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Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

--the Open Housing Bill; the War On Poverty Bills, particularly on funding I think this was a major area of problem; the Demonstration Cities in this year which-- A: There was a lot of opposition to Demonstration Cities. The Poverty Bill

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/4/1965 (Thursday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/7/1966 (Friday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/4/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/3/1964 (Monday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

matter. And various things There were other assignments that I got in connection with the National Alliance of Businessmen, and really all of the manpower programs for that matter. And others relating to OEO and the War on Poverty. P: In your

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] the swearing in of Sargent Shriver as chief of the Job Corps. G: Of the War on Poverty? LG: The War on Poverty. I must say I was so impressed. The President was so positive and said, "We are going to remove poverty from this country," and he certainly

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

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No, I didn't handle poverty. G: The other perhaps also was not relevant to you. A new daycare provision related to the War on Poverty that he introduced. M: No. I just sort of remember right around the edges, but I didn't work on that. G

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but it was also very annoying to an awful lot of other people. G: There's some suggestion in the War on Poverty legislation that he insisted on an enormous 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
of committee members and staff, including Edith Green, Phil Landrum, Carl Perkins, Frank Thompson, Hugh Carey, Peter Frelinghuysen; Arch Moore, Albert Quie, Charles Goodell and John H. Dent; the Economic Opportunity Act and the War on Poverty; efforts to raise

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 42, 15 February 1988," LBJ Library (Item)

: Appalachia & the War on Poverty"; Ning Gu, "China Policy in Johnson Administration"; Lawrence Jacobs, "lnstitulional Change in the U.S. and Britain: National Health Service Act of 1946 and the Medicare Act of 1965"; Padmanabh Karnath, "Exec utive Privilege

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 46, 15 January 1990," LBJ Library (Item)

Science Experts & Their Conceptualization of Community Involvement in the U.S. 'War on Poverty' and its Pre cursors"; David Chappell, "Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement, 19501970"; Gareth Davies, "Having the Power, We Have

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 73, October 2000," LBJ Library (Item)

... Medicare, Medicaid, federal assis tance to education, the most sweep ing series of environmental laws that have ever been passed at any one time, a program such as had never been instituted on a national scale the War on Poverty. So that's how I became

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Ten Year Progress Report, 1981," LBJ Library (Item)

to depict only the high points in the outpouring of legislation that represents the Great Society. Concentrating on civil rights, education, health, the War on Poverty, and conservation, displays show how these programs actually touched the lives of millions

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/14/1965 (Thursday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/19/1965 (Friday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/10/1965 (Saturday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Folder, "Kentucky Trip – May 21, 1964 – Mrs. Johnson [Clippings]," White House Social Files, Liz Carpenter Subject Files, Box 5 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jacobsen -- II -- 23 G: Well, it seems to me that perhaps one of Johnson's resentments toward the War on Poverty was he felt that it was a bastion of Bobby Kennedy people in OEO [Office of Economic Opportunity]. Did he ever express

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

with the White House; War on Poverty; changes in professions open to women; today

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on Poverty, but not this. F: Oh, yes. Well, Adam was very much involved in the War on Poverty, but he was also involved in this because he was McNamara's guy. We notified them about the air force problem. We recognized the political implication it was going

Folder, "Johnson Administration - 1963–1966," Files of Robert Komer, NSF, Box 34 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, the War on Poverty, and Civil Rights. These were probably the three big areas, I wonder if, instead of being specific, if you recall contact LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

are not entirely legislative. There have been tremendous Congressional victories for us in just preserving the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the War on Poverty in '67. That probably took more effort on the part of the President than anything else
Partnership for Health; Health Manpower Bill; problem of funding programs; influence of Vietnam War; poverty programs; Head Start; Neighborhood Youth Corps; OEO problems/achievements; summation of legislative program development

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the War on Poverty Task Force. Were you involved at all with the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency? S: I really was not particularly involved in that. I think that what I did before this task force was formed that got me into it was that I
Biographical information; War on Poverty Task Force; members of the drafting group; Job Corps; role of the Labor Department; Willard Wirtz; women in the Job Corps; legislative input; delegation of authority; Sargent Shriver; Community Action Program

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Okay. Now, the War on Poverty amendments that came up that year centered around the governor's veto power. O: As I recall it, the opponents latched on to some incidents that had occurred. There had been eruptions in some of the Job Corps

Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the poverty program in early October. Now, this was six or eight weeks before the election, and you'll notice Lyndon decided to declare war on poverty, and he was going to be the first president in the history of the 16 LBJ Presidential Library http
after JFK's death; the War on Poverty and discrepancies between LBJ's intentions and how programs were carried out; the 1968 federal housing amendment Everett Dirksen wrote; LBJ's relationship with Dirksen, especially regarding plans to open USSR

Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

-threatened, and made it blighted areas . M: Is this part of the same movement that created Model Cities? B: Purposed in this direction, yes . M: And this, of course, is all part of the general War on Poverty, too . B : Well, I think it's all a part

Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, was so devastating, and in terms of this whole concept of a “war on poverty,” how one addresses the underlying problems, I think you really just have to at times call these decisions and go ahead and take the issues one by one, knowing full well

Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

attitude toward these programs while he was president? D: Well, I think that President Johnson's commitment to the War on Poverty was carried over and I think he had a substantial commitment to the work of this committee. It was probably foreshadowed

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/14/1968 (Monday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/21/1968 (Sunday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/8/1966 (Friday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/12/1965 (Thursday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/16/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/30/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

together, or not together but he had a list, and he asked me to write a memo for the President on the politics of the War on Poverty, what would be the domestic, international political things. I wrote him a memo saying that I thought he could do nothing

Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for national purposes, on maybe a critical point of the economy or the war on poverty or foreion aid or a trade bill, this kind of thing, and that he was at a level to know really better than the Congress what ought to be done. I can recall some votes

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