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- 1941
12/41
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) spends Christmas in Austin and visits at least Corpus
Christi before leaving for the West Coast.
12/29/41
LBJ leaves San Antonio via Southern Pacific Railroad en route to Los Angeles.
12/30/41
LBJ arrives in Los
- with Siegel and Ken BeLieu this morning before attending a hearing on
NASA appropriations. He attends a luncheon in honor of President Truman at
Skeeter Johnston’s office, talks with John Connally who is in Los Angeles; he also
meets with Bill Munnell
- Hotel.)
6/23
Lunch with JFK, Rusk, etc. re: Berlin.
6/25
To Los Angeles (w/Reedy, CTJ, MMW, Williams, Tschursin, Sen. Fong, Dick Bird,
Inouye, Fred Dutton), dedicates LA airport before flying to Honolulu for
Governors Conference. Returns 6/28.
6/29
- all day, except for meeting Mr. & Mrs. Graham Purcell at Friendship and
stopping by Thornberry office staff party.
1/29
Attends coffee in McCormack’s office for Purcell. Meets with Gene Chambers; Bob
Donovan (Times Herald); Andrew Heiskell (Life
- Memphis power plant, served in the Bureau
of the Budget as a consultant on the TVA and Dixon-Yates contract from
May-September 1953 and January-April, 1954, at the same time that he was
working for First Boston.
2/19
After meeting with Democratic
- to allow pasture greater time to recover from the drought, and would
instruct the Agriculture Department to give assistance in providing cottonseed cake
feed.
1/14
Combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees open hearings
- changes on 3/23.
LBJ, in New York, lunches with Time magazine editors and later meets with
Newsweek editors. CTJ joins him in New York that evening and they attend The
Music Man.
3/21
The Johnsons have dinner with Dr. and Mrs. Frank Stanton at Club 21
- Knowland authorizing the creation of a
select committee to investigate the episode. The committee is approved on 2/7
by a 90-0 roll call.
2/5
Speaking at a California Democratic council convention in Los Angeles, Estes
Kefauver endorses equal economic
- residence.
1/7
Meetings with JFK, part of the time on the Honey Fitz.
1/8
Meeting with JFK this morning at Kennedy residence and aboard Honey Fitz.
Returns to Washington that afternoon, meets with JFK and congressional leaders at
This chronology
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Aunt Effie dies on New Year’s night.
1/3
80th Congress convenes, controlled by Republicans for first time in fourteen
years. Joseph Martin elected speaker of the House. Proceedings televised for
first time.
1/4
Stag party for E.H. Perry at Driskill
- , Texas to Norris City,
Illinois.
1/26
Rayburn appoints LBJ member of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy.
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) announces purchase of KTBC. Station operates only
during the day and shares time with UT, has no network affiliation
- McClendon and Bob Johnson, of the Houston Post, but still would
not give his intentions as to the Senate race. O’Daniel said he would take care of
this “burning question” when the proper time came and that he’d play by
“current rules” in the Senate
- . 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
- that Senator McFarland hopes LBJ will be in Washington to
attend.
2/26
The Washington Times Herald reports that Donald Cook was appointed by
Truman today as chairman of the SEC to succeed Harry McDonald, who takes his
oath of office as head of the RFC on 2/27
- plans to attend.
1/10
First assembly of the United Nations opens in London.
1/12
LBJ is apparently ill, and Welly Hopkins writes him: “By this time I trust that your
scarlet fever experience has cleared away.”
1/14
Congress convenes.
1/19
Office
- reportedly talks with FDR to get appropriation restored to budget; FDR
approves $3 million for dam.
2/16
House passes Navy appropriation bill, carrying record peace time total of $965
million.
2/17
LBJ and Representative Mansfield testify before Interior
- , which took place today.
6/3
The Time magazine photographer is scheduled to photograph LBJ, Rayburn and
Russell.
6/6
The Time photographer takes pictures at the Johnson home. Time does a cover
story on LBJ later in the month. (6/22 issue)
6/9
Robert
-
Morse and Langer, who voted with the Democrats. LBJ accused Knowland of not
informing him about plans for the night session.
The next day, The New York Times publishes a statement made by Knowland
characterizing yesterday’s vote to adjourn the Senate
- attend a reception in his honor
at the Women’s National Democratic Club. They also attend the traditional
birthday dinner in his honor given by long-time friend and recent widow, Mrs.
J.L. Aston. In the late evening, Rayburn and LBJ attend the annual stag
- -American communities). Dr. Garcia contacts reporters
from the Corpus Christi Caller and cables Texas senators, congressmen, military
officials, Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell regarding this discrimination. The
next day The New York Times carries a front
- and the U.S. Steel Corporation, and for the third time requests
him to authorize the immediate resumption of activities;
Federal Judge Robert J. McMillan dies; possible successors include Robert Lee
Bobbitt, Everett Looney, James Hart and Senator Wirtz.
Late
- as the subcommittee’s
chief counsel and brain-truster on a part-time basis.
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REFERENCE: LBJ CHRONOLOGY
Drafted by LBJ Library archival staff from oral history transcripts
and other sources as a service to our
- , and the cook has
recovered. . . . For the time being we seem to be getting along very well.”
4/26
On FDR’s orders, Army troops take possession of Montgomery Ward and
Company after Sewell L. Avery, company chairman, and company directors
refused to obey
