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- appropriate lhat the tribute benefite the Friends
of the Library. As far back as 1965, Mrs. Johnson began work on
the Lyndon Baines J hnson Library - c nferring with curators,
historians, archivi ts, and architects to create a place of living
history. She
- . He call d J. Edgar Hoover to
tell him that he wants the inquiry to be
run by the FBI at the federal level, and
by state attorney general Waggoner
Carr at the state level. Johnson said,
"So I looked at the transcript that I
had prepared in part and I
- the last year in the White House with
President and Mrs. Johnson.
Mary, who has since been working in the Library on
President Johnson's early papers, retired on May 1.
Mildred Stegall with President Johnson {left); with. J.
Edgar Hoover (right
- by the President, he
wrote, "a new appreciation
of
Johnson would have remained at
least 23 years in the futur ;• and
"contemporaries (such as historian
J hn Kenneth Galbraith and former
Senator George cGovern, one-time
harsh critics who have recently
revised
- Foundation Award Committee: Harry McPherson, Verner,
Liipfert, Bernhard and McPher on; Miss Linda Howard, Professor, Ohio State
University; Dr. William J. McGill, President of Columbia University; Mrs. Johnson;
Arthur Krim, Chairman of the Board, Orion
- the White
House and to M. C. barbecueson
the banksof the Pedernates.
In April, the Libraryrealized a
long-standinghope by offering "An
Evening with Cactus Pryor" to a
crowdedauditorium.
The veteran performersang, did
a vivid impersonationof the fabled
J
- a Christmas season program entitled
''Twentieth Century Song Book: A Musical Celebration.''
Coming Events
February 13-April 18: An exhibition of Mexican Prints.
February 22:
Richard Norton Smith, Director of the Herbert Hoover Library, will discuss George
- to
support special ac
tivities
at
the
Library, the only
Presidential library
Rep ...J J p·1ckle
open free of charge
to the public.
Former U.S. Ambassador Edward A. Clark and Rep.
J. J. Pickle said their committee, in response to continuing
contributions, has
- by the University of Chicago
Press, the book is the atest 111 a series recording the
admmislrativ
history of the J hnson presidency. Overall
edilor f the series is LBJ School Professor Emmelle S.
Redford.
In selecting his appo111tees, the authors found, President
Jo
- . America had a chance to pick
itself up After World War Ill. there won't be a chance lo
do that There won't be a thmg left."
But, Ru ·h added, "For unately I think there re those
both in Washington and Moscow who understand that."
7
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"J
- sident Hoover's. At eac.h place I learned som thing ...
First, [the Library is] a research facility. We house all of
Lyndon's papers-you
can't get librarians to throw
anything away-and
the papers f a good many of the
people who were his working assodates
- 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
- exhibition
ever executed by the Library's
museum staff: a documentation, in
poignant letters, rare memorabilia,
priceless historical documents and art,
of the greatest war ever fought.
Titled "World War II: Personal
Accounts Pearl Harbor to V-J Day
- Administration and
the Vietnam War"; Steven Living
ston, "The Making of U.S. Foreign
Economic Policy Towards the Thtrd
World"; Ray Monroe, "LBJ and the
Illegal Alien as a Precursor To Am
nesty"; Paul T. Murray, "Presi
dentia,J Response to Racial Vio
lence
- Smith,
Director of the Herbert Hoover
Library.
Claudine Weiher, Deputy Archivist
of the United States
Tom Johnson, President of the LBJ Foundation Board of Directors; Caro
line Kennedy, representing the Kennedy Library Foundation, and William
vanden
- ,
and all future chief executives.
Consequently,
there now exist librnries bear
versity of Texas anJ are operated
by the
:..1tiunal
Services
Archives
of the General
ing the names of Presidents Hoover, Roose
velt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy
- -ton's first (April 30. 17891, Abraham
Lin
- at
the University of Michigan.
,-.....
Former Yale baseball infielder
George Bush displays his form at
horseshoes.
I0
Physical Fitness in the White House
infonnation). Herbert Hoover invented
a variation of volleyball which used a
ten-pound medicine ball instead
- , marked though he was b)· J
-
on the presidential inauguration stand but ex
President Herbert Hoover, behind Truman, takes a
serious view of the situation. Left to right: Mrs. Tru
man; Mrs. John Eisenhower; Mrs. Richard i.·on;
Maj. John Eisenhower: Mrs. Eisenhower; William
R. Castle, former