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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Type > Text (remove)
  • Date > 1969-02-26 (remove)

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  • one of the best nominees that the Democratic party could have. I had never heard much about Stevenson. I think I'm a one-speech convert. I had never heard him speak. I had been at Chicago at the convention trying to build up a bonfire for Speaker
  • on national politics. I was organization manager for the state of Texas in the Adlai Stevenson campaign in 1952. Then in 1953 and 1954, I worked part-time for the Democratic National Committee under Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell and Speaker Sam Rayburn
  • affect the program operations of, say, Community Action? L: Again, the day-to-day operation is not involved. The policy type of operation, what shall the CAP policy be toward--most of that sort of thing--the most important of those things requires
  • Biographical information; Joe Kresahw; Leon Gilgoff; Sargent Shriver; RPP&E program; OEO budgetary process; 5 Years Plans; Congressional understanding of the OEO; budget allocations recommendations; Community Action Program; Jobs; Moynihan; Green
  • do not themselves have the force of law, but under many statutes they are prerequisite to certain other actions that he may take, such as the issuance of an executive order. To be precise about one example, before the president can order federal
  • assassination; the occasional need to make sure the president understands the situation about which he is making a decision; the president's authority in lawmaking; interagency action; the 1967 New Town in Town program at Fort Lincoln in Washington, D.C