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Telephone conversation # 3456, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 5/14/1964, 8:30PM (Item)
  • 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
Folder, "February 6, 1968 - 8:30 a.m. Democratic Congressional Leadership Breakfast," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • caused you any trouble on this matter on the Hill. But I do have very serious concerns about Vietnam. I think this is the place to raise these questions, here in the family. Congressman Boggs: What about Bob Byrd's charge that we are under­ estimating
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/11/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • 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
Folder, "Notes and Transcripts of Johnson Conversations, 1951," Pre-Presidential Telephone Conversations and Meetings, Box 1 (Item)
  • to ask. Allen - Anytime you have anything to tell me I have the time to listen. Johnson - I was told that Drew Pearson made mention of substantially the same thing last Sunday. The story says (reading Allen's story) Now, Bob, Jl no such talk ever
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/5/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • aw ard s fo r e x c e lle n c e in d e sig n or lan d scap in g to a b u s in e s s e sta b lish m e n t, a n e ig h b o rhood, a public b u ild in g. I think, I hope, h e ’ll give them so m e en co u ra g em en t, son® pat on the head. A t any r
Folder, "I," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • transportation, slums and blight, urban sprawl and scatteration-all these problems spawn •ugliness where there should· be beauty, hopelessness and want where there should be hope and abun­ dance. One of the greatest domestic challenges now facing the nation
Folder, "III," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)
  • . ' NEW YORK. N. Y. DeOClllber Twenty-fourth 1965 .... Dear Bobs Ma7I first ' take this opportunity to express the unprecedented pleasure I have experienced 1n working w1th this •secret" task force. Having bad a mmber ot assignnents ot similar nature
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- I -- 6 talk about that. Or Public Works, there was nothing on Public Works that I was interested in or that he was interested in, I don't think. G: Or that Bob Kerr, who was on there, was concerned. With your
Folder, "The Message - Vol. II [1 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)
  • the Corps is giving Congressmen the pitch that such an arrangement will make it harder to get these projects dear to a . Congressman's heart. We have found this reaction from McClellan, Jim Wright, Edmondson and Bob Jones, and second hand we are told
Folder, "Decision on Transportation," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
Folder, "II," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
Folder, "III," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • HARRY 4: z_@ -----. .--,:; I or S f, • 20th w ! ''"'::' ' I of October ' ···""· •• ' ~ I working with you and Bob . _ __ . -· . the committee in doing wha I can to help develop aome imaginative and meaningful recommendation
Folder, "Legislative Struggle - Vol. II [2 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 3 (Item)
Folder, "Volume I – Narrative History, The Administrative History of the Department of Transportation Act [1 of 2]," Department of Transportation Administrative History, Box 1 (Item)
  • the capacity of this governmental institutions. Johnson's Administration with our unfinished latest attempt initiatives, of men to arrange we can be proud of our and hopeful their Alan S. Boyd Jn concerning own affairs through Tapes located
Folder, "The 1964 Task Forces," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
Folder, "II," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)
  • the document. in accordance with restrictions contained in the donor's deed of gift. GENERALSERVICES ADMINISTRATION GSA DC 73.495 GSA FORM 7122 (7-72) _________________ __ , -:eAa Thursday. August 26. 1965 t z;~~CUTiV_ -// t/fl-t MEMORANDUM FOR BOB
Folder, "Passage and Signature," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 3 (Item)
Telephone conversation # 190, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT ANDERSON, 11/30/1963, 1:30PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS HE HOPES HOUSE WILL REPORT TAX BILL TO SENATE BEFORE CONGRESS ADJOURNS; DOD BUDGET; BUDGET "GIMMICKS"; HOWARD SMITH'S OBSTRUCTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS BILL; ROY WILKINS' VIEWS; LBJ'S CONCERN THAT LACK OF ACTION ON BILL WILL LEAD TO CIVIL UNREST
Telephone conversation # 665, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCORMACK, 12/23/1963, 1:50PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS PROPOSED STATEMENT ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL; MCCORMACK SAYS VOTE IS NOT A DEFEAT FOR DEMOCRATS; LBJ SAYS HE HOPES TO SEE MCCORMACK AND LEW DESCHLER AT WH RECEPTION THIS AFTERNOON
Telephone conversation # 7168, sound recording, LBJ and ANTHONY LIUZZO, 3/26/1965, 2:55PM (Item)
  • LIUZZO THANKS LBJ FOR HIS STATEMENT ON ARREST OF SUSPECTS IN MURDER OF HIS WIFE, VIOLA LIUZZO, AND FOR HIS SUPPORT FOR LEGISLATION; LBJ EXPRESSES HIS AND LADY BIRD JOHNSON'S SYMPATHY AND HOPE THAT MRS. LIUZZO WILL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN
Telephone conversation # 10591, sound recording, LBJ and DOUGLAS DILLON, 8/8/1966, 12:38PM (Item)
  • DE GAULLE AND FRANCE'S GOLD POLICY; STEEL PRICE INCREASE; DISCUSSION OF FEDERAL BUDGET, DOMESTIC AND MILITARY EXPENDITURES, INFLATION, WAGE-PRICE CONTROLS, TAX BILL AND UPCOMING CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS; LBJ HOPES DILLON WILL BE UNDERSECRETARY
Telephone conversation # 11913, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 6/22/1967, 10:45PM (Item)
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS HOPES FOR OUTCOME OF MEETING WITH ALEXSEI KOSYGIN; KING FAISAL'S RECENT MEETING; LACK OF ARAB UNITY EXCEPT OVER JEWS; JACOB JAVITS' STATEMENTS; JOHN WILLIAMS' OBSTRUCTION OF DEBT LIMIT BILL; SENATE ACTION ON CENSURE OF THOMAS DODD
Telephone conversation # 11621, sound recording, LBJ and LOUELLA DIRKSEN, 3/8/1967, 10:50AM (Item)
  • MRS. DIRKSEN REPORTS THAT EVERETT DIRKSEN IS IN THE HOSPITAL, WILL BE THERE FOR 10 DAYS BUT HOPES TO VOTE ON CONSULAR CONVENTION; DIRKSENS' RECENT STRENUOUS TRIP TO ILLINOIS; LBJ OFFERS ASSISTANCE, ENCOURAGES MRS. DIRKSEN TO HAVE DIRKSEN STAY
Telephone conversation # 13558, sound recording, LBJ and CARL HAYDEN, 10/17/1968, 4:00PM (Item)
  • HAYDEN EXPRESSES HOPE LBJ WILL SIGN PALO VERDE BILL RELATED TO COLORADO RIVER; LBJ SAYS HE VETOED SIMILAR BILL LAST YEAR BUT WILL EXAMINE THIS BILL CAREFULLY, ASKS HAYDEN TO DO ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW FOR LBJ LIBRARY AND TO SPEAK FRANKLY ABOUT LBJ
Folder, "[March 5, 1968 - President's Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • Conference Report, left over from last session . . . controversial, but a major conservation success if enacted. "We hope the leadership will be able to muster solid Democratic support for it on the floor," the President said. Congress­ man Albert replied
Folder, "December 5, 1967 - 8:10 a.m. Democratic Congressional Leaders," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • . are approximately 150 issues in disagreement. Should be no problem. There But we need this bill this session and we hope the Leadership can ask the conferees to work right through this week with the goal of reaching agreement by this Friday, December 8. (Mills
Folder, "[October 31, 1967 - 5:35 p.m. Meeting with Congressional Democratic Leaders]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • Senator Long about the Social Security Bill. Long said he hoped to have it reported Thursday and said he will need a few more days to draft it up. "We voted today that any additional increases we have will be paid for by additional taxes beginning
Telephone conversation # 22, sound recording, LBJ and DAVID MCDONALD, 11/23/1963, 4:15PM (Item)
  • 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
Folder, "October 23, 1967 - 5:36 p.m. Democratic Leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • , for the past several months, and particularly in the past month or two, there has been increasing sentiment here and abroad urging the United States to stop bombing in the hope or expectation that this unilateral act would bring us to the peace table. While
Folder, "[April 2, 1968 - 8:42 a.m. Congressional Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • are on the Senate calendar and we hope that Senate action can be obtained soon after the Senate has completed work on the Excise Tax bill. 1. Automobile Insurance Study 2. D. Co Police - Firemen - Teachers Pay Increase 3. Food for Freedom Extension (P. L 0 480
Folder, "State of the Union," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • EMPLOYEES: Transportation, ·Last evening Marad you heard and the State of the Union our President deliver his third State of the Union message. All of that stirring speech is of vital importance to us as Americans and federal employees. I hope you
Oral history transcript, J. Graham Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1968, by Monna Clark (Item)
  • fiscal year 1965 and fiscal year 1966 as the years of hopes and high expectati ons and identify fiscal I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Folder, "[September 19, 1967 - 8:36 a.m. Congressional Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • in the House. Mansfield said we are very hopeful in the Senate. Mike Manatos said that he has not had a Se!_late head count, but out of the Committee, three Republicans, instead of the four he had previously mentioned, were against PC's. Albert said "I keep
Folder, "June 14, 1967 Notes of the regular Cabinet Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
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Folder, "July 31, 1967 - 5:46 p.m. Democratic Congressional Leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • said that only four or five businessmen out of 100 contacted oppose the tax increase. Most of the others advised going ahead. The President said he hopes that the administration also can cut departmental spending. II. Crime Control Congressman Albert
Folder, "[September 5, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • with the discussion of the Vietnam elections observers. The President asked if Lodge could be contacted to see if he could stay an extra day or two to talk to the news media for backgrounders. He also hoped Senator Hickenlooper could talk to CBS. The President
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/14/1963 (Saturday) (Item)
  • h o u r s v?ith B i l l a t T h e E l m s . W h a t a jo b , t r y i n g to s e l l t h i s h o u s e t h a t I f i l l e d w i t h l o v e a n d som e ta s te , I hope, and a g re a t d eal of c a r e . I t to o k m e a b o u t t h r e e o r f o u
Folder, "January 30, 1968 - 8:30 a.m. Pueblo 10 - Congressional Leadership Breakfast," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • ourselves. We are going to pursue the various diplomatic alternatives. Any questions? Speaker McCormack: is a wise course. I think the course that the President is following SiilOE .s:_ eH: ! -10P, SECRET I - 8 ­ Senator Mansfield: I hope you
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/3/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • the m o st of it ! I le a r n e d la te r that C o n g ressm a n F r elin g h u y sen had a lon g li s t of w hat he hoped w e re h u m orous su g g e stio n s of w h ere to sig n b ills an had d l is t e d the Statue of L ib erty for this v e r y b ill
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/23/1966 (Sunday) (Item)
  • h a t none o f us gave an y r e a l th o u g h t t o -- t h e m i r a c l e of T e l - S t a r i t s e l f and y e t what hope t h a t m u s t h o l d . I f man c a n d o t h i s ca n h e - 5 - p o s s i b l y t u r n h i s t a l e n t s tos o l