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  • Scott of Philadelphia to discuss the protection of Negroes in the Deep South and civil 1 lbjlibrary.org REFERENCE: LBJ CHRONOLOGY Drafted by LBJ Library archival staff from oral history transcripts and other sources as a service to our researchers
  • of the story in the New York Times and by the AP apparently causes southerners to criticize LBJ’s tactics as “trickery” and “out-foxing” of the southern senators. 2/16 LBJ lunches with Gov. Ellington this afternoon before meeting with Mayor David Lawrence
  • agrees to meet for a Big Four conference. The Warsaw Pact, a 20-year mutual defense treaty, is signed by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, East Germany and the U.S.S.R. 5/15 LBJ addresses a dinner honoring General David
  • hearings today, calling Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff to testify in open session. Sarnoff is member of panel funded by Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, is scheduled to testify at closed-door session later
  • and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive. discoverlbj.org LBJ leaves for Palm Beach, Florida this afternoon to make a speech there tomorrow. He returns to Washington 4/7. Roy Wilkins, A. Phillip Randolph
  • placed in overseas libraries. In April his two staff investigators, Roy Cohn and David Schine, make a highly publicized tour of European International Information Administration libraries. An official of the US High Commission in Germany, Theodore Kaghan
  • to fly to Texas; his mother is in Scott and White, where she will undergo an operation on Saturday, March 22. 3/24 LBJ still in Texas. 3/25 111 miners killed by an explosion in a mine under federal operation in Centralia, Illinois. On 3/29 John L
  • of directors’ meeting of Scott & White. 2/14 Congressional Club reception for President Truman. 2/20 CTJ and LBJ are in Austin. Mary Rather writes CTJ there that Lucy became ill during the night and was unable to model in the Women’s National Democratic
  • . At hearings before the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, Senator Hickenlooper cites personnel turnover in the AEC of 87 per cent within two years as proof of “incredible mismanagement” by the AEC and its chairman David Lilienthal. Lilienthal says the turnover
  • /29 No entry. 4/30 Meets during day with Amon Carter Evans; Carl Phinney; Max Freidman, David Schoenbrun; Ted Schroth; Corky Barner. discoverlbj.org May 5/1 Flies to Abilene, Kansas and dedicates Eisenhower Museum then flies to Austin and attends
  • . discoverlbj.org LBJ seeks position held by Chip Robert, acting secretary of the Democratic National Committee. 9/19 LBJ meets with FDR. 9/24 Scott Lucas invites LBJ to make two speeches a day for a week in the Midwest. October 10/25 John L. Lewis endorses
  • speech in San Marcos. 5/10 Rebekah Johnson marries O.P. Bobbitt in Monterrey, Mexico. 5/19 W. Lee O’Daniel announces his candidacy for Senate seat Rebekah Baines Johnson (LBJ’s mother) has operation at Scott-White hospital in Temple. 5/23 LBJ makes
  • Leader Scott Lucas and Democratic Whip Francis Myers are defeated; Richard Nixon defeats Helen Gahagan Douglas in California Senate race. 11/8 Warren G. Moore, U.S. attorney in Tyler, sponsors a get-together breakfast for LBJ with his supporters. LBJ
  • /15 LBJ still staying at the Driskill Hotel. His sisters Rebekah and Josefa are at the Scott & White Hospital in Temple. Mrs. Sam E. Johnson is in Temple. 7/17 Kellam has dinner with CTJ, Lynda Bird and Bill Deason. 7/18 LBJ in Brenham at noon
  • and will be unable to be in the Senate when Proxmire makes his speech. Mansfield also told Proxmire that Senator Scott intends to make a speech critical of LBJ. Proxmire said he will make his speech anyway but will not speak to the question of the power