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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1968-10-31 (remove)

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  • up a committee of public spirited people--I was then the Executive Director of the National Consumers League--to try to get them to lend their support to the passage of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. We were seeking to get that bill through
  • Comments by LBJ; LBJ’s concern for full utilization of human resources; FSEE; War on Poverty; YWCA; 1964 Civil Rights Act; comparison of non-white/white men earnings; women in household employment; National Commission on Household Employment
  • , in individual activity, you let your wishes be known to your neighbors, your associates, actually your supporters, because you do have people supporting you in a job like I have now. I had to have some political support in order for me to get this job. you let
  • experience, such as in partisan politics at the state level in California or at the national level? C: I've never run for office. I was, in 1959 for four months, special counsel to Governor Brown of California. At that time, I helped him \vith his firat
  • the people were very considerate of us on that whole trip. They all felt an interest, as though we were part of their family, you see. P: Protective. J: Protected us. So that's why they went as far as the Grand Canyon, even though they were anxious
  • a close friend and associate of then Congressman Johnson, you see. M: And remained so? F: And remained so until this day. We had lunch there with Francis Biddle, and we were all sort of getting together and breaking up, really. I then saw him next about
  • Roosevelt Association; counsel for Washington Post; Phil Graham; Jerry Siegel; John McCloy; Edmund A. Gullion; Herbert Humphrey; Jerome B. Wiesner; Arthur Dean; Arthur Schlesinger; McGeorge Bundy; ACDA; Alvin Wirtz; Moscow trip; test ban treaty; American
  • . the 1944 campaign. That was in And I served in the Senate until I retired voluntarily in January 1967. F: Now, in 1944, when you first ran, the country went Democratic. You bucked a national trend there. s: I did. I got a good majority vote in both
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ in the Senate Armed Services Committee and Preparedness Sub-Committee; Kem Resolution; activities in the Senate; amendment to Kerr-Mills Bill; Saltonstall-Kennedy Act; Senator Hayden; Smithsonian