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Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Fulbright didn't agree to much that Johnson did in the foreign area, and they just didn't get along. G: In September 1965 the Head Start program was announced as a permanent War on Poverty initiative. Do you recall LBJ's attitude toward Head Start? J: Oh

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or drawing room; whatever it is it overlooks the Ellipse. We had a scotch and soda and we started talking. The President was talking about the War on Poverty and some other things that were going on, and then he took us on a little tour and took us down

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. This is the governors. MG: Right, state. How about War on Poverty? Did you get a sense of how the poverty program was either helping or not helping in terms of riots? DG: Much that we saw was good, and most that we saw within the cities was inadequate. Head Start

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

while he was fighting a war and trying to step up his War on Poverty and do these other things. And we weren't doing a bad job of it, but there was always ways it could be improved. Meyer came down and he said, "Now listen, I'll tell 23 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, my perspective, I was just too young really to understand what this meant. I hadn't really seen poverty or long lines of unemployment. G: Of course, he had in place the whole War on Poverty program. Do you think he felt by this time, by 1968

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

call for a report or you could call a meeting and examine the difficulties. M: One point that I had bears on this same problem. When the idea of the war on poverty came up, according to some of the books I've read, there was the thought

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/14/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/14/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Folder, "Watts," Office Files of Joseph A. Califano, Box 58 (Item)

other vit:r\Jly concerned agencies sets a dangerous precedent. I am hopeful you will give strong consideration to our argument that the War on Poverty can be most effectively waged at a local level and that consensus programs developed thousands of miles

President's Daily Diary entry, 1/20/1965 (Item)

nations in an aspiring family of must not live in hopeless poverty. men, the curse of war and poverty into nations. In a land rich in harvest, children just the benediction of concord and plenty. For us, God o f all the worlds, our must not go hungry

Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

described as going on concurrently with the exploration or exploratory reconnaissance in the war 'on poverty were to be a part of that bill. F: Well, you can look at it two ways. Originally, a number of the recommendations of this task force involved work

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. 8: Was Mr. Johnson directly involved in that? That is, did you get word from him in person or otherwise that, "Let's try to hold the line on defense so we can continue in education, the war on poverty, et cetera"? S: Well, it worked in a little

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at a lot of colleges on unemployment problems. G: Did this have an input into the War on Poverty? M: Well, I don't know whether they used the report or not, but I think half a dozen of the things we recommended eventually became either completely

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the job. That something as big as the Voting Rights Act, something as big as real equal employment opportunity, something as big as aid to education and the War on Poverty, which was not a big enough war and didn't last long enough, is going to be needed

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and now declare an unconditional war against poverty" has been ridiculed by the intellectual left. They are saying that it wasn't a war, it was only a skirmish, and it was ridiculed by the right which said that nobody is going to wipe out poverty

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. it was the general War on Poverty . B: But when those things started out simultaneously- F: They accelerated together- B: The first year They accelerated, and in '66 it was more and then, as I said, Congress accelerated the Great Society programs--or added

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter Jenkins; Bobby

Folder, "Pepper, Claude (Senator) [1947]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 29 (Item)

Folder, "Gray, Jesse Willard," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 8 (Item)

and purposes of the organization: l. The War Against Poverty 1n Harlem. 2. The liberation the United States. of non-white people here 1n 3. The right of free expression by the constitution of the United States. HCFPwas The first lo~a.ted

Folder, "NSAM # 335: Preparation of Arms Control Program, 6/28/1965," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 7 (Item)

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 72, June 2000," LBJ Library (Item)

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 84, June 2004," LBJ Library (Item)

tire administration in 29 sessions (two classes a week) was daunting, but I en1isted some expert help. Mike Gillette, who has compiled a history of the War on Poverty as told in oral histories, dis cussed that program. Ted Gittinger, the Library's

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 90, January 2009," LBJ Library (Item)

gathered, a different LBJ began to take form in his mind. This new Johnson was the last New Dealer, determined to see Franklin Roosevelt's program through to its proper fruition. LBJ wanted to fight the War on Poverty. Johnson was not inter ested

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/24/1964 (Friday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 7, October 1 - December 31, 1964 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)

declared war on poverty. This provides a good basis for a new approach to foreign aid and technical assistance. You could call for a unified effort by the more advanced and prosperous nations to combat the poverty, disease and ignorance that threaten our

Folder, "Demonstrations (August 1965 to December 1966) [2 of 2]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Investigative Subject Files, Box 64b (Item)

Folder, "Roy Wilkins (NAACP)," Name Files, WHCF, Box W-312 (Item)

Folder, "Natural Beauty, Resources, etc. 2/2/65," Office Files of Bill Moyers, Box 2 (Item)

plants. In Florida, the State road board has hired some 100 youths, age 16 to 21, on a 6-month project that will give them on-the-job train ing in roadside maintenance. In our national forests, the war on poverty is contributing to beautification." While

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 8, July 1-15 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 9 (Item)

of which we are a part. i ·· I. -At home, we are engaged in a massive effort to improve the quality of American life. We are at war against poverty . ( against unemploy~ent - - against racial prejudice - - against ,. I i disease and sickness

Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 8/24/65-9/11/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)

rioting \ has expedited _ _ _ _ __...projects and the projects grants totaling _____dollars for the greater Los Angeles war on poverty. The projects represent existing Federal programs which will help meet the immediate needs of the area. The projects
Welfare and War on Poverty

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/14/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty

Folder, "Ex HU 2, 1/1/65 - 4/20/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES]," WHCF HU, Box 3 (Item)

Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 3/21/66- [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)