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  • , mentsMrs.Johnsononherroleinbehalfof share a moment of mirth preceding the highway beautification awards ceremony be ti'f • g the highways of the state. Thursday afternoon au ym • ~
  • , mentsMrs.Johnsononherroleinbehalfof share a moment of mirth preceding the highway beautification awards ceremony be ti'f • g the highways of the state. Thursday afternoon au ym • ~
  • physical exams out at Kelly My heartbeat was then at the maximum, but it had come down from Field . 172 to the time I took the physical exam which was about three weeks later-­ M: Was this due to being struck? B: Yes . M: Caused your heart
  • of the great strategists of all time--the Emperor Napoleon, once said that "Where flowers degenerate, man cannot live." The MORE t demise of natural beauty is a baunting challenge in a Nation that is covering over a million acres of ground with aspb alt
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 R: That's right, '61; this report initiated in '58, presented in '61. So we had the pleasure of meeting him for the first time, and he received our group representing
  • TIME FROM WH OPS LOGS; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH BILL MOYERS AT TIME OF CALL; OFFICE CONVERSATION WHILE LBJ IS WAITING FOR CALL TO BE PLACED; RECORDING ENDS BEFORE CONVERSATION IS OVER
  • "CALL TO THE MAYOR OF BALTIMORE ASKING IF HE WOULD CONSIDER COMING OVER & RUNNING WASHINGTON"; "FROM B'RM 8-23-67"; DATE AND TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; POOR SOUND QUALITY; STICKING AT TIMES
  • in Westerville, Ohio, in 1924 . B: That's correct . M: Educated at Otterbein University? B: Otterbein College, which is in Westerville, Ohio . school associated with the United Brethren Church . It's a denominational At that time, it was the United
  • "RE WATER POLLUTION BILL"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; POOR SOUND QUALITY; JONES IS MEETING WITH BLATNIK AT TIME OF CALL AND IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR
  • "CHICAGO"; BRIEF OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH JOSEPH CALIFANO AT TIME OF CALL; DALEY IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR
  • RIVERS IS ALMOST INAUDIBLE; LADY BIRD JOHNSON IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING
  • CARPENTER ASKS LBJ ABOUT NAME FOR JOHNSON CITY PARK; POSSIBLE CANCELLATION OF LBJ'S TRIP TO RANCH; LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT TIME-LIFE TRIP TO JOHNSON CITY PARK DEDICATION, COMMERCIALIZATION OF PRESIDENCY; LADY BIRD JOHNSON'S ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF PARK
  • "SEN. RANDOLPH, W VA"; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING; TICKER TAPE MACHINE AUDIBLE IN BACKGROUND AT TIMES
  • ; Mrs. Johnson returns to White House; Lynda Johnson home for Luci Johnson's baptism; article in Herald Tribune;
  • is in his office in the District The date is March 5, 1969, and the time is 11:40 in My name is David McComb. First of all, Mr. Fletcher, I'd like to know about the circumstances of your appointment as deputy mayor. F: that was probably the most exciting
  • the bill, saw to it that the language got incorporated into the act, against the wishes of the Bureau of Public Roads at that time. So in that back-hand, off the record matter, it seems to me that we did have something to do with that aspect
  • ON NATURAL Wekome. BEAUTY The President joins me in greeting all of you. This is a landmark day. You young people are preparing to join in the leadership of an overriding cause of our time. lt is more than just an issue or a problem. lt !!_a cause
  • through my husband in about 1956. I believe it was then that we perhaps had dinner with them two or three times. F: You didn't have more than a casual social relationship during his early days as a Senator? G: No, we knew them a little bit, but I
  • : Aimee Semple McPherson? C: Aimee Semple McPherson. She was carrying a program every Sunday night and I think one other time during the week, but anyway she had one, I know, on Sunday night. The minister either followed her or preceeded her
  • -time resident and valued its parks and its beauty, but I didn't realize what LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • REUTHER IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH JACK VALENTI, BILL MOYERS AT TIME OF CALL; LBJ SPEAKS WITH THEM DURING CALL ABOUT SCHEDULING MEETING
  • "SUMMARIZED"; LBJ IS MEETING WITH HARRY MCPHERSON, WILLIAM FULBRIGHT AT TIME OF CALL; RECORDING IS BRIEFLY INTERRUPTED BY UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH WALTER REUTHER AT TIME OF CALL; LBJ ASKS OFFICE SECRETARY TO PUT BILL MOYERS ON CALL IF HE IS NOT GIVING PRESS BRIEFING BUT MOYERS IS NOT HEARD; LBJ APPARENTLY ON SPEAKERPHONE
  • -- 2 T: I knew President Johnson when he was on the staff of Congressman Dick Kleberg of Corpus Christi. At the time I represented the national cotton council and endeavored to activate beneficial legislation for the cotton interests of Texas
  • . Senate as a staff director for the Labor subcommittee. Is that correct? S: Right. M: And you worked there from 1961 to 1963. From that point as an assistant to the Undersecretary of Commerce and also apparently at the same time a director
  • a payment acceleration, and in addition, I think I'm right on this, the postponement of some of the excises. M: Apparently the economy was heating up at that time, is that right? S: Well, yes. All of this really gets into the beginning of the whole
  • programs and in beautification, things which you are associated with--desalination of water, the whole myriad. L: I'm interested in health programs because as a child I had poor health-- F: This is in Wisconsin? L: In Wisconsin. At one time I
  • are a Washingtonian. Yes, I feel I am a Washingtonian. I was born in Maryland, but I lived there only three months and came back, so all my memories are of this city. My mother and her family were long-time Washingtonians, so I consider myself a real native. I
  • to go back and see what's happening in the way of population growth to my home State. I came to Washington on my third tour of duty in 1961, as Assistant Superintendent of National Capital Parks. At that time we had a quite different organizational
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh advisor to many of us and was well versed in the history of China at that time. [He] predicted pretty accurately what was about to happen
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
  • of the fact he did something that nobody else can do again." F: Yes. Right. C: You can't run for the third time anymore. F: If he hadn't done anything else, that would have secured his place And that gave him-- in history. c: That's right. Exactly
  • and the Pennsylvania Commission. 0: Pennsylvania Avenue Council . F: Let's talk a little bit about the formation of that . 0: I didn't have any connection with any presidential candidates or anybody aspiring to same . The first time that we really heard about
  • historic sites; Willard Hotel; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Building; Lady Bird’s time and attention; Federal Highway Commission; National Plaza; Owings close to the Nixon Administration; Nixon’s interest in the National Plaza; LBJ Library; Skidmore-Owings
  • for a baven of natural beauty amidst the increasing · -:lamor of modern lüe. 1 would like to share it with you. Dear Mrs. Johnson: I have written to you last Easter and 1 offered you to corne to Connecticut, but Lucy 1 s wedding had ail of y our time. I wish
  • . All our national history proves that a committed citizenry is a mighty force when it bends itself to a de t ermined effort. Ther e is a g rowing f e eling abroad in this land today that ugliness bas been allowed too long, that it is time to say "Enough
  • wanted to have this chance to thank you for the time and 8 the conviction and the creativity that you have put 9 into it and to see an hour or two of· the results .this \,'} city. I w a: · z 0 j: . u ::J a 0 ~ a. w n:: .J ..J < 10
  • to it. B= All right sir. Have you had at any time during your career any direct contact with Mr. Johnson, either as a Congressman or Vice President or President? W: Yes, I have had some, they've been rather infrequent. While Lyndon Johnson
  • this with Kennedy, when he heard that Johnson was ready to do it, had names of people for the Heart, Cancer and Stroke Commission, and he was all ready with the Executive Order. Of course, the Surgeon General at the time wasn't at all in favor
  • , relatively, for me to raise hell about it, because what the hell! Dean was deeply involved with Vietnam, an Arab-Israeli war, and with Pueblo , and things like that, and why should I take up his time with things which, in the long run, were not truly
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tocker -- II -- 5 G: Do you remember at the time what you thought about why this was occurring