George ChristianPapers 1963-2002

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was born on August 27, 1908 at Stonewall, Texas. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson, and had three sisters and a brother: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. In 1913, the Johnson family moved to nearby Johnson City, named for Lyndon''s forebears, and Lyndon entered first grade. On May 24, 1924 he graduated from Johnson City High School. He decided to forego higher education and moved to California with a few ...

Johson, Lyndon Baines, President, U. S., 1908-

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Dallas Morning News

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The Dallas Morning News ( DMN ) is a daily newspaper launched by George Bannerman Dealey in Dallas, Texas in 1885. G. B. Dealey’s son and grandson have succeeded him in presidency of the paper’s publisher, the A. H. Belo Corporation. The paper was largely apolitical at the start of the 20th century, but in the early 1920s, it courageously denounced the Ku Klux Klan. Initially a supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, the DMN split with the president on domestic policy by his ...

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993

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John Bowden Connally Jr. (February 27, 1917 – June 15, 1993) was an American politician. He served as the 39th Governor of Texas and as the 61st United States Secretary of the Treasury. He began his career as a Democrat and later became a Republican in 1973. Born in Floresville, Texas, Connally pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. During World War II, he served on the staff of James Forrestal and Dwight D. Eisenhower before transferring to the Asiati...

Daniel, Price

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Christian, George

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A fifth-generation Texan, George Eastland Christian was born January 1, 1927 in Austin, Texas. He graduated from Austin High School in 1944 and enlisted at age 17 in the U.S. Marine Corps. He served during World War II as a rifleman in the Second Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force-Pacific, and was among the first troops to occupy Nagasaki, Japan after the detonation of the atomic bomb. After World War II, he attended the University of Texas at Austin and became sports e...

Christian, George, 1927-....

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George Eastland Christian (b. Jan. 1, 1927-d. Nov. 27, 2002, Austin, Tex.) was a University of Texas graduate. He served as an assistant to Senator Price Daniel in 1956, an assistant to Texas Governor Price Daniel from 1957 to 1963, and an assistant to Texas Governor John Connally from 1963 to 1966. He served as press secretary to Texas governors Prince Daniel and John B. Connally. He was also a White House Press Secretary and Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1969. ...