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Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: Did this involve you in national Democratic politics? C: To a limited degree. I wouldn 1 t ~.;rant
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • been traditionally a woman's position, and also, he told me that Margaret Price was interested in leaving the National Committee. We did not know at that time that Margaret's illness was terminal, but she was wanting to get out from under the pressure
  • Biographical information; Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Sarah Hughes; Commission on Civil Disorders; Detroit riots; Kerner Commission Report; 1964 Democratic National Convention and campaign; Peden's Senate race; Doers Luncheon; Eartha
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that got hung up in the bureaucratic morass out in Houston-the Riverside National Bank, which was the first black bank in the State of Texas. The resident agent, who was a friend of mine--Dr. Edward Irons, who was a graduate of Harvard University
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in national Democratic politics? A: Yes, the position as mayor of Atlanta, and really my period as mayor of Atlanta extends from--although I came into office in 1962, 1961 was a campaigning year and an election year,and then I was very active in business
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~ Republicans or at least non-Democrats, as most of them were, to serve on that welcoming committee for the President. Then they asked if we'd put on a rally--not actually a political rally, but gather a substantial crowd if we could for the President's
  • Political background; LBJ's support of poverty program in Detroit; use of phrase "The Great Society" and how it began; role of Public Officials Advisory Committee; Detroit Freedom March with MLK in 1963; creation of HUD; Model City program; U.S
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , appointment--or any service in the political field except working on both Democratic and Republican inaugural committees in the years past. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • Biographical information; Chairman of Medal Committee for LBJ’s inaugural; Felix DeWaldin; appointment to Redevelopment Land Agency; Marvin Watson; Neville Miller; appointment to Chairmanship of District Council; Steve Pollack; Max Kampelman; Walter
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Y: 1960, that's right. F: What was your role in the preconvention workings at that time? Y: I was not a member of the California delegation to the national
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in '64, he loved working on the Hill--was working with the House Judiciary Committee, first on the hearings on the bill. This was Mr. [Emanuel] Celler's committee. called the mark-up ot the bill. And then on what's I sat with the subcommittee
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was a member of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, \'Jhich Nr. Vinson was chairman of then. I went to a small military prep school and junior college in Milledgeville and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1959 with a degree in journalism. From
Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • businessi right. But, as you can imagine, on an island like Cyprus where our economic national interests aren't substantially engaged, the interest of the economic section of the embassy is strictly in the political impact of the local economics
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Youth Corps, it actually passed the Senate and got through the House Committee a couple of times. S-l, I think, was the designation. The Vista program, obviously, was a modification of the National Service Corps Program, and some of the other things
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the Secretary? W: Well, it was an interesting story. That was the time when the NRA Codes hearings were being conducted, and a classmate of mine, who had finished law school, and I established the National Committee on Industrial Recovery. We got the various
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • for that special condition. Obviously, it wasn't strong enough. G: In this kind of development with the addition of the national emphasis programs and the evolution of guidelines in Community Action, has there been a tendency to take away the flexibility
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Democratic Party dinner in New York. He came right from the airport to the dinner and delivered a rather flowery tribute to the President. That sort of stilled things for a while. But it wouldn't stay down, and I think the President r s response
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • through some special assistant at the White House--Joe Califano or someone like that. B: This last summer and the riots in Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention, what sort of machinery from your office went into effect there? V
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Graduate of MIT, Harvard Law School; active duty with the Army from 1961-63, served as a staff director of the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces; Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia; Deputy General
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , "Education lies at the heart of every nation's hopes and purposes. of our international relations." It must be at the heart This was a phrase that I think beautifully summarized the role of education, not only in domestic advancement, but also
  • and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961; Board of Foreign Scholarship; Fulbright-Haynes Act; Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Budgetary Stringency; War Claims; Russian cultural agreement; American effort in international education and cultural activities; World
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to be the deputy mayor. I want a city manager for that job." Horace Busby then called Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers Association; and Mr
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , B: from from the NAACP and other national Negro organizations . in your talks with Mr . McGiffert and Mr . Murphy afterwards, were you concentrating mainly on the situation in the District of Columbia? C: No, we were concentrating nationally
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of West Virginia. Of course, Randolph is chairman of the Senate Public Works Committee, and Byrd has gained more and more of a role over there in the Senate. in some dam. I've forgotten the name of it. They were interested I'd been identified to them
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in either time or place, and was it within the sphere of our national interests? R: I think we significantly underestimated the difficulty of what we were trying to do. We significantly underestimated the difficulty that arises from the fact