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Feild, John G., 1922-2006 (Item)
  • Bio: John G. Feild was born in 1922. In 1959, he became a legislative assistant to Senator Philip A. Hart from Michigan. He aided in the campaign to elect John F. Kennedy for president, and served as the executive director of the President’s
Bernhard, Berl, 1929- (Item)
  • Bio: Berl I. Bernhard (b. 1929), lawyer and government official was General Attorney, Staff Director, and Executive Staff Director of the Commission on Civil Rights from 1958 to 1963. Bernhard was also a campaign aide to Senator Edmund S. Muskie
Hamilton, Edward K. (Item)
  • and foreign economic policy. In July 1967 he added South Asia, and continued to handle South Asia, sub-Sahara Africa, and foreign aid from the fall of 1967 until his departure in December 1968.
Wattenberg, Ben J., 1933- (Item)
  • Bio: Ben J. Wattenberg (b. 1933) was an assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968, and an aide to Vice President Hubert Humphrey in Minneapolis in 1970. He is the author of the following books: This U. S. A. (1965), The Real
Waldron, Robert Earl, 1927-1995 (Item)
  • Bio: Robert Earl Waldron (b. January 1, 1927, Arp, Smith County, Texas-d. December 8, 1995, Washington, D.C.), aide to Lyndon B. Johnson and interior designer. Waldron attended the Federal Institute of Business in Texas, the University of Texas law
  • LBJ Connection: Friend and LBJ aide; Administrative assistant to Congressman Homer Thornberry, Texas, 1955-1963
Jacobson, George (Item)
  • , Agency for International Development (AID) 1965; mission coordinator, U.S. Embassy in Vietnam; assistant chief of staff, Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) 1969-1971; CORDS director 1971-1973; assistant to the ambassador for field
Wilson, Cynthia E., 1940- (Item)
  • , as a correspondence aide and later as a staff member of the First Lady's White House Beautification Project. After leaving the White House, she worked with Stewart Udall and Governor Castro of New Mexico, and she worked for the National Audubon Society in the mid
Reedy, George E. (George Edward), 1917-1999 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist; member of LBJ's staff, 1951-1965, 1968; White House Press Secretary, 1964-1965; White House Aide, 1968
Markman, Sherwin J., 1929- (Item)
  • (AID) under the Department of State. He held this position until January 1966, when he began his position as assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson. At the White House, he worked primarily under Marvin Watson as a congressional liaison to the House
Gammon, Samuel Rhea, III, 1924 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Detailed Foreign Affairs Aide to Vice President Johnson, 1963; Consul General, Asmara, Ethiopia, 1963-1967; Counselor for Political Affairs, Rome, 1967-1970
Burney, Cecil Edward, 1914-1989 (Item)
  • to 1952, American Bar Association member and on the board of governors from 1965 to 1968, American Judicature Society member and president from 1960 to 1962, National Legal Aid Association director, Texas Historical Foundation member and president from
Hannegan, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1903-1949 (Item)
  • Committee of St. Louis and during this time became the chief aid to Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann, and the boss of the twenty-first ward in St. Louis. From 1942 to 1943 he was Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eastern District of Missouri, and from 1943
Harlow, Bryce Nathaniel, 1916-1987 (Item)
  • in soliciting the aid of the two most influential Texan Democrats on Capitol Hill in the 1950s, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Harlow quickly became a vital staff member in the Eisenhower White House. Harlow became
Schandler, Herbert Yale, 1928-2015 (Item)
  • as an assistant professor of social sciences at West Point. Schandler served as a military social aide at the White House from 1967 to 1969 and in the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s strategic plans and policy directorate. He received his PhD in public administration from
Bohen, Fred, 1937-2015 (Item)
  • and philanthropy at WNET and the Ford Foundation. He served on various corporate and charitable boards, including: Apache Oil Company; Sallie Mae; the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center; the American Council of Learned Societies; the Polish American Freedom
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 (Item)
  • with Vice President Hubert Humphrey. As President, his agenda included his "Great Society" program: aid to education, protection of civil rights and the right to vote, urban renewal, Medicare, conservation, beautification, control and prevention of crime
Bohlen, Charles E. (Charles Eustis), 1904-1973 (Item)
  • in 1941 after the Pearl Harbor attack. When Bohlen returned to Washington, he impressed presidential aide Harry Hopkins. As a result, he became President Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal Russian interpreter. Bohlen continued his diplomatic travels in 1943
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 (Item)
  • on innumerable projects. In Washington, she enlisted the aid of friends to plant thousands of tulips and daffodils which still delight visitors to our nation's Capital. The Highway Beautification Act of 1965 was the result of her national campaign