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  • ADJOURNMENT OF HOUSE COMMITTEE ON POVERTY BILL; ADAM CLAYTON POWELL; HUGH CAREY; NEA CONCERN THAT AID TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS WILL UNDERMINE SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS; COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM; JOKES FOR UPCOMING LBJ SPEECHES; BOB HOPE
  • and I m ade a point of sittin g down on the so fa w ith Bob M cN am ara and te llin g h im a b it about the S ch ool of P u b lic S e r v ic e and the L ib ra ry and that when it opened I hoped that w e w ould h a v e a big s o r t of co n cla v e on g r
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968 & gives speech; Lady Bird visits with Pat & Luci; Pat Nugent leaves for Vietnam; LBJ & departing Cabinet members gives speeches at reception; Lady Bird asks Bob McNamara to speak at LBJ Library; small dinner party
  • hoped t h a t he co u ld c o m e in a n d s e e everybody fo r ju st a m in u te. B u t w h e n I saw h i m , I to ld h e sh o u ld not tr y . So I w e n t b a c k in to th e Yellow R o om j u s t s a y in g t h a t I w a s going to a c c e p t th e r
  • LBJ SAYS HE IS MEETING WITH ARTHUR GOLDBERG; MCDONALD EXPRESSES HIS SUPPORT; LBJ'S UPCOMING SPEECH TO JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS; MCDONALD SAYS HE HOPES CONGRESS WILL PASS CIVIL RIGHTS BILL AS TRIBUTE TO JFK; GOLDBERG, MCDONALD DISCUSS PAST SUPPORT
  • hope it meets with the approval of all states. of the people in all of the fifty
  • and Senator Mansfield and Senator Scott and Congressman Ford. And I hope they will all reason with you. I speak from experience. No one in this room has said more ugly things about me than Clarence Mitchell, but there's no man in this room that I respect more
  • re - - and I hoped it didn 't MEMORANDUM T H E W H IT E H O U S E WASHINOTON F r id a y , M a y 8, 1964 Pa-ge 4 show a s c le a r ly to ev e rybody e l s e a s it did to me;. The house m u st have b een 90 d e g r e e s te m p e ra tu re , the m
  • p l a n t e d th e m o u t a t th e c e m e t e r y - - a g r o u p of w h i t e a n d p in k i n th e n o r t h w e s t c o r n e r th a t w i l l b e a m a s s of c o l o r i n the y e a r s to com e I hope. ■ ■ '" l MEMORANDUM T H E W H IT E
  • in a l m o s t a y e a r . c: w a s c o n s u m e d w ith V ie t- N a m , a n d the h e a d l i n e s r e a d : M o st of it. . "Johnson Sees R ed V i c t o r y Hope Gone - B ut P r e s i d e n t Says U. S. M ay Send M o r e T r o o p s , E q u ip m
  • a s t he did not to u s , an d I c o u ld not h elp but think a s I lo o k e d a t h im t h a t I w ould hope fo r L y n d o n it w ould be a su d d e n g o in g , alth ou gh a t a v e r y f a r d is t a n t tim e an d n ic e ly v e n e r a b l e