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Folder, "Beautification Summary - The Committee for a More Beautiful Capital, 1965 - 1968," White House Social Files, Beautification Files, Box 22 (Item)
  • to citizen accomplishments, and of forming a hometown action committee to give form to ideas, and to try its hand at the elusive art of making things happen. Hometown, for the next few years, was to be Washington, D. C. In February 1965, this First Lady who
Folder, "[A Report from Lawrence Halprin & Associates to Mrs Johnson's Committee for A More Beautiful Capital January 1967]," White House Social Files, Beautification Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • of one of the g·reat shopping streets in America is now underway on Nicollet Avenue Mall in Minneapolis. Halprin served as a consultant to the California State Division of Highways on freeway design, and to the $1-billion Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Folder, "[November 4, 1967 - 2:20 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • then asked Secretary McNamara what can he do to solve crime in the District of Columbia. The President said he asked Wirtz the same thing. "Crime will be the principal problem, even more so than Vietnam. We've got to show some progress and action. Perhaps