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- introduced to amend the Surplus Property Act, which, if
passed, would give veterans priority next to the federal government in
purchasing surplus property, is still pending in committee.
1/21
In combined State of the Union and budget message, Truman asks
- it will
stifle the conduct of foreign affairs. Many members of the Republican Party
support the amendment, however.
07/2024
1/8
LBJ is invited to tea at the British Embassy by Winston Churchill.
1/10
Arthur Perry, formerly Senator Tom Connally’s
- , and members of the Texas bar sympathetic to the fourth-term
campaign. Speakers included Dan Moody, Jimmie Allred, Tom Miller, LBJ, Alvin
Wirtz.
2/17
Death of Rep. Schuetz (D-Ill.) elevates LBJ to fourth-ranking member of Naval
Affairs Committee.
Early 1944
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message, foreign affairs and matters relating to the armed services.
LBJ and CTJ attend a reception honoring Margaret Chase Smith at the F Street
Club.
Governor Allan Shivers is in Washington urging Agriculture Department officials
to institute a cotton
- killed in the Philippines in 1945 and buried
in a temporary military cemetery.
Sarah Morino, the sister of Longoria’s widow, contacts Dr. Hector Garcia,
organizer of the GI Forum (a group of returned veterans working to improve
conditions in Mexican
- as ambassador to
Ireland. McLeod is currently the administrator of the State Department Bureau of
Security and Consular Affairs.
4/10
LBJ and CTJ fly to Austin today to begin a three-week vacation at the Ranch.
4/12
Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas
- and economy, the tidelands controversy, and veterans legislation.
1/12
Monday. Austin American-Statesman editorial: “Your Capital City; Looks like the
Senator is Going to Do It Again”: “We hope, and seriously doubt, that our
yammering about the quality
- district judge to fill vacancy in
Texas.
1/28
House Naval Affairs Committee Saturday night began a nationwide investigation
of the uses the navy is making of its hundreds of thousands of civilian workers.
Investigation, powered by subcommittee headed
- Administration?).
2/5
LBJ, CTJ, Moyers, MMW to New York where LBJ addresses B’nai Zion dinner.
2/6
Phone calls with RFK, Speaker and Tom Clark re: Ramsey Clark (appointment in
Justice Department?).
2/7
White House leadership conference at 8:45.
2/8
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elected Speaker of the House.
1/6
Eisenhower delivers his State of the Union Message before a joint session of
Congress. In foreign affairs Eisenhower promises that “America’s response to
aggression will be swift and decisive” and calls for a military
- the aims of
the bill, he believes it should not be approved until completion of congressional
and Justice Department investigations.
2/18
The Democratic Advisory Council of Texas holds statewide workshop for
Democratic workers in Houston.
2/21
- to the Interior Department have been
abandoned. The transfer had been recommended by the Hoover Commission on
Reorganization of the Executive Branch.
4/25
Mrs. Bob Bartley hosts a tea for Miss Lou Rayburn.
Fagan Dickson, executive director of the Loyal Democrats
- in domestic industry in states
where pro-rationing is in effect.
LBJ and House Majority Leader John W. McCormack simultaneously introduce
concurrent resolutions expressing “the sense of Congress” that the executive
department promptly proceed with vast program
- Poage, Roberts and Pool at
Carswell AFB.
2/25
Attends WH stag luncheon for King of Laos, also later hosts dinner at the State
Department for the King.
2/26
Breakfasts w/Mansfield at his home before attending WH leadership meeting. Then
flies
- they found an apartment of their
own.
July
Court-packing controversy.
7/17
House Naval Affairs and Appropriation Committee departed on destroyer Porter
for Norfolk and inspection of the Fifth District.
LBJ secures $5 million allotment to complete Marshall
- and
operations in Navy Department.
3/10-11
Frances Perkins appears before Vinson’s Naval Affairs Committee on
absenteeism bill.
3/15
John L. Lewis, president United Mine Workers of America, threatens to call a
strike of 450,000 soft coal miners
- .
Senator Joseph McCarthy makes a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, charging
that 205 known communists are currently working in the State Department.
2/11
LBJ and Rayburn meet with Truman.
LBJ and Senator Connally meet to discuss pending Texas
- communists.
11/25
Robert Phinney is sworn in as postmaster of Austin to replace Ray Lee, who
resigned to serve as foreign affairs adviser to the Department of Army in Vienna.
11/26
Big Four Conference in London opens to renew discussion of peace terms
- bombings, give the Department of Justice subpoena powers in the
investigation of voting rights cases, and to establish a Federal Community Relations
Service to assist in conciliation of desegregation disputes. Eisenhower introduces a
similar plan on 2/5
- at the Pedernales Hotel.
Walter Jenkins joins the congressional staff.
11/17
LBJ announces federal grant for recreational park program.
11/17
11/17
House Naval Affairs Committee to visit Corpus Christi.
LBJ announces Austin gets US fish hatchery.
Late November
