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- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 (69)
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- National politics
- LBJ THANKS HILL FOR HELP; LEGAL PROBLEMS WITH SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING PRESIDENT TO ORDER AIRLINE STRIKERS BACK TO WORK; POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF COMMITTEE BILL; DEMOCRATIC SENATORS' VOTES IN COMMITTEE; WAYNE MORSE SUBSTITUTE
- National politics
- LBJ EXPRESSES FEAR THAT FIGHT FOR SENATE DEMOCRATIC WHIP WILL SPLIT DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND CAUSE SOUTHERN COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN TO VOTE WITH REPUBLICANS; DISCUSSION OF THOSE SUPPORTING LONG FOR WHIP
Telephone conversation # 4225, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCORMACK, 7/13/1964, time unknown
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- National politics
- DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM COMMITTEE HEARINGS IN WASHINGTON, DC; LBJ ASKS MCCORMACK TO BE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN; ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI DELEGATIONS; VP NOMINATION; CARL ALBERT FOR PLATFORM COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN; CONVENTION PARLIAMENTARIAN; LEW DESCHLER; 1960
- National politics
- PASSAGE OF POVERTY BILL IN HOUSE COMMITTEE; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT TIMES CONGRESS HAS TAKEN OFF THIS YEAR, NEED TO PASS LEGISLATION; EISENHOWER, CONGRESS AND 1956 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; PLANS FOR CONGRESS TO ADJOURN FOR CONVENTIONS; REPUBLICAN STRATEGY
- National politics
- CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS RESULTS; INCREASE IN DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY IN HOUSE; REPUBLICAN VICTORY IN ALABAMA; SENATE RACES IN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, MARYLAND, HAWAII; NEED TO IMPROVE LBJ'S PUBLIC IMAGE; HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE, 21-DAY
Telephone conversation # 11404, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 1/25/1967, 7:45PM
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- National politics
- LBJ'S MEETING WITH HOUSE COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN; PRESS LEAKS FROM CRIME COMMISSION; KATZENBACH DEFENDS COMMISSION; J. EDGAR HOOVER'S VIEWS ON CONSULAR CONVENTION; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT DEMOCRATIC DISSENT IN CONGRESS; NEW HARRIS POLL; WILLIAM MANCHESTER
- National politics
- DREW PEARSON'S COLUMN ON CHOICE OF HALE BOGGS, NOT EDMUND MUSKIE, TO HEAD DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM COMMITTEE; LBJ DISCUSSES HOW CONVENTION ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE, NEGOTIATIONS ON VIETNAM PLATFORM PLANK; FOREIGN POLICY BRIEFING FOR CONGRESSIONAL
- National politics
- SEATING OF MISSISSIPPI DELEGATION AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; MFDP; PLATFORM COMMITTEE; 1944 TEXAS STATE CONVENTION; CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE PROCEDURES; EFFECT OF MURDER OF CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS ON ISSUE; RIOTS IN CHICAGO SUBURBS; PRESS AND JOHN
- National politics
- CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF OTTO PASSMAN'S ACTIONS IN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEETING ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL; PASSMAN'S AGREEMENT WITH LBJ ON BILL; LBJ DISCUSSES DIFFERENCES WITHIN DEMOCRATIC PARTY ON ISSUE; POSSIBLE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
- National politics
- ALBERT DISCUSSES SAM RAYBURN'S REFUSAL TO PURGE WILLIAM COLMER FROM RULES COMMITTEE IN 1961 AS PRECEDENT FOR DENYING DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIVILEGES TO JOHN BELL WILLIAMS; 1964 RETURNS COMPARED TO 1960; LADY BIRD JOHNSON'S AND HHH'S OKLAHOMA CAMPAIGN
- against Coke Stevenson in 1948 and a closer winner in the State Democratic Executive Committee. Did you have anything at all to do with getting him legally certified , that is, in the litigatio n that followed? That was really left to Alvin Wirtz
- for Democrats;" the "Port Arthur story" hurts Yarborough; LBJ-Yarborough relationship
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of the Congressional Campaign Committee. J: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in a wire that I received from him after having been nominated on the Democratic ticket for Congress from the Second District of Washington. The wire advised that I was to receive
- LBJ as congressman; Joseph McCarthy; bipartisan foreign policy under DDE; Space Committee; statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; LBJ legislative strategy as majority leader; 1955 Minimum Wage Bill; Hell's Canyon; Senator Richard Russell; Senator Dirksen
- movement all along to get- F: Were you doing anything? P: No. Except that I was then serving as executive director of the St ate Democratic Executive Committee under Governor Daniel. Then Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn had a general
- election of 1960; John Tower elected; LBJ-Pickle relationship in the vice-presidential years; LBJ's generosity; Ed Lyles; "Dollars for Democrats;" Homer Thornberry and Pickle; Gene Fondren, Charles Herring, and Pickle reach agreement on running for Congress
- out of committee. We were able to defeat it in committee, I believe it was, the Public Lands Committee of the Senate where they had before them a resolution declaring that the Tidelands were a part of the national domain. F: Now, whe n
- --for telling you this. But there was a night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1956 when Johnson became so convinced himself that he had a good chance to be nominated president that-F: In 1956? C: In 1956--that he started telling people
- rights and, see, have a bunch of Dernccrats speaking cons ntly in the Senate and some in the House, leaving the Democratic Party with an image of anti-NE-1gro. Now, I don't think that necessarily needs to be. \'/e I think that g•)t to do our home
- LBJ’s views of Vietnam while he was Senate leader through his presidency; the views of various senators about bombing; comparison of financial and physical support from the U.S. and the United Nations; Bobby Kennedy’s desire to see Rusk removed
- National politics
- LONG TELLS LBJ HE EXPECTS TO BE NAMED SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN; LBJ'S RECOVERY FROM GALL BLADDER SURGERY; QUESTION OF LONG SERVING AS BOTH ASSISTANT MAJORITY LEADER, COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN; LBJ'S SERVICE AS SPACE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, MAJORITY
- National politics
- LBJ REPORTS ON HIS TALK WITH GEORGE BROWN ABOUT ROGER BLOUGH, STEEL INDUSTRY'S DECISION TO ADJUST PRICES; CONGRESSIONAL CONCERNS ABOUT PRICES; COMMITTEE TO STUDY STEEL IMPORTS; POSSIBLE STOCKPILE RELEASE, MEETING WITH INDUSTRY LEADERS; NYC TRANSIT
Telephone conversation # 7019, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 3/4/1965, 11:39AM
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- National politics
- PRESS STORIES ON SENATE RULES COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION OF BOBBY BAKER; POSSIBLE J. EDGAR HOOVER MEETING WITH COMMITTEE; JUSTICE DEPT REPORT ON DON REYNOLDS, TFX, AND LBJ'S ALLEGED USE OF COUNTERPART FUNDS ON HONG KONG TRIP AS VP; BOBBY BAKER GRAND
- National politics
- POSSIBLE CHANGES IN HOUSE RULES, PURGE OF MEMBERS WHO BACKED GOLDWATER; ADAM CLAYTON POWELL PRECEDENT; WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE VACANCIES AND EFFECT ON MEDICARE, OIL DEPLETION ALLOWANCE; DC HOME RULE; TAFT-HARTLEY AMENDMENT; OKLAHOMA ELECTION
Telephone conversation # 9038, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 10/22/1965, 6:39PM
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- National politics
- OBJECTIONS IN SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO APPOINTMENTS OF JAMES WATSON TO CUSTOMS COURT, WILFRED FEINBERG TO APPEALS COURT; RECESS APPOINTMENTS; ROMAN HRUSKA'S DEFENSE OF DAVID BRESS; PRESS LEAKS BY JOHN WILLIAMS; CARL CURTIS; JUDICIAL POST
- National politics
- LONG RECOMMENDS ROBERT LANDRY AS POSSIBLE FPC APPOINTEE; MIKE MANATOS' MEMO ON VANCE HARTKE, VIEWS OF OTHER SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ON TAX BILL; ELIOT JANEWAY'S INFLUENCE ON HARTKE; SUSPENSION OF TELEPHONE, AUTO EXCISE TAX REDUCTIONS
- National politics
- WASHINGTON, DC HOME RULE DISCHARGE PETITION; OBJECTION TO PETITION BY COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN, HOUSE LEADERSHIP; LBJ'S PHILOSOPHY AS SENATE POLICY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN TO PERMIT VOTES ON BILLS, CONCERNS ABOUT PUBLIC REACTION WHEN BILLS ARE BOTTLED UP
- National politics
- MUSKIE DISCUSSES APPOINTMENT OF FRANK COFFIN, MAINE POLITICS; LBJ EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR MUSKIE BUT DISCUSSES CONCERNS ABOUT APPOINTING COFFIN AS AMBASSADOR TO PANAMA, SUGGESTS APPOINTING HIM TO OECD; MUSKIE, LBJ DISCUSS THEIR SENATE COMMITTEE
- National politics
- MUSKIE DISCUSSES APPOINTMENT OF FRANK COFFIN, MAINE POLITICS; LBJ EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR MUSKIE BUT DISCUSSES CONCERNS ABOUT APPOINTING COFFIN AS AMBASSADOR TO PANAMA, SUGGESTS APPOINTING HIM TO OECD; MUSKIE, LBJ DISCUSS THEIR SENATE COMMITTEE
- National politics
- BENNETT DISCUSSES EDITORIAL ON FDIC APPOINTMENT, SAYS HE, EVERETT DIRKSEN WANT LBJ TO APPOINT KAY RANDALL; LBJ SAYS HE IS NOT REQUIRED TO APPOINT REPUBLICAN, JFK WOULD HAVE APPOINTED JOSEPH BARR; POSSIBLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON APPOINTMENTS; ERHARD
- National politics
- SHOOTING IN GEORGIA, CARL SANDERS' STATEMENT, BODY FOUND IN MISSISSIPPI; FBI CHECKS ON APPOINTEES TO CIVIL RIGHTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE; RFK ASKS LBJ TO INSTRUCT FBI TO KEEP HIM INFORMED; NARCOTICS MEETING; POVERTY BILL; RECALL OF CONGRESS IN 1960
- National politics
- SEATING OF MFDP OR REGULAR MISSISSIPPI DELEGATION; ROY WILKINS; LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL'S SUGGESTION BOTH DELEGATIONS BE SEATED; 1944 TEXAS CONVENTION; CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE; KEN O'DONNELL'S SUGGESTION; LBJ'S UPCOMING MEETING WITH CIVIL RIGHTS
- National politics
- DELAWARE CAMPAIGN; POSSIBLE APPEARANCE THERE BY LBJ; NEW REPUBLICAN ALLEGATIONS ABOUT WALTER JENKINS, BOBBY BAKER; POSSIBILITY THAT WALTER JENKINS WAS FRAMED; NEW YORK LABOR COMMITTEE FOR GOLDWATER; NEED FOR INCREASED LABOR INVOLVEMENT AT CAMPAIGN
- National politics
- LBJ RELAYS JOSEPH ALSOP'S REPORT OF DISCUSSION AT ROWLAND EVANS' HOUSE LAST NIGHT, SUGGESTING LBJ USED JOHN MCCONE'S BRIEFING TO SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE AS MEANS OF BLAMING JFK FOR VIETNAM SITUATION; LBJ'S LOYALTY TO JFK AS VP
- United Nations
- MCNAMARA'S TESTIMONY BEFORE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, ARMED SERVICES MEMBERS; RICHARD RUSSELL'S CRITICISM; STENNIS' CRITICISM OF EQUIPMENT SHORTAGES; QUESTION OF CALLING UP RESERVES; CHANGE IN POLICY ON DRAFTING MARRIED MEN; POSSIBLE BOMBING
- Natural resources and national parks
- VETO OF MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION BILL; PROPOSED CHANGES IN BILL; MILITARY PAY BILL; LBJ'S SERVICE ON HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE; RIVERS TELLS LADY BIRD JOHNSON HE WILL MAKE SPEECH PRAISING BEAUTIFICATION; BILL TO EXTEND ENLISTMENTS
- National politics
- STRATEGY FOR HANDLING TAX BILL IN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, SENATE VOTE ON CONFERENCE REPORT; HARTKE AMENDMENT ON TELEPHONE EXCISE TAXES; PROUTY AMENDMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY; CONCERNS ABOUT NEED FOR MORE FUNDS FOR VIETNAM; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT HANDLING
- National politics
- US ISOLATIONISM; SENATE CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY; RFK'S SUPPORT FOR INCLUDING VIET CONG IN SOUTH VIETNAM GOVT; SENATE PLAN TO ASK THAT PRESIDENT SEEK SENATE APPROVAL BEFORE ESCALATING WAR; WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
- A (National Security)-SANITIZED
- SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE VIETNAM HEARINGS; POSSIBLE TESTIMONY BY MCNAMARA, HHH; LBJ OBJECTS TO HHH TESTIFYING, EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT DELAY ON FOREIGN AID BILL, READS INTELLIGENCE REPORT; LONG ASKS FOR MEMO ON URGENCY OF FOREIGN AID, TAX
- National politics
- LONG REPORTS ON FOREIGN AID BILL IN FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, SUGGESTS HHH, MCNAMARA MEET INFORMALLY WITH SENATORS; LBJ DISCUSSES HISTORY OF POLICY ON VP TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESS; PRESS STORIES ABOUT FULBRIGHT'S CRITICISM OF HHH'S ASIAN TRIP
- National politics
- APPOINTMENTS FOR NEW ENGLAND REPUBLICANS; MCNAMARA'S MEETING WITH SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE; INCREASED PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HAWK POSITION; LODGE'S REPORT ON PROGRESS, MORALE IN VIETNAM; USSR AND BOMBING PAUSE; AIKEN'S TRIP TO CAMBODIA
- National politics
- LEGAL PROBLEM WITH SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE RESOLUTION ON AIRLINE STRIKE; RFK'S, ROBERT GRIFFIN'S ROLES IN BILL; NON-EMERGENCY NATURE OF STRIKE; CONCERNS ABOUT UNION REACTION, POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF BILL; COMPARISON WITH 1963 RAILROAD STRIKE; WAYNE
- National politics
- LBJ REMINISCENCES ABOUT HIS WORK ON 1940 CONGRESSIONAL RACES; WH CONTRIBUTIONS TO 1962 RACES; FUND-RAISING IN 1966 ELECTION; LBJ DISCUSSES HISTORY OF DNC, CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES; RESPONSE TO PRESS ON NEWSWEEK ARTICLE, WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S