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  • , the Houston Post and R,ice University jointly sponsored at Rice September 29-30. Four panels explored various areas of that world. In the first panel, moderated by State Senator Chet Brooks, the thorny matter of political financing was ad­ dressed by three
  • service on it, because everybody knew he was the minority leader. Everybody knew that he might become, and of course he did become, the majority leader in a couple of years. A little later in 1954 I went over and spent about six weeks in Jack Brooks
  • directive and got more active, including me, and Marietta [Moody Brooks] especially. We took a trip to Corpus Christi with Elizabeth Odom and [attended] a meeting of the women leaders. Meanwhile, Lyndon was checking in with all his bases of good friends
  • Texas; the death of Mary Rather's father; public speaking; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson's support for LBJ's campaign; Lady Bird Johnson's car accident with Marietta Brooks near Seguin; the Johnson family calling everyone in the Austin phone book to seek
  • years would we have been married then? From 1934--this was 1951, seventeen? Seventeen years. I think the Connallys, and Pickles, and Kellams, and Deasons, and Thornberrys, and Phinneys, and Max Brooks, and I don't know quite who all, were
  • English Asst. Dir. Health-OEO Philander P. Claxton. Jr. -Special Asst. to Secy, for Population Matters State Dept. Dr. Gary London. Chief. Family Planning Service - OEO Mr. John D. Rockefeller . III. NYN Y Mr. Charles Schultze-Brookings Institution Dr
  • sick. . . I want to express my regrets and my sorrow. . . I'd be honored if he could call me back, but I don't want to bother him." : and Mrs. Marvin Watson and Larry Temple to second floor Jack Brooks called the President - from Beaumont, Texas talked
  • Ofc Rosto 8:15p Mr 10:23p f t 18 e fort Activit oL D 8:10p T 8:11p t e Oc w - pl . an d Mrs . Willia m S . Whit e t o th e secon d floor --joined Mrs . Johnso n there Cong . Jac k Brook s - Beaumont , Te x e President t o th e secon d floor
  • Christian - pl 4:27p f Cong, Jack Brooks 4:35p t Ernie Maguire Carpenter in the Theatre but she was in a press briefing and the President said never mind Christian -pl Goldstein - pl VHITE HOUS E Dat e Novembe JENT LYNDO N B . JOHNSO N DIARY Ne
  • Lady Bird has doctors visits and fittings for opera dress; LBJ signs Traffic Safety Bill; Lady Bird receives visit from nuns; nap; tea for Ambassadors' wives; tour of family living quarters; meeting about Western trip; Leonard Marks & Max Brooks
  • Lady Bird signs Christmas photos; snowing; Lady Bird talks with individuals about speech & artwork donated to White House; wedding gift for Beth Jenkins; cherry trees from Mary Lasker; telephone call with Brook Astor about Temple of Dendur; office
  • McGovern enters Presidential race; LBJ's test at Brooke Army Hospital; dinner; "Hang Em High" movie & bridge game; Lady Bird becomes ill & retires
  • LBJ & Lady Bird to Austin for meetings; Lady Bird goes to the LBJ Library site with Lawson Knott & Max Brooks; Lady Bird and Knott return to LBJ's office in the Federal Building; Lady Bird to LBJ Library site with a photographer; Lady Bird to hair
  • LBJ and Lady Bird go to National City Christian Church; both watch Hubert Humphrey on TV; LBJ and Jack Brooks discuss redistricting; Lady Bird interviews for chef position; Lady Bird bowls with Liz Carpenter; Johnsons have dinner with several
  • Lady Bird goes to New York City to purchase clothing; Lady Bird attends dinner party given in her honor at Brooke Astor's home; Lady Bird mentions several people at the party; Charles Engelhard tells a funny story; Lady Bird recounts an earlier
  • Lady Bird sleeps late; LBJ has sore throat; Lady Bird greets wives of Associated General Contractors; Lady Bird interviewed by Rosemarie Tyler Brooks; Lady Bird has eye appointment to try on glasses; lunch meeting about Big Bend trip; office work
  • Batchelder . Newto n High School , Newton , Mass . T. Rolan d Berne r. Chr. , Curtiss - Wright Corp , Woo d Ridge , N . J. William R . Biggs , Chr . o f Exec Committee , Brooking s Institute , D . C. Gordon Bilderback , Champaign , Illinoi s Dr. Phili p D
  • he met designers, Geoffrey Beene and Donal d Brooks, along w/ Rita Wohlma n of Joseph Magnin Co. who had assemlbed many garments fo r th e President to select some clothes- for Lynda Bird to use a t her year a t the Univ of Texas thi s year
  • --Congressmen Gonzalez and Brooks and Thomas and Thornberry, as I recall, were there, and a number of congressmen on the trip. Congressman Thomas had flown to San Antonio and came in with President Kennedy on his plane. Then they all filed in to a big ovation
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES L. SCHULTZE INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Dr. Schultze's office at Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 M: Let me ask you, to start off with, about the credit crunch of 1966 and various items and legislation
  • , and also personal friends of mine. Henry Brooks, who had been the former district attorney of Travis County supported me and did all he could for me. PB: I understand that a man of our age who is now in Corpus Christi, named Vann Kennedy, was also one
  • Brooke, Thomas Hardy and Joyce Kilmer, from tht> University of Texas Harry Ransom Center. Bronze Memorial Sculpture, gift from the French nation. In­ scribed "to the 36th Division in memor} of the Victory of Cham­ pagne, September 26-0ctober 10, 1918" 5
  • on the second floor~ Renderings by Graeber, Simmons & Cowan, A.I.A. Architects, Inc. In association with R. Max Brooks, FA/A 3 Foundation Board Meets At LBJ Ranch Members of the LBJ Foundation Board of Directors, meeting at the LBJ Ranch on June 7-8, approv d
  • Brides .James L. Sundquist Senior Fellow The Brookings Institution Concluding Remarks: Elspeth D. Rostow Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Stiles Professor in American Studies and Government The University of Texas at Austin 9
  • Post-: Vietnam Fiscal Policy Choices I A number of 11 outside" economists -- notably Charles L. Schultze and Joseph A. Pechman of the Brookings Institution and Otto Eckstein i! · of Harvard University -- have recently expressed a variety
  • LBJ, Lady Bird and Luci Johnson to Red Mass at St. Matthews; LBJ spends day in bed; dinner with the Jack Brooks and Bill Whites; George Reedy and the press; visit with Luci and Lynda Johnson
  • • aboard, but there were some familiar face• aboard--Congre••man Albert Tho1n1u, Congre11man Jack Brook•, Congre••man Homer Thornberry come to my mind. One particular 1cene that i i 1till vivid in my me=ory i i that I c&Jl'le mid-•hip to the Fre1iden.t
  • re a good many other C o n g re s s m en too, like the John Y o u n g s , and the Jack Brookes. Just as I thought everyb od y - I had m et eve ryb o d y and spent enough time co n v ersin g with everyb od y and the s h e rry and dubonnet had been
  • rancher and oilman, announces that he will run against LBJ for the Senate. LBJ sits at the head table at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner. 2/7 LBJ interviews George Mahon, Bob Poage, Lloyd Bentsen and Jack Brooks on his weekly radio
  • and I have been away from Austin--and away from Texas.” 12/14 LBJ, Wesley West, A.W. Moursund, Max Brooks, Melvin Winters and Clyburn Montgomery inspect a low-cost housing project in San Angelo and return to Johnson City that day. 12/16 Stuart
  • may wish to send to Mr. Pace, whoae letter is returned. It we 11&1' be or arq- ~her aaa1stanae to you, pleaae do not hea1tate to call on us. Sincerely youre, Por the Secretary of Statei Brooks Haya Aaa1stant Secretary Encloaureas 1. 2. Proa Mr
  • ; initiative for ordinances or legislation in D.C. government; Cloud 9 concept; new D.C. government; urban problems; D.C.'s preparation for marches; April riots after MLK assassination; Brookings study; prevention of riots; gun legislation; Resurrection City
  • in. I think he bought into a little venture with Jack Brooks that I carried in Brazos Tenth. Jack Brooks had a little bank down there in East Texas somewhere that he organized. thousand dollars. Why? Not any big money maybe, maybe ten Do you have
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 visualized flood control situations. It might be remembered that Raymond Brooks, who was a reporter and editorial
  • of your notes indicates that Jack Brooks, an old friend of the President, had been angered by Weaver, perhaps. C: Yes, Brooks did not like Weaver. What we found out when I called around about him was that he did not have good relations on the Hill. He
  • Lady Bird works on speech; Lady Bird to hair salon; coffee for the Council on the Humanities; Lady Bird discusses the Kennedy Library with I.M. Pei; Lady Bird gives speech during Buchanan School dedication; speeches by Mayor Washington & Brooke
  • of the Brookings [Institution]. M: Kermit Gordon. C: Kermit Gordon, right. "Kermit," [I said], "I need at least another quarter of a million dollars, at a minimum." And he said to me, "Manny, I'm sorry, but I promised the boss that the books were closed