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- s Johnson was BIG, esti
mated at about ten pounds.
Her husband, "Mr. Sam," a mem
ber of the Texas legislature, got
on his horse to ride to tell his fa
ther that a "United States Sena
tor" had been born. What an
insightful proclamation
-
resumed it when the lapse brought
unfavorable attention. Now it's a
tradition.
Placing the wreath sent by Presi
dent Reagan on President Johnson's
grave at the LBJ Ranch, Library
Director Harry Middleton recalled
for a group of visitors LBJ's plea
early
- Among
Octoher2001
Lady Bird Johnson and Harry Middleton, Executive
Director of the LBJ Foundation, enjoy a moment at the
Future Forum picnic. Story on page 12
Photo by Charles Bogel
Laying of Wreath Marks LBJ's 95th Birthday
Annually, on ugust
- the
papers available for research. The Presidential
Libraries Act of 1955 formalized th is arm nge
ment by authorizing
the federal government
Harry Middleton
to
enter into the same arrangement with all
living former presidents, the current
incumbent
- · programs was put
rnle for two reasons. fir ·t. his family per chi:;cd....
suaded him. S condly. he wanted to add a into place to enhance the quality of' life. To
corrccri vc to some misconceptions that he him, that anyone would go to bed hungry,
secs
- Johnson at 90: "TimeIs a Golden Coin"
Nicole Covert; Catherine Robb; Harry Middleton; Lyndon Nugent
On December 11, 2002, over a
thousand well-wishers packed the
LBJ Auditorium to observe Lady
Bird Johnson's ninelieth birthday.
Former Library Director
- of the Board, Orion Pictur s
Corporation; Mrs. Albert Lasker. President, Albert & Mary
Lasker Foundation, Inc.; Honorable Thurgood Marshall,
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the U. .; Mr Harry
McPherson of the law offices of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard
- journalist, which are part of the Library's collect1ons. The exhibit.
which will run through September, document
- & Co.
George Kozmetsky, Dean, Graduate S~hool of Business, The
University of Texas at Austin
Rohert 0. Anderson, Chairman of the Board, Atlantic Richfield
Company
W. Donham Crawford, Chairman of the Board, Gulf States
Utilities Company
Douglas M. Costle
- . 'They shared
a philosophy. It boils down to 'Love
'em, and shove 'em."' They had a
passion for education. for reading:
they believed, with James Russell
Lowell, that "the best academy is a
mother's knee."
Four of the presidents in her
book: Harry Truman, Ronald
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B e g a n a n o th e r p h a se in th e b u ild in g o f th e L yndon B a in e s
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J o h n so n L ib r a r y , O P E R A T IO N LOOK THEM O V E R .
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- Lady Bird travels to the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, and the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, to help plan the LBJ Library; Lady Bird received tour of Truman Library from President Truman and Phillip Brooks, Director; lunch
- i b r a r y s e t up as soon a s p o s s i b l e a n d h a v e a s k e d
C l a r k C l i f f o r d t o g e t me t h e l e t t e r s
of a s s o c ia tio n
o r w h a t e v e r t h e p iece o f p a p e r i s c a l l e d t h a t
s e t up
t h e Truman
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Broadway play; m y own m in ister B ill Baxter and his pretty young wife,
from St. M arks; M argaret Truman Daniel and her husband Clifton Daniel
o f the New Y ork T im e s; Abe F ortas and Woody and Mary Ellen Woodward.
This is the firs t time w
- from the collections of the
Library of Congress, the National Ar
chives, the Ohio Historical Society, the
Chicago Historical Society, and the
Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower
and Kennedy Presidential Libraries.
From March 15 to April 25, 1976
- . And when he
chose LO address the country on the energy cri is, he deliberately
picked the format of the fireside chat. In the 1980 campaign, even
Ronald Reagan quoted from FDR to such an extent in his acceptance
addre. s that the New York Times titled its
- for Presidents Truman and
Eisenhower, represented the U.S. at
the coronation of Queen Elizabeth
and covered the Korean War cease
fire talks at Panmunjom, ranged
across her eventful life and some of
the world figures she has known.
Among them:
Bernard Baruch
