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Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: FREDERICK O'REILLY HAYES INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Hayes' Office, Lexington, MA G: I want to ask you how you first became involved with the War on Poverty task force operation. H: That is a long and complicated story
How Hayes became involved with the War on Poverty task force; early ideas on how to combat poverty; tension between task force director Sargent Shriver and people who worked on poverty issues before the task force was formed; staffing the Community

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: Sir, beginning in 1964 you served as counsel to the President's Task Force on the War on Poverty, I believe. Would
Presidential Task Force on the War on Poverty; drafting War on Poverty bill; Shriver’s dual responsibilities; Community Action; Adam Yarmolinksy episode; problems of the new agency; Legal Service problems; return to the Justice Department

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 24, 1 January 1982," LBJ Library (Item)

universities and each examines a particular aspect of LBJ or his administration. "We wanted to place Johnson in historical context," Divine said "Concern over Viet Nam has obscured his accomplishments in civil rights, the War on Poverty program and other areas

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/13/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/18/1965 (Item)

Child Development Centers wil l be operated a s part of the War on Poverty by 2500 community groups in every state in the union . H e announced th e first 1500 projects approved . Th e remainder will b e announced within 10 days. i HEAD ST ART STEERING

Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. It was interesting, however, in the '68 campaign--just to jump ahead--when Vice President Humphrey as a candidate used the language ''Marshall Plan." But then there was an area of confusion for me. Because soon after the War on Poverty got going the word was around
presidency; the Marshall Plan; the War on Poverty; Urban League projects in Washington D.C.; the Justice Department’s relations with militant black groups; Tucker’s pardon; White House Conference on Youth; Solidarity Day March; Bayard Rustin and the Southern

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. GAITHER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Gaither's office, San Francisco, California Tape 1 of 2 MG: I want to begin by asking you what was President Johnson's conception of what the War on Poverty should be? JG: Well, I'm
LBJ; War on Poverty; Title I; Community Action; OEO; Model Cities; Head Start; food assistance; administration of programs; VISTA

Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh live in a decent home, and I felt that his challenge in his message on the War on Poverty was one of the most dynamic and courageous challenges ever

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh lawyer, who is now practicing in Milan, or a professor in England, or Sir Patrick Dean and all the others, [are] civil rights and the War on Poverty. It was interesting hearing it echo here [at the reunion]. A Swiss

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

associated with the War on Poverty. I understand that you are originally from New York or New Jersey. Do you want to explain how you got involved in the administration? RG: Yes. I was working in the Department of Justice during the Kennedy
Circumstances of becoming associated with the War on Poverty Task Force; early organization; duties; need for coordination of the program; decision-making; naming VISTA program; pressure from departments; LBJ’s interest; philosophies on dealing

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of category? G: Not really, because the phrase "the war on poverty" does relate to a quite specific and concrete program purpose. In a sense, I think, it was less grand--it was certainly a grand phrase--but a less grand phrase than the Great Society

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

President Kennedy? R: Not that I know if. I can't recall anything on that, Mike. G: All right. The genesis of the War on Poverty--you recall that he in the spring declared unconditional war on poverty? R: Right. That was actually an idea that had been
LBJ’s staff; Pierre Salinger; LBJ and the press; Reedy appointed as press secretary; railroad strike and machinists’ strike; LBJ’s understanding of Latin America; Alliance for Progress; War on Poverty; tax bill; civil rights bill; LBJ’s secrecy

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 47, 1 July 1990," LBJ Library (Item)

to outlaw discrimination in public ac commodations had been proposed by John F. Kennedy. The idea of a War on Poverty had been born in the last days of ,the Kennedy Administration. Johnson embraced these and used the force of his office ,toget them

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

enlarging the War on Poverty, with our efforts to help the more unfortunate and disadvantaged will continue. "Put this in; put in Chinese expansion." I mean this is him telling me stuff he wants put in whatever the next draft would be. Unfortunately

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT LAMPMAN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Lampman's residence, Madison, Wisconsin Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start, Dr. Lampman, by asking you to trace the beginning of your involvement with what became the War on Poverty. L
Initial involvement with the War on Poverty; work with the Council of Economic Advisers; income distribution; tax cut; 1964 campaign and poverty problem; meetings on poverty issue; differences in concept of poverty; key people involved; rejection

Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to him prior to the assassination--that he would be interested in having the job which Shriver got, in effect. G: Resigning the attorney general's position? C: Right. And heading up the War on Poverty. And he let this be known. My informant was Dave

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

subject of legislation. I never felt he went into details very much, leaving that up to committee people. I think the same thing is true after he was President, that he never went into details of the operation of, let's say, the War on Poverty and OEO

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

from council and I was re-elected . Now this is the beginning of my association with the War on Poverty, because it was in, I think, the message of the President to Congress in the early part of 1964 that he announced, proclaimed the War on Poverty
Biographical information; work as a welfare department investigator; involvement in the War on Poverty and the Urban League, how Berry came to be the director of the Community Action program; early community-related programs; funding programs

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1980 INTERVIHJEE: CHRISTOPHER WEEKS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washi~9ton, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Weeks. let's start with your involvement in the War on Poverty Task Force. lid like to ask you to trace your earlier
Budget Bureau position; Peace Corps involvement; War on Poverty; LBJ’s early support of the poverty program; Bill Moyers’ involvement; appointment of Shriver; task force on the War on Poverty; Community Action Program; maximum feasible participation

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

the problems not only of the women who most needed help, but of all people in need. He urged them to constitute themselves as a force in our society for the war on poverty which he instituted and which has made such fantastic headway under his leadership
Comments by LBJ; LBJ’s concern for full utilization of human resources; FSEE; War on Poverty; YWCA; 1964 Civil Rights Act; comparison of non-white/white men earnings; women in household employment; National Commission on Household Employment

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

White House room at a rather late hour. l'larry Jersi 9 of San Antoni 0 and hi s wi fe occupi ed the apartment across the corridor from mine. During 1966 the President appointed me a member of the National Advisory Council for the War on Poverty

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Conway -- I -- 8 which was my next direct contact with this whole process, that there was an evolution into the War on Poverty in the OEO legislation. I didn't really get picked up again in the stream until the UAW convention, which
Biographical information; community organizing; Saul Alinsky; evolution of the War on Poverty; OEO legislation; Sargent Shriver; Labor Department; HEW; Community Action Program; urban affairs task force; Dick Boone; Fred Hayes; political problems

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/25/1964 (Monday) (Item)

, " And then, what was probably the m ost sense in it, was "T h is generati on is engaged not only in a war against poverty of mans necessi ties, but a war against the poverty of m an's sp irit. This museum is an open door fo r a ll who seek enrichment of sp irit

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/23/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/8/1967 (Item)

by) The President to the East Room for Reception for Participants in the Conference of Women on the War on Poverty Remarks ~(* list to DT • ' y 'MITE House ENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON MARY resident began hi , day at (Place) ' Time T In Out ; Activity Date LBJ

Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the war against poverty was that you had all these different governmental departments battling a little bit for turf and they wanted to have, somebody maybe like an impartial umpire to draft the statute so there weren't any hidden kickers in there which

Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Baccalaureate Address, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass., 6/9/1964" (Item)

see there is a vast job to be done simply in stirring up the civic interest of women voters. We haven't yet , as lay citizens, searched out all the constructive pathways for peace, We haven't the lobby we need for the war on poverty and prejudice

Press release, "Address of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson before the Luncheon at the Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, 10/1/1965" (Item)

for families. In the war on poverty, as we have raised the curtain on some of our most bliJhted conditions, we have come to know how essential beauty is to the human spirit. You can find the human craving for it in small thing s and large. And you see t he high

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the CCC experience. G: Did you see the Job Corps as the component that would yield the fastest results in the War on Poverty, say as opposed to Community Action or VISTA? S: That may well have been true, I'm not sure. I am sure, however
to expand the Job Corps and addressing criticism that it grew too quickly; comparing the War on Poverty to military wars the United States has fought; Congress' rush to criticize the Job Corps; why Otis Singletary was chosen as first director of the Job

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. (Interruption) G: Mr. Adler, I want to begin by asking you to describe where you were in the government at the time the War on Poverty was planned. A: I was at the Department of Commerce but on the payroll or being paid by the University of Pittsburgh
Position in government during War on Poverty; Appalachian program; Kennedy

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that it deserved to really oversee the War on Poverty by his own participation. B: I don't recall him participating at all. But I'm sure that if who- ever set it up had the idea that they were going to oversee the Har on Poverty in the sense of directing the War
Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; rural conservation centers; Job Corps vs. CCC; rural anti-poverty program land reform; migratory farm work; task force meetings; maximum feasible participation; OEO legislation; SWAFCA (Southwest

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 54, 1 February 1993," LBJ Library (Item)

and other programs of the War on Poverty. John Gardner spoke of her effect on the education initiatives. "But hel" impact was much greater than one can describe through a history of programs .... She lit up the whole landscape .... She made us all want

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 69, 18 September 1998," LBJ Library (Item)

Society and the War on Poverty as "unmitigated disasters." Dallek 's response was to ask if Americans are ready to give up such programs as Medicare, Medicaid, federal aid to education, civil rights, environmental protections, and other Great Society

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

could go forward. They were committed, the two of them, to a War Against Poverty. They really were enthusiastically for most of the Great Society programs in education and health and good job opportunities. These were the areas in which they had had
LBJ was convinced to be John F. Kennedy's running mate; LBJ's and Hale Boggs' dedication to the War on Poverty and civil rights, especially in the South; Lynda Johnson dating George Hamilton; Hale Boggs' involvement in Adlai Stevenson's 1956

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/3/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty
Lady Bird visits with Mr. and Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller about Beautification; Lady Bird meets with Sargent Shriver and Advisory Council of the War on Poverty; Job Corps; Shriver asks Lady Bird to sponsor Head Start; Lady Bird visits with Mary Lasker

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/21/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

, to be found in this Union, And I think they w ere not too much in sympathy with m y talk about the A dm inistration's war on poverty and about the re a ll y MEMORANDUM THE W H ITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Thursday, May 21, 1964 Page 12 v e ry thrilling day I
Welfare and War on Poverty

Reading copy, 1964 State of the Union Message, 1/8/64 (Item)

• NiE unconditional ilmrtrlii' -MJ t11ttl ... in America. _,,,,,,. their on here and now er Trt enamnt Mtf9111W1il 1 declares too • • war on poverty __....PJI.-: _. I ask this - ..... Congress HI■ Iii■ and 1111aesa -•• all Americans

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Service; the controversy over taking a corner of Brackenridge Park in San Antonio to improve roads; creating the Department of Transportation; dispute between mass transit interests and the highway programs; the War on Poverty and road programs; the PPBS

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the tape we were talking about what seemed to me to be a reason for launching the War on Poverty, and that was the large percentage of youth who were being rejected from the draft. Y: Yes, and I said that that was only a piece of argumentation

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Survey Program, and its intensity had dropped off and it became just a matter-of-fact program again. And of course all of the interest was in the start up of the War on Poverty. That's where I wanted to go, and I made arrangements to have a detail. I went
How McCarthy came to work with the War on Poverty task force; John Blatnik's involvement in Minnesota Job Corps centers; McCarthy's work with Job Corps; the organization of Job Corps; the Labor Department's work with the War on Poverty; initial

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