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- despite considerable opposition; LBJ tries to telephone FDR on
Tuesday night, but Bill Kittrell tied up the phone line.
7/25
FDR signs “Two Ocean” Navy Bill.
August
8/1
FDR selects Edward Flynn as chairman of the Democratic National Committee
- a dinner at the Carlton Hotel in honor of Miss Lou.
February
2/1
Truman telephones LBJ concerning the wildcat railroad strike.
Eisenhower addresses an informal joint session of Congress in the Library of
Congress and emphasizes the need for U.S
- allocation of rural telephone loan funds in Texas-$25,000 to the Navasota Telephone Company, made in the presence of Senators
Connally and Johnson, and Congressmen Poage, Pickett, Thornberry and Teague.
5/11
Black tie dinner for Senator and Mrs. Tom
- L.
Lewis charges Krug with responsibility for Centralia disaster and demands Krug
resign.
4/4
Mrs. Rebekah Johnson still in hospital, in wheelchair, but hopes to be walking
soon.
4/7
300,000 telephone workers in 39 states go on strike. Long
- . Delegates from 46 nations
attend. President Truman gives short address by telephone from White House.
4/28
LBJ letter to Stanley Marcus re: death of FDR: “I am enclosing . . . an interview I
gave the night of his death which appeared in the New York Times
- in a telephone conversation with Anderson, LBJ recommends that
Anderson meet with the House and Senate committees in executive session as
soon as possible about the legislation because there will be considerable
opposition to the measures. He cites his recent
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In his column, Drew Pearson criticizes “one-man rule” method used by LBJ
(Lyndon Johnson) to make committee assignments. Pearson maintains that LBJ
never calls a meeting of the Steering Committee, but instead has Democratic
Whip Earle Clements telephone
- to be complete or definitive.
discoverlbj.org
Later that evening, LBJ telephones Dean Acheson for his advice on tomorrow’s
meeting. Acheson is highly critical of the administration’s position.
Eisenhower, Dulles, U.N. Ambassador Lodge and 26 congressional
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speech last week. I have had hundreds of wires, letters and telephone calls, and
they are practically unanimous in support of measures I discussed.”
3/31
LBJ, CTJ, Margaret and Margaret Ann Kimball, and Leila Clark go to New York. LBJ
is scheduled
- of delegates to the Blanco County
convention on Tuesday.
5/6
In conversations with Earl Mazo of the New York Herald Tribune, LBJ discloses
that he was threatened with death or maiming by an anonymous telephone
caller after his speech Thursday night
- had Easter vacation this week from school, but goes back next week.”
LBJ writes County Judge Lewis Porter that he and nine other senators are
sponsoring legislation to provide loans to existing rural telephone companies to
improve and expand
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Inauguration ceremonies for Bosch - see travel file.
2/28
Presents gifts to Bosch this morning before returning to Washington. Telephone
calls to Jenkins, Reedy, Senator Russell re: trip.
March
3/1
Breakfast w/August Busch on his private railroad car
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Republican National Committee’s fact sheet accuses LBJ of leading a Democratic
attempt “to frighten the nation [about] a business dip . . . for political advantage”
and charged that a “series of panic statements” in Congress were inspired by
telephone calls
