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- , to restling oil rigs, to football.
there is a myth of the supporting women who fostered these male
enterprises, diminished nowadays t the exhibition of furs and
bangles in the sky boxes, and pompons and pomty bras at half
time on the field. I distrust
- riedm ans
an d t h e Jack G oulds who h a d w r i t t e n a
m a rv e lo u s r e v i e w o f my ABC s h ow.
The John Pom f r e t s
o f t h e New York T im es; th e John S t e e l e s o f Time a n d
L i f e a n d t h e L u c ie n W arren s o f B u f f
- , his times
and his presidency at
the LBJ Ranch, at the
LBJ Library, in San
Marcos and in Washing
ton, D.C.
In its early years the Library began
serving birthday cake to its visitors
on August 27. One year it decided
to drop the practice-but quickly
- a time of diplomatic dia
logue with the People's Republic of China.
"We in the Umted States," he said, "have rare gifts lo bring
to the eternal pursuit of peace. Who lead!>our land, who con
trols the political vantage point are - or ought to be - only
- special intere\t. I don't think
at that time the Founding Fathers really understood what spe
cial intere
- o m
a n d I r e a d m y P o r t l a n d s p e e c h , the B , Y. M o r r i s o n l e c t u r e f J f o r the A m e r i c a n
liistitu te of A r c h ite c ts .
lo n g , lo n g t i m e .
l a s t ^ I s w e a r s p e e c h a n d p u b lic a p p e a r
- Among
Issue
um ber LX'Vlll ' July 2002
What If: No Socrates?
No William the Conquerer?
No FDR?
Victor Hanson: For want of a Socrates, a Plato was lost. ..
2
On Ma L. for the e nd time in
the LBJ Library' Evening With series, a
panel
- t w h a t m a t t e r s to m e .
I ts b e i n g t h e r e f o r m e to
r e m e m b e r a n d lo o k a t a n d a l l o u r f r i e n d s a n d th e J o h n s o n L i b r a r y a n d m a y b e
s c h o l a r s o f the f u t u r e , f o r t h i s p e r
- back into
those y ars with startling immediacy.
And the Johnson Library has them.
Virtually every time the President
made formal remarks, a Communications
Agency crew was there with tape
recorders running. Those tapes, nearly a
thousand of them
- m p a n i e d th e m f r o m H o u s t o n f o r d i n n e r .
T h e s u m m e r t w i l i g h t is v e r y lo n g in J u n e .
I a r r iv e d a little
p a s t 7 :0 0 a t t h i s h o u s e t h a t h a s b e e n so m u c h a p a r t of o u r lif e f
- house; Lady Bird to Wesley West Ranch for dinner; Lady Bird describes the night sky and imitates a bullfrog; Lady Bird reminisces about time at the West Ranch; possible donation to the LBJ Library; Lady Bird sleeps in car on way back to Luci's home
- or t h r e e more d r e s s e s , p o s s i b l y an e v e n in g
d ress.
I was i n no mood and t h i n k i n g o f th e b i l l s
t h a t had a l r e a d y mounted up. A nd th e n n e x t i t was
time t o s e e Max Brooks and Roy W h ite.
Max's b u
-
Office.
SoreJ Etrog, a Romanian-born artist
who studied in New York City, pro
duced this bronze abstract. Titled
simply "The Source," and massive
in appearance, it weighs less than
six hundred pounds. Its permanent
pedestal had not arrived at the time
- for history have recorded for us
as a
what
those skills were. And we are going to play a brief tape that will give you some
idea of
that.
These are voices of people who were with him at the time.
" . .. political system is one that requires enormous
- in the future; Middleton and Christian's opinion of LBJ and their time spent working for LBJ; preparing for the Library's first conference; LBJ's opinion of the process of reviewing Library documents for potential closures
- . Scott, L. Kaneem Smith, Kathleen Varnell
2
join in a discussion that has been
going on since the time of W. E.
B. DuBois: How best to represent
a black aesthetic? What is the
black aesthetic?"
Alvia J. Wardlaw, Curator of
Twentieth-Century Art
- Smathers.
He's
But there was a
She spoke of George and of her
sons and o f continuing to live in Washington for a year or so, but in
true female fashion I could not help thinking with a pang of times
past.
And there were old friends, the Jim Rowes
- and piece of fur
niture has a story attached to it,
such as the , triking Welsh dress
er used as a buffet in the West
Room of the house. The dresser
was a gift of Ms. Jane Engel
hard, and Mrs. Johnson says it
has crossed the Atlantic Ocean
three times
- was an experience
that you couldn't fully appreciate.
Rarely did you get any time to see and
enjoy the country and people, except
from the back of a tlatbed truck in a
motorcade looking through the view
finders of a camera.
Buf every now and then from that
vantage
- the
Watergate scandal, and the Per ian
Gulf War. His hallmark has been
quiet and effective diplomacy; hi
mantra was always " ever l t the
other fellow set the agenda." Time
magazine once called him "the
Velvet Hammer."
In his first statevvide campaign
- by the Pedernales under
the big oak trees preparing. The
Secret Service, of course, with justi
fication were concerned that there
might be an accident so we were
crossing every "T" as far as safety
was concerned. About that time we
heard the honking of a horn
- told them,
and aplendor
the time would
o( the Presidency
come wlien I would look lack
and !ind it hard
on the majeaty
to believe
that I had actually
in ~r•,
I slept
been there.
But on thh
~
night,
I went to bed then.
And for the first
-
the family graveyard.
the biting wind.
And this morning we were heavily bundled up against
The country is gray and sere.
The only splash of color
the small p ilo t [?] down by the river close to the Lutheran Church.
is the time I shall want to travel
- on her time and her
country. The event was Lady Bird
Johnson's 80th birthday, celebrated at
the LBJ Library on December 4-5
(three weeks before the actual date of
December 22). Family members,
friends, associates stretching deep into
the past
- , 0eft) who
spent time as a lecturer at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs. He was escorted through the
museum by volunteer Susan Dimmick.
2
Early Decisions on Vietnam Discussed
A scholarly conference to explore the
early decisions made by the Kennedy
- as if
you'reeavesdroppingon history."
So finally we've hecked off the last thing on the list that there ·s time to do! I've
just walked down to sec the tiny little garden which we want to leave for White House
children and grandchildren of day· to come.
I like the way it's
- Congress, he said, is "bigger and busier. It's better educated and
more experienced. It is more ethical, regardless of what you read, and more
open. It is more democratic and more accessible. It is too accessible, I might
add, at times. It is more
- and Museum
Mrs. Johnson began to see how a presiden
tial library might dramatically portray the
decisions of a president and his effect upon his
times. The archives and displays should
represent a melding- "a melding of both
library and museum," she wrote
- discovery
shocked the western world in the early
days of the cold war and who were the
subject of a recent book written by
him ....
. . . Nan Robertson (below), Pul
itzer-prize winning former reporter
for the New York Times, whose own
just-published book
-
Johnson's-urban
residence from
the late 1950's. Home, of course, is
still the LBJ Ranch.
The program of activities in the
time ahead includes participating
along with former First Ladies Betty
Ford and Rosalynn Carter-in
a
symposium on "Women
- LBJ Library meeting; office work; two-hour interview with Henry Branden of the London Sunday Times; lunch; Lady Bird to Shady Grove Music Theatre; Laurance Rockefeller and Project Trailblazers; Lady Bird greets cast of "King Arthur" & gives short
