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- over the district. (See Stuart Long note.)
September
Sept-Oct.
LCRA electricians on strike.
9/2
World War II ends officially as Japanese envoys sign formal surrender documents
aboard U.S.S. Missouri.
9/5
Congress reconvenes. LBJ returns
- /22
FDR signs “G.I. Bill of Rights” authorizing broad program of benefits for veterans
of World War II.
6/22
Congress recesses until 8/1.
6/24
LBJ writes: “I am trying to get up to NYC next week before going to Texas for the
summer.”
6/26
LBJ
- publishes an article speculating on whether or not
Governor Shivers will run for LBJ’s Senate seat in 1954.
CTJ attends a luncheon at the White House.
6/2
CTJ attends a reception at the British Embassy in celebration of the coronation of
Queen Elizabeth II
- of “longsmoldering dissension” on the part of reservists, mostly World War II combat
flyers, who balked at going back to war.
4/13
Easter.
4/16
The Senate Preparedness Subcommittee calls Air Force Secretary Thomas K.
Finletter, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air
- terrorism to Lebanon, which
appeals for UN intervention. On July 14, King Faisal II of Iraq is killed and a
UAR-inspired revolt overthrows his government. In response to Lebanon’s request,
Eisenhower immediately sends marines and declares on 7-15
