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November 2008 eNewsletter
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Friends of the LBJ Library eNewsletter
November 2008
In This Issue
An Evening With Robert Hardesty and Harry Middleton
Foreign Policy Symposium at the Library
Other Upcoming Events
Links for the Friends

Dear Friends,

Our next Friends event is right around the corner! Robert Hardesty and Harry Middleton will share Recollections, a compilation of reminiscences of Lyndon Johnson. The following week, you are welcome to join us for a two-day symposium on foreign policy in celebration of Johnson's Centennial. Please read more about both events below.

Sincerely,

Betty Sue Flowers
Director

An Evening With Robert Hardesty and Harry Middleton
Long-time Johnson friends and aides Harry Middleton and Robert Hardesty will join us on November 6 to share Recollections, a presentation of dozens of interviews with Lyndon Johnson's friends, family, and former staff. The interviews were filmed to capture a sense of Johnson's spirit from those who knew him best. Those appearing on the final video compilation include Congressman Jack Brooks, Liz Carpenter, Walter Cronkite, President Gerald Ford, Tom Johnson, Congressman J.J. Pickle, Major General Hugh Robinson, Larry Temple, Helen Thomas, and many other distinguished persons. Mr. Hardesty will speak about how the project came about and then share the 40-minute video presentation.

This program will be held in the Lone Star Room at the Frank Erwin Center on November 6 at 6:00 p.m. A reception will follow. Free parking is available in the lot just south of the building. (Click here to see directions and a parking map.) Tickets have been mailed. Please email Sarah Groos with any questions related to ticketing.
Foreign Policy Symposium at the Library
To celebrate President Johnson's centennial year, the LBJ Library and Museum will host Lyndon Johnson and the Dawn of the Post-Cold War Era, a two-day symposium bringing national scholars to the Library to discuss foreign policy. The symposium will be held in the Atrium on the 10th floor of the Library on November 13 and 14. Panel discussions include National Security in an Era of International Transformation, North-South Challenges, Social Change and Foreign Relations, Transnational Challenges, and The Great Society and the Vietnam War: A Roundtable with Francis Bator.

The symposium is open to the general public. Registration is not required. For more information, please call (512) 721-0200.
Other Upcoming Events
Following are upcoming programs:
  • November 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m.: The Strauss Center presents Anne Stevens, Chairman, President and CEO of Carpenter Technology Corporation, discussing The Global Automotive Industry: Perspective on a Changing Industry, in a Changing World. The lecture will be held in the Brown Room on the 10th floor of the LBJ Library.
  • November 11, 6-7:30 p.m.: The Strauss Center presents a panel discussion entitled Energy Security, Iran, and the Persian Gulf in the Thompson Conference Center Auditorium.
  • November 20, 1-7 p.m.: The Strauss Center presents Reducing Nuclear Threats: Nonproliferation Challenges for the Next Administration, a conference with a keynote address by Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia. The conference will be held in the Brown Room on the 10th floor of the LBJ Library. Senator Nunn's keynote will begin at 5:30 p.m. Space is limited.
For more details on these events, please visit the Strauss Center's events listing.