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The original documents are located in Box 24, folder "14/19-22/76 - Texas (1)" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Copyright Notice The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid copyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Digitized from Box 24 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library AUSTIN THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON austin 1) mrsBerge milbura- delegate state P7CCarp. str. D: (512)459-4101 H: (512)477-8384 2) millard heptune - delegate Cong. coordinator RNC Travis co (512)+74-2447 chrm. -6458 Per higtune - The Neritige club- bigart - put something together - visit P7C Hdgtr. is FIRST LADY 0+ Cwst texas studen December 10, 1975 associa IV/1976/ST 43/Houston 316.WEST 12TH STREET AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701 A.C. 512-476-5335 Today is Monday, the 24th day of November 1975. Dear Mr. Jobe, How much I appreciated your gracious letter telling of plans for the annual convention of the Texas Student Education Association and inviting me to attend. Although my upcoming personal and official commitments will not permit me to be with you, I am grateful for this opportunity to convey my warmest greetings to all attending and my hopes for a successful program and an enriching series of meetings. The Texas Student Education Association, the preprofessional affiliate of with gratitude and my warmest regards, National Education Association, will hold Sincerely, on March 18-20 1975 at the Shamrook Hilton Taxas. would like to inquire if you would be Saturday, the to attend our banquet and share some thoughts our members. small X does not to by your non offer Mr. President Clark Jobe you be cart of the country around you an invitation to DO with us then, Texas Student Education Association 316 West 12th Street Austin, Texas 78701 wi and provident holiday season, 1 remain SP/sr Very respectfully yours, Clark Jobe, Pres is RECEIVED DEC 11 1975 SOCIAL FILES Accent On Professionalism-Joindy Spansored by TSTA and NEA texas student education association 316 WEST 12TH STREET AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701 A.C. 512-476-5355 9" Today is Monday, the 24th day of November 1975. Ms. Betty Ford, First Lady The White House Washington in the District of Columbia 20515 Dear Ms. Ford: The Texas Student Education Association, the preprofessional affiliate of the Texas State Teachers Association and National Education Association, will hold its annual convention on March 18-20, 1976, at the Shamrock Hilton Hotel in Houston, Texas. I would like to inquire if you would be available on that Saturday, the 20th, to attend our banquet and share some thoughts with our members. Our small budget does not permit us to pay your expenses nor offer an honorarium. But if you happen to be in this part of the country around that time, I would like to extend to you an invitation to be with us then. Wishing you a bountiful and provident holiday season, I remain Very respectfully yours, Clark Jobe, President Accent On Professionalism-Jointly Sponsored by TSTA and NEA BACKGROUND LBJ Library on the Graduate School Campus of the University of Texas in Austin April 22, 1976 President Johnson announced plans to give his papers to the University of Texas in 1965. The University donated the land and the building, but the library is operated by the National Archives. LBJ was very active in the planning and design of the library, which was dedicated in May, 1971. (He died in January, 1973.) The library is an eight-story structure, adjoining is a building housing the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Three floors are open to the public, and over one half million people visit each year. The first two floors have a range of memorabilia, including gifts the Johnsons received, funny letters, pictures of the girls' wedding, substantive displays on major Johnson programs, a number of photo- graphic displays of different times in Johnson's 40-year public career. On the second floor are displays of mementos from American political campaigns. One person described this area as very much like the Smithsonian. The public area is centered around the Great Hall, which has a hugh Presidential sea on one side and an open space going up six floors where the stacks are housed. The replica of the Johnson Oval office, which is open to the public, is on the 8th floor. Also on the 8th floor is the research room, where researchers and historians register to use the material. The library has Presidential papers, video and audio tapes, films and photographs. A number of researchers and writers, including Merle Miller University of Texas April 22, 1976 who wrote the book on Truman, Plain Speaking, are now using the library. The library and LBJ School of Public Affairs also sponsor lectures and seminars. (Note: Ron Nessen will be there on Friday, April 23rd, for a seminar on the Press and the Presidency.) Last year there was a 65 speaker seminar on Women and Public Life as part of IWY. Mrs. Johnson takes a very active interest in the Library and graduate school. She has an office in the Library, and uses it four days a week. Liz Carpenter says Mrs. Johnson likes to think of the libarary as a springboard for the future. She also was very involved in the planning and visited the other Presidential libraries. (FDR's at Hyde Park, Eisenhower's at Abilene, Kansas, Truman's at Independence, Missouri, Hoover's in Iowa. One for JFK has not yet been built.) Backsround LBJ Library on the Graduate School Campus of the University of Texas in Austin April 22, 1976 President Johnson announced plans to give his papers to the University of Texas in 1965. The University donated the land and the building, but the libary is operated by the National Archives. LBJ was very active in the planning and design of the ****** library, which was dedicated in May, 1971. (He died in January, 1973.) The ******** library is an eight-story structure, adjoining is a building housing the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Three floors are open to the public, and over one half million people visit each year. The first two floors have a range of memorabilia, including ки gifts the Johnsons received, funny letters, piex pictures of the girls' wedding, substantive dispak displays on major Johnson programs, a number of phatographix photographic displays of different times in Johnson's 40-year public career. On the second floor there are displays of MM momentos from American political campaigns. One person described this area as very much like the Smithsonian. These public areax is centered around the Great Hall, which has a hugh Presidential seal on one side and an open space going up six floors where the stacks are housed. LIBRARY The prex replica of the Johnson Oval XXXXXX office, which is also open to the public is on the 8th floor. Also on the 8th floor is the research room, where researchers and historians register to use the material. The library have has Presidential papers, video and audio tapes, films and photographs. A number of XXXXXX researchers and writers, including Merle Miller who wrote the book on Truman, Plain Speaking, are now using the library. The library and LBJ School of Public Affairs also sponsor lectures and seminars. (Note: Ron Nessee NSEE Nessen will be there on Friday, April 23rd, for a seminar on the Press and the insure here Presidency.) Mrs. Johnson takes a very active interest in the Library and graduate school. She has an office in the Library, and uses carpenter says Mrs. Johnson four days a week. She likes to think of the library as a springhers springboard for the future. She also was very involved in the planning and visited the other Presidential libraries. (FDR's at Hyde Park, Eisenhower's at Abilene, Kansas, Truman at Independence, Missouri, Hoover's in Iowa. One for JFK has not yet been built.) Last year there was a 65 speaker seminar on Women and Public Life as part of IWY. LIBRARY MEMORANDUM OF CALL TO: YOU WERE CALLED BY- YOU WERE VISITED BY- OF (Organization) PHONE NO. PLEASE CALL CODE/EXT. WILL CALL AGAIN IS WAITING TO SEE YOU RETURNED YOUR CALL WISHES AN APPOINTMENT MESSAGE CB sess. Matrins r RECEIVED BY pl DATE TIME STANDARD FORM 63 GPO : 1969-048- 6 80341-1 332-889 63-108 REVISED AUGUST 1967 GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 Gail Burris - Daily Lexan Drawer D Univ Station Austin, IX. home: 604- e Franklin Austin 78751 Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Austin, Texas UNITED The he LBJ Library on the University of Texas campus in Austin has proved to be one of Texas' most popular tourist attractions. It is located just a few feet west of Interstate 35. (Take the Manor Road-Memorial Stadium exit of IH 35) Ample free parking is available near the entrance to the building. The Library/Museum is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week, including holidays. Summer hours 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., June, July, August. Admission is free. There are three public floors in the eight-story structure. Pictures in this pamphlet show some of the exhibits which portray the presidency, the programs and activities of the 1960s and some aspects of the 40-year public career era of LBJ. Above photo. President and Mrs. Nixon were the first to sign the guest book when the Library opened. Each visitor to the Library may sign the guest book which will be kept in the archives as a permanent historical record of those who have toured the Library. Top photo, right. President Johnson liked to chat with visitors in the Oval Office exhibit in the Library. Bottom photo, right. The Library is located on the eastern portion of the University of Texas campus, adjacent to Memorial Stadium. 3 3 14 14 14 14 14 14 3 6 3 3 3 3 3 13 5 4 8A 3 3 8 7 3 3 11 3 3 12 10 2 15 16 9 HST IKE JFK X Elevators Restrooms Telephones Elevators 16 17 PLAZA LEVEL (First Floor) GREAT HALL (Second Floor) 1 Information-Sales Desk 10 Gifts sent to President Johnson by the American public 2 Biographical Resumé of LBJ's life and career 11 At the head of the staircase leading to the Great Hall is a 3 Gifts presented to President and Mrs. Johnson by chiefs granite pylon. Each of its four sides bears a quotation from of state, heads of government, other world leaders one of President Johnson's speeches. 4 Exhibit depicting the early "Big 4" programs of the Great 12 Behind the pylon is a metal mural wall, which depicts Society-poverty, civil rights, education, and health L.B.J. at various stages of his career with Presidents under 5 The "new agenda" of the Great Society-particularly con- whom he served. Rising four floors, visible above the mural sumer affairs and the environment; the exhibit also in- wall, are manuscript boxes, containing the papers of cludes a panel on space (Adjacent to this exhibit, a moon President Johnson. rock is displayed.) 13 Short motion pictures 6 International Affairs 14 Changing special exhibits 7 The wedding of Luci Baines Johnson and Patrick Nugent 15 Theater-see film schedule 8 The wedding of Lynda Bird Johnson and Captain Charles 16 Controversies the Nation witnessed during the years Robb, USMC President Johnson was in office 8-a Letters received by President Johnson from prominent 17 Political campaign exhibit persons 9 Life in the White House exhibit Photography by Frank Wolfe, LBJ Library. DATE The Oval Room is a replica of the historic Presidential office in the White House. NAME MAy 22,1971 DATE ASSOSSS NAME GSA All visitors' signatures in the guest book are added Per 0 Kungig washmaton to the permanent collection of the Library. Kenge Davis Be sure that your name is among the many famous Enchavar anstin Texas D.C people who have signed the register. A Frank Hanny Antin Fox sera care albert Deshon Montact, n.e. THE LBJ LIBRARY Namet D.C. Country Workington Charles Maistra Some of the exhibits which you will view inside the library include: the actual wedding dresses worn by Lynda Robb and Luci Nugent; a metal mural showing LBJ with former presidents Bitt Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Truman and Kennedy; The Smith a history of presidential campaigns which theleigton,DC DC features items used in connection with all US maryland presidents since George Washington; and Jonna take Rhoads various cases depicting many of the programs anotin connected with the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson Dal This picture of private citizens Lyndon and Lady Bird At the head of the staircase leading to the Great Hall is a granite pylon. Johnson with grandchildren Lyn Nugent and Lucinda Each of its four sides bears a quotation from one of the President's speeches. Robb, forms the background for one of the exhibits. "Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact." "I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only." "A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right." "The Great Society asks not how much, but how good; not only how to create wealth, but how to use it; not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed. It proposes as the first test for a nation: the quality of its people." The LBJ Library is visible from Interstate Highway 35 in Austin. Take the Manor Road-Memorial Stadium exit to the University of Texas campus. The Library is also just an hour's drive from the beautiful LBJ Country, where 87 you may view the LBJ Ranch as you 83 drive by on Ranch Road 1, visit the 35 LB) State Park, the Boyhood Home and the Birthplace of President Johnson. There is ample free THE PRESIDENT'S parking at each site. COUNTRY 21 290 LBI RANCH 290 LBJ BIRTHPLACE LBLPARK 90 181 FREDERICKS RANCH ROAD 1 35 35 BURG JOHN SON CITY "I hope that visitors who come here will achieve 290 a closer understanding of the office of the LBJ BOYHOOD HOME LBJ LIBRARY AND OLD RANCH 281 Presidency, which affects their own lives so greatly. / hope that those who shared in the 290 BLANCO AUSTIN history of this time will remember it and see it in perspective, and that the young people who come here will get a clearer comprehension of what this Nation tried to do in an eventful period of its history." LBJ Birthplace LBJ Park LBJ Boyhood Home Portrait by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, 1969 LBJ Ranch House The beautiful rolling Hill Country is the setting 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for the homes where LBJ was born and raised, 1908-1973 and where he lived until his death. At the new LB) State Park you will see animals native to the region, such as Texas Longhorns, buffalo, and deer. LINCOL LOGS Cabin H I X BRINGING UP LYNDON by Larry L. King As the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined. is early life never was quite his early biographers too willingly ac- She had been a young woman teach- H so hardscrabble as he later cepted those fumigated and refurbished ing Expression and Elocution in Fred- would advertise it. His father memories LBJ himself permitted to ericksburg and writing for area news- was less heroic than the son escape. Yet they, and others, have left papers when she met Sam Ealy John- would publicly choose to re- clues and tracks inviting closer ex- son, Jr. She described Fredericks- member, and his mother was something amination. burg as "An Old World place" and less than the gentle angel he often re- One clue to a man's values is in "quite unexciting." Along came young called from the podium. Evidence noting what he claims to be that he is Sam Johnson-tall, strong, lively-to indicates that Lyndon B. Johnson, him- not. Lyndon Johnson, the consummate introduce her to the Austin political self, was not always the can-do whiz actor, the self-cast man for all seasons, scene, to squire her to the orations of of popular mythology-that, rather, he so often exaggerated or improvised new Senators Joe Bailey and Charles Cul- was an insecure, often troubled, re- roles or contradicted himself, that his berson, Governor Tom Campbell, even bellious youngster who sometimes claims are not easily sorted or ranked. William Jennings Bryan. Sam Johnson avoided challenges or pressures by ex- His most persistent false claims, how- himself was a young state legislator. cessive sleeping, running away, or offer- ever, had to do with being a war hero, One imagines he turned her head, that ing stubbornly indifferent perfor- a poor boy born in a log cabin, a mem- the romantic Rebekah Baines envi- mances. ber of a perfectly harmonious family, sioned a more glamorous life than she Though a pragmatist who throughout and a descendant of Alamo heroes. One would find on a Hill Country farm. his life dismissed fiction because "it may logically assume, therefore, that Lyndon Johnson would remember his isn't true," LBJ revealed a novelist's he thirsted to be viewed as one braver mother inexplicably bursting into tears imagination in reporting his own early than he privately considered himself, when drawing water from the well or life. It was as if his considerable and one who had overcome more adversities baking bread, and would recall attempts remarkable achievements were not good than he felt he actually had, one some- to comfort her by promising to grow enough to satisfy some primal urge, times uncertain even of his cherished up and take care of mommy. Mother some deep need to become the be-all- roots or of their worth. kept private pin-money hidden in her and-know-all. Mere excellence was not Only in his last years, in retirement, pillow for unspecified "times of dis- good enough in the mind of the former did Johnson talk of the dark side of tress," slept in one wing of the house small-town Texan, and though he had his youth-of early fears and resent- with her daughters while her husband risen higher and accomplished more ments and of a family life often as bedded in another near his two sons, than most men dare to dream, he felt stormy as that of the Archie Bunkers and urged the young LBJ to seek wider a compulsion to establish his own without the leavening humor. Much of horizons than had his father. It is not cherry-tree legends. He continued to what he revealed affirmed suspicions difficult to read disappointment, re- refurbish them, to revise them, almost born of hints contained in his mother's jection, and uncertainty in these facts. to the last. prose. Writing of herself and of LBJ's A family friend once said of Rebekah History's secrets come from their father she said, "In disposition, up- Baines Johnson, "She was a kind of hiding places slowly. The more personal bringing, and background, these two early-century hippie. She thought she the secrets, and the prouder or more were vastly dissimilar. [He] was had married beneath her. She was complex the man or woman to whom sensitive and nervous, impatient of in- pregnant all the time and laid around in they apply, the more reluctantly the efficiency and ineptitude and quick to bed writing poetry." The psychologist secrets seek the sunshine. One wishing voice his displeasure. We had Harold Lasswell described her as "an to understand the shaping forces of definite and opposing ideas [on many ambitious, domineering woman who Lyndon Baines Johnson must be alert things] which makes for interest and thought she had married beneath her- to the profits of reading between the piquancy in life." In her old age Re- self." Not long before his death, LBJ lines. Much that his doting mother bekah Baines Johnson would "shudder" said her early force feedings and atten- wrote was romantic bilge (her enthusi- at the memory of her days as a young tions had sometimes "smothered" him. astic exercises as an amateur geneal- bride on a raw Texas farm, of learning There was, indeed, much of the am- ogist led to claims of kinship with to adjust to "a completely opposite bitious stage mother in Mrs. Johnson. ources improbably close to Scottish personality" and "a strange new way Always she pushed her first-born front hobility in the twelfth century), and of life." Her pink-gauze view of the and center, getting him into the public world vanished: "At last, I learned that schools before he was eligible, quizzing Carry L. King is working on a biogra- life was real and earnest and not the him on his homework at the breakfast hy of Lyndon B. Johnson for The charming fairy tale of which I had so table, following him to the gate on iking Press. long dreamed." school mornings to drill him in mathe- by M. isend Graphice Some items in this folder were not digitized because it contains copyrighted materials. Please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library for access to these materials.

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On this trip Mrs. Betty Ford visited the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, was grand marshal in the San Antonio Fiesta River Parade, and participated in the San Jacinto Day Festival.

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Ford Presidential Library AUSTIN\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\naustin\n1) mrsBerge milbura- delegate\nstate P7CCarp. str.\nD: (512)459-4101\nH: (512)477-8384\n2) millard heptune - delegate\nCong. coordinator\nRNC Travis co\n(512)+74-2447\nchrm.\n-6458\nPer higtune\n- The Neritige club- bigart\n- put something together\n- visit P7C Hdgtr.\nis\nFIRST LADY\n0+\nCwst texas studen December 10, 1975 associa IV/1976/ST 43/Houston\n316.WEST 12TH STREET AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701 A.C. 512-476-5335\nToday is Monday, the 24th day of November 1975.\nDear Mr. Jobe,\nHow much I appreciated your gracious letter\ntelling of plans for the annual convention of\nthe Texas Student Education Association and\ninviting me to attend. Although my upcoming\npersonal and official commitments will not\npermit me to be with you, I am grateful for\nthis opportunity to convey my warmest greetings\nto all attending and my hopes for a successful\nprogram and an enriching series of meetings.\nThe\nTexas\nStudent\nEducation\nAssociation,\nthe preprofessional affiliate\nof with gratitude and my warmest regards,\nNational Education\nAssociation, will hold\nSincerely,\non March 18-20 1975\nat the Shamrook Hilton\nTaxas. would like to\ninquire if you would be\nSaturday, the\nto attend\nour banquet and share some thoughts our members.\nsmall X does not to by your non offer\nMr. President Clark Jobe you be cart of the country around\nyou\nan\ninvitation\nto\nDO\nwith\nus\nthen,\nTexas Student Education Association\n316 West 12th Street\nAustin, Texas 78701 wi and provident holiday season, 1 remain\nSP/sr\nVery respectfully yours,\nClark Jobe, Pres\nis\nRECEIVED\nDEC 11 1975\nSOCIAL FILES\nAccent On Professionalism-Joindy Spansored by TSTA and NEA\ntexas student education association\n316 WEST 12TH STREET\nAUSTIN, TEXAS 78701\nA.C. 512-476-5355\n9\"\nToday is Monday, the 24th day of November 1975.\nMs. Betty Ford, First Lady\nThe White House\nWashington in the District of Columbia\n20515\nDear Ms. Ford:\nThe Texas Student Education Association, the preprofessional affiliate\nof the Texas State Teachers Association and National Education\nAssociation, will hold its annual convention on March 18-20, 1976,\nat the Shamrock Hilton Hotel in Houston, Texas. I would like to\ninquire if you would be available on that Saturday, the 20th, to attend\nour banquet and share some thoughts with our members.\nOur small budget does not permit us to pay your expenses nor offer an\nhonorarium. But if you happen to be in this part of the country around\nthat time, I would like to extend to you an invitation to be with us then.\nWishing you a bountiful and provident holiday season, I remain\nVery respectfully yours,\nClark Jobe, President\nAccent On Professionalism-Jointly Sponsored by TSTA and NEA\nBACKGROUND\nLBJ Library on the Graduate School Campus of the University of Texas\nin Austin April 22, 1976\nPresident Johnson announced plans to give his papers to the\nUniversity of Texas in 1965. The University donated the land and the\nbuilding, but the library is operated by the National Archives. LBJ\nwas very active in the planning and design of the library, which was\ndedicated in May, 1971. (He died in January, 1973.)\nThe library is an eight-story structure, adjoining is a\nbuilding housing the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Three floors are\nopen to the public, and over one half million people visit each year.\nThe first two floors have a range of memorabilia, including gifts the\nJohnsons received, funny letters, pictures of the girls' wedding,\nsubstantive displays on major Johnson programs, a number of photo-\ngraphic displays of different times in Johnson's 40-year public career.\nOn the second floor are displays of mementos from American political\ncampaigns. One person described this area as very much like the\nSmithsonian. The public area is centered around the Great Hall, which\nhas a hugh Presidential sea on one side and an open space going up six\nfloors where the stacks are housed.\nThe replica of the Johnson Oval office, which is open to the\npublic, is on the 8th floor. Also on the 8th floor is the research\nroom, where researchers and historians register to use the material.\nThe library has Presidential papers, video and audio tapes, films and\nphotographs. A number of researchers and writers, including Merle Miller\nUniversity of Texas\nApril 22, 1976\nwho wrote the book on Truman, Plain Speaking, are now using the\nlibrary. The library and LBJ School of Public Affairs also sponsor\nlectures and seminars. (Note: Ron Nessen will be there on Friday,\nApril 23rd, for a seminar on the Press and the Presidency.) Last year\nthere was a 65 speaker seminar on Women and Public Life as part of IWY.\nMrs. Johnson takes a very active interest in the Library and\ngraduate school. She has an office in the Library, and uses it four\ndays a week. Liz Carpenter says Mrs. Johnson likes to think of the\nlibarary as a springboard for the future. She also was very involved\nin the planning and visited the other Presidential libraries. (FDR's\nat Hyde Park, Eisenhower's at Abilene, Kansas, Truman's at Independence,\nMissouri, Hoover's in Iowa. One for JFK has not yet been built.)\nBacksround\nLBJ Library on the Graduate School Campus of the University\nof Texas in Austin April 22, 1976\nPresident Johnson announced plans to give his\npapers to the University of Texas in 1965. The University\ndonated the land and the building, but the libary is operated\nby the National Archives. LBJ was very active in the planning\nand design of the ****** library, which was dedicated in\nMay, 1971. (He died in January, 1973.)\nThe ******** library is an eight-story structure, adjoining\nis a building housing the LBJ School of Public Affairs.\nThree floors are open to the public, and over one half million\npeople visit each year. The first two\nfloors have a range of memorabilia, including ки gifts the\nJohnsons received, funny letters, piex pictures of the girls'\nwedding, substantive dispak displays on major Johnson programs,\na number of phatographix photographic displays of different\ntimes in Johnson's 40-year public career. On the second floor\nthere are displays of MM momentos from American political campaigns.\nOne person described this area as very much like the Smithsonian.\nThese public areax is centered around the Great Hall, which has\na hugh Presidential seal on one side and an open space going up\nsix floors where the stacks are housed.\nLIBRARY\nThe prex replica of the Johnson Oval XXXXXX\noffice, which is also open to the public is on the 8th floor.\nAlso on the 8th floor is the research room, where\nresearchers and historians register to use the material.\nThe library\nhave has Presidential papers, video and audio tapes, films\nand photographs. A number of XXXXXX researchers and writers,\nincluding Merle Miller who wrote the book on Truman,\nPlain Speaking, are now using the library. The library\nand LBJ School of Public Affairs also sponsor lectures and\nseminars. (Note: Ron Nessee NSEE Nessen will be there\non Friday, April 23rd, for a seminar on the Press and the\ninsure here\nPresidency.)\nMrs. Johnson takes a very active interest in the Library\nand graduate school. She has an office in the Library, and\nuses\ncarpenter says Mrs. Johnson\nfour days a week. She likes to think of the\nlibrary as a springhers springboard for the future. She\nalso was very involved in the planning and visited the other\nPresidential libraries. (FDR's at Hyde Park, Eisenhower's at\nAbilene, Kansas, Truman at Independence, Missouri, Hoover's in\nIowa. One for JFK has not yet been built.)\nLast year there was a 65 speaker seminar on Women and\nPublic Life as part of IWY.\nLIBRARY\nMEMORANDUM\nOF CALL\nTO:\nYOU WERE CALLED BY-\nYOU WERE VISITED BY-\nOF (Organization)\nPHONE NO.\nPLEASE CALL\nCODE/EXT.\nWILL CALL AGAIN\nIS WAITING TO SEE YOU\nRETURNED YOUR CALL\nWISHES AN APPOINTMENT\nMESSAGE\nCB sess. Matrins\nr\nRECEIVED BY\npl\nDATE\nTIME\nSTANDARD FORM 63\nGPO : 1969-048- 6 80341-1 332-889\n63-108\nREVISED AUGUST 1967\nGSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6\nGail Burris - Daily Lexan\nDrawer D\nUniv Station\nAustin, IX.\nhome: 604- e Franklin\nAustin 78751\nLyndon Baines\nJohnson\nLibrary Austin, Texas\nUNITED\nThe\nhe LBJ Library on the University of Texas\ncampus in Austin has proved to be one of Texas'\nmost popular tourist attractions.\nIt is located just a few feet west of Interstate 35.\n(Take the Manor Road-Memorial Stadium exit\nof IH 35) Ample free parking is available near\nthe entrance to the building.\nThe Library/Museum is open to the public from\n9 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week, including\nholidays. Summer hours 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., June,\nJuly, August. Admission is free.\nThere are three public floors in the eight-story\nstructure. Pictures in this pamphlet show some\nof the exhibits which portray the presidency,\nthe programs and activities of the 1960s and\nsome aspects of the 40-year public career era\nof LBJ.\nAbove photo. President and Mrs.\nNixon were the first to sign the guest\nbook when the Library opened. Each\nvisitor to the Library may sign the\nguest book which will be kept in the\narchives as a permanent historical\nrecord of those who have toured the Library.\nTop photo, right. President Johnson\nliked to chat with visitors in the Oval\nOffice exhibit in the Library.\nBottom photo, right. The Library is\nlocated on the eastern portion of\nthe University of Texas campus,\nadjacent to Memorial Stadium.\n3\n3\n14\n14\n14\n14\n14\n14\n3\n6\n3\n3\n3\n3\n3\n13\n5\n4\n8A\n3\n3\n8\n7\n3\n3\n11\n3\n3\n12\n10\n2\n15\n16\n9\nHST IKE JFK\nX\nElevators\nRestrooms\nTelephones\nElevators\n16\n17\nPLAZA LEVEL (First Floor)\nGREAT HALL (Second Floor)\n1 Information-Sales Desk\n10 Gifts sent to President Johnson by the American public\n2 Biographical Resumé of LBJ's life and career\n11 At the head of the staircase leading to the Great Hall is a\n3 Gifts presented to President and Mrs. Johnson by chiefs\ngranite pylon. Each of its four sides bears a quotation from\nof state, heads of government, other world leaders\none of President Johnson's speeches.\n4 Exhibit depicting the early \"Big 4\" programs of the Great\n12 Behind the pylon is a metal mural wall, which depicts\nSociety-poverty, civil rights, education, and health\nL.B.J. at various stages of his career with Presidents under\n5 The \"new agenda\" of the Great Society-particularly con-\nwhom he served. Rising four floors, visible above the mural\nsumer affairs and the environment; the exhibit also in-\nwall, are manuscript boxes, containing the papers of\ncludes a panel on space (Adjacent to this exhibit, a moon\nPresident Johnson.\nrock is displayed.)\n13 Short motion pictures\n6 International Affairs\n14 Changing special exhibits\n7 The wedding of Luci Baines Johnson and Patrick Nugent\n15 Theater-see film schedule\n8 The wedding of Lynda Bird Johnson and Captain Charles\n16 Controversies the Nation witnessed during the years\nRobb, USMC\nPresident Johnson was in office\n8-a Letters received by President Johnson from prominent\n17 Political campaign exhibit\npersons\n9 Life in the White House exhibit\nPhotography by Frank Wolfe, LBJ Library.\nDATE\nThe Oval Room is a replica of the historic Presidential office in the White House.\nNAME\nMAy 22,1971\nDATE\nASSOSSS\nNAME\nGSA\nAll visitors' signatures in the guest book are added\nPer\n0\nKungig\nwashmaton\nto the permanent collection of the Library.\nKenge\nDavis\nBe sure that your name is among the many famous\nEnchavar\nanstin Texas D.C\npeople who have signed the register.\nA\nFrank Hanny\nAntin Fox\nsera\ncare albert\nDeshon Montact, n.e.\nTHE LBJ LIBRARY\nNamet\nD.C.\nCountry\nWorkington\nCharles Maistra\nSome of the exhibits which you will view inside\nthe library include: the actual wedding dresses\nworn by Lynda Robb and Luci Nugent; a metal\nmural showing LBJ with former presidents\nBitt\nRoosevelt, Eisenhower, Truman and Kennedy;\nThe Smith\na history of presidential campaigns which\ntheleigton,DC\nDC\nfeatures items used in connection with all US\nmaryland\npresidents since George Washington; and\nJonna take\nRhoads\nvarious cases depicting many of the programs\nanotin\nconnected with the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson\nDal\nThis picture of private citizens Lyndon and Lady Bird\nAt the head of the staircase leading to the Great Hall is a granite pylon.\nJohnson with grandchildren Lyn Nugent and Lucinda\nEach of its four sides bears a quotation from one of the President's speeches.\nRobb, forms the background for one of the exhibits.\n\"Until justice is blind to color, until education\nis unaware of race, until opportunity is\nunconcerned with the color of men's skins,\nemancipation will be a proclamation but not\na fact.\"\n\"I have followed the personal philosophy that\nI am a free man, an American, a public servant,\nand a member of my party, in that order always\nand only.\"\n\"A President's hardest task is not to do what is\nright, but to know what is right.\"\n\"The Great Society asks not how much, but how\ngood; not only how to create wealth, but how to\nuse it; not only how fast we are going, but where\nwe are headed. It proposes as the first test for\na nation: the quality of its people.\"\nThe LBJ Library is visible from\nInterstate Highway 35 in Austin. Take\nthe Manor Road-Memorial Stadium\nexit to the University of Texas campus.\nThe Library is also just an hour's drive\nfrom the beautiful LBJ Country, where\n87\nyou may view the LBJ Ranch as you\n83\ndrive by on Ranch Road 1, visit the\n35\nLB) State Park, the Boyhood Home and\nthe Birthplace of President Johnson.\nThere is ample free\nTHE PRESIDENT'S\nparking at each site.\nCOUNTRY\n21\n290\nLBI RANCH\n290\nLBJ BIRTHPLACE\nLBLPARK\n90\n181\nFREDERICKS\nRANCH ROAD 1\n35\n35\nBURG\nJOHN SON CITY\n\"I hope that visitors who come here will achieve\n290\na closer understanding of the office of the\nLBJ BOYHOOD HOME\nLBJ LIBRARY\nAND OLD RANCH\n281\nPresidency, which affects their own lives so\ngreatly. / hope that those who shared in the\n290\nBLANCO\nAUSTIN\nhistory of this time will remember it and see\nit in perspective, and that the young people\nwho come here will get a clearer comprehension\nof what this Nation tried to do in an eventful\nperiod of its history.\"\nLBJ Birthplace\nLBJ Park\nLBJ Boyhood Home\nPortrait by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, 1969\nLBJ Ranch House\nThe beautiful rolling Hill Country is the setting\n36TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES\nfor the homes where LBJ was born and raised,\n1908-1973\nand where he lived until his death. At the new\nLB) State Park you will see animals native to the\nregion, such as Texas Longhorns, buffalo, and deer.\nLINCOL\nLOGS\nCabin\nH\nI\nX\nBRINGING UP\nLYNDON\nby Larry L. King\nAs the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined.\nis early life never was quite\nhis early biographers too willingly ac-\nShe had been a young woman teach-\nH\nso hardscrabble as he later\ncepted those fumigated and refurbished\ning Expression and Elocution in Fred-\nwould advertise it. His father\nmemories LBJ himself permitted to\nericksburg and writing for area news-\nwas less heroic than the son\nescape. Yet they, and others, have left\npapers when she met Sam Ealy John-\nwould publicly choose to re-\nclues and tracks inviting closer ex-\nson, Jr. She described Fredericks-\nmember, and his mother was something\namination.\nburg as \"An Old World place\" and\nless than the gentle angel he often re-\nOne clue to a man's values is in\n\"quite unexciting.\" Along came young\ncalled from the podium. Evidence\nnoting what he claims to be that he is\nSam Johnson-tall, strong, lively-to\nindicates that Lyndon B. Johnson, him-\nnot. Lyndon Johnson, the consummate\nintroduce her to the Austin political\nself, was not always the can-do whiz\nactor, the self-cast man for all seasons,\nscene, to squire her to the orations of\nof popular mythology-that, rather, he\nso often exaggerated or improvised new\nSenators Joe Bailey and Charles Cul-\nwas an insecure, often troubled, re-\nroles or contradicted himself, that his\nberson, Governor Tom Campbell, even\nbellious youngster who sometimes\nclaims are not easily sorted or ranked.\nWilliam Jennings Bryan. Sam Johnson\navoided challenges or pressures by ex-\nHis most persistent false claims, how-\nhimself was a young state legislator.\ncessive sleeping, running away, or offer-\never, had to do with being a war hero,\nOne imagines he turned her head, that\ning stubbornly indifferent perfor-\na poor boy born in a log cabin, a mem-\nthe romantic Rebekah Baines envi-\nmances.\nber of a perfectly harmonious family,\nsioned a more glamorous life than she\nThough a pragmatist who throughout\nand a descendant of Alamo heroes. One\nwould find on a Hill Country farm.\nhis life dismissed fiction because \"it\nmay logically assume, therefore, that\nLyndon Johnson would remember his\nisn't true,\" LBJ revealed a novelist's\nhe thirsted to be viewed as one braver\nmother inexplicably bursting into tears\nimagination in reporting his own early\nthan he privately considered himself,\nwhen drawing water from the well or\nlife. It was as if his considerable and\none who had overcome more adversities\nbaking bread, and would recall attempts\nremarkable achievements were not good\nthan he felt he actually had, one some-\nto comfort her by promising to grow\nenough to satisfy some primal urge,\ntimes uncertain even of his cherished\nup and take care of mommy. Mother\nsome deep need to become the be-all-\nroots or of their worth.\nkept private pin-money hidden in her\nand-know-all. Mere excellence was not\nOnly in his last years, in retirement,\npillow for unspecified \"times of dis-\ngood enough in the mind of the former\ndid Johnson talk of the dark side of\ntress,\" slept in one wing of the house\nsmall-town Texan, and though he had\nhis youth-of early fears and resent-\nwith her daughters while her husband\nrisen higher and accomplished more\nments and of a family life often as\nbedded in another near his two sons,\nthan most men dare to dream, he felt\nstormy as that of the Archie Bunkers\nand urged the young LBJ to seek wider\na compulsion to establish his own\nwithout the leavening humor. Much of\nhorizons than had his father. It is not\ncherry-tree legends. He continued to\nwhat he revealed affirmed suspicions\ndifficult to read disappointment, re-\nrefurbish them, to revise them, almost\nborn of hints contained in his mother's\njection, and uncertainty in these facts.\nto the last.\nprose. Writing of herself and of LBJ's\nA family friend once said of Rebekah\nHistory's secrets come from their\nfather she said, \"In disposition, up-\nBaines Johnson, \"She was a kind of\nhiding places slowly. The more personal\nbringing, and background, these two\nearly-century hippie. She thought she\nthe secrets, and the prouder or more\nwere vastly dissimilar.\n[He] was\nhad married beneath her. She was\ncomplex the man or woman to whom\nsensitive and nervous, impatient of in-\npregnant all the time and laid around in\nthey apply, the more reluctantly the\nefficiency and ineptitude and quick to\nbed writing poetry.\" The psychologist\nsecrets seek the sunshine. One wishing\nvoice his displeasure.\nWe had\nHarold Lasswell described her as \"an\nto understand the shaping forces of\ndefinite and opposing ideas [on many\nambitious, domineering woman who\nLyndon Baines Johnson must be alert\nthings] which makes for interest and\nthought she had married beneath her-\nto the profits of reading between the\npiquancy in life.\" In her old age Re-\nself.\" Not long before his death, LBJ\nlines. Much that his doting mother\nbekah Baines Johnson would \"shudder\"\nsaid her early force feedings and atten-\nwrote was romantic bilge (her enthusi-\nat the memory of her days as a young\ntions had sometimes \"smothered\" him.\nastic exercises as an amateur geneal-\nbride on a raw Texas farm, of learning\nThere was, indeed, much of the am-\nogist led to claims of kinship with\nto adjust to \"a completely opposite\nbitious stage mother in Mrs. Johnson.\nources improbably close to Scottish\npersonality\" and \"a strange new way\nAlways she pushed her first-born front\nhobility in the twelfth century), and\nof life.\" Her pink-gauze view of the\nand center, getting him into the public\nworld vanished: \"At last, I learned that\nschools before he was eligible, quizzing\nCarry L. King is working on a biogra-\nlife was real and earnest and not the\nhim on his homework at the breakfast\nhy of Lyndon B. Johnson for The\ncharming fairy tale of which I had so\ntable, following him to the gate on\niking Press.\nlong dreamed.\"\nschool mornings to drill him in mathe-\nby M. isend Graphice\nSome items in this folder were not digitized because it contains copyrighted\nmaterials. Please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library for access to\nthese materials."
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