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- a Christmas season program entitled
''Twentieth Century Song Book: A Musical Celebration.''
Coming Events
February 13-April 18: An exhibition of Mexican Prints.
February 22:
Richard Norton Smith, Director of the Herbert Hoover Library, will discuss George
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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
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on the presidential inauguration stand but ex
President Herbert Hoover, behind Truman, takes a
serious view of the situation. Left to right: Mrs. Tru
man; Mrs. John Eisenhower; Mrs. Richard i.·on;
Maj. John Eisenhower: Mrs. Eisenhower; William
R. Castle, former
- traditions, so did the striking of a commemo
rative medal for a presidential inauguration. The medals
were first produced in very limited quantities, mainly as
gifts for the Inaugural Committee. Not until Herbert
Hoover's time were the medals sold
- , yet the passions of the times
and the temper of an antagonistic Congress prevented a
sensible period of reconstruction. I thought that Herbert
Hoov r was a wise and compassionate man, but he was com
pletely unable to cope with the economic disaster
- by the National Archives
and Records Administration.
Most recently, Fawcett has served
as Assistant Director, and then
acting Dir,ector of the Herbert
Hoover Library and Museum in
West Branch, Iowa.
He was named to his new
position by Don W. Wilson (right
- Smith,
Director of the Herbert Hoover
Library.
Claudine Weiher, Deputy Archivist
of the United States
Tom Johnson, President of the LBJ Foundation Board of Directors; Caro
line Kennedy, representing the Kennedy Library Foundation, and William
vanden
- at
the University of Michigan.
,-.....
Former Yale baseball infielder
George Bush displays his form at
horseshoes.
I0
Physical Fitness in the White House
infonnation). Herbert Hoover invented
a variation of volleyball which used a
ten-pound medicine ball instead
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was crucial in allowing me Loget a bel
t r understanding of my topic.
My proje t received the Herbert
Hoover Presidential Library·s Award
for best u 'C of Presidential Library
Sources at State competiti n. 1 was
chosen to represent the state of Iowa
- , it is con
sidered a permanent exh1b1l.
Radios are part of the new display techniques. From a vintage radio visitor·
listen to the voice of Woodrow Wilson. Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin
Roosevelt speak from a radio built in 1933 while campaign
- , Mitchell and Mitch II, P.A.
George H. Nash
Historian, Author and Biographer of
Herbert Hoover
Douglass Cater. President
Washington College
"The
·ew Deal's Legacy For The Future"
Mr. Cater
Mr. Brademas
Vernon E. Jordan. Jr.
Attorney at Law
Akin, Gump
- 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
- and scenes
from the pa ·t.
John Fawcett has been Chief of the Audiovisual
Section since 1973. He began his career as a museum
assistant with the Hoover Library while studying physics
at the University of Iowa. He soon changed his major to
history, and became
- sident Hoover's. At eac.h place I learned som thing ...
First, [the Library is] a research facility. We house all of
Lyndon's papers-you
can't get librarians to throw
anything away-and
the papers f a good many of the
people who were his working assodates
- . He call d J. Edgar Hoover to
tell him that he wants the inquiry to be
run by the FBI at the federal level, and
by state attorney general Waggoner
Carr at the state level. Johnson said,
"So I looked at the transcript that I
had prepared in part and I
- Library; James
O'N ill, Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries; Robert Wood, Assi"itanl Director or the Hoover I ibraq; Robert
Warner, Archivist of the United States; Thomas Soapes, Office f Presidential Libraric.,; Claudine Weiher, ,\s:.istant
- their annual meeting at the Library at the time of the opening of the World War II
exln'bition. Standing are: Ralph Bledsoe, Reagan Library; John Taylor, Nixon Library; Ben Zobrist, Truman Library;
Richard Norton Smith, Hoover Library; John Fawcett, Assistant
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and all future chief executives.
Consequently,
there now exist librnries bear
versity of Texas anJ are operated
by the
:..1tiunal
Services
Archives
of the General
ing the names of Presidents Hoover, Roose
velt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy
- ~. Lyndon 8. Johnson; an mscnbed
pholograph ol President Harry Trumar1, 1964, a gift from
Pr s1d nt Truman to Presid nt Johnson: bronze pres11.lential
m dais set in silver of Pr sidcnts H 'rbert Hoover and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, a gift from l'v[ilton S
