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press conference jointly held by her and six other persons
identifiE>d with the Kennedy and Johnson Administra
tions: Senator Hubert Humphrey, Robert Kennedy Jr.,
Clarence Mitchell, Joseph A. Califano, Kenneth O'Donnell,
and E:sther Peterson
- from the collections of the
Library of Congress, the National Ar
chives, the Ohio Historical Society, the
Chicago Historical Society, and the
Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower
and Kennedy Presidential Libraries.
From March 15 to April 25, 1976
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to Charles S. Robb went on tem
porary exhibition in the Library
on the 20th anniversary of that
event, December 9, 1967. It wm be
on display until June of this year.
beck as Lyndon Johnson's Mifitary
Advisor";
Robert
Hilderbrand,
"The Johnson
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Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense:
"Today there are 50,000 nuclear weapons m the world, roughly 25,000
U.S. and 25.000 Soviet Union. I don't know any anns control negotia
tor ... who i so optimistic as to believe that in the next 10 years
- . G.
Lo£ of Colorado, a leader in solar energy
development. The Award Com ittee
of the LBJ Foundation is chaired by
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and Dr Wil
liam McGill and includes George R.
Brown, Dr. Robert A. Good, Miss Linda
Howard, Arthur Krim, Mrs
- the conversations from
November 22, 1963 through March 1965, and plan to open
the conver ations for April and May 1965 early next year.
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Changing of the Guard: Director Middleton to Retire
By Robert Hicks
Public Relations Ot'ficer
Harry Middleton,
long-time
- )' The LBJ School of
Public affairs and The University of
Texas at Austin.
Professor Emeritus Robert Divine
stressed that the U.S. fought in
Vietnam for many of the same reasons
it fought the other wars of this century.
4
Vietnam War
Professors Qiang Zhai
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Stone's film, "JFK," which is based
on the allegation that President John
F. Kennedy's as·sassination was a
conspiratorial effort invol,ving some
of the highest officers of government
in league with industrialists who
feared that Kennedy would end the
U.S
- President John F. Kennedy
was shot, Ho pice Austin patient
Mary Da is Williams r calJs preci c
ly what she was doing when she
h ard th news.
"I was ta.kin" three pies out of
the oven h n I h ard. I just couldn't
be! ie e ir,'· she said.
What's important
- the Library's doors
including Robert Wood, former Secretary of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development; K. LeMoyne Billings.
Board Member of the John F. Kennedy Library Corporation;
House Democratic Majority Leader Thomas (Tip) O'Neill and
Congressman J
- from Attorney General Robert Kennedy,
offering to serve in Vietnam "in any capacity."
THE VICE PRESIDENT features a bold "pop-art" painting of
Hubert Humphrey by Edward Weiss, and documents tracing the
long relationship between HHH and LBJ. After
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Archives of the Foreign Service; Federal Republic of Germany; A us tin-Travis County
Collection; Harry Ransom Center; National Trust for Historic Preservation; Texas
Memorial Museum; John F. Kennedy Library; the Adjutant General's Office, State of
Texas
- in the Kennedy & Johnson
dministration ": Robert Daile!-, "Lyndon B. Johnson. A
Biography"; Sally Davenport, "Policy Stralegies for a Progres
sive Agenda: Adopting and Implementing the Higher Education
Act"; Dorothy C Donnell , ·•u Strategic Options in Viet
nam
- when
Strongbow IEarl of Pembroke] landed
in County Wexford to start the long
march of Irish misery voted for him.
Once Kennedy was elected, that was
the end of the American Irish.
... You see, there is never a real ma
jority in the United States
- that I wasn't on drugs.
[Laughter]
That's P-A-S-S- -D.
[Laughter]
l 've not talked a lot about v hat
happened in [the election cri
sis in] Florida, but I do in this
book.
My really good pal,
Bob Strauss, for whom you've
named the Robert S. Strauss
Center
- ; Hanard ';itkol'I, l!nhersity of !'t'\\ llampshirc; Robert
H. Ah,ug, l nhersity of Te a, al Au,tin.
Radical Politic, in the Thirties Oa,id A. Shannon, Lnh·er, ity of
\ irginia; Da,id H. Bennett, Syracuse linhersity: Donald R.
McCo), llnhersily of Kan
- of the year. They
included:
• enator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. who served as assistant
·ecretal) of lab r during the Kennedy anJ Johnson admin
istratiom,. and later as a-;sislant to Presid ·nt RichJrd
!\ ,on a
- rebels with
out a cause, "with their contempt for
the squares of the world," and for
America at large, "an old country
ruled by old men."
The election of John Kennedy in
1960 signaled a seismic shift. A
new generation was taking over.
The New Frontier
- by the acquisition of the personal
papers of columnist Drew Pearson and former Johnson
cabinet members John Gardner and Robert Wood, and the
diary of Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson.
In its continuing solicitation program the Library has
now acquired the papers of more
- by Robert Knudsen
Some 600 members of he Friends f the LBJ Library
from around Washington, D.C. gathered in the nation's
capital on \1arch l J for the premiere of the film, ''The First
Lady:
Portrait of Lady Bird Johnson."
The e\ent brought out much
- Government, but the University owns il.
The LBJ Library was the first Presidential Library to be
built on a University campus. (The John F. Kennedy Library
has since risen on the University of Massachusetts' Dor
chester campu , and the Gerald R. Ford
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Like the time Robert Merrill, the great baritone from the Met
ropolitan pera. came to the White House to sing for the Prime
Mm1ster of Gr at Britain The day before the dinner my phone
rang and 1t was Walt Rostow. He said. "You can't be serious
You
- is entitled "Viva Jesus, Maria, y Jose." It
was borrowed from Robert Wynn of San Antonio, Texa . The
display as featured in the Library from December 12, 1977
until February 2, 1978.
Officials of the alional Geographic visiting the Library at
that time made
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are drying up. If we cannot find ways
to prevent that happening, future his
tories will be written from press
"Accessissues."Robert Schulzinger;John Prados; W. Roger Louis; John Brademas;Martha Kumar; panel chair Hugh
Graham. (The panel is applauding
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Other Committee members include Associate Justice
Thurgood Marshall, George R. Brown, Robert A.
Good, Katharine Graham, Linda Howard, Arthur
Krim, Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, Harry McPherson and
Mark Ward. Dr. Lof will receive the Award in
special luncheon
- omniscient. But it is possible that we still may nurture
the last best hope of mankind.
Robert Hardesty, UT System Vice President, introduced Cronkite
as "America's Window on the World."
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The Morning Session
Norman Podhorelz
.... 1 do11't think
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he takes off his shoes and gets up on
the chair, stands and raises his voice,
his face up directly into the chan
delier. He said, "Buzz, if that outfit
doesn't get this room cool by the
time I get back from lunch I'm going
to call Jack Kennedy
- with Johnson's personal or political life
is a candidate for donating personal papers. Recently ac
quired files of government are those of Wilbur Cohen (pov
erty program), Robert Allnutt (NASA), and Gerold Bau
mann {Peace Corps). Other papers concerning
- receh-ed your letter and
a•ked me to thank you for wriliD&,
It wa•
thoughtful of you to •end in your •ncgeatfon
foz honoring the lat• Preaidant Kennedy.
it nfi.i',o/_y f 'f ,(tl Wtdol.
lo_ fl
- , Eisenhower,
Kennedy, and Johnson-joined with the Brookings
Institution in sponsoring a majOI' symposium on a
subject important to the Administrations of all four
Presidents-wage-price
policy. The idea for the
multi-Library endeavor was proposed by Walt Rostow
- . Kennedy mourning his assassination, was
given to the Library by Ann Cofrin Baldeschwiler,
Austin art patron. The painting was displayed in
the Library lobby until the renovation began.
Gary Yarrington, curator of the museum, calls it
an "important
- is currently Styles Pro
fessor Emerita in American Stud
ies and Professor of Government.
Professor Parker teaches at the
Harvard Kennedy School of Gov
ernment, and is the co-founder
of the magazine Mother Jones,
which has described itself as "your
home
- Archivist for Presidential Libraries; Verne Newton,
Roosevelt Library; Clarence Lyons, Nixon Project, Chuck Daly, Kennedy Library; Pat Borders, National Archives; Mar
tin Elzy, As.sistantDirector, Carter Library. Seated: Dan Holt, Eisenhower Library; Harry
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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
