Discover Our Collections


  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Type > Text (remove)
  • Subject > Civil disorders (remove)

24 results

  • the United States Housing Authority was established, I went with Nathan Strauss as special assistant, so I left the Department of Interior. Now, my concern was sort of a catholic one (with a small "c"). I was involved in working on programs like
  • the major thing that occurred in the Senate side during the committee deliberations was the adoption of the migrant worker provisions--the housing, education, sanitation, day-care operations-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • , "Are you coming to Washington?" P: He said that there were two spots that he wanted me to consider; that he wanted me in his Administration, and that he was going to have to make an appointment for treasurer of the United States, that the lady who
  • to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statement approved by me and prepared
  • . They had been given a loan by ARA and a grant by ARA, as I recall, and they had also procured a loan from a Kentucky insurance firm, and the United Mine Workers had advanced them money. working capital. Primarily this money was in the way of In late 1964
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh February 19, 1969 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're Edward Re, and you're currently since January of 1969 a United States Judge in the Customs Court. Prior to that time you served for most of the year 1968
  • . on periodic ceremonial occasions: One, I see him the awards of the Medal of Honor to Army soldiers, or the awards of the Presidential Unit Citations to Army units, and at various bill-signings and other such functions at the White House. I also have met
  • Johnson Library. The gift of this material is made subject to the following terms and conditions: 1. The donor retains to himself during his lifetime all literary property rights in the material donated to the United States of America by the terms
  • Hershey; reorganization/consolidation of Reserves and National Guard; training of reserve units for Vietnam; lawsuits by reservists; role of reserves; defense budgeting; ROTC; training skills; older equipment in Vietnam; desertions; Vietnam; Armed Forces
  • and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CPR 101-10), I, Warren Christopher, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit
  • , Warren Christopher, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape
  • , and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on June 23 1910 in Austin, Texas and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
  • to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statement approved
  • we call the rural South, in Texas, with its very strong views, which are sometimes reactionary. And it's difficult to exactly associate Mr. Johnson's position in the Congress and in the government of the United States with some of the views that his
  • Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America
  • ) and requlations issued thereunder (41 CPR 101-10), I, Warren Christopher, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
  • of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Frank Mankiewicz of Washington, D.C. do hereby give, donate,. and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest
  • and Scooter Miller--I think they turned in about a hundred or hundred-fifty thousand dollar surplus which was given to the United Givers Fund. M: When did you first meet Lyndon Johnson, do you remember? H: It is an unusual--I don't really know when I met
  • INTERVIEWEE: OTTO KERNER INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Judge Kerner's chambers, Chicago, Illinois Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're Otto Kerner, currently United States judge of the circuit court, and during most
  • : 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
  • ; comparison of police and military units in controlling civil disturbances; the Chicago riots of 1968; police relations with the black community; The D.C. riots following the MLK assassination; reluctance to use federal troops; difficulties in planning the use
  • is," and that's when the call went out all over North America, "Find him!" And the FBI officers, for example, in Rapid City, not knowing I was going to be flying to Washington, said: "I would suggest that you and your family LBJ Presidential Library http
  • ; this was the President of the United States, the first time coming into this state, and therefore he insisted that he not only greet the President but be the first to greet him. I said, "Certainly, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • thought that you could pass an open housing bill through the United States Senate. I would have bet pretty heavy odds against it at the beginning of 1968. F: I wouldn't have taken your bet. S: I just think there are a lot of remarkable things done
  • there I went to the United States Army with a commi ssi on and stayed in the mil i tary for about three and a hal f years, including two years in Europe. I came back and was given the opportunity to edit the weekly newspaper in Milledgeville. I think