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  • thought, "Well, that's cheap. She'd pay a hundred for it in America." So I just took it right there. And after I had paid him he looked at me and he said, "You've only been in our country a short time I can tell. You didn't handle this very well. You mind
  • This is his last year before he leaves. He wants a plaque to be put up in the building or on the building where we met, where this historic action was taken to bring greater equality of opportunity for all young Americans through this system of grants based
  • of lines of authority bet\Jeen you and Harry McPherson? T: No, not at all. Harry McPherson and I had been friends for a long time. I met Harry when I was in Washington in 1959. He was then, I guess, an attorney for the Senate Democratic Policy
  • involved chance, to set it off. I would say that many riots were prevented by wise action and cool heads. The riots tended, up until the riots that followed the assassination of Dr. King, to arise from a police incident that could have been avoided
  • , and all the Black Stars were athletes, and participating athletes. he even tried to get in. It just doesn't fit to me that Of course, he might have, because he had that desire to be where the action was and they had control, you know, this many years. G
  • combination of charades and actions took place, whether it was food or whether it was watershed projects or whether it was. People working \lJith me worked up something called Opportunity Homesteads. This would have taken quite a feltl mill ions. I cantt
  • --if I could see a final action in the department that might be a White House operation . I mean to be announced by the White House gives your department prestige, rather than the secretary announcing it . To have the president announcing it, that's
  • Democratic convention
  • Commander Gingrich actually, that I just did not want to stay in Washington too long, and I thought I had been there long enough in spite of the fact that I'd spent about ten months in Algiers and North Africa. He tried to encourage me to go to South America
  • station KVET; Coke Stevenson; LBJ using a helicopter to campaign in 1948; monitoring the 1948 election returns; LBJ's kidney stones; Paul Porter; legal action surrounding the 1948 election and box 13 incident; the Democratic Executive Committee vote
  • America and bomb the air fields in Cuba. And then Cubans would land over in Florida and say that they were Cuban Air Force people that had defected, and they had participated in the bombing and so forth. This got tied up and wasn't very well executed
  • it the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, not North Vietnam or South Vietnam. The fact that this is one country and you shove anybody in who's around. G: Another thing that puzzles me is the Tet attacks which, despite the disclaimers, were largely a surprise
  • to the fund-raising dinner in Washington. I can't recall, and your notes didn't help me on it, whether it was the [Democratic] National Committee or the congressional Democratic committee, but it was a fund raiser. Initially, of course, the President
  • ; Larry O’Brien; Krim resigning as Democratic National Committee finance chairman to be involved with the LBJ Presidential Library and School of Public Affairs; being asked to join LBJ’s cabinet and the United Nations; Arthur Goldberg; the LBJ Foundation
  • , at that time, for congressional liaison, was seconded over to the Democratic committee; I worked through filr. Birkhead. B: He was, technically, then I think, with Rural Americans for JohnsonHumphrey? t1: Yes. B: What were the circumstances of your being
  • forth, I, William A. Knowlton, of Alexandria, Virginia, do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted with me on March 21
  • , because there were lots of questions raised about where the Republicans were getting money for that [Wendell] Willkie campaign, and where the Democrats got money--and you know better than I do on that. But the campaign laws on this campaign financing
  • judged you on your actions and your thoughts and your perspective, and apparently he thought that he could m.ake something out of me, and he took it upon himself to do it. G: Did he give you advice on what to do in your work up in Dallas? R
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roth -- III -- 29 that has come has been people who were jealous of him rather than who were dissatisfied with his actions or what he did. G: To your knowledge, did he have pretty good relations with Congressman Kleberg
  • was old even then. P: And who has just recently celebrated, I understand, his ninetyfourth birthday. F: Right. P: And he enjoined the Secretary of State of Texas from certifying any Democratic candidate on the senatorial ballot. Well, Alvin Wirtz
  • with President Kennedy, to change that, that he was dedicated to it. I forget the name of the committee, but you would probably know it. G: It was the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. K: Yes. Obviously his point of view was very pro-action to do away
  • of the President’s Club and its growth; LBJ offering Mrs. Krim Presidential appointments; Krim’s support of Robert Kennedy; fundraising nationwide for LBJ; entertainment celebrities attending political fundraisers; 1964 Democratic National Convention; Don Cook
  • and Boggs on the Democratic side and Ford and Cooper on the other side--and John McCloy from New York and Allen Dulles would be willing to serve on that commission if I was to head it up. And he said, "I think this thing is of such great importance
  • . ·He never hesitated, and he never looked back once tie deci.ded. · And, frankly, I know personally Ralph McGill probably had as much influence on Jl\Y thinking and Jl\Y action, other than my inmediate family and the Mayor, than any other person here
  • repeatedly he made statements to the same effect. I would be called down to the Ranch to discuss it. And indeed, there were certain actions that proved it at the outset. For example, before I was appointed I was invited to Camp David that weekend. I hadn't
  • possible to have adopted the course of action that you were recommending at that time. fair understanding of it? It was not already set. Is that a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • a liberal, being a Democrat, being a . . . Was it anti-Semitic, or was it just a combination of everything? H: I think it could have been a combination of several things but there was one factor that was a motivating one that Harry Cain told me about
  • Democratic Executive Committee. I don't know whether you're aware of this or not. L: No, I didn't know that. F: But he said he turned it down after being the--it was never actually offered, but he was the front runner. He said the condition of his law
  • of the administration, which he, Lodge, as a Republican appointed by a Democratic president, was about to serve loyally and well, and more gung ho than anyone else. It was that sort of reaction, I think. I know Paul Kattenburg personally and have high regard for his
  • : I would feel that most of the views I hold would be like those held by many in the Democratic Party. It's a little bit hard to answer that now in that there are so many views expressed by so many people in so many parties, so I'm a little reluctant
  • and Company. I t was sad, and it meant more of a burden .was placed on Louis Ma r t i n . I worked a great de9.1 with the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee mYself, and a couple of others, to play basically IItalent agency," which we had
  • completely sympathetic with you in the situation? B: Yes. G: Dillon had evidently proposed some formula for giving ten days' advance notice to the other concerns, the FDIC and the Fed before taking any of these actions. Was that in fact part
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh approach struck me as being a very They called for conformity, and I suppose I'm not a con- The only brass collar I'll wear will be a Democratic Party brass collar, because that's the least
  • own defenses as that we've issued a warning against action LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Luther King's death and problems encountered 1 Shocked at the potential for simultaneous multiple disorders 3,18 Secretary Reser 5,6,7,8 Democratic Convention in Chicago LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Biographical information; prosecuting White House sit-in demonstrators; Frank Reeves; Howard Reed; Ralph Roberts, clerk of the House, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; David Dellinger and the March on the Pentagon; "Murphy" confidence
  • -- II -- 28 economists agreed--that tax cuts and tax increases should be used for stabilization purposes: try to fight inflation. tax cuts in recession~ tax increases to That's the basic theoretical analysis ·and research relating past tax actions
  • of this, but let Joe go without his having to suffer." I'll let you judge on the facts the significance of this type of action, which I don't think was the first or last of its kind. The result was the President did get a lot of criticism; the travel tax never
  • 1965. He made the comment, "I've just been with one of the greatest Democratic presidents since Roosevelt died. Old Harry Truman, I visited with him at the Muehlebach. He's one of the greatest, and he's doing great." [He'd] just tell the people, he said
  • ? And then you assess your audience as Are they ticket-holders? Are they Did they have previous knowledge that he was going to attend the function? Quite often, on impromptu actions by the President, the problem is somewhat less than you might envision
  • , I guess this belongs over in the President's file, rather than my files." Of course, I wasn't suppose to see it--that it had been to all these guys. action. So that was my first It's very hard for me because by that time I was conduct- ing a lot
  • , as I recall, for East Asia then, or Far East, whichever it was. And I was on the action planning group level; I was chairman of that group. It had people from the State Department and from the CIA involved. One of the consultants to the group turned out
  • with LBJ’s actions regarding Vietnam; Robert McNamara leaving LBJ’s cabinet; distinguishing between the National Security Council and National Security Council staff; the chairman of the JCS’s staff and their duties vs. the director of the Joint Staff