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  • counties. It was also in 1956, that being an election year in Texas, we have two state conventions. The first is for the purpose of electing delegates to the national convention, and the second is for the purpose of adopting a state Democratic platform
  • that it was possible to have a greater impact on a national committee of that sort than in our own small vineyard putting up signs and carrying banners. F: Are you a Democrat by political persuasion, are you apolitical or-- L: No, I am a Democrat. I've been
  • Meeting LBJ in 1963; Robert McNamara; Dean Rusk; David Bell; Ralph Dungan; James Farley; Alfred Gruenther; Eugene Black; John Gardner; General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs; James Perkins; Robert Kintner; Kennedy Center
  • consider the-- what went on, sometimes there were meetings. Of course at that time in the House, Mr. [Walter G.] Andrews [R-N.Y.] of Buffalo was the head of the Armed Forces Committee, but Uncle Carl Vinson was the senior Democrat on the committee
  • Adams; gaining minority representation; John Doar; Jim Folsom; Patrick Moynihan; rehabilitation program; attitude toward voluntary or national service systems; Ted Kennedy; definition of uniformity in relation to draft; criticism of lack of uniformity
  • available in the particular area then the distances are somewhat reduced . really happened rather casually . It My father was rather active politically in Indiana--Democratically--when in that little rural area there were very few Democrats as a matter
  • Lyndon Johnson. That would have been in the 1930's, about 1935 or so, would it not? GF: That would be correct. He came to Austin as National Youth Administrator in the early part of the Roosevelt administration and that's when I first became
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)