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Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • interest groups can help. AFL-CIO, for instance, was always very helpful. And some persons from these groups would probably be in those meetings. At the same time, there would be meetings down at the White House. But the essential point, in answer to your
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was himself a journeyman carpenter, was himself the president of a carpenters local, became the state president of the AFL-CIO in Texas, out of the building trades, had a very close affinity with the building trades experience, and he knew their philosophies
President Johnson's foreign and domestic travel, "Trips (LBJ's)," Reference File (Item)
  • '!"!\,,...,...,__,....,.......,--,.,,,...-..,.._--....,.'"".',,.,..,.!"".----------- __..,..,. ..,,_..,;:u,...,.,.,..,,.. _;._,..,.,s.;i--"""""c..__ _.,....~..,..,.\.,._......,.,., I ·I ! j I l l l FLORIDA. continued ·i I Dccernber 12, 1967 Speech at National Convention of AFL-CIO, Bal Harbour, Miami ·GEORGIA May 7, 1964 Poverty Trip
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at all, and I mean at all, of the workings of American labor. He got along personally with George Meany, but he still didn't understand what Meany did or what the AFL did or the CIO, and, you see, the railroad brotherhoods back at that period--I don't
Folder, "COLEMAN, JAMES P. (GOV.) [5 OF 5]," White House Name Files, WHCF, Box C-320 (Item)
  • 45 Santa Teresa Street San Jose, California./ July 14, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson The White House Washington, D. C. Dear President Johnson: At the last meeting of our Santa Clara County COPE (AFL-CIO), we voted unanimously to express to you
Folder, "Ex LE/HU 2-7, 11/22/63 - 9/3/65 [LEGISLATION - VOTING RIGHTS]," WHCF LE, Box 66 (Item)
  • AFL CIO 815 16 ST . A -HDC HB19 THOASH RRIS, GE RAL COUSEL ASHDC AL CIO 815 16 ST 822 D VID COHE 1223 CO NECT!CUT AVE • ASHDC HB23 EA Y, P ESI ET EO AFL CIO 815 16 ST NW ASHDC HB24 AlTER P REUTHER,PRESIDET UA DETROIT - !CH re : ...... 8
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/23/1967 (Item)
  • Wentzel (she is Chancellor Keisinger's daughter) Vice Admiral George Burkley Master Sergeant Paul Glynn ; Marvin Watson ' Marie Fehmer Mary Slater • Mr. George Meany, President AFL-Cio | General Lucius Clay : HITE HOUSE Date April •NT LYNDO N B
Folder, "Ex FG 731 President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity 5/20/64 - 6/9/64," WHCF FG Subject Files, Box 402 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • union people--the CIO people, not the AFL people, but the CIO people who were at the convention--in his room I think it was, at the hotel, and made this proposal to them. Then Lyndon came into that meeting and spoke in favor, asked them to go along
President's Daily Diary entry, 8/1/1968 (Item)
  • (PL) Califano (PL) President of Joe Bierne /Communications Workers of America., AFL/CIO Mr. W. A. Smallwood, Secretary-Treasurer, CWA Mr. David Anderson, Civic Affairs Department, CWA Mr. Gus Cramer . to present resolution adopted by the CWA
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/7/1964 (Item)
  • Pres. call (Key to City of Knoxville presented to President Mayor John Duncan -made by vocat'l trainees Mr. Wilson Bordon, Pres. Blount County of Commerce Christopher. Regional Dire. AFL-CIO R. .Jones V-Chrman TVA Board Frank E Smith, Director Oak
Folder, "November 19, 1965," President’s Appointment File [Diary Backup], Box 25 (Item)
  • tomorrow is indicated. Q. What time will you brief tomorrow? MR. VALENTI: Q. 10:00 AM. You will have two briefings tomorrow, Jack? MR. VALENTI: One briefing tomorrow -- 10:00 AM. Q. Jack, does the President plan now to attend the AFL-CIO convention
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/2/1967 (Item)
  • , Int l Brotherhoo d o f Electrical Workers , Wash and th e dange r o f price W . Pag e Keeton , Dean , Universit y o f Texas La w School , Austin , Te x problems. ! Georg e Meany , President , AFL-CIO, Washington , D . C. W. B . Murphy
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/12/1967 (Item)
  • ) Day_ Time Telephone 1. In Out Lo • Mr. 12, 1967 Monday y £ Activity LD _ Mr. ~ U*. (include visited by) Hank Brown , President. Texas AFL-CIO Gerald Brown. Exec Secy, Texas State Building & Construction Trades Council Mr. M. A. Graham Mr. J
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/21/1967 (Item)
  • , President, Bristol Myers Corp. , Trustee, NCCD | / Mr. Joseph Woll, General Counsel, AFL-CIO / Mr. Joseph Griesendieck, Falstaff Brewing Co, St. Louis, Missouri, trustee, NCCD j ~~~ Mr. Paul Foley, VP for Public Relations, State Mutual Life Assurance Co
President's Daily Diary entry, 1/25/1967 (Item)
  • t 2:10p t ^_ 2:20p j To I e e Meany , Presiden t AFL-CIO e merge r o f Labor-Commerce department s - - an d emergency dispute s legislatio n (See Sec y Wirtz' memo t o th e Pres thi s date ) jr , p _ y _£ e Califan o (pl) _ Marvi _ y
President's Daily Diary entry, 3/10/1967 (Item)
  • the President came o n the phone) e Califano George Meany. President AFL-CIO (b-3) . Abe Fortas. Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court--returnin g the President's ! Califano (pl) ~~t~ Director j Manatos--returning the President's Bromley t 3:15p f
President's Daily Diary entry, 9/9/1966 (Item)
  • Washington, n D.C. Chrysler, Haeusler, Detroit, Michigan Roy, Haggerty, Cornelius J., President, Building andConstruction Trades Department AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C. Congressman Seymour Halpern, Hartung, Bernard C., Institute of Traffic Engineering
President's Daily Diary entry, 10/15/1966 (Item)
  • < Anf-nT-nn^^la/ic-CDr-i-tf-^T-) Kallcn, Arthur Di Bureau of the- Budget Chamber of Commerce *Kelley, Ben U.S. Kerrick, John C. Amer. Assn. of Motor Vehicle U.S. Congress Administrators Kirwin, Mike Kirkland, Lane AFL-CIO Koch, George * Grocer y
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/26/1966 (Item)
  • . - President, Morgan State College, Baltimore, Md. Jernegan, Hon. John D. Amb. to Algeria Johnson, Hon. Leroy ^ Johnson, Hon. U Alexis - May 26, 1966 Thurs. Keenan, Mr. Joseph - Secy. ,Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers -AFL-CIO Kitchen, Mrs. Helen
Oral history transcript, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this union at this time the White House got committed to the Board's report and to a deal with the AFL-CIO--Meany was supposed to influence the union; he couldn't. Then that's what got repudiated, you know. M: The ~: Yes. ~~ite House let itself
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -60; exec. dir. Nat. Urban League, N.Y.C 1961 --- ; instr. Sch. Social Work, U. Neb., 1950-58; frequent lectr. Mem. Presidents Com. Youth Employment; nat. adv. council AFL-CIO Community Services Com.; adv. bd. N.Y. Sch. Social Work, Columbia; adv. com
Folder, "Boggs, Hale (Cong.) 1/1/1965 - 12/31/1965," Name Files, WHCF, Box B-330 (Item)
  • ,Vance BAIH,Birch Wn..LIAMS,John J • McCORMACK, John W• MILLS, Wilbur D. KING, Cecil BOGGS,Hale i!OOM::L, John D. ALBERT, Carl FOGARTY,John BYR.NF.s,John W. ADAIR, E. Ross FORAND,Aime T , ur J. ~.u,.L.L:.oL1·n..LER, Andrew, Dept. of Legislation AFL-CIO
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • building trades department of the AFL-CIO. Now, again, there of course everybody had sort of mixed feelings, because the building trades have traditionally been Republican rather than Democratic. That's the one segment of labor that really did stay
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • me don't say. That's just an entry in the list. L: I think I had a luncheon at that labor--what's it called now--AFL, isn't it? G: Yes, AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] headquarters. L: AFL-CIO
Folder, "Ex FG 170/A-Z [5 of 6] [Department of Housing and Urban Development/A-Z (FG 170/A-Z)]," WHCF FG, Box 256 (Item)
Folder, "Task Forces: Membership Lists," Reference File (Item)
  • \ Robert Wood Political Science M. I. T. Department MEMBERS Charles Haar Professor, Harvard ~w School Edgar Kaiser (represented by Norman Nickerson) President, Kaiser Industries Walter Reuther (represented by Jack Conway) Vice President, AFL-CIO Oscar
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1956" (Item)
  • , reportedly his Policy Committee can pass the word and bring this about. Adlai Stevenson proposes an end to nuclear testing in a speech to newspaper editors. c. 4/23 In the Texas AFL-CIO newsletter, Leroy Williams and Jerry Holleman, president and executive
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Folder, "Legislative Struggle - Vol. I [3 of 3]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)
  • the Stat.eof New York. Vice Adm. James A. Hirshfield, President, IAb Carriers' Asaociation. Captain J. W. Clark, Chairman, Committeeof American Steamship Linea. Perry M. Shoemaker, President, Central Railroad of NewJeney. Andrew Biemiller, AFL-CIO, Department
Folder, "Bernard Quint," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 1 (Item)
  • . December I, 1g63 21 Remarks at the Presentation of an Exceptional Service Award to Agent Rufus W. Youngblood of the Secret Service. December 4, 1g63 22 Remarks at a Meeting With the AFL-CIO Executive Council. December ·4, 1g63 23 Remarks to Members
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 2, May 1 - 15, 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 7 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • unions a change in the qualifications for recruitment. For the first time we would permit some college training in lieu of time as an apprenticeship representative with a building trade~ union. Christ! I went to meetings of the AFL-CIO, I went up
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • look good . say, You write this and 'Sources say that it looks as though it's going to be Kennedy and Johnson .' That's the background on the story ." I can remember talking with the AFL-CIO delegation from Massachusetts . Bill Bolanger
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • legislative representative for the AFL-CIO in the decade of the 1950s. P: I started off as representative for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. M: Do you remember Johnson from that far back? P: He was in the House then. ~·1: In 1948. P
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • political savvy that we could rely upon. And the reports that we got from Wisconsin were confused and contradictory; nobody I could find knew how Gus Scholle [president, Michigan AFL-CIO] really felt. In fact, I discovered that most of those people down
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and a couple ofpartners were involved with in the thing. Later, the AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress ofindustrial Organizations] needed office space and came to me and wanted to know what kind of deal we could make. I leased them the second
Folder, "Ex OS 4-1, Astronauts, 9/16/65 - 6/8/66," WHCF OS, Box 8 (Item)
Folder, "Boggs, Hale (Cong.) 11/1/1963 - 12/31/1964," Name Files, WHCF, Box B-330 (Item)
  • . Mr. Charles M. CROOKS, President, INTERNATIONAL of Masters, Mates & Pilots, Inc. C. Swan WEBER, V. P., WESTINGHOUSE Electric Cor . In . Sam P. STONE, Exec. V. P., AVONDALE Shipyards, omte. Robert OLIVER, Legis. Consultant, AFL-CIO Maritime E
President's Daily Diary entry, 9/28/1964 (Item)
  • . Departed Nationa l Airport vi a AF-1, DC- 6 w/ part y above . Thos e alread y aboar d aircraf t were: Senato r Claiborn e Pell , R F ; Mr. Tommy Corcoran ^ Jo e Keenan, AFL-CIO ; Wilson McCarthy, DNC. Aboard, th e President worked w/ variou s staf f member