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  • 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
  • with Stanley Marcus, Ed Connally, Mr. Choate (Boston Herald-Traveler), Mr. & Mrs. Hobart Taylor, Jr., Jim Pipkin and Augustus Long of Texaco, and Frank Mayborn. Talks with Woodrow Seals and with Secy. Freeman. 1/20 Lunch at White House for [Democratic
  • to invade the Tachen Islands. LBJ’s diary notes that the President called and talked with LBJ. LBJ and CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), leave late today by train for the Mayo Clinic, where LBJ will undergo an examination and tests in connection with a kidney stone
  • 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
  • confers an honorary degree on LBJ. LBJ holds a press conference in Brownwood and CTJ attends a tea in her honor. In his speech, LBJ says that while he does not feel that we should retreat to a policy of isolationism, we should re-examine our foreign policy
  • 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
  • concerning the need for re-examination of the government surplus property disposal program. House Foreign Affairs reports Marshall Plan bill, cuts authorization to $4.3 billion, but adds $1 billion in Export-Import lending authority. 3/21 LBJ is in Austin
  • O’Daniel declared winner in Texas senatorial race. 7/3 Texas Senate votes to permit its investigating committee to examine election results; E.B. Germany, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, wires U.S. Senate Committee on Elections
  • Drafted by LBJ Library archival staff from oral history transcripts and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive. discoverlbj.org chosen by the Foreign Relations Committee to examine the reports. After
  • to be complete or definitive. discoverlbj.org LBJ writes his mother regarding his recent hospital stay: “After staying there five days and taking numerous examinations and X-rays, they came up with nothing except that I had a high blood count, the cause