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Folder, "July 29, 1967 - 11:05 a.m. President and Cyrus Vance, Vice President," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • :05. It ended at 11 :40 -.-c·- • ' I ' l •• ~ • ... ..' •.. ! '; j:::. I I~ :\ 1j ·• ...:: / 1 • :". 1 • . :: i·~ I NG. MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT WITH SECRETARY VANCE IN THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, JULY 29, 1967 The President read the legal
Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 11:15 a.m. Detroit Riots - Clark, McNamara, Christopher, Fortas, Wilkins, Doar," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • and said that Vance should go. At 11 :23 the President read a telegram to Governor Romney which had been drafted. CBNFIDl&DI'I'IA-L M!rflMG NOi ES COP'.fRl~Hif 0 Poelicctic11 Re"""~' ht P.eRni11ion of Capyng ~~ Ibnmn• Jahft'SOTl [1 of 2
Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 6:07 p.m. Congressional leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • The President opened the meeting by reading to the leadership a UPI ticker item. The article concerned a GOP policy stand. The ticker item fallows: "Republican Party leaders called big city rioting a national crisis today. They demanded a full investi­ gation
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/18/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • and thv hom e­ mad e b read n1adc m ore news than the sta ti stics of th e prL·ss c o:1f ,,r e;ncc. - l ­ 1964 Saturday , July 1Hth__ (_conlin11ed) Phili p Carter, Hodcling Carler's son , who is no\\' with NEWSWEEK, was th e re, a very hand som1
  • LBJ's presidential campaign; press conference at LBJ Ranch; photos taken of LBJ and Lynda Johnson on horses; LBJ's statement to press about riots; helicopter to Haywood Ranch for boating; BBQ for lunch; Lady Bird reads book and swims; LBJ naps
Folder, "August 2, 1967 - 12:09 p.m. Cabinet Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • ] MEET1l>1G ~~o:re&-eOPf~ Pt>bllcotion ltequ1rii GeNFIDEN 'I IAL Perm1n1on of Copyrlglit Hetldec . W. lhomas JohllsOn - 4 - The Vice President said the re we re 52 cities which we re potentially about to explode. The re we re 10 last night with high
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • moved to Washington, D.C., arriving, I believe, on about Sunday, the twenty-third of July 1967. So I was involved with them on Sunday and on Sunday night, trying in that personal way that we all have of getting settled and getting reunited with my
Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 10 p.m. Detroit crisis - President's activities from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • Christian. The Presiden t was reading the J une 22, 1943, issue of the New York Tin-ies concerning President Roose v elt 1 s actions in Detroit. The Presid~nt read aloud excerpts of. an articl e entitled 1 'Rayburn assails Roosevelt critics. 11 The President
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in for a long night and perhaps a long aftermath . The report of his shooting was confirmed to be the grave wound and then soon thereafter a fatal wound . By one of those accidents of history, a representative of the Co.=unity Relations Service, Jim Laue
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a very interesting file. spent last night reading your file, your dossier." He left it there. I And that's all. He said, "Very interesting," and walked away or somebody else came up. You know, to have the president of the United States say, "I spent
Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • if he and General Thieu won but did not govern wisely. The President read Ambassador Bunker's comments on the election campaign, saying that Ky naturally was taking advantage of his incumbency but was seeming to heed our warnings. The President read
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • page But and mine on the other, people that read the papers could see the difference of the positions. And then the Constitution changed its position, our morning newspaper, and began to advocate it. And then people began to say that, "Well, maybe
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • simply by reading and asking questions and staying at the office until all hours of the night. By the way this is an extremely time-consuming job. many visitors to see. You have so You never really leave the office before maybe 7 o'clock, 6 or 7
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Kampelman. I had closed my mind to it. One night I got home from a National Symphony concert. After the concert we actually went to the Austrian Embassy, I remember that too. So we didn't get home until something like 1:15. When I got home there were
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • about 8 o'clock at night. Met Mr. Califano and spent about an hour with him, and then for the first time discovered that I was being considered to be deputy mayor of the District of Columbia. When Mr. Califano was through with the interview, he made
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and clergy and labor and students in universities and everybody else. He even thought~ as his mind went on, I remember one night, about taking an hour or an hour and a half of prime time television to put on a documentary of what life was really like
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/3/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • - c / Sunday, O ctober 3, 01965 \ p V^' u Lyndon and I had a la te b rea k fa st and then got read y to go to the N ation al C ity C h ristia n Church. -^ ' f When w e w alked in I cam e fa ce to fa ce w ith Judge an d M r s. F e r g u so n fro m
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • for regulation in some areas . came up in odd circumstances. In the early days these things I remember, for instance, one night about 2 o'clock in the morning I was reading some applications for state technical assistance grants and I ran across the name
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . In the late fifties, he came with Mrs. Johnson to a CBS affiliates reception in New York one night. was the Hotel Pi erre or the ~~a 1dorf, I don't recall whether if but I, of course, through a Democratic family, knew the Senator. F: In these sort
Folder, "1965 Task Force on Los Angeles Riots," Task Force Reports, Box 10 (Item)
  • task of rehabilitation before men can become productive. And they do not tell of the social dynamite locked inside the clusters of angry unemployed men seen on the streets of the slum, day after day and night after night. These are the raw materials
Folder, "July 29, 1967 - 11:30 a.m. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • Johns6n 0 The President then introduced Secretary Vance to the group. Secretary Vance made the following report: 1. Detroit is now close to normal. 2. The re we re only a few incidents last night. 3. Traffic has returned to normal. 4. Most
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 8/24/65-9/11/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)
  • have gone straight out to the Watts area and listened and let · the peopl~ know that someone (in this in~tance, their President) wanted to know what was hurting them and cared about them. I did do this -- the night before I left
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and were all ushered into the Cabinet Room. The President did come in, and he read his executive order and appointed each of us. As he signed the executive order he handed each of us a pen with which he signed it. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that in and out a" it. By lying to the bedroom every morning as I did, I came in contact ~1 with the speech because by-and-large the various drafts were went to the President as his night reading. When I would arrive there in the morning the speech would
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 11/22/63- 8/23/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)
  • . {signed) Sargent Shriver Director, OEO [1 of 7] ­ 8:20 - M on Aug 23 Mr. Califano: "' ) /9, _. 1 Original plus one copy has been delivered at 8:20 a. m., Monday, Aug 23 to Jack Conway and was read to Jack Conway by John Perry last night
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , he did. There was another little episode that's very interesting, and that is, I read Marguerite Higgins' book, Vietnam Nightmare, and was pretty shocked to find out that President Johnson was against the overthrow of President Diem when President
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • pressures they worked--I wasn't there really--but the fact of the matter is there have been very substantial amount of hearings. And if you go back and read the Senate report which I wrote at that time, I documented the amount of hearings that had been
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • letters There was one guy I'd have to give an awful lot of credit on this, and that was Clarence Mitchell. Clarence walked those halls morning, noon, and night; and he talked to Senators, and he talked again-all of this, I'm sure he wasn't by himself
Folder, "Watts," Office Files of Joseph A. Califano, Box 58 (Item)
  • for .ma.k.ing. these arra.ngemeats. Siucerely. J"oseph A. Califano, Jr. Spec.i al Aaulstant to the President June 16, 1967 FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM Joe Califano I suggest you read only the summary at Tab A. [1 of 13] SUMMA!lY REPORT ON WATTS Background
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 9/12/65 - 3/20/66 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)
  • and that is because you persuaded me that it was the thing to do. I did not realize when we discussed the matter last August that you were committing me to 100 days and nights of work - - but it turned out that way. The report makes specific and important
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • is somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 men a year who now read at the fifth grade level or below and who, according to the experience of the first six months, can be raised two grade levels in reading ability in a matter of two or three weeks. This is rather
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • is your judgment of its validity and the results of its conclusio ns? J: I have studied it very carefully , and I've read most of the books that have been written--M ark Lane and various others on the subject. There's a great deai of,. Just irrespons
Telephone conversation # 3791, sound recording, LBJ and ROY WILKINS, 6/19/1964, 5:20PM (Item)
  • CIVIL RIGHTS BILL SENATE VOTE; WILKINS READS NAACP? STATEMENT ON CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATIONS DURING LBJ'S TRIP; HHH; POSSIBLE APPOINTEES TO COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE: GEORGE TAYLOR, HAROLD WALKER, IVAN ALLEN; ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA; GREAT SOCIETY
Telephone conversation # 4288, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT KENNEDY, 7/21/1964, 12:25PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF FEDERAL PROTECTION FOR MLK AT UPCOMING SPEECH IN GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI; RELATIONS BETWEEN J. EDGAR HOOVER, RFK, JUSTICE DEPT; NYC RIOTS, NEED FOR FBI INVESTIGATION, COMPARISON WITH SITUATION IN SOUTH; LBJ READS PROPOSED STATEMENT
Telephone conversation # 4820, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 8/8/1964, 9:58AM (Item)
  • LBJ READS HOOVER PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT ON MURDER OF CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS IN MISSISSIPPI, NEED FOR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, OBEDIENCE TO LAWS; HOOVER RECOMMENDS STATEMENT OPPOSING RIOTING; LBJ PRAISES FBI WORK IN MISSISSIPPI, GEORGIA; GULF OIL
Telephone conversation # 4289, sound recording, LBJ and PAUL SCREVANE, 7/21/1964, 12:35PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS FBI WILL INVESTIGATE VIOLATIONS OF FEDERAL LAW IN NYC DURING RIOTS IN HARLEM JUST AS FBI DID IN SOUTH; LBJ READS HIS PROPOSED STATEMENT
Telephone conversation # 4295, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 7/21/1964, 1:06PM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT LBJ'S CONVERSATION WITH RFK; DISCUSSION OF ADVISABILITY OF HOOVER HIMSELF GOING TO NYC TO HANDLE INVESTIGATION OF RIOTS IN HARLEM; LBJ READS PORTIONS OF SEVERAL TELEGRAMS RECEIVED FROM PUBLIC REGARDING RIOTS
Telephone conversation # 7129, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 3/18/1965, 10:00PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS GEORGE WALLACE'S TELEGRAM REQUESTING FEDERAL CIVILIAN PROTECTION OF SELMA MARCH; LBJ AND KATZENBACH DISCUSS POSSIBLE RESPONSE, DICTATE STATEMENT TO FEHMER IN RESPONSE TO TELEGRAM; QUESTION OF WALLACE'S CALLING OUT ALABAMA NATIONAL GUARD
Telephone conversation # 7131, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 3/18/1965, 10:00PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS GEORGE WALLACE'S TELEGRAM REQUESTING FEDERAL CIVILIAN PROTECTION OF SELMA MARCH; LBJ AND KATZENBACH DISCUSS POSSIBLE RESPONSE, DICTATE STATEMENT TO FEHMER IN RESPONSE TO TELEGRAM; QUESTION OF WALLACE'S CALLING OUT ALABAMA NATIONAL GUARD
Telephone conversation # 7140, sound recording, LBJ and DREW PEARSON, 3/23/1965, 11:35AM (Item)
  • LBJ'S RECENT MEETING WITH GEORGE WALLACE ON SELMA, ALABAMA SITUATION; LBJ READS HIS RECENT PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT ON US POLICY ON VIETNAM; LBJ'S COMMITMENT TO PEACE, HIS HEAVY SCHEDULE; LBJ ASKS FOR PEARSON'S REACTION TO VOTING RIGHTS SPEECH
Telephone conversation # 12009, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN LINDSAY, 7/27/1967, 5:02PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS LINDSAY TO BE VICE CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION TO STUDY CIVIL DISORDERS IN WAKE OF DETROIT RIOTS, READS FROM HIS STATEMENT ON FORMING COMMISSION, DISCUSSES APPOINTING OTTO KERNER TO CHAIR COMMISSION AND POSSIBLE OTHER MEMBERS