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- to Washington this afternoon.
1/6
LBJ flies to Detroit where he makes numerous stops: Second Avenue Baptist
Church, Sheraton Cadillac Hotel, Ford Auditorium, Cobo Hall; then flies to West
Palm Beach for meeting with JFK. Spends night at Charles Wrightsman
- program that will cut
back on manpower and place increased dependence on airpower and new
weapons. Eisenhower also asks Congress for new tariff-cutting powers, revised
labor laws, a lowered voting age, 90¢ minimum wage, statehood for Hawaii,
federal health
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New Year’s Day at the Ranch. In Washington by 1/4. (1/2 & 1/3 missing)
1/4
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) flies to NYC. CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and girls already there).
Returns 1/6 to Washington on JFK’s plane.
1/11
LBJ flies to Fort Worth
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rights generally. Participants include Rep. Jim Roosevelt of LA, Dick Bolling of
Kansas City, Adam Clayton Powell of NYC, and Charles Diggs of Detroit. They
reportedly decided on strategy to abandon
- /2024
1/1
Thursday. Former Governor Coke Stevenson announces his candidacy for the
U.S. Senate in a New Year’s Day speech broadcast from Austin at 11:45 a.m.
According to the American Statesman (1/2/48), Stevenson “followed his usual
campaign custom
- ’, then leave for Texas.
4/11
CTJ has been ill with cold and fever but is better now. Ray Roberts in Washington
working on LBJ’s subcommittee.
4/12
LBJ just back from New York City. FDR dies of cerebral hemorrhage in Warm
Springs, Georgia; Harry Truman sworn
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REFERENCE: LBJ CHRONOLOGY
Drafted by LBJ Library archival staff from oral history transcripts
and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive.
1/22
News report: LBJ notifies House
- Ford Dam.
Bill Deason and Marion Fore visit Johnsons in Washington from about 7/21 or
7/22 – 7/28 or 7/29. CTJ goes with them to New York City for a visit.
LBJ votes to report minimum wage out of committee, but was defeated.
7/19
07/2024
LBJ votes
- the Roosevelt Administration, would select delegates
who would support Garner as “favorite son,” and vow not to join a “Stop
Roosevelt” faction at the national convention.
5/17
CTJ goes to New England for a few days.
5/23
House passes $1,111,754,916.00 Relief
- with his brother re CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) sketch and problem.
May
5/1
New York World’s Fair opens; LBJ and CTJ decide to go at last minute.
5/10
Maury Maverick elected mayor of San Antonio.
5/19
House passes $773 million Naval Appropriations Bill
- : “We are pretty well settled here. Patsy’s husband, with
the help of Lewis, and some carpenters, is fixing the basement into a more
livable place with lots of paint, more closets, new curtains, some new furniture,
et cetera.”
1/20
Texas delegation
- , former defense secretary who left the government on
10/8, but said this decision might be “reconsidered” in view of Wilson’s statements
to a New York Herald Tribune reporter on 12/30 disclaiming responsibility for
holding down military spending. Wilson
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LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) is in Washington, goes to the Capitol today to look at the
new majority leader’s office (P-38). Later he attends parties at Senator Bible’s
home and Walter Hornaday’s.
Castro assumes power in Cuba following the collapse of Batista
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Connally then fly to New York where LBJ attends a reception given by Mayor
Wagner for him at Gracie Mansion and speaks at an appreciation dinner for
Congressman John J. Rooney in Brooklyn.
During an interview at Gracie Mansion, LBJ says he will give
- of 1942, the Johnsons have bought 4921 Thirtieth Place.
Atmosphere in Washington in 1943: rubber and fuel oil shortages, gasoline
rationing.
Early in 1943 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) moves his office from 1320 New House
Office Building to 504 Old House Office
- Lausche votes with the Democrats to
organize the Senate. Senator Mansfield is elected Democratic whip.
Senator Anderson offers a motion to consider the adoption of new Senate rules in
hopes of changing Rule 22, the filibuster rule. LBJ immediately moves
- in Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle’s office.
1/3
Congress convenes. New senators are sworn in, including Price Daniel, who
replaces Senator Tom Connally. Republicans control both houses of Congress.
The party breakdown in the Senate is 48 Republicans, 47
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persons of all ages.
That evening at 10 p.m. LBJ speaks on a nationwide CBS broadcast, introducing
him and eight other new senators, about Truman’s foreign policy.
1/6
Speaker Rayburn’s 67th birthday. President Truman pays a surprise visit to the
Capitol
- talks. This is his last visit in Texas
before returning to Washington for the opening of the new session of Congress.
1/7
Henry Cabot Lodge announces that he is entering Eisenhower’s name in the 3/11
New Hampshire primary. The next day Eisenhower
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Jimmie Allred writes LBJ letter of thanks for treatment LBJ gave him in
Washington when he was there and for “wonderful gathering out at your home.”
2/16
Banquet of New Dealers in Austin, attended by Texas federal, state and county
officials
- Library archival staff from oral history transcripts
and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive.
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A new office policy for LBJ’s Senate staff goes into effect today: Female staffers
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Hardy Hollers speaks at Austin Rotary Club.
4/4
After three-hour session in Mayor Miller’s office, the strike called by IBEW
against KTBC is settled. At no time was the station off the air. Construction of
new 5 kw transmitter installations was slowed
- presents Mr. Sam Award to Joe Martin, Jr., at Touchdown Club Annual Awards
Dinner.
1/14
Attends dedication ceremonies for new Alexandria, Va. hospital.
1/15
Meets with Sec. Hodges and members of Trade Commission going to Burma. At
noon, hosts lunch in P
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Aunt Effie dies on New Year’s night.
1/3
80th Congress convenes, controlled by Republicans for first time in fourteen
years. Joseph Martin elected speaker of the House. Proceedings televised for
first time.
1/4
Stag party for E.H. Perry at Driskill
- . They have blocked the appointment and ask LBJ not to get involved
on either side.
2/11
The Dallas Morning News reports that LBJ says a survey will be made soon to see
how many combat-qualified men in the Armed Services can be moved into field
forces
- stations in 13 Atlantic Coast states, the District of Columbia, and
parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia are asked to close
between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. beginning 8/3 under a recommendation issued by
Harold Ickes, defense petroleum
