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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-03-05 (remove)

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  • appointment to the Redevelopment Land Agency? H: I remember that I was driving back from New England and that I stopped in New York to see my wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Ross. We were on the beach in Long Island when I got a call to call the White
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • articles for the New York Times for Bill Wirtz; there were pamphlets for the Labor Department--a whole host of things. G: What was understood by the word "poverty", if you can recall, at that time? Was it discussed simply in terms of an economic line
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to Washington from your home state in Texas, and you worked with them until 1945. From 1945 to 1958 you were with the New York Times and rose to the position of chief congressional correspondent. In 1958 you left to become nationally syndicated. Your column
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , I don't think there has been a case study approach, unless somebody within OEO has done it, of the kind of problem areas in Community Action. I think one of the earliest ones was the HarYou Act situation in New York, and particularly the Black Arts
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . One, it is unique in its visibility. With the possible exception of New York, there is no city as visible in the nation or the world as Washington, D.C. As the mayor says, whenever two bumpers hit, it's heard around the world in Washington, D.C
  • ; initiative for ordinances or legislation in D.C. government; Cloud 9 concept; new D.C. government; urban problems; D.C.'s preparation for marches; April riots after MLK assassination; Brookings study; prevention of riots; gun legislation; Resurrection City
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . I was of the opinion that he was a very effective leader in Congress ; that he was substantially more liberal than at least the average Minnesotan thinks a Southern leader is ; that he was a supporter of the New Deal and so on . I had enough
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)