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  • York during Big tor reelection, Democratic Democratic generalship. 1im's heyday as the king of cauliflower, a candidate Howe-ver, he Democratic Committee, and he run~those along with the postmaster Franklin industry. particularly care
  • to Dick Russell at the Democratic National Convention. Well, as a matter of fact, Downey Rice and George whatever-his-name-is had gone up there and come back with a report which contained a lot of this stuff, a lot of these allegations, but with very
  • as a layman, and I was called by a representative of the Democratic National Committee in 1960, asking if I would serve as chairman of the health committee of the platform committee. I said well, I would be glad to do it, but I thought a doctor should
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ through the National Youth Administration (NYA) and Dr. J. Willis Hurst; Jones' work to develop Emory University's health services, including its medical school; Jones' work on the National Advisory Health
  • that loomed before us was September 13, which was about at that time seven or eight days away, when there was going to be a State Democratic [Executive] Committee meeting. It was going to be in Fort Worth. Lyndon began to get out word to all of his friends
  • against the certification of LBJ as the Democratic nominee for Senate; Davidson's relationship with Mrs. Johnson's father, T. J. Taylor; irregularities in voting results throughout Texas; Judge Davidson signing the injunction enjoining the Texas secretary
  • ; and that he not only had the approval of the President, but he had the approval of the chai~man of the Appropriations Committee, a gentle- man of less than liberal persuasions called John Tabor. He said that he had been looking over the field
  • prevent rati­ fication. As 49 Senators constitute a quorum, a bloc of only 17 have in their hands the power to negate any peace this Nation may negotiate. In a democracy issues must be decided vote for vote. There can never be democratic rule where one
  • TO DEFEAT THE VIET CONG ·: ';: , • -~-:. :· :.-:~).-~·/ :ON THE. BATTLEFIELD AND TH£ NATIONAL LIBERATION .FRONT POLITICALLY.·, :._!:,•·;• ·::.:-,;·',,.· 6. < END QUOTE' • ~: ::·):./.~,::/ ..··i.•.:·: ::~·..;
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  • touches us more profoundly, nothing is more freighted with meaning for our own destiny, than the revo­ lution of the Negro American. In far too many ways American Negroes have been an­ other nation: deprived of freedom, crippled by hatred, the doors
  • in the agriculture field? F: Yes. I talked to the chairman and some of the leading members of each of the committees, and they were luke wann to this proposal, to say the most. But they were reasonably cooperative; it was a new Administration, and they didn't
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] LBJ as a liberal-conservative; LBJ record up to 1960; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 and 1964 conventions and elections; Freeman’s personal interest in the Vice-Presidency; JFK problems in Minnesota; LBJ
  • this award. K: Each year at the Women's National Press Club, for many years an award has been given to an outstanding woman. On this particular occasion, President Johnson was to be the speaker. It's a dinner honoring Mrs. Roosevelt and the women who
  • offers were reported by national. committee officials af~er talka with James Roosevelt, chairman of the California Democratic State Central Committee. H~ saw chairman Robert E. Hannegan on two occasions. Mr. Roosevelt was reported to have told Mr
  • , and me, which I had read to Abe Fortas and Clifford. The next day--or that day, since it was two a.m. in the morning--we had a Democratic leadership breakfast, a bipartisan leadership at 10:15, a meeting of the House Commerce Committee and the Senate
  • go in and work with Mike." And so I went in the beginning of September first, maybe even August, to work with Mike Feldman handling the research activities of the Democratic National Committee. We worked during the campaign. M: Worked on through
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Douglas--5 Democratic Pol icy Committee, which was largely
  • in lending legislation; National Commission on Urban Problems; defeat of Douglas; LBJ’s relationship with Dirksen; LBJ’s admiration for Douglas; Douglas’ interest in Texas
  • . So I said, "Well, I just don't know what to do. I come here--" Well, eventually, to make this story short, I came. Now, when I got here I found the first of a number of obstacles chosen for me. The chairman of the Democratic National Committee
  • health commission; writing the book Every Other Bed; Gorman's wife's work and his change to freelance writing; joining the National Committee Against Mental Illness under President Truman; finding support for national health insurance legislation
  • then. Your committee assignments are on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Veterans Affairs Committee. Before running for Congress, from 1933 to 1950, you were a practicing attorney and probate commissioner of Allen County, Indiana. your LLB from
  • for Humphrey by Johnson. Did you think that Johnson was pulling the wires? S: I don't know really. My guess is that through his Democratic National Committee people that he pretty well decided how he thought it ought to be run, and they were doing
  • Education; Heller plan; James Farmer; open accommodations ordinance; Chapel Hill; 1964 Lady Bird’s whistle stop tour; Governor Dan Moore; possible cabinet position; 1968 Democratic National Convention; Richard Nixon and Duke University; Sam Ervin
  • 7:00p Expenditure Code Meeting at White House on National Security (Mr. Bundy) Lunch -- Executive Committee of Demo Natl Committee and John Bailey; North Room; Mayflower To be at 16th Street entrance to meet Julius Fransden of UPI who escorted him
  • National politics
  • DISCUSSION OF HEAD COUNT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS BILL DISCHARGE PETITION AND VOTES FOR BILL IN HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE; POSSIBLE REPUBLICAN VOTES IN COMMITTEE; WASHINGTON POST STORY THIS MORNING ON THE BILL; MEETING OF CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS THIS AFTERNOON
  • National politics
  • REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE VOTE OPPOSING FARM BILL; VOTE ON WHEAT BILL IN HOUSE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE TODAY; DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, RICHARD DALEY'S SUPPORT FOR BILL; COTTON AND WHEAT; DALEY REPORTS PLANS FOR LBJ'S UPCOMING VISIT TO CHICAGO
  • National politics
  • DUNGAN REPORTS ON HIS CONTACTS WITH JOHN MCCLOY, OTHER REPUBLICANS, AND THEIR RELUCTANCE TO JOIN PEACE COMMITTEE; DUNGAN TELLS LBJ HE THINKS LBJ DOES NOT NEED COMMITTEE TO COUNTERACT GOLDWATER
  • National politics
  • LBJ APOLOGIZES FOR DELAY IN TALKING WITH LOEB; DISCUSSION OF COMMITTEE OF INDEPENDENTS FOR LBJ; LBJ ASKS LOEB TO MAKE SURE ROBERT ANDERSON IS MEMBER OF COMMITTEE, READS LATEST RESULTS OF LATEST GALLUP POLL
  • National politics
  • PRESS STORIES ON SENATE RULES COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION OF BOBBY BAKER; POSSIBLE J. EDGAR HOOVER MEETING WITH COMMITTEE; JUSTICE DEPT REPORT ON DON REYNOLDS, TFX, AND LBJ'S ALLEGED USE OF COUNTERPART FUNDS ON HONG KONG TRIP AS VP; BOBBY BAKER GRAND
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • JONES ASKS LBJ TO URGE GEORGE FALLON TO BEGIN COMMITTEE WORK ON HIGHWAY SAFETY BILL; HOUSE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE ACTION ON TVA REVENUE BONDS BILL; WILLIAM CRAMER'S CRITICISM OF LBJ; MILTON SEMER'S SUPPORT OF JONES
  • National politics
  • MCNAMARA'S RESPONSE TO MELVIN LAIRD ON COSTS OF PRESIDENTIAL AIRCRAFT, YACHTS; MCNAMARA'S TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES; LBJ SUGGESTS WESTMORELAND, LODGE TESTIFY AT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES, THEN LEAK TESTIMONY; RFK; LBJ'S UPCOMING
  • United Nations
  • GOLDBERG REPORTS ON HIS SUCCESSFUL MEETING WITH SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE ON OUTER SPACE TREATY AND SAYS THAT THEY WILL VOTE THE TREATY OUT OF COMMITTEE FAVORABLY VERY SOON; LBJ CONGRATULATES GOLDBERG
  • of what he would or wouldn't do. He has there the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council, plus the senators and congressmen who have the Foreign Relations Committees. I just can't say what I think Johnson thought. I hope he has written
  • in a while and go by and see him. He worked in the Democratic Policy Committee Room for a while. I don't know what he did. I think there was a lot of affection, deep affection, between Lyndon and Sam Houston. Houston. I know there was on the part of Sam
  • the United States and the Soviet Union as Co-Chairmen of the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee are L g J submitting to the Committee a draft treaty to stop the dangerous spread of nuclear weapons. " (2) He would like to delete the words, "without further
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  • hours of most days, in organizing business support for the candidacy of the President in the forthcoming election. This took the form of working with various individuals to set up and organize something called the National Independent Committee
  • of Ten; International Monetary Fund; 1968 Action Program Advisory Commission on International Monetary Arrangements; Joint Economic Committee; Special Drawing Rights; 1967 pound devaluation; gold crisis; 2-tier gold system; gold pool.
  • a member of the National Lawyers Guild, an organization which has been designated as a communist front by the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States House of Representatives. • During the early 1940 1 s Bayard Rustin was a member of the Young
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  • REYNOLDS -- I -- 2 I think it's fair to say, a measure of mutual respect and, indeed, mutual affection. Some years before that period I'm speaking of now, which was through the 1950s, I had been a member of the National Labor Relations Board, appointed
  • Reynolds’ relationship with Arthur Goldberg; Reynolds’ term on the National Labor Relations Board; work in the Navy with labor matters; the Landrum-Griffin Act; Reynolds’ duties as Assistant Secretary of Labor; first impressions of LBJ; LBJ giving
  • in the position it was a National Democratic Party-- T: The national Democratic Party had taken positions that \'/ere repugnant to many of the Southern states, and our people were in rebellion about it. Georgia went for the Republican candidate in the 1964
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: Did this involve you in national Democratic politics? C: To a limited degree. I wouldn 1 t ~.;rant
  • million in eight states with 86 electoral votes. M::>re than 100 pi.·css., radio and television representatives ~iU_ nccom:ponythe First Lady. If#### .. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE• 1730 K STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 20006 TELEPHONE: (202) FE. 3
  • . This came up prior to completion of my thesis. M: This was the Citizens National Bank of Los Angeles? R: This was the Citizens National, right. It is now the southern division of a very large West Coast bank called Crocker. I was directed
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 sion in the study for national recreation ways and we pioneered that concept in a sense on a national basis, although the Forest Service had built some recreation ways
  • was named vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • by appointment of Governor [William B.] Umstead, and then who had been elected--I mean he was appointed and then elected to finish out the term. But he was senior senator and he had been put on the committee to study the Joe McCarthy problem, six-member, three
  • . I'm trying to think back. I may have with the Johnson-Humphrey ticket. That may Of course, you see, there you have got the Democratic National Committee handling the Ching. There was no money raising for the job of being nominated, because
  • Biographical information; early political contacts; early relationship with LBJ and John Connally; impressions of LBJ in the 1950s; 1960, 1962, 1964 campaigns; role of Locke in campaigns; Democratic State Chairman; political dinners with LBJ and JFK