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  • THE MEETING WERE: The President The Vice President Speaker McCormack Senator Mansfield Senator Long Senator Byrd Congressman Albert Congressman Boggs Budget Director Charles Zwick Mike Manatos Barefoot Sanders Joe Califano · George Christian ~ Senator Byrd
  • WASHINGTON Friday, May 1, 1964 who has done more be a Queen, misty laced 0 town look,. getting the reviewing Helen and Richard Gretchen, Harry, fixing crowded Byrd were Luci's made puzzled and the to get into what was later said
  • particularly. There might have been some State Department involvement along the route. G: Was Harry Byrd involved in--? O: I don't remember. But I should emphasize that this was not the exclusive domain of Kerr and Anderson, but they were in senior
  • CEL.LIElt, N,Y., CHAIRMAN MICHAEL A, P'EIGHAN, OHIO -- - - EDWIN £. WILLIS, LA. PltTIE:,. W. RODINO, JR., N. J. BYRON G. ROGERS, COLO. HAROLD D. DONOHUE, MASS. JACK llllOOKS, TEX. WILLIAM M. TUCK, VA. ROBERT T. ASllMORE, S.C. JOHN DOWOY, TEX. BASIL L
  • intrude on the D. c. Committees in the House and Senate and could interfere with the D. C4! Appropriation.··. As you know, Senator Byrd has promised to have the D4! c. 'Appro­ priation bill here by Saturday. This could interfere with ·that ' ; schedule
  • a conservative--and Senator Harry Byrd Senior, and Senator George, and others., to have a prominent conclusion about certain phases of the bill, and then he could influence the liberals on the same bill with some other parts of it or some other emphasis
  • , that he was being away from Washington an abnormal amount? M: Well, he was. I mean, so it seemed to me. I didn't know what normal was at the time. I figured maybe other senators were away that much, too. Bob Byrd is never away that much now. Mike
  • ? J: It required appropriations. It may have required legislation, but I think we had enough legislative authority if we could get the appropriation for such a development. Senator [Robert] Byrd of West Virginia was bitterly opposed because he
  • Tidewater that for Fitzpatrick, Ffa.rr;pton, I.H. and blue. at meetins Plane Robinson, > A. white above and they like coverage Raleighi._Ji~. Mrs. Robert T.F. of Young Dems., 15 of the 60 planned dressed as Portsmouth, Vice Mayo
  • and new ideas exciting the country that we were finally going to do something significant. The tendency, too, with Indian Commissioners--both with Nash and his successor, Robert Bennett--is that they would spend much of their time in what I would call
  • Indian problems; Indian Bureau; Philco Nash; Robert Bennett; Alaska; VISTA; transition; relations with Mexico; oil; tidelands
  • was [Robert] McNamara's lawyer for those hearings. You may recall that as we saw the major issue in the hearings, the issue was whether or not the civilian leadership in the Pentagon and President Kennedy, at that time, had the right, in effect, to censor
  • Roosevelt Street Bethesda, Maryland Knudsen, Robert L. 3 712 Woodburn Avenue Annandale, Va. Fisher, William H. 29 Flag Green, SW. Washington, DC. Wolfe, Frank 4328 Taney Avenue Alexandria, Va. Moravek, William 11128 Snughaven Lane Fairfax, Va. Matheus
  • Okamoto, Yoichi R. (Yoichi Robert), 1915-1985
  • : Yes. G: Do you recall the circumstances of that? O: No. There was just a lot of movement up and down the stairway. G: Then Robert Kennedy went and talked with the Johnson people--Johnson, Rayburn, Connally, and the like--and told him
  • ) to be his running mate and O'Brien's and Robert Kennedy's (RFK) response; LBJ adding "geographical balance" to the ticket; JFK's meeting with LBJ to gauge his interest in the vice presidency; RFK's relationship with JFK; O'Brien's interview with Mike Wallace
  • Services Committee. Senator [Richard] Russell was chairman. Styles Bridges was the senior Republican. Lyndon was number three on the committee on the Democratic side, Russell being the chairman and Harry Byrd, Sr. of Virginia, now deceased, the next in rank
  • up a little ticket of Harry Byrd for president and you for vice president. Did that ever have your blessing? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
  • you want to recount the story? Sure, what little bit I know about it . really between Senator [Robert] of Texas, My recollection that it was Kerr of Oklahoma and Senator Johnson and it was up to Senator McFarland, would confer with all
  • and Speaker McCormack, Hale Boggs,[Carl] Albert, also Byrd [W .Va .], the leadership generally . So as a result, they would have this resume . I suspect that they didn't read it as religiously as the President did . Another thing that happened
  • was then either Cy [Cyrus] Vance's special assistant or general counsel to the army. That was September 1962. We got into this--I shouldn't say we, I got into it on the Saturday before the Sunday night in which the rioting really hit its peak. Mr. [Robert
  • : Senator Bayh called. Dr. Robert"'Pitchell, former AA to Senatofi!~~ ie going to £Cesworn-in as President of Roote'wit University in Chicago sometime b~tweei now and ,u the election. Senator Bayh, Sena or ...... and Dr. Pitchell would like the President t
  • successor. Truman also accepts Robert Lovett’s resignation as under secretary of state, and replaces him with James Webb. 1/7–1/12 In Three Rivers, Texas, an Anglo funeral director refuses to hold services for Felix Longoria, a Mexican-American soldier
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- VIII -- 16 G: There were some other instances, problems with the press. There was a Marshall McNeil story about Admiral [Robert] Carney that enraged Johnson. quoted. R: I guess
  • from the State Department listed at the top of this grouping: [Frederick] Dutton, [Robert] Lee, [Eugene] Krizek, and [Nick] Zumas. Dutton was very much a substance fellow; he wasn't a fellow that went to the Hill very often, as I recall it. Gene Krizek
  • understanding with [Robert] Taft. W: He developed an understanding. developed one. He didn't have it immediately, but he Taft was a very shy, reticent man, actually very warm. People didn't know that. Johnson characteristically sensed that he
  • is that I became actively involved in June of that year. But even earlier than that I was aware that another senior staff member, Robert Lampman, who was on leave from the University of Wisconsin, was working on updating and pulling together information
  • in the summer of 1963; Robert Lampman's study of income distribution; the establishment of a task force to suggest poverty-related programs; Walter Heller's first meeting with LBJ to discuss what would become the Community Action Program (CAP); the early
  • : Did the President ever entertain the notion that Shriver was disloyal to him? JG: I never saw any sign of that. MG: He seems to have been under the impression that OEO was full of Robert Kennedy supporters. Did you feel that way? LBJ
  • . Working your way around those personal imperatives can require a good deal of personal persuasion. He was very good at it. the kind of thing that I think Bobby Byrd is doing now. It's The way he got the Senate leadership job, is by having so many
  • . Russell Long's support was very elusive. G: Why was that? O: Probably basically his own views. He wasn't as elusive as [Harry] Byrd, [Sr.], of Virginia, but-- G: Okay. Do you feel like there was an expanded women's role in this campaign? I know
  • job until the end of the congressional session; LBJ's support for O'Brien's work and finding the best people to do congressional relations work; Robert Kennedy's support for O'Brien staying at his job at the White House.
  • begin to realize why the issue is so hot up here. G: The argument that [Robert] Kerr made in debate with [Paul] Douglas was that why regulate natural gas, a resource of the South and the West, and not regulate coal, a resource of the-­ R: Oh
  • of being a newspaper editor whose professional competence won him a Nieman fellowship to Harvard. He will di re ct the CRS team. George Roberts -- Field Conciliator (GS-16). Roberts came to us after seven years as deputy director of the Chicago Commission
  • :1erre, Gene Farm­ er, Dora Jane Hamblin, Monica Horne, Joann McQuisto11; Pu,s: Eric Gibbe, John Jenk1"8on, Mathilde Camacho Lee Eitin11on, Nathalie Kotchoubey DaviJ Zeitlin; l:lo!ffl: Frank White' Ro;r Rowan, Robert J.. ubar; Roui Tbomaa Dozier, John
  • ., and, where needad., appropriate legislation 10 that the Federal. Coftl"Dl1eAt ~ move allea4 1n tbia. area ettectiveq and soon." ••• . . ' ' ,' ·• f .. T • ., ' ' ' Robert G. Pl'estemon . .' • t ,. EXECUTIVEOFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT BUREAUOF
  • and Martin. Then after Mr. Bob Calvert, Robert W. Calvert, who's a contemporary of ~lr. Johnson and former speaker of the [Texas] House, now chief justice of the Supreme Court [of Texas], was elected to the Supreme Court in 1950, we moved down with his
  • , it was deliberately used against him. ·There's no question of that. In a state like Texas, most of the midwestern states. I remember Robert Kennedy, who was the campaign manager, telling me that he thought that the Catholic issue hurt worse in the Midwest than
  • , several freshmen did receive some choice appointments, 1ike Robert Byrd, Thomas Dodd, Gale McGee on Appropriations; Clair Engle, [E. L. Bob] Bartlett, and [Howard] Cannon on Armed Services. Any significance to these appointments? R: That's just Johnson
  • on 5/27. March Juanita Roberts suggests that someone interview Mrs. Rebekah Johnson to record her voice as a permanent record in a history of LBJ. 3/2 In an interview, LBJ says he doubts that Eisenhower’s prediction of an economic upturn in March
  • ) shook hands with Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Campbell and Bill; Mrs. W. H. Culbertson (Dallas) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 3:20p 3:30p 3:45p 4:00p 4:30p 5:30p 6:15p 8:00p f f t Expenditure Sen Eastland Mr. Halaby (FAA) Bobby Sen Bob Byrd White House to see
  • Young Democrats by Vivian Smargon and Charles Byrd EXPENDITURE CODE: A C E SP - Automobile Cab Entertainment Special Plane CP R T RR - Commercial Plane Restaurant Tips Train TRAVEL ACTIVITY Diary Entry No. 1 23 Departure Time From (Place) 9:45a
  • . . /~,' / /-~ 7/Y. ,,C/.111-/ MllliORANDUM . tx , Members of Tran&portati~ ~sk Force~· ~orge Hilton, Chairman Maver Bernstein Benje.mi~ Cbini tz Allen R. Ferguson John Meyer James Nelson Robert A. Nelson George Wilson ~_'Ylt-~. Franz Wolt To: ,1 From
  • bill was originally drafted, and as you know, passed in 1935, national health insurance was in it because of the insistence of Senator Robert Wagner of New York, who had introduced the first national health insurance bill in the Senate in 1938