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Knowland, William F. (William Fife), 1908-1974 (Item)
  • Bio: (1908-1974) Member of California State Assembly, 1933-35; California State Senate, 1935-39; Republican National Committee from California, 1938-42; U.S. Senator from California, 1945-59; Republican candidate for governor in California, 1958
Silver, George A. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Chief, Division of Social Medicine, Montefiore Hospital, 1951-1965; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, 1965-1968; Professor, Yale University, 1969-1984; Member, World Health Organization’s Expert Committee
Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003 (Item)
  • . member of the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress, 1964-1966; Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, 1966-1969; Professor of Economics and History, University of Texas at Austin, 1969-2003
  • LBJ Connection: Counselor and later chairman, Policy Planning Council, Department of State, 1961-1966; U.S. member of the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress, 1964-1966; Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Fowler, Henry H. (Henry Hamill), 1908-2000 (Item)
  • -1961; Member, National Committee on Government Finance, Brookings Institute, 1960-1961; Under Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-1964; Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-1968
Lasker, Mary W. (Mary Woodward), 1900-1994 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Member, Mrs. Johnson's Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; member, Executive Committee of the National Committee Against Mental Illness; advocate for governmental support of medical research
Berler, Beatrice (Item)
  • Committee organized 65 chapters around the United States and Berler served as the head of the chapter in San Antonio. Berler also served as the President and Trustee of the National Women's Committee from 1971-1973. Berler died on September 11,2000
Pucinski, Roman C., 1919-2002 (Item)
  • Bio: (1919-2002) World War II veteran; staff reporter and writer, Chicago Sun-Times, 1939-1959; chief investigator, Congressional Special Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest
Alexander, Clifford L., 1933- (Item)
  • Bio: Clifford L. Alexander, Jr. was a Foreign Affairs Officer, National Security Council, 1963-1964 and then Deputy Special Assisitant to the President 1964-1967. Alexander worked with Ralph Dungan (on appointments) and Lee White (on civil rights
  • LBJ Connection: Staff, National Security Counsel, 1963-1964; Deputy Special Assistant to the President, 1964-1965; Associate Special Counsel, 1965-1966, Deputy Special Counsel, 1966-1967; Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1967-1969
Magnuson, Warren Grant, 1905-1989 (Item)
  • in several local and state-wide political posts until 1936 when he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He was a member of the Senate from 1944
Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995 (Item)
  • as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress, serving one term, from 1943 to 1945, and to the U.S. Senate from 1945 to 1974. He served on key committees including Banking and Currency and Foreign Relations. Senator Fulbright was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Gibbons, William Conrad, 1926 (Item)
  • and Senator Mike Mansfield and also served as an advance man for presidential contender Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960. He was a professional staff member of the Democratic Policy Committee and Assistant to the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, Lyndon B
Keyserling, Leon Hirsch, 1908-1987 (Item)
  • relations and employment, taxation and monetary policy. In 1954 he founded the Conference on Economic Progress, and served as the Conference's president until 1987. In 1969 Keyserling was elected president of the National Committee for Labor in Israel. He
Wallace, Robert A. (Robert Ash), 1921 (Item)
  • to the Cotton Textiles Committee conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and the International Wool Study Group, in London, England, both in 1962. After leaving government service, he became an executive at Exchange National Bank in Chicago, and was later named
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant to Senator Paul H. Douglas; Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Banking and Urban Affairs; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 (Item)
  • Bio: Lewis Blaine Hershey (1893-1977) was the Director of the Selective Service System of the United States. He joined the Indiana National Guard in 1911, entered the U.S. Army in 1920 with the rank of captain, and held a series of appointments
Bonanno, Phyllis (Item)
  • ; Executive Director of the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations; Corporate Vice-President for International Trade at Warnaco, Inc; and President of Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina, 1999. She was a board member for the Center
Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987 (Item)
  • Bio: Wilbur J. Cohen (1913-1987) served on the Committee on Economic Security from 1934 to 1935, which drafted the Social Security Act. From 1935 to 1956, Cohen held several positions with the Social Security Administration, concluding his service
Pollak, Stephen J. (Item)
  • Bio: Stephen J. Pollak, Dartmouth College graduate, 1950, and Yale Law School graduate, 1956. He was a partner at Shea & Gardner prior to its combination with Goodwin Procter in 2004, and served as chair of its Executive Committee from 1993 to 1996
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, 1961-1964; Counsel, War on Poverty Task Force, 1964-1965; First Assistant, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, 1965-1967; President's Adviser for National Capital
Brzezinski, Zbigniew K., 1928- (Item)
  • ), serving with both until 1977. Brzezinski was a member of the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council, from 1961 to 1962. In 1964 he was a member of the steering committee of Young Citizens for Johnson, and from 1966
Bundy, McGeorge, 1919-1996 (Item)
  • Bio: McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996) was the national security adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1949 Bundy became a lecturer of government on the Harvard University faculty. He quickly rose to become the dean of the College
  • LBJ Connection: Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, 1961-1966. Head of National Security staff and coordinated Staff work. Had jurisdiction over Situation Room and Classified Message Center.
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 (Item)
  • Bio: Gerald Rudolph Ford was the 38th President of the United States, U. S. Congressman (R-Michigan) from 1949-1973; He became a member of the House Appropriations Committee in 1951, and rose to prominence on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Harris, Patricia, 1924-1985 (Item)
  • , she became associate dean of students and lecturer in law at Howard University. During the administration of President John F. Kennedy, she served as co-chairman of the National Women's Committee on Civil Rights. In 1964, she became the first black
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 (Item)
  • Diary, a record of her activities which she kept during the years her husband served as the 36th President of the United States. During her White House years, she served as honorary chairman of the National Head Start Program, a program
Robson, John E. (John Edwin), 1930- (Item)
  • to 1974 he was a partner and member of the Executive Committee at the firm of Sidley and Austin. He also contributed to the Nixon and Ford economic programs through his work with the 1970 Cost of Living Council; his participation in the October 1974 Summit
Horn, Stephen John, 1931- (Item)
  • positions in the arts, economic development, and the United Way, Horn served part-time for 16 years as a founding member and past chairman of the National Institute of Corrections of the U.S. Department of Justice, and for thirteen years, as a member
Braswell, T. Edward (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Attorney, Department of Justice, 1948-1951; Staff member, Senate Armed Services Committee, 1953-1969; Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, 1970-1976
Engelhard, Jane (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Member, Fine Arts Committee, 1961; Member, Library of Congress Trust Fund Board; Member, Committee for the Preservation of the White House, 1964-65
Marcy, Carl M. (Item)
  • Bio: (1913-1990) Attorney; Officer, 1942-1949, Legislative Counsel, 1949-1950; Counsel, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1950-1955; Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1955-1973; Author
  • LBJ Connection: Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1955-1973
Mann, David (Item)
  • Bio: David Mann served on President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Committee on Government Contracts, and was the Director of Review and Surveys for the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B
  • LBJ Connection: Director of Review and Surveys for the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998 (Item)
  • Bio: (1909-1998) U.S. Senator, Arizona, 1953-1965, 1969-1987; Veteran; Advisory Committee, Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, 1948-1950; Phoenix City Council, 1949-1952; Chairman, Select Committee on Intelligence; Committee on Armed
BeLieu, Kenneth E., d. 2001 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Staff Director, Senate Armed Services Committee and Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee in the 1950s; Staff director, Senate Committee on Aeronautics and Space Sciences, 1958-1961; Ad Hoc Committee on Space to President-Elect
Wilson, Glen Parten, Jr., 1922-2005 (Item)
  • Bio: Glen Parten Wilson (b. December 10, 1922, Waco, Texas-d. January 8, 2005, Fort Worth, Texas) was an assistant to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and a staff member of the Senate Special Committee on Space and Astronautics. He also served
  • LBJ Connection: Member of LBJ's Senate staff, 1955-1957; Assistant Clerk, Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, 1957-1958; Staff, Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, 1958-1977
McClure, Stewart E. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Chief clerk, Senate Committee on Labor, Education and Public Welfare, 1955-1969, 1971-1973
McCully, John (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Information Director, President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, 1961-1963
Patman, Wright, 1893-1976 (Item)
  • Bio: John William Wright Patman (1893-1976) was a U. S. Representative from Texas, serving from March 4, 1929 until his death on March 7, 1976. At various points in his congressional career, he was Chairman of the Select Committee on Small Business
Russell, Harold J. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Chairman, President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, 1962-1964
Stanford, Louise Hermey (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Volunteer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Council of Federated Organizations in Mississippi, 1964
Verkler, Jerry T. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Staff Director, Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, 1963-1974
Pazianos, George (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Senator Claiborne Pell's staff, 1963; staff, Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, 1964-1966
Livingston, William Samuel, 1920-2013 (Item)
  • Bio: William Samuel Livingston was an educator from Ohio who served as the chairman of the planning committee for the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and held a number of leadership positions at the University of Texas.
  • LBJ Connection: Member, planning committee for the LBJ School of Public Affairs
Cook, Donald C. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time friend and adviser to LBJ; Special Counsel, House Naval Affairs Committee, 1943-1945; Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission, 1949-1953; Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, 1950-1952; Executive