Web Site Review
September 17, 2004
Mary S. Linhart
LYNDON JOHNSON
The Johnson tapes have been broadcast over CNN (90.1 FM) for several years. The tapes are an invaluable record of the daily activities of a President. The recorded conversations range far and wide and include discussions with executive leaders such as Robert McNamara, and J. Edgar Hoover, with Congressional leaders such as Richard Russell, Mike Mansfield and Herbert Humphrey and with labor leaders, civil rights leaders, White House staff and Johnson’s supporters, family and friends. The tapes reveal Johnson as a fully-committed individual who is tireless and unrelenting as a politician. He understood and is interested in and concerned with every aspect of government and power from farm prices to the Panama Canal to Vietnam. In the phone conversations, Johnson often seeks advice and counsel but only rarely does he relinquish control of the conversation. Whether or not one agrees with his actions and policies, Lyndon Johnson is a fascinating personality.
The following are Web sites I will consider for my review.
1 Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. This is a basic site for Lyndon Johnson information. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/
2 National Park Service. The National Park Service maintains Johnson property in Texas as a national park. http://www.nps.gov/lyjo/index.htm
3 Internet Public Library section on Presidents with links to other related personalities http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/lbjohnson.html
4 It will be interesting to contrast these 2 sites.
Time 1964 Man of the Year article The 1964 covers portrays Johnson as the strong leader. http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1964.html
Time 1967 Man of the year. The 1967 cover is a cartoon distorted view of Johnson. http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1967.html
Others I might look at
5. PBS web site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/36_l_johnson/
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/lbj_effect_s.html
6 CNN Site
Tapes on various issues http://www.cnn.com/US/9610/19/johnson.women/index.html
Yahoo searches for others http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=lyndon+johnson
7 Lexis/Nexis Documents… If available free.
I might want to look at web sites of contemporaries
6. Richard Russell Collection at University of Georgia. http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell/collections/russellmain.html