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  • with President John F. ew York: Rugged Land Kennedv. Press). Mrs. Connally concluded by an­ nouncing that she was giving the original copy of her notes to the LBJ Library. A member of the audience asked if she disagreed with the Warren report, the government
  • during his c,u-eer; it was when Presid nt Johnson was pressing for support for the Highway Beauti­ fication Act, a favorite of Lady Bird Johnson's. 7 Photo by Charles Bogel to write more, eventually becoming a book. Although current times are simi­ lar
  • reel that a phone at the Ranch was on a hundred-yard cord so that when he was down walking by the Ped rnale. they could just re I it our to him like a garden hos . George Christian ( Press Seaetary to President Joh11so11): I Company): 1 : was out
  • session of Congress about coming in to see Roosevelt. He had a project in Florida he was really very worried about and he needed some help. And he said he rather got the feeling that Roosevelt didn't want to help him but he was going to press him. He
  • of the Great Society, In April, the LBJ Library and LBJ School of Public Affairs joined with the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the Texas Bar Foundation in a con­ ference held at the Library to . urvey the status of the program. Panelists Dan Morales
  • those problems. 1 think we have the will to do it. I think tee har;e the intelligence to dn it, and I think our record demomtrales that in the past tee hai:e rt'sponded to challenges. Nancy Teeters The most pressing economic problem, not only of today
  • ! afler Phil's return from the war. A rec nt article in the Santa Barbara N ws­ Press quoted M . Young: "It was too intense. He'd gone through this life-altering experience. I wa this dumb I 7-year- Id." But Ms. Young saved the let­ ters, fifty-four
  • Press relations
  • LBJ gives speech to National Association of Broadcasters in Chicago; LBJ Library meeting; responses to LBJ's March 31 speech; Lady Bird visits with her daughters; second LBJ Library meeting; office work; swearing-in ceremony of Angie Biddle Duke
  • back. "But ever since he got in here;• said Roy Wilkins, pointing to the Oval Office, "ever since he got in here it's been rock around the clock." So it was, and the President never missed a chance to press it publicly .... Of course, our faith
  • and appreciation to a person for a _jobwell done. not face to face. Instead he would. at an introduction or a special time. maybe even at a national press con­ ference. tell a third person how great he really thought they were. So the deserving one heard it when
  • Press relations
  • LBJ returns from Texas & is very tired; Lady Bird swims & goes to hair salon; tea with T.J. Taylor's nurse, Jean Hughes; Ms. Hughes gives Lady Bird photos of Taylor; Lynda Robb's pregnancy; tea for National Association of Food Chains; beautification
  • Valentine's Day; LBJ has medical exam; Luci Johnson and Pat Nugent's plans after wedding; LBJ is locating Jerry Nugent in Vietnam; Lady Bird does office work; Lady Bird attends American Heart Association luncheon and style show; Lady Bird attends
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  • is to be misunderstood. And when we say we stand or snmc things wc must never be seen to have done che opposite. And people associated with !hat have to leave. It doesn't matter which party. As an ambassador you use back-channel communications occasionally to get
  • a pressing issue, you are also fostering the kind of conversation that is needed to r invigorate our democracy. You are accepting the responsibility that comes with being a citizen, and you are creat­ ing tl1c opportunity for fellow citizens to exercise
  • committees, trade associations, and others with vested interests in gov­ ernment operations." One reform needed, Rove sug­ gested, is "fuller disclosure ... es­ pecially as to the source of money [and] the principal occupation [of the donor]. Shipley agreed
  • Press relations
  • ; Abe Fortas' Supreme Court nomination; Lynda Robb tells stories about her family; New York Times interview on LBJ Library; tea with American Association of Nurserymen; reception for Junior Army Navy Guild Organization members; Clark Cliffords to dinner
  • Press relations
  • LBJ & Lady Bird breakfast; Lady Bird to hair salon; American Association of Nurserymen awards at Statler Hilton; Lady Bird congratulates landscape winners; speech praising Lady Bird; LBJ Library meeting; Lynda Robb, Lady Bird & Luci Nugent
  • Press relations
  • with Alice Roosevelt Longworth; photos with little boy for United Givers Fund; Lady Bird meets Arthritis & Rheumatism Association group; Tchaikovsky Competition reception; LBJ gives remarks; Lady Bird describes performances; receiving line
  • good in itself, but ultimately good for our country. Today Rostow would have press d for assistance to countries from which terrorists come, and for openings to those societies on grounds that iris their rigidi­ ties that drive people into non
  • . The Rockwell Fund grant was made by Mr. Joe M. Green, Jr., President, for the specific purpose of financing the bibliography. Symposium Probes Role of Press In March, a distinguished assembly of journalists, jurists, and scholars (see box below) met
  • by 12 prominent sculptors from the museum's collections, were displayed in the Library's Greal Hall 1975 1976 Leaders from the world of the arl
  • , published by the University of Kansas Press, should be of great interest to anyone interested in Mrs. Johnson, the envi­ ronmental movement, or the impor­ tance of first ladies. This is the first book since the popular biographies of Mrs. Johnson
  • and it is just up to us to start out. So let me introduce myself: I am Harry Middleton, director of the LBJ Library. This is George Christian:. We both worked for President Johnson in the White House. George was far more important than I; he was press secretary
  • Press relations
  • use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity
  • Smith, of United Press Internationat-··Jeak it to him first. lt gets home first that way, and when old Judge Moursund reads this, he'll know what we're trying to do out here with his money." He taught us ... that a nation of two hundred million
  • was President Johnson's last press secretary spoke to the Library volunteers in Sep­ tember, Excerpts from Christian's comments about LBJ follow: . . . More than likely, biographers and critic-, and admirers of Lyndon Johnson arc going to be mining ..illthe lore
  • for kitchen help, blacks ,vere still barred from the Forty Acres when we planned our party there on December 3 I, 196 . When we announced in the press that the new President, Lyndon Johnson, would be flying to the BJ Ranch for Lhe holidays, we knew that Horace
  • for centuries is re-created in the panoramic displays which are part of the exhibition. During a press preview of the exhibit, Lady Bird Johmson observed, "I think it explains us to ourselves. It's sort of an introduction of some of us to the rest of us
  • Press relations
  • LBJ and Lady Bird to National Institutes for Health to sign the Health Research Facilities Act; Lady Bird attends meeting on the LBJ Library; Bill Moyers will announce the LBJ Library site at his press conference
  • 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
  • Press relations
  • meet with press; Lady Bird to Austin for architecture meeting on the LBJ Library; Lady Bird & Roy White look at stone on University of Texas campus buildings; Press stories about amount of Hill Country acreage LBJ owns; Lynda Johnson's first magazine
  • by the University of Chicago Press, the book is the atest 111 a series recording the admmislrativ history of the J hnson presidency. Overall edilor f the series is LBJ School Professor Emmelle S. Redford. In selecting his appo111tees, the authors found, President Jo
  • awarded to David M. Barrett, for his book The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy (University Press of Kansas). Don Bacon former editor of the Encyclopedill of the Congress and a member of the award committee, had this to say
  • Lo attend the garden's dedication ... The newspa­ per· reported the incident as a case of Mrs. Kennedy snubbing the Johnsons. "I suppose again that's where the press makes things very diffi­ cult," said Mrs. Onassis. " That was so generous of Mrs
  • recognition in his own right. Next, Ward pointed out that Roo evelt was lucky not to ha e dealt with today·s intrusive and sensational press, which would have made hay out of his relationship with Lucy Mercer and Missy LeHand. Bul by the lights of What
  • ministers, advisors, and the press. The other rooms of the West Wing - the Cabi­ net Room, Situation Room, and Little Lounge - are depicted in similar fashion. Included among the origi­ nal manuscripts and documents on display are pages from President
  • all the present wars are civil wars in which, by almost a IO­ to- I margin, it is the innocent who perish. ... At a time where for many people the most important issue 1s cyberspace. for other people in the world, the most pressing concern is firewood
  • Press relations
  • LBJ on phone with McGeorge Bundy about foreign problems; LBJ meets with Dale Malechek about LBJ Ranch; lunch with staff, helicopter to Bergstrom and flight to DC; LBJ talks with press pool about Vietnam; Foreign Aid Bill; stop in Columbia, SC
  • Press relations
  • Lady Bird at meeting on LBJ Library; Lady Bird hosts tea for Mount Holyoke and Connecticut College women; Bill Moyers has press conference about LBJ Library; Lady Bird continues with the tea event; LBJ signs a bill in the Rose Garden; Johnsons