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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1969-02-24 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the Congressional records. But just to begin with, you were elected to the 76th Congress in 1939 as a Democrat from Oklahoma, and you were succeSSively reelected to the House through 1951. At that time you were elected as Senator and served in the Senate until
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • had been, I don't recall right offhand, had been discussed earlier. The Community Action was the newest. It bore obviously some imprint from the juvenile delinquency program which contributed both to some of its strengths and some of its weaknesses
  • Biographical information; Community Action; LBJ and the poverty program; Sargent Shriver; the Yarmolinsky episode; Baker's responsibilities; the Employment Service; Head Start Program; OEO's mission and future; Legal Services program; 1967 riots
Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • much concerned with the fact-finding that culminated in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After the law was passed, I decided I would go where the action would be, and that was with one of the departments that would be enforcing the act. I
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was invited to do so. My time over there was limited to about two weeks. Fortunately, it was the two weeks when the action had really reached the highly interesting level. My work on the study group had given me some familiarity with the rather extensive ways