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  • eaident: All members of the Democratic Policy Committee feel this should be done. Senator Russell and I talked about this last week. He was very blunt about it. Senator Mansfield feels we haven't kept faith by pulling out aa many as we should have. All
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  • . I have a report, but if I could read it to you -- it may take me about 5 minutes. The President - Go ahead. Pauley - The President is losing time in California due to two problems: ,1. The lack of authority in a small steering committee or one
  • National politics
  • PAULEY DISCUSSES RECENT PUBLIC OPINION POLLS ON DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN CALIFORNIA PRIMARY THAT SHOW LBJ IS LOSING GROUND; NEED FOR REGIONAL STUDIES OF STATE TO IMPROVE LBJ'S CAMPAIGN; LBJ ASKS PAULEY TO WORK WITH IRVINE SPRAGUE
  • , ' Harry Goodman , photographer to make photographs for the AH A j = - I j 12:20p 12:25p i | ; t,I 1i -^. j | ^^12:25p| 1:15p ;1:15p i; j / OFF ; the Mr. owns i ___ , Chuck \ ===^^ = RECORD: Owen Cheatham , BMBBBl National Campaign Chairman
  • , on the campaign. R: Right. B: And you also said you thought Mr. Johnson needed some help after you looked at the White House staff. R: Oh, yes. B: What does that latter part mean? R: Oh, it was in very bad shape, as was the Democratic National Committee
  • . On the committee were (this was in the House) Mike Monroney, then a Congressman, Wright Patman, then a Congressman, and a man who is now dead named Buchanan, I believe from Pennsylvania [Rep. Frank Buchanan?]. They were all good, sort of Fair Deal Democrats. And so
  • ? R: Not that I know of. G: In addition, there's some indication that Johnson favored Jim Rowe for Democratic national chairman. 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Democratic National Convention, 1956; VP candidate decision; Adlai Stevenson; 1956 Presidential campaign; earlier Fort Worth state convention; NATO conference; legislative issues in 1956
  • of the fact that his committee, like the old Truman Committee, has been free of Republican-Democratic bickering. It also operates without jealousy, except for the numerous senators who are still pounding their temples in fury because S I i By LESLIE E
  • politician. And yet when you came back to the United States permanently this year, you found by what seems by all accounts a fairly thoroughly demoralized, non-active Democratic National Committee. G: There was no committee. And I think it relates
  • /show/loh/oh Boggs -- Interview II -- 6 B: Was it they who saw to it that none of the Congressmen proposed to that committee actually served? Bo: I'm sure it was. B: Did that create any divisions within the Democratic National Committee itself
  • [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
  • Commltte• 1/,1. rt-~ Hubert Br...-. Moa Vleleat Actioa Oro-.. c.vt:•~,,1 Wiam Hl11•. )wit•ala1lppl Frff4om. Democratic Party 9_# "-.t ) Bub.op Paul Moore, Eplacopal Caarch ~... Dr. E. C. Smith, Committee of Cae Hudred Dr. Da.W Ci. Caldwell, Preeldeat, Co1
  • Johnson. I worked for Jackie in the National Committee. He had such high expectations of himself, and he had the same of other people. ILthings didn't go right, I'm sure he didn't like it a bit. But I can't tell you firsthand any [campaign stories). G
  • ; Walter Jenkins; Bobby Baker; Mrs. Johnson’s and Rowe’s work on the Beautification Committee; taking Mrs. Johnson on a tour of Washington D.C. public housing; Mrs. Johnson’s personality and role as wife; visiting LBJ at the Ranch.
  • has reconstituted the Review Committee on Under­ ground Nuclear Tests. The Review Committee, under the chairman-. ship of the Special Assistant to the President for National Security .Affairs, will be composed of the Secr~taries of State and Defense
  • National Security Action Memorandums
  • National Security Files
  • of the members of the committee, particularly on the Democratic side, didn't feel that this was a partisan charge. But, as I say, because of the sensitivity of the charges at that particular point in the preelection period, it inevitably became a partisan issue
  • Sputnik; Senate Preparedness Sub-Committee; LBJ’s relationship with Symington; General James M. Gavin; Special Committee on Space and Aeronautics; missile gap investigation; 1960 Democratic National Convention and campaign; LBJ as VP; Panama Crisis
  • or something, and my boss happened to be on the committee that was dealing with the national parks, Interior Committee. So it was a total different concept when the Kennedy crowd came in. G: Was it a creation of Larry O'Brien? 0: Yes. Larry created
  • suggested that LBJ take the chair:manship of the Deluocratic National Committee [instead of the vicepresidential nomination]. W: That's right. G: Can you recall perhaps froIT1 one of the IT1en who was in that room what was said? W: The story I got
  • Biographical information; initial association with LBJ; 1948 Senate campaign; Carl Estes; 1952 campaign and Texas Democrats; Texas delegation to Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1956; Lady Bird; racism and civil rights; Democratic State
  • on to Washington. We'd come in 1933, but I hadn't gotten into any kind of action or done anything there. I had gone to work for the Democratic National Committee in the Women's Division, but only as a volunteer. see, in those days you had servants. You Even
  • /66 A CONFIDENTIAL no date A Flw ~T~~ss Abell 's Subject Files PRESIDENT OF SENEGAL (Stag Luncheon) 9/28/66 5/2/94 Box 17 RESTRICTION CODES (Al Closed by Executive Order 12356'governing access to national security information. (Bl Closed
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  • See all scanned items from file unit "National Security Council - 1961"
  • National Security Council (U.S.)
  • Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [1 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4
  • ~ Mr. Fulbright; the number two man on the Foreign Relations Committee, which in those days was Senator Hickenlooper--in other words, the senior Democrat and the senior Republican--and then Senator Mansfield as the Majority Leader. He's also on foreign
  • ; not involved in policy making; Fulbright letter and the ruckus McCarthy made; February 1967, the National Student Association problem; Pueblo Mission; Tuesday lunches in 1967; halt of bombing in Vietnam; 3/31 speech; Six Day War; Kosygin on hot line; LBJ’s
  • assistant secretary of defense for manpower. McS: Were you in need of any political credentials in this job? Did you necessarily have to belong to the Democratic Party? McG: Not that I am aware of. I imagine it didn't hurt, but I am not aware
  • with White House staff; meetings with Joe Califano; McGiffert's responsibilities relating to legislative affairs; McNamara's relationship with members of Congress; a preparedness subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding public statements
  • revolution without losing their democratic stability I don't know whether they can do it. I'd be very interested in what you think. is going on down there. No question but what Allende is a Marxist. There's no question but what he is going to nationalize
  • briefly, a summary of an active career, you were born in Marshall, Texas, and went to Wiley College there, and then to Howard in Washington. F: That's correct. B: And in the 40's you were one of the founders and the first National Director of CORE
  • , I worked with Senator Humphrey from 1955 through the time he went into the vice presidency and then went over with him as his chief of staff in the vice presidency and held a somewhat ambiguous subtitle of assistant for national security. I had
  • Duties with Humphrey; foreign policy assistants; development of Humphrey's thinking on Vietnam; Humphrey's interest in arms control; Food for Peace; the development of democratic institutions; health research; civil rights; NATP; founding
  • Clarence had simply settled here, regrettably, and nobody had gotten the county lines changed, because Lyndon voted in Blanco [County] always, from the beginning, as I still do. The Republican National Committee met in Chicago. [Robert] Taft's drive simply
  • Furniture for the LBJ Ranch; living at the Ranch for the first time in the summer of 1952; LBJ's legislative work in 1952, including military waste and tidelands; the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago; controversy surrounding
  • Service Unit, June 16, 1942 Detroit investigation brings in this one: The President of the Michigan Manufacturers• Association says that the National Association of Manufacturers inspired. the Dies Committee to offset the effects of the LaFollette
  • of Mexican extraction or Mexican descent, whatever phrase you want to use. And we were never aware of any particular discrimination insofar as people belonging to different religions or belonging to different nationalities. raised in the same kind
  • and Chancellor E. Don 'alker, Co-Vice Presidents. Walker and Christian were also appointed t ser.c on the E:x~uthc Committee. Also elected Lo Board: Library Dir ·tor Harry l\1iddleton. Tom John,;on LBJ School Fellowships Created to Honor Strauss One thousand
  • administration and is tied for the best among public universities." A search committee has been appointed to seek Sherman's replace­ ment. In Memoriam: McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Johnson Saunders Covert
  • .o absorb its largest competitors, France and England . The democratic states a re not prepared tc defend them­ selves against Germany because they have not organized themselves for SlCh national mass product ion . They have had much unemployment
  • back the southern Democratic opposition in the old southern Democrat-Republican coalition. We used to carefully monitor our roll calls and committee action to see if we were making progress in that area. And we were. We were reducing, little by little
  • as co-chair of the Citizen's Committee for Postal Reform; LBJ's 1965 gall bladder surgery.
  • to add to what you wrote in the book? M: I don't think so. G: One of the questions I want to ask you about that is with regard to the selection of Democratic members of that censure committee. Do you recall any effort by LBJ to appoint a Democratic
  • that they should be televised, but I'm not sure of that. He didn't really get into the McCarthy thing too actively till right near the end. G: Now, Senator [John] McClellan was, I guess, the ranking Democrat on that Government Operations Committee
  • ' Commission., "Report of the Committee on Agriculture and Food.," November 28 - December 1, 1965, p. 5. "Changes in Agriculture in 2 6 Developin,! Nations., 1948 1963.," Fordgn Agricultural Economic Report #27., Economic Research Service, u. S. Department
  • NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORM OF Ill report DATE CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE DOCUMENT Background Paper on Factors Which Could Influrence Nation ial Decisions Concerning Acquisition of Nuclear
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  • Folder, "Background Paper on Factors which Could Influence National Decisions re Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons (Garthoff)," Committee Files, NSF, Box 1
  • Committee Files
  • National Security Files
  • Truman. In 1946 the President had appointed me the first American permanent chairman of the United States National Commission for UNESCO. I became the Vice Chairman of the delegations to the annual conferences LBJ Presidential Library http
  • , and we're now about a forty-five man law firm. I'm politically a Democrat, and I have worked as an advisor on the edges of government and in various political campaigns, in the course of which I've come to know the president and also President Kennedy. live
  • Biographical information; role of lawyers in government service; Tightrope Committee/Federal Aviation Administration; service with OEO; Business Leadership Advisory Council; Job Corps; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; opinion of LBJ's
  • was much more conscrvali\C than most Democrats . . th foreign policy of the nation wa, one that he had made ... When it came to playing things carefully. Lyndon Johnson was a geniu~. and he pilled th Republican Party against Eisenhower ... It worked
  • : Mr . Johnson then, you would say, did have some interest in foreign policy prior to the time he became the national officer, unlike what some of his critics would have you believe? A: One cannot serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee
  • remember Governor Daniel, he was chairman, I believe--I forget whether he or Rayburn, they were the two leaders of the delegation--went up to the then-chairman of the Democratic National Committee--I forget his name--but anyway, to try to get some tickets
  • Biographical information; met LBJ in 1937 through Baines family tree research with LBJ’s mother; LBJ’s six years as Democratic Majority leader in Senate; JFK nomination; LBJ as VP; Heath as Ambassador to Sweden; as Chairman of UT Board of Regents
  • ? P: Johnson has had a long record of being his own political boss. He doesn't bother much with party machinery. I think it's actually a mistake. I think that he let the Democratic Committee run down and didn't use it. F: Did you have any connection