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  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed
  • See all online interviews with Adam Yarmolinsky
  • Yarmolinsky, Adam, 1922-2000
  • Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Adam Yarmolinsky
  • was not at all involved in any of the substance of putting the program together. Under Shriver you had Adam Yarmolinsky, who was the primary person who was involved in trying to put this kind of [program together] and trying to pay attention to what I would
  • ] ­ ... ...· .. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 28 By: Messrs. Adams, Allen, Bentley, Brannan, Carter, Clark, Cooper, Dumas, Eddins, Evans, Gilchrist, Givhan, Hammond, Hawkins, Hornsby, Horton, James, Lolley, Lowe, Mathews, McCain, McDow, Metcalf, Montgomery, Nichols, Oden
  • and the extent to which those selected were actually poor. Soon after OEO was funded, Adam Clayton Powell, then chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee passed on to Shriver objections from dissident groups in Cleveland and Chester, PA on the umbrella
  • ; community action weaknesses; the likelihood that CAP would be well-managed and succeed; Hayes' and Dick Boone's leadership roles within the War on Poverty task force and its predecessor group; controversy surrounding Adam Yarmolinsky as deputy director
  • , with whom we were very close. Bob had a special assistant named Adam Yarmolinsky. He's a guy you ought to interview, by the way. Yarmolinsky was involved in all this crap. He's here in town. He's a lawyer. G: Yes, I've talked to him about the War
  • - foreign correspondents At W.Hse residence Cong A . Clayton Powell - talked from mansion - referred Ret'd to Oval R m for fi ve minutes - (pick up 2 Xmas departed for mansion Mr. Sorensen Cong. Thornberry Walter Jenkins there gift) Beverages .50
  • ; Adam Clayton Powell's character and delay of education legislation; the urgency in getting education legislation passed without amendments; the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) signing ceremony at a one-room schoolhouse near Stonewall
  • that came along while our renewal legislation was pending in the House, and one day later the committee had given us the opportunity to override a governor's veto on this. I think Adam Clayton Powell reacted to this thing and put it in. So later on the power
  • [Department of Health, Education, and Welfare] desegregation guidelines. Adam Clayton Powell starts down the tubes. Okay. This is really wonderful, as an example--this [Abraham] Ribicoff memo--as an example of somebody that--I visit Ribicoff to solicit support
  • Amendment; poverty; racial inopportunity problems; critical evaluations; Bert Harding; CEA; hostility toward OEO; Adam Clayton Powell; Yarmolinsky; Job Corps; evaluation of Head Start; BOB; John Forrer; Kermit Gordon; Scultze; Zwick; Cannon; Cary; Senator
  • ] ­ WITH YOU AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVENIENCE CHARLES C DIGGS, JR. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM CNY> AUGUSTUS HAWKINS CCALIF> ROBERT N C NIX CPA> JEFFERY COHELAN CCALIF> ADAM C POWELL CNY> JOHN CONYERS JR CMICH> JOSEPH RESNICK CNY> JOHN G DOW CNY> WILLIAM F
  • Adam Clayton Powell re: Powell’s letter on PCEEO. September 9/1 Appointments include RFK re: letter from Luther Holcomb, and Dr. Edward Teller re: nuclear testing. 9/2 LBJ, CTJ, Baker, Stu Knight fly to Nashville to attend horse show at Shelbyville
  • or something like that. Well, by Sunday night, the next day Kermit and I and Heller and Mike [Myer] Feldman, I think maybe Charlie [Schultze] was there and maybe Capron, met with Sarge. He had Warren Wiggins and Frank Mankiewicz and Adam Yarmolinsky and maybe
  • in the House. The chairman was Adam Clayton Powell. You had Carl Perkins, Phil Landrum. Do you recall the role of any of these committee members in either modifying the legislation or pushing it through as it was or opposing it? B: My gosh
  • , accompanied by CTJ, Lynda Bird, MMV, Sen. and Mrs. James Watson (NY) and Cong. Adam Clayton Powell, flies to Jamaica. He pays courtesy call on Mr. Bustemante and they go to Victoria Square, where LBJ makes extemporaneous
  • . It's a notorious rip-off, the HARYOU-Act program. Are you familiar with it? G: Yes. A: I don't know what Adam Clayton Powell's role in it was, but it was a terrible mess, and I suspect it was that way all across the country, because the people who
  • of Congressman John Fogarty; impeachment of Adam Clayton Powell; new African-American Senator, William Brooke; Lady Bird describes reaction to speech; Lady Bird answers press questions; Johnsons to Speaker's Room & White House with guests for supper
  • tne following inrorma.t1on concerning the captioned conference:" :f'u..~shed This conference _is in ~s&lity the conference scheduled tor last yea.r·wutch.was called otf by_Ad&mc. Powell. At·a preparation meeting last year D~. Nathan Wright
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Powell -- I -- 20 spent the night at the house, and I had the young men from Marshall: Clayton Fields, Jr
  • See all online interviews with Dorris Powell
  • . Taylor's business dealings with Powell's father; Mr. Taylor's personality; Mr. Taylor helping the poor and the church; Lady Bird's brothers, Tony and Tommy Taylor; Lady Bird as a student at the University of Texas; Powell meeting LBJ: the Johnson's marriage
  • Powell, Dorris
  • Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Dorris Powell
  • I get my appointment as assistant secretary, I'm not going to get a dime out of here for you." We never, in my areas--oh, there may have been a couple of occasions when Adam Clayton Powell, who was really a Peck's bad boy in Congress, could call up
  • there, a quite large folder. Do you want to brief me on it? Anything that you want me to lead to that, just listening [inaudible]? A: Oh, there's a number of things here that we have. I, as a result of LBJ--I think we can say that Adam Clayton Powell--we got
  • ':: ' l THE WHITE A­ "'I' HOUSE WASHINGTON I' March ~ Adam Clayton Powell is burning mad over behavior on the Education Bill. He has threatened prisals: 1. Remove jurisdiction. 2. Fire her vocational sister rehabilitation from X Higher
  • , Leonard Hall, who was GOP national chairman at the time . What was this about? B: Generally, it was . . . F: Did this smack of a certain favoritism? B: Oh, yes, no question . Mansure was head of the GSA at the time, Ed Mansura and Sherman Adams
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  • of us?" Other departments did. I had a great rapport with HEW and the Department of Labor but not with OEO. G: Do you think this might have had something to do with the fact that Adam Clayton Powell was the chairman of the committee at the time? Q
  • concerning Representative Adam Clayton Powell. I have forwarded the message tram 1ou and the other members of the Nev York Sttt.te Senate and Assembly who Joined vitb you, tq..the· n1ne­ Committee chaired by Repres~ntative ~~Ce~l~le~r
  • : If there was one individual that originated the idea, it eludes me. I think it was a consensus that this was good judgment and common sense. G: [Adam Clayton] Powell introduced the measure in the House but later said publicly that he thought it had only a slim
  • JOHNSON, John H., Ebony Mag. CHAPIN, Stuart, Chapel Hill, NCAR Johnaon Pub. Co. DUNLOP, Prof. John, Harvard Univ. POWELL, Dr. C. B., Amaterdam WILLIAMS, Prof. Jerre S. Univ. of Newa Texas MURPHY, John H., AfricanCAPLES, WWlam G., Per ■ onnel American New
  • the disturbance, WILL:U.HS was identified as being among a crowd of Net:roes who were gath~r~d at the 800-900 bloc:: of East Genesee Str;et. -14- AL 1S7-24S CHRISl'OPHER EUGEHE POWELL POWELL is currantly the editor and owner of the HomatownNews11, a local
  • of the poor are old people. What do you do about them? You don't set up programs for babies to take care of old people, or Head Starts, or debate whether Mr. Adam Clayton Powell or Mayor Wagner or Sarge Shriver should appoint a committee in New York when