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Telephone conversation # 9467, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 1/10/1966, 8:55AM (Item)
  • National politics
  • WIRTZ REPORTS ON STATUS OF NEGOTIATIONS ON NYC TRANSIT STRIKE; POSSIBLE CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON COMPULSORY ARBITRATION FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES; LBJ DISCUSSES CONSULTING PRESIDENT'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON LABOR-MANAGEMENT POLICY; STATE OF THE UNION
Telephone conversation # 11709, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 4/10/1967, 5:30PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • EMERGENCY BILL TO EXTEND RAILROAD STRIKE DEADLINE; P. L. SIEMILLER'S TIES TO KENNEDYS; LBJ'S REQUEST FOR EXTENSION; SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE HEARINGS ON BILL; LBJ ASKS ABOUT SENDING MATERIAL TO HIM AT PUNTA DEL ESTE; LBJ URGES CONTINUED ACTION
Telephone conversation # 12103, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN KNIGHT, 8/23/1967, 9:50AM (Item)
  • "JOHN S. KNIGHT, AKRON, OHIO"; "RE; BEING ON COMMITTEE TO GO TO VIETNAM"; SECOND SLIP CONTAINING NOTATION "PRES IN HIS BEDROOM---WED. AUG 23, 1967" AND SHORTHAND NOTES ACCOMPANIES DICTABELT; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • National politics
Telephone conversation # 12712, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 2/12/1968, 8:30AM (Item)
  • National politics
  • DALEY'S TALK WITH UNIDENTIFIED MAN (RFK?); DALEY SUGGESTS LBJ APPOINT COMMITTEE TO STUDY VIETNAM; POSSIBLE JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT FOR OTTO KERNER; ILLINOIS POLITICS; SARGENT SHRIVER'S POLITICAL AMBITIONS; BEN HEINEMAN; RFK AND POSSIBLE VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 12713, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 2/12/1968, 8:30AM (Item)
  • National politics
  • POSSIBLE COMMITTEE TO STUDY VIETNAM SITUATION; ROBERT WEAVER'S RESIGNATION FROM HUD AND POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF EDGAR KAISER AS HIS REPLACEMENT; CRITICISM IF NEGRO IS NOT APPOINTED TO POST; WHITNEY YOUNG; DALEY RECOMMENDS CLIFFORD CAMBELL
Telephone conversation # 12803, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 3/7/1968, 4:10PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • KARL MUNDT'S REQUEST THAT DEAN RUSK APPEAR BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE; SENATE DEBATE ON VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 12838, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY WILSON, 3/23/1968, 12:37PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • WILSON RECOMMENDS APPOINTMENT OF TERRY SANFORD AS DIRECTOR OF CITIZENS FOR JOHNSON COMMITTEE; DISCUSSION OF LARRY O'BRIEN'S ROLE IN LBJ'S CAMPAIGN; STANLEY STEINGUT, RFK AND NEW YORK POLITICS; JAMES ROWE'S ROLE; NEED FOR CABINET MEMBERS TO SUPPORT
Telephone conversation # 11571, sound recording, LBJ and JENNINGS RANDOLPH, 2/27/1967, 10:35PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • LBJ ASKS ABOUT HEARINGS TODAY IN SENATE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE ON DEFERRAL OF HIGHWAY FUNDS; RANDOLPH GIVES PESSIMISTIC REPORT, DISCUSSES JOHN VOLPE'S TESTIMONY, REPORTS ON WIDESPREAD CONGRESSIONAL CONCERN; LBJ DENOUNCES CRITICS OF HIS BUDGETARY
Telephone conversation # 11572, sound recording, LBJ and JENNINGS RANDOLPH, 2/27/1967, 10:35PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • LBJ ASKS ABOUT HEARINGS TODAY IN SENATE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE ON DEFERRAL OF HIGHWAY FUNDS; RANDOLPH GIVES PESSIMISTIC REPORT, DISCUSSES JOHN VOLPE'S TESTIMONY, REPORTS ON WIDESPREAD CONGRESSIONAL CONCERN; LBJ DENOUNCES CRITICS OF HIS BUDGETARY
Telephone conversation # 11573, sound recording, LBJ and JENNINGS RANDOLPH, 2/27/1967, 10:35PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF CONGRESSIONAL DISCONTENT, SENATE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE HEARINGS ON DEFERRAL OF HIGHWAY FUNDS; RANDOLPH COMPLAINS ABOUT CHARLES SCHULTZE; LBJ DEFENDS HIS POLICY, READS CRITICAL PRESS STORY ON HEARINGS; FEDERAL DEBT LIMIT BILL
Telephone conversation # 11622, sound recording, LBJ and EDITH GREEN, 3/8/1967, 11:38AM (Item)
  • GREEN ASKS LBJ TO CONSIDER APPOINTING NORMAN HOWARD TO NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAY SAFETY; LBJ ASKS IF HOWARD IS QUALIFIED, THEN AGREES TO APPOINT HIM
Telephone conversation # 11207, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 12/26/1966, 10:17AM (Item)
  • National politics
  • LBJ REMINISCENCES ABOUT HIS WORK ON 1940 CONGRESSIONAL RACES; WH CONTRIBUTIONS TO 1962 RACES; FUND-RAISING IN 1966 ELECTION; LBJ DISCUSSES HISTORY OF DNC, CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES; RESPONSE TO PRESS ON NEWSWEEK ARTICLE, WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S
Telephone conversation # 10823, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY "JOE" FOWLER, 9/22/1966, 4:53PM (Item)
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • FOWLER REPORTS THAT HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE HAS REPORTED OUT INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT SUSPENSION BILL, DISCUSSES AMENDMENTS TO BILL, SCHEDULING FLOOR VOTE IN HOUSE; JOHN BYRNES; LBJ ASKS ABOUT REPUBLICAN VOTES ON BILL
Telephone conversation # 10851, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 9/29/1966, 8:54PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • SHRIVER REPORTS ON SUCCESSFUL HOUSE VOTE ON POVERTY APPROPRIATIONS BILL, THANKS LBJ FOR CALLING SAM GIBBONS; LBJ DISCUSSES LETTER FROM WINSTON PROUTY ASKING LBJ TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST ADDITIONS TO POVERTY BILL BY SENATE COMMITTEE
Telephone conversation # 11116, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 12/8/1966, 10:15AM (Item)
  • United Nations
  • GOLDBERG TELLS LBJ THAT UN OUTER SPACE COMMITTEE HAS REACHED AGREEMENT ON PROPOSED OUTER SPACE TREATY, DISCUSSES DRAFT PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE ISSUED AT THE LBJ RANCH
Telephone conversation # 13214, sound recording, LBJ and JIM WRIGHT, 7/24/1968, 9:55AM (Item)
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS MEETING IN HONOLULU, ASKS ABOUT WILLIAM CRAMER'S ACTION ON BILLBOARD PENALTY PROVISIONS OF HIGHWAY AID BILL IN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE; TRINITY RIVER BILL; TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY LETTER TO LBJ; BELL LEASE AGREEMENT
Telephone conversation # 13215, sound recording, LBJ and BAREFOOT SANDERS, 7/24/1968, 10:00AM (Item)
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH JIM WRIGHT ON CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ACTION ON BILLBOARD PROVISIONS OF HIGHWAY AID BILL
Telephone conversation # 13216, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 7/24/1968, 10:15AM (Item)
  • National politics
  • LBJ'S HONOLULU MEETING; MIKE MANSFIELD'S LETTER CRITICIZING VIETNAM POLICY; OPPOSITION TO GUN CONTROL BILL BY JAMES EASTLAND, STROM THURMOND; JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ACTION ON NOMINATIONS INCLUDING JOHN CROOKER'S APPOINTMENT TO CAB; EDSON SESSIONS
Telephone conversation # 13221, sound recording, LBJ and EARLE CLEMENTS, 7/30/1968, 2:31PM (Item)
  • National politics
  • CLEMENTS SAYS JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WILL NOT VOTE ON ABE FORTAS' NOMINATION AS SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE UNTIL AFTER LABOR DAY; JOHN MCCLELLAN'S OPPOSITION; LBJ ASKS ABOUT RICHARD RUSSELL'S VIEWS, DISCUSSES CRITICISM OF ALEXANDER LAWRENCE NOMINATION
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --by a considerable number of Maritime powers, maybe a dozen--that the Strait of Tiran was an international waterway, and that innocent passage through the Strait of Tiran was available for all nations, and for ships carrying all flags.The second stage
Folder, "11/17/65 Dinner (Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden) [1 of 3]," White House Social Files, Entertainment Files, Box 62 (Item)
  • - young attractive publishing couple, Longtime Democrats and great Johnson supportera .. 'Mrs.. Esther .Van Wagoner. Tufty - National Press Building - she is with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corp. - will be part of the pool at dinner. ~ - Mr. and Mrs
Folder, "FG 11-8-1/Territo, Dorothy [Executive Office of the President - The White House Office - Special Assistants - Aides]," WHCF FG, Box 115 (Item)
  • ------ ·-- ·- · ·7~-- .. ~A., ,;,.. achievement. Fueled by the democratic and in the destiny faith of the Nation, in the dignity America moved .of the individual forward again. The Economy We can point, that is flourishing, first, to what we see all
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little bit of showing a muscle, you know, so he wouldn't have to kowtow to the liberal-labor group so much. G: Right. Flexing of the muscle. There was also the issue of the State Democratic Executive Committee. The liberals wanted to have
  • Association; theory of LBJ’s success as a legislator; 1956 precinct fight; LBJ and Shivers; 1956 national committeewoman controversy; 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ and Yarborough; LBJ’s 1960 Presidential aspirations; reaction to acceptance of VP
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/19/1964 (Item)
  • , Speake r Pr o Tem , Calif . Stat e Senat e Mrs. Thoma s Lynch , wif e o f the D . A . o f Sa n Francisc o Hon. Joh n Bailey , Chairman , Dem o National Committee Hon. Ala n Cranston, Stat e Controlle r o f Calif . Mrs. Am i Alans oh, Norther n Cali f
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , on the agreement that they'd support them, and then they backed out of that. Because that's the Convention where Mrs. Lloyd Bentsen, Jr. was named for National Committeewoman. I know, I was on the Committee on Nominations. But she finally withdrew because
  • Biographical information; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; LBJ’s rapport with Latinos; use of helicopter; interest in Valley drought; LBJ’s role in location of Falcon Dam; 1952 and 1956 State Democratic Conventions; 1960 and 1968 Democratic Conventions
Folder, "Lobsinger, Donald," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 10 (Item)
  • .. THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS 1016 16TH STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, 0, C, 20036 · December 27, 1967 MEMORANDUM TO: M. C. Miskovsky FROM: John K. Scales SUBJECT: Interview with Donald ~~-~ Chairman, Breakthrough and Vice
  • Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 98: Oct. 5‑9, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 40 (Item)
  • , in case the enemy violated our "facts of life" about the DMZ - - if we take that approach. 'POP SEGRE!!' attachment DECLASSIFIED WhtieHOUNGuidelines,Feb.24.1983 By ~ ~ ,NARA. Date ,g./,j ~ ...,.. ,, NATIONAL SECURITY WASHINGTON, D.C. COUNCIL 20506
  • A (National Security)
  • National Security Files
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/24/1968 (Item)
  • . Johnson Mayor Richard Daley , of Chicago Mrs. Richard Daley Riley Congressman Dan Rostenkowski Congressman Roman Pucinski Mr. John Bailey - Chairman, Democratic National Committee Mr. John Criswell - Treasurer Democratic National Committee Marie Fehmer
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Office Department, I don't know whether he was then or not. But he and his wife, he's from South Carolina-- he was then at the Democratic National Committee, that's one of the reasons he was there, and his responsibility was the southern states. So
Folder, "Flying Saucers," Papers of Drew Pearson, Georgetown Files, Box G 274 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • senior position with the United Nations,C!,b.P.I. Radio and Visual Dep~rtment by the federal government of USA because of my memorandum and documentation addressed to the' Secretary General U Thant requesting to supervise by a special committee my global
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Birthplace? J: From where you would cross the river on the dam, the low water dam. You do not now cross it; nobody does. The National Park Service has closed that entrance. But then you 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 40, 15 May 1987," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , columnist Liz Smith and actress Fannie Flagg. 4 J. Jackson Walter, President of the National Trust for His­ toric Preservation (right) toured the Library with Curator Gary Yarrington. NEW INTERESTIN LBJSURGES University of Texac; history professor Lewis
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 42, September 15-20, 1967 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 22 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • , Israel, Vol. 7; Extml:pH-9-8+]- FILE LOCATION NSF, Memos to the President, Walt Rostow, Vol. 42, 9/15-20/67 Box 22 REST R ICTION CODES (A) Closed by Executive Order 12356'governing access to national security information. (Bl Closed by statute
  • A (National Security)
  • National Security Files
Folder, "I," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WITHDRAWALSHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORMOF DOCUMENT note DATE CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE Bill Moyers to the President with attached memo from Bill Moyers to Larry O'Brien 6/9/65 RESTRICTION C FILE
Folder, "VP Notes and Transcripts, 1962," Pre-Presidential Telephone Conversations and Meetings, Box 1 (Item)
  • segments of the loyal democr ats - they had 10% of the total delegates to the Ha.r ris County convention. -- I mean that woul d admit that they were democrats . LBJ When I was nominated at the convention in 1960 at Au stin there were 40 votes cast against
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on and the closer the time came, the more we were in disrespect and out of kilter with the Democratic Committee . They wouldn't have iir . Johnson . They They wouldn't have Mr . Rayburn . didn't like Fishbait because he was a Rayburn-Johnson man
Folder, "Gen LE/AG 5-1 [LEGISLATION - PEST CONTROL]," WHCF LE, Box 27 (Item)
  • to languish in the Agriculture Committees of both bodieo. Every year Farm Magazines, Trade Journals and the NAC News inform us of the ever-increasing amounts of economic poisons used in agriculture in this Country. The Apr:iJ. 1968 issue of NAC News states
Folder, "Gen PL/McNamara, Robert," WHCF PL, Box 21 (Item)
  • would make the reach a decision well before the ground campaigning that has PRESIDENT JOHNSON has best president? How would been going on among several had the vice presidency on his he conduct the cold war? Democratic National Convention candidates
  • File unit description: The executive file consists mainly of recommendations of Democratic or Republican nominees for the Vice Presidency in 1964 and 1968, and a small amount of material on presidential candidates. The general file consists
Folder, "Whistle Stop [3 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)
  • . bef,.,re the Democratic Crnvention hnnored nf the Frnntier The gueFt lirt Nursing Service in the included Dr. Mary I. 8-nting, womanappointed to the Atomic Energy Commission, Hodding Carter, author and vife of a newspaper publisher Mrs. Jane
President's Daily Diary entry, 3/11/1966 (Item)
  • Committee Chairman. The President impressed upon them the need for speedy action and the desirability of a concentrated democratic effort to move this legislation as soon as possible. The meeting was cordial and each individual chairman was very happy