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Shortly before 1 00 p. M. On a rainy september 20, mrs. Lyndon johnson departed washington airport for a fourday conservation tour, which would carry her across the length of the country for stopovers in california, arizona, and new mexico. Her companions for the trip, secretary of the interior stewart udall, and his wife. For mrs. Johnson, who normally travels tourist class on commercial planes, the early portion of the flight was not only an unaccustomed luxury, but probably one of the most unusual having things in aviation history. Arranged by american airlines, which charted the first lady...

Collection. We are in the Storage Units of the museum. This is the heart of the museum. What is behind me and what we will see today are many of the objects that are going to be the soul of this museum. This is an opportunity to preview some of the material that the public will see when the museum opens its doors. One of the things that is crucially important as you will see is that so much of the museums time and resources are spent on caring for the collection. We have amazing experts who know how to preserve and make sure that this material will be with us for generations. We have opened th...

He served as a panelist in the 1992 president ial debate between bill clinton, george h. W. Bush, and ross perot. And he has served as president of the Radio Television correspondents association. In 1998, he joined the nonprofit, Nonpartisan Organization is a founding editor, shaping its coverage of policyolicy trends in issues, health care, demographics, and the business of government. In 2010, he served as a fellow at Harvard Kennedy school of government. I know you will agree with me that gene gibbons is qualified to talk with us today about why journalism is important. Genee join me in we...

In that era, original hunters were pursuing big game into oblivion, and taking birds for their meat and feathers. Conservationists are to stand at floridas pelican island. In 1903, president Theodore Roosevelt established this tiny 5. 5 acre island as americas First National wildlife refuge. And soon, the refuges followed. The Wichita Mountains refuge was created in oklahoma in 1905. To provide a haven for the american bison. Although these great shaggy beasts had once numbered in the millions, by the earliest 20th century, so few bison remained that the government had to ship 50 survivors fro...

Symposium at fords theater last year. Ford leader and the Abraham Lincoln institute cohosted this event. It is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon. Im a professor and chairperson of the department of history at howard university. Good afternoon. Im the chairperson of the department of history at howard university. Weve had a Wonderful Program thus far. Thank you for returning for the afternoon session. I think youll be delighted with what we have in store for you. Its my happy task to introduce our next speaker, professor of history, new york university. Professor hodes is the author of the sea c...