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  • introduced to amend the Surplus Property Act, which, if passed, would give veterans priority next to the federal government in purchasing surplus property, is still pending in committee. 1/21 In combined State of the Union and budget message, Truman asks
  • It ready.". All is not lost. According to Landry, who is a 30-year veteran of the highway department, the flowers will be back. 1 TEXAS PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU DALLAS Escahlisht·drl)IO Rockport, Pilot (Cir TX 2Qt~r K 1988 ~·a1~onsecond in Lady Bird
  • It ready.". All is not lost. According to Landry, who is a 30-year veteran of the highway department, the flowers will be back. 1 TEXAS PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU DALLAS Escahlisht·drl)IO Rockport, Pilot (Cir TX 2Qt~r K 1988 ~·a1~onsecond in Lady Bird
  • it will stifle the conduct of foreign affairs. Many members of the Republican Party support the amendment, however. 07/2024 1/8 LBJ is invited to tea at the British Embassy by Winston Churchill. 1/10 Arthur Perry, formerly Senator Tom Connally’s
  • , and members of the Texas bar sympathetic to the fourth-term campaign. Speakers included Dan Moody, Jimmie Allred, Tom Miller, LBJ, Alvin Wirtz. 2/17 Death of Rep. Schuetz (D-Ill.) elevates LBJ to fourth-ranking member of Naval Affairs Committee. Early 1944
  • message, foreign affairs and matters relating to the armed services. LBJ and CTJ attend a reception honoring Margaret Chase Smith at the F Street Club. Governor Allan Shivers is in Washington urging Agriculture Department officials to institute a cotton
  • killed in the Philippines in 1945 and buried in a temporary military cemetery. Sarah Morino, the sister of Longoria’s widow, contacts Dr. Hector Garcia, organizer of the GI Forum (a group of returned veterans working to improve conditions in Mexican
  • as ambassador to Ireland. McLeod is currently the administrator of the State Department Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. 4/10 LBJ and CTJ fly to Austin today to begin a three-week vacation at the Ranch. 4/12 Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas
  • ,; was followed· by a nationwide wave of ribald jokes-and no one realizes better than Lyndon Johnson how much it can hurt a politician to be laughed at. Yet the events in the Soviet Union, Britain and Communist China, following news of the Jenkins affair in rapid
  • ,; was followed· by a nationwide wave of ribald jokes-and no one realizes better than Lyndon Johnson how much it can hurt a politician to be laughed at. Yet the events in the Soviet Union, Britain and Communist China, following news of the Jenkins affair in rapid
  • and economy, the tidelands controversy, and veterans legislation. 1/12 Monday. Austin American-Statesman editorial: “Your Capital City; Looks like the Senator is Going to Do It Again”: “We hope, and seriously doubt, that our yammering about the quality
  • district judge to fill vacancy in Texas. 1/28 House Naval Affairs Committee Saturday night began a nationwide investigation of the uses the navy is making of its hundreds of thousands of civilian workers. Investigation, powered by subcommittee headed
  • Administration?). 2/5 LBJ, CTJ, Moyers, MMW to New York where LBJ addresses B’nai Zion dinner. 2/6 Phone calls with RFK, Speaker and Tom Clark re: Ramsey Clark (appointment in Justice Department?). 2/7 White House leadership conference at 8:45. 2/8
  • elected Speaker of the House. 1/6 Eisenhower delivers his State of the Union Message before a joint session of Congress. In foreign affairs Eisenhower promises that “America’s response to aggression will be swift and decisive” and calls for a military
  • the aims of the bill, he believes it should not be approved until completion of congressional and Justice Department investigations. 2/18 The Democratic Advisory Council of Texas holds statewide workshop for Democratic workers in Houston. 2/21
  • to the Interior Department have been abandoned. The transfer had been recommended by the Hoover Commission on Reorganization of the Executive Branch. 4/25 Mrs. Bob Bartley hosts a tea for Miss Lou Rayburn. Fagan Dickson, executive director of the Loyal Democrats
  • in domestic industry in states where pro-rationing is in effect. LBJ and House Majority Leader John W. McCormack simultaneously introduce concurrent resolutions expressing “the sense of Congress” that the executive department promptly proceed with vast program
  • Poage, Roberts and Pool at Carswell AFB. 2/25 Attends WH stag luncheon for King of Laos, also later hosts dinner at the State Department for the King. 2/26 Breakfasts w/Mansfield at his home before attending WH leadership meeting. Then flies
  • they found an apartment of their own. July Court-packing controversy. 7/17 House Naval Affairs and Appropriation Committee departed on destroyer Porter for Norfolk and inspection of the Fifth District. LBJ secures $5 million allotment to complete Marshall
  • and operations in Navy Department. 3/10-11 Frances Perkins appears before Vinson’s Naval Affairs Committee on absenteeism bill. 3/15 John L. Lewis, president United Mine Workers of America, threatens to call a strike of 450,000 soft coal miners
  • TribUno."Ah'm homo."JoMSOntold the eni'uslaadc aowd ~had 93·1hered In frontof PhoeAxNo. 6, a res10tedflrehOuS,o. In OO\\f'llOtM'I Mobile.After dedica~ng thefirehouse.Jolnsonr&Oeived l:hekey lo Checity and was made en honoraryetief of lhe lire department. 1
  • TribUno."Ah'm homo."JoMSOntold the eni'uslaadc aowd ~had 93·1hered In frontof PhoeAxNo. 6, a res10tedflrehOuS,o. In OO\\f'llOtM'I Mobile.After dedica~ng thefirehouse.Jolnsonr&Oeived l:hekey lo Checity and was made en honoraryetief of lhe lire department. 1
  • Counsel (Le_gislation-M ility) for the Post Office Department. Mr. Abell originally came to the artment on February 5, 1961 as Special Assistant to the Postmaster Gen ral working under Michael Monroney in the field of legislative affair§ d Co~:._5sional
  • Counsel (Le_gislation-M ility) for the Post Office Department. Mr. Abell originally came to the artment on February 5, 1961 as Special Assistant to the Postmaster Gen ral working under Michael Monroney in the field of legislative affair§ d Co~:._5sional
  • . Senator Joseph McCarthy makes a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, charging that 205 known communists are currently working in the State Department. 2/11 LBJ and Rayburn meet with Truman. LBJ and Senator Connally meet to discuss pending Texas
  • communists. 11/25 Robert Phinney is sworn in as postmaster of Austin to replace Ray Lee, who resigned to serve as foreign affairs adviser to the Department of Army in Vienna. 11/26 Big Four Conference in London opens to renew discussion of peace terms
  • bombings, give the Department of Justice subpoena powers in the investigation of voting rights cases, and to establish a Federal Community Relations Service to assist in conciliation of desegregation disputes. Eisenhower introduces a similar plan on 2/5
  • . Mohammad Heikal, President Nasser 's confidant, argues in one ofhis books (in Arabic) that shortly after the 1967 war President Johnson invited a number ofArab ambassadors to a meeting at the State Department. According to Heikal's story, the president
  • . Mohammad Heikal, President Nasser 's confidant, argues in one ofhis books (in Arabic) that shortly after the 1967 war President Johnson invited a number ofArab ambassadors to a meeting at the State Department. According to Heikal's story, the president
  • 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