland political scientist who also
is associated with the Library of
Congress; Donald C. Bacon, Senior
Editor
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before President Johnson's 75th birthday anniversary.
Following are excerpts from the memorial speech made by
Jack Valenti, president, Motion Picture Association of
America, and former special assistant to the President:
The measure of a great leader
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Issue Number LXX, January 2003
George Christian,Former Press Secretaryand LBJ Foundation
George Eastland Christian died
of lung cancer on November 27. His
illness had been diagnosed as termi
nal a year earlier. After a brief try
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are drying up. If we cannot find ways
to prevent that happening, future his
tories will be written from press
"Accessissues."Robert Schulzinger;John Prados; W. Roger Louis; John Brademas;Martha Kumar; panel chair Hugh
Graham. (The panel is applauding
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they addressed ...
No one .:an doubt the Roosc\(:lt virtuosity in speech, in
ealing with the press. and above all on che radio, but none
of thi" talent would have \Urvivcd and scr\'cd for lhll e
tweh· int nse year
- on White
Houses past and present.
The evening panel featured
Liz Carpenter, former press secre
tary to Lady Bird Johnson; Carl
Sferrazza Anthony, authority on
First Families; Mark Shields,
moderator of CNN's "The Capital
Gang" and Richard Norton Smith
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and hopeless effort.'· But he ex
pressed '·deep regret" over ·'the way
in which we allowed the Vi tmlm War
to become the totally defining vent
of those years and likewise of the his
tory. Jn the Johnson years it was the
Vietnam War and nothing else. And
so
- , and George
Christian. Carpenter was press secre
tary to Lady Bird Johnson; Hardesty
was a speechwriter, and Christian was
LBJ's press sectretary.
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is kind of a cap ·ulation of Texas his
tory in this century ....
The oth r
thing is the release
- at the University of Texas, made
the exhibit the subject of an editorial.
"The exhibit is not only a reminder of
what war really is, but a reminder that
wars begin all too easily ... "
And a columnist from the Minden, La.,
Press-Heral.d wrote, " ... Most of you
have
- change is not
progTess, nor all movement forward," said jack
Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of
America, "bul you can't stop it. It's going lo happen.
Change is upon us." Valenti mused that the NEA
might evolve into the "National
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case, because Ford has tended to be
ignored by historians. . .To some
extent he has somewhat the opposite
effect on his reputation that Nixon
has, in that he has been involved with
things not particularly related to the
press or scholarship
- Yarrington escorts Pierre Salinger, press secretary
in the Kennedy and the early part of the Johnson administration, and the
Honorable Rene Garrec, Governor of Normandy, through the Library's
new permanent exhibition.
Vice President I Gore speaks
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Other Committee members include Associate Justice
Thurgood Marshall, George R. Brown, Robert A.
Good, Katharine Graham, Linda Howard, Arthur
Krim, Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, Harry McPherson and
Mark Ward. Dr. Lof will receive the Award in
special luncheon
- of the press and of public opin
ion. Probably the worst distortion is this picture of the
President walled off by his advisers, his courtiers. Well,
perhaps this could happen if a President were blind and
deaf and lazy and a fool as well. I think it is fair
