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Telephone conversation # 5210, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER JENKINS, 8/25/1964, 9:33PM (Item)
  • LBJ TELLS JENKINS TO CALL EDMUND G. "PAT" BROWN; JENKINS REPORTS CALIFORNIA DELEGATION CANNOT ENTER CONVENTION HALL DUE TO MFDP DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE; DISSATISFACTION OF YOUNG MEMBERS OF MFDP WITH MISSISSIPPI RULING, MLK; ILLEGAL ENTRY OF MFDP
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Telephone conversation # 5210, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER JENKINS, 8/25/1964, 9:33PM
  • WALTER JENKINS
Telephone conversation # 4267, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 7/17/1964, 6:20PM (Item)
  • LBJ WANTS TO KNOW WHERE MOYERS, JENKINS ARE AT ALL TIMES; REQUESTS STATEMENT ON KKK'S INVOLVEMENT IN CIVIL DISORDERS IN SOUTH, APPEAL TO NEGROES FOR RESTRAINT UNTIL CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS IMPLEMENTED; LBJ COMMENTS ON SPEECH BY BARRY GOLDWATER
Telephone conversation # 5530, sound recording, LBJ and THOMAS DEWEY, 9/8/1964, 5:05PM (Item)
  • DEWEY REPORTS ON MEETING WITH J. EDGAR HOOVER, OFFERS TO EDIT HOOVER'S REPORT ON RIOTS AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FEDERAL ACTION; FBI; DEWEY'S EXPERIENCE WITH HARLEM RIOTS, WISH TO KEEP HIS WORK ON REPORT SECRET; WALTER JENKINS AS WH LIAISON
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Committee, which was the committee to defend America, "Aiding the Allies." So this is a long-time interest. I went to the President and urged him to show courage and strength, and told him that every time he did his rating went up in the polls
Telephone conversation # 8538, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 8/14/1965, 8:09PM (Item)
  • PROCEDURES FOR RELAYING REQUESTS FOR FEDERAL AID TO HANDLE WATTS RIOTS; LBJ EMPHASIZES NEED FOR STATE, LOCAL FORCES TO TRY TO CONTROL RIOTS FIRST; DELAY IN DEPLOYING TROOPS; QUESTION OF SENDING FEDERAL OFFICIAL TO LA; OTIS CHANDLER; ABSENCE OF DEPT
Telephone conversation # 8539, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH , 8/14/1965, 8:09PM (Item)
  • PROCEDURES FOR RELAYING REQUESTS FOR FEDERAL AID TO HANDLE WATTS RIOTS; LBJ EMPHASIZES NEED FOR STATE, LOCAL FORCES TO TRY TO CONTROL RIOTS FIRST; DELAY IN DEPLOYING TROOPS; QUESTION OF SENDING FEDERAL OFFICIAL TO LA; OTIS CHANDLER; ABSENCE OF DEPT
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Wednesday of that previous week would have been. to Peru. I had just gotten back from a trip I had been down \\li th the State Department on an AID program speaking to a South American seminar on Arequipa. F: I was there at the time. P: Were you? F
Telephone conversation # 10520, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY "JOE" FOWLER, 8/2/1966, 9:57AM? (Item)
  • STATUS OF INTEREST RATE CONTROL BILL; LBJ'S CONCERN ABOUT BILL, LEGISLATIVE BACKLOG, ECONOMY; POSSIBLE NEED FOR TAX BILL; FOWLER SUGGESTS LBJ MEET WITH WILBUR MILLS ALONE; BILL TO EXEMPT COMBAT PAY FROM TAXES; RIOTS, CALL FOR AID FOR CITIES BY RFK
Folder, "Civil Rights – Watts, Los Angeles Riots," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • Service involvement in concerted support to Ca.J.ifornia :f"or the· Watts area of' Los Angeles County: l. Developing Home Health Aides in Watts, Los Angeles County, California We propose to extend health services delivered to the Watts area by providing
  • aides-white-b06-f07
Telephone conversation # 12001, transcript, LBJ and RICHARD HUGHES, 7/14/1967, 12:22PM (Item)
  • and everyone here wants to support you and give you any aid. Jim Jones tells me that you've submitted a report, you've done a good job, I want you to set an example. I'm absolutely positive the people of this country do not want to violate the law Gov
Folder, "July 29, 1967 - 11:30 a.m. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • - ' I' JULY 29, 1967 - 11:30 a.rn. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS Gov. Kerner Mayor Lindsay Sen. Harris Sen. Brooke Rep. James Corman Rep. William McCulloch I. W. Abel Charles Thornton Roy Wilkins Katherine Peden Herbert Jenkins
Folder, "Simulmatics Media Study," Papers of Robert Shellow, Box 4 (Item)
  • ? What do other reporters do that impedes your work? 3) During the riots, were there any specific examples of bad conduct by the press? Did any individual or group of reporters specitical.ly aid your work? 4) [Primarily for the Chief and his deputies
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 9/12/65 - 3/20/66 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)
  • fields, and at the subprofes­ sional level in mental hospitals, schools, child care aides, recreation, social work, and probation. 5. The funds would come in part from existing Federal programs like OEO but substantial new funds would be needed. Note
Folder, "[June 26, 1968 Meeting with Equity Managers)," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • for his district. He also told a story about a Negro former aide who refused to drive the Johnson dog back to Texas from Washington, saying" "It's hard enough for a nigger to find a place to sleep; it's impossible when he has a dog." He was asked what he
Folder, "1965 Task Force on Los Angeles Riots," Task Force Reports, Box 10 (Item)
  • industry and high employment businesses in or near slum areas. 2. Provision of better loans and other aids to small businesses and homeowners in slum areas. 3. Establishment of small business development centers with the support of groups like a chamber
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 8/24/65-9/11/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)
  • of 231,000 pounds of USDA-donated food was distributed in Los Angeles to aid victims during the recent rioting there. · After the Watts district was declared a disaster area, I immediately made foods available to local authorities from stocks already on hand
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . They had been running school construction and general aid bills up there; they had been running all manner of manpower programs and whatnot through the Congress, migratory worker bills only to have them die on one side or the other, or by Presidential veto
Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 6:07 p.m. Congressional leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • of the problems. The President then read a statement for use by the Speaker and by the Majority Leader. Congressman Albert pointed out that the House is going to cut Foreign aid and the Poverty Program very severely, particularly in view of the fact
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 11/22/63- 8/23/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)
  • , D.C. 20506 ()llll()l~'ill~li"" August 23, 1965 MEMORANDUM FOR HONORABLE JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT This is in response to your request for suggestions as to what OEO might do to aid the areas that were the center
Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • to think Federal aid ought to go through Governors rather than to cities. The President said few governors had experience on police problems, but that was the House decision. The President said he'd asked for 50 bills concerning cities and had gotten 36
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a police department. Atlanta had been exceptionally well trained in attitudes towards Negro people. Chief Jenkins is liberal by nature, has a distinguished record and has been through the whole civil rights movement and is highly regarded
Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 11:15 a.m. Detroit Riots - Clark, McNamara, Christopher, Fortas, Wilkins, Doar," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • themsch·cs to the !.:. · -: ::.:1d constituted Juthoritics of said State; :\nJ I inrnke the aid and cooperation c: :...=..: good citizens thereof to uphold the Ia,\·s and preserYe the ;: ·_ -= ~ic peace. SOTE: The race riots in Detroit in June, 19-13· were
Folder, "August 2, 1967 - 12:09 p.m. Cabinet Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • to run the city of Washington. IV. Report from Secretary Rusk Secretary Rusk touched on the following points: a. Foreign Aid The situation is getting rough in Congress. Senate Forei~n We expect a good bill from the House to make up for the Relations
Folder, "Watts," Office Files of Joseph A. Califano, Box 58 (Item)
  • information and counselling center operation in Los Angeles7 It is funded by Community Action Agency through the Settlement Houses. They have 21 centers in the problem neighborhoods. Their program has about 600 employees, most of whom work as aides in local
  • aides-califano-b058-f02
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/19/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • and India; Rostow talks of Taiwan and aid to Pakistan, Communist China, and Vietnam; dinner and movies; Johnsons back to White House; Lady Bird exercises; LBJ talks with Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : The Johnson aides in describing this are inclined to link the Lawrence nomination with the [Abe] Fortas nomination. M: Yes. That was the other judgeship. G: First of all, was there a connection here? Did Senator Russell oppose the Fortas nomination
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • objectivity either. For example, do you get pressures on this kind of case? V: Oh, sure. There's a great deal of pressure from Congress, I think, to prosecute these aiding and abetting cases; and we, however, have developed certain standards that we apply
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • platform. I recall matters pertaining to Rule 22, the filibuster rule, and getting civil rights legislation going over there. I got quite impatient. I recall sending some rather abrasive letters to the gentleman, and I had Some of his aides call up
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • people that migrated to Illinois from other communities. I discussed with him first and President Kennedy later that certainly some program must be developed, because the category of public aid, the general assistance category, which was one hundred per
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Is there a statutory authority for special aid after riots? C: Yes, there are a number of federal statutes that can be invoked in circumstances in a city where there has been disorder or where there is suffering. However, there was and perhaps continues
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , there should be no intention in any way to interfere with the decentralized operations in the most efficient way . On the other hand, there is tremendous aid that can be given them by letting them know what's happening elsewhere in the Department of Justice
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , the school systems, the welfare systems; the federal government had encouraged , t h r o u g h grants in aids and carrots and sticks, various kinds programs run by local agencies which for the most part they were able to define themselves. All they had to do
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the other man is doing, and what he does that he should no longer do. For example, what could the Bureau do to carryon where, for example, AID has phased out. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Folder, "THE HARVEST OF AMERICAN RACISM: The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 1 (Item)
Folder, "Summary Analysis: December 20, 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 3 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • arrival at Metropolitan Airport, which is sort of equidistant between downtown Detroit and downtown Ann Arbor. So all that week there was considerable planning that went into the President's visit. His aides and associates all indicated that he really
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)