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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 69, 18 September 1998," LBJ Library (Item)
  • in 1969. It served as a model for the eight-foot statue which is in the LBJ ational Historic Park in Stonewall, Texas. This bronze work, "Sunning," is a product of Gary Yarrington's stu­ dio. The model was Kiran Dix, for­ merly of the Library's Volunteer
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Legacy of the Sixties, 1999," LBJ Library (Item)
  • hat against th sun, and somebody took a pictme of U1e two of them. I called the White House early the n xt day and got the President because nobody else was up yet. I asked. "What's in the papers?'" H said. "Well, it's go cl. You have a five-col­ umn
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 45, 30 April 1989," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Children, painted a grim portrait of the homeless in America, and particularly the 500,000 children "whose only crime is to be born poor" and whose lives, if they sur­ vive infancy, is a bleak struggle for survival in a world "where the sun never shines
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 72, June 2000," LBJ Library (Item)
  • voice and sing. .. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, Facing the rising sun of our new day begun Let us march on till victory is won. -Jam.es Weldon Johnson, 1900 The LBJ Library and Museum's major exhibit for the year featured
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 31, 15 July 1984," LBJ Library (Item)
  • because of the cheap m rtgages. And the highways that would allow you to come back if your job wa in the city-but it deprived us of our tax ba e. And then you ha the infusion of an enormous number of dollars into the Sun Belc by the federal government
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 41, 1 October 1987," LBJ Library (Item)
  • and Dad spent at the LBJ Ranch that this feeling was genuine-that, in fact, the President and Mrs. Johnson often rode up into the hills to watch the sun set in the distance. I had re­ mained unconvinced. In the end, my strongest feeling was bewilderment. I
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 44, 15 December 1988," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . because they are our national heritage just as our mountains and streams, our forests, and the sight of the fading sun playing on our des­ erts, giving us the experience of re­ gional identity and pride, saying, "This is New York or Texas or Cali­ fornia
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 80, January 2003," LBJ Library (Item)
  • of the place captured many as they watched the Texas­ orange sun disappear behind the horizon, its beams shimmering on the river. Johnson's famed Texas barbecues were the talk of the international political set. his favorite musi­ cians playing country, western