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  • the to meet a deadline request-­ i.'ilstraction. number of photo requests. (Approx. 4. For the President to personally see and approve or disapprove each one of these requests before any action can be taken on it 1would seem to take a disproportionate
  • of influence behind him he had some natural advantages and some natural leverages that Senator Johnson didn't have. Senator Johnson took over this leadership under circumstances where the Democratic party was badly divided; under circumstances where
  • he knew what it would take to get the support of the non-cotton sector, also. And you had to have something that was passable, not only workable. B: Do you recall any other examples of Senator Johnson in action in those days before '60? G
  • of the members of the committee, particularly on the Democratic side, didn't feel that this was a partisan charge. But, as I say, because of the sensitivity of the charges at that particular point in the preelection period, it inevitably became a partisan issue
  • Sputnik; Senate Preparedness Sub-Committee; LBJ’s relationship with Symington; General James M. Gavin; Special Committee on Space and Aeronautics; missile gap investigation; 1960 Democratic National Convention and campaign; LBJ as VP; Panama Crisis
  • elected, then the prospects would be even more uncertain. So I realized that, but of course the administration was defined by the legislation as a nonpartisan, bipartisan administration. been active politically. I had never I was a registered Democrat
  • 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
  • in there. Was there ever any question as to what your politics were or whether or not that would influence the appointment? T: Not a one. I was never asked whether I had supported the Democratic Party or whether I was, in fact, a Democrat. I had in 1964 contributed
  • ~ -: , ,:.; ..., -~ • • ~~..... ·,, ~ } ' 11' r . . GENERAL SERV1ci;,s ADMINISTRATION GSA DC 73.495 Meeting in Cabinet Room Date: January 25, 1966 Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7:40 p.m. Present: Bipartisan Congressional Meeting from Republican-Democratic Leadership. Chairman and ranking members
  • people up there. But I don't think Now, frequently I I think I did this even more in the Republican Administration than in the Democratic Administration. I would go up with Wilbur to executive sessions at Ways and Means and things like
  • could dip down in his bag, and he had a little assignment for a Democrat on the Senate Small Business Committee. F: Did you get the feeling that Senator Johnson was sort of sidetracking Senator Kefauver? 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • ago the person who said that Johnson grabbed lapels was Hubert Humphrey. And the first time I saw President Johnson in action was actually in the Senate in 1956 when I was working for another Senator. And I loved to go down on the floor. And I watched
  • by vrooing on& g:t."oup of Horth Vietnamose after_. another agains,t the rest, and reducing them to impotence o~e by one by wholesale oxocutions and terrorism. Tho appeasers. in America are not tho authors of their own argUl:ilenta • . v~rnether they lmov
  • of the restatement· made . by Mr. Swarnn democratic state in the world, a spective v1ewpomts on Jammu and Singh exercising his right of .reply . state rooted in. 'popular wil.l ex- Kashmir, India and Pakistan agreed . to the statement of 'the Foreign pressed through
  • to mumble; he looked like a man trying to lie his way out of a traffic charge. But he was a good loyal Truman Democrat and was prepared to undertake the sort of a captaincy of the Administration team presenting the ten-point anti-inflation program
  • was simply eight light years away from where the action was and simply had no way of knowing. B: Could you feel atmospheres? For example, was there any bitterness between the Kennedy groups and the Johnson groups? V: I never saw the candidates, either
  • was the dean of the college and was the only person with a Ph.D. degree. G: What were Professor Greene's politics? Was he a liberal by philosophy or a conservative? Was he an internationalist or an isolationist? S: He was not an isolationist. Democrat
  • , of course we don't know who it was, but he was bound to have had some backing, because he had no money of his own . Democratic primary, you understand . That was in the These flyers, handbills, cropped � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http
  • and the burning questions of free-enterprise and socialist form of government, autocratic form of government versus the democratic form of governments . We spent many hours discussing the pros and cons of each one of these questions . We had a complete meeting
  • a straight support Roosevelt candidate. That's the way he got elected to the Congress in 1936 or 1937 or 1938, whenever it was along in there. Governor O'Daniel was never a pro-Roosevelt man or really a Democrat, identified as such. 4 LBJ Presidential
  • , so I put the application in through him. I was hired as the assistant general counsel for the Community Action Program. I had interviewed Don Baker at some point before the appropriation went through. So it was all pretty well settled, as I recall
  • Secretary who went to Moscow and wanted some ammunition, was to launch a thing we called "Phase A-Phase B ." That is to say, we would be prepared to stop t1te bombing with no visible immediate counter­ action on the other side, provided that it was agreed
  • of Democratic stalwarts in Dallas to which Lyndon of course went and spoke. This was in February. It featured a senator from Missouri
  • Taylor; LBJ's view of minorities in the 1930s and 1940s and some of his unpopular actions; LBJ's association with African-American education leaders; Bill Deason and the Johnsons' first victory garden; guests and friends; the changing morale regarding
  • of the Internal Security Act of 1950. These individuals have not disclaimed the party and, as legal restrictions are removed, many of those now sitting on the sidelines can be expected to move back into action. . The reaction of the Communist Party_
  • institution into what it now is. T: Was it, at the time that you became president of the system, the way it is now, which encompasses [inaudible]? F: Yes, in 1931 that action initially began under Dr. Graham. A woman's college in Greensboro, and the land
  • off and an almost meticulous avoidance of anything whereby the United States and the Soviet Union will, to use Dean Rusk's famous phrase, stare down the barrel of nuclear war again. There have been a lot of corollary and auxiliary actions and so
  • of ac­ complishing this, however, in which the Catholic wing of the labor movement played a conspicuous part, led to a serious split in the Australian Labor Party. In 19 57 right-wing elements in the party broke away to form the Democratic Labor Party
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Marder -- I -- 8 establish more quickly the questions that we had about this incident and to have displayed them prominently enough that they would have come into the debate. The political action moved
  • warfare; speculation versus fact when reporting on the government's actions; the administration's refusal to acknowledge any change of policy regarding Vietnam; the Dominican Crisis and its impact on the Organization of American States (OAS).
  • there and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic delegation? C: Again, not much that I was aware of. We were in communication with the civil rights forces in Mississippi, but we tended to do our own LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • . Then we had the time that the Texas Democrats wouldn't put Adlai Stevenson and Senator Sparkman--or didn·'t want to put them on the ballot as Democrats. The Texas party wanted to put them on as something else and they went to court over that. We were
  • ; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic
  • that the only connection I had with President Johnson early on was not one that would have made him particularly fond of me and the Americans for Democratic Action. M: Did you react with horror like the rest of the Kennedy cadre when the nomination became
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  • °'SEGRE':f March 23, 1966 Wednesday, 10:30 A.M. MEMORANDUM FOR Here is a draft action memo which would complete the process you began so handsomely yesterday afternoon. I have not shown it to the appropriate Cabinet officers yet, because
  • have mortars., and a clandestine radio station. 3) Strongly 4) Developing resistance and action capabilities .5) Supported poll t ically by Soviets and local 6) Supported clandestinely to limited extent but Iran di strusted by Kurdish
  • certalnly glad that Aatroaaut Lovell'• letter waa ■uch a aucce••• 1 am v•!'Y proud of h1m •• and lam proud.· too. ol "The'liakler•." .America'• future r••te 1A the hand• ol young me11 with the CO\IJ'a&• u4 tu dlaclpllae 6at tbl7 clemwtra&e. S1Dcen1,. I
  • JUN 2 EMBASSY OF THE UNITED This document consists No _ of _£copies, J_ STATES OF AMERICA of _::?'--pages. Series A. New Delhi, India, May 20, 1965. Dear Bob: I am enclosing a copy of a memorandum on South Asia which I have just sent
  • to the problem of the copper strike and asked whether the people at the table were in agreement. Mr. Califano acted as spokesman for the group and said that there were basically three alternatives, of which one was to seek a Taft­ Hartley injunction action now
  • . :> i .·.R 9 .,.1 I 22 WA076 PD STAMFORD CONN 8 616P EST THE PRESIDENT THE WHITE HOUSE IMPORTANT YOU TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IN ALABAMA ONE MORE DAY OF SAVAGE TREATMENT BY LEGALIZED HATCHET MEN COULD LEAD TO OPEN WARFARE BY AROUSED NEGROES AMERICA
  • established principles for tm unification United Nations objectives of Korea through free elections under United Nations supervision, division.of Korea. thus prolonging the artificial Both Presidents continue to make the utmost efforts and democratic
  • did you arrive at your own position? R: Intuitively. I 1 ve been around politicians and around the political process all of my life and most of my knowledge is right up here. His problems as Senate Democratic Leader were basically political
  • on the new Vietnam program. SECRETARY FOWLER: I have three comments: (1) The iron is hot. We will have to hit hard to try to get decisive action in the House and Senate this week. The iron is hot in the wake of the last couple of weeks. But reassurance