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Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

prices-B: What sort of farm was it? L: General livestock and grain, mostly wheat. That's the heart of the wheat belt, the winter wheat belt of the United States. other work. I gradually got into Farm prices, especially wheat, went down, down, until
Luft’s career; 1932 meeting with farm leaders in Kansas; Congressman Floyd Breeding; John A. Schnittker; Hatch Act; appointed by Freeman; appraisal of Freeman; outline of general policy; crop insurance; funding; legislative drafting; staff; racial

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: JOHN A. BAKER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 B: My first personal involvement in foreign migratory farm worker activity in the United States--which might be thought
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

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: The cooperatives failed and the family-sized units succeeded. I even remember the names of the two failures, the worst failures: Terrebonne in Louisiana and Lake Dick in Arkansas. to a collective farm, those. It was awful close The members were paid a minimum
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

Folder, "Guatemala (3 of 3)," Papers of Drew Pearson, Georgetown Files, Box G 284 [1 of 3] (Item)

. Mq 28 to June 1, 1952 Joa& Luia llamo1 elected eecretar7 for training ot Jational. Confederation ot Rural Workers ot Oaatemal.a. June 1952 DiN'io !!, Centro America,government official. newapaper, quoted Cvloa Manuel Pellecer aa aa;,ing
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Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. [1947]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 29 (Item)

the two are ao deeply Inter up the United Nations. ,The veto, to serve the common man ln twined. All this I knew before I to Russia and America, ls partly peaceful abundance." left America. valued by -- botb u a guarantee I also said that, just

Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the American Federation of Government Employees and then when the CIO was formed, we decided to affiliate with the United Federal Workers in the CIO . And during this period, there were these sort of contacts with staff employees in the wage-hour unit
Biographical information; positions at the Department of Labor; Task Force regarding the administration of the Landrum-Griffin Act; Labor Board; Bureau of Standards; Federal Workers

Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. [1940-1944]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 12 (Item)

ise of H itler meant to farmers, ·mocracy. The Roosevelt program. p lan workers and businessmen in the gave more power to the people. lar < United States. This blind leader• Now we have launched a great But ship ' believed that the United na tional

President's Daily Diary entry, 2/20/1967 (Item)

________ i i ^^_________________________________ ________ OFF RECORD; Walter Reuther \ Mr. Reuther presented to the President the United Auto Workers' Social Justice ] Award - "Lyndon B. Johnson. Architect of the Great Society"-- large and heavy plaque

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/23/1966 (Item)

, Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1504 Indianapolis, Ind William Pridemore, United Automobile Aircraft, Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Local 78, Detroit, Mich. May 23, 1966 Meyer Proctor. Natl Assof of Broadcast Employees

Folder, "India [3 of 3]," Files of Edward K. Hamilton, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

~ 7 EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA New Delhi, India November 3 , 1967 Mr. W.W. Rostow The White House Washington, D.C. Dear Walt: At the risk of overburdening your reading load, I am enclosing background memoranda which deal
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Folder, "NSAM # 349: Development of the Frontiers of South America, 5/31/1966 [3 of 3]," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 8 (Item)

. The third kind of rural economy is also widespread in South America; it is a commercial agriculture based on a market economy. In this kind of economy, a large part of the farm production,- whatever the size of unit of land tenure, is sold off the farm
Latin America
Folder, "NSAM # 349: Development of the Frontiers of South America, 5/31/1966 [3 of 3]," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 8

Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on Capitol Hill. There appropriations for Farmer Cooperative Service must go through the Agriculture Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, which is entirely oriented toward commercial farming and is not particularly concerned with rural America

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

would come in, the great tomato growers would merely order X number of braceros or Mexican farm workers. Through the Department of Labor and the Department of Immigration those braceros in effect would be delivered. Those braceros wo~ld do the work
Civil service federal union third party mediation; the unique issues of a federal worker union; how Reynolds’ became Undersecretary of Labor, 1967; Reynolds’ work in a commission to examine certain U.S. foreign and domestic policies; involvement

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, I grew up on a farm in Central Kansas, west of Wichita--a wheat and livestock farm--and lived there until I was a young man; went off to college at Kansas State University where I studied agricultural economics, and agricultural subjects generally
administrations; agricultural legislation; Freeman’s “report and review” sessions; 1965 Food and Agriculture Act; BOB; price support program; Farm Bureau; Food for Peace Program (PL480); India; self-help feature; aid to Latin America; AID mission; relationship

Folder, "NSAM # 243: Survey Mission for the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [2 of 3], 5/9/1963," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

FOR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT USE ONLY II-B-1 ~. PUBLIC SECTOR SURVEY AND PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT USE ONLY FOR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT USE ONLY I.I-B-1 Chapter 1 PUBLIC WORKS - HEADQUARTERS The High

Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. (The Vice President) [1942]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 21 (Item)

as Spanish. And then he spoke of the grand mixture in the New World between the European, the Indian and the African. In the United States there is even a greater mixture of diverse customs and cultures than in most of Latin America. British in blood

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 75: May 6‑8, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 33 (Item)

and explanation toward .these countries for Dr. Abernathy and his colleague, the Rev. Andrew Young, who raised the issue. Immigration Policies --Grievance: Immigration policies which permit entry into the United States of foreign workers (particularly those from
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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

~ There was a period when the communists really had power in this country. Boy, did they have power! of very important unions. They controlled a number They had control over the United Automobile Workers; they had control over the United Electrical Workers

Folder, "NSAM # 243: Survey Mission for the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [1 of 3], 5/9/1963," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

be confined to two in number with some such general wording as follows: (a) Are you in favor of becoming an independent nation? (b) Are you in favor of a permanent affiliation with the United States of America? There will be some nations in the United

Folder, "Pepper, Senator Claude [1942]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 21 (Item)

¥!i-'1.ll,t.Aoctrine that ".national ~•~~i . .;•,• ,.:: , · ., ., defense" co1111ists Jn being pre• _~ pared to rep¢f atta_ck, second, Jha; PEARI,. . B,AR~OR ~ i.he. Jiih:r.9r . the Unit-el,\ Statt!s.1s geographical~ 1)t the .national weakneises wb:Ich

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1943" (Item)

and operations in Navy Department. 3/10-11 Frances Perkins appears before Vinson’s Naval Affairs Committee on absenteeism bill. 3/15 John L. Lewis, president United Mine Workers of America, threatens to call a strike of 450,000 soft coal miners

Folder, "[Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

the system of public welfare in America. The welfare system, as I stated to the Congress last year, pleases no one. 'J:'.he cost of administering welfare is far too high - because workers mu'•t spend 900/o 0£ their time investigating recipients · to make

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

America. That is a United Nations commission that was meeting in Mexico in May. And then President Díaz Ordaz issued a statement more or less like this: "We have been obliged to condemn certain things that have happened in Santo Domingo because
for Latin America; Third Inter-American Special Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1967; American foreign investment in Mexico; Inter-American Bank of Development; LBJ's visit to Mexico City in April 1966; Colorado River salinity problem; communism in Mexico

Folder, "Pamphlets Master File," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 2 (Item)

. Housing guarantees have gone up twenty times in the last two years. So you see in both the United States and Latin America we are moving more and more swiftly to meet the obligations and to reach the goals that we set in the Alliance for Progress

Folder, "S. Con. Res. 91, Guatemala [1 of 2]," Files Relating to Senator Johnson’s Legislation, Senate Papers, Box 297 (Item)

in this world. But whatever those discussions produce, this is a time to serve notice on the world that America~ speak with a united voice. Thie is a time to demonstrate that we will defend our freedoms. This ia a time to make it unmistakably clear that we
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Folder, "Food for India - Newspaper Articles," Food for India, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)

THE DENVER POST September 28, 1965 .\ .' . American ' political motivations, ·. India had no alternative but to WASHINGTON-The United accept the offer, for without the · States has offered India 500,000 additional shipments it would tons
materials on using loans to administer the program, international repercussions of famine in India, and the need to include farming equipment and supplies as part of the aid package.

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 14, October 1 - 31, 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 11 [1 of 2] (Item)

leadership assumed by the United States for balance ot payment reasons. As a re.s uit • the Title I runendment signed with India on May 27 to_provide 2 ,'750 ,,000 !_tons of -wheat and 750 ,ooo tons of grain sorghum included enou5h ·runo.s .. to ship only 2
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Oral history transcript, H.M. Greene, interview 1 (I), 1/21/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)

to as the donor. hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for deposit inthe Lyndon Baines Johnson Library~ ·'lnd for administration therein ·by the authorities thereof, a tape and a trans

Folder, "President of Senegal (Stag Luncheon), 9/28/66," White House Social Files, Bess Abell Files, Box 17 (Item)

; Mbr., Naj:'l Council on the Arts, NYC ~ £ } Mr. Karl F. Feller Pres., Int'l Union United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink & Distillery Workers of America, Cincinnati, Ohio Mr. George P. Garrett, Jr. /; . Poet, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va

Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. [1942]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 21 (Item)

should feel that developed to help them adjust them there are available, in the United States, selves to the painful realities of diminish in Latin America, and in the British ing demand. There were the Stevenson Dominions, tremendous quantities

Folder, "Ex FG 731 President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity 5/20/64 - 6/9/64," WHCF FG Subject Files, Box 402 (Item)

, United Automoblle, Aircraft and Agricultural Workers of America, 8000 East J e1rerson, Detroit 14, Mich. Implement Tbe Very Reverend Francia B. Sayre, Dean, The Washington Cathedral, Wisconsin and Massachusetts Avenuea, NW., Washington, D.C. William F
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Folder, "Japan, Sato's Visit Memos and Cables, 1/11-14/65 [3 of 4]," Country Files, NSF, Box 253 [1 of 2] (Item)

3,300 smaller islands. They lie at approximately the same latitude as the United States. The total area of Japan, 147,000 square miles, is somewhat less than that of California. About four-fifths of the country is covered by hills and mountains, a number
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Folder, "Vice President's Trip to Puerto Rico, Senegal, Geneva, Paris, 1-7 April, 1961," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 1 (Item)

and essays. a time when the new Republics in Africa and Madagascar are taking A their place in the United Nations, the Press and Information Division of the French Embassy is pleased to present an overall picture T of these countries and their peoples

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from more recent history that rural problems were neglected. I just finished writing a book about migrant farm workers, and in the course of writing my book I talked to Sundquist, then at Brookings, and asked him about how come we didn't do anything

Folder, "V.P. Johnson's Trip to Northern Europe, September 2-17, 1963 [2 of 2]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 3 (Item)

greetings ~o the American people and our··warm thanks for the aid , and assistance we have received over the years. Ladies and Gentlemen - I ask you to join·m~ in a toast for the Vice President of the United States of America, for the American people
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Press release, "Remarks of the President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Dedication of Eufaula Dam, Eufaula, Oklahoma, 9/25/1964" (Item)

contribution to our country -- and I want to say on behalf of all the people of this Nation that we, the people of the United States, are deeply in the debt of the people of Okl ahoma for the quality o f the men that they send to the United States Cong ress. I

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the United States in 1959. D: Well, it was quite fascinating because I had been in Washington for only two days. I had been working in Ohio as a television reporter and news director at a television and radio station, and had applied for a job

Folder, "Administrative History of the Agency for International Development, Part I, Chapters IX thru XI", Box 1 (Item)

- A. L D. OVERS~AS OPERATIONS IX Near East and South Asia- X Latin America XI Africa ... XII East Asia XIII Vietnam . . . .. . . . .. .. .. .. .. . . ..... . . . ... .. . . .. ... . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . • 177 233 310

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of unit. That is, actually, a majority of our present- day farmers are now earning most of their money off the farm, but they have the benefits of rearing their children on a farm, giving their children experience with growing things and taking care

Folder, "Young, Harold [1940]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 12 (Item)

-tion ot typea, ot liberals a11d ll.941wn1. \o the p oint wlwre I do A t ae• how there oeA be ~ 11ne up which ould be anti" , baaed: oa ·t he Rooan•lt w port~ Kt, la there a ap.cit1• Garaer aeo.timentt Ya Paid -worker,, but 110 r eal s-entiaent

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