Discover Our Collections


Limit your search

Tag Contributor Date Subject Type Collection Series Specific Item Type Time Period

3911 results

Folder, "Hays, Brooks," Name Files, WHCF, Box H-185 (Item)
  • I' . I -d rJI/ ~' I> . ,k_ .., THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE .. MEMORANDUM f TOi FROM: t( This afternoon I spoke on the phone with Don Ellinger, who was here at the committee and is now the Machinests Political man. He had three
Folder, "The Message - Vol. I [1 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • changes in the draft are reconmended for your conaideration which we believe will strengthen the purposes of the legislation and the effectiveness of the Department. The Federal Aviation Agency, like the Coast Guard, baa extensive national defense-related
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the landscapes that we passed through in Texas. M: I believe you told me that that trip was a little bit overshadowed by some national events at the time. F: Yes. The death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the subsequent riots in the nation's capital were
  • [For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~ Republicans or at least non-Democrats, as most of them were, to serve on that welcoming committee for the President. Then they asked if we'd put on a rally--not actually a political rally, but gather a substantial crowd if we could for the President's
  • Political background; LBJ's support of poverty program in Detroit; use of phrase "The Great Society" and how it began; role of Public Officials Advisory Committee; Detroit Freedom March with MLK in 1963; creation of HUD; Model City program; U.S
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/12/1966 (Item)
  • , Charles Schultze To Oval Office w/ Jake Jacobsen -- JJ out at 11:00a Senator Mansfield (b. 1) Down the hall w/ MW - In the Fish Room for Meeting with Secy. Connor Secy. Fowler Chairmen of the action groups of the National Export Expansion Council: Carl
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/3/1965 (Item)
  • y a Receptio n Committee including : Governor Ott o Kerner Mayor Richar d Daley , Colone l Rile y (Daley' s asst. ) and local dignitarie s Bands playe d 'hail t o th e Chief " an d crowd s were lined an d crowde d u p behind the fence . Th e
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • \'Ioul d be up there speaking on some subject and every- / body was gone. rilW: And the Senate Democratic Policy Committee staff. GW: Right. All the official operations, the bill clerks' room and the whole thing all had to stay in operation while
Folder, "King, Martin Luther (1968) (Deceased)," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 32 (Item)
  • to SCLCO Hunter Pitts O'Dell, former National Committee member of the CPUSA, was employed by SCLCo In 1962, when King mentioned to Levison that he was thinking of adding an administrative assistant to his staff, Levison recommended O'Dell, who was then head
  • A (National Security)-SANITIZED
Folder, "Ex FG 170-6, Federal National Mortgage Association" WHCF FG, Box 257 (Item)
  • NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDSSERVICE WITHDRAWALSHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORMOF DOCUMENT ,,.._ 1; "1--- ~ CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE --- .... ~~- "---,- .c -- ---, T- 1 - ~ --- < T - ---- _., ·--·- -- -n - .£..- DATE .l
  • This is from the WHCF category for Federal Government Organizations, subcategory DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT-FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION.
  • Folder, "Ex FG 170-6, Federal National Mortgage Association" WHCF FG, Box 257
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't want to stop you. CG: I'm guessing at, say, a week. How long did you stay down there? We stayed there until the Democratic Executive Committee met in Fort Worth. I don't remember that date. See, it met just ahead of the Democratic state
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the Education Committee in the House, as you know. The remarkable thing that we were able to work out was that the Republican effort to splinter off, and this is partly because of their own blunders, did not pick up a single Democratic vote on tellers
Folder, "November 7, 1967 - 6:03 p.m. Democratic Cong. Leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • NOVEMBER 7, 1967 - 6:03 p. m. '· :' SEH\ltCE SET '· .. I• DEMOCRATIC CONG. LEADERSHIP Speaker McCormack Rep. Boggs Rept. Albert Senator Mansfield Senator Russell Long Postmaster Gen. O'Brien Mike Manatos Barefoot Sanders Larry Temple Joe
  • Folder, "November 7, 1967 - 6:03 p.m. Democratic Cong. Leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reflect the national party and the platform of the party. But [we wanted] to get these fellows involved rather than just in direct opposition, as in the old concept of the southern Democrat-Republican coalition. And now you have fellows, whether it's
  • The John F. Kennedy (JFK) administration's relationship with Carl Vinson and other southern Democrats; funding for an aircraft project and Vinson's argument with a staff member over his decision to support JFK; the knowledge and influence
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Pennsylvania Avenue, which was set up by Kennedy on- :the recom­ mendation of Arthur Goldberg, who had headed up a presidential ad hoc committee designed to set some policies for the nation as to the architectural standards of the country, with particular
  • ; GREEN BOOK; LOOK magazine feature; Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue; John Saylor; Lady Bird’s Committee for the Beautification of Washington; THE AMERICAN AESTHETIC; reflecting pool at the Capitol; Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall or national
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it not been for the March 31 speech. I think the timing of that speech was such that it changed the tempo of both his campaign and of Senator Kennedy's campaign. B; Incidentally, someone said that the Democratic National Committee at that time and indeed
Folder, "NSAM # 324: Special Presidential Committee on U.S. Trade Relations with Eastern European Countries and the Soviet Union, 3/9/1965," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 6 (Item)
  • on the Hill. 2. The Administration is in favor of the Miller Committee recom­ mendations, and, in particular, is in favor of an East- We st Trade Act along the lines suggested in the Mann memorandum of June 1 7. 3. However, the President does not wish to add
  • Folder, "NSAM # 324: Special Presidential Committee on U.S. Trade Relations with Eastern European Countries and the Soviet Union, 3/9/1965," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 6
  • National Security Action Memorandums
  • National Security Files
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • several months, June, July and August 1965, proceed on the basis of the understandings that you reached in the spring of 1965. T: That's correct. G: You testified and issued statements to the various congressional committees that met to consider
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In that context, I felt that last Friday evening's meeting following the President's departure was a debacle." I also sent a note to Rowe appreciating receiving his critique. He had suggested coordination with the national committee; I pointed out to him that I
  • continued advocacy work for postal reform as co-chair of a citizen's committee; legislation enacted under Richard Nixon to give the Post Office Department more independence and the ability to self-finance; lack of political interest in the Post Office
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . 1953- 54 . I was speaker of the house in one of those terms, I ran for governor in 1956 and was defeated . again in 1960 and was successful . I ran In the meantime, I had been to a couple of Democratic national conventions . I was chairman
  • Political career background; 1960 National Convention and presidential campaign; Cuban refugee problem in Florida; Bay of Pigs incident; 1964 Freedom Riders; Office of Emergency Planning; 1966 trip to Asia with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Democratic voters. With Goldwater as the candidate, it was felt that the President would get all the Democratic votes. Jim Rowe headed up the National Citizens for Johnson-Humphrey organization, and I worked on obtaining the support of what they called
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to finance this, but they decided to finance it by appropriation instead. Do you recall any of the background to that? W: No, I sure don't. G: The Democratic National Committee didn't like that bill. They preferred a bill being offered by Senator Gore. Do
  • swimming pool; the 1956 split between LBJ and Allan Shivers; LBJ's 1956 relationship with organized labor; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's and Winters' opinion of JFK in 1956; Ben Jack Cage and Winters' dealings with the Cage Brothers
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 90, January 2009," LBJ Library (Item)
  • : Lady Bird recorded some of her favorite moments of the 1964 campaign, the Whistlestop train campaign through the Old South, or as Mrs. Johnson wrote in the diary, "Here we go, marching through Georgia!" The Democratic National Committee had misgivings
Folder, "Whistle Stop Bills," Bess Abell Files, White House Social Files, Box 34 (Item)
  • Mrs. Bess Abell Democratic National Committee %Mr. Sanford Fox The White House Washington, D. c. SETILEMENTS REQUIRED WITHIN THIRTY DAYS FOLLOWING PURCHASE AMOUNT DUE END OF LAST MONTH Nov. 1 247 00 2 cuts 275 Badges, Welcome to LBJ ranch tax
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • worked fairly well with Morse, and [Styles] Bridges, a Republican, who was anathema to a lot of Democrats, was our good friend and he visited us down here at the Ranch. G: Let me ask you as long as we're on the subject of the committee, about committee
  • friends of Luci and Lynda who regularly attended their parties; LBJ's appointment to a Senate Preparedness Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee; Don Cook of the Securities Exchange Commission; a barbeque hosted by Senator Bob Kerr where no alcohol
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the war or overseas? B: No. Oh, I think we talked some, but I don't remember. G: Okay. Anything on his role in national Democratic politics during the forties? He headed a congressional campaign committee in 1940 to help Democratic congressmen get
Folder, "Civil Rights – Miscellaneous 1966," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • enforcement procedures than the federal law. This act uses as a model the Uniform State Civil Rights Act which is being drafted by a special committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. This group is composed of outstanding
Telephone conversation # 593, sound recording, LBJ and GALE MCGEE, 12/20/1963, 5:30PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF WYOMING WATER, IRRIGATION PROJECTS; MCGEE REPORTS ON CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEETING ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL AND OTTO PASSMAN'S REFUSAL TO COMPROMISE ON AMENDMENT ON TRADE WITH COMMUNIST COUNTRIES
Telephone conversation # 695, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT BYRD, 12/23/1963, 9:55PM (Item)
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • LBJ SAYS HE IS WORKING ON FEDERAL BUDGET, ASKS ABOUT STATUS OF BYRD'S BILL TO AUTHORIZE CONSTRUCTION OF ALLEGHENY PARKWAY; BYRD SAYS NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WAS AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT FEASIBILITY SURVEY OF PARKWAY; LBJ ASKS ABOUT SENATE RULES COMMITTEE
Telephone conversation # 3488, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 5/21/1964, 12:42PM (Item)
  • A (National Security)-SANITIZED
  • National politics
  • MCNAMARA REPORTS ON JCS VIEWS ON ALTITUDE OF RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS OVER LAOS, NORTH VIETNAM; MCNAMARA'S TESTIMONY BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEES; REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION TO "NO WIN" POLICY; MELVIN LAIRD; GERALD FORD; WILLIAM MINSHALL; GLENARD LIPSCOMB
Telephone conversation # 6307, sound recording, LBJ and CARL ALBERT, 11/9/1964, 12:20PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • POSSIBLE CHANGES IN HOUSE RULES, PURGE OF MEMBERS WHO BACKED GOLDWATER; ADAM CLAYTON POWELL PRECEDENT; WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE VACANCIES AND EFFECT ON MEDICARE, OIL DEPLETION ALLOWANCE; DC HOME RULE; TAFT-HARTLEY AMENDMENT; OKLAHOMA ELECTION
Telephone conversation # 5471, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 9/3/1964, 6:16PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • REEDY ASKS ABOUT PRESS RELEASE OF LBJ'S REMARKS TO BUSINESS, FINANCIAL LEADERS ON NATIONAL INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE FOR LBJ, HHH; JOHN CONNER'S RESPONSE TO PRESS QUESTIONS; QUESTIONS ABOUT MAX ROBB'S ROLE; APPOINTMENT OF RFK'S SUCCESSOR AS ATTORNEY
Telephone conversation # 8530, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 8/11/1965, 4:08PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • LOSS OF US PLANE TO SAM; EFFORTS TO LOCATE MOBILE SAM SITES; BATTLE AT DUCCO; MCNAMARA'S TESTIMONY TO HOUSE COMMITTEE; CONCERNS ABOUT COSTS OF WAR; WH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS ON VIETNAM; PASSAGE OF HUD BILL; EFFORTS TO REACH OUT TO RFK, KENNEDY
Telephone conversation # 9038, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 10/22/1965, 6:39PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • OBJECTIONS IN SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO APPOINTMENTS OF JAMES WATSON TO CUSTOMS COURT, WILFRED FEINBERG TO APPEALS COURT; RECESS APPOINTMENTS; ROMAN HRUSKA'S DEFENSE OF DAVID BRESS; PRESS LEAKS BY JOHN WILLIAMS; CARL CURTIS; JUDICIAL POST
Telephone conversation # 8353, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 7/19/1965, 6:34PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • SENATE PASSAGE OF COLD WAR GI BILL; CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEETING ON UNNAMED BILL; LBJ ASKS FULBRIGHT TO COME TO WH TO DISCUSS APPOINTMENT OF UN AMBASSADOR
Telephone conversation # 10222, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 6/10/1966, 8:45AM (Item)
  • National politics
  • STATUS OF BILLS; WAYNE MORSE, AIRLINE LABOR DISPUTE; DIRKSEN'S CALL FOR BIPARTISAN VIETNAM MEETING; RICHARD HELMS AS REPLACEMENT FOR WILLIAM "RED" RABORN AS CIA DIRECTOR; CIA WATCHDOG COMMITTEE; MANSFIELD'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; BOMBING PROGRAM; PEACE
Telephone conversation # 9873, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY "JOE" FOWLER, 3/10/1966, 1:30PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • UPDATE ON CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON TAX BILL; RUSSELL LONG'S VIEWS ON REJECTION OF PROUTY AMENDMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY, POSSIBLE COMPROMISE ON TELEPHONE EXCISE TAXES; SENATE HEAD COUNT ON PASSAGE OF CONFERENCE REPORT; POSSIBLE FILIBUSTER; TIMING
Telephone conversation # 9517, sound recording, LBJ and RUSSELL LONG, 1/19/1966, 7:19PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • LONG RECOMMENDS ROBERT LANDRY AS POSSIBLE FPC APPOINTEE; MIKE MANATOS' MEMO ON VANCE HARTKE, VIEWS OF OTHER SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ON TAX BILL; ELIOT JANEWAY'S INFLUENCE ON HARTKE; SUSPENSION OF TELEPHONE, AUTO EXCISE TAX REDUCTIONS
Telephone conversation # 10601, sound recording, LBJ and JAKE PICKLE, 8/9/1966, 9:05PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • ACTION IN HOUSE COMMITTEE ON AIRLINE STRIKE BILL; NEED FOR CONGRESS TO MAKE FINDING THAT STRIKE ADVERSELY AFFECTS INTERSTATE COMMERCE BUT IS NOT NATIONAL EMERGENCY; PICKLE RELAYS POSITION OF JOHN BELL WILLIAMS, OTHERS ON BILL; GEORGE MEANY
Telephone conversation # 10610, sound recording, LBJ and JAKE PICKLE, 8/12/1966, 10:17AM (Item)
  • National politics
  • PICKLE REPORTS ON ACTION IN HOUSE COMMITTEE ON AIRLINE STRIKE BILL; JOHN BELL WILLIAMS' AND JOHN DINGELL'S SUBSTITUTE BILLS WITH PROVISIONS CONCERNING STRIKE BEING NATIONAL EMERGENCY; POLITICAL REASONS FOR VOTES; HEAD COUNT; NYT INQUIRY ABOUT WH
Telephone conversation # 10504, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH BEIRNE, 8/1/1966, 4:06PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • LBJ EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE ACTION ON AIRLINE STRIKE BILL, TELLS BEIRNE STRIKE IS NOT NATIONAL EMERGENCY; RFK'S, JOSEPH CLARK'S SUPPORT FOR ROBERT GRIFFIN'S 60-DAY PLAN; ADMINISTRATION'S PREFERENCE FOR WAYNE MORSE'S PROPOSAL