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- this wonderful picture, a few
minutes before the light changed.
Photo by Charles Bogel
18
Notes on Nixon: An Evening with Alexander Butterfield
After a twenty-year career in
the Air Force, as a fighter pilot
with the Sky Blazers, the aero
batic team
- Nixon borrowed from Roosevelt's experience with
price controls. Rccemly, a former Nixon cabinet officer told me that
he was often struck at cabinet meetings by the way that Nixon tried to
copy FDR's style. When Jimmy arler launched his Presidential cam
- Archivist for Presidential Libraries; Verne Newton,
Roosevelt Library; Clarence Lyons, Nixon Project, Chuck Daly, Kennedy Library; Pat Borders, National Archives; Mar
tin Elzy, As.sistantDirector, Carter Library. Seated: Dan Holt, Eisenhower Library; Harry
- ,
along w1th one on the Nixon Administration, ·were
present~d at the symposium to a fonn,idable array of
econormsts-a panel of former Presidential economic
advisors. Among those present were John Dunlop,
Roger Blough, Leon Keyserling, Don Paarlberg,
James
- President Clinton never men
tions are ""Lyndon Johnson""----cven
··1ast year when he rattled off the
names of other presidents besides
himself who had tried to reform
America's [healthl system. he cited
Harry Truman, John Kennedy. and
Richard Nixon. I
- consisting of Harry Middleton,
Elspeth Rostow, and George Christian
(right) about her memoir, Personal
History.
Among her observations:
• She does not know who ''Deep
Throat" of Watergate fame is.
• The Nixon administration was the
most dangerous in her
- of the LBJ
Library.
THE COVER of this issue
features sketches by Muse
um Technician Pat Partridge
(right). The sketches
il
lustrate
activities of the
Library, and are taken from
photographs that appear in
this issue and the enclosed
report. A graduate
- to attend).
Former press secretaries and depu
ties were George Christian and Joe
Laitin from the Johnson Administra
tion; Gerald Warren (Nixon); Jerald
terHort (Ford); Jody Powell (Carter);
and Larry Speakes (Reagan).
Christian also moderated one
- discusses public perceptions of the
Congress.
3
Speakersat the Library. .. Jim Ketchum
Jim Ketchum, presently curator of
the U.S. Senate, was curator of the
White House from the Kennedy
through the Johnson and into the
Nixon administrations. Among his
- . in my opinion.
Julie Eisenho\\er, daughter
or former Pr sident and
Mr . Richard Nixon. talked
about Pat Nixon; TJ,e l. n·
told Story, her poignant
memoir of her mother.
I thmk her particular contrihut1un - one that she will prohahly be
most rcmemhercd
- Among
lssuc Numb-er LXXI April 30, I 999
Famed Photographer Duncan on Exhibit
The blank stare of a weary Khe
Sanh defender ... the raised fist of a
combative Richard M. Nixon ... the
Japanese surrender aboard the U. .S.
Missouri ... a jubilant
- dot.com boom of the
1990.
Photo by Charles Bogel
Professor Divine chats with docents
Pat Oakes and Barbara Merello.
12
An Evening With Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison grew up in
Lamar. Texas. She graduated from The
ni,·ersity ofTex·1s
- Nixon: "At the time
[he] left office in 1974, he rated,
along with Warren Harding, at the
bottom of la poll of historians on
presidential greatness]. But this is a
president who has tenaciously. since
the moment he left office, cam
paigned for his
- a pathetic picture of kCarthy in his final
days: "He was not going t his Senate office any more. he was
drinking hea ily, he was talking about th betrayal fall of his
riend . ineteen fifty-six as an election ear, and Richard
Nixon was giving a speech
- it later was he said to
him, "Mr. Rayburn, we can carry New York and Massachu
setts and maybe aH the Northeastern part, but no southern
states unless we have someone who appeals to them. Do you
want Nixon to be President? He's the guy who called you
- of A life Wei/ lived,
Harry Middleton's tribute to Mrs.
Johnson. with written contribution~
from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
Presidents Nixon, Ford. Caner.
Reagan, and Bush; and posters of
..Breakfast at the Driskill,'" the original
artwork memorializing
- , Johnson,
Administration.
and Ford. Planning is underway for the Carter
Library in Georgia. The site for a Nixon
the Lyndon
Museum
Library has not, at this st::ige, been
have gruwn up around it, from its conception
early in the Johnson administration
- point you saw something that
stood out from the normal crowd shots
as impressive as those crowd shots
could be.
Richard Nixon was elected Presi
dent in 1968. It seems like ,the blink of
an eye-the time from taking those
photographs of the new President
- that the
influence of the press on the pres
idency is vastly overrated. even by
the press itself.
For example,
Nixon was not driven from office
b cause of maleficent journalists,
but ·'becau ·e his friends ralted on
him .... It had nothing to do with
analysis
- day might prove to be an extreme danger.
Like all warnings, unless there was an immediate crisis at
hand, the government simply sits back and does not react.
- Lawrence Levinson, former
Special Assistant to
President Johnson
Nixon Administration
- than 4,000 polilical items ~ from Washington's campaign to Nixon's. Smet>
then this "instant collection" has been expanded by purchases and donations. The
collection now includes buttons, medallions, photos, a painting of George Washing
ton, and Jimmy
- of security-classified documents is
strictly governed by law and executive
order
President Nixon's Executive Order
11652 in 1972 provided that when
security-classified documents became 30
years old, they were to be declassified
automatically (except
- Roosevelt.
(Below) Ronald Reagan with Nixon, Ford and Carter, October 8, 1981
(Right) WASHING10N, Jan. 20--THE SITUA
TION DRAWS MIXED REACTIONS-Outgoing
President Harry Truman, at right, and Mrs. Dwight
Eisenhower, in center, appear to be sharing a joke
- !.rdcncy.
(The actual recordings amounted to seven times thi.: material
ultimate!) used in the book.)
Beginning with the :.iss ssination of President
cnnedy and
nding with th' return to the LBJ Ranch Lh day Richard Nixon
was inaugurated. thl.! diary
-
Nixon, and Johnson are three who did, he said. "Tu:o of those
presidents, because of outside factors. didn't come to as happy a
conclusion as the nation may have wished. Rut they were true
presidents, who understood how a democracy fun tions
- as
well, he a1mounced, such as those
showing Liz with various president :
Clinton, Bush. Reagan, Ford, Johnson,
Nixon, Carter-and Lincoln.
Her birthday mail brought Liz
some new and welcome material for
her speaking engagements. She read to
the audience
- , Ramsey Clark, David and Julie Nixon
Eisenhower, John Kenneth Galbraith, Barry Goldwater,
Ann Landers, David McCullough,
Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, Charles Robb. Dean Rusk, Liz Smith, William
I WANT
TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE LBJ
D General
- , contains more than 4,000
items of political memorabilia
from the campaigns of
George Washington through Richard Nixon. In this bicen
tennial year. the Library sponsored four special exhibits:
The Presidents
on the Presidency,
American Politics
Through
- , Johnson;
on Ziegler, Nixon; J rry terHor t,
Ford; and Ron Nessen, wh is currently President Ford'
Pres~ Secretary George hrislian, Press Secretary to
President Johnson rom 1966 t 1969, ill moderate the
panel discussions.
House Majority Lnder Thomas (Tip
- as WilLiam Bundy,
Horace Busby, Joseph Califano, Ramsey Clark, David and Julie
Nixon Eisenhower, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ban-y G Jdwater,
Ann Landers, David McCullough, Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
Charles Robb, Dean Rusk, Liz Smith, William Westmoreland
- the peoplr, and
that the o. 1 et then have been broadened
and str ngihened through the Nixon and Ford
Administrations ... It . eems to me there are
two kinds of people whos • lives are touched by
th Endowment. The talented people, many of
them young, who arc
- on which he was speaking. Win
ter had arrived. Richard Nixon had been re-elected just one
month earlier. Watergate was just surfacing. The war in Viet
nam dragged on. There were many opportunities for LBJ, if he
wanted, to reflect on hi successor
- and he came to know full well
the meaning of nfulfilled expecta
tions. But he did leave a legacy. He
Lasker
raised the war on disease to presi
dential status. Thereafter only at
some risk could presidents ignor . it;
and Pr sident Nixon eclared
- . Then the publisher sub
stantially raised the amount of the
offer. Ms. Smith's memory suddenly
improved; she had done some inter
esting things, after all. "l had flown
around the world with Malcolm
Forbes. I sat next to Richart.I Nixon
at Malcolm's funeral. l had
- Busby, Joseph Califano, Ramsey
Clark, David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, John K nnelb
Galbraith,
Barry Goldwater,
Ann Land rs. David
McCullough, Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Charle Robb, D an
I WANT
□
You will have free admission to all the other
- , they encountered
an outlook thar was uniquely
American, albeit mythically so.
The ranch became Johnson's
15
retreat, just as John F. Kennedy had
Hyannisport and later. Richard M.
Nixon had San Clemente and George
H. W. Bush had Kennebunkport.
During his presidency
- Nixon.
There , as a meeting in Secre
But Congress and I are not hon
l'lr
Ru k' office one day, which
eymooners. We are lik an old
fan
and I both attended. ei
Cali
man and woman who've lived
th
r
f
us
was a foreign policy
together too long. We'veasked
- announcement that
we commit the nation to a landing on
the moon; and second, the landing itself
by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin,
which took place in the Nixon
Administration. Sandwiched between
Kennedy's remark and the flight of
Annstrong and Aldrin
- .... We didn't really know
where it was going, but as you'll see in
this book. that suit was a very big part or
what happened, and Richard Nixon real
ized that, as we learn from the tapes.
'·In the course of that suit. Wood
ward and Bernstein, the two
