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May 2009 eNewsletter
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Friends of the LBJ Library eNewsletter
May 2009
In This Issue
Evening With James Galbraith
Moon Shots: The Art of Pat Rawlings
Links for the Friends

Dear Friends,

I hope you will join us for our first Friends' program back in the Auditorium on May 5 as we welcome friend and neighbor Professor James Galbraith of the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Please also note that our Evening With Captain Eugene Cernan, previously scheduled for June 1, has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon.

On May 15, the LBJ Library and Museum will open a new art exhibit complementing the space exhibit. Pat Rawlings has created futuristic, technical images of space for nearly thirty years. Please read below for more details about his work.

Sincerely,

Betty Sue Flowers
Director

Evening With James Galbraith
On Tuesday, May 5, we will host our first Evening With program back in the renovated LBJ Auditorium. Our speaker will be James K. Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Government and Business Relations and Professor of Economics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. His distinguished record includes positions on the staff at the U.S. Congress, guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Lectureship in China, and Carnegie Scholar. Professor Galbraith writes a regular column for Mother Jones and is often called to comment on the economy in the media. He has authored or co-authored five books. His most recent book, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, has garnered much attention.

Hardcover and paperback copies of The Predator State will be available for sale that evening, and Professor Galbraith will sign copies for a limited time directly before the event. To assure being able to purchase personally inscribed copies of the book, guests may place advance orders with the LBJ Museum Store.

Tickets will not be mailed. Please bring your current Friends membership card to the event for admittance. Those without membership cards will be directed to the membership desk by the entrance to the Auditorium. Following the program, a reception will be held in the Great Hall. The Auditorium is located on the lower level of the LBJ Complex. Attendees may access the Auditorium through the lobby of the LBJ School or through the south entrance of the LBJ Library building by the LBJ Fountain.

Please return the postcard enclosed with your invitation or email your RSVP to friends@lbjlibrary.net.
Moon Shots: The Art of Pat Rawlings
On May 15, the Library and Museum will open a new art exhibit in the Great Hall. In keeping with the special exhibit To the Moon: The American Space Program in the 1960s, we are pleased to present a series of artworks in which Rawlings imagines Mankind's travel to the Moon, the exploration and gathering of resources, and ultimately the creation of a new home.

Moon Shots: The Art of Pat Rawlings will feature eleven pieces by Pat Rawlings, a space artist whose clients include NASA, Space Center Houston, Walt Disney Productions, U.S. Air Force, IMAX, Scientific American, The New York Times, and Encyclopedia Britannica. Rawlings' work requires a creative imagination, but it also necessitates strong technical skills, precision, and exhaustive research. Each detail has to be technically accurate. Come see his futuristic, technical images of another world!