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Folder, "[September 6, 1967 - 11:09 a.m. Meeting with Vietnam Election Observers]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

Sullivan, Vice President of the AFL-CIO and President of the Building Service Employees Union, read a statement he had issued in Saigon praising the will and spirit of the Vietnamese people and the positive role played by unions there. Stanford Smith

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/13/1967 (Item)

Union of Operating Engineers but no remarks by the President. Mr. E. C. Hallbeck - Chairman, Government Employees Council, AFL-CIO • Mr. Arthur H. Christian, Award Judge-President, American Society of Safety Engineers |i Prof. William N. Cox - Award

President's Daily Diary entry, 1/13/1967 (Item)

:19a t | Harry Watson (pl) McPherson (pl) I (^ 10:40a " t ! ' "Mr. Lane Kirkland, Local AFL-CIO ! 1, ——— ———————— __———__ I 10:48a t , ' ! Tom 10:55a i Amb. = , . _ __ _ . , Johnson (pl) Symington to second floor -- Yellow

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

more use for him. G: What about Hugh Roy Cullen? D: He wrote me a letter and said, "Lyndon has promised me that he will vote right." I did not make copies of the letter, but I showed it to Roy Harrington, of the AFL-CIO and let him read

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the bless ings of 1abor and who came ei ther directly from the labor movement or from the periphery of it. Mr. Henning had been assistant for a number of years to Mr. Cornelius Haggerty when he was the state director of the AFL-CIO in California

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

quote--who was it, who was the first president of the AFL-CIO--Philip Murray, who talked about giving people a rug on the floor and a picture on the wall and a little of the comforts of home. Poverty is a bad thing, let's get rid of it, it was just

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the evening. George Reedy was sitting next to Andy Biemiller, the AFL-CIO's lobbyist, and the bill, as it had been fought through, had become finally an acceptable bill to the union. They decided it was a good thing for them to be on the side of some kind

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 11, 24 January 1978," LBJ Library (Item)

OSWALD, Director, Dept. of Researrh, AFL-CIO; BERTRAM W. 'ARP, Deputy Director, Domestic Policy Starf 2:4a-1:00 p.m. Addres.~: "A National Policy Toward Energy", CARROLL WILSON, Mitsui Professor or Problems 1n Contemporary Technology; Director, Workshop

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was then the AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] lobbyist for [George] Meany's . . . . We must have had something going on in the economy because I had these meetings on the twenty-first and then on the twenty-fourth

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Steelworkers and the AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] are just furious with Wayne Morse." We looked at. . . . Well, no, let's see. Okay. G: Now there was a meeting in your office on July 26. (Interruption) C

Folder, "CQ - HUD," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)

. of Home Builders, the National Housing Conference, the American Institute of Planners, the American Institute of Architects, the AFL-CIO and the National Assn. of Mutual Savings Banks. Among the organizations opposing enactment were the National Assn

Folder, "Bush, George," White House Name Files, WHCF, Box B-611 (Item)

Qeorge, 2901 W. Texas Texas. of-Commerce, P. 0. Box 1302, Pasadena, MCCULLAR, Don, Pres., Harris County AFL-CIO Suther land St. , Houston, Texas . c/o Bldg., Houston, Houston, Houston Chamber Texas. and Council, Texas. 2704 Chairman, Harris

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1957" (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 23, March 10 - 15, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 14 [1 of 2] (Item)

for La.tin America will attend and six from AFL-CIO. George Meany is in Europe and regrets that he will not be back in time. A list of participants is at Tab B. Following the meeting, the two groups are expected to issue state ments supporting your

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of Government Employees--probably being the strongest. That was a general government union affiliated with the AFL-CIO. Also you had streggth in some of the military establishments in the traditional crafts, particularly the machinists and those in the metal

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 46, October 16-20, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 24 (Item)

Folder, "Volume I - Narrative History, Part III [2 of 2]," Department of Transportation Administrative History, Box 2 (Item)

Folder, "Passage and Signature," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 3 (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 53: Dec. 1‑10, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 26 (Item)

Vice President, AFL-CIO Councilman, Fairview, New Jersey Member, Board of Visitors, United States Military Academy Na~ed one of ten outstanding men of the year, Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1946 President, Communications Workers of America !. I• i

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1963" (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

with a buddy system--working with the American Federation of Labor and CIO, Congress of Industrial Organizations, the AFL-CIO, we sponsored a program for rank and file union members in, as I said, give eities in approximately twenty-six companies, and we had

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

law, which was a hot, hot issue, and pressing on the TaftMr. Johnson was on record. He'd voted, so there wasn't anything he could do. He'd already voted for it. He just kept pushing The AFL and the CIO had endorsed Stevenson. him to state how he

Folder, "Transcript of [President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity] Meeting, Meeting of July 18, 1963," Reference File, VP Papers-Civil Rights (artificial collection), Box 11 (Item)

indicated that the AFL-CIO had been working closely with the Labor-Liaison Section and had been making some very significant progress. He stated that the Subcommittee on Apprenticeship and Training had recommended an apprenticeship conference to develop

Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: What is it, the shipbuilding interests that-- H: Excuse me, I'm sorry, Dr. McComb, I should say the shipbuilding interests and the very, very powerful shipbuilding labor unions have combined with the sea-going labor unions and the rest of the AFL-CIO

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about the flat ban on the closed shop, which is a thing that was very much misunderstood by the general public and which was really rather devastating to the building trades unions, the AFL-CIO, the big mass unions. Automobile workers didn't care about

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, the president of AFL-CIO, talked to the President about it and objected to it very, very strenuously--and fairly soon after the leak. The leak also generated opposition from people within the administration, to wit: Willard Wirtz, a strong opponent of the plan

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the contractors were not capable of really managing them, and I believe Southern Illinois University was one. Then we had one in Indiana--this is the one I think maybe you're referring to. We had an AFL-CIO-sponsored center in Indiana. Or if they didn't sponsor

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

blocs of interests and Democrats that they didn't want Lyndon Johnson to be president or to be the Democratic nominee. He didn't represent the kind of Democratic Party that the AFL-CIO and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and a number of liberal

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I thought we had settled all of our arguments locally, when the vote came on Mrs . Bentsen's nomination, Jerry Holleman, who was then the head of the AFL-CIO in Texas, was walking up and down the aisle giving the thumbs down signal, and the Travis

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to become the next president of the AFL-CIO . Now, I don't know whether this is true or not, but looking at it objectively, there was � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Folder, "Ex PU 1 / FG 731 [Publications / President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity]," WHCF PU Subject Files, Box 23 (Item)

JOHNSONAPPOINTS NEWMEMBERSTO COMMITTEE 563 of the Butchers Union, AFL-CIO, which .covers Postmaster General John A. Gronouski and J. J. Rodriquez, of Monterey Park, California, are new members of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] support for the reorganization. So that's why it ended up where it ended up. G: Made sense politically. (Interruption) There were criticisms that this represented a de

Folder, "NSAM # 131: Training Objectives for Counter_Insurgency, 3/13/1962," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1961" (Item)

defense contractors in Indian Treaty Room in EOB. 5/3 Meeting of Executive Council of AFL-CIO and Building Trades and PCEEO at 9:30. 2:30 space meeting with Kerr, Ed Welsh; WH dinner for President of Tunisia. 5/4 To NYC, speaks to Albert Lasker Awards

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 9, July 16-31 1966 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 9 (Item)

-Ala.) Congressman Dante Fas cell (D-Fla.) *Congressman Bradford Morse (R-Mass.) Congressman Jeffrey Cohelan (D-Calif.) Congresswoman Julia Hansen (D-Wash.) Congressmani Silvio Conte {R-Mass.) - l - Public Members (select three) George Meany - AFL-CIO

President's Daily Diary entry, 1/29/1965 (Item)

January 29, 1965 Friday White Hous e Breakfast McGeorge Bund y Bill Moyer s George Reed y Chairman Joh n Mac y Clifton C . Carte r Chmn Macy George Meany & Andrew Biemiller, AJL-CIO Senator Ralph Yarborough - re his brothe r

Folder, "Green, Edith (Cong.)," Name Files, WHCF, Box G-259 (Item)

~ ~IN~ /..s-r-s7 T~/ l TIie. Preeldent appreciated your n.ggeatlon ·that Jaeappe&% at- the Oregon State AFL-CIO coaveldloa la Sa1em. aftal' ·au 'rlalt to Portland OD. September .16. U-afortunately, the time echedale la each that till• appearanc• eaaaot

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/5/1965 (Item)

Presiden t Mr . Aim e Foran d Senator Alber t Gor e Senator Vanc e Hartk e Senator Birc h Bav h Cong. Joh n D . Dingel l Mr. Arthu r J . Altmeye r Mr. Andre w Biemiller, Director . Depto f Legislatio n - - AFL-CI O Mr. Nelso n H. ' Cruikshank. Director

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Holleman was a labor official at the time-- S: He was president of the AFofL-CIO, I believe; and Fred Schmidt was another one of the labor leaders; and of course Creekmore Fath was one of those people, too, that were somewhat suspicious of this new-- B