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  • candidates and the Democratic National Committee, on one hand, and ":: the executive branch of the government, on the other hand. B: Some of the cabinet members did participate in the campaign, I believe? M: That's right. I think generally the President
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority
  • organized cadres, most of whom are Chinese in origin although having Thai nationality. Thailand is further weakened by a second "Fifth Column," in the presence of the North Vietnamese refugees. These are well organized, have regular contacts with North
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  • : The President +_ )(... Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC, R et.• Director of National Invea.tigationa 4/30/68 Committee on Aerial ,Phenomeua, 1536 Connectucut Ave, N. W. . 'i- Washinaton. D. C. , Su.bmit evidence of deficiencies in Univer•ity of Colorado UFO
  • of Representatives. You were elected in 1936. M: I was elected in 1936. When I came to the House I sought to get on the Naval Affairs Committee because of the nature of my district. It included the Bremerton Navy Yard, which is one of the largest in the country
  • Appointment to Naval Affairs Committee in 1936; how he met LBJ; trip to Central America to evaluate a second canal; war service; President Roosevelt and LBJ; LBJ as senate majority leader; LBJ
  • that the Democratic Advisory Committee was not favored by either Johnson or Rayburn. M: That's right. They thought that the place for the Democratic Party to set policy was in the Congress, and that the ~est politics was to go along with Eisenhower wherever
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
  • . NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE · WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL. LIBRARIES) FORM OF DOCUMENT CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE ~- 10-,~~ ~;Q:e-iSE~~-~~--- #24a memo w/m~e~µig ftJ w i'.). - $"/ ~ 10-eo•lJ All..~ B'chs.-1 a Jim Jones
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  • at the International Inn with the Kennedys and the Democratic Gala at the D.C. Armory. Hosts after-gala party for entertainers at The Elms. 1/19 Attends WH brunch for Democratic Governors, addresses Democratic National Committee luncheon, attends reception for women
  • knew he had gone home for the day? W: Most of the time we didn't know. We just didn't know. over in the Senate Office Building, we had no clues. Especially Over in the Capitol, the Democratic Policy Committee staff sometimes would know when he had
  • for reflection before action. Robert Strauss, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, does not envy future presidents. "Today," he declared, "a president has a helluva time just marginally influencing the course
  • : Reassessing Arms Control Goals in U .S.-Soviet Relations," drew a distinguished array of leaders. They included James Leonard, former U.S. dis­ armament ambassador and now c~airman of the Committee for National Security; Dimitri K. Simes, director
  • by the United Committee Against The War in Viet Ram, which we believe consists of several anti-war groups. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 8, 1966 Marvin, While in Buffalo to attend the Democratic State Convention on September 8, the Vice President
  • York during Big tor reelection, Democratic Democratic generalship. 1im's heyday as the king of cauliflower, a candidate Howe-ver, he Democratic Committee, and he run~those along with the postmaster Franklin industry. particularly care
  • to Dick Russell at the Democratic National Convention. Well, as a matter of fact, Downey Rice and George whatever-his-name-is had gone up there and come back with a report which contained a lot of this stuff, a lot of these allegations, but with very
  • as a layman, and I was called by a representative of the Democratic National Committee in 1960, asking if I would serve as chairman of the health committee of the platform committee. I said well, I would be glad to do it, but I thought a doctor should
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ through the National Youth Administration (NYA) and Dr. J. Willis Hurst; Jones' work to develop Emory University's health services, including its medical school; Jones' work on the National Advisory Health
  • that loomed before us was September 13, which was about at that time seven or eight days away, when there was going to be a State Democratic [Executive] Committee meeting. It was going to be in Fort Worth. Lyndon began to get out word to all of his friends
  • against the certification of LBJ as the Democratic nominee for Senate; Davidson's relationship with Mrs. Johnson's father, T. J. Taylor; irregularities in voting results throughout Texas; Judge Davidson signing the injunction enjoining the Texas secretary
  • ; and that he not only had the approval of the President, but he had the approval of the chai~man of the Appropriations Committee, a gentle- man of less than liberal persuasions called John Tabor. He said that he had been looking over the field
  • prevent rati­ fication. As 49 Senators constitute a quorum, a bloc of only 17 have in their hands the power to negate any peace this Nation may negotiate. In a democracy issues must be decided vote for vote. There can never be democratic rule where one
  • TO DEFEAT THE VIET CONG ·: ';: , • -~-:. :· :.-:~).-~·/ :ON THE. BATTLEFIELD AND TH£ NATIONAL LIBERATION .FRONT POLITICALLY.·, :._!:,•·;• ·::.:-,;·',,.· 6. < END QUOTE' • ~: ::·):./.~,::/ ..··i.•.:·: ::~·..;
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  • touches us more profoundly, nothing is more freighted with meaning for our own destiny, than the revo­ lution of the Negro American. In far too many ways American Negroes have been an­ other nation: deprived of freedom, crippled by hatred, the doors
  • in the agriculture field? F: Yes. I talked to the chairman and some of the leading members of each of the committees, and they were luke wann to this proposal, to say the most. But they were reasonably cooperative; it was a new Administration, and they didn't
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] LBJ as a liberal-conservative; LBJ record up to 1960; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 and 1964 conventions and elections; Freeman’s personal interest in the Vice-Presidency; JFK problems in Minnesota; LBJ
  • this award. K: Each year at the Women's National Press Club, for many years an award has been given to an outstanding woman. On this particular occasion, President Johnson was to be the speaker. It's a dinner honoring Mrs. Roosevelt and the women who
  • offers were reported by national. committee officials af~er talka with James Roosevelt, chairman of the California Democratic State Central Committee. H~ saw chairman Robert E. Hannegan on two occasions. Mr. Roosevelt was reported to have told Mr
  • , and me, which I had read to Abe Fortas and Clifford. The next day--or that day, since it was two a.m. in the morning--we had a Democratic leadership breakfast, a bipartisan leadership at 10:15, a meeting of the House Commerce Committee and the Senate
  • go in and work with Mike." And so I went in the beginning of September first, maybe even August, to work with Mike Feldman handling the research activities of the Democratic National Committee. We worked during the campaign. M: Worked on through
  • 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 Douglas--5 Democratic Pol icy Committee, which was largely
  • in lending legislation; National Commission on Urban Problems; defeat of Douglas; LBJ’s relationship with Dirksen; LBJ’s admiration for Douglas; Douglas’ interest in Texas
  • . So I said, "Well, I just don't know what to do. I come here--" Well, eventually, to make this story short, I came. Now, when I got here I found the first of a number of obstacles chosen for me. The chairman of the Democratic National Committee
  • health commission; writing the book Every Other Bed; Gorman's wife's work and his change to freelance writing; joining the National Committee Against Mental Illness under President Truman; finding support for national health insurance legislation
  • then. Your committee assignments are on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Veterans Affairs Committee. Before running for Congress, from 1933 to 1950, you were a practicing attorney and probate commissioner of Allen County, Indiana. your LLB from
  • for Humphrey by Johnson. Did you think that Johnson was pulling the wires? S: I don't know really. My guess is that through his Democratic National Committee people that he pretty well decided how he thought it ought to be run, and they were doing
  • Education; Heller plan; James Farmer; open accommodations ordinance; Chapel Hill; 1964 Lady Bird’s whistle stop tour; Governor Dan Moore; possible cabinet position; 1968 Democratic National Convention; Richard Nixon and Duke University; Sam Ervin
  • of what he would or wouldn't do. He has there the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council, plus the senators and congressmen who have the Foreign Relations Committees. I just can't say what I think Johnson thought. I hope he has written
  • in a while and go by and see him. He worked in the Democratic Policy Committee Room for a while. I don't know what he did. I think there was a lot of affection, deep affection, between Lyndon and Sam Houston. Houston. I know there was on the part of Sam
  • the United States and the Soviet Union as Co-Chairmen of the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee are L g J submitting to the Committee a draft treaty to stop the dangerous spread of nuclear weapons. " (2) He would like to delete the words, "without further
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  • hours of most days, in organizing business support for the candidacy of the President in the forthcoming election. This took the form of working with various individuals to set up and organize something called the National Independent Committee
  • of Ten; International Monetary Fund; 1968 Action Program Advisory Commission on International Monetary Arrangements; Joint Economic Committee; Special Drawing Rights; 1967 pound devaluation; gold crisis; 2-tier gold system; gold pool.
  • a member of the National Lawyers Guild, an organization which has been designated as a communist front by the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States House of Representatives. • During the early 1940 1 s Bayard Rustin was a member of the Young
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  • REYNOLDS -- I -- 2 I think it's fair to say, a measure of mutual respect and, indeed, mutual affection. Some years before that period I'm speaking of now, which was through the 1950s, I had been a member of the National Labor Relations Board, appointed
  • Reynolds’ relationship with Arthur Goldberg; Reynolds’ term on the National Labor Relations Board; work in the Navy with labor matters; the Landrum-Griffin Act; Reynolds’ duties as Assistant Secretary of Labor; first impressions of LBJ; LBJ giving
  • in the position it was a National Democratic Party-- T: The national Democratic Party had taken positions that \'/ere repugnant to many of the Southern states, and our people were in rebellion about it. Georgia went for the Republican candidate in the 1964
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: Did this involve you in national Democratic politics? C: To a limited degree. I wouldn 1 t ~.;rant
  • million in eight states with 86 electoral votes. M::>re than 100 pi.·css., radio and television representatives ~iU_ nccom:ponythe First Lady. If#### .. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE• 1730 K STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 20006 TELEPHONE: (202) FE. 3
  • . This came up prior to completion of my thesis. M: This was the Citizens National Bank of Los Angeles? R: This was the Citizens National, right. It is now the southern division of a very large West Coast bank called Crocker. I was directed
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 sion in the study for national recreation ways and we pioneered that concept in a sense on a national basis, although the Forest Service had built some recreation ways
  • was named vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 2 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