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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/9/1964 (Saturday) (Item)

Welfare and War on Poverty
Lynda Johnson returns to Washington; Lady Bird to World's Fair heliport to meet LBJ; Lady Bird & LBJ to Singer Bowl where LBJ gives speech on poverty program; Lady Bird gives brief remarks; to Venezuela exhibit where they see President Betancourt

Folder, "Steinbeck, John [Copies from the Social File]," White House Famous Names, Box 9 (Item)

that I th~nk it should be brought up to date in the matte~ of the air strike in north Vietnam and any subsequent action and involvement. It should also bed brought to the present in the anti poverty matter, t1Jhich I have touched on. When the platform has

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 39, 15 February 1987," LBJ Library (Item)

The Eisenhowers: Famous Family Reminiscences Da,id Eisenhower. grand son of Dwight D. Eisen hower. discussed hi!i work, Eisenl,ower at War, an ac count of his grandfather's command of the allied ex peditionary forces in Eng land in World \.\'ar II. \\hat I mi

Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. [1940-1944]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 12 (Item)

ini~!I of nations in the Western Hemisphere with the outcome of the p r esent European conflict. "It is a war," .he said, "to prevent th e peopl e of North and South Ame rica frorri developing their res ources without paying tribute to Eurol)e

Folder, "King, Martin Luther, 1966-67 [1 of 2]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 32 (Item)

and leaders unhesitatingly put the responsibility for the urban outbursts where it belonged on the wretched life of the ghettos, on haunting unemployment lalmost forgotten by white America but a reality for 1/3 of Negro urban youth) - on a war that devours ten

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at that time was, "My role as first lady will emerge in deeds, not words. 11 F: The President made a magnificent speech to Congress, a State of the Union speech in 1964 right after he had taken office. He talked about the poverty situation around

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ANTHONY PARTRIDGE INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Partridge's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start. I want to ask you to begin by tracing the origin of your involvement with War on Poverty. P: Okay. I went

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

clamp all kinds of inhibitions on information which you can't do in peace. You can't get away with it in a war, either, if somebody breaks through. But Johnson's genius in politicking was basically the genius of the intermediary, the man who could step

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

of the threat of the horrors of nuclear war. 4. On January 21, 1964 the President presented to the Geneva Disarmament Conference a proposal to explore a freeze i Zklf -3 on the numbers and characteristics of offensive and defensive strategic nuclear

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, how you carne to be a Senator from Kentucky, and how you also carne to be a retired Senator from Kentucky. M: Responding to your first part of your question, I got back from World War II after spending fifty-one months in the Navy, most of it at sea
; 1960 and 1964 elections; civil rights legislation; Dirksen/LBJ relationship; Medicare; LBJ’s foreign policy; Senator Mansfield; LBJ-Nixon transition; 3/31 announcement; War on Poverty in Kentucky; decision to retire; political parties; Ray Bliss.

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

else, somebody on his staff, and he read it and then he really didn't know what he should do after that, after he got an answer. I have a hunch that's often the case. Now six weeks after Johnson came in as president, he announced his War on Poverty
Contact with LBJ; assassination; tax issues; Wilbur Mills; comparing JFK and LBJ; CEA; War on Poverty; committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; procedures; agriculture issues; 1964 campaign; Walter Heller; Wright Patman; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, I said, I know what you're going to tell me, but there is one thing no one else has said to you. In World War I when your country was· threatened-not as much as now-you put that rifle butt on your shoulder. I don't care who sends me a message. When

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Vietnam War impact on the economy and you really can't break these things apart. By that I mean the period from late 1965 all the way through 1968 and even beyond, but I mean particularly through 1968, when the surcharge was finally passed

Folder, "14.2, North Korea," National Intelligence Estimates, NSF, Box 5 (Item)

to represent all the Korean people. By mid-1949, all trade between north and south had ceased. The Korean War, and the armistice which followed, reinforced the partition. The demilitarized zone became the de facto boundary between two competing po litical

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

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, you know, a fairly important person in the Department of Justice. He was head of the Criminal Division, the Anti-Trust Division, and the War Frauds unit during the war, and he just wasn't home very much. As a practical matter, he wasn't home at all

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

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

feelings and with some values, and some basic understanding of poverty. I never quite knew how much to believe of some of the stories he told. I don't really know the degree in which he experienced poverty. But I tell you, whether he experienced
negotiations; LBJ's White House taping system; comparison of LBJ's abilities in domestic and foreign affairs; LBJ's inheritance of the Vietnam situation; McNamara's assessment of the LBJ presidency; Six Day War, 1967; hot line call from Kosygin.

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with him? P: After Dallas, and when Mr. Johnson became president, he began the push for the Great Society programs. The first major bills were civil rights and the anti-poverty program. DSG was much involved in both these legislative battles, working

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

known, that nothing was coming out of our office. columnist, a pro~war And I Temember a.ferocious argument with one columnist---Joseph Alsop--who wrote about it and said it was coming from a source close to Robert Kennedy. ~t, and he said it was me

President's Daily Diary entry, 8/10/1964 (Item)

of paper -- sayin g --"thro w that awa y for me, " will you?" to Fish Room t o greet th e Busines s Leadershi p Advisor y Council of the Economi c Opportunity Program, th e President' s Tas k Forc e fo r the War Agains t Poverty. " LIST O N PAGE Si x

Folder, "[March 19, 1968 - Meeting with Congressional Democratic Leadership]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

be non-defense such as the minute-man missle, ABM's and some ships may be defell"ed. This won't materially hurt anybody. Poverty under this formula would get more than last year. Highways would get as much as last year. AID would be cut about $500 or $600

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/8/1967 (Item)

by) The President to the East Room for Reception for Participants in the Conference of Women on the War on Poverty Remarks ~(* list to DT • ' y 'MITE House ENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON MARY resident began hi , day at (Place) ' Time T In Out ; Activity Date LBJ

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Tyler, Texas, 10/26/1964" (Item)

.:rty t:ries to evl ve thel:l, not j ua·t deplore thee . The Preside nt started his career in Congres s in the depress ion years and neither of us can forget the oa~ks of poverty that scarred Texas and the nation -- hungry childre n, and men with only

Folder, "5/18/65 - Joint Statement of the President Following Discussion With the President of Korea," Statements Files, Box 147 (Item)

. in agricultural commodities under the Food for Peace program, especially continuing for development projects cotton to provide Food for Peace donations and for relief The two Presidents agreed that of unemployment and poverty. this long-term economic aid

Folder, "IDA (Institute for Defense Analysis)," Records of the NCCPV (Eisenhower Commission), Series 11, Box 4 (Item)

issues pronunciamentos about th quences, it has no saving meaning. evils of vio\ence, it has undermined its Thinking about it is hard because there influence by using violence massively in is something irreducibly unthinkable a prolonged war in which

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 49, November 1-7, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 25 (Item)

REFERREDTO " • THE DOMESTIC ANDSOCIAL PROBLEMS AT HOME,THE MASSIVEDEFICIT IN·. OURBUDGET,THE 10 PER CENTSURCHARGE, THE-IMPAIRINGIMPACTOF THIS WAR ON OUR ABILITY TO COPEWITH PROBLEMS IN NATOAND THE MIDDLE -· POLICY BY • .·EAST, AND THE SIGNIFICANTLACKOF

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 49, November 1-7, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 25 (Item)

" • THE DOMESTIC ANDSOCIAL PROBLEMS AT HOME,THE MASSIVEDEFICIT IN·. OURBUDGET,THE 10 PER CENTSURCHARGE, THE-IMPAIRINGIMPACTOF THIS WAR ON OUR ABILITY TO COPEWITH PROBLEMS IN NATOAND THE MIDDLE -· POLICY BY • .·EAST, AND THE SIGNIFICANTLACKOF SUPPORT FOR OURVIETNAM

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)

. M: Yes. We'd come back from a11 over the country at u.ngodly hours . Chicago was I thi nk . the one place at lea st where I went where the war played a pa rti cu lar ly viv id ro le in the co nv ers ati on . Two or thr ee people in the Chicago
Welfare and War on Poverty

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

hadn't knocked out all those excises. I've just about come to the conclusion that that's what we need now, are some excises. Something like a value added tax. They went back to World War--they collected a lot of money and they collected it very easily

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the things that were unpopular to write at that time . He came out with a book showing that the people who had fought in the Civil War were people who had nothing to gain and had been pushed into it by the slave owners . against slave owners . He was very
Biographical information; Jesse Jones; Charles Marshall; Alvin Wirtz; LCAR; LBJ's personality; war years; LBJ and business; vice presidency; presidency; Vietnam; the Great Society; education; retirement; Lady Bird Johnson

Folder, "Pepper, Claude (Senator) [1945]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 27 (Item)

urging the r ehab ilitat i on of rejectees as a source of man power fo r war plants and the armed services . #2 - Hon . Chas . E. Marsh I just had a telegram from Mr . Bernard M. Baruch, r eading as follows : "My study of medical care convi nc es me

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 43, September 21-30, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 23 (Item)

of the point is in the phrase "memories of colonialism and the -present facts of poverty and injustice. " If you judge point needs elaboration I suggest, after first sentence, the following: "As in other wars .we have fought since the Revolution there are many

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 8, January 1 - February 28, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 48, October 25-31, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 24 (Item)

~ns have received conuection t1hat underlies on North dinri..niGhin~? inforr.,.s ticn To what extent You siould ~nfluence ~iaurer M3urer to give repor~ 6. influence? ele:ments in North Viet Nam? Hha t Zurcher g) Chinese war viewpoint

Folder, "Steinbeck, John," White House Famous Names, Box 9 (Item)

another psy war appraoch which I think might be very effective. As you know, sir, the North and the Viet Cong are badly hurt in a medical sense. The incidence of polidismo is high,meningitis, and difficulty from infection is very high. Loss from infected

Folder, "January 30, 1968 - 6:04 p.m. Pueblo 12 - Senator Dirksen and Congressman Ford ," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

what fonds they will have for their education and poverty programs. We need to get working on these. I will have the Cabinet o'f£icers get the messages to you no later than the end of February. Senator Dirksen: Don't let the lack of authorizations

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/6/1966 (Item)

House Da v TUESDA Y Activity (inctud e visited bv) tur =— — John = — To Oval Office w/ Chairman/Macy , Civil Service Commission Mrs. Simo n F. McHugh (ne Expen Cod^ r e Vicky McCammon) Joe Califano (pl) Delegation from Jewish War Veterans

Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know, soon thereafter we got into war, and he was in the service for I don't know how long--a couple of years- -until the President called them all back. We had some contact but no great contact during that period of time from then until 1948. F

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 62, 1 April 1996," LBJ Library (Item)

Whitman Rostow"; Robert A. Bauman, "A Tale of Two Agencies: The Implementation of the War on Poverty in Los Angeles"; Philip E. Catton, "The Strategic Hamlet in South Vietnam, I 961-1964"; Jeffrey E. Cohen, "Strategic Management of the President's

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