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When Mercer Got The ‘Johnson Treatment’
— By John Weatherly —4— -i
"This Ka happy clay for me..You, might sa,v it Jsjny .homecoming.”
The occasion was jjercef Law Day, JWctober LT -T960. The speaker was
11 Johnson, then .majority leader of the seriate and vice-presidential candidate.
Lyndon
Our , Law : School Sfi'A issued
Johnson an invitation before Jack
Kennedy picked hurt as'his running
mute He accepted _and kepT his
committment despite a heavy.cam
paign in tusjule . ’
After an uwrriilOctipn by. Sen.
Hr-rman Tainmdgc. who compared
the Texan’s political skills & Hen-
Vice-presidential candidate Johnson waits on the platform at the 1 v * * 1,v Johnson removed his Stet.
th Annual Law Day. ’ | son nnd gave Mereerians the now .
famous "Johnson treatment.
Tice only' students, now visa Illy 1
m • g ■% - a | impressed bv Johnson’s Southern
/aried Portraits Exhibited ; rt Ymmgj
liepnl.ll..-ills j-|nh— ■ ■ , 4
1 \ s'r.iw e.-mipns wile nt thu-lime^
An exhibijt of nearly 100 portrait* j'isfs.- ly'eyc'rthelcss. as ui the past
tun tin Museum of Modern Art' the hi st portraits are painted by
ned Sunday in the ’Connell Stu-I artists of -broader 'achievement
nl 't i hteT. The show includes whose duet concerns are other than
:>stty .work of contemporary art-(a flattering rendition of. likeness."
in various media including
swings
Itereoli
oils, sculpture, prints.
1. photography and col.
n< lulled arc works by tid artists,
long them Redon, Ensor, Tou-
e I auterec, Beckmann. Corinth.
Itghaiii, Picasso. Matisse, C’ha-
. Luhaise, and Marini: Th*'
irks represent 'such movements
xpressipnism; surrealism, |Hist
pressionism as well as avant
nie and conservative’work.
Son«* ad the better-known works
the exhibit are Modigliani* An.
Zhorowska. Rauchant's Procla
ition of American Independence,
isor’s . Curious Inserts, and
dm.'s Th-'. poet' Max Hermann
isse, - - - - 1
dfred H. Barr, Jr., director of
seuni Collections has noted that
ortraitnre, once a major branch
painting, has largely sunk’ into
hands of fashionable special -
Above is portion of Picasso's Lai' — - ———
Mere et Les Enfant*. featured in,
the current exhibit
proved ;to In pnijilij-j-ic The. Ken
iieilv-Johnson ticket won’ over the
N'tVon-Lodgo team 2(>0 21-1
Now Mr. 'Kennedy'^ assiissina-
fion ha* elevated LBJ to the highest
ijitficc of our land. ...
! "It. is good to be among niv own t
[people," J.ohns<gysaiil that day . He
traei'd his ancestry several genera
(ions hark, placing particular em
phasis oii tits Baptist minister fore
bears.
. He lauded the contributions of
Georgia over the years in its Wash
ington' delegation and in particular
Senators Tylmudge and Russell,
arid Congressman Vinson. He also
emphasized the formidable- role.
|ilay<;d by the late Sen. Walter F.
I Gporge for whom the law school at
Mercer Li named. .
The core of Johnson's address
Aihcerned the position of the-Unite<l
States in the,world of that time
He s|mke of the Republican admin
istration’s foreign ixilicy as one of
"totally negative action."
,".We have arrived at the inescap
able poini in our destiny,” he re_
Johnson speaks to President Harris preceding his address to the
Mercer -students. . ' . .
marked, “where facts must he.faced day'with then Guv Ernost'Vandi-
a'nd hard choices and firm decisions vi r and Mayor I’d Wilson, Sen.
must he made. To continue to liveJ Herman- Talrriadge. and Congress-
in a dream world is to vnurt the .'men Vinson and Flint,
oblivion of destruction. We can no The event had been,'much publi
longer merely exist: We must- live : eizedl -eagerly anticipated, an<i, ow-
or die . . We must triumph or be j-ing to Johnson's rushed •• achedult.
destroyed."— f j brief As Johnson departed he said.
President Harris-and Dean Thank .you for hejng .so ryice;. I
Quarles'shared the platform that | have really enjoyed being here"
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