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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.
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Mr. President Clark Jobe you be cart of the country around
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an
invitation
to
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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
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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.
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a hugh Presidential seal on one side and an open space going up
six floors where the stacks are housed.
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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
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Presidency.)
Mrs. Johnson takes a very active interest in the Library
and graduate school. She has an office in the Library, and
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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features items used in connection with all US
maryland
presidents since George Washington; and
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various cases depicting many of the programs
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connected with the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson
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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
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you may view the LBJ Ranch as you
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drive by on Ranch Road 1, visit the
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LB) State Park, the Boyhood Home and
the Birthplace of President Johnson.
There is ample free
THE PRESIDENT'S
parking at each site.
COUNTRY
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LBLPARK
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FREDERICKS
RANCH ROAD 1
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"I hope that visitors who come here will achieve
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a closer understanding of the office of the
LBJ BOYHOOD HOME
LBJ LIBRARY
AND OLD RANCH
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Presidency, which affects their own lives so
greatly. / hope that those who shared in the
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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
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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
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