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- Lyndon Liz Carpenter arrived on the arm of Ben Barnes. The occasion began with a powerful a capella rendition of "America the Beautiful" by Johnny Ray Watson, of Bastrop, Texas. Johnson's book of how to work with the opposition. The rank
- for Wednesday-Friday. May 12-15. Its purpose will be to examine the sea change which transformed America in that turbulent period. and what the change has meant for the nation. "LBJ Remembered.'. a round-table discussion involving several former LBJ staffers
- , one of the symposium keynoters, "is a massive demographic change that may indeed be the biggest stolfy in America in the next century." He pointed out that minority groups under the s,ixth grade in Houston schools and under the fourth grade
- compensation. That is one thing liberals conscr\'anves. moderates. Democrats and RLpubhcans. l think. have ull concurred 1> . . . E\'Cl') study ~hm, ~ that w :,pend too liule too late in education . . . We spend a much lower pcrc magc of our av.iilabh:: dollars
- pines, South Korea. South Africa. Haiti and Chile, we mu. I place America's moral. economic and political support tirml) on the side of democratic forces before it's too late. instead of waiting until their politics polarize. the democratic center h
- , judgment it we hope to pr serve I e ,ocial nd e ..onom1L gain, America ha, ma e o, er thl'. pas 40 year. and -: p the great commitrr tnt, madt b) at least !iv ad mini. tratiom during those decade,, we're g ng to ha,c 10 ta e act1on-t ugh, painful, action
- Johnson was dis covering America." An elocution teacher, and a jour nal.ist with a sense of history, "Miss Rebekah," as she was known to friends, felt the need to record this most momentous mo ment in her family's life. From the beginning Lyndon Bain
- , and added that From the very beginning, there was never a disagreement on the committee between Democrats and Republicans, or conservatives and liberals, about one proposition: Washing ton should never have the power to be able to determine what
- and economic action. But not all of them. The white America ·s almost total ignorance of Black culture-and the Black America's resentment of that insensitivity-are Il()t matters for leg islation ... a11y more than are the Gentile's appreciation of Jewish tra
- 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
- , demonstrating what American artists thought and felt about World War II, are shown together for the first time in almost forty years. In 1943 the organization Artists for Victory, Inc. assembled a compet"tiv print exhibition entitled "America in the War
- for reflection before action. Robert Strauss, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, does not envy future presidents. "Today," he declared, "a president has a helluva time just marginally influencing the course
- rights for very body. II we re trying to do is to make this government of the United States of America honest. We only ask that when we i;tand up and talk about ·one nation under God, liberty. justire for ever bod;,' Lo be able t look at that flag and put
- Electoral Politics Douglass Cater, in a second lecture co-sponsored by the Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs during 1980, took a searching look at the way America elects its Presidents and uggested the following reforms for Presidential campaigns
- a k them: Who will Photo by Charles Bogel Johnny Ray Watson gives a memorable a cappella rendition of "America the Beautiful." Speaking under the live oaks at the family plot, Joseph Califano reminds the crowd that LBJ's spirit lives
- of the education legislation so dear to Lyndon's hean-legislation and appropriations that woulJ underscore America's belief in investing in the minds and talents of its young people. Those were heady days of action for we believed that a civil ized soci ty is best
- will significantly strengthen and enrich the educational programs in which that great institution is engaged. I would also hope that your action would enhance the opportunity for improving the academic endeavors of all institutions of learning, and provide addi
- in 1940, in order to wrest from Rayburn the leadership of the Democratic forces in Texas. Former Congressman Ray Roberts, who was on Rayburn's staff at the time, disputed the charge. "I know that the action that LBJ took was after full concurrence
- to the White House. As presid nt, TR oversaw the constru lion of the Panama anal, that stupendous feat of engjneering. (It was a dm-ing and perhaps unscrupulous exploit in int rnational politics as well.) To dramatize America's com ing of age in the family
- memoir. On ep temb r 27 he came to th LBJ Li brary Auditorium to comment on his career as Secretary of the Trea sury, Secretary of State, and White House Chief of Staff, which includ ed dealing with the Iraqi crisi , the conflicts in Central America
- Congress, he said, is "bigger and busier. It's better educated and more experienced. It is more ethical, regardless of what you read, and more open. It is more democratic and more accessible. It is too accessible, I might add, at times. It is more
- editors at was America's Public Enemy No. 1, the infamous John Dillinger. From this serendipitous begin ning, Duncan went on the become one of the world's great wartime photog raphers. Of his combat photography, Duncan himself wrote, '·I wanted to show
- memorating Revolutionary War victories. Metal buttons imprinted with eagles were manufactured in America for Washington's inauguration. President Jefferson's medal was the first produced in time for an inauguration. In time. as the parades and balls became
- rebels with out a cause, "with their contempt for the squares of the world," and for America at large, "an old country ruled by old men." The election of John Kennedy in 1960 signaled a seismic shift. A new generation was taking over. The New Frontier
- to the interest of Dick as well as to the rangements for secretarial help, I im erals can't count." Which may be right. young man for whom I write, I am mak mediately decided to suggest Lyndon to He believed in the democratic system, and I thtnk partly because
- litical career as Mayor of Weathe1forcl, Texas. He was a member of Congress for thirty-five years, serving as Speaker of the House from 1987 to 1989. He was Chair of the National Democratic Convention in 1988. Wright recalls LBJ "leaning" on him only once
- sailing in hi quest to determine what posterity will think. And for that, posterity should be grateful. LBJ the political figure, congressional leader and President even tually will be judged on the basis of his programs and policies and actions
- of anything: they are results. Nobody reflects that better than Ronald Reagan. He is not the cause at all of the country being conservative. His presidency is the result of a conservatising trend that began when he was still a liberal Democrat and head of one
- for what he believed in. Da vid Mc ulloch. the great historian, say., that's the first test or a great president.... When he went for civil rights, he knew that it would cost the Democratic Party dearly in the South, but he knew it was mo ·e important
- " (whose faces are visible) include Joe Frantz, Henry Cisneros, Norman Bonner and LarryMcMurtry. Texa~ uf 1.:owb11y, anJ Lhe range and the herds. Those dominalc our m) th~ ot Tc •as. but the truth is lhat there 1sn t a more urban state in America." The pa
- in his presidency for an eff'ort "to perfect our unity." "The work he spoke of," Middleton said, "was not completed and is not completed to this day. But many of the di visions that plagued America a quarter of a century ago /rave dis appeared-in large
- overlooked," Joan Sands said. And judging by some re actions, they may be right. Lady Bird Johnson Tribute Committee Establishes New Goal of $2 Million Goes To The People By Tracy Cortese Sands said a blind man at one home came to the show lo li!,ten
- ... as much power to influ nee the course of events and the views of the public as anyone else in America with the exception of perhaps a half dozen elected officials." Herb Klein sketched the situation in a lighter vein: "Franklin Roosevelt could get away
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
- civilian honor. At the January 10 ceremonies in lhe White House, President Ford introduced Mrs. John on as "one o America's great First Ladies." "She claimed her own place in the hearts and hi tory of the American people," he said. "In councils of power
- President Clinton never men tions are ""Lyndon Johnson""----cven ··1ast year when he rattled off the names of other presidents besides himself who had tried to reform America's [healthl system. he cited Harry Truman, John Kennedy. and Richard Nixon. I
- At The Library The year (we start it in September) began with a rousing program bringing the music of America through seven pre idents by Ken Ragsdale and his orche tra. Historian Stephen Am bro ·e. whose D-Day: The Climactic Battle l World War II was widely
- . America had a chance to pick itself up After World War Ill. there won't be a chance lo do that There won't be a thmg left." But, Ru ·h added, "For unately I think there re those both in Washington and Moscow who understand that." 7 ,.~~~ ~~. "J
- to help illustrate Congress in action. Lecturers included Dr. Richard Baker, Historian of the U.S. Senate, and Dave McNeely, political reporter for the Austin American-Statesman (pictured on this page.) Other teach ers at the institute were Dr. Harold
- of action .. .the story of a man from the Hill Country of Texas, touched by destiny. skilled in the arts of statecraft, comfortable with power, sensitive always to the needs of the people he came from ... the life of a man who through all his years believed