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Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, McAlester, Oklahoma, 10/27/1964" (Item)
  • in the depressi on years and neither of us ca n fo r get the marks of poverty that scarred the country. My husband ha s brought with him to the White House many lesson s of the past, l earned in depression and war and handed down from his forebears who pionee red
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into the War on Poverty task force to begin with. M: Can you tell me that? Well, I don't really think I ever was part of it. meeting of the task force. I only attended one I think my involvement with the task force really had to do with all kinds
  • Biographical information; War on Poverty; Labor Department; President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency; Model Cities; Job Corps; Neighborhood Youth Corps; personal impressions of LBJ; Adam Clayton Powell; legislation
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh following through on his commitments to an unconditional war on poverty. One critic has pointed out that one month's expenditure in Vietnam equals more than the annual appropriations for OEO. Would you consider
  • ; Senator Morse; Job Corps; Nixon’s views on OEO/poverty program; Mr. Agnew’s statement; Green Amendment; TWO Project; effects of Vietnam War on war on poverty; OEO handling of budgetary requests; LBJ’s support of OEO; liaison between from OEO and White
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of responsibility. (Interruption) I was responsible in the Department of Agriculture for extending the War on Poverty into rural areas. service. That was my primary function in my And I don't remember for sure whether the idea for a task force had been broached
  • Origin of Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Life; LBJ's interest; Opportunity Homestead proposal and its objectives; extending War on Poverty into rural areas; Rural Community Development Service; problems of rural poor in cities; inadequacy
Folder, "[January-March 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • spent $9. 5 billion on poverty in his last year, Kennedy $12. 5 billion, and Johnson $28 billion. Manpower training cost from 3 to 4 to 12 billion in the same period. ) The President: It is not right to say that we are not moving fast enough because
Folder, "Gen BE 5-7 Economic Planning for the End of Hostilities (Post War Planning)," WHCF BE, Box 41 (Item)
  • the Vietnam War, will absorb large amounts· of revenue after the war is over. The portion of th~ .federal budge·t which is responsive directly to population growth is small. Rising workloads in the Treasury, Post Office, Passport Office, Forest Service
  • See all scanned items from file unit "ECONOMIC PLANNING FOR THE END OF HOSTILITIES (POST WAR PLANNING) (BE 5‑7)"
  • This folder is from the WHCF category for BUSINESS - ECONOMICS, subcategory ECONOMIC PLANNING FOR THE END OF HOSTILITIES (POST WAR PLANNING).
  • Folder, "Gen BE 5-7 Economic Planning for the End of Hostilities (Post War Planning)," WHCF BE, Box 41
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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 26, 15 September 1982," LBJ Library (Item)
  • major programs of the Johnson Presidency. Intro­ ducing each one is a massive photograph, such as the one on the left which leads into the War on Poverty display. Accompanying the photo is this statement of LBJ's: "Poverty begins with an infancy
Folder, "Demonstrations (August 1965 to December 1966) [1 of 2]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Investigative Subject Files, Box 64b (Item)
  • , Missouri. Seven individuals left St. Louis by Greyhound bus at 7:30 A. M. 9/26/66 to protest handling by Congress of the War on Poverty Program. These seven individuals are employed in the War on Poverty Union-Sarah Gateway Center of the Human Development
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Gillette PLACE: Mr. Bookbinder's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me ask you a few more questions about the operation of the [War on Poverty] task force, Mr. Bookbinder. What sort of records did the task force keep? Did it keep any sort
  • Task force record keeping; task force work process and working with Congress; task force leadership; communication problems with agencies; the OEO in the Executive Office of the President; Shriver; "revolutionary" aspects of the War on Poverty
Folder, "Kentucky Trip – May 21, 1964 – Mrs. Johnson [Clippings]," White House Social Files, Liz Carpenter Subject Files, Box 5 (Item)
  • APPALACHI ~ - •• '\ii • APPALACH IA-POVERTY BEL T Appalachi~ is a chronicaH~-dep~lsed ar~a · in t~ . Mountain region. Figures in box~s indicate unemp ,in s~ates• Appalachia regions. ~,;,+ii::~i•~ · , .· }rates·. ;°'. ·· ' · By MARJORIE HUNTER
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but allow me to say two things. One, I left the war against poverty in I think March of 1968. In January or February, certainly by February, I already knew that President Johnson wanted me to go to France, and so I was not as closely connected to every
  • ; bypassing local government to fund War on Poverty programs federally; Shriver’s reluctance to turn Head Start over from OEO to another government department; the work-study program; how Head Start became a year-round program that involved parents; attacks
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whitney Young -- Interview I -- 6 rumored, for example, that you were offered the Deputy Directorship of the War on Poverty. Y
  • government positions; reaction to Kerner Commission report; MLK; Vietnam War criticized by black people; innate compassionate nature of LBJ
Folder, "Demonstrations (August 1965 to December 1966) [2 of 2]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Investigative Subject Files, Box 64b (Item)
  • candidate who said: • i I I I• I i I i I "I want to be i·~rv cautio1u a11dcartful, aud u~, ~ore, 011/11 a.aa last reaort wfte1' I ,tart dropping bomb;, that are likel11 to involv, American bo,iJ in war i1':Aaia ipitl& 7QOmilli.m Chineae. . , ao we
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, 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
Folder, "[Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • up the kind of poverty that perpetuates itself, generation after generation. We conceived of the War on Poverty as an integrated attack, ' along many fronts, on the wretched living conditions of the entire t poor community. The OEO programs
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --to begin writing the draft of what became "The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective," trying to analyze that experience, what the conflicts were, what the assumptions were. G: Were you doing this for the Justice Department? EC: No, this was done really
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh 4. to chair the task force planning the Job Corps portion of the War on Poverty. I responded, -Look, I've been at this university only two years, and we have a number of very substantial programs just beginning. I just can't run out
  • of Republican opposition; Alden's role in task force planning in general; meetings with LBJ; interest in the problem of poverty; the Appalachian program; impression of Pat Moynihan; objection of Job Corps being to closely tied to military; handicaps
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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 10, 15 July 1977," LBJ Library (Item)
  • of the manpower-training programs, have had demonstrably effective results. But the effectiveness of the war on poverty, the panel concluded, cannot be determined by the success or failure Monday,Septembert:4 Address: James Tobin, Chairman, Department
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the Economic Opportunity Act, the War on Poverty. This is another issue that came through your committee and I guess was handled by Senator [Pat] McNamara. 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • ; understanding the ramifications of poverty legislation; gubernatorial power to veto legislation; Cronin's memories of various Great Society legislative issues, including Head Start, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Highway Beautification Act; the 1965
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 58, 1 August 1994," LBJ Library (Item)
  • person­ al cause in the early da)'S of his administration. One was the poverty in America, a problem not widely recognized at the time. It is portrayed in the haunting portrait of a young girl by Mel Roman. In the exhibit it is glimpsed behind a vibrant
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson 'Salute to Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson' Luncheon Given by Federated Democratic Women of Ohio, Deshler Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, 9/18/1964" (Item)
  • to be thankful for -- the tax reduction, the education bill, the arbitration of the railroad strike, civil rights, the poverty bill••• " And, as often happens in our conversations, the telephone rang at that moment and be was saved by the bell. Actually
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/18/1964 (Monday) (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • Lady Bird has photos taken; controversy about Lady Bird's Alabama tenants and the poverty bill; Lady Bird works on mail; dinner at Mike Monroney's for the Walter Lippmanns; LBJ has stag luncheon for Willy Brandt; Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/22/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • Lady Bird returns from Kentucky; tea with Bess & Elaine Beeman and Jim & Ida May Cain; LBJ to stag White House Correspondents dinner; roles of the President; Kentucky trip and Poverty Bill
President's Daily Diary entry, 12/29/1966 (Item)
  • Meeting w/ S ergeant Shriver in the living room alone They reviewed the progress of the War on Poverty during the past twelve months and discussed certain legislative matters. They discussed the He ^d Statt program in particular Bill Moyers joinedat
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Greensboro, North Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)
  • . Crime in the streets can be traced to many root causes. The war on poverty strikes at these roots, so do urban renewal prog rams. Seventy percent of our p eople live in cities and 90 percent of our population growth will occur in them. 1f our cities
Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of what many people call the War on Poverty. We had, I don't know, millions of people, perhaps twenty million people with incomes less than two thousand dollars or fifteen hundred dollars at that time throughout the United States. it is now. Of course
  • First knowledge of pending legislation to fight poverty; personal interest in and involvement in legislation of this kind; LBJ and unemployment; War on Poverty; steering legislation through committee; Adam Clayton Powell as chairman; LBJ’s
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Valdosta, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • faces of hunger. It made me re member the depression years when poverty scarred so much of the Southern countryside. The South has come a long way in my lifetime. We have come through the hard times when Southern farm people could earn an average gross
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Waycross, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • buy clothes for their children to wear to school. And I talked with desperate men who couldn't make ·a living off the land or find a job in the mines. The South has come a long way in my lifetime - - since those depression years when poverty scarred so
Press release, "Excerpts from Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at Morven, Princeton, N.J., 8/12/1965" (Item)
  • FOR RELEASE AFTER 4:00 P. M. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1965 EXCE.RPTS FROM MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSONOS REMARKS AT MORVEN, PRINCETON, N.J. Let me say how grateful are th e President and I to you who serve on the frontlines of the war on poverty. You do
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication of Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Davis, Texas, 4/4/1966" (Item)
  • brought us here today can be traced back 50 years when another President took pause in a troubled world to look after the needs of the future. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson looked beyond the mounting war in Europe and his concern with poverty
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 59, 15 January 1995," LBJ Library (Item)
  • in preparation for his forthcoming book on Vietnam. 14 Boggs: A Political Biography": Alice M. O' onnor, ''Fighting Poverty , ith Knowledge: Social Science Research in the War on Poverty"': Susan Rosenfeld, "Dcmocracy·s Demons: How and Why Americans Spy on Each
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
Folder, "Pamphlets Master File," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 2 (Item)
  • as the instrument of our war against poverty and injustice in this hemisphere. In the Atlantic community we continue to pursue our goal of 20 years-a Europe that is growing in strength, unity, and cooperation with America. A great unfinished task
Record copy, 1948 campaign kickoff speech, "The Challenge of a New Day," 5/22/1948 (Item)
  • The nations only by restoring conditions of the World can their internal That demands a free flow 0£ goods in the channels ot inter­ prosperity. market; the World about Amerio&. on poverty and hunger. overcome those war-breeding national to help
Folder, "McNamara, Robert S.," Office Files of William R. Sparks, Box 14 (Item)
  • itself-- poverty, to make thati:stabllshment him to attack disease, Those are the only real enemies unnecessary. the roo-C-f'oauses ignorance, enemies-- of war and hopelessness. ~t·•m.i ancient of the human race, But our generation need ls
Folder, "C.F.- BE 5-7 Economic Planning for the End of Hostilities (Post-War Planning)," WHCF Confidential Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • that he is asking key agencies to establish small high level task forces (including both officials and outside experts) specifically to develop plans for long-range (post-Vietnam) programs · on cities, welfare, the war on poverty, tax sharing with states
  • Folder, "C.F.- BE 5-7 Economic Planning for the End of Hostilities (Post-War Planning)," WHCF Confidential Files, Box 3
Folder, "5/17/65 - Remarks of the President at the Arrival Ceremony of His Excellency Chung Hee Park, President of the Republic of Korea ," Statements Files, Box 146 (Item)
  • are closeand 1 . . l_as~ing. - 3Fifteenyearsago-- in the wakeof history's mostterrible war -- your people,our peopleand all of the peoplesof earth yearnedonly for peace. Yet it wasat the greatmomentof hopeand opportu_nity the enemiesof peacedrewtheir sword