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  • WASHINGTON September 16, 1966 CONFIDDH'PIAE. MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: ·Recognition of Botswana and Lesotho · and.Establishment of Embassies at Gaberones and Maseru Recommendation: I recommend that the United States. rec~gnize the Republic
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Walt Rostow, Vol. 13, September 15-30, 1966"
  • agricultural legislation that was being considered by the Congress. B: You were presenting it to Congress? G: No, actually I was still in North Carolina with farm program work, and my congressman was Harold D. Cooley who was Chairman of the House LBJ
  • . Johnson. F: Who's Carlton Smith? P: He was at that time on the board of trustees of Baylor University, deacon of Highland Baptist Cnurch--he still is, I believe, a local lawyer who has always been interested in politics and my partner in our farming
  • ; long term effects of farm-related issues; LBJ as a hard worker.
  • agents, "fifth column" will spread through Latin America and set up their political system there . The United States and Canada will have to unite to defend the North American continent (and we may have to take cha rge of exioo and Cent r a l America
  • AMERICA HAS JUST HEARD THE..J · - -- T" ~..............~. .- - -'..::.- - - ··* - - ·- - -- - - - -- - -. ~ VOICE OF CHURCHILL SAY.lNG THAt BBITAIN WILL HELP RUSSli~ IO _ · ,. ·- ~ -- - - .,. •·s. A..:cfEAR ·STOP BI TLER .CHURCH I LL
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Pepper, Claude (Senator) - Notes [1940-1943]"
  • this place ,and otber·5 in this area of rats. His demonstration and instructions go a vsry long way in getting us farmers to eradicate the rats on the farms. Without the assistance or the county Heal.th unit assistance the rural .areas would be in a rather
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Agriculture [1958]"
  • was formed, I came east and was one of the early organizers working for John L . Lewis . Later on I worked for other unions, at one time was southern director of the Textile Workers Union just before the war, and I forced myself to be drafted . I had
  • EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101•11,IJ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum TO :AA./NESA, Mr. Maurice J. Williams FROM :NESA/PL, Richard J. Ward DATE: ~,.A, SUBJECT:Measures for Absorbing Arab Refugees The attached paper deals with means for absorbing
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  • See all scanned items from file unit "Middle East, Volume I, 6/65-3/68"
  • framework for the Food for Peace Programme, under which the United States shares its agricultural abundance with developing nations. U.S. Farm Re.volution Public Law 480 is a fruit of the remarkable revolution encompassed American farming in recent
  • See all scanned items from file unit "India Food - January - March 1966"
  • , Gen'l Pres. United Assn; Howard I. Henson, Gen'l Pres., Journeymen Stone Cutters Assn of North America; Edward F. Carlough, Gen'l Pres., Sheet Metal Workers Int'l Assn, Charles D. Aquadro, Int'l Pres., United Slate, Tile & Comp, Roofers, Edward J.Leonard
  • state Senator after Wirtz had moved to Austin and aftet Welly Hopkins, who succeeded Wirtz as Senator, became General Counsel of United Mine Workers in Washington. Then Wirtz moved to Austin in 1934 and I moved with him and became a member of the law
  • such as district organizers were also in attendance. ANTI-VIETNAM WARDEMONSTRATION The Socialist Workers Party, a group designated as subversive by the Attorney General of the United States, was represented by over .75 members who came from areas
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  • See all scanned items from file unit "Demonstration – October 20-21, 1967"
  • in spra.y pro3ra.m fo"X the general r;oc(L rah , SCREWWORM ERADICATION USA APRIL 1, 1964 STATUS REPORT [1 of 67] FOREWARD The enclosed material concerning screwworm eradication in the United States will, we hope, bring you up-to-date on this program
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "PEST CONTROL (AG 5-1)"
  • File unit description: Material on animal and plant diseases and parasite eradication programs, such as screwworm, scrapie, grass-hoppers, brucellosis, cotton insects, dutch elm disease, rabies, mosquitoes, etc.; control of animal pests
  • , of course, was a free worker and so were the wives of a lot of his staff members. We enjoyed it. I learned so much. That was where I first found out that America was a melting pot, was to address the poll tax list of the Tenth District. Because you would
  • ; LBJ's and Alvin Wirtz's continued interest in the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA); Welly Hopkins' work with United Mine Workers and John L. Lewis; visits to Harold Ickes' home; hosting other Texans; Tom Corcoran playing the accordion
  • countries or else sold it to them for local currency, but that was not a direct--his position at that time was not directed toward any national effort in hunger in America. G: Any insights on what directed his interest to the United State's problems? D
  • , they provide one way of keeping people occupied. But you don't believe that the military should It is not healthy for the be running an unemployment program in America. military or for the country. That is why you were prepared to stand the political heat
  • he would have to resolve that in his own mind. G: Did the United Auto Workers take a stand on this? O: I don't recall, specifically, to be honest with you. I don't recall the auto workers' stand. Did they support it? I'd be unfair to say
  • 14(B) of the Taft-Hartley Act; combining 14(b) with a farm bill so that urban and rural Democrats would support each other; Orville Freeman's involvement in lobbying for the farm bill; the Appalachian Regional Development Act and the Public Works
  • . - President, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh Ackley, Hon Gardner, Chairman, CEA Mr. Charles D. Aquadro, President, United Slate, Tile and Composition Roof Damp and Waterproof Workers Assoc, Washington, D. Mr. Harry C. Bates, Vice President, AFL-CIO
  • with when I was lobbyist for Farmer's Union, a very fine lady, out of the YWCA hierarchy--which was for migratory farm workers and low income farmers, famil ies. You know, not the most effective group in the world, it's not like the real wielders
  • Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; rural conservation centers; Job Corps vs. CCC; rural anti-poverty program land reform; migratory farm work; task force meetings; maximum feasible participation; OEO legislation; SWAFCA (Southwest
  • . ~~~A~~: ,~i~r/i~v~~ -~ . ,: . ,:·;. '·•• .• . ..... . . ...; . . H::.: SEtIE:VE°S- .T~E • KENN£DY ASSASSUlA'i'ION ·HAS NOT AFFECTED THE CLUfATE IN CZ:--JTRAL AMERICA TO THZ ?O I~T 'i4:l£RLIT BECOMES A SIGNIF I CANT·, - . •. • F.~C1'0R. · ~OR:: Ul?ORTA~T
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Walt Rostow, Vol. 82: June 13‑19, 1968"
  • ·anywhere in the world. More immediately, I have come to speak here tonight--for the United States of America. And my purpose ia to express to you-­ and to all our friends in Buiope--the views that we hold regarding ·decisions soon to be considered
  • the housing gap for large poor families primarily in terms of housing units. So, when reading for example that there is a gap of 1,549 units for seven- and eight-member families in Washington, it may be recalled that in human terms this involves some 10,000
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Department of Housing and Urban Development/A-Z (FG 170/A-Z)"
  • File unit description: This file unit contains a substantial amount of material relating to the formation, activities and findings of the National Commission on Urban Problems - Codes, Zoning, Taxation and Development Standards (also referred
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  • See all scanned items from file unit "Guatemala"
  • PRESS SECRETARY THE WHITE HOUSE NOMINATION SENT TO THE SENATE ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1967: Walter N. Tobriner, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Jamaica. vice Wilson T. M
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Jamaica, Volume 1, 11/63 - 6/68"
  • ~ - WJ.1 i~J v,,~ r, u-j CON:PIDENfIAL c.. IV. THE NEAR EAST AND SOUTH ASIA A. OVERVIEW America's concerns -- its problems and its opportunities in the Near East and South Asia are as varied as the area itself, where nearly one
  • See all scanned items from file unit "CHAPTER IV - THE NEAR EAST AND SOUTH ASIA"
  • a president of the United States sitting there who was, indeed, a neophyte in the Senate, very much junior, not in the power structure of the Senate. And here are all these fellows that he knows, but not intimately. It created a climate. At least in his mind
  • in the congressional relations staff's understanding of farm legislation; the shift from family farms to corporate agribusiness; the role of patronage in voting on the one-year extension of the emergency feed grains program; the extension of the Mexican farm labor law
  • Wizard of the United Klans of America, the dominant klan organization. The HCUA Committee print (page 87 and 88) also quotes from a speech made by Charles Conley (Connie) Lynch at a rally of the United Florida Ku Klux Klan on September 18, 1963 - 2
  • See all scanned items from file unit "E3-Office of Investigations - Organization Files, 1965 - 1968"
  • that they could be used for practical application for the foreseeable future. 2. Possibilities of Future Extension of Screwworm Eradication to Central America. Following elimination of the screwworm from the United States and Mexico and the establishment
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "PEST CONTROL (AG 5-1)"
  • File unit description: Material on animal and plant diseases and parasite eradication programs, such as screwworm, scrapie, grass-hoppers, brucellosis, cotton insects, dutch elm disease, rabies, mosquitoes, etc.; control of animal pests
  • in the United States, and I predict that one of these days it will be the greatest bulwark of strength that the United States government will have in financial institutions. F: Of course it has gone beyond that. I've seen it in Latin America where in some
  • LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate
  • ·\~· •·: .'AUSTRALIA, ~ NEW ·. ZEALAND, ·. :PAK IS (OBSERVER-) ·~: ;P.HIL!PP;_INES -,1:: THAILAND, .- UNITED ·: KINGDOM,:· u~s •. !· : _:' -,_- :. :.;•/':COUNTRI~S? REPRESENT. :',·,Y,\f., .. ; -•~:,:"::.;;,.;- ,-,,~~:i: t•~. :•., f'r
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Walt Rostow, Vol. 25, April 1-15, 1967"
  • challenge for the well being and happiness of people everywhere. The 12 Signatories of the World Leaders' Declaration Population as Released December 10, 1966. Colombia Finland India Korea Malaysia Morocco . ., .. Nepal Singapore Sweden Tunisia United Arab
  • the ranks of the civil rights workers and farm workers and the unemployed, mainly in the San Joaquin Valley. No sooner had the project been funded, I think it was exactly ten days, when we put a stop to it. The papers had already been signed and the grant
  • . Senator Douglas is going to attempt to tack an anti-lynching amendment onto the natural gas bill. Eisenhower delivers State of the Union Message to Congress, outlining foreign, farm, tax and other major election-year issues. He calls for payments
  • ....... ~...._.. ....... _.-:., ......-.-...- ___ .._ ·,/ ..• ---.;.,•' ·.·./· ''/•· I .. ';11 • ; 111 ., Unfounded Thesis \ "Now, l\lr. President, the Tash-'\ kent D~claration has been regis-;:.. \ • , _. tcrcd with the United Nations, its ; copies are available to all dclega- ~ 1 tions and I invite all those who m·e· : • I
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first of the file unit.
  • See all scanned items from NSF-Hamilton file unit "India"
  • him in stature and in wisdom. ln early man­ hood, he had a burden that became a bright vision of hope for every man, woman, and child. This dedicated young teacher of the children of migrant farm workers became the champion of the poor, the sick
  • , donate, and to as convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a transcript of a personal statement approved by me and in the Lyndon
  • Farmers Union --is presently Executive Director of United World Federalists deVier Pierson's briefing memo (to DT) suggests that Patton would be a "natural" for Tow n and Country for Johnson and Humphrey. The Vice President recommended that the President
  • and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Elizabeth Rowe of Washington, D.C. do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of personal interviews conducted on November 10
  • Southern Manifesto; farm legislation; Francis Case; social security; LBJ and Paul Butler; LBJ and Nixon; 1956 Democratic National Convention
  • In accordance with the provlslons of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Nell Shelton of Austi n, Texas do hereby g-ive, donate, and convey to the Uni ted States of America all my rights
  • Gus ivortham, Chairman of the Board, Insurance Company;iouston, Texas. Approve___ Disapprove --American __ General _ Edward B. iust, President, State Farm Insurance Company, Bloomington, Illinois. He is considered very much behind the program
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Department of Housing and Urban Development/A-Z (FG 170/A-Z)"
  • File unit description: This file unit contains a substantial amount of material relating to the formation, activities and findings of the National Commission on Urban Problems - Codes, Zoning, Taxation and Development Standards (also referred