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  • badly that it required stitches. Despite these outbursts, Johnson's love for Blanco never wavered. Answer: Blanco was a gift and not a dog that any member of our family was close to. *- Edgar was named after J. Edgar Hoover who had given the pup to LBJ
  • badly that it required stitches. Despite these outbursts, Johnson's love for Blanco never wavered. Answer: Blanco was a gift and not a dog that any member of our family was close to. *- Edgar was named after J. Edgar Hoover who had given the pup to LBJ
  • 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
  • , offering limited technical and financial aid to areas facing school desegregation. Reedy reports that J. Edgar Hoover is opposed to legislation in the bombing field, but will not publicly oppose the bill. 1/22 LBJ attends executive session of the Armed
  • Kittrell, Kilgores, Jenkins and Carpenters. 6/11 LBJ attends anti-discrimination subcommittee of PCEEO. Attends 4:30 p.m. WH full cabinet meeting. He talks with J. Edgar Hoover and with Walter Winchell that evening. 1962 Chronology ● p. 15 of 35 07/2024
  • 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
  • shake hands with J. Edgar Hoover. 6/11 Truman vetoes Case Bill, calling it far too restrictive on unions. House attempts to override veto but falls short of two-thirds needed. LBJ votes yea. House passes terminal leave bill for enlisted men, 380-0
  • . On this case as on any such case, the public interest cones before all personal feelings. I have requested and received Mr. Jenkins' resignation. Within moments after being notified last night, I ordered Director J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI to make an immediate
  • . On this case as on any such case, the public interest cones before all personal feelings. I have requested and received Mr. Jenkins' resignation. Within moments after being notified last night, I ordered Director J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI to make an immediate
  • address to answer the charges. He maintains that he made the appointment with the approval of J. Edgar Hoover because failing to do so would have tipped off many other people then under surveillance by the FBI. Truman also charges that the Eisenhower
  • 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 LBJ and CTJ attend a dinner as guests of Tom Pickett in honor of Herbert Hoover
  • the charter which would meet strong communist opposition, but that we must use the United Nations to make it work. The committee is scheduled to hear President Hoover later this week. LBJ attends a luncheon for Truman given by Senators Hennings and Symington
  • in Washington for a visit. 3/29 1100 employees of the New York Stock Exchange go out on strike. 3/30 LBJ writes J. Ed Johnson concerning the reaction to his 3/25/48 radio speech: “I have been amazed by the immediate and overwhelming reaction to MY radio
  • attends meetings of the Appropriations Committee and State-Justice-Judiciary subcommittee today. Among his phone calls are ones to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and J. Edgar Hoover. 5/14 State-Justice-Judiciary Subcommittee marks up
  • Connally then fly to New York where LBJ attends a reception given by Mayor Wagner for him at Gracie Mansion and speaks at an appreciation dinner for Congressman John J. Rooney in Brooklyn. During an interview at Gracie Mansion, LBJ says he will give
  • with his district men at the Ranch: Chilton O’Brien; Bob Clark; Cliff Carter; Sam Low; Dub Singleton; Warren Woodward; Tommy James; Paul Bolton; Mac DeGuerin; John Connally; Raymond Buck; Elmer Parish; Cecil Burney; J. C. Looney; Jay Taylor; Charles Gibson
  • 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 ,.~~~ ~~. "J
  • , CTJ and General Harry Vaughan (Truman’s military aide) attend the services. LBJ, Wright Patman and Rayburn speak on the “Texas State Forum of the Air” regarding congressional response to domestic issues. LBJ says that the Hoover Commission’s first
  • 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
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  • 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
  • Hoover recommends U.S. spend $475 million to supply German citizens with food, fertilizer and petroleum products to insure the survival of Germany and Western Europe. March 3/4 Greek government appeals to U.S. for speedy financial assistance, arms
  • /52. 2/27 81st Club luncheon and ballet. The Senate votes 45-44 to recommit the Alaska statehood bill to committee. 2/28 Senator McCarran writes LBJ again regarding his views on S. J. Res. 122, a bill concerning treaties and executive agreements
  • 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