December 2011
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Dec 31st
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1935: With Maury Maverick’s help, LBJ is appointed the head of the National Youth Administration in Texas. ..”Maverick went straight to the top, calling on both FDR and Eleanor about his protégé. Roosevelt at first protested that he was not going to entrust a major state relief agency to an untested twenty-six-year-old, but Maverick listed Lyndon’s qualifications and insisted that that youth...
Dec 31st
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Maury Maverick
One of the allies LBJ made in Washington was the colorful Maury Maverick, congressman for Texas’ Twentieth District  from 1935 to 1938. He is pictured here being sworn in as mayor of San Antonio by his father in 1939. Photo courtesy of UTSA Digital Collections. More on Maury Maverick: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fma83
Dec 30th
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June 1935: NYA created
At the urging of his wife Eleanor, President Roosevelt signs the bill creating the National Youth Administration, a New Deal program addressing the unemployment of young people.   More on the NYA and Eleanor Roosevelt: George Washington University’s Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
Dec 29th
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FDR and the New Deal
President Franklin Roosevelt attempted to use the power of government to address some of the effects of the Depression. Here is FDR’s first inaugural address, in which he says: “I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact...
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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The Johnsons head back to Washington. They live...
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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“We went to the gardens of Xochimilco, which I do not know whether they are still...”
– Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson Oral History Interview V, p. 17-18. LBJ Library. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/Johnson-C/johnson.asp
Dec 26th
“So we went on to Mexico on our honeymoon, which lasted as long as our money...”
– Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson Oral History Interview V, p. 16-17. LBJ Library. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/Johnson-C/johnson.asp
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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“I was perfectly willing to say, “Let’s be almost sure we’ll...”
– Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson Oral History Interview IV, p. 33-34. LBJ Library. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/Johnson-C/johnson.asp
Dec 24th
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November 1934: When Lady Bird agrees to discuss...
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Despite the pressures of work--including a 2-week...
“His letters had been growing more and more determined to reach a conclusion. I, as I’ve mentioned, felt that wisdom and caution and all sorts of things said, “Wait, until you know this person better. He should want to wait until he knows you better. You might not really suit him.” So I was in a desperate state of uncertainty as to what to do. The only sure thing was I...
Dec 23rd
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LBJ’s assistants Jones and Latimer were students of LBJ’s from Sam Houston High School whom he recruited to join him in Congressman Kleberg’s office. The three shared a room at the Dodge: “[The routine] began before five, when Johnson shook Latimer awake and started him on his way up Capitol Hill. Not long thereafter, he would awaken Jones. Pulling on their...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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On their first date—the drive after breakfast at the Driskill that Lady Bird has not planned to attend—LBJ asked Lady Bird to marry him. “I do believe before the day was over he asked me to marry him, and I thought he was just out of his mind. It was very—-I’m a slow, considered sort of person generally, and certainly not given to quick conclusions or much rash behavior.” ...
Dec 22nd
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“I know there was something electric going, that he did ask me to have breakfast...”
– Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson Oral History Interview IV, p. 17-18. LBJ Library. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/Johnson-C/johnson.asp
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“[Richard Mifflin Kleberg] was an expert marksman and horseman, and in his early...”
– Thomas L. Miller, “KLEBERG, RICHARD MIFFLIN,” Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fkl03), accessed December 09, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Dec 21st
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themitchcase asked: I had no idea you all were on Tumblr. Very exciting!
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Lady Bird’s time at UT-Austin helped reinforce her lifelong love of learning and of reading. This book, The Doges of Venice, was in her personal library and the Johnsons’ library at the White House. It is currently in the LBJ Library Museum collection. [1970.12.2487]
Dec 20th
Claudia Alta Taylor’s copy of Rules Governing Newspaper Style, from the University of Texas Dept. of Journalism, containing her notes. [1984.6.34] 
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“Debates early in the year had been held in an auditorium almost as empty as it...”
– Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1: The Path to Power. New York: Vintage Books, 1990, p 210.
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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October, 1930: LBJ leaves Pearsall for a position...
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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“I went to Henly…somewhere on the Hays-Blanco line, I think, to a grove of...”
– Oral history, Welly K. Hopkins, May 11, 1965.
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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1930
Claudia (Lady Bird) Taylor begins attending the University of Texas at Austin. Coincidentally, the sale of apples is banned at UT football games.
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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1929: LBJ returned from Cotulla to San Marcos to... →
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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“I have come back to Cotulla this afternoon, not just because this school is part...”
– The American Presidency Project: Lyndon B. Johnson: Remarks at the Welhausen Elementary School, Cotulla, Texas, Nov. 7, 1966.
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“…sometimes… we were pretty short on tools to play baseball—and...”
– Oral history interview with LBJ’s former student Daniel Garcia. AC01-14, LBJ Library Oral History Collection. 
Dec 12th
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1928: Cotulla, Texas
LBJ took Welhausen School by storm. While teaching fifth, sixth and seventh grades and supervising five teachers, he started an athletic club, helped organize a literary society, coached debate at the high school, and organized field trips to neighboring towns so his students could compete in sporting events and speaking and spelling contests. He also tutored the janitor in English. With his...
Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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