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- at the Pedernales Hotel.
Walter Jenkins joins the congressional staff.
11/17
LBJ announces federal grant for recreational park program.
11/17
11/17
House Naval Affairs Committee to visit Corpus Christi.
LBJ announces Austin gets US fish hatchery.
Late November
- Grande Valley.
6/20
LBJ speaks in Waco.
6/22
Germany invades the Soviet Union.
6/23
Amarillo
6/24
Cuero and Fort Worth; FDR promises all possible aid to Soviet Union, orders
Treasury to release 40 million in Soviet credits which had been frozen
- aid, and increased school facilities.
Commenting on the speech, LBJ said: “The President’s various recommendations
will receive reasonable consideration by reasonable men. In some instances,
they will be accepted; in others they will be rejected
- ; Federal Aid for School Construction is on
the agenda. The meeting continues past the noon opening of the Senate.
LBJ flies to Chicago at 4:45. That evening he attends a dinner at the South Shore
Country Club where he is met by John Connally.
1960
- Employment Opportunity
RFK - Robert F. Kennedy
S212 - LBJ’s Capitol office
UT – University of Texas
VM – Vicki McCammon
WH - White House (but not always; sometimes it is spelled out)
WJ - Walter Jenkins
Please be aware that there may be misspellings of proper
- and Princess Radziwill.
CTJ, Thornberrys, Jenkins, MMW arrive later. LBJ spends night, unclear if
President does.
3/14
WH leadership meeting, phone call from RFK re: federal judge appointments and
Yarborough. Meeting the next day with RFK, Yarborough, Ramsey
- that foreign military aid be transferred to the Defense
Department budget. The total budget he asks for mutual security is $3.865 billion.
LBJ meets with Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and other State
Department officials today.
Jenkins sends LBJ
- to be complete or definitive.
discoverlbj.org
and Africa against looking to the USSR for political or economic aid. In a separate
statement, Eisenhower and Eden invite France to discuss possible three-power
action in the Middle East. The discussions open on 2/8
- , offering limited technical and financial aid to areas facing
school desegregation.
Reedy reports that J. Edgar Hoover is opposed to legislation in the bombing field,
but will not publicly oppose the bill.
1/22
LBJ attends executive session of the Armed
-
LBJ flies to Texas. Rumored that he is returning to aid Allred campaign. Tours
district.
discoverlbj.org
August
8/3
Early August
Johnsons hold family reunion in Johnson City.
CTJ goes to Santa Fe for vacation.
8/6
LBJ flies to Seattle
- a statement to the press and radio regarding the protests over his
seating: “This seems to be a purely political fight. I regret very much the
embarrassment that has been caused the people of Texas by the effort of my
defeated opponent to find some aid
- of
the reciprocal trade (tariff-lowering) and foreign aid programs.
1/10
News report: Senate Labor Subcommittee chairman, John Kennedy--often
considered too right-wing by many Democrats--will strike a deft coup by unveiling
his own labor program for the Senate
- .
President Truman presents a budget of $39.7 billion to Congress, including $11
billion for Defense and $7 billion for foreign aid.
1/13
The President’s Commission on Air Policy (the Finletter Commission) issues its
report, “Survival in the Air Age
- administrative assistant, joins
LBJ’s Senate staff. Walter Jenkins will work on the Senate Policy Committee staff.
Warren Woodward has resigned to open a public relations firm in Dallas in
partnership with Harding Lawrence.
1
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REFERENCE: LBJ
- .
4/28
LBJ and CTJ have dinner at the Speaker’s home.
May
5/1
CTJ attends a tea honoring Mrs. Truman at the Shoreham.
5/2
Breakfast for Mrs. Truman. CTJ is to take Marjorie Jenkins.
5/8
Texas Ladies’ luncheon.
The REA today made its first
- /1
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) flies to Dallas with CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), WJ (Walter
Jenkins), MMW (Mary Margaret Wiley), and Moursunds; they meet the Gene
Chambers, Mrs. West, and Mr. & Mrs. Charles McGaha, attend Cotton Bowl game,
return later to Ranch
- the President to the podium.
1/8
Walter Jenkins is out of the office due to his mother’s illness. She dies sometime
in mid-January, and Jenkins is back in Washington by February 1.
1/9
Stewart Alsop reports in his column that LBJ is circulating a memorandum
- meeting of the Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Senator Long
moves that another across-the-board cut of an additional $400 million be made
out of the foreign aid bill. Long’s move was reputedly approved by a 5-1 vote. LBJ
is the only one to vote
- training, health insurance, and
aid for Europe and Asia.
1/10
Truman submits federal budget to Congress. He proposes that an estimated
surplus of $202 million be used for reduction of the national debt rather than tax
cuts.
1/15
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson
- vice
chairman of delegation.
June
07/2024
6/6
LBJ confers with W. Lee O’Daniel in Austin re: FDR’s recommendation for
program of aid to national government for a unified program of training in
Texas--Texas National Aviation Defense Board; O’Daniel
-
Luci is admitted to the hospital [?].
Walter Jenkins resigns as LBJ’s administrative assistant in order to enter the 13th
Congressional District race. A special election will be held September 8 to fill the
vacancy created when Ed Gossett resigned
-
Churchill and FDR agree to aid Italy and outline plans for aiding it “diplomatically,
financially and otherwise in a political and economic rebirth.”
October
10/10
LBJ writes: “Lady Bird, Lynda and I are here [Austin] and do not expect to go back
- .). Rep.
W. Sterling Cole (NY) and Rep. William E. Hess (Oh.); Donald Cook, on loan from Securities and
Exchange Commission, to act as special counsel; Col. Donald J. Ramsey, U.S.N. and Col. Joseph
W. Knighton, U.S.M.C., as aides.
5/14
Monday. Committee
