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- you
all you hope for-and some clays just
for yourself ...
If you are ever in
New York and have any free rime
you know I would always love to see
you ... "
!After the as assinationl
of
Senator
Robert
Kennedy
the
Johnsons immediately sent a tele
gram
- , 0eft) who
spent time as a lecturer at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs. He was escorted through the
museum by volunteer Susan Dimmick.
2
Early Decisions on Vietnam Discussed
A scholarly conference to explore the
early decisions made by the Kennedy
- LBJ Reminisces
(and a note on his
portrait for history)
See pages 2-7
Bronze Portrait
by Robert Berks
Lyndon Johnson'sImage for History
By Harry Middleton
Lyndon Johnson ... seems to be under atlllck from all sides now as
reviewers rub
- , "is just as bipartisan as
breathing."
Credit: Ausrin America11-S1ares111an
David Kennedy
LibraryMounts
Workof Black
Artists
An exhibition which proved to be
immensely popular was "Harlem
Renaissance: Art of Brack America,"
on display in the Library
- and
show some of their favorite wor~
(pages 2-3).
,..
Kennedy
photographer
Cecil
Stoughton caught a delightful
moment of a president at play with
his children (above). Jerry Pulley
preserved an historic meeting
between his president and Prime
Minister
- , and Wesley United Methodist Church Choir.
-I-
Vietnam Redux: McNamara Recants
Echoes from Vietnam-the
war that
will not end-sounded
again.
Robert McNamara, who as Secretary
of Defense in the Kennedy and
Johnson administrations was one of
the principal
-
ber of conversationsduring the period. AttorneyGeneral
Robert Kennedy (left), Senator Hubert Humphrey (cen
ter), and Senator Barry Goldwater (right) were among
the persons President Johnson talked to, all of them fig
ures in the political environment
- for TV coverage of the
anniversary of President Kennedy's
assassination,he accompanied Public
Relations Officer Robert Hicks and
observed the media at work.
Joshua also worked with Lynn
Bell, Curator of the Center for
American History. While there he cat
- walked in, Roosevelt looked up and said, "Claude,
have I ever told you about Robert Livingston? Robert Liv
ingston is an ancestor of my wife, and he signed the Declara
tion of Independence." And the President told him about
Robert Livingston for 15
- anything
else,
Eisenhower. .. was able to keep
clown inflation and thus helped the
country in a way that probably any
one else who might have been presi
dent in the late l 950s would not have
been able to do."
John F Kennedy: "When he
was tragically
- of the Johnson family received a numhcr
of distinguished visitors lo the Librar Below, top
lo bottom, Mrs. John on welcomes Ambassador
and Mrs. Zhang Wenjin, from the People's Republic
of China; The Right Honorable Sir Robert
Muldoon, Prime Minister of 'cw
- -
•
F
o
Media Personality Addresses Audience of Friend
Cokie Roberts. star of television
and National Public Radio, and the
daughter of Congressman Hale and
Congresswoman Lindy Boggs. de
lighted an overflow audience with
her analytic deftness
- King. Jr. and Robert Kennedy,
and riots in the cities. But even when
LBJ became a lame-duck president
by taking himself out of the political
picture in March, be continued to get
legislation through the Congress.
When he delivered his State
- changing selections from .the
Library's holdings. Currently, an
exchange of letters between President
Johnson and Senator Robert P.
Kennedy captures a poignant moment
in a frequently tense relationship.
Text of RFK Letter
Dated January 1966, to LBJ
- the entries she wrote
after the tragic day in Dallas in
1963 when President Kennedy was
assassinated and her husband,
Governor John Connally, was
wounded. Mrs. Connally put the
notes aside after writing them and
only discovered them last year.
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- Watkins, Ambas
sador Richard Holbrooke, and LBJ biog
rapher Robert Caro. The thirty-minute
programs began airing in May.
4
Lewis and Clark Exhibition Opens
It took an heroic effort. but the Mu
seum staff linished on schedule: Discov
ering America
- premises and offer new solutions.
The leaders of the party, Fritz Mondale and T ddy Kennedy, each
continues o be, in different ways, a Roosevelt legatee. No one then
will any longer live in FDR's shadow as Lyndon Johnson did, but it
may be sometime still
- · rooms.
The Kennedys tried to g ·t the atholic
clergy t > dissuade those in the march
from staying overnight. Many govern
ment agents were assigned toke pan ey
throw Castro. Robert Kennedy ran the
committee, which came up with many
schemes, some of them
- , but the elites
su:ffir also. Consider the Kenneclys.
Ethyl Kem ed '. son David lost his life
to heroin in a luxurious Palm Beach
hot I at age 28. Alcohol and drugs
have touched Robert Kennedy, Jr.,
Matthew Kennedy, Michael Kennedy,
Patrick Kennedy, Ted Kennedy
-
(By permission)
6
Cokie Roberts Continues Her Series On American Women In History
Newswoman Roberts Follows
Her NYT Bestseller, Founding
1lfothers.
There must be some connection
between first-class journalism and
writing good history. The talents
- . The selection committee,
appointed by the University President
at the Foundation's request, is com
posed of Bmce Buchanan, Government
Department; Robert Divine, recently
retired from the History Department;
and Richard Schott, LBJ School of
Publie Affairs
- by these artists. What
compels them is a necessity to
Back Row: Torkwase Dyson, Arleen Polite, Lillian Blades, David Newton, Channel Guice, Roy LaGrone, Marie Cochran,
Robert Pruitt, Rejina Thomas
Middle Row: Harry Middleton, Janine Jackson, Angelbert Metoyer
- ?
What would he do if he came back
today? And how will the futme deal
with his programs and ideals?
LBJ's prowess in the Senate was
unequalled, Daschle asserted. and
recalled a remark attributed to then
Senator John Kennedy, who chose
LBJ as a running
- Library
staffers Laura Harmon
and Kendra Mayer
dispensed cake and ice
water to students.
Photo by Robert Hicks
Future Forum and IBM Sponsor Education Inquiry
In February 2004 the LBJ Library
Future Forum convened a panel of four
experts to consider
- was instituted by
President Kennedy, who pre ented the first award on
July 4, 1963. The medal has smce been presented lo 133
Americans.
Mrs. Johnson's medal is on display at the Library.
Ford visits Library while planning his own
Former President Gerald Ford
- reunion. They are: Willard
Wirtz (labor), Alexander Trowbridge (Commerce), Joseph Barr (Treasury), John Gardner (HEW), Clark Clifford
(Defense), Robert Wood (HUD), Alan Boyd (Transportation), Rober,t McNamara (Defense), Anthony Celebrezze
(HEW), Orville
- A. Palermo,
"Robert F. Kennedy, The War in
Members of the University of Texsa faculty-Bruce
Buchanan, Government:
Schott, LBJ School-who comprise the committee that evaluates applications
to determine the bi-annual recipients.
8
Vietnam, and De Til ·r i
- to writing," (histo
rian) Robert A. Divine noted in a
1985 article on the LBJ Library.
"Johnson preferred to deal with
issues orally, either in face-to-face
discussion or by telephone." One
result, wrote Divine, is that the LBJ
Library's extensive holdings
- to the publication of it
tin ling , nothing has generated more
qu tions of Lyndon Johnson's admin
i tration than the way he handled the
Kennedy assassination.
ne major interpreter of that epi
• d i • Max Holland. Johnson biog
rapher Robert Dallek writes of him
-
STRAUSSDELIVERSSECOND ERWIN LECTURE
Ambassador Robert S. Strauss, U.S. Special Representative
for Trade Negotiations in the Carter Administration and
Board member of the LBJ Foundation, gave the second Frank
C. Erwin, Jr. Lecture December 12 in the Library.
The Erwin
- JFK and VP candidat LBJ at a
y
at Rice University. (Kennedy's sister Jean mith follows the candi
dates).
An rly pictur f six f the original Apoll astronauts with Robert
. Gilruth, director of Manned pace Center (center). The six: Vir •
(Gus) Grissom
- LBJaide; and from
the University of Texas: Vice Presi-
dent William Livingston, Historians
Robert Divine and Lewis Gould,
Political Scientist Melissa Collie and
Dr. Barbara Griffith from the Barker
Texas History Center.
Political Columnist Dave McNeely
- Pickle paid a
beautiful tribute to the memory of
Lyndon Johnson. Then Congressman
Ray Roberts in a moving talk
reminded those present of th man)
sterling qualities of Jesse Kellam.
Both Congressman Roberts and
Congressman Pickle were former
staffers of NY
- -a blazing wall of blooming plants and
flowers kept com,tantl) fresh.
THE EXHIBITION (continued)
A tourist examines the bronze portraits of Lady Bird and Lyndon
Johnson by the sculptor Robert Berks. The President's sittings for
his portrait, Mrs. Johnson
- , and Taylor by an appoint
ment he igned naming one Robert
Gamble to be Navy Agent for the
port of Pensacola, May 4, 1850.)
Eleanor Crook regretted the two sub
stitutions in a letter to Library
Director Harry Middleton: "As with
Andrew Jackson,
it has proven
- rendition of 'Taps."
LBJ Library public relations officer
Robert Hicks served birthday cake and
lemonade to UT students on the campus
West Mall.
atb.
Catherine Robb spoke at the LBJ Grove.
2
From the Photo Archives
The continuing Middle East cri
- of President
Kennedy's task force on health and social
security. 'ow he is a· member of the
National Commission on Social Security
and chairman of the NationaJ Commission
on Unemployment Compensation.
Professor Cohen·s experience with
HEW began in 1961 when
- a
factor in a successful membership drive in Austin which
recently brought in almost 600 new members of the
"Friends of the LBJ Library." The total number of
members of that organization now stands at 2,575.
THE LIBRARY WITH
ROBERT FLYNN, author
- : Charles Corkran, Joan Kennedy, Tina Lawson,
Walt Roberts, Cary Yarrington, William Thompson-Wa~hington
o//ege
Photography: Paul Ch va/ier, Frank Wolfe, J. Tyler Campbell-Washington
Staff Assistance· Yolanda 8001er, Lou Anne Missildine
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College
- Issue Number XLIV December 15, 1988
Symposium Probes Urban Problems
During the Johnson Administration,
three presidential commissions
known as the (Nicholas) Katzen
bach, (Robert) Kerner and (Milton)
Eisenhower Commissions-threw
a
glaring
