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  • have been of group nature rather than individual nature. B= Have all of these meetings been in connection with the work of the Soil Conservation Service? W: Related to work of the Soil Conservation Service. For example, the Keep America Beautiful
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Keep America Beautiful; LBJ strong support of conservation and development; Soil Conservation Service; Lady Bird’s interest in the outdoors and natural beautification; Great Plains Conservation Program
  • , in charge of B. Johnson State Park. This is the highway maintenance in Grayson 19th year for the annual award, County in the Paris District, and which is presented to a highway Charles Spence. maintenance supermaintena ..ce worker who excels in visor
  • , in charge of B. Johnson State Park. This is the highway maintenance in Grayson 19th year for the annual award, County in the Paris District, and which is presented to a highway Charles Spence. maintenance supermaintena ..ce worker who excels in visor
  • to be with the members and friends of this organization -- one of the first to champion the beautifi cation cause. I hate to contemplate what America's cities and countryside would look like today if your organization had not attacked this problem the se many years. All
  • Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, 12th Annual Meeting of Keep America Beautiful, Inc,. New York, New York, 10/7/1965"
  • , it has been a change of pace to have the Democrats in the majority. But to get back to what I was telling you about refining my interest in politics. I went to work for the United Mine Workers in 1935, after I was out of college several years
  • Rowe’s upbringing; working for the United Mine Workers; early social interaction with LBJ; Maury Maverick; how Jim Rowe came to work for LBJ; LBJ’s mentee relationships with Sam Rayburn and Alvin Wirtz; how LBJ hellped Jim Rowe get into the Navy
  • standing on the prairie with the spaciousness of the heavens wrapped around you, and looking out to the farthest star. You, who live in the Great Plains of America have thia window on the univerae as your daily fare, and I think it gives you a special per­
  • was elected President of the United States in November 1964, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson started to think about her role as First Lady. She decided that in order to use her time most effectively she should concentrate her efforts in just a few major areas
  • or five years old. He was very poor. It was depression down there. school wherever the ice trucks stopped in Miami. public high schools. [He] went to Miami He, then, went to the University of Florida. dropped out a year and ran his father's farm
  • document which he, I think, never published. But he and Secretary [Stewart] Udall considered it a very important document. Actually as a result of this, we put it in book form, A More Beautiful America -- Lyndon B. Johnson, you see. This was done I think
  • to the United States of America by terms of this instrument available fo= research as soon as it has been deposited in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Lib_rnxy . 3 . A revision of this stipula tic :: governing access to the material for research ray be entered
  • -sawmill-farming community west of Jacksonville, which was where I grew up . I attended the public schools there, and I also attended the public schools in New York and Massachusetts . M: Your family must have moved some then? B: No, I had a lot
  • called Mr. George Sokolsky, who then became very famous in the United States, where he was the main editorial columnist of the Sun. He also became an LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race
  • in Appalachia? Well, it's as old as the New Deal. The first study of Appalachia was done in 1936, by, interestingly enough, the United States Navy Surgeon, who somehow had been appalled by this degrading poverty he had seen and launched a study. It really
  • : Shipbuilders, in the sense of the workers in the shipyards, wanted a larger domestic shipbuilding program. One of the main policy contro- versies was generated by the proposal of the Commerce Department, under Alan Boyd's leadership as under secretary
  • to second the nomination. He was so pleased with that honor, he was one of the best workers Roosevelt ever had! F: It made a convert out of him. C: Oh, it made a convert out of Irim. he knew it. F: He was speaking for Roosevel t before It was just
  • and broken bencbes to a real garden spot of azaleas, dogwoods and evergreens -- a mecca for government workers at lunch. On Saturday, March 30tb - on a glorious sunny day - I went out walldng in tbe parks with a few friends. I wish each of you could
  • States Code and subject to the terms and provisions hereinafter set forth, I, Phillip Tocker of Austin, Texas do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts
  • Biographical information; how Tocker came to know LBJ; the billboard bonus law of 1958; Tocker’s work for the Outdoor Advertising Association of America; passing an amendment to the billboard bonus law; LBJ’s stance in regard to the billboard bonus
  • give, donate, and convey to the United states of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transscript of a personal statement approved by me
  • of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and provisions hereinafter set forth, I, Phillip Tocker' of Austin, Texas do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings
  • referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transscript of a personal
  • , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, tapes and transcripts of a personal statement
  • , hereinafter r e f e r r e d t o as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United S t a t e s o f A m e r i for eventual deposit in the propsed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therin by the authorities t h e r o f , a t a p e
  • the United States. That was the best thing that got done with the money, and that was a great thing, because intensive care centers saved lives. G: How did that get accomplished? L: It was a concept that people had. volved. There were a variety
  • and photographed and so on, I said, "Kennedy is really the second President of the United States who has shown any interest in Washington . Jefferson ." Th.e first one was So I thought with that kind of reception we had a good chance . ­ I suggested to each one
  • Latin America
  • LBJ & Dominican crisis; Lady Bird on LBJ's cold & weight; Lynda's article in "Life" magazine; Lady Bird meets Metropolitan Opera singers, two PROJECT HOPE workers, National Gallery staff on Pictures for Patients, and MS Mother of the Year; Lady Bird
  • in Westerville, Ohio, in 1924 . B: That's correct . M: Educated at Otterbein University? B: Otterbein College, which is in Westerville, Ohio . school associated with the United Brethren Church . It's a denominational At that time, it was the United
  • is," and that's when the call went out all over North America, "Find him!" And the FBI officers, for example, in Rapid City, not knowing I was going to be flying to Washington, said: "I would suggest that you and your family LBJ Presidential Library http
  • more education, desalinization, health--a variety of things. I was interested in the efforts of Paul Hoffman in the United Nations Development Fund. It was really an effort to put our relations with the rest of the world in perspective and LBJ
  • fteocrfhvsetindSeais.t 2. It is the donor's wish to make the material donated to the United States of America by terms of this instrument available for research as soon as it has been deposited in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. 3. A revision of this stipulation
  • a 8peaker's Committee is not only getting someone else to do the speaking, but ~earing the interesting bits of information they bring back. qr instance, Nash Castro is just back from a Honvention of the uarden Living Industries of the ~astern United ~ta ~ es
  • put through that civil rights bill, nobody but him could have put it through. There isn't another man in the United States who could have gotten it through. You had to be the man at the right time at the right place. Four years later he couldn't
  • System of the United States. The public generally doesn't think of it in that sense, but the fact is that, as one of our national treasures, it is a member of our great National Park System. F: So you have supervision of it in one sense? C: We do
  • of those distant places. The starnp that we are proClaiming today bas a very special message that I bope our countrymen will take to heart: "Plant for a more beautiful America." Our cities don•t have to be ghettos of concrete and frustration; our
  • AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AWARDS LUNCHEON BILTMORE HOTEL, NEW YORK CITY NOVEMBER 19, 1968 Thank you, Mr. Perrin. It is a pleasure to be with Keep America Beautiful -- its officers and members -- on this day of tribute. 1 am touched and grateful
  • Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Keep America Beautiful Awards Luncheon, Biltmore Hotel, New York City, 11/19/1968"
  • and countryside is high on America's agenda. For it seems to me that one of the most press challenges for the individual is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye. Our peace of mind, our
  • live in communities tbat free the ~i.n.:i or imprison it? Will your cities be places to thrive in or merely to escape from? And what places will there be left to escape to? 1t is thrilling to me, that for the first time in history, America 1 s major
  • Latin America
  • Lady Bird meets leaders of "Let's Beautify America" campaign; Lady Bird's interview on beauty is published in "Reader's Digest" who donated 800 rose bushes for Union Station; Lady Bird mentions projects in Topeka, KS, & Greenville, MS; Dominican
  • Latin America
  • Valentine's Day; Johnsons to National City Christian Church; Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson to National Gallery of Art; dinner with the Robert McNamaras, Bill Fulbrights, and Tom Manns; Latin America; airplane junkyard is moved; LBJ talks about William
  • come to America and worked with for Advance Study in the Theatrical into This will the acting, and they will in the round headed by a professional play. in English to send the possibility will to Japan, on an O'Neill knows English abroad