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- Looking Back. ..
Fifty Years
of the
New Deal Legacy
(Stories, pages 2-13)
Symposium panelists and speakers included these present and former members of Congress: from left, Sen.
,Jennings Randolph, Rep. Claude Pepper, Rep. Jake Pickle, former
- economist Robert
Reischauer, reminded his colleagues
that "we are not the only group
meeting and coming up with lists of
new initiatives ... People are meet
ing all over the country, doing the
same kind of thing ... the environ
mentalists, the energy folks
- ; Paul Chevalier; Ken Ryal/, Daily Texan staff; U. T. News & Information Service; Yale University, Office of Public
Information.
Staff Assistance: Yolanda Boozer, Len DePrang, Lou Anne Missildine
12
- by Wasserman, Mrs. Johnson told the audi
ence: "I was scared very minute But I'm glad I did ,t. Its
been a fantastically wonderful life, mo. l all f whi~h i
because of Lyndon. And I thank you all for being our
friends.··
Before the film begins its daily
- appearances by Johnson,
special news broadcasts, news inter
view programs, and beginning April
I, 1968. daily morning and evening
network local news programs.
In addition to this large collection,
there is the LBJ Library series,
which contains coverage
- .
The new improvements are part of a construction pro
gram to be undertaken by the University of Texas, which
owns the Library building. The proposed renovations -the
result of a study commissioned by the LBJ Founda
tion-were approved by the University
- Among
Issue Number LXXI], June, 2000
Former Presidents Ford and Carter with NBC's Tim Russert
Whither the Oval Office?
Symposium Examines the Once and Future Presidency
Story on Page Five
African-American Art Featured in New Exhibit
Lift every
- takes LBJ School deanship
Dean Elspeth Rostow
Mrs. Elspeth Rostow is the new Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public
Affairs. She was appointed by University of Texas President Lorene Rogers to suc
ceed Dr. Alan Campbell, who had been chosen
- and competitive steel industry.
("We've got to re-tool America," sai Jack Conway.)
• holding down unemployment, and in fact creatrng
millions of new jobs - particularly for the hard core
unemployed in the ghetto (thereby defusing- a "social
time bomb.")
Rohatyn
- diplomacy ... "
When Liz Carpenter launched her
new book, Unplanned Parenthood,
she brought with her her singing
group, caliled G-Batts (named for
her previous book, Getting Better
All the Time).
2
Stravinsky
upset people; Picasso
upset people; Ibsen
- Issue Number L Vlll August I, 1994
America in the Sixties
Library Opens Permanent Exhibit
Whar rhe nation looked like in the
years of the Johnson Presidency is
rhe subject of a new permanent
exhibit at the Library. Designed and
constructed
- divisive influences associated with the passions of the people.
8
Columnist Liz Smith, whose observations are printed in the New York
Daily News and some 50 other papers around the country, gave an
entertaining and delightful evening.
For lack
-
son's legacy of reaching
out to everyone, we hope
this adds a welcoming di
mension for our non-Eng
lish speaking visitors."
Photos by Charles Bogel
Archivist Bob Tissing here shows a group of African
French-speakers a few tips on the new device.
2
- Among
FdJrunry 2007
Lady Bird Johnson, Daughter Lynda Bird Robb, and LBJ Museum Curator Sandy Cohen,
posing before photos from LBJ's childhood, on their way to review the new exhibit on
Rural Electrification in Central Texas.
Story begins on Page
- Johnson's daily diary, a handwritten
memorandum from Vice President Humphrey, cabinet
and news briefing books, and a teleprompter print
bearing the President's remarks announcing the form
ation of the Department of Housing and Urban Devel
opment.
OngmaJ
-
son Chair in Public Affairs at the Lyndon
B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. His
appointment was approved on Octo r 12
by The University of T xas Board of
Regents.
Prof~or Cohen will assume his new
post in January. He will teach seminars on
weUare
- , entertainers, and Hill
Country neighbors. Among them were repre
sentatives of the American political scene from
the New Deal to the Nixon Administration.
ln a nationally televised ceremony the
University of Texas, which built and
continues to own the Library
- and administration and LBJ
Library staff, . imp!_ ,aw th role of the U. in the world as a
natural sour e of interest at the beginning of a new decade: the
urgency which Iran and A!ghanbtan brought to that inten~t
could not then be foreseen.
The ~ymposium's discussion
- Cohen conducts a tour of the Library for Congressmen Frank Guarini from New Jersey, Jake
Pickle of Texas and Charles Rangel of New York. The group was here for an informal public discussion sponsored by the
House Oversight Subcommittee on Ways and Means
- ceremonies on February 12, 1976 in
New York City.
a.j
Women'sConferenceSlated For November
The first, and perhaps the only, major follow-up in this
country to the International Women's Year Conference in
Mexico City will be held in the Library on November
- Library, and Dr.
William S. Livingston, UT Austin
Vice-President and Dean of Graduate
Studies.
Middleton says he is confident the
proposed encyclopedia "will repre
sent the best congressional scholar
ship of the last 30 years." Livingston
New members
- Ce111etery, LBJ Runch.
Judith and I were deeply honored to
be asked by Lady Bird to be here today.
lo take part in and preside over these ac
tivities.
I wrote this in an essay Lhat appeared
in the New York Times on the day after
President Johnson was buried
- on Erwin\ nght
are Henry row/er and Lew Wasserman.
Library Names
New Chief
Archivist
Christina Lawson
John Wickman, D,recwr of the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas,
spoke at th Library tn May lO a
University of Texas group, joined together
- Among
Photo by Charles Bogel
Wearing historically correct uniforms, these bluejackets
from the USS Constitution heave a gun into battery.
Story on page 3
Future Forum Rings In New Year . ..
The invitation read:
Future Forum.
l.ocation:
Matt's
- leaders. film stars,
educators, entertainers, friends and neighbors from the
Texas hill country - and representatives
of t.hc highcsl
echelons of the American political scene from the New
Deal to the ixon Administration.
At President Johnson's request
- Dir1'clnr of tht• LRJ Library. Corkran, who joint·d th1• Library
staff in 196H, is a naliw of El Paso, Tt•xas. 111·is a past dirl'1·tor of
thl' Tt•xas State Arrhiws. Corkran assumt'd his new position on
April 12.
A very special occasion for the Library
- was fired upon and
seized by the North Kor an navy.
There was imm diate and wide
spread public cl mand for retalia
tion.
The Buf/c1Lo Daily News
summed
up the national
feeling:
"There should be no word mincing
in our demand for the swift and safe
return
- appointee in a new Richardson Fellows Pro
gram for Distinguished Public Officials in the Lyndon B.
Johnson School of Public Affairs.
Supported by grant from the Sid Richardson Founda
tion to the LBJ Foundation, the new program will bring
di tingu1shed past
- A New Portrait of LBJ
LIBRARYVOLUNTEERSBEGIN SIXTH SEASON
The LBJ Library program hegan in 1980 \\ ith 16 dcxcn1s
(those who prm 1de guided tours) and ha!-.stcadtl) grown to 105
volunteers-both men ,rnd \ ·omen-working in four different
areas
- .
Former U.S. Ambassador Edward A. Clark and Congressman J. J. Pickle, Co
Chairmen, originally set their goal at $1 million. However, public interest spurred
them to double that effort. Announcing the realization of the new goal, Am
bassador Clark said
- majored in
journalism and became sports editor
of the student newspaper. the Daily
Texan. After a stint as capitol corre
spondent for International News
Service, he became press secretary to
Texas Governors Price Daniel and
John Connally. ln 1966 he
- ~~AmongFriends
ofLBJ
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NUMBER
xi, JANUARY
24 1978
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A National Tribute
to Lady Bird Johnson
(See pages 2-41
A National Tribute
to Lady Bird Johnson
It was a tribut
- at the Lyndon Eames Johnson
Library m Austin.
-The Dallas Morning News
November 5, 1978
World War I veteran salutes a11 members
of service organizationr;i lay memorial
wreathR
C remon,>hegin~ at
2
The opening was a community affair.
The Austin-Travis County V
- halfway." Caro's first
book, The Power Broker, appeared in
1974. It was the story of Robert Mo
ses, the man who virtually created New
York City as it appears today. Caro
necessary to tell the story of New York
City. The resultant book won both
- Among
Issue
umber LXXU, January, 2000
New Exhibit Features Work
of Cartoon Genius
Bud Butler
Story on Page Two
A Romp Through Peace and War:
Illustrations and cari
catures of everyday life in
the early 20th century
make up the newest exhibit
- in Austin.
I'd been around the capitol a lot, edi
tor of The Daily Texan. and to hear a
man talk this way three days after I
left [ there] was kind of boggling.
And he said, 'We're in a race with
time, and I hope we can succeed be
cause if we don't
-
rchives Capture Project, headed by
the Central Intelligence Agen y.
The growth of Lhe world wide
web has created new demands for
electronic access to our holdings.
The Library sent to the National
Archives
about 500 pages of
President Johnson's
Daily Diary
-
Adler. "He hooked me up with a very
creative new publishing tirm called Rug
ged Land, and a dear old friend. Mickey
Herskowitz, a writer.
"I never dreamed that my story
would appem on the front page of the
New York Times... Since that artide ap-
Ms
- . The
vacated space, located next to the
replica Oval Office, proved to be an
ideal spot for a new gallery.
The quandary of financing the
project remained. There would be
significant costs, which the Museum
budget was unprepared LOcover. That
problem vanished
