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  • : Now, there are some specific items on this list of questions, starting with number thirteen, which have come out of the Congressional Quarterly which you may have some memory of. In 1955, for example, your name was mentioned objecting to the passage
  • in the Congressional Record Quarterly, the last one having appeared on May 15. I think I may have given you a February 20 date last time you were here. On May 15 another list appeared and you might get an idea of who the current ones are if that has any play
  • in the quarterly report of lobbyists. It used to be in the Congressional Record that each filing got about three or four lines. It was nicely arranged and all. Now each registration takes up one line, and these registrations in the twentieth record take up 16
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 meeting, and they'd do a memo, and such . Here we had a procedure that assured that the President got at least a quarterly review regularly of what was new in the economy, whether
  • , was this a departmental committee or a congressional committee? M: This was a departmental committee. This committee recommended that there be established in the department an Assistant Secretary for Science and Education to be patterned after what some of the other
  • of the session. I remember one session in which we were trying to get the votes for Ways and Means, and it turned out one of the key members we needed--I've forgotten his name--was holed up in the Congressional Hotel on some sort of binge. We had to send his
  • . G: Why wasn't there a minimum wage proposal for migrant workers? Do you recall? This was something that was discussed in committee, and I gather some people may have favored it and others didn't. Y: Discussed in the congressional committees? G
  • . Gillette PLACE: The Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Well, let's start generally with the congressional relations operation and-- B: Would you be interested in just a little general background on how I got started in it? G
  • Congressional relations with the Department of the Treasury during the Kennedy administration; Charls Walker; Barr's duties under the Department of the Treasury; Larry O'Brien; conflict between the Department of the Treasury and other departments
  • a--Wayne Kelley is a guy who is now with the Congressional Quarterly here, but at the time was at the Atlanta Journal, and this is something that might be worthwhile for your archives if they're not already there--magazine piece on the relationship between
  • of President Roosevelt. F: H: When did you first become aware of Mr. Johnson? I think it must have been when he was NYA director for Texas and at the time he announced for Congress in the special election in the 10th Congressional district. F: Did you
  • Biographical information; assisted LBJ in Congressional and Senate campaigns; private practice; military service; assistant attorney general of Texas; election code; Commissioner for ICC and Chairman; Senators Yarborough and Tower; LBJ’s interest
  • common thing but I noticed when I looked in the Congressional Quarterly Almanac on this legislation that the 1966 [Comprehensive] Health Planning and Public Health Service Act was only authorized for two years instead of the six years requested
  • to take care of the job. It was not an interview to test I'm quite aware of that. The President had in this period of time appointed the man who was congressional liaison for the Treasury, Joseph W. Barr, to assume the majority position at the FDIC Board
  • , as is demonstrated in this file and the correspondence between me and the Congressional Quarterly editor, who was then David Broder, [I noticed] that Johnson was voting more and more as a Westerner. That Johnson wanted to be thought of as a Southwesterner
  • in the thing the Troika always met in Secretary Fowler's office. The second level of the Troika met in my office. M: On a regular basis? Z: Well, whenever we met we met in my office. There is a theory that the Troika was supposed to meet quarterly
  • that? R: Is that the "I'm a free man-- ? G: Texas Quarterly. 11 26 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • . Rebekah Johnson; Sherman Adams' resignation; crisis of Quemoy and Matsu; rally with Vance Hartke; Democratic sweep of Congressional election; Paul Butler and the Democratic National Committee; LBJ's address to the U.N.; LBJ's meeting with Lopez Mateos
  • for meetings, and the meetings were--I can't even be sure now whether they were quarterly or monthly--monthly maybe. about that. I'm even now a little vague But other than their meetings, the commissioners would arrive and we'd have an agenda for them, and I
  • on civil rights legislation, because as soon as the next Congress convened we undertook to get that pledge honored and Mr. Johnson kept his word, and so did Mr. Knowland. I was asked by Congressional Quarterly at that time whether I thought this legislation
  • -- 3 finally, at that time, the Bell-Dillon-Heller layer. This served both as a kind of factual agent to give the President something like a quarterly review--I don't know that we were quite that systematic but that was the objective--of the economic
  • . And then the other five are quarterly, dealing with chemicals, copper, pulp paper and board, packaging and containers, and printing and publishing . Now, we have a lot of one-time reports too, and this covers a wide range of activities . technology . It may
  • on the ball and were reading the calendar, reading the bills, and calling those of interest to the attention of their Senators, we would hear from them.Occasionally a Senator would come in the next day, having read that a bill had passed in the Congressional
  • are any better for it, but they are more formal. F: Did the council come together periodically, or on call, or how? M: Quite regularly, on call. I would say that in those years we were convened by Shriver at least quarterly, and maybe a little more
  • response to our request that he emphasize the importance"--this is September 13, 1965--"of beautification programs as it affects military installations. I'll make arrangements for the quarterly reports to be sent to the White House so that if they contain
  • INTERVIEWEE: PETER BRAESTRUP INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Braestrup's office at the Wilson Quarterly, Smithsonian Institution Building, Washington , D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's talk about your background a little bit in Southeast Asia before you
  • have a call from Warren Smith--this was following the forecast model for the Council at the time. He raised a number of quite doubting questions about how we would get to nine hundred twenty billion dollars on a quarterly pattern through
  • , but it didn't take much money either in those days to go to school. tuition was only fifteen dollars. The quarterly If you could rake up room and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • subjects such as school lunches, and it was really the in-depth study of twenty years of Southern education following desegregation. And there also was an adjunct called Legal Reporting Services or something. They got out--I think it was a quarterly report