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  • National Committee, and were in the mailing department. Now that the campaign is over they may have other jobs new, but I feel sure the personnel officer at committee can tell you how to locate them -- or Cliff Carter's office can run them down for you
  • to go to ninety. Eisenhower The stacked committee of Democratic LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • ; defense appropriation bill; Senator Earle Clements; LBJ’s drinking and smoking; LBJ’s heart attack and its effects on him; 1956 Democratic National Convention; Mrs. Johnson; LBJ’s insurance and Don Reynolds; LBJ’s success in business; LBJ’s secret office
  • , Boylston, Mass - National Newspaper Boy age 14 Don Larrabee, Griffin News Bureau for picture to be used during National Newspaper Boy Day for publicity. To Cabinet Room FOR SIGNING CEREMONY - H. R. 13712. Minimum Wage Bill REMARKS Cong Philip Burton Cong
  • like that, do you get mail primarily from your own constituency or do you get it from the whole nation, since you are a leading Republican spokesman? D: Well, you get mail from the entire country and largely so, because there are many organizations
  • on the Medicare. I had previously become chairman of a special ad hoc committee in the National Democratic Party for advising the Platform Committee on the health program. This was quite a distinguished committee of lay and medical people. M: This was in 1964
  • ' Administration; Medical Committee of the Hoover Commission; instrumental in the establishment of the National Library of Medicine; service with the Department Medical Advisory Council; involvement with many study section of the National Institutes of Health
  • that, of course, in 1952, he would have had no future in the Democratic party. Lyndon was smart enough to know that. He also, I think, was loyal enough to support the party which had been his benefactor and in whose name he had run for office. F: Yes. Did you
  • , at Ruleville, Mississippi, and was formarly a memberof the National Ex~cutive Co!Drilitteeof the Student Uon-Violent Coordinatin& Committee 11 • (SltcC) and a participant in the 1965 ;iS,.i.lma~ Montgomary1-1arch £a has been activ& il.1 the civil rights movem
  • Folder, "Black National Movement - FBI Report - File #1," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 14
  • Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)
  • possible effect on the Democratic convention and the national election that year would be? H: No. We really didn't come up with the Freedom Democratic Party until about the last month of the project when we were saying, "What else can we do." B
  • of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; work on minimum wage; the Neshoba County deaths; Council of Federated Organizations movement; FBI opens new office in Mississippi; RFK, Hoover and LBJ told FBI to get on the job in Mississippi; Freedom Democratic Party
  • stated that he had spoken to the White Bouse and "the Kennedy front" regarding this matter. Wachtel said that he has Louis Martin of the Democratic National Committee "lined up." It 1s Wachtel 's belief that President Johnson will come to New York City
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  • and Price Daniel went for Eisenhower as did the state .. . Did you get to observe Senator Johnson's activities at all B: in this campaign? Well, Johnson, I felt like, was part of the national Democratic administration as the portance of his position
  • 1945 Joee Manuel Fortunz;·. now Secretary General ot the Guatemalan Labor (Communist) Party, elected a aeoreta~y ot the National Congress and appointed a member ot its Committees on Foreign Relations and on Government, Labor and Social Seourit7. , Jose
  • by the ranch foreman describes the problems and the reward. of a wo king anch. addles and the variety of branding techniques utilized by the ranc ar •ncluded. From LBJ's Senate day· in the 1950:, the ranch drew an impressive list of national and world 1,aders
  • , the Democratic National Committee Chairman. Since we know there were some hard feelings between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Butler over a refusal to participate in the Democratic Advisory Council, do you know why Mr. Rayburn intervened and used his influence to keep Mr
  • First newspaper interview with LBJ in 1933; LBJ’s relationship with FDR and Rayburn; Carl Vinson; Clark Clifford; 1924, 1956 and 1968 Democratic conventions; LBJ’s techniques; civil rights legislation; Home Rule for D.C.; LBJ’s relationship
  • . California Rangers, Minutemen, Party - statements and articles by ANP, same by B'nai Brith and Jewish Committee - article: "The Impact of a Bigot on a Campus" - "Rochwell Report" -2- v. B. Publications - "Bulletin", literature list, "National (note
  • Records of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (Eisenhower Commission)
  • general of Colorado, and lid been a Democrat all my life." "Oh, hell. He said, I '>,;anted to appoint you to the National Labor Relations Board as a Republican." (Laughter) F; That's one time being on the right side of politics did you in. ~~: Yes
  • Farley knew and liked him, and he was a fixture. I knew Eddie Dowling, and through Eddie Dowling I met Robert Jackson, who was the secretary of the Democratic National Committee. Bob Jackson was the instrumentation of the nomination of Franklin
  • ; Jesse Jones; FDR's 1936 campaign for president; development of NRA; Supreme Court reorganization by FDR; arrival of LBJ as Congressman in DC; FDR's efforts to balance the national budget; role of LBJ in the administration during WWII
  • to help introduce modem ways into the rural areas, Inevitably its major focus was on Increased agricultural production. There is no doubt that this nation• wide network of extension workers, under the guidance of dedic:ated young District and Block
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  • Finance Committee anti you have to get along with him." When I got the me ·sage from Bess, I changed course and took some steps to get plans for a post office-but slowly. Months went by, the election passed. more Democrats moved into Congress, and one clay
  • -...,.,-.,.-..,,,.,, with the President Committee I I 8:00 The President and Mrs. Johnson will give a dinner at the White House in honor of the Prime Minister of Japan, His Excellency Eisaku Sato. (Black Tie) - FROM CIGARETTE THE PRIME BOX MINISTER TO THE PRESIDENT Cigarette
  • school students of the nation to speak out on rights and responsibilities of citizenship. This yr s subject is "Freedom's Challenge. " appt requested by £bcsp Cooper T. Holt, Exec Director, Five of these young people have been awarded national
  • . B: Some have said that during Mr. Johnson's Presidency and perhaps dating back even into Kennedy's Presidency, the Democratic National Committee had fallen on hard times, that it became just not as efficient an organization as it should have been
  • [For interview 1 and 2] Biographical information; Rayburn-Johnson relationship; early signs of leadership in the House; meetings to coordinate Senate and House leadership; 1956 and 1960 conventions; role of Democratic Advisory Council; 1957 Civil
  • , a Democrat of Alaska. Mrs. Bartlett, you have very generously consented to let us interview you about your husband's associations with Lyndon Johnson and the very important events surrounding the granting of statehood for Alaska. I'd like to just mention
  • to nominate Garner and put Garner in for candidate for president. manager. Of course~ I was Mr. Garner's national campaign being from Texas and being his campaign manager and chairman of the executive committee, it was quite a responsibility to me because
  • ; preferred him as Majority Leader; JFK bought and rigged Democratic Convention in L.A.; LBJ as VP to help JFK in Texas and the South; LBJ always loyal to Texas and the U.S.; LBJ’s popularity sharply declined from 1964-1968 but Germany found him best U.S
  • called the National Women's Committee for Civil Rights, at the request of President Kennedy I served as the co-chairman with Mildred McAfee Horton in this effort to secure LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org " ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • of statehood; Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City; White House influence on Convention; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; showboating at convention; 1964 ticket; LBJ’s options concerning poverty; opinions on black and women cabinet members
  • of Bundy--he was after all the national security advisor--than it had of Goodwin in terms of tone. But by the time this particular message went to Congress it was Lyndon Johnson. Most legislative messages I'd send him, he'd make a few changes and send back
  • an advisory committee on international development. That work was done primarily outside of the Congress, outside of vJashington. F: So during that time-- R: During that period I didn't have much contact. It wasn't until the Eisenhower Administration
  • admiration between Lady Bird and Laurence Rockefeller; LBJ’s refusal to support Democratic opponent of Rockefeller.
  • . And the Democratic National Committee was even in worse shape. God, they didn't even know the names of the state chairmen unless they looked them up in a handbook. I remember one of the first things that I did--when Charlie and I decided that's what he [LBJ] was up
  • the one shot sort of situation? S: I was chairman of the finance committee of the Democratic Party at that time and we would meet from time to time, and also when he was vice president, we would run across each other in various situations. F: Just
  • . G: National Alliance of Postal Employees. O: Yes. G: Anything else on the hiring of minorities? O: No. G: Was there a problem with underemployment of minorities within the Post Office, the fact that they did seem to occupy lower grades? O
  • in 1966; speculation that O'Brien would become chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the fall of 1966; the role of John Macy and the President's Club in patronage and Democratic Party finances; the relationship between the political party
  • down in the Board of Education, when he was the Democratic leader and Mr. Rayburn was the Speaker, and as Carl Albert mentioned yesterday in some things he said about me, I was always welcome at the Board of Education. Actually, a lot of things
  • the Democratic side would be carried normally by, let's say, [William] Fulbright and his House counterpart, the chairman of the House [Foreign Affairs] Committee, and those fellows. Maybe George Mahon would get in and this sort of thing, but not LBJ and Sam
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ’s role as member of House Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s role as Democratic leader in the Senate; LBJ’s qualities of leadership; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; White House-Congressional relations.
  • opinion. to speak my mind." This was carried over televis~on But this is my time widely. In fact, it turned out that we got more national coverage on that campaign than the Democratic Committee could ever have afforded to pay for. She
  • Brooks, Stephen 1st Hechler, Ken Cong. 4th V STAFF Kidd's Incumbent staff WISCONSIN Holter, Tom 10th Lauri, Tim 10th Lauri, Carl 10th Lauri's Lauri's Nominee WYOMING Roncalio, Teno Cong. ^ ADDITIONS : Grotegut, J.W. Democratic National Committee
  • is although he of course the old heads and the others on the Policy Committee and perhaps every Democrat on the floor . But really the � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • personality and his staff; LBJ and Knowland; later contacts with LBJ; Republican senators; the Policy Committee; dealings with Eisenhower Administration; LBJ's attitude toward Joseph McCarthy; LBJ's legislative techniques
  • to the entire problem. We wanted Frankie Randolph to be National Committee- woman, and she was made National Committeewoman. We felt then and there that LBJ was anxious to head that delegation, and certainly it was understandable why he should be, and Sam
  • ·Wydler wants reg~latory • functions as well. 2/ 28 Concerned about loss of independence ,of ·s(?me agencies. 3/1 ICC HOUSE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS Dawson No definite Holifield Will go along B1·ooks • Most cnthusiasdc
  • - • • • ·' in the · Washington Hilton who had paid $250 a plate -- the proceed~ to be divided equally between the Senate and House Congressional committees. Phil Re.&an singing the National Anthem .as he has since time began, and looking very . little older . A new touch
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  • assistance; Lady Bird has dressing fitting with Adele Simpson; tea for East Wing staff; Democratic Campaign Committee Fund Raising Dinner; John McCormack, Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey & LBJ give speeches; Richard Daley family are houseguests
  • mean the question of how the speeches were handled? G: Right. R: Basically what happened is that he developed a sort of a theme. The words might be different wherever he spoke, but the basic theme was that the Democratic Party was the party
  • presidents; LBJ's lack of power as vice president; LBJ being allowed to name judges; the National Aeronautics and Space Council and how LBJ came to lead it; LBJ's Senate staff members who found other jobs when LBJ became vice president; LBJ's response to his
  • 2 that many of the members of Congress who were criticizing Johnson for would have been afraid to move had it not been for Presidential sponsorship. I think almost all the promises of the Democratic conventions--liberal projects that had been
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 Agricultural Committee and we were working, as I