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  • ecretary to trn el. . Lady Bird Johnson, in~i led that a sen ·e but her exten ·ive foreign touring has recalled that when her m 1th r ""racluated of humor is vital. .. l have a sort of laugh­ t.aught her always to carry rour absolute from high school
  • Orleans Oc~ober 9, 1964 Remarks on arrival of Lady Bird Special, New Orleans View Hurricane Betsy damage, New Orleans (remarks) September ·10, 1965 Visited with Ashton Gonella's relatives, · Barksdale, AFB July 4, 1967 · J December 12, 1967 Remarks
  • Lyndon sure has gone up in the world, hasn't he?" And this fellow said, "Yeah, up the road about half a mile." 7 Lady Bird Johnson Echoes Great Society Faith in Education Acknowledging that the commitment made in the 1960s to universal education
  • Documentary On Lady Bird Johnson Charles Guggenheim (center), President of Guggenheim Productions, Inc. and members of bis film crew confer with Mrs. Johnson on steps of Library's Great Hall during filming of a motion picture documenting the former First
  • "LBJ: The Early Y ar.,,' • with Randy Quaid and Patti Lupone a~ Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, and PBS's une-man shov. "Lyndon," starring Laur nee Luckinbill, suggest that the in­ terest in LBJ is not restricted 10 historians but is felt in the public
  • postmaster in 1934. A few years later, when LBJ and Lady Bird Taylor made their abrupt deci ion to get married in San Antonio. it was Quill whom LBJ called on to make the frantic last-minute arrangements for the Johnsons' wedding-includ­ ing a dash to ears
  • (above) and his performance. At right, he has a word with a cowering Cactus Pryor who, in the program at the Library, has just given a review of Johnson wit and humor. Lady Bird Johnson meets with the LBJ Cabinet members assembled for the Washington
  • . Lady Bird Johmon paid tribute to ~1eanor R osevelt, saying, "Few people have marked the world and our con5cience as E:leanor Roosevelt" . . . he "taught U5 that sometimes silence is the greatest ~in." Uz Carpenter remimled the audience of anotht.:r
  • of women in the Regular Navy and Marine Corps, and Naval and Marine Corps Reserves, which passed the Senate on 7/23/47. 1/27 CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and LBJ attend the Army-Navy-Air Force Reception at the White House, 9 p.m. 1/28 Stag Reserve Officers
  • on Lady Bird fohri: • . Army, which he entered· as a. private uiet and ubli • • son's KTBC television iitatjon in Austin.·. ~-nd,Ieft as a QuartetQ\aster Corps capReynolds said he. hnd no u&-e for the ad- tain :t,1fterserving .in North Africa -and uarlere
  • on Lady Bird fohri: • . Army, which he entered· as a. private uiet and ubli • • son's KTBC television iitatjon in Austin.·. ~-nd,Ieft as a QuartetQ\aster Corps capReynolds said he. hnd no u&-e for the ad- tain :t,1fterserving .in North Africa -and uarlere
  • Lt. Gov. Charles Robb, son-in-law of President and Mrs. Johnson, is the newly elected governor of Virginia. "Chuck" (as he is known) Robb, who is married to the former Lynda Bird Johnson, is the fir. t Democrat to win the g vernor hip in Virginia
  • , in Washington,'' Ford answered. "Well, thank God somebody's in town," said LBJ. Lady Bird's ''Last Hurrah'' Ground Broken for New Wildflower Center The permanent home for the National Wildflower Research Center, a project launched by Mrs. Johnson 11 years ago
  • features, married an actor named George Dolance and became the mother of one of the four Monkeys. Lady Bird Johnson Endows Lectureship in Middleton's Name A lectureship at the Library bearing the name of the Library Director, Harry Middleton, has been
  • Angeles. CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) notes that she went to the West Coast with LBJ, trying to be his secretary. LBJ was working on James Forrestal’s program, inspecting Navy yards and training programs. January 1/3 LBJ visits Lockheed Aircraft plant. 1/4
  • time I saw him do this was in the photo. Daddy was so sad anyone felt was mistreating his dogs. He loved them dearly and was just trying to balance their "standing on two feet". What about: "Not many dogs have been privileged to shoo birds off the WH
  • time I saw him do this was in the photo. Daddy was so sad anyone felt was mistreating his dogs. He loved them dearly and was just trying to balance their "standing on two feet". What about: "Not many dogs have been privileged to shoo birds off the WH
  • August day. Ten year . incl! we said goodby to him. Yet, none of us said goodby. We're all still at it-into politics, education, the lif of our country, and our values as we learned them from him. Lady Bird put il this \\ay, "J hke to think of Lyndon
  • Anniversary Committee Chairman Leonard Marksand the co-hostessesof the event, with the 1964 newspaper announcement which pro­ vided the course for reunion 15 years later. Lady Bird Johnson and Muriel Hum­ phrey greeted some 700 friends from the Johnson
  • the museum was renovated two years ago, is "A Family Album," a photographic chronicle of the Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson family through the years. The final panel, showing the Johnson grandchildren to the present time, has to be brought up to date every year
  • grove in Lady Bird Johnson Park. Three weeks following the Grove dedication, the LBJ Grove Committee on April 29 will sponsor a benefit performance of the bicentennial play, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in New York City. First Lady Betty Ford will attend
  • in the Democratic Conference yesterday. That afternoon LBJ, CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), Yarborough and Bobby Baker fly to Aiken, South Carolina to attend the funeral of Mrs. Strom Thurmond. They return to Washington after the funeral and LBJ goes directly to a stag
  • for them. 2/6 CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) attends a luncheon hosted by Mrs. Tom Connally and Mrs. George Mahon in the Senate wing of the Capitol honoring Billie Bob Murphy, and that afternoon attends the 2:30 funeral of Harold Ickes, who died 2/3
  • of the figure-; associated with LBJ will undoubted! get treatment,; of their own, and their biographers will find rich lodestones in the LBJ Librar,· collections Am ng those is Lady Bird Johnson. Her touch on the times was gtntle and heneficient, but her eye
  • at the Li­ brary on the night of the second presidential debate. 13 An Evening With Lady Bird Johnson A packed auditorium heard Mrs. Johnson reflect on the experiences which led her to co-author Wild­ flowers Across America with Carl­ ton Lees. Some
  • . Jol111so11 [nnonal Cro\·I' w1·rP lwlcl on Sq1t mhf'r 27 on Lady Bird Johnson fslall(I i11 the Pnto111.1c. cc11pving 1:5 ·1t n·~ at tlw srn1th1·rn 1·11d ol thl' isl.mt! \ ashingto11 s IH'\\'l'Sl pn•sidc11tial rnl'morial \\'1!1 comma, d a pano ·amic- \'inv ol
  • a great Toward a New Partnership deal of pain. All of us will miss him and remember him, especi­ 12:30-3:00p.m. Panel 4: ally his strength and courage over the last span of years." Roger B. Smith, Executive Vice President Speaker: -Lady Bird Johnson
  • Martin and Mrs. Johnson tour lhe exhibit. In a settmg matched only by a New York opening, Mary Martin, Broadway star and Texas daughter, joined Lady Bird Johnson and a cast of hundreds to launch an exhibit entitl d "Women in Texas History" al the Library
  • Krim, Clark Clifford, new member Roben Strauss, making his first Board meeting, Perry Bass Lady Bird Johnson. Foundation staff member )blanda Boozer. Secretary-Treasurer John Barr, President Tom Johnson and Henry Fowler. Present but not pictured
  • Austin's inner-city neighborhoods. The project, a first-of-its-kind effort to mobilize various ele­ ments of public and private sectors, was initiated by Walt and Elspeth Rostow. New bride Nicole Nugent with her grandmother Lady Bird Johnson and her
  • experience in the public arena. He was this year's Harry Middleton lecturer in the series created by Lady Bird Johnson in the name of the Library director. His speech climaxed a symposium on U.S. Political Parties (pages 2-5). For President Ford's address
  • /5 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) and CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) are already in Washington at the beginning of the year. LBJ and other Democratic and Republican legislative leaders meet with Eisenhower at the White House to discuss Eisenhower’s State of the Union
  • in Washington. [On 12/31/48 there was a meeting of Democratic senators in Washington] January 1/3 Congress convenes. LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) is sworn in as Texas’ junior senator, with CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and Lynda seated in the galleries. A petition protesting
  • could be used to gam a.The favorable response to this boob. encouraged m to edlt a second volume to cover muny of the topics left out of the origi­ nal. such as Lady Bird Johnson and beautification. the cm
  • Chris,tmas vacation with a card carefully ad­ dressed, "To whoever the teacher may be." The child's class of 57 kids had had 19 teachers in 20 days. "In its sweeping innocence," Lady Bird Johnson told the conference, "this declara­ tion of rights
  • CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) is invited to a dinner for ladies only given by Mrs. Bob Kerr. 1/10 LBJ announces new committee assignments for Democratic senators. Former Vice President Alben Barkley is assigned to the Foreign Relations and Finance
  • against the bill. LBJ, CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), the Thornberrys and Mary Rather fly to Florida to vacation until 1/28. They attend a dinner in honor of Senator George Smathers on 1/19 in Miami Springs. 1/20 After George Brown informs Charles Francis
  • that evening. 1/3 Apparently spends day at the Ranch. 1/4 Attends Senator Kerr’s funeral, returns to Johnson City, has dinner at the Moursunds, calls Dr. Lawrence Lamb in San Antonio at 10 p.m. 1/5 LBJ, CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), Luci and staff return
  • government. 1/2 LBJ meets CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), Lynda and Luci at the airport upon their arrival in Washington. 1/3 LBJ meets with Senator Green; they apparently discuss the possibility of Green giving up the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations
  • to be complete or definitive. discoverlbj.org Former UN delegates Senators Sparkman, H. Alexander Smith and Cooper voice approval in separate interviews of LBJ’s plan for UN program of manning space for peace. 1/16 LBJ, CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and Senator