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Douglas, Emily Taft (Item)
  • Douglas, Emily Taft
  • LBJ Connection: Wife of Paul H. Douglas, Senator from Illinois
Douglas, Paul H. (Item)
  • Douglas, Paul H.
Pike, Douglas (Item)
  • Pike, Douglas
Richards, Douglas D. (Item)
  • Bio: Douglas D. Richards was a member of the Lincoln Commission of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and had a mailing address at the National Press Building in Washington, D.C. in 1973.
  • Richards, Douglas D.
Shuman, Howard (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Legislative and administrative assistant to Senators Paul Douglas and William Proxmire, 1955-1982
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980 (Item)
  • Bio: Helen Gahagan Douglas (b. Helen Gahagan, November 25, 1900, Boonton, Morris County, New Jersey-d. June 28, 1980, New York, New York), actress and politician. She served as the Democratic National committeewoman for California and the vice
  • Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980
Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas), 1909-2003 (Item)
  • Bio: Clarence Douglas Dillon, born while his parents were traveling in Geneva, Switzerland on August 21, 1909, pursued a varied career of investment banking, public service and diplomacy, including service in three presidential administrations
  • Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas), 1909-2003
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 (Item)
  • he performed odd jobs. A year later he returned home where he worked on a road construction gang. In 1927, he enrolled in Southwest Texas State Teachers College at San Marcos, Texas. He earned money as a janitor and as an office helper. He dropped out
Bertsch, Howard (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, Department of Agriculture, 1961-1969
Wallace, Robert A. (Robert Ash), 1921 (Item)
  • assistant to Senator Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, and then worked as staff director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Urban Affairs. In 1959, he joined Senator John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign as an economic consultant. After
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant to Senator Paul H. Douglas; Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Banking and Urban Affairs; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Semer, Milton Phillip, 1919 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Aide and counsel to Lyndon Johnson 1956-1966; general counsel for Housing and Home Finance Agency 1961-1966.
Flournoy, Craig, 1951 (Item)
  • in 1986, and a Ph.D. in journalism from the Douglas Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University in 2003. Flournoy worked as a reporter and columnist for the Shreveport Journal from 1977 to 1978 and as an investigative reporter
Horne, John E., 1908-1985 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Administrator, Small Business Administration; Executive Director, Citizens for Kennedy-Johnson, 1960; Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, 1964-1968; Long-time aide to Senator John Sparkman, Alabama
Conway, Jack T. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Deputy Administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency, 1961-1963; Executive Director, Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, 1963-1968; Member, President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing, 1963-1968; Deputy Director, Office
Kaltman, Mary Nell (Hughes), 1913-2004 (Item)
  • Bio: Mary Kaltman was a home economist and restaurateur from San Benito, Texas. She authored the book: "Keeping Up With Keeping House" (Doubleday) – 1971. She served as executive housekeeper and food coordinator for the White House from 1965 to 1969.
Mace, Almon Turley, 1911-1972 (Item)
  • Bio: Almon Turley Mace (1911-1972) worked for the Farm Security Administration and the Farmers Home Administration at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1938 to 1955. He was assistant director of the Budget and Statistics Division at USDA
Shelton, Isabelle, 1916-1993 (Item)
  • that included the Louisville Courier-Journal and the New York Post and for national magazines that included the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal and the Economist.
Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944- (Item)
  • , 1967. They had three children: Lucinda Desha (b. 1968), Catherine Lewis (b. 1970), and Jennifer Wickliffe (b. 1978). She is a writer and served as writer for McCall's Magazine from 1966 to 1968, contributing editor to Ladies Home Journal from 1968
Harris, Patricia, 1924-1985 (Item)
  • from breast cancer on March 23, 1985. She was named woman of the Year by the Ladies Home Journal and received the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award.
Tobriner, Walter Nathan, 1902-1979  (Item)
  • served as president of the board of the Garfield Memorial Hospital from 1952 to 1955, president of the board of the Lisner Home for Women in 1954, director of the Blue Cross Plan from 1953 to 1961, and headed the board of the Washington Hospital Center
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1902-1985 (Item)
  • Peace Talks in Paris from 1968 to December 1969, and he served as special envoy to the Vatican from 1970 to 1977. He retired in 1977 and moved home to Massachusetts, where he lived until his death in 1985.
Weaver, Robert Clifton, 1907-1997 (Item)
  • and Redevelopment Board. President-elect Kennedy asked Weaver to serve as the administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA). Weaver continued working at HHFA during the Johnson administration, drafting all of the administration's housing and urban