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Wirtz, Alvin J. (Alvin Jacob), 1888-1951 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time political adviser to LBJ
Bellinger, Cecilia Dempster, 1927-2009 (Item)
  • Bio: Cecilia Dempster Bellinger, also known as Ceil (b. Cecilia Isobel Dempster, January 5, 1927, Dumfries, Scotland-d. November 15, 2009, Fairfield, California), was a researcher for Time magazine, and a research assistant and speechwriter
Pickle, J. J. (James Jarrell), 1913- (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time friend and political supporter of LBJ; staff, National Youth Administration, Texas; U.S. Congressman, Texas, 1963-1995
Roberts, Juanita, 1913-1983 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time employee and personal secretary to LBJ, 1953-1969
Janeway, Eliot, 1913-1993 (Item)
  • spanned seven decades. For a time his ideas gained some influence within the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was an informal economic advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson, especially during Johnson's years in Congress, though he broke
Roberts, Charles Wesley, 1916-1992 (Item)
  • Bio: Charles Wesley Roberts (1916-1992) was a graduate of University of Minnesota. He worked for the City News Bureau in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun, and the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1951, he joined Newsweek and became the White House
Johnson, Harold Keith, 1912-1983 (Item)
  • , and served in World War II and the Korean War, during which time he reached the rank of general. He served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from July 3, 1964 to July 2, 1968, and supervised the Army during the major expansion and deployments of the Vietnam
Miller, Merle, 1919-1986 (Item)
  • for the Philadelphia Record. Miller then served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as an editor of Yank magazine, from 1941 to 1945. After the war, he also served as contributing editor at Time magazine, 1945, and editor at Harpers magazine from 1947 to 1949. Miller's books
Jones, Luther Edward, Jr., 1914-1999 (Item)
  • moving back to Texas to attend the law school at the University of Texas in Austin, receiving his law degree in 1937. During his time in law school he worked under Johnson at the National Youth Administration (NYA), and also worked on Johnson’s 1937
  • LBJ Connection: Student of LBJ's at Sam Houston High School, Houston, Texas; roommate at the Dodge Hotel, Washington D.C.; assistant secretary to U.S. Congressman Richard Kleberg; long-time political associate of LBJ
Keach, Carroll, 1914-1983 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Student of LBJ at Sam Houston High School, then NYA employee; long-time friend and political supporter; editor, Robstown Record, Robstown, Texas
Magnuson, Warren Grant, 1905-1989 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: U.S. Congressman, 1937-1944 and Senator, 1944-1981, Washington; Long-time friend of LBJ; Donor of campaign speeches and other materials related to the 1964 presidential campaign
Goodman, Abram Vossen, 1903-2002 (Item)
  • from the Jewish Institute of Religion and was ordained as a rabbi in 1928. He also studied at Hebrew University and the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, and received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. During his time
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time acquaintance of LBJ
Burleson, Omar Truman, 1906-1991 (Item)
  • , until his resignation, December 31, 1978. During his time in Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on House Administration (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses), Joint Committee on the Library (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses
Burney, Cecil Edward, 1914-1989 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time political associate and friend of LBJ, Fourteenth Congressional District, Texas
Clifford, Clark M. (Clark McAdams), 1906-1998 (Item)
  • of Defense. From 1969 to 1991 he again worked as an attorney in Washington, D.C. at the Clifford & Warnke firm. During this time he served as an unofficial adviser to President Jimmy Carter and was Chairman of First American Bankshares. In 1991 he wrote
Howard, Jack, 1924 (Item)
  • to the Secretary of Labor in 1968. After his time with the Department of Labor, Howard worked with the William Benton Foundation in New York City from 1971 to 1980 and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) from 1976 until his
Jorden, William J. (William John), 1923- (Item)
  • Bio: William John Jorden (b. 1923) was a reporter, writer, and a diplomat. He was a foreign correspondent with the New York Times from 1952 to 1961. He joined the State Department in 1961, as a member of the Policy Planning Council, 1961 to 1965. He
Cabot, John M. (John Moors), 1901-1981 (Item)
  • Bio: John M. Cabot was born on December 11, 1901, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During his career, Cabot was a United States Ambassador to five nations between 1954 and 1965, spending much time in Latin America. During his forty-one year career
Porter, Paul Aldermandt, 1904-1975 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time friend of LBJ; Law partner of Abe Fortas
Horsky, Charles A. (Charles Antone), 1910-1997 (Item)
  • in the Solicitor General's Office. From 1955 to 1962 he served as President of the Washington Housing Association. Horsky was a lecturer at the University of Virginia Law School from 1958 to 1962. During that time, served as Chairman of the Washington, D.C
Huntington, Albert H., 1913-2001 (Item)
  • Administration (ICA) and the Agency for International Development (AID). After his retirement in 1979, Huntington continued working part time at AID where he had access to the historical records of the agency. He began providing the Eisenhower Library
Wilson, Henry H. (Henry Hall), 1921-1979 (Item)
  • Carolina legislature from 1953 to 1959, and at the same time, a member of the Democratic National Committee (1953-1961). He was the North Carolina delegate to Democratic National Convention and President of the North Carolina Young Democrats Committee
Maguire, Charles Martin, 1930-2009 (Item)
  • , special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson. He stayed on as assistant to the President after his fellowship ended, and assisted with speeches and became secretary of the Cabinet. After his time in the White House, Maguire worked for Merrill Lynch before
Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloysius Leon), 1928-1998 (Item)
  • in the office of Justice William Curtis Bok in Philadelphia until 1953, when he was admitted to the Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. During this time, Higginbotham''s commitment to ending racism grew in response to witnessing Thurgood Marshall argue
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 (Item)
  • of Minneapolis. He won by the biggest majority in the city's history to that time, and was re-elected in 1947. Humphrey was elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota in 1948, and was re-elected in 1954. Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson assigned Humphrey
Hays, L. Brooks (Lawrence Brooks), 1898-1981 (Item)
  • . Finding the daily work in a law office tedious, Hays began almost immediately to dabble in politics, first managing an unsuccessful race for Congress by his father in 1922, then looking for his own chance to run for office. He was for a long time hampered
Bowles, Chester Bliss, 1901-1986 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time government official; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1963-1969
Bundy, McGeorge, 1919-1996 (Item)
  • . The next decade he spent teaching history at New York University. During this time Bundy published his Pulitzer-prize-winning book Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb and the First Fifty Years, in which he chronicled decisions made about nuclear
Cuneo, Ernest L., 1905-1988 (Item)
  • Newspaper Alliance and was later editor-at-large of the Saturday Evening Post. For a number of years he wrote a syndicated column, "Take It or Leave It," which appeared three times a week.
Daniels, Jonathan W. (Jonathan Worth), 1902-1981 (Item)
  • was a law student at Columbia University in New York City, being admitted to the North Carolina bar in late 1923. From late 1923 to early 1924 he was a reporter for The Louisville Times in Kentucky. From 1924 to 1928 Daniels was a police reporter
Robson, John E. (John Edwin), 1930- (Item)
  • 1993. He returned to government service for a short time, as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Department of the Treasury, 1989 to 1992. In 1993 he was a member of the National Commission to Ensure A Competitive Airline Industry.
Wallace, Elizabeth Paterson, 1922-2011 (Item)
  • department. She married William Brown Wallace in 1945, and in 1953 they relocated to Nuremberg, Germany and spent the next several years living in Germany and France. During this time, she was recruited to put on fashion shows for military dependents
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
Waldron, Robert Earl, 1927-1995 (Item)
  • was an aide to Lyndon B. Johnson during his time as Senate minority leader in the mid-1950’s, and also worked as his secretary in the 1960’s. In 1965 he joined the firm of S.D. Jeffrey Associates as a designer. From 1968 to 1994 he ran his own firm, Bob
Cochran, Jacqueline, 1910-1980 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time friend of LBJ
Bohlen, Charles E. (Charles Eustis), 1904-1973 (Item)
  • Ambassador William C. Bullitt. Later he served as third secretary at the American Embassy, during which time he travelled extensively throughout Russia. Bohlen returned to Washington in 1935 to join the Division of Eastern European Affairs. Although Bohlen