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President's Daily Diary entry, 6/19/1964 (Item)
  • Sa n Francisco I Mr. Roge r Kent , Chairman , Dinne r Cmtee ; Chairman, Norther n Calif. Dem o Stat e Centra l Cmtee Mr. Cyri l Magnin , Chairma n o f Finance Cmte e for Salut e t o Presiden t Johnson D inner an d Co-Chairman o f President's Club Hon
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/1/1966 (Thursday) (Item)
  • News headlines about troop withdrawal in Europe, taxes and members of President's Club; office work; wedding gifts for Margy McNamara; Lady Bird's upcoming California trip; interview with National Geographic; photo in news of Luci grocery shopping
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/16/1967 (Item)
  • , General Chmn, SW Region President's Club the dignitaries, then introduced Governor John B. Connally, who had Johnson, Lynda , and Luci and Pat Nugent come to the stage. Johnson then made brief remarks, before they left the stage for John Connally then made
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/17/1967 (Item)
  • . afte r th e DN C fund-raisin g dinne r i n Austi n fo r member s o f th e President's Club . F On e 2600 0 departe d Bergstro m A F Base w / e Presiden t i n th e stateroo m visitin g w / Mr . & Mrs. Arthu r Kri m Mr. & Mrs. Simo n McHug h ^ Hon . & Mrs
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/3/1966 (Item)
  • - Orchard Lake, M Hon. Henry H. Fowler - Secy, of the Treasury - Washington, D. C. Dr. Charles Frankel - Asst. Secy, for Educational and Cultural Affairs - Washington, Mr. Maksymilian Friede - President, Club of Polish Jews - NYC Dr. Jan Fryling - Jozef
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I tried to do a little differently with our fund-raising group, the President's Club in New York, the younger members. I got a group of people together that ended up as the greatest enemies, I suppose, later on--what's loosely called "New York
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/23/1967 (Item)
  • the Chairman. The President explained to the Chairman about the dinner in Los Angeles in tonight told him what the President's Club was. "We've had one dinner in New York, one in the South, and now one in the west, and I'd give anything if you could go with me
President's Daily Diary entry, 9/5/1966 (Item)
  • Club) Mr and Mrs . Lewi s Kingscott (Lewis Kingscott Association) (President's Club) } Mrs . Paul Todd and family (wife of the Congressman) I Pau l Todd, Sr. (President' s Club) I Rober t Miller. Publisher of Enquirer and News and Mrs. Mille r ! Dr
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the President didn't mind it at that time because of the fact that to do the President's Club work it was good to have the image of being 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the same thing, that from there on out that he wanted to feel that I would take responsibility for everybody who had come as a result of political connections, connections with the committee or with the President's Club. More or less that's what happened
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the President's Club account, of approximately six hundred thousand dollars that had been collected, I think, from corporations in some sort of published volume, I think, back in 1964, 1965. I know that people in the Humphrey campaign wanted this money freed up
  • access to President's Club money and a membership list; Robert Short's fund-raising efforts as treasurer of Humphrey's campaign; whether LBJ was not willing to help with Humphrey's campaign or he was not asked; LBJ's efforts to find solutions with regard
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Some. I saw him a great deal more after 1963. I was back in Washington several times during 1961 and 1962 having to do with some President Club activity with Arthur Krim on the West Coast and some meetings and some affairs at the White House. We saw him
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper, that a [Wendell] Willkie For President Club was being formed, and a prominent student orator named Henry Maier was the president, which created consternation among all of the proRoosevelt people. So we put our
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/26/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • Tour of Mackinac Island; Lady Bird describes native flora and fauna; the MRA (Moral Re-Armament) Complex; Lady Bird relates more history of Mackinac Island and the Grand Hotel; LBJ & Lady Bird to Detroit for President's Club reception
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Where did he get his money in that campaign? Brown was one of the best old-time supporters Johnson ever had. G: You know, they published the New York members of the President's Club in the Congressional Record, and the list just went on for pages
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1966; speculation that O'Brien would become chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the fall of 1966; the role of John Macy and the President's Club in patronage and Democratic Party finances; the relationship between the political party
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1950" (Item)
  • the depletion allowance which current income tax laws provided to oil producers. LBJ has an 11:30 a.m. appointment with President Truman at the White House, accompanied by Mayor Oscar Holcomb of Houston, Charles Evans, president of the Houston Presidents Club
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1960" (Item)
  • presented by CBS newscaster Douglas Edwards at the Headliners party at City Auditorium that evening. LBJ returns to the Ranch that evening. In Austin, LBJ also addresses the kick-off meeting of the Women’s Division of the LBJ for President Club. CTJ
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and precedents and so on. MG: The President's Club had been a large fund-raising center in the 1964 campaign. DG: Yes. MG: Was this organization helpful to you in 1968? DG: I don't recall. I don't remember any discussion of it, and I have no memory
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that he should be nominated that some of us just decided we'd see. The first thing that was done was Texas was organized. Johnson for President Clubs sprang up I believe in practically every county and many precincts. P: Didn't you organize one
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • President's Club money for support, which I did. Then of course came the day of the primary, and Johnson did win. I don't recall whether it was a plurality or a majority, but if it wasn't a majority, it was very close to 50 per cent. I believe it was 51 per
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The inclusion of the fat cat contributor in invitations to White House functions, becoming a member of the President's Club, having sessions once in a while with the President in the White House, gave them an edge over everyone else. It was nauseating to me
President's Daily Diary entry, 9/28/1964 (Item)
  • persons. After th e speech , th e President droppe d bv a $10 0 President's' Club receptio n - shook hand s w / th e contributors an d left w / Mrs . Johnson . 29 Sept 1964 The President an d his part y departe d th e Carpente r Moto r In n for th e
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the Presidents Club on my own, believing that it was a very important election. with Macy, he didn't ask what my political affiliation was. When I talked I raised the question with him, whether or not membership in the Presidents Club was something which I
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wanted in that campaign, and that was the mailing list of the President's Club members. K: That's not so. G: He did have it? K: Yes. That's not so. Another false report is that the President tried to withhold from him a six hundred thousand dollar
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that convention through and fulfill the responsibility to run a national convention. G: What happened to the President's Club? O: I don't recall that the President's Club remained very active, if at all. G: Did it cease to exist or did--? O: I think
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the largest--Democratic fund raiser ever in Minnesota, and Lyndon Johnson was the speaker. He was now president. President Kennedy had been assassinated, and that whole fund raiser--it was a thousand-dollar, President's-Club type thing in which you could meet
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to describe that President's Club dinner in New York at the Waldorf. J: Let me ask a question then. Were there two Waldorf dinners while I was there? G: There could easily have been. Could have had one each year. J: Yes. I don't think I went
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/27/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • LBJ, Lady Bird, Lynda & Luci to Paltka, FL, for Intercoastal Canal ceremonies, flipping switch for initial excavation, and presentation of ceramic bull; to Palm Beach to visit Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Kennedy; to reception for President's Club
Folder, "Notes and Transcripts of Johnson Conversations, January, 1960," Telephone Transcripts, Office Files of Walter Jenkins, Box 1 (Item)
  • will not go to Kennedy • ..I have a proposed letter about Johnson for President Club in D. c., Maryland and Virginia that 1,vill send out at the proper time. I will mail you a copy. I am going to get some stationery printed and then we will dec.tde just who
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : President's Club money or--? J: I don't know. Cash, I know it was cash. And he would get together an envelope, and we'd call the guy over. He'd come in and visit a while and talk a while. Before he left, he would get that envelope. No quid pro quo, nothing
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was a spot on his own record--the fact that he had this obligation. B: Did he continue to put pressure on people to get rid of that obligation? D: The President's Club kept functioning. and more difficult. But after '64, it became more '65
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • did go to the Convention in Los Angeles in 1960)didn l t you? S: Yes. r·1: And you were a member of the Texas del egation for Johnson for President, I assume. S: Yes. Before that we had organized in this district a Johnson for President Club. M
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kaiser and several others whom the President had met in various capacities. G: How about Arthur Krim, for example? Was there a link between his communication with the business community and the President's Club? C: No, I think Arthur Krim represented
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -- IV -- 28 W: Wasn't his at all, but Sam Rayburn talked him into it. But he did make that statement that night. G: When do you think--let me back this up a minute here. In 1959, late 1959, they started this. LBJ for President clubs began to come up
Folder, "Misc. Correspondence - 1965," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 1 (Item)
  • K WASHINGTON, STREET, D. C. COMMITTEE N.W. 20006 TEL~~HONlt FEDERAL 3·87!!10 October 18, 1965 TO: Yoichi R. Okamoto Clifton RE: Pictures c. carter of President's Club Party on September 29 I will be happy to make the identification
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1959" (Item)
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1952" (Item)
  • A Rayburn-for-President Club has been formed by 73 House Democrats. This is the first real effort to draft the Speaker for the Democratic presidential nomination. All of the Texas delegation questioned, with the exception of Rep. J. Frank Wilson of Dallas