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Bob Hope's daughter Linda opened the exhibit
honoring her father at the Johnson Library.
Story on page 23.
Photo by Charles Bogel.
An Evening With Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Joe Califano was LBJ's top aide
for domestic legislation. He oversaw
- Winston Churchill (left).
Billie Shaddix (Ford) aid of the pic
ture below: "This photograph I
love. Everyone marching to their
own drummer."
2
"Always together"
Mary Anne
Fackelman-Minor said of Ronald
and Nancy Reagan (left). Michael
Geissinger (above
- sincerity, "Rocks.")
'These are some of the portraits
and snap. h Ls or a passing history
which Linger in m memory." aid the
retiring director, "and which have
made these ears so rich and reward
ing. They provide the color and
drama of th past three decades
- : The winning candidate
ran on a platform of change; he
stood for a break with the past.
And his coattails were long
enough to ensure a Congress
friendly to his aims.
Joseph Califano, former aide
to LBJ and S cretary of HEW
under President Carter, damned
the way
- on earth could I understand? I had a
bizarre adolescence. You're just stuck with
me; I'm doing the best that I can."
Ms. Johnson recalled having her
friend Beth Jenkins over, soon after mov-
Ms. Robb added, "We had a deal.
wouldn't tell on them
- of International Expositions of this intention
and reserve a six-month period on the BIE schedule for this
purpose.
Presidential aides Ralph A. Dungan and Edward L.
Sherman in early June established contacts with the State
Department, Commerce Department, Interior
- Connally, with whom
a friendship began when John Connally served as an aide to young Congressman Johnson; daughters Lynda Johnson
Robb and Luci Baines Johnson; Lindy Boggs, who shared the life of a congressional wife; and Mary Love Bailey, whose
long
- and geneticist who has devoted
the last decade to mobilizing
research, education and public sup
port to combat the pandemic of
AIDS. presenled an overview of the
history of the disease and a sobering
look into the future as it can now be
foreseen.
Some
- mater,
Southw st Texas State University,
in
November. Hardesty, who was one of a
small group of aides who came to Texas with
the President at the end of his administra
tion, served as press secretary to Gov. Dolph
Briscoe and then recently as Vice
- boo· on the
Congre'>s published in the two-year period.
The award, carrying a prize of $ 1500, is '1amcd ior the
late D. B. Hardeman,
ong-lime aide to Speaker Sam
Rayburn and then House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, v.ho
Sundquist
gave his entire
-
Following the LBJ Foundation's new
policy of giving grants-in-aid twice a
year, the committee advising the
Library selected 15 recipients for the
second half of the 92/93 period. The
funds, which total $25,000, result
from a grant from the Moody Foun
dation
- the way the
Associ.atlon of Southea t ..\ ian
Nations. Lee Kuan Yew ... -aid ...
in 1973 that even if the Communi ts
took over in Vie nam. it i n t fol
low that the region \\ u d fall. a it
would have done earli r. American
intervention and he onfli t
- ";
Thomas F. Clarkin, "Federal Pol icy
and Native Americans, 1961-1969";
Shane C. Fricks, "The Johnson
Administration and Economic Aid to
North Vietnam"; John Garofano,
"Power and the Definition of the
National
Interest:
U.S. Military
Intervention from
- ;
and Terry Sullivan, Government Department.) The Hardeman
prize is named for the late aide to Speaker Sam Rayburn, who left
a bequest to the Library. (For other mention of the Hardeman
bequest, see page 7.)
Professor Oshinsky\ book. A Conspiracy So Immense
- deal of the forum's d15cussion. How will the state's future be
shaped? There was general agreement that there\\ ill be no return
to an oil economy "The: oil caru has been played,'' aid Wc:m
stcin. • Oil is just another Cl)mmodity. It is not going
- destruction."
As to the future of LBJ's legacy.
Senator Daschle was clear: the
American people want the Johnson
agenda-aid
to education, civil
rights, environmental protection. and
the rest-to survive.
Columnist Liz Smith Looks at Her Life
On November 13
- has served as
a tru tee of a number of educational and
philanthropic organizations, and as Chair
per on of the American Foundation for
AIDS research.
The theater, its namesakes, and a friend, outside the theater ...
. . . and inside
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- came from the late
D. B. Hardeman of Texas, who
served as an aide to and biographer
of Sam Rayburn, the longtime
speaker of the U.S. House of Repre
sentatives. In a bequest to the LBJ
Library following his death in 1981,
Hardeman gave his personal
- , Congressman from
Oklahoma and former aide lo President Johnson; former
Texas Congressmen Jo Kilgore, Robert Krueger, and Judge
Homer Thornberry; and current Texas Congressmen Wil•
liam N. Patman, Wright Patman's son, and Sam B. Hall.
Seated in front are Mrs
- openings. and
that too often ins,s~ on interpreting all tension and conflict in the
context of the East-West rivalry."
Democrats can't afford to succ mb to isolationist tendencie,. but
inst ad should be a po itivc force in the world, ~aid Robb. who re
- for the photographs they provide to enliven this
publication.
Grants-In-Aid Committee - This Committee, chaired
by University of Texas Chancellor Emeritus, Harry
Ransom, will meet in January to select recipients of
1975 Grants-In-Aid for research in the LBJ Library
- .
FDR promised no large-scale programs of federal aid to
ducation. He spoke rather of " mering wedges" ... the
first of these wedges appeared with New Deal programs ( for)
public works, conservation proje t5, and youth training.
In December I 933
- Receive Grants for Library Research
Following the practice of giving
grants-in-aid twice a year, the Library
awarded 21 grants for the second half
of the 96/97 grant period.
The funds, which total $30.000,
result from a grant from the Moody
Foundation
- Society and the War on Poverty
as "unmitigated disasters." Dallek 's
response was to ask if Americans are
ready to give up such programs as
Medicare, Medicaid, federal aid to
education, civil rights, environmental
protections, and other Great Society
- be able to do.
But it turns out that we can.
It's done spectroscopically.
"Ther
r galaxies everywhere
you look" aid Weinberg,
and the fascin· ting thing is
that they are all rushing apart.
Today they are 1,089 time
further apart than they were
in the b
- support of
Library activities for the ne ·1 fiscal year (beginning
September 1), including symposia, le-.turers, tour guide ser
vice, educauonal programs, grant -in-aid to scholars con-
ducting research in the Library, special exhibits, permanenc
xhibtts
- 12 percent. But, and this is a but we must repeat
again and again. if we count the income effects of the
Great Society service programs, such as those for health
care, job training, aid to education and rehabilitation for
the handicapped, by the mid
- to be presi
dent 1" Certainly this library is the richer for it.
Among the 31 million documents housed
here are records, both official and personal, of
Lyndon Johnson's boyhood days and his
career as a schoolteacher, as aide to a con
gressman, 8s
- these paja
mas in the bathroom and getting th
others that are ehind there?" and l
·aid. "No, not at all.'" Then he said.
"And wh n you've done that, would
you go foe McGeorge Bund ?"
George Christian: Lyndon John on
was a v ritable I maclo of a man who
want d
- -any acquaintance who was ever
offended by him, any aide who suffered h.is wrath or impatience
and still nurs s a bitterness, any neighbor or classmate or political
rival who objected to his style, his personality, his public or private
behavior. Those
- . As a result of their
discussions that day, the aid was granted.
The mask, which enghor brought as a gift, is
arved from a ingle piece of wood and painted with
earth pigmt!nts. It is on exhibit in a n w gla. s
cncased display on the Library's first floor
- the perspec
tive of his advisors and aides, not the
man himself. He was not known to
have committed himself in writing
extensively, preferring to communi
cate directly, often over the telephone.
The recordings-part. of the col
lections which the library's
- of the Library's initial
efforts and make them aware of our con
tinued mteresl in meeting their needs.
More than 2,500 educators have been sent
a new brochure describing the museum, its
educational aspects and a variety of aids
produced for use in th classroom
- as an aide in the /930s, shared Fusrecollections of
those leaders in a speech at the Library in March. Excerpts
from those reminiscences:
On Roosevelt:
Roosev It was full of charm. He charmed everybody, I
don't think he could help it. His staff adored him
- With Horace Busby," the former aide to Lyndon John
son (off and on throughout LBJ's public career) traced what
he called the "conservatising trend" which he said has
defined the course of recent American history.
"Politicians," he said, "are not causes
- .)
,
5
I
Eveningsat the Library
George Reedy, Allen Drury and
Marijane Maricle provided three
lively and different kinds of pro
grams at the Library.
Reedy, aide to LBJ through the
Senate and vicepresidential years and
the first press secretary
- included an Elemen
tary and Secondary Education Act which provided
massive federal aid to the nation's schools; and
Medicare, providing medical care to all elderly
Americans. It was the time of Head Start, the Job
Corps, college student loans and grants
- that a threat to the
country's oil supplies falls in that category.
Clifford, whose public career began as an aide to President
Truman and who has served as an advisor to Presidents Ken
nedy and Carter in addition to his cabinet post under Presi
dent Johnson
- com
plete some of the programs of his
predecessors. Medical insurance for
the elderly had been on the Demo
cratic agenda since Harry Truman's
time. The hope of federal aid for ed
ucation went back as far as Franklin
Roosevelt. The Civil Rights law
- in Washington.
Watc·on has been called the mystery
man of the White Hou.-e. His voluminous
files have remained scaled, at his request,
in the LBJ Library. Only former presiden
tial aide Sherwin Markman has had access
to them.
Markman was active in lowa Demo
