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Folder, "[Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • is a steady expansion of our national wealth. Prosperity alone may never be a cure-all for our problems, but it is the ~e ~~for overcoming them. It enriches the lives of about 85 percent of our people directly-­ through higher pay and higher profits
Oral history transcript, Wayne O. Reed, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1968, by Broudy (Item)
  • with this task force, 11 : i l. i serving as a link not only to the Office but als9 to the committees of i.i . I associations education national various the to and Congress . . :I I know something about all this because Mr. : Keppel's house and q mine
Oral history transcript, W. Stanley Kruger, interview S-I, 8/13/1968 (Item)
  • of discu ssion with le ro-a .J l I this, with ~gree to m e th get to couns el partic ularly g !1 ).0 ~ for assist ance under Title IV . it IIl1 i. for ra ce, color , r2l i g i on o :c nation al orip).n re- le some probl ·2m s r es ulting from
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and remained at Wesleyan as visiting professor and associate director for the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan. It was there that I was in residence when I was invited to join the President in the spring of 1964. M: You worked for The Reporter beyond
  • ; John Kenneth Galbraith recommends people to LBJ; "skinny dipping" in the White House pool; producing My Hope for America; the 1964 campaign; genesis of the task forces; Oscar Cox, Walter Lippman, and LBJ's interest in education; ESEA and the church
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • monies. And we also knew the Ford people well, especially Paul Ylvisaker, who headed the division of national affairs. Dick Boone, the key staff man on the Community Action task force, had worked for Ylvisaker at Ford and Ylvisaker was also an old
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)
  • " the sparning of :· 1· Fede7al fU..'1dS in any schaoi district or in p~ogram that practiced of aey ~! . . discrL..~nation, one of the first confrontations you~ad in cutting . \ . I off school funds, or suspending pay-went of Federal dollars
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/21/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • and Frances L ew ine, whom I think are p ra ctica lly twins; M a rie Smith of the Post; Isabelle Shelton of the Star; Eleanor P o llock of the Philadelphia Bulletin; and Nan Robertson, who w rote such good color s to rie s in the New Y o rk T im es about
Oral history transcript, J. Graham Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1968, by Monna Clark (Item)
  • -term legislation and advance funding. The people have not called out loud enough, saying, "this must be." I anticipate that before long some action of this kind will be taken on a broader base than Title I. There are a lot of technical, and I guess some
  • The inability to evaluate the effect of changes in the education system; 1965-1968 education-related legislation; the need for the U.S. to put a high priority on necessary education; policy providing advance funding through the appropriation process
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/28/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • , and the James S. R o c k e fe lle r s of the F i r s t National C ity Bank of New Y o r k City. LrtL And then the Bob Steven s , f o r m e r l y in^Eisenhower government;, and the W alter Toueys o f the C&O R a ilw a y Company, who are^besides^associated tJ/t
Oral history transcript, Peter P. Muirhead, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Herman R. Allen (Item)
  • 6 OF HE/\LTI I, EDUCATIO N .-'\ND D E P AffLJU~T 1 ~'/ ELfo.'\f~G 2 3 4 5 Intcrvie "\·1 of 6 . MR . ... 7 ·~ R P. PF.TE .·. ·- .... .•..... -. .. ~ · -~-- · _. Associ ate Comm is sion-::r l s. U. 8 Of f ic~ - ~. 1UJ RHEA D } - 'f
Oral history transcript, Dr. Arthur Harris, interview S-I, 7/10/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] I '. I More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh .I VOICE: ( The staff that you had at thjs tim e , '"hat I typ e s of sp e cialities did they usually hav e ? These pro gram people
  • 1962-1963 was Associate Commission in Bureau of Education Assistance Programs (BEEP); three divisions: 1. State and local elementary and secondary 2. Higher education 3. Manpower training; abrupt increase in staff in 1964 required new emphasis
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Beginning of 'Adventures in Learning' Trip and Showing of 'Pancho' Film - the White House, 3/13/1967" (Item)
  • to some of the schoolrooms of this country -­ a journey that will take me during the next tbree days to West Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The map shows that tbis are a .... Appalachia - - lies deep in the heart of the nation. It is no less deep
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/29/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • to do this. It's one of the many things that the Department of L a b o r is doing to bring people with special needs, in this ca s e h a ndicapped people, back into the m ain stream of econom ic life . The ubiquitous E sther Pet erson, A ssistan t S e
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin and Harold Howe II, interview S-II, undated (Item)
  • Federal ends. ! I \r9r Uncle Sam In3.kes it possible for a lot more people in the United States to · :get a higher education, because that 1 s a significant national objective. An~ we back a variety of specialties because they ar~ needed either by thE1
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/3/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • in ch arge of e v e ry th in g. ” This is one o f the good sm all things that happened and something that I want to make sure happens again--its the p rog ra m to bring bright young people to Washington to w o r k i n governm ent departments during
  • LBJ and Lady Bird to National City Christian Church with the Bill Wirtzes and Orville Freemans; swimming at the White House; Presidential Scholars program and Milton Eisenhower; LBJ golfs with Walter Jenkins and McGeorge Bundy; visit from Jesse
Oral history transcript, Walter Mylecraine, interview S-I, 7/12/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • l We donft move people about on tha t accoun t, which We \Vere 6 we very much l,.tse d to do in the Voice und in USIA. 7 used in the USIA to a wide ~prea d field of operat ion -­ 8 9 around the vorld I I~ey might be 10 I1 third 11 I
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/18/1967 (Saturday) (Item)
  • ity . ; And th ir d , m o st im p o rta n tly , for young people , .:because th is -was a ch an ce to show another fa c e of young p e o p le , and another fa c e of T e x a s .:',:They have so m uch to be proud o f . - ’ ' The h o n o red g u e st w
  • Lady Bird has breakfast and hair styled; Lady Bird meets student group from Texas; University of Texas College Bowl Team wins national championship; Lady Bird mentions honored guests; LBJ & Lady Bird speak to students who then tour White House; Lady
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/24/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • - c o ll a r people/^ taking le s s o n s in how to ru n o ffic e m a c h i n e r y . I a s k e d one young w o m a n w h y she w a s doing it . . ^' and she s a id that w ith typing and shorthand^,'she knew she could a l w a y s g e t a job, but i f
  • LBJ & Lady Bird 5-state tour; Lady Bird describes Chicago; stop at Cline High School, South Bend, IN; LBJ speech; stop at Peru, IN; LBJ speech & Lady Bird remarks at National Convention of League of Women Voters, Pittsburgh, PA; LBJ addresses United
Oral history transcript, Ralph Flynt, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • ~gricul tural workers·, !\! I f, I .
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)
  • him, as we would ask a profes sor or college preside nt in each locale , to draw togeth er a group of peop1e. Our intent was to get, quote, "the br.i ghtest people they could find," and it didn't matter whether they were social scient ists or physka l
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/18/1964 (Monday) (Item)
  • in Washington, a sm all dinner with articu late and charming peopl e, M a r yellen and M ike Monroney had asked us to come to a little dinner for the W alter Lippmanns, welcom ing them back from a European trip. The Fulbrights w ere there, we sat in the charming
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/20/1967 (Monday) (Item)
  • y . ' S p e c ific a lly , the l i s t of people whom w e m ight in v ite to le a v e th eir p a p e r s. -Hit MEMORANDUM THE WHITE.HOUSE WASHINOTON M onday, F e b r u a r y 20, 1967 Page 2 Juanita and D orothy have a lrea d y co m p iled
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/5/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • e m o ria l - - I had a sk ed th a t th e d o o rs be opened fro m the G re e n R oom , th e B lu e R oom , and the Red R oom , and a le r te d lo ts of m y frie n d s to su g g e st people s tr o ll out and se e th e lig h ted fountain, s u r ro u n
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/10/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • o r y . It w as a g r e a t show and I w as glad I w as th ere to w atch it, though I had the fe e lin g that th ese b a ttle s are won, th is day is o v e r , this i s the l a s t h u r r a h ." Y o u a re not forgotten people", he w en t on, "We
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/29/1966 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird tours the Khlong and describes people and sights; LBJ receives honorary degree from Chulalongkorn University; Lady Bird describes academic robes and King Kittikachorn; LBJ gives speech and signs International Education Act; Lady Bird meets
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/6/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • & people; stop at archeological site; tour of agricultural school; lunch; Lady Bird receives necklace made of coffee beans; to American Embassy; rest; reception at Intercontinental Hotel; dinner at Ambassador's residence; LBJ reminisces & philosophizes