Posted in LBJ Library, Uncategorized on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
On this day (March 15, 1965), President Johnson went before Congress and called for legislation that would guarantee every American’s right to vote
Forty-three years ago President Johnson stood up for what was right and fought for the rights of those who had no voice.
But even before he became president, LBJ was busy in the Senate [...]
Posted in History, LBJ Library, tagged , C-Span, C-Span lbjlibrary, LBJ Library on October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
If you get C-Span, tune in at 8:00 p.m. ET (7:00 Central) on October 12 for the live broadcast from the LBJ Library for Presidential Libraries: History Uncovered. Here is C-Span’s description of the program this week:
Probably the most documented of U.S. presidents, Lyndon Johnson afforded the Navy television unit unfettered access to his administration. [...]
Posted in LBJ Library on September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Now on display at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum
Exhibit Dates: Sept. 1, 2007 until May 26, 2008
Hours: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily (closed Christmas Day)
Admission: Free
Parking: Free
Walk into a replica of the U. S. Senate Chamber for an unrehearsed, unpredictable encounter with an actor (Michael Stuart) who looks, dresses, and talks [...]
Posted in LBJ Library, Texas Forums Events on August 9, 2007 | No Comments »
I thought this announcement would be of interest to the Texas Forums community. C-span is launching a 12-week series airing live on location from the 12 Presidential libraries spanning Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton beginning Friday, September 7, 2007.
C-Span will be broadcasting live from the LBJ Library on October 12!
Here is the complete schedule followed [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events on July 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m way behind on getting out my thank you notices to all of the people who helped make the Democrat All-American Presidential Watch Party at the LBJ and Carver libraries successful. (A trip to Sausalito, CA to work on a statewide plan to bring high speed fiber access to every public library intervened. Ironically, I [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Evaluation, Get Involved, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate, social networking on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It would be interesting if they said something we hadn’t heard. Barack makes a joke about “No Child Left Behind” and talks about the money left behind but doesn’t get a big response here. Bonnie observes that most of the people here are taking it all blandly and no one is getting up [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Facing Racism, Get Involved, Guest Bloggers, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on June 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tavis’s show at PBS is now begining and it’s talking about the “Covenant with Black America.” The G21 team here, Allaina and I are Blogging on the event. It turns our that Yours Unruly is a celeb because I’m the only working journalist at the event. I was interviewed by a [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Civic Entrepreneurship, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Facing Racism, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
28 June 2007: This evening I’m reporting from the LBJ Library at the University of Texas (UT) on Tavis Smiley’s Public Broadcasting System (PBS) forum with the candidates for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. Like many other Bloggers here tonight, I’m suppose to be an ear to what our community [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Guest Bloggers, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on June 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here are the bios for some of the citizen reporters who will be blogging about the public discussions taking place at the LBJ Library and Carver Library in Austin, TX.
Mike Aaron has worked for Texas government (House of Representatives; Office of Attorney General), currently works in a for-profit renewable energy consulting firm (Virtus Energy), but [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Facing Racism, LBJ Library, Texas Forums Events on June 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Next Thursday June 28, Texas Forums and the Carver Library (along with a long list of partners noted below) will host a Tavis Smiley Presidential Forum Watch party at the LBJ Library (map to LBJ Library) and the Carver Library (map to Carver Library).
The first forum with the Democrats will take place on June 28 [...]
RSS Feed
|
