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  • THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON July 8, 1964 OFFICIAL USE ONLY . NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 310 MEMORANDUM TO: The The The The Secretary of State Secretary of Defense Director of Central Intelligence Administrator, Agency
  • Folder, "NSAM # 310: Designation Forrestal Chairman South Vietnam Committee, 7/8/1964," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 5
  • National Security Action Memorandums
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  • to work with. G: Of course with Daniel's election LBJ suddenly became the senior sena­ tor from Texas and at the same time I guess the Democratic leader. This would have been 1953. J: Yes, he became the minority leader, not the majority leader, which I
  • LBJ the rancher; the tidelands issue; Senate Preparedness Subcommittee investigation; Shivers takes control of Texas Democratic Party; Russell campaign for president
  • . We've had-- F: Do you have sort of a newsletter? P: That's normally done out of the National Democratic Committee. example, we had Vice-President Humphrey down here in 1965; For it was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • . G: Now, you also as I understand represented the National Committee against Mental Illness. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • ; research funding from Congress; support for health issues from Senators Claude Pepper, Lister Hill, and Edward Thye; support for health issues from Congressman John Fogarty; Mike Gorman's work for the Committee Against Mental Illness; Mahoney's work
  • of the Senate, both Republicans and Democrats, particularly when he tried to put over legislation of a national character. In other words when there was no bipartisanship, and I attended many of these conferences and he had the leaders of the various--he had
  • in northern California. This organization was the political vehicle for Republicans, Independents and dissident Democrats who wished to support the KennedyJohnson ticket. When I"say dissident Democrats, I mean Democrats who did not want to vote within
  • STATEMENT BY SENATE DEMOCRATIC On Floor of the Senate LEADER LYNDON B. JOHNSON June 25, 1954 FOR RELEASE Mr. UPON DELIVERY President: There Council are urgent reasons for approval of this re solution The most pressing is the meeting
  • , and to look a­ head to the no less inspiring certainty that she will he our ally in peace. The tradition of friendship between these two great nations, the U. s. and the U.S. s. R., dates b3ck years beyond the attacks which have made us warring allies
  • movement all along to get-­ F: Were you doing anything? P: No. Except that I was then serving as executive director of the St ate Democratic Executive Committee under Governor Daniel. Then Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn had a general
  • election of 1960; John Tower elected; LBJ-Pickle relationship in the vice-presidential years; LBJ's generosity; Ed Lyles; "Dollars for Democrats;" Homer Thornberry and Pickle; Gene Fondren, Charles Herring, and Pickle reach agreement on running for Congress
  • Leader. F: Right. Let I s talk very briefly about the period when you T,qe re the leading Democrat in the Senate, and Mr. Johnson served as junior senator but was definitely on his way. One of the things that came up T,-las the confirmation of Leland
  • : Yes. G: And then from 1966 to 1967 you were the chairman of the United States Select Committee on Western Hemisphere Imigration. S: Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration. G: I'm sorry, my mistake. You are a member of various
  • ; 1965 Voting Rights Act; Democratic party politics; THIS U.S.A.; Vietnam elections; Election Research Center; HHH; assessment of LBJ; polling industry.
  • National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
  • Contact with LBJ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; 1963 Philadelphia speech; Green funeral; 1963 meeting of American Municipal Association in Houston; city program; HHH; urban disorder; 3/31 announcement; 1968 campaign
  • .? o'beiIworked for a number of years as a di trict or anizer for the Communist Par in a 10 onvention, he Louisianao In December, l 59, at the Party s as was elected a member of the Party's National Committee under a pseudonymo In 1960, at which time he
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  • to twelve noon. And somehow or another from 12:30 to 12:40 he met just with the Democratic members--he met with the Senate committee people alone. And here Kennedy said to him--Teddy Kennedy--picking up on the [question of whether the] President should ask
  • NATIONAL ARCH IVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORM OF DOCUMENT DATE CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE memo of State RESTRICTION and ,, ,, FILE LOCATION National Subject RESTRICTION Security File: File, Box 15
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  • you're Republicans or Democrats; frankly, I don't give a damn. because yru're professionals. You're here I want you to understand that you don't owe a thing to me personally, I don't owe a thing to you, but we both are here to serve our country
  • Biographical information; Contact with President Johnson; President's Committee on Marine Sciences, Resource and Engineering; Environmental Service Administration; Sea Lab III; travel as Under Secretary; Assistant Secretary position; impression
  • overwhelmed legislatively by the Democrats most of the time. Of course I think that Kennedy could have been considered pretty much of an anathema to Republicans and there was very little communication between the White House and the Republican members
  • With the President Tuesday, August 20, 1968 - 1:00 p. m. AGENDA 1. Sec. Rusk 1 s Testimony Before the Democratic Platform Committee ­ '"" This Evening, Tuesday, Aug. 20. (The President) z. Soviet Agreement to Talk About Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions
  • Democratic National Convention.
  • Folder, "August 20, 1968 National Security Council," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3
  • , and walked along the fence g)H^H# greeting the crowd. RECEPTION COMMITTEE: Governor and Mrs. Roger Branigin of Indiana Mayor of Indianapolis and Mrs. John Barton Democratic State Chairman, Gordon St. Angelo Depart Indianapolis, Airport by helicopter HHH^HUHH
  • , John M. (Chairman) Title of Publication or Description: A Goldwater Primer; In Five Parts Publisher: Democratic National Committee (U.S.) Title of Series/Chapter/Article: Edition: Volume Number: Issue Number: Date of Publication: [1964] Page
  • and Allied Group. Joseph ILLERHAUS I.eon-Eli 'IROCIET ·Chairman of the Christian Democrat Group, German M.P·. Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Social Affairs and Health Protection, Belgian Senator~ Socialist Group. ..... ,,.,.- - 2 ~ Member
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  • ---·--------------------------------------------------------------------------------NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORM OF DOCUMENT 115 memo #5a memo CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE ~ 13ecret DATE
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  • for a newspaper at that time. I was a committee clerk in the legislature, the only job I could get, and I saw Mrs. Ferguson's inauguration. It was for her last term. And the legislature then was--it was more of an unpaid body of people than it is now. They met
  • News' lack of support for LBJ; Texas Democrats in the 1900s and late 1800s; the rise of Republicans in 1960; Governor Beauford Jester and his campaign against Homer Rainey; Jester overhauling the Texas prison system and state hospitals; the Texas
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 5, Side 1 G: Let me ask you first to review some of the episodes at the 1960 [Democratic National] Convention
  • John F. Kennedy's (JFK) plan regarding primaries going into the 1960 Democratic National Convention; assigning JFK staffers to specific state delegations; JFK's decision to address the Texas delegation; JFK's decision to ask Lyndon Johnson (LBJ
  • either national security, or health and welfare, or severe damage to the economy and that he doubted whether a case could be made here. And we talked about the people that ride the airlines, that it really didn't have LBJ Presidential Library http
  • was in a Washington firm, Abe was a great friend of the President, so I had some feeling then of the association, although it was kind of secondary to me. It's from that law job that I was appointed executive director of his [Robert Kennedy] Committee on Juvenile
  • Symington’s limited contact with LBJ after 1960; relationship between LBJ and RFK; 1964 campaign; the Poverty Program; Dave Hackett; how Symington became the Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and his work to get
  • Council, which aupervtses over 50 mlnlauiea, commlaaiona, bureaus, etc., all . technically under the standing committee of the National People's COngreas Government leader: premier of State Council, Chou Sn-lai; cbalrman People's Republtc of Cbfna (cbief
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  • at a time, because I'm afraid you'd fall into the same category. I think it's very useful. Mc: M: Were you assigned to any other government committees? Yes. I was appointed. I am on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association
  • on housing (Suburbia) in 1965; impressions of Robert Wood and Charles M. Haar; evaluation of task forces; service on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association.
  • the DNC later or--? O: Once the extension I referred to was agreed to, I took over the chairman's office of the [Democratic] National Committee. Our plan was to take over the national committee and, as needed, supplement the existing staff. This would
  • Support for Hubert Humphrey's nomination from George McGovern and Edward Kennedy, but not Eugene McCarthy; McCarthy's complaint that the Democratic National Convention had not been fair; O'Brien's August 27, 1968, memo discussing the campaign
  • be interested in your ideas of why. C: Basically, I believe that President Johnson did not attach any real significance to the Democratic National Committee. I believe that his background on the Hill had a good deal to do with that. I recall after the election
  • Abe Fortas; deterioration of Democratic Party machinery; John Bailey; prior knowledge of 3/31 announcement; Homer Thornberry; 1968 Democratic Convention; relationship with President eroded in 1968 over Vietnam; McNamara’s move to the World Bank.
  • that h would have had to face. I had him chair the interdepartmental Cabinet committee that dealt with our urban problem, he dealt with ur space problem, he dealt with our national security problems, he dealt with our political problems, frequently
  • in his office at the University of Texas. The date is July 19, 1971, and it is 9:10 in the morning. My name is David McComb. Last time we left off with the first committee being dissolved and the Regents appointing a committee to search for a dean. L
  • The creation of a new committee related to the LBJ School of Public Affairs; how the committee members were appointed; the committee duties of administration, budgeting, architectural planning and searching for a dean; Norman Hackerman; considering
  • that got hung up in the bureaucratic morass out in Houston-the Riverside National Bank, which was the first black bank in the State of Texas. The resident agent, who was a friend of mine--Dr. Edward Irons, who was a graduate of Harvard University
  • Marshall 10:35 12:00 The President received the following Negro leaders: Jack Greenberg, NAACP Legal Education Fund Dorothy Height, National Council of Negro Women A. Philip Randolph, President, Brotherhoo d of Sleeping Car Porters Roy Wilkins, Executive
  • . Laske r t o ge t Mr . Hart e an d the n t o th e Mansion for lunc h w/the abov e McGeorge Bundy National Communication s Militar y Cente r - Defens e (Sit Room) Secretary -.-Robert McNamar a Jack Valent i , Burton re seeing Truman Cong Cohelan in K C
  • the years under the leadership of Bob and the chairman of the committees 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
  • was very inept; I mean I was just a beginner as a stenographer. So I was pretty much on my own~ but I went through the regular political process that all young people do when they go to Washington. I went to the National Committee to get a letter
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • election as speaker; LBJ’s role as Texas director of the National Youth Administration; LBJ’s campaign for Congress after Buchanan’s death; funding for the campiagn; how LBJ met FDR; how LBJ’s departure affected the Texas NYA; LBJ at Keach’s wedding; LBJ’s
  • in national Democratic politics? A: Yes, the position as mayor of Atlanta, and really my period as mayor of Atlanta extends from--although I came into office in 1962, 1961 was a campaigning year and an election year,and then I was very active in business
  • Among Issue Number LXIV, January, 200 l Lady Bird Johnson Receives National Parks Honor National Park Foundation Officials Jim Maddy and George Bristol, with Mrs. Johnson and Daughter Luci Story on Page Six Senate Democratic Leader Daschle