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  • Johnson doing things that would emphasize sometimes the distinction between him and Kennedy, that Kennedy was an easterner, a sophisticate, the son of a rich man. So Johnson would emphasize that he was rough-hewn; he was a rural man, a farm boy
  • nonsense, because that I thought that in this conflict of powers, of ideas, Australia had exactly the same interests on a much smaller scale as the United States of America. Therefore it took uS not five minutes to decide that when this thing came
  • Contacts with LBJ; assassination of JFK; relations with U.S. cabinet members; Vietnam War; import curbs on Australian meat; problems of Australian economic development in 1965; relationship with the United States and five U.S. Presidents
  • and Administrative Services Act of 1949,, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), 1, Mrs. Whitney M. Young, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual
  • States 8.3 of the date of the 1. 'J:1tl~ , . deli very of this msterial into the physical custody of the Archivist of the United states. 2. It is the donor I s wish to !:lake the material donated to the U:lited States or America by terms
  • on the consequences of the testing, indicating that he had a divergence of opinion between the AEC, on the one hand, and the State Department on the other as to the course of action that the United States should take. preparing such a report. I spent about two weeks
  • Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections
  • of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, James J. Rowley , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon
  • amateur view has been a tendency on the parts of many people in this country to lump Latin America together and not realize the vast differences from country to country. On the other hand, they do tend to stand somewhat solid when the United S t a t e s
  • Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit
  • ¥fS.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, Joseph H.Carter, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
  • and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CPR 101-10), I, Warren Christopher, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit
  • , Warren Christopher, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape
  • of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10),.I, , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson
  • Biographical information; Mayor of Washington, DC Council and DC police force; recruitment; conflicting jurisdictions; coordination with government departments; intelligence unit; MLK assassination; Poor People's March and Resurrection City; 1968
  • . And because the investigation was--well, although it was centered in Memphis where the shooting took place, the investigation proceeded to encompass the whole United States, Canada, Mexico, England, Portugal, and it basically was an FBI investigation. B
  • we call the rural South, in Texas, with its very strong views, which are sometimes reactionary. And it's difficult to exactly associate Mr. Johnson's position in the Congress and in the government of the United States with some of the views that his
  • Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America
  • should be able to endure dilemmas and work ourselves out of them without necessarily taking it all out on the President of the United States, who inherited much of this problem after all. And hindsight is so easy to utilize. Where was this criticism
  • as a President; Secretary Udall; Lady Bird’s effort to make America conservation conscious; assessment of history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency; LBJ’s interest in the space program.
  • concerned. But there's a statement that very often men who become President of the United States do not know that there are international questions until they become President. I presume that the same thing can be said for men who become Vice President
  • advantage. Take your pick; it all depends on what your judgment of Johnson is. B: What was your opinion in those days of the idea that a Southerner just ipso facto could not become President of the United States? K: Until it became apparent
  • and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of personal interviews conducted on January 27, January 29, January 30, and January 31, 1969, in Washington, D.C., and prepared for deposit
  • doing civil rights-wise in America Mr. Johnson would always ask them to come and see me in Dallas. So, since Texas was his native state and all, that added to the challenge. So, he took a real personal interest and his staff likewise did
  • through grants they already account for something like a third or 30 per cent of total city receipts in the United States--urban receipts. We did discuss in the report alternative ways of making sure that the cities would not be shortchanged
  • ) and requlations issued thereunder (41 CPR 101-10), I, Warren Christopher, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
  • it was part the romance, but also the great interest I had in foreign affairs. F: As an undergraduate, had you been interested in political science? D; Marginally. I was a Spanish and Portuguese major. South America and set the world on fire. I wanted
  • 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 on March 29, 1974 in Dallas, Texas, and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
  • to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statement approved
  • in the House, had been pending for several years, and was coming to a head. The late Speaker did not favor the Bill for their admission, because he thought that any admission of new states should be of contiguous territory to the continental United States
  • -10), I, , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape
  • the United Nations. I think we got the word of that assassina- tion after getting inside of the White House, and the planes with people to accompany him were already loaded at Andrews. going. I was not Marie Fehmer went on that trip, and I came back
  • Onassis of New York City 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 on January 11, 1974 in New York City and prepared
  • , 1968 INTERVIEWEE: RUFUS W. YOUNGBLOOD INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Youngblood's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 M: To identify the tape, this is an interview with Mr. Rufus W. Youngblood, who is the deputy director of the United States
  • Americans must have known. The American advisers to the troop units, perhaps? F: Not really. First of all, the American military advisers, you might say, were also fish out of water in that environment. I'm sure they were doing a very good
  • is," and that's when the call went out all over North America, "Find him!" And the FBI officers, for example, in Rapid City, not knowing I was going to be flying to Washington, said: "I would suggest that you and your family LBJ Presidential Library http
  • in a logistics setup with respect to the MAAG [Military Assistance Advisory Group] that we had there then. But I was in Vietnam from 1954 to 1957. Then I came back to the United States. The Army insists that one go to school and so forth, and so I stayed
  • to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on August 18, 1969 in Dallas, Texas and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. This assignment
  • \"as making speec hes on some r ather cruc i al issues that a ffected the United States of America , area r edevelopment a nd depressed ar ea programs, and then to be caught not voting on them , you are pretty vulnerab l e . So our concern then 7
  • many times when I was listening to him pointed out that one does not turn down the candidate for the presidency of the United States; that this is a duty, a larger duty than any of your personal tastes are. My own judgment is, I don't believe
  • tnereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, Dorothy J. Nichols , hereinafter referred. to as the donor, hereby give, dOIk'1.t ,:!and. convey to the United States of America for eventual dcpo3it in the proposed Lyr.don Baines Johnson Libra:r-.r, and for administrati
  • of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States de~ and ject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I~ .u:::~~~p'~r:4-:JI&.¥.S~;--;~ of Austin, Texas do hereby give, donate and co vey t the United States of America all my rights, title and interest
  • to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on May 13, 1969 in Atlanta, Georgia and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. . This assignment
  • - tant things that the United States could do was to send its young people overseas in programs like the Peace Sorps to get to know people in developing countries and to make friends. I'm not talking about making friends between Washington and Lahore