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  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • IDA VOTE; POVERTY BILL; AID TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS ISSUE; LBJ'S NYA WORK WITH CATHOLICS; LBJ WANTS COMPROMISE LANGUAGE IN REPORT, NOT BILL; CLOSING DEFENSE FACILITIES; HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE ACTION ON FEDERAL PAY BILL; RESIGNATIONS OF FEDERAL
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • POVERTY BILL; QUESTION OF PUTTING LANGUAGE ON AID TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS IN REPORT RATHER THAN BILL; HUGH CAREY; TIP O'NEILL, CLOSING DEFENSE INSTALLATIONS; FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN; ALABAMA PROPERTY OWNED BY LADY BIRD JOHNSON
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • ADJOURNMENT OF HOUSE COMMITTEE ON POVERTY BILL; ADAM CLAYTON POWELL; HUGH CAREY; NEA CONCERN THAT AID TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS WILL UNDERMINE SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS; COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM; JOKES FOR UPCOMING LBJ SPEECHES; BOB HOPE
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • O'BRIEN REPORTS HUGH CAREY, JAMES O'HARA, PHIL LANDRUM HAVE REACHED AGREEMENT ON PARTS 204A, 204B OF POVERTY BILL?; AID TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS ISSUE
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • DISCUSSION OF ITEMS FOR PRESS BRIEFING; LBJ'S MEETING WITH WILLIAM SCRANTON; POVERTY BILL; POSSIBLE QUESTION ABOUT LBJ'S WEIGHT
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • MOYERS REPORTS CONVERSATIONS WITH JAMES ROOSEVELT, GUS HAWKINS, GEORGE BROWN ON NEED TO RETURN TO DC FOR POVERTY BILL VOTE; IMPLICATIONS OF THEIR ABSENCE FROM CALIFORNIA DURING SENATE PRIMARY ELECTION BETWEEN PIERRE SALINGER, ALAN CRANSTON; EDITH
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • PASSAGE OF POVERTY BILL IN HOUSE COMMITTEE; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT TIMES CONGRESS HAS TAKEN OFF THIS YEAR, NEED TO PASS LEGISLATION; EISENHOWER, CONGRESS AND 1956 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; PLANS FOR CONGRESS TO ADJOURN FOR CONVENTIONS; REPUBLICAN STRATEGY
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • SHOOTING IN GEORGIA, CARL SANDERS' STATEMENT, BODY FOUND IN MISSISSIPPI; FBI CHECKS ON APPOINTEES TO CIVIL RIGHTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE; RFK ASKS LBJ TO INSTRUCT FBI TO KEEP HIM INFORMED; NARCOTICS MEETING; POVERTY BILL; RECALL OF CONGRESS IN 1960
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ TELLS O'BRIEN ABOUT REPORT FROM CARL ALBERT THAT TIP O'NEILL WILL LEAVE WASHINGTON, DC BEFORE IMPORTANT VOTE IN RULES COMMITTEE ON POVERTY BILL, SAYS KARL MUNDT WILL VOTE FOR CLOTURE ON CIVIL RIGHTS BILL; O'BRIEN MENTIONS REPORT BY STEELWORKERS
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • PRELIMINARY HEAD COUNT FOR CLOTURE ON CIVIL RIGHTS BILL; REPORT BY STEELWORKERS ON VOTE; MEETING BETWEEN SARGENT SHRIVER, PAT MCNAMARA ON SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGS ON POVERTY BILL; DELAY BY OLIN JOHNSTON IN REPORTING FEDERAL PAY BILL OUT
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ ASKS ADVICE ON POSSIBLE CANDIDATES TO REPLACE HENRY CABOT LODGE IN VIETNAM: GEORGE BALL, JOHN MCCONE, MCNAMARA, WILLIAM GAUD, CLARK KERR, WESTMORELAND; CYPRUS; STATE DEPT PRESS LEAKS; LAOS; POVERTY PROGRAM; CARL HAYDEN; CENTRAL ARIZONA WATER
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ CONGRATULATES MCCORMACK ON VOTE FOR MASS TRANSIT BILL IN HOUSE, GIVES MCCORMACK REPORT ON SARGENT SHRIVER AND HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE ACTION ON POVERTY BILL
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ GIVES MCCORMACK REPORT ON SARGENT SHRIVER, HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE ACTION ON POVERTY BILL; JUDGE HOWARD SMITH; CHARLES HALLECK; PHIL LANDRUM; LBJ'S TRIP TO MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • O'BRIEN REPORTS ON VOTE IN SENATE ON EXCISE TAX BILL; FEDERAL DEBT CEILING BILL; SENATE AGREEMENT TO HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO MASS TRANSIT BILL; CHARLES HALLECK AND HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE ACTION ON POVERTY BILL, FOREIGN AID BILL, HAMER BUDGE APPOINTMENT
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • DISCUSSION OF PETE WILLIAMS' REMARKS ABOUT POSSIBLE CONFERENCE ON UNIDENTIFIED BILL, NEED FOR HOUSE TO ACCEPT SENATE AMENDMENTS; O'BRIEN REPORTS HIS CONVERSATION WITH CHARLES HALLECK ON POVERTY BILL?; CIVIL RIGHTS BILL; MASS TRANSIT BILL
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • DISCUSSION OF PRESS REACTION, PUBLIC REACTION TO LBJ'S SPEECH IN MINNESOTA; HOUSE RULE FOR POVERTY BILL; VALENTI, HHH DISCUSS CONFLICTING REPORTS OF SIZE OF CROWD IN MINNESOTA, TOUR HHH GAVE "WICKMAN? FOLKS" WHO VISITED CAPITOL TODAY
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • DALEY EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR LBJ; LBJ INVITES DALEY, WIFE TO WH; LBJ REPORTS ON MISSISSIPPI SITUATION, VIETNAM; 1964 CAMPAIGN; BARRY GOLDWATER; ISSUES IN ILLINOIS, UNEMPLOYMENT, MODERNIZATION; CIVIL RIGHTS; INFLUENCE OF PRESS; VP SELECTION; POVERTY
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • CIVIL RIGHTS, FOOD STAMP, POVERTY BILLS; REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION; FOREIGN AID CUTS; VIETNAM; ELLENDER OFFERS TO MEET WITH JORDAN'S KING HUSSEIN; EMBASSIES SHUNNING ELLENDER BECAUSE OF HIS CIVIL RIGHTS VIEWS; BEEF OVERPRODUCTION; ELLENDER'S PRALINES
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ'S RECENT TRIP; FOOD STAMP BILL; FEDERAL PAY BILL, WILLIAM DOHERTY; POVERTY BILL; AID TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS, HUGH CAREY, WILBUR COHEN; DREW PEARSON COLUMN ON KEN O'DONNELL; CIVIL RIGHTS BILL IN SENATE, EVERETT DIRKSEN, HHH, CLOTURE
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS BILL; POVERTY BILL IN HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE; AID TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS; TIP O'NEILL; JAMES DELANEY; FEDERAL PAY BILL; PENSION BILL FOR WIDOWS OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES; PROCEDURES OF RULES COMMITTEE; JUDGE HOWARD SMITH
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • POVERTY BILL; TIP O'NEILL, HUGH CAREY, JAMES DELANEY, AID TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS; CATHOLIC POSITION; REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION; SARGENT SHRIVER; PENSION BILL FOR WIDOWS OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES; ADAM CLAYTON POWELL
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • TOPICS FOR PRESS BRIEFING: APPALACHIA BILL; BUDGET SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR VA, AGRICULTURE, DC, PUBLIC WORKS; POVERTY; LBJ WANTS TO HEAR FROM WILLIAM SCRANTON, JAMES RHODES, OTHER GOVERNORS, BEFORE ANNOUNCING APPALACHIA BILL
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • MIDWEST POLLS; SHRIVER REPORTS ON TRIP TO GERMANY, ISRAEL ON INTERNATIONAL PEACE CORPS; TALK WITH WILBUR MILLS ON POVERTY BILL; PETER FRELINGHUYSEN; REPUBLICAN PRESS CONFERENCE ON BILL; PHIL LANDRUM; LBJ WORRIES ABOUT DELAYS; BOB POAGE, "FHA" (FMHA
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • SENATE HEARINGS ON POVERTY BILL
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • O'BRIEN GIVES LBJ HEAD COUNT IN HOUSE ON (POVERTY?) BILL; DISCUSSION OF GETTING VOTES FROM PENNSYLVANIA, TEXAS, ARKANSAS DELEGATIONS; O'BRIEN DISCUSSES GEORGE MAHON'S INTEREST IN GETTING APPROPRIATION FOR COTTON RESEARCH FUNDS
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • DISCUSSION OF APPROPRIATION FOR COTTON RESEARCH FUNDS, POLITICAL SUPPORT FOR IT, B.O.B. OBJECTION TO FUNDING, LBJ'S RELUCTANCE TO ASK FOR SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION; LBJ ASKS MAHON'S ASSISTANCE ON POVERTY BILL, EMPHASIZES JOB TRAINING, HIS NYA
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ'S MEETING TODAY WITH JAMES FARMER OF CORE AND FANNIE CHANEY, MOTHER OF MISSING CIVIL RIGHTS WORKER JAMES CHANEY; SUPPORT FOR LBJ'S CHOICE FOR VP NOMINEE; NEED FOR LABOR SUPPORT, REPUBLICAN VOTES IN HOUSE ON POVERTY BILL; JOB-TRAINING ASPECTS
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • REPUBLICAN MAYOR OF ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, HERMAN GOLDNER, WANTS TO HEAD CITIZENS' COMMITTEE FOR LBJ; PITTSBURGH DELEGATES' SUPPORT FOR VP NOMINEE; UAW STRAW VOTE, POLL ON ELECTION; WHITE BACKLASH; NEED FOR REPUBLICAN VOTES IN HOUSE ON POVERTY
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • SMITH REPORTS ON VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE, HIS CONCERNS ABOUT EFFECT OF RACIAL DISORDERS ON VOTE; NEGRO YOUTH KILLED BY PHILADELPHIA POLICEMAN; NEED FOR REPUBLICAN HOUSE VOTES ON POVERTY BILL; PHILADELPHIA DELEGATES' SUPPORT FOR VP NOMINEE; RICHARD
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • DISCUSSION OF PROGRESS IN HOUSE ON POVERTY BILL; JOE KILGORE; GEORGE MAHON'S OFFER TO HELP WITH APPROPRIATION BUT NOT VOTE FOR AUTHORIZATION; VOTES OF TEXAS DELEGATION, ROBERT SIKES
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • O'BRIEN READS DISCOURAGING REPORT ON HEAD COUNT IN HOUSE ON POVERTY BILL; CHARLES HALLECK'S OPPOSITION TO BILL; DISCUSSION OF LOBBYING STRATEGY FOR BILL, INCLUDING USING LABOR'S INFLUENCE, LBJ'S PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT; SARGENT SHRIVER
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • O'BRIEN'S POVERTY BILL REPORT; SHRIVER'S MORE POSITIVE REPORT; CHARLES HALLECK'S OPPOSITION; PRESS, LABOR, STAN MUSIAL'S HELP ON BILL; COST PER PERSON OF JOB CORPS; UPCOMING SPEECHES; DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM; REACTION TO LBJ'S VP STATEMENT; RFK SENATE
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • REACTION TO LBJ'S VP STATEMENT; MARY MCGRORY'S, JOSEPH KRAFT'S VIEWS; SUPPORT FOR LBJ AMONG YOUTH; RFK; CATHOLIC AS VP NOMINEE; LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT POVERTY BILL; LOBBYING STRATEGY; SARGENT SHRIVER; VOTES OF SILVIO CONTE, CARL VINSON, GEORGIA
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LOBBYING STRATEGY FOR POVERTY BILL, PROVISIONS OF BILL; COST PER PERSON IN JOB CORPS; HEAD COUNT; GEORGIA DELEGATION'S VOTES; REPUBLICAN TACTICS AGAINST BILL; USING PRESS TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR BILL; LARRY O'BRIEN; PRESS REACTION TO LBJ'S VP STATEMENT
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • PRESS CRITICISM OF LBJ'S LATIN AMERICAN POLICY; PANAMA; CUBA; BRAZIL; LBJ ASKS SMATHERS TO COMMEND THOMAS MANN; ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS; WH MEETINGS WITH LATIN AMERICAN LEADERS, WIVES; FLORIDA VOTES ON POVERTY BILL; PAUL ROGERS' CANDIDATE
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ ASKS MCNAMARA TO INVESTIGATE DECISION TO REFIT USS ALBEMARLE AS HELICOPTER ESCORT FOR VIETNAM USING PRIVATE YARD INSTEAD OF CHARLESTON NAVY YARD; POSSIBILITY THAT FUTURE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MENDEL RIVERS WILL VOTE FOR POVERTY
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • O'BRIEN? ASKS UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE TO HAVE HENRY HALL WILSON CHECK LIST OF REPUBLICAN VOTES (ON POVERTY BILL?) WHICH MIGHT BE INFLUENCED BY MACHINISTS' UNION
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ ASKS MEANY'S ADVICE ABOUT NUMBER OF SPEECHES HE IS SCHEDULED TO MAKE TO LABOR GROUPS THIS FALL; DISCUSSION OF USING LABOR INFLUENCE TO GET REPUBLICAN VOTES FOR POVERTY BILL IN HOUSE
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ ASKS FOR LABOR'S ASSISTANCE IN OBTAINING VOTES FOR POVERTY BILL, ESPECIALLY WITH REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN FROM BUFFALO, NEW YORK, AND FROM NEW JERSEY; DISCUSSION OF LBJ'S RECENT STATEMENT ON VP NOMINATION; HHH