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  • in politics in the world some creative things. His whole career was marked by this very achievement. One doesn’t have to agree with all of his political conceptions or political actions to know that he was driven by the desire to serve. Politics is a rough
  • today. B: Sounds like a quite rich full life? D: Yes, I don't regret a day or a facet of. One of my friends said not long ago, he believed that I was the most contented man in America. And I wouldn't deny that status. The world has been good to me
  • was critical of him as a citizen who should have been interested in what is good for America and for the American people rather than what is good for the party or what is good for Lyndon. He said Lyndon never could distinguish the fortunes of the United
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh full of vinegar, and regardless of whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, _ you had to admit that he was in there full of vim
  • sort of thing five years later, or several years later. G: Another wild Texas convention. J: That's right. G: ~Jell, J: I was overseas in 1944. G: Now the Democratic National Convention was in Chicago that summer in 1944 I gather
  • . Mary Jo Cook June 16. 1967 TO: John Crlewell FROM: Okamoto 1 ba,re ordered a few color yo~r new office. blow-up• for We are etriYia1 for sometblD& unueual. but dignified. U you don•t like them. we can try aaaia. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL 1730
  • : .~ . '··,: ·-- ... ·- ... .. . MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE" WASHINGTON CONFIDE~lTlAL Tuesday, June· 14, 1966 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT DECLASSIFIED .;'- L\::.. .·., -{ E.O. 12356~ Sec. 3.4 NL) 8 ? - /.3 I Ry ~ , NARA. Date / - .37~7 SUBJECT: Action Initiatives in Tomorrow's Speech
  • S~/LIMITED some prospect intentions, DISTRIBUTION now be SECRtT/LIMITED DISTRIBUTION > without further narrowing our freedom of action us in undue Congressional - For India, the problem is how such US assurances, planning discussions
  • they are seven miles away -­ that 1 s rude -- hit them when they are two miles away. If there is one shred of interest in peace on the other side, we are ready to talk. Hanoi is rigid in its stance. LATIN AMERICA Loss of Ambassador Main was tragic. He was shot
  • .,. 1p --s II Vientiane 6296- ,, S 2p fl A 1i 5/6/68 ll ,, /( 5/6/68 1A a. 5/' A [Duplicate of #18, NSF, CF, Latin America, "Filed by the LBJ Library, 1966-69"] It Pt eside:nt Frei to President #5frf-'ttr--+---P-resident.Balagµer
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 2 B: That's going to come up later in the interview when we get into the area of personnel. Have you had in your career at any time any strictly political activity? R: No, I haven't. My wife, as an active Democrat
  • , when the Italians were then occupying the south of France and I was in a villa I always had had with my mother and my stepfather, four sisters, and my little girl Annette, the rumblings of war were still over our heads. northern Africa. America
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
  • bourne Friday VIP09 50. 9. Camb odia Prince Norodom Phurissara Minister for Foreign Affairs One aide Thursday, 0910, Sydney TE222 then to Melbourne AN1 5, 1 215. 10. Japan Mr. Shojiir o Kawashima, Vice President Liberal Democratic Party Naomi
  • was the Chieu Hoi returns, although Chieu Hoi could be a result of a military action, military pressure, as much as psychological operations. But psychological operations, you would think, were an element in it. You would, I guess, measure it by the degree
  • conditions were far worse and always were, all the time. You know, if we were going to start and take an attitude that morally we were going to make it up to the Indian, we were going to take action, the Indian always in my view should have been at the head
  • , this was true of the Reserves as well. He didn't want to be in the middle of a social campaign or a social-action campaign when he had to use this force as a military force. Well, I remember on that same occasion, we said "We don't want to embarrass you, Mr
  • months. M: For appointments? C: Yes, memos recommending people for appointments. M: Did you just get them back? C: Yes, no mark on them or no action. We weren't getting any results. So I went into an analysis of the President and it dawned on me
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  • Folder, "NSAM # 345: Nuclear Planning, 4/22/1966," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 8
  • National Security Action Memorandums
  • of developing the appropriations for the National Institutes of Health and so forth. Mrs. Krim was the wife of Mr. Arthur Krim. He became a very close friend of the President's and raised money for the Democratic Party. Mr. and Mrs. Krim also have a ranch close
  • to the committees, outlining the proposed action and getting clearance from the committee. It was my job to do this for the secretary of the army, who had that obligation under the law. Collat- erally with that, I got involved in analyzing and writing reports
  • well say that I'm not political enough, but the real answer is that I'm just not political for Fred Belen ." Congressmen--came to Washington in I said, "I've been secretary to two '37 . My mother was vice-chairman of the Democratic party in Michigan
  • of the CICYP le Roberto Campo• of Brasil. The group ha1 juat met for two day ■ in New York and i• here in Wa1hin1ton today under the au1picea of the Council of Latin America. A ll ■ t of tho ■• expected to be present for the meeting with you i• attached. After
  • POSITION. I HAVE NO REPORTERS WITH ME. I AM SIMPLY ENDEAVORING TO · GATHER FACTS TO ENABLE HE TO THINK CONSTRUCTIVELY. I RECALL VERY CLEARLY WHAT YOU ~AID TO ME AT A DINNER IN THE UNITED STATES: YOU ADVJSED HE TO BE THE ADVOCATE OF A NEW AMERICA AND A NEW
  • States of America, main speaker at the 7th International UFO Congress at ~ainz, Germany, November 3-6, 1967 offered concltl9ive, scientifically analysed proof of the exis­ tence of intelligently guided devices in our aero-space and of test landings
  • OF THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP January 30, 1968 In the Mansion The President: I want to tell all that we know about the Pueblo incident. We are spending days and nights on the situation. I want you to treat this as a very confidential
  • of the detail work in that area was my responsibility. We had some political liaison work with the governors primarily, and the [Democratic] National Committee, and the state chairmen of the various states. That was out of Marvin's office. There again I handled
  • does not slow the economy down much, which is presumably what you want to do if you're afraid of inflation. In the normal circumstance it wouldn't have been a bad move, but in combination with the Fed's action it just may have put corporations more
  • of·other of the above considerations elements after hearing actions of our relationship·; With all United States and effectiveness while at the same time avoid- uncertainties, of the strategic a continuing missiles. to each of us
  • ia , A -+-f'T--4-~+ffi'-l-f'i1~ + - - - - A - - - J "'1n 1,.,, vV\ , e s-v 3 to Amb. Lodge from Ros tow ,,,,.,i, confidential P-tvt~ l/-//--£J. N.L J i,t-1.l,IL 1 p to President from Rostow re: Latin America secret ~ II-IJ--ijeJ. ;A,'LJ r;;~y 12
  • the Democratic campaign committee functioning through its representative in the House was in deep trouble. Some very fine Congressman, I think from Virginia, was supposed to be in charge of the Democratic campaign for reelection of those members of the House
  • on in connection with the election and the vote and how it turned out and the controversy and the fact that it had been thrown back by the courts, I guess, onto the [State Democratic Executive] Committee, of which I was a member but not very active at that time
  • 1948 election and the State Democratic Executive Committee; Byron Skelton; HST and General Marshall collaborate on the Truman Committee; the 1960 convention in Los Angeles; meeting JFK at Hyannis Port after the convention; Ted Dealey insults JFK
  • that it would not be good with my constituents if I voted carte blanche with everything that the administration was doing. I think they also felt that I was a Democrat and would support most of these things and would give them support in the crunches, and I
  • action. M: By both people. L: Yes. live tried to say, the other day when we talked, that among the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • ~ 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
  • was and still is the senior senator from the state of Utah, and David King. David King had been a Democratic congressman, and was the son of a former Democratic senator from the state of Utah. severe philosophic differences with David King. I had some rather
  • ORIGIN f ACTION lJt.:P .i\.KTMJ:'. N J. Ur ~J.1\J. .c. Original to be Fi/eel In _ _ _ _ Decentra//zecl Files. EUR CA-9447 .5 NEA cu p ~ONPI'.BEM!IAL NO . INA 5 FILE DESIGNATION HA.NOL.ING Ir.JOI CA TO.A · ATHENS, COPENHAGEN
  • Folder, "NSAM # 340: U.S. Government Shipments by Foreign Flag Vessels in North Vietnam Trade, 1/25/1966," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 7
  • National Security Action Memorandums
  • think that could be said of him. He was very loyal to the House while he was here, but then after he became a senator his loyalty shifted to the Senate, He was intensely loyal to that body while a member of it. F: Were you active in the 1956 Democratic
  • by Wilbur Cohen, whom I had known more or less casually before that because of the Kennedy campaign--I had been co-chairman of the health plank group that was organizing for the Democratic platform. We met several times in Washington and I knew Wilbur. When
  • Amendment to the 1958 Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom for Cooperation on the Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes. The proposed Amendment will extend, under the authority