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Folder, "Mississippi Summer Project Voter Registration," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • anxiety in this matter, we desire an immediate reply and furthrrwe request an early opportunity (prior to June l, 1964) to speak with you per s,onally. cc: Mr. Lee C. White Assoc. Special Counsel to President Senator Joseph Clark Mrs. Lyndon B . Johnson c
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 1, 11/23/63- 3/17/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / ALABAMA]," WHCF HU, Box 24 (Item)
  • ] ­ WITH YOU AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVENIENCE CHARLES C DIGGS, JR. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM CNY> AUGUSTUS HAWKINS CCALIF> ROBERT N C NIX CPA> JEFFERY COHELAN CCALIF> ADAM C POWELL CNY> JOHN CONYERS JR CMICH> JOSEPH RESNICK CNY> JOHN G DOW CNY> WILLIAM F
Folder, "Civil Rights – Miscellaneous 1964," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • assassination -- to reassure a nervous world that "the gove nment in Washington lives", and to acquaint millions abroad with the new leader of America and the free world. Minutes after the bullets struck John Kennedy, USIA threw all its resources into this task
Folder, "Ex LE/HU 2-7, 11/22/63 - 9/3/65 [LEGISLATION - VOTING RIGHTS]," WHCF LE, Box 66 (Item)
  • 7 CD BORDEAUX 1940 THE PRESIDENT 0
Folder, "Gen HU 2/ST 1, 3/9/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / ALABAMA]", WHCF HU, Box 27 (Item)
  • JJEAKENS THE IMAGE OF OUR COUNTRY AROU D THE WORLD . WE TRUST THAT THE !NFL ENCE OF YOUR OFFICE AND OF ALL GOVERNME NT AGENCIES WILL BE BROUGHT FULLY TO BEAR TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTIO ' OF THE UNITED STATES I ALABAMA JOSEPH CURRAN PRESIDENT NATIONAL
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/27/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • LBJ, Lady Bird, Lynda & Luci to Paltka, FL, for Intercoastal Canal ceremonies, flipping switch for initial excavation, and presentation of ceramic bull; to Palm Beach to visit Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Kennedy; to reception for President's Club
Folder, "Civil Rights Boycotts – Alabama and Mississippi," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • well SCLC, but neither was .admitted. Included in the business group were Earl Malik, Winton Blount, Milton Cummings, James Coile (Scott Pape{) and a man named Thomas Russell who was said to be a very helpful reconciling influence. A. G. Gaston, Joseph
Folder, "Black Liberation Front - FBI Reports, March 22, 1966," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 13 (Item)
  • ., Rcservatlon Dcr;k> Aerorn:-rves de l-~cxJ.co., 500 5th Avenue., Nc.n,JYork G,:i.t.y, 1 acl.v:U;cd SA \JOHN E. WJi;~-~ .CiIO]?F ths.t LP,tJT~ENCEnnd MJV.J:OW·_HENRY deptn:·ted frorn tTohn F'. Kennedy In'Lernr,tionnl Pij_rport, ·HGW York, via .Acrorw,ves c1e M
Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [Oct. - Dec. 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
  • ,ILLINOIS Lieutenant Joseph Meany, Chicago, Illinois, Police Department, advised that following a championship high school football game on December 2, 1967, at Soldier Field, a disturbance erupted when several.Negroes attacked white boys in the vicinity
Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [Jan. 1968]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
  • at .the Kennedy. Expressway and Addison Street.at 9:30 a.m. and is to consist of about_ 200 cars. The plan calls for the motorcade to.proceed to the city. hall in· the downtown Loop area and then to·· the residence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of-Chicago
Folder, "Civil Rights – Miscellaneous 1965," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • Tweed and · Bernard G. Segal who organized the Committee in 1963 at the request of President Kennedy and resigned as Co-Chairmen effective September 1. The Lawyers' Committee, with headquarters in Washington and a field office in Jackson, Mississippi
Folder, "Civil Rights – St. Augustine, Fla.," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • The White House Washington, D. C. cc: Mrs. F. Fullerwood Vice President Lyndon Johnson ACP:ms I 38 Bayview Drive St . Augu s tine , Florida September 27 , 1963 Mr . John F . Kennedy President of the United States The White House ashington , n. c. Dear
Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [1964 - 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
  • · ·reparations for··~he· Black peop1e·~auririg the Kennedy administration. ··This woma.n""attended the meeting of the now defunct "Organization for Bla.c}t Power 11 ·1n·Chicago July 4., 1963. She propounded the· theor,,· later adopted - • by the conference
Folder, "Gray, Jesse Willard," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 8 (Item)
Memo, White to the President, 11/29/63 (Item)
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/10/1963 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • it to start looking like the Johnsons lived here. I put out a picture of President and Mrs. Kennedy--no, I believe it’s just the President--and Caroline, and the pony, the little pony that Lyndon gave them. And then I put out a picture of Daddy with Tommy
  • the inventory and sale of the Elms; evening social gathering of Johnson and Kennedy staffs; Ted Sorensen; Abe Fortas' interest in art and music; Jacqueline Kennedy's work; [Nancy] Salinger; LBJ's tour of the White House; civil rights legislation
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as a secretary to Ralph Dungan. He was a special assistant to President Kennedy. His main job was to--he was a talent scout for President Kennedy with the ambassadors and cabinet officers. Latin America was on his wing [?] and we were pretty busy. And President
  • How Whittington came to work for LBJ following President Kennedy's assassination; Whittington's duties; LBJ's secretaries' rotating schedules; traveling with LBJ to the Ranch and Austin; Whittington as the first African American to integrate
Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • recalled the situation when FDR closed the banks, and when President Kennedy faced the Bay of Pigs and the Vienna Conference. "We don't spend enough time remembering back, and not enough time looking ahead." He said he recalled that in 1948 only two members
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you can see how they would have that added feeling of poignant grief, that their own state had to be embarrassed about it. So this is something that those of us in the Kennedy and the Johnson officia l family would like to seal off. Did you come
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that he didn't have a civil rights record at all, although Senator Kennedy didn't have a great civil rights record either. As a matter of fact my feeling about the two of them at that time was that it didn't make very much difference who was the nominee
Telephone conversation # 12916, transcript, LBJ and DREW PEARSON, 4/10/1968, 4:06PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Eugene Patterson Sub .i ect (s) covered 15 - 17 Built-in antagonism between the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Cormnission; Robert Kennedy Nicholas Katzenbach; Ramsey Clark; Frankie Freeman 18 '65 report on discrimination in agriculture
Folder, "Civil Rights – Mississippi," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • had ca Ll. ed the FBI in New Or l ea ns . Hen r y Wolf , a ttorney fo r the Go odman family, ca lled to say that Robe r t Kennedy ha d bee n c on tacted . 1 : 40 PM : Me r i dian r epor t e d tha t a ttempts ha d been ma de t o call loca l ai r fo r
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Robert E. Jordan III Subject(s) covered 18,19 Events in Dallas 19,20,21 Warren Commission Report 21,22 Autopsy on Senator Kennedy 23,24 23,24 James Rowley Rufus Youngblood 24
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/20/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Senator Edward Kennedy's plane crash; Lady Bird calls Rose Kennedy, Birch Bayhs and Mrs. Edward Kennedy; telephone conversation with Lynda Johnson about security problem on her flight; office work; Lady Bird reads; walk around White House
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/16/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • , and then w hen e v e r y th in g i s in p la c e in it it w i l l be turned o v e r to the F e d e r a l g o v e r n m e n t, B obby w a s e a s y , r e la x e d , but he i s an e n ig m a to m e . M r s , R o s e Kennedy w a s th e r e , a s s lim and p r e
  • Women Doers Luncheon with speaker, Jane Jacobs; funny story about Mrs. Charles Marsh; LBJ makes brief appearance; office work; Dorris Powell tells stories about Lady Bird's mother; LBJ & Lady Bird to dinner in New York honoring Jacqueline Kennedy
Published remarks, Remarks of Lyndon B. Johnson at the Civil Rights Symposium, 12/12/72 (Item)
  • and pull grapefruit out and hull it with their teeth because they didn't have food. And I lived through the Roosevelt Era and the Truman Era and the Eisenhower Era and the Kennedy Era. I knew all of those men, and I knew them reasonably well. And all
Folder, "March 13, 1965, #38, Backup Material For the President’s Press Conferences, Press Office Files, Box 71 (Item)
  • viewpoint and have asked the Attorney General to go into some detail in connection with the principles that we would have in this bill. We are very anxious to have Democratic and Republican support. As you know, President Kennedy in the Kennedy-Johnson
Folder, "Civil Rights Accomplishments – LBJ," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • realised then. that poa·i tive action was long ,ove.r- dtta,. :action had: to be ca.k•n" Mom•ntum b elvil s-lshta l~om aceele.~ated tbat pojnt 011 under the le.adersh!p of tbe Kennedy- Jolut•on adm!m•~on .an4. 'by the :rietng Udo of Nes•o· ~nmtl­
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/7/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Johnsons attend Christian Church; LBJ gives kisses to small girl, Kimberly Frye; lunch at White House with the McNamaras; Jacqueline Kennedy; bowling with Lynda; dinner with the Bill Whites and the Jack Brooks; Jake Pickle, Clark Clifford
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/16/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Kennedy walked into his office, the first time after John Kennedy 1 s death. It was Lyndon that suggested that we see Guess Who's Corning to Dinner, and we all went out to the hangar which is completed now, for showing movies, . and very nice, except
  • ; Lady Bird meets LBJ at hangar; park meeting continues at the LBJ Birthplace; to LBJ Ranch house; Johnsons, Lynda & Chuck Robb and the Krims drive the Lewis place; Robert Kennedy announces run for President; "Guess Who's Coming for Dinner?" movie shown
Collection, Papers of Virginia Durr (entire collection) (Item)
  • on to the essentials it, they that to be done. Lady B~rd typified ·, in from the it by the act ' oj coming I• ,. 0 funeral simple of President Kennedy( certainly his death I ¢, . was. one of the greatest 0 she.walked ' in her -house, to go
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/19/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • LBJ to California; Lady Bird's television taping for Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation; visits by family friends; shopping; dinner with Luci Johnson, Dr. Jim Cain & Jack Valenti; to Olney Theatre for play; airplane crash of Sen. Edward Kennedy
Folder, "[Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • in our national policy. In the seven years prior to the Kennedy-Johnson Administra­ • tions, the United States suffered three recessions. A large proportion o! our industrial plant went unused, and our national production grew ..... at a rate o! only
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/2/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Act; Lady Bird observes Robert Kennedy; LBJ & Lady Bird to LBJ Ranch
Folder, "Ex HU 2, 1/1/65 - 4/20/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES]," WHCF HU, Box 3 (Item)
  • . "'"LE MllSTA , II. I. l'llAllL M. SAYllll, OKLA . 011 , MAllY SINCLAIR CllAW,.0110, CALIP'. MAllY C . KENNEDY, I ND. MAllY .I. •RANDON, OHIO C . TELEPHONE: LINCOLN • · 1210 ... , Chllirtn411, EMMA GUFFEY MILLEI, PENNSYLVANIA .! February 5, 1 . y
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/11/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • of Public Service; why LBJ kept Kennedy appointees; Lady Bird gives Pat Nixon tour of family quarters; photo montage for press women; performance of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" in East Room; dinner; LBJ has a cold
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/3/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird to beauty shop and works on magazine article; LBJ gives Distinguished Service Medal to Gen. Ted Clifton; Lady Bird to Jacqueline Kennedy Garden for beautification ceremony; Lady Bird looks at photos with Luci and Lynda Johnson of Lynda's
Folder, "March 12-18, 1965 [Selma Situation]," President’s Appointment File [Diary Backup], Box 15 (Item)
  • eynolds Russell Giffen Harry Baker Louis Robinson Russell Kennedy Accompanied by Senator Thomas K uchel of California, and California Congressmen: Harlan Hagen B. F. Sisk John Tunney 1:00 pm LUNCH with Secretary Rusk, Secretary McNamara, and McGeorge
Folder, "Communism and the Negro Movement – A Current Analysis," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 63a (Item)
  • and keep to a bare minimum personal meetings between the two, such meetings have been observed. On November 20, 1963, King met personally with Levison at the International Hotel, Kennedy International Airport, New York City. The site was a room registered