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- an evening
of music and reminiscences of days
in the Johnson White House and
travels around the globe in Air
Force One.
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Historian Michael Beschloss, who
listened to and transcribed all of
President Johnson's taped tele
phone conversations released thus
- , to help• wiith the bal
ance-of-payments problem, Presi
dent Johnson es,tablished a "See the
U.S.A."
program to encourage
Americans to travel in their own
country instead of abroad. Of the
areas that Mrs. Johnson chose to
focus on as first lady
- supporters wanted me to take the
Vice Presidential pot. Bob Kerr was the wor L of all. He
came in and said, "Mr. Leader, I don't know whether what
I hear is true or not. But if it is. and if you' re going 10 run on
the ticket with this boy from Boston, I'm
- .)
Caricatures of Candidate
Grant and his Vice Presi
dential running mate
Schuyler Colfax, 1869.
(Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston.)
Last photograph taken of Grant, four days
before his death in 1885. (National Portrait
GaJlery, mithsonian Institution.)
Grant's
- of
key issues." The objectives set forth, Conway insisted, will be South Florida), Civil Rights; Mark Gelfand (Boston College),
"fully supported in a political context by the citizenry only The War on Poverty; Hugh Davis Graham (University of
when
- : getting as much of these collec
tions on the net so that you don't have
to be a presidential scholar. You don't
have to have the money to travel to
4
Austin or to Abilene or to Boston to
get a sense of what these presidential
libraries hold.
"The final
- their teen-aged
son 10 put down some Texas roots.
Ms. Hughes still
advises the
President on domestic issues, and
travels regularly 10 Washington.
Ms. Hughes recalled how
impressed she was with the organiza
tion and the processes that are in
place
- . In
October she traveled 1,682 miles in
four Jays on a train dubbed the
·'Lady Bird Special." The train went
from Alexandria .. Virginia, to New
Orleans, Louisiana,
making 28
scheduled stops along the way.
Johnson's civil rights legislative
agenda wa
- It was younger
was quicker
than other cities to accept someone new.
Socially 1t has been said that in Boston the important com
modity is brains, in Philadelphia it is family, in New York it is
money-and in Washington it's power. But power ·hifts and
ach election
- ½. The
State of New York/Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr., State Office Building
Collection.
2
Bal Jeunesse by Palmer Hayden
Collection of Dr. Meredith Sirmans
Meta Warrick Fuller. Talking skull.
1937. Bronze, 28x40X15. The
Museum of Afro-American History,
Boston
- ," executed by 82-year old
Frances Lyle.
In preparation by the LBJ museum staff is an exhibition of World War
11, which will open December 7 in San Antonio and then travel to aU
the Presidential Libraries. The Medal of Honor shown here is one of
some 200
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processes are different in the world of opinion over against the
world of decision and that if these two worlds understood each
other better, they might be able to communicate with each other
more effectively.
Dave Powers: " ... The old Boston Irish believe
- has
endured for more than four de
cades. Wherever you travel in
our country look about you and
enjoy the profusion of flowers
al ng highways, in shopping
malls, ser ice stations parks,
and countless other places.
Among other things, [look for]
better
-
the following year, with travel
from coast to coast and the elec
tion campaign providing the back
drop and President Johnson crack
ing the whip. Perhaps the climax
was an impromptu barbecue at
the Ranch that LBJ demanded at
the last minute. Master barbecu
er
- , Pro
fe,sor." 0t'par' ment of Political Scil'nCl', Boston
llniversit,•. John G. Vl•neman. Counselor to !ht'
\ il·•• l'r1·~ident: LislP C. Carter, Jr. Ch.im·t•llor,
Atlanta UnivC'r,it) Cl·ntl•r; StC'Vl'n A. Minter,
Program Offitl'r, Th
Clevt•land
- have
also appeared in The Atlantic, American
Heritage. the Washington Post. the Los
Angeles Times. and the Boston Globe.
From 1998 to 2003 he was a research
fellow at the University of Virginia's
Miller Center of Public Affairs.
"And that was the story
- on when a Congres
sional leadership meeting gets down to
work. Those leaders in the House and
in the Senate have their own ideas of
what is right and what is wrong for this
country and none of them arc shy
about expressing them.
Foreign travel
- . Not
quite tapestries, but much more than
the "samplers" which American nee
dle artists once made as proof of their
skill. these exquisite pieces could
make an exhibit in themselves.
The Bennington (Vermont) Mu
seL1111
assembled this traveling exhibit
- .
A seminar for school teachers,
administrators and libraries, spon
sored by Abilene Christian Univer
sity and the Robert A. Taft Institute
of Government, was held at the
Library. Participants travel and
other expenses were underwritten by
the Taft Institute
- in the
White House in its many dimensions when Mrs. Johnson presided over it.
A group of reporters who covered the First Lady during those years recounted their experiences on their travels. They
were Sarah McClendon, Marie Ridder, Betty Bailey, Bonnie Angelo
- to provide travel and liv
ing expenses to students, teachers,
and writers, enabling them to use the
Library's resources.
Those receiving grants-in-aid
anJ the titles of their proposed sub
jects are: Christian Alcindor, "U.S.
Haiti Relations from 1957
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-Reduce the time span of Presidential primaries to a
period of eight weeks beginning no earlier than June l
-Group primaries by time zones, to cut down on the
frenetic travel of candidates and delay the early locking-up
of the nomination.
-Bring more
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pany the document
on its travels. but on
October 28, 2003, he
made an exception
for the LBJ Library.
He has under
taken this project,
Lear says. as part of
his three-stage love
affair with America.
That affair began
when he was very
young. His grand
- as he covers a meeting between President Johnson 8.Jld
former West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger. During the
Johnson Administration, Wolfe traveled throughout the world
with the President photographing historic events. Wolfe is
presently Chief
- ,
le chers, and writer. in using the
Library's resources by providing sup
port for travel and living expenses with
out which they
ould be unable to
undertake their projects.
The topics of this year's recipients, re
flecting the variety of research
- traveled to the People's
Republic of Chma. One member of the Board. Mrs. Lyndon
8. Johnson, later recalled some of her e~periences on that
trip in an interview with Mike Giflelle, who 1s in charge of
the Library's Oral History pro,:ram.
"There were about 25
- to help defray travel and living
expenses for researchers using the
Library's resources.
Those receiving grants-in-aid and
the titles of their proposed subjects
are: David L. Anderson, "Minority
Military Service in the Vietnam War";
John A. Andrew, III
- grants twice a year, the Grants
Committee selected 17 recipients for
the second half of the 94/95 period.
The funds. which total $30.000.
come from the Moody Foundation to
help defray travel and living expens
es for researchers using the Library"s
- .
The annual research program was es
tablished with assistance from the Moody
Foundation to elp students, teachers, and
scholars use the Library's resources by pro
viding support for travel and li'\ ing expenses
with'out which they would be unable
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The exhtbilion,
vi ich i' louring nationally through
1985 is drawn fro 1 d c0lleclic)!1 of photographs assem
bled by the late Roy Em rson Stryker who in 1943 com
misston d some thirty photographer:, lo travel across the
country, 1 cording Amer·u1 and 1t
- page 12). Both
exhibitions will travel to all presiden
tial libraries. The art show was put
together by Dennis Medina, curator of
the Eisenhower Library.
"BobHope EntertainingTroops,Somewherein England."Artist:Floyd Davis,
U.S. ArmyArt Collection
- 7. It will be at the
LBJ Library for four months-from
April 21 to August 23, and then for
the next five years wilJ travel to the
other Presidential Libraries and other
institu,tions, winding up at the
National Archives Building in Wash
ington
- and writers in using the Library'
resources by providing support for travel and living ex
penses without which they would be unable to undertake
their projects.
This year's grant recipients and their topics in lude:
Mr. Harold F. Bass, "Structural
- with
assistance from the Moody Foundation to help students,
teachers. nd \r'fiters use the Library's resources by providing
support for travel and Living expenses without which they
would be unabl to undertake their proje ts.
This ·ear's grant rcdpicnts
- · twice a year, the grants
committee selected 14 recipients for
the first half of the '93/ '94 period. The
funds, which total $25,000, result from
a grant from the Moody Foundation to
help defray travel and living expenses
for researchers using
- of giving grants twice a year,
the university selection committee
met recently to determine grant win
ners for the second half of the
1993-1994 period. Tbe funds, which
total $25,000. result from a grant
from the Moody Foundation to help
defray travel
- and writers use the Library's
resources by providing support for
travel and living expenses.
Those receiving grants and the
titles of their proposed projects are:
Robert Buzzanca, ''Tet, The Gold
Crisis,
and the Challenge
Lo
American Leadership in early 1968
- a grant
from the Moody Foundation to help
defray travel and living expenses for
researchers using the Library's
resources.
Those receiving grants-in-aid
and the titles of their proposed pro
jects are: David G. Annstrong, "The
Stages of Growth of Walt
- woods
of East Texas, making friends with
nature amd its glories ... a young
woman who then found the other
wonders of the world opening to her
when she e11tered the University of
Texas ... who trained to be a reporter
and planned to travel to exotic
