Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Lady Bird vacationed in a Virgin Islands retreat, the President took Luci with him to a good old-fashioned Democratic fund-raising dinner in Mayor Dick Daley's Chicago. It was the sort of occasion that would ordinarily bring out the rousing Republican baiter in L.B.J. But not this time. Instead, he used it to issue an appeal to the Russian people for friendship, and to declare himself firmly against appeasement. Recalling the lesson of Munich, he said: "In the 1930s we made our fate not by what we did but by what we failed...
...result was the formation of a sorely needed Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City-otherwise known as the C.C.C. movement, Cindy's Culture Crusade. Cindy & Co. agreed that the best way to get the show on the road was not to wage a "brick-and-mortar fund drive" but "to do something great with people." For its first effort, the foundation daringly chose to present the U.S. premiere of Handel's 241-year-old opera, Julius Caesar, a convoluted tale of love and intrigue in old Egypt, embellished with a floridly beautiful score...
...Heard the first report on an impressive drive to raise $50 million for capital expenditures. The "Fifty Million Fund," which has nearly $5,000,000 in the bank, will sponsor such programs as the renovation of Inner City slum churches, additions to hospital facilities in nearly two dozen countries, new religious centers at state universities. More than $11 million will be spent to improve Presbyterian seminaries...
...game was played for the benefit of the JFK memorial library fund. Spokesmen estimated the proceeds...
...President flew to New York for a private fund-raising dinner of the President's Club, an organization of Democratic contributors who each give at least $1,000 a year to the party. The political foray took Johnson to what has become an off-year hot spot. Feuding New York Democrats suddenly face a real contest because Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay is running against Mayor Robert Wagner...