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  • ;uat 30., 1966. At tb1s time he was fin.ed t ,b e. amount of . · !;~J .00 for holding a public rally at Marquette Park, Chicago, Ul1.n~1s on August 21, 1966, without obtaining a permit. Colonel FRANK BATTAGLIA, Chie,f of Patrol, Baltimore., :·~-. r
  • of rooms had a freshman named Penny Frisby. Every time my brother hit Penny, he had my name on the wall, and he just put a mark against it. Joe said I came down and too k one look and sav.i that my name had marks clear around five rooms and had started
  • WWW //HITE HOUSE Date DENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON DIARY President began his day at (Place) Time Telephone 11 In Out Lo The Walt t 9:50a t Secretar Agent (include visited by) Malechek - LBJ Ranch Rostow - pl y Dean Rusk Clint Hill 10:06 t
  • , several individuals left a package containing Vietnam protests as well as Selective Service Registration and Classification Cards at the Department of Justice Building, Washington, D. c. One of these Selective Service Cards left at that time contained
  • Ambassador to Luxembourg, Chicago, Ill. Hon. Carl Rowan Columnist; Former Ambassador, Wash., D. C. {
  • , and Hr. Insul that you referred to a fO\-7 times was a leading utility -- they called them magnates, I believe, back in those days. SG: Yes. He and I belipvc it was one or two brothers operated out of , primarily out of Chicago. They utilized
  • State Hon William Rivkin, former Ambassador, Chicago , Ill Hon Carl Rowan, columnist, Wash. , DC Hon Henry S. ^HHHHHUHH^Villard, former Amb to Senegal Hon JOhn B. Duncan, District of Columbia Commissioner Hon William B. Dale, U.S. Exec Dir., Intl
  • handle this better. Perhaps we could send Bill Stevens of the Chicago Sun-Times and Palmer Hoyt and maybe Hedley Donovan from the east coast., 11 the President said. The conversation then turned to the subject of the Bonins and the forthcoming visit
  • , visited briefly w/ VM AND MF, and then went to his bedroom to take a nap fo r the remainder of the flight. Arrive Gained two hours i n time change calls checked mf Des Moines, Iowa Greeted by an enthusiastic crowd, and Reception Committee' Governor
  • : Aimee Semple McPherson? C: Aimee Semple McPherson. She was carrying a program every Sunday night and I think one other time during the week, but anyway she had one, I know, on Sunday night. The minister either followed her or preceeded her
  • since the time that Franklin D. Roosevelt flew out to Chicago and was the first man ever to attend a convention. So I don't understand why Johnson was so severely criticized for the allegation that he had rigged this whole thing. F: Did you have
  • ' mf Ashton Gonella - During lunch, the President discussed w/ John Criswell, MW, and GC the Criswell memo on convention sites -- discussingpros and cons on several cities -- Houston, Miami Beach, and Chicago. Final decision was to wait until Monday
  • of fact, Mr. Johnson was waiting. In Chicago, I don't think there's anybody more important than Mayor Daley, certainly not at the time [Johnson was] the Senate Majority\ Leader. But Johnson was waiting for I him. The mayor was perhaps forty minutes
  • : We talked about everything under the sun. Many times he would talk in the second term, towards the end of the second term, about who the candidates might be, and he always gave Mr. Johnson very high marks as a possible presidential nominee
  • the ranch country; Gwen Gibson of the New Y ork H erald Tribune; and M ary Packinham of the Chicago Tribune; and M u riel Dobbins of the B altim ore Sun, Karen K le in felter, the best thing that happene d to the Dallas N ew s in years; and Norm a Ekdahl
  • INTERVIEWEE: H. JERRY VOORHIS INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Voorhis's office, Monadnock Building, Chicago, Illinois. Tape 1 of 1. M: First of all, I'll identify the tape. This is an interview with Mr. Jerry Voorhis. That is correct? V: M: Mr. Voorhis
  • to the Ranch from the White House, and it was a local production of Raisin in the Sun. J: Yes, oh I do. And I loved Raisin in the Sun, and so did he. M: About this time, it was in March, Senator Johnson announced that he has not yet made a decision
  • with the postal departments. We set up the Los Angeles air mail and we set up the Chicago air mail in helicopters. After that, I got out of the service and I flew for Skyways in Boston, where we had the first scheduled passenger service from the top of a parking
  • during the Chicago episodes, nor did I hear any discussion of it. It must have been. It was happening at that time. We knew about it. There must have been a feeling that. See, at the time the British-Israeli invasion of Egypt took place, [Dwight
  • Working with Vice President Hubert Humphrey to develop his campaign platform before the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; working on a Vietnam speech for Humphrey to give in Chicago; LBJ and Humphrey's views on Vietnam; consulting
  • available. The Mayor was adamant in his attitude, saying that, "Chicago can handle this problem. The convention was planned here a long time, and it's going to stay here. We'll be proud There won't be any trouble. As far as the to have it. That's
  • Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Chicago Belt Railroad threatened to halt Democratic National Convention.
  • considerable nationwide publicity. The first time I ever met former President Johnson, to the best of my recollection, was at the Convention in Chicago in 1952. Governor of Georgia. I was then I was chairman of the Georgia delegation to the National
  • Biographical information; met LBJ in 1952 at Chicago Convention; close relationship with LBJ as Senator; Russell was LBJ’s mentor; LBJ was mentor to Talmadge; LBJ recognized as the ablest of parliamentarians in the Senate; most Senators except
  • is a former newspaper reporter for the Dallas News, Chicago Tribune, but at that time he was working for the United States Information Agency. He said, "That's all right." Of course, that Saturday, July 2, he called me about at noon, about one o'clock
  • of the Senate. You know, Lausche had made a lifetime political career out of being a Democrat only in the sense of being on the Democratic side of the ballot. Johnson at that time thought that quite possibly Lausche was holding out to ask for something
  • considered to be ade­ ~uate support for the determination that rehabilitation was econom­ ically feasible at the time the loan and grant contract was exe­ cuted. Our examination into the background and purpose of the letter from the Chicago Association
  • . Gillette PLACE: The Ramada Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: I want to ask you a few preliminary questions about the time of your appointment. One of the memos indicates that Senator Willis Robertson wanted you to go
  • with a San Francisco national bank; William McChesney Martin's leadership in the Federal Reserve System; legislation covering instances when banks changed hands; bank failures; ceilings on rates for time certificates of deposit in 1965; Andre Meyer's idea
  • we had there, who just never thought about politics at all, you know. I knew many of them personally; for example, Langston Hughes was a columnist at the Chicago Defender. Anyhow, I can see myself now, I walked into the--at that time I guess
  • Shepherd. Also mentions Hobart Taylor, the President’s Club, Adam Clayton Powell. DNC activities in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Atlanta
  • n^ May White House p^ 31, 1966 TUESDAY Activity (inctudfvtsited by) Breakfast The President to Yellow Oval Rm of the Mansion for Staff Meeting w/ in for pics) Doug Cater (Oke Bill Moyers "The President said that from time to time he would meet
  • , Charlotte Division C 02 report Black Nationalist Movement, Chicago Division C 11 2/14/68 A 02a report Black Nationalist Movement, Chicago Division C 1 2/14/68 A 03 report Black Nationalist Movement, Chicago Division C 38 1/30/68 A 03a
  • n. Hou« Date July IT LYNDON B. JOHNSON KRY sident began his day at (Place) LBJ TTelephon Time f 1: 1 In Out Lo 6, 1967 Ranch . e £ t Expei Activity L D Coti Day THURSDAY (include visited by) tun 7:40a The President awakened , called for his
  • on one occasion in Austin. Did you have a feeling that Johnson's support of Humphrey was genuine when he finally got around to it? P: Oh, yes, it was, finally, but he hesitated a long time. F: Did you go to Chicago in 1968 to the convention? P
  • courted them too much at the start, and then they fell out. I think he gave great weight to what was said in the eastern newspapers, the New York Times and Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. that are read in this town. Those are the papers I think he
  • if they wanted to march on the side of the road in the hot sun. It was all right. But I still worried about their safety. told the President that we could handle the matter, but I had visualized at that time that it would take about five hundred national
  • -raising dinners . Back in those days we had the twenty-five-dollar-a-plate dinner which just seemed fantastic in those days . Of course look what has happened to them since that time . But during those years, I met not only Lyndon Johnson but also
  • their 1952 convention-convened in the same vast, air-conditioned Chicago audi­ torium where the Republicans nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for the presidency 10 d4ys earlier. They said sessions would start on time, speeches would be brief. Everybody
  • VICE PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON DAILY DIARY The Vice President began his day at (place) Entry Time No. Telephone fo rt Lo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 8:20a 8:45 9:35 10:00 10:05 10:45 11:40 11:55 12:00 12:15 1:30 1:35 1
  • SENATOR LYNDO N B . JOHNSO N DAILY DIAR Y Day Wednesda y LBJ Ranc h The Senator began his day at (place). Entry Time Telephone fo rt No. 1. Lo 12:15p 2. 12:45p 3. 1:15p 4. 1:30p 5. 2:15p t 6. 2:45p t 7. 3:00p t 8. 3:05p 9. 3:30p 10. 3:30p 11
  • Sevareid , GBS Bob Young , Chicago Tribune Hugh John Cauley , Kansas City Star Chalmers Roberts . Washington Post Crosby Noyes . Washington S^aox Star Mel Elfin . Newsweek Jack Sutherland , U S News Bill Moyers, Tom Johnson. Hal Pachios Sidey, TIME Today
  • Cherevas - Flushing, NY Supreme Counsellor: William P. Tsaffaras - Lowell, Mass Sup. Vice Pres of Canada: Chris J. Zakos - Kingston, Ont. Supreme Governor: Charles Alexander - Atlanta, Ga Supreme Governor^ Peter J. Chimoures - Chicago Supreme Governor: Gus
  • -- Sen. Mansfield has called several times re this -- Smith to b U.S. District Judge of Montana and 2) S. 2614 - U.S. Participation in 1967 side celebration of Centennial of Alaska Purchase w/press statement attached. (the above items were signed
  • to be here at the Sheraton Texas. " thence to Shoreham John Bailey - met REMARKS Hotel w/ by Mayor Mrs. Johnson, Mr & Mrs Daley of Chicago A. W. Moursund To First Floo r of mansion w/ Mrs. Johnson - and to the privat e dining room for buffet dinner. Most