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Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by appointment of Governor [William B.] Umstead, and then who had been elected--I mean he was appointed and then elected to finish out the term. But he was senior senator and he had been put on the committee to study the Joe McCarthy problem, six-member, three
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . I'm trying to think back. I may have with the Johnson-Humphrey ticket. That may Of course, you see, there you have got the Democratic National Committee handling the Ching. There was no money raising for the job of being nominated, because
  • Biographical information; early political contacts; early relationship with LBJ and John Connally; impressions of LBJ in the 1950s; 1960, 1962, 1964 campaigns; role of Locke in campaigns; Democratic State Chairman; political dinners with LBJ and JFK
Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [Jan. 1968]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
  • the university. Our source st3ted that Addison traveled to Chicago, Illinois, on the evening of Janu 30, 1968, to solicit the aid of members of the Studen Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and other black nation lists to assis him in disrupting registration
  • A (National Security)
  • Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • seats in the 1966 elections, and the ratio in the Senate was sixty-four Democrats to thirty-six Republicans, so you still had a significant advantage there. O: Yes, my recollection is that the forty-seven seat loss in the House in an off-year election
  • The loss of Democrats in the Congress in 1967, especially in the House of Representatives; O'Brien's continued involvement in the legislative program in 1967 while advocating for postal reform and a change in postal rates; the strength of House
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • at the Democratic National Committee. Monroe I had known for a long 16 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://discoverlbj.org
  • [For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • effort pro bono publico," and then one day when I showed him how the arts had grown in Rhode Island in ten years, and how all these organizations were forming because there had been an encouragement from the national level and from the state level also
  • LBJ's interest in arts legislation in 1964; Biddle meeting with Abe Fortas regarding proposed arts legislation; Claiborne Pell; proposing legislation that later started the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities
Folder, "[November 20, 1967 - Meeting with Bipartisan Leadership on Devaluation of Pound]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE ­ WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL. LIBRARIES) FORM OF CORRESPONDENTS OR .TITLE DOCUMENT eux11'1dentia! . :. . '. FILE LOCATION Meeting Notes File, Box 2 DCH RESTRICTION COOE$ (A) Closed by Executive
Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. [1940-1944]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 12 (Item)
  • , has been re• again.st another. They hope to set vealed anew by two things that each class against another class. have happened in the last few They in.spire a multitude of angry weeks, since the Republicans voices in every democratic nation. adopted
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 82, October 2003," LBJ Library (Item)
  • engraving of Austin\ famous Treaty Oak, as it , ppeared in its prime. Th reverse is etched with a likeness of Mrs. Johnson The Democratic National Convention hall in Atlantic City, August 24-28, 1964. Photo by Cecil Staughton, LBJ Library Photo Archives 9
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Green, Democrat of Oregon and a very savvy lady, that the LBJ program should be melded with the private-sector effort. Lyndon would have none of that. Over Rep. Green's objections, he in effect bullied his proposal through her committee and the entire
Folder, "The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency During the Johnson Administration-Part 1," Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Administrative History (Item)
  • forum was the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee (ENDC),^ established in 1961 by agree­ ment between the United States and the Soviet Union and endorsed by the General Assembly. In the same year, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Martin – II – 2 I was very interested in his doing it because occasionally he would call me over at the [Democratic National] Committee and ask me questions about something. He showed me over the first
  • Vice President LBJ’s meeting with black cabinet, resulting in blacks helping with Democrats by distribution of literature through barber shops and beauty shops, use of radio, the press, and the influence of black ministers, especially Marshall
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • been traditionally a woman's position, and also, he told me that Margaret Price was interested in leaving the National Committee. We did not know at that time that Margaret's illness was terminal, but she was wanting to get out from under the pressure
  • Biographical information; Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Sarah Hughes; Commission on Civil Disorders; Detroit riots; Kerner Commission Report; 1964 Democratic National Convention and campaign; Peden's Senate race; Doers Luncheon; Eartha
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Committee certifying Johnson as the official nominee of the Democratic Party. It got down that close, and my memory was that it was a tie vote in the State Democratic Executive Committee. Charlie Gibson was the committeeman from Amarillo, Potter County
  • joins Senate staff; involvement in later campaigns; LBJ and the 1960 nomination; period after the assassination; social contacts; appointment to and work on the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/28/1965 (Item)
  • . Rober t McNamara (ret . P . 's call ) To th e Stat e Dinin g Room for a foreig n affairs briefin g o n Vietnam for selecte d member s o f Congress. . .OFF RECOR D - bipartisa n SENATE ARME D SERVICE S COMMITTEE /Sen. Richar d Russell , Ga . Sen \ Sen
Folder, "Civil Rights – Miscellaneous 1963," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON December 6, 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR Mr. Louis Martin Democratic National Committee The attached somehow turned up on my desk and it seemed to me that it might be of interest to you. I pass it on for whatever act~ol ou deem
Folder, "Gray, Jesse Willard," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 8 (Item)
  • KERBERT APrBEKER waa elected a member ot the Communist Part7 National Committee at the 18th National Convention ot the CP,USA, held in Hew York Cit7, June, 1966. I!' T-28 June 26, 1966 PAULBOUTELLE PAULBOUTELLE waa known to be a member ot a Hew York Local
  • Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have an uninstructed delegation go to the Democratic National Committee. And [Joseph] McCarthy, that show was still going on. He was suing Senator [William] Benton for libel, and Senator Benton was proposing his ouster from the Senate. 12 LBJ
  • committee work and tidelands issues; the dedication of the Alvin Wirtz Dam; the Paley Report on the use of natural resources; Coke Stevenson's possible run against LBJ in 1954 and other political races; Christmas 1951 and visiting with the extended Johnson
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was the chairman of the [State Democratic] Executive Committee. G: Now, let me understand, you had already voted? HD: I had already voted for Johnson against my own better wishes. G: Were you told that you had to do this, were you told this was an instructed
  • Mrs. Dorbandt’s vote in the 1948 Democratic Executive Committee meeting that certified LBJ as the senatorial nominee; bringing Charlie Gibson in to break the tie in the 1948 Senate Executive Committee meeting.
Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [2 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)
  • I fJ y-- DECLASSIFIED Authority ~.SC: 4? p/h~ April 25, 1961 By t1o/tf' , NARS, Date oi""/f/?-:7 SBGUT NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AGENDA For the Meeting to be held in the Cabinet R.oomof The White House on Thursday, April 27, 1961 at 10: 00
  • A (National Security)
  • See all scanned items from file unit "National Security Council - 1961"
  • National Security Council (U.S.)
  • Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [2 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4
Folder, "United Afro-American Association (UAAA) - Miscellaneous," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 20 (Item)
  • may not ne~d o~ may consider it up reports self to go beyond.Jaffee. • '. B. Requirements with respect to Groups. SDS (S'l'UDENTSFOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY) 1. Headquarters 2. Officers - Chicago, - President Illinois. Where
  • Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Like, for instance, you were against me. Johnson. You were against Lyndon You're on the [State Democratic] Executive Committee. You're from Cameron, Texas. You've had your name up there. I was walking around in the lobby; nearly everybody knew who
Folder, "Korea - Park Visit Briefing Book, 5/17-19/65," Country Files, NSF, Box 256 (Item)
  • established principles for tm unification United Nations objectives of Korea through free elections under United Nations supervision, division.of Korea. thus prolonging the artificial Both Presidents continue to make the utmost efforts and democratic
  • A (National Security)
  • National Security Files
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • States senator. .. So I didn't think he ought As between Tower and Carr, I decided to support Tower, and so notified Tower. F: So did a lot of Democrats, as you recall. W: Tower asked me to do something in his campaign, and I headed a committee
  • Meeting LBJ in 1948; the 1960 Democratic convention at Los Angeles; the 1960 campaign; the Texas Senate campaign; the Texas gubernatorial race in 1960 and 1962; Billie Sol Estes and the Agriculture Department; Wilson shifts to the Republican Party
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they'll suffer from a Republican victory." Another kind of a thorn in Lyndon's side, as I remember, was that he wasn't really simpatico with the new head of the Democratic National Committee. I believe it was Steve Mitchell. They were just on different
  • The presidential campaign in the fall of 1952 and LBJ's involvement; controversy surrounding LBJ's support for Adlai Stevenson; LBJ's travel to campaign for fellow Democrats; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriage in the fall of 1952; Senator Ernest
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and there's no point in repeating what occurred at them. I began to develop working relationships with a number of members of the committee, very particularly Walter Washington, who was head of the National Capitol Housing Authority at that time and who always
  • [For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model
Folder, "Japan, Sato's Visit Memos and Cables, 1/11-14/65 [2 of 4]," Country Files, NSF, Box 253 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • such activities-assist- • your talks with President Johnson? ance to the people. under the U. N ., to A Yes, of course. The Government in improve living standards. South Vieh1am is not stable. The situa­ Q How about the United Nations' playing a military
  • National Security Files
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • will then be placed in the Library, to be administered by the people at the National Archives incidentally, and this will be used as Mr. Beckworth wishes. B: Thank you. That's very fine. M: This is an interview with Mr. Lindley Beckworth. outside of Gladewater
  • Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 54, 1 February 1993," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , to be shown regularly at the Library. The event was organized and coordinated by Liz Carpenter, with the help of a committee. Tom Johnson, Chairman of the BoardofDirectorsofthe LBJ Foun­ dation, delivered a birthday gift on behalf of the individual members
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 42, 15 February 1988," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . Johnson headed a group of people with two separate visions of beauti­ fying the nation's capital. One group, led by Committee members Walter Washington and Polly Shackleton, wanted to attack the ugliness of the inner city by beautifying public housing
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 46, 15 January 1990," LBJ Library (Item)
  • will be covered. More than 1,500 entries of varying length will be written primarily by some of the nation's leading histo- rians, political scientists, and jour­ nalists in the field of congressional studies. Impetus for compiling an encyclo­ pedia of Congress
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Truman on the phone and talked to Truman and told him what I had done, that I had appointed the chairman of that committee a Republican national committeeman from West Virginia. Now to tell you to be honest and true, this is exactly the way I ran
  • measures under Eisenhower; relationship with LBJ; 1944 Democratic National Convention; Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower; LBJ's leadership; McCarthy period; Johnson for President Committee, 1960; ethics; Johnson
Folder, "Black National Movement - FBI Report - File #2," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 14 (Item)
  • Carolina Muhammad's Mosque of Islam Winston-Salem, North Carolina Muslim Girls Fruit Training of Islam (POI) Students for a Democratic Southern Student Southern Conference Society Organizing (SDS) Committee Education Fund, Inc. W.E.B. Du
  • Folder, "Black National Movement - FBI Report - File #2," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 14
  • Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 28, 15 May 1983," LBJ Library (Item)
  • -being, democratic values, and individual opportunity. Roosevelt thought education vital to the revival of the economic life of the nation ... The human as well as the physical capital of the country was to be conserved and reconstructed by the New Deal
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the controversy about the Democratic Advisory Cormnittee in those years. F: Not directly, but I was on the Advisory Committee. before. This was a little bit I think the Advisory Committee didn't really get rolling effectively until about 1959, but that might
  • [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
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 18, 1969 This is the interview with Dr. Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council from '61 to '69. Sir, to start back before you joined the Space Council, back when you were
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 39, 15 February 1987," LBJ Library (Item)
  • was 10 go on the offensive - to look at his emergence from rhe Checker.- speech as a triumph: the people rcsf.X11ldedto him, they had tdegraphed Eisenhower. 1hc} had telegraphed the National Committee. So he looked at that as a tn­ umph. But for my mother
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 11, 24 January 1978," LBJ Library (Item)
  • ~~AmongFriends ofLBJ 1ssue NUMBER xi, JANUARY 24 1978 NEW§LEIJEREUIEUP§ PETHE PETHE LBJ8RAQY b1 ; :,;~;;~- ..~ ,_./!~ .... A National Tribute to Lady Bird Johnson (See pages 2-41 A National Tribute to Lady Bird Johnson It was a tribut
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/20/1964 (Item)
  • . - just arrived from Honolulu, Hawaii. Attorney General Robert Kennedy - Cape Cod, Mass. (b. 2) (returning bis call) Departs w/ JV, Lynda Bird, for Hollywood Palladium - Fund Raising Dinner sponsored by the Democratic State Central Committee. Robert F. Six
Vice-President's Daily Diary entry, 10/15/1962 (Item)
  • by Governor Terry Sanford, Mayor Stan R. Brookshire, Hugh G. Mitchell Committee on Arrangements; Fred B. Heims, Clay Cline, Sen. Ervin, Sen. Jordan, Congressman Kitchin, Congressman Alexander and others. 43-piece Harding High School Band playing "Yellow Rose