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Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

else, somebody on his staff, and he read it and then he really didn't know what he should do after that, after he got an answer. I have a hunch that's often the case. Now six weeks after Johnson came in as president, he announced his War on Poverty
Contact with LBJ; assassination; tax issues; Wilbur Mills; comparing JFK and LBJ; CEA; War on Poverty; committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; procedures; agriculture issues; 1964 campaign; Walter Heller; Wright Patman; LBJ's

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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; Bryce Harlow; southern Democrats' assistance with recommittal, but not final passage of certain bills; LBJ's view of the War on Poverty compared to JFK's commitment to alleviating poverty, which was influenced by JFK's visits to West Virginia

Folder, "Whistle Stop [3 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)

, searched out all the constructive pathways for peace. We haven't the lobby we need for the war on poverty and prejudice at home or abroad. Anyone with imagination, zeal and brains has many opportunities in un finished America. A number of you already

President's Daily Diary entry, 7/13/1967 (Item)

and Family Services) HEW of these people and their \ Douglass Cater. victory in the war on poverty \ to Dorothy Territo. . Secy Gardner suggested that the President meet these two outstanding success stories of the Work Experience Training Program which HEW

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/11/1965 (Monday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/22/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/9/1964 (Saturday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't remember his name. G: John McCone. W: Yes. Yes, I think that was his name. I took a dictation from him. I remember Bess Abell and her husband being there, and Liz Carpenter. G: There was work being done on the War on Poverty at this time too

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

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 5, 25 April 1975," LBJ Library (Item)

, 1963; the State of the Union message in which he declared the "War on Poverty," January, 1964; "The American Promise," a Specia Message to Congress on Civil Rights, March 15, 1964; and the speech in which he declared a bombing halt and announced his

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 21, 15 January 1981," LBJ Library (Item)

, reflecting th variety of research potential in the Library, include Pre idential policy making, the War on Poverty, congressional relat10ns, the federal judiciary, and the economy. Several relate to U.S. policy in other nations, including South AfriLa

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

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 62, 1 April 1996," LBJ Library (Item)

Whitman Rostow"; Robert A. Bauman, "A Tale of Two Agencies: The Implementation of the War on Poverty in Los Angeles"; Philip E. Catton, "The Strategic Hamlet in South Vietnam, I 961-1964"; Jeffrey E. Cohen, "Strategic Management of the President's

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 67, 15 December 1997," LBJ Library (Item)

in the Johnson William Crook, who served President Johnson as an official in the War on Poverty, director of VISTA and Ambassador to Australia Lucia Johnson Alexander, youngest sister and last remain ing sibling of LBJ Rufus Youngblood From Other Libraries

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

," with full funding [of] Medicare, Medicaid, Elementary and Secondary Education, all these programs. Okay? The War on Poverty, full funding, that's the second item in this list. Then he goes to foreign aid, and we start all these international health programs

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the War on Poverty, and the President repeatedly saying, "We're going to end poverty; we're going to end poverty." And the reality of the difficulty of doing that [was], one, it was more difficult than we thought it would be, but, two, these gleaming

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/5/1967 (Sunday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty
with guests; dinner; bridge game; conversation about aid for India, war on poverty at home, Vietnam and China; Lady Bird talks on telephone with Luci and Pat Nugent, who are snowed in at Waukegan; Luci is expecting baby in June

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he had done what he had done with his War on Poverty and the civil rights bill and so forth. Frankly when I heard him make his speech, the one we call "We Shall Overcome, II I was really taken in and thought that Lyndon's finest hour had come

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ANTHONY PARTRIDGE INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Partridge's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start. I want to ask you to begin by tracing the origin of your involvement with War on Poverty. P: Okay. I went

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 37, 15 June 1986," LBJ Library (Item)

of the shaping and refining of national policy is done by the White House staff; on almost any issue of the 1960s, from civil rights to the war on poverty, the papers of the president's aides are invaluable. There are other valuable collections for historical

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Opportunity, Secretary of the War on Poverty, Sargent Shriver, and down the line." And mind you, no one had ever asked him for the creation of this agency, nobody knew anything about it. Nobody had heard about it, and certainly how would we know, because

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it as being sOnlething that would be appropriate for him to build up. He started to expand it into what later became the war on poverty, and he involved nle in that. had rather different ideas. idea was going to work. I had been right. I didn't think

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were going to be heavily involved. But after that, the War on Poverty got an awful lot of publicity and it didn't take long to start having applications come in and inquiries and so on. G: How much did the representation of an area by a member
Welfare and War on Poverty
; the relationship between LBJ and Sargent Shriver, especially relating to CAP; the difference between Hispanic and African American community groups; Ted Berry as head of CAP; Shriver's staff meetings; the role of the War on Poverty Office of Inspection and William

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of everything he was doing was in the War on Poverty, Appalachia, and Vietnam. Saying that every kid in America who is educable ought to be able to get an education. If he couldn't afford it, if he could be educated, the government ought to find some way

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

Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: HAROLD W. HOROWITZ INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dean Horowitz ' office, Los Angeles, California Tape G: of 1 Well, let's start with your own involvement in the War on Poverty Task Force, describing at first where you
Circumstances involvement in War on Poverty; meetings; work on program; Adam Yarmolinsky; types of people on task force; Mike Harrington and Paul Jacobs; choice of clients for programs; different locations; working out the programs and the bill

Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall any of the efforts here to make that a more prominent part of the War on Poverty? H: Well, there are plenty of efforts in terms of individual lobbying and struggling and PR and everything else. The Labor Department, philosophically Wirtz felt
Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; Labor Department; Job Corps; Youth Opportunity Centers; influence of organized labor groups; minimum wage; Willard Wirtz; Jack Henning.

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; 1960 and 1964 elections; civil rights legislation; Dirksen/LBJ relationship; Medicare; LBJ’s foreign policy; Senator Mansfield; LBJ-Nixon transition; 3/31 announcement; War on Poverty in Kentucky; decision to retire; political parties; Ray Bliss.

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, of course at the same time he was mounting a war on poverty. Did the two movements come together at the conference? Was there any focus on the War on Poverty at the Civil Rights Conference? A: When did he establish the Conference on Economic Opportunity

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

official positions were as special assistant to the secretary of defense-Y: I was the special assistant to the secretary of defense from January, 1961 to February, 1964 when I became deputy director of the president's task force for the War on Poverty. I

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

administration has been put in than probably in the whole history of our country. And the war on poverty. Well, say they can't see where it's done much good. people with no foresight. of good. M: A lot of people they are those I can see where it has done
; Berlin Wall issue; Barr as an observer during the 1967 Vietnam elections; Barr's view of the War on Poverty; Model Cities; Head Start; 1964 LBJ campaign visit to Pittsburgh; the March 31, 1968 speech; 1968 Democratic convention; housing issues; 1968

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in preparation for education of poor youth was an important thrust . And it was also felt that while communities were groping there had to be a real front opened on the War on Poverty, and the front of dealing with poor youth was a major one . G: Was this also

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

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 31, 15 July 1984," LBJ Library (Item)

and taxpayer resist anc •." A column in the "Outlook·' section of the Washington Post at the same time posed the question: "Was the Federal Gov ernment's War on Poverty in the 60s and 70s a failur ? • and answered: "Many Americans think so:• It cited a recent

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/20/1964 (Monday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty
-Cleveland Hotel for speech at YWCA convention; Lady Bird refers to "War on Poverty"; reception for Cleveland women-doers; back to D.C. via car; dinner at a Howard Johnson's; LBJ to New York

Folder, "Ex FG 618 Federal Executive Board," WHCF FG, Box 372 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)

with welfare. To believe in a War on Poverty program, for instance-BARBARA: Yes. LIZ: --as President Johnson did. How you reconcile those challenges at this time when we have a political party that was re-elected by a large margin with kind of a hair shirt

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