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Folder, "August 8, 1967 - 9:02 a.m. Democratic Congressmen," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

about cuts. The President said he did not know anybody who was talking about a vast new plan who speaks for the administration. The President pointed out that $400 million was spent in Detroit, but that did not keep if from exploding with riots

Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

- l August 5, 1967 NOTES OF MEETING OF PRESIDENT WITH MEL ELFIN, NEWSWEEK: JOHN STEELE OF TIME: JACK SUTHERLAND OF U.S. NEWS, JULY 28, 1967 The President had a general discussion with these three magazine writers on the Detroit riot and civil

Folder, "C.F.- BE 5-7 Economic Planning for the End of Hostilities (Post-War Planning)," WHCF Confidential Files, Box 3 (Item)

. Romney, George 11.. Population 12. Post Viet Nam Planning Committee: Crime Control and Education 13. Program Reporting Data and Statistics {background for Fred Behen on Federal Aid to Urban Areas) 14. Program Information for Detroit (drafts) 15. New York

Folder, "July 25, 1967 - 2:47 p.m. Tuesday lunch - Rusk, McNamara, Rostow, Christian," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

in the Senate. Secretary Rusk asked what caused Senator Dirksen to make such a partisan issue of the Detroit riots. The President said he thought this was because of Congressman Ford. Senator Dirksen thinks we're too soft on communists. "But I have no evidence

Folder, "October 15, 1968 - 1:20 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

said the announcement is "expected. I will be surprised if it is not on evening news. Bunker says he needs 24 hours. Secretary Rusk: The President: Smathers called on me. a "political trick" is planned. He said Nixon people think General Wheeler: 1

Folder, "Bernard Quint," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 1 (Item)

: ·:. .•.'../ •/,;:._._ppecial Message to the Congress recommends the establishment of a .. ,.,:' ; ::,_:\ :~:·:· : . new 9abinet Department of Housing alld Community Development . .·.·;-~.-~·>·:

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

or the appointment of a new one. In a business way, though, I've bumped into him perhaps half a dozen times, not on Defense matters, but during the period that I was General Counsel of the Army and in charge of the civil works program. Do you know what the civil

Folder, "October 14, 1968 - 7:20 p.m. Foreign Policy Advisory Group meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

absolutely no doubt that this is right. THE PRESIDENT: All right, go ahead and execute (7:39 p. m. EDT) The decision was made to send out the draft cable - attachment A. Senator Russell said we need to do this. In San Antonio, we said In Detroit, we

Folder, "[September 15, 1967 - 7:27 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

Club in Detroit on Monday. Rusk said he "is going to remind them that 1967 was a helluva year for international agreements and he is going to point out the progress in the Kennedy Round, the Latin solidarity, the Asian Development Bank beginning

Folder, "[September 5, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

matters the President asked him about earlier in the day - the forest fire situation in Oregon and Idaho and the report on the Detroit riots which appeared in the New York Times today. The President asked that Cyrus Vance and General Throckmorton be here

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in June of 1965 to succeed Stephen Ailes. Earlier in 1965 you had been appointed Under Secretary of the Army and prior to that you were an attorney in New York and also active in Republican politics. R: Substantially correct. Is this information
; Detroit riots; Robert McNamara; Clark Clifford; cost effectiveness; role of service secretaries

Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

of the Detroit News asked about the complaint that the Joint Chiefs are being held down. The President said that's a correct statement. The President pointed out that he and Rusk and McNamara never leave the room without agreement. The Joint Chiefs have

Folder, "Ex BE 5-7 Economic Planning for the End of Hostilities (Post War Planning)," WHCF BE, Box 40 (Item)

people, both through new and existing programs; -stuay and evaluate the future direction of Federal financial supporf, to our State and local governments; -examine ways in which the transition to peace can be smoothed for the workers, companies

Folder, "[November 2, 1967 - Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

in pacification. Henry Cabot Lodge made three recommendations: 1.) conduct independen.t audit of how the ARVN is going; 2.) reduce U.S. casualties by adopting a new military policy of "split up and keep off balance, 11 instead of the "seek out and destroy" policy

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on the Council of Economic Advisers, put together the new JOBS program and the National Alliance of Businessmen. While the ideas for it had come out of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)

, Kentucky; Representative Hal Boggs, Louisiana; Representative Gerald Ford, Michigan; Honorable Allen Dulles, Washington; Honorable John Day [J.] McCloy, New York. RUSSEL L: Well, now Mr. President, I know I don't have to tell you my devotion to you. But I
in information; LBJ's interest in the news; LBJ as a liberal; what LBJ would have thought of 1996 political issues; the relationship between LBJ and Connally; speculations on LBJ's career if he had run for re-election in 1968; how LBJ's presidency will be viewed

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

there. I don't know if it's important--I was editor of the Law Review, and I won the Campbell Award for Argumentation. I spent a year as clerk to the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. I went to Detroit and entered a law firm there, and I

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 discussions around the world I've bailed out his reputation in the way that came almost as complete news

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, that may have gone up from 5,000 people at the time of the census to 50,000 people five years later, if they can get a capitation arrangement on rebate of money from the state with a new figure, of course they want to take it. I think it's fair to say

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

news organizations, to my recollection, had staff correspondents based in Saigon, I think except for the news agencies. correspondent. The New York Times had a visiting Usually it was a person from Hong Kong who came down just the way I did. LBJ
into the South; Abe Fortas; reporters and public opinion on the war; the effect of the news media; evaluation of other reporters in Vietnam; American generals in Vietnam; locations and dates of his field reporting; covering the Communist side of the war; books

Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)

it in our own Hmv \vot/1 d you 1 i ke to be treated? country. 1o~ the same way. Treat the other fe l- I don't think you want.these people to go to un2r:ployrn2nt rolls in Detroit and Los Angeles. I think they ought to be trained here at home so

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

into the retirement program . So, if you do it the way I provided for suggest, you will automatically get the new programs when 2 1/2 million federal employees, and you will not become a target each time improvements that you're bound to want come along ." Mr

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 4, Tabs LL-ZZ and a-z," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)

. also be covered in new tasking for CIA collection efforts. 1. 2. We should do more to exploit the intelligence as sets of other countries. The Australians, for example, should be encouraged to add at least one officer to-their :.Wlilitary Attache

Folder, "October 14, 1968 - 1:40 p.m. Foreign Policy Advisory Group meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

:) "Here are three statements." I San Antonio formula August - Detroit . New Orleans - won't increase U.S. casualties. ... .::.>i:~ ·J,i

Folder, "National Security Council (II)," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)

dealt with the Congo, Cuba, disarmament, nuclear testing, outer space, colonialism, Bizerte, Goa, Angola, West New Guinea, the troika, economic development, financing -- and I could mention many more, like Kashmir, Ruanda-Urundi and Southern Rhodesia

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. He had a great deal of respect for Vance. He had worked with him when the riots broke out in Detroit; Vance had gone out there. had gone to Cyprus. He He had been in the Pentagon, first as secretary of the army, and Johnson had sent him to Panama
Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the table”; portraying news

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--was there as president of the National Governors' Conference, and Governor [Richard] Hughes of New LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

1963 while I was at the Internal Revenue Service. We were involved in a very difficult situation with Senator McNamara regarding a facility that we had proposed to put into the city of Detroit, and Mr. Mortimer Caplan, the then Commissioner of Internal

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 8, Excerpts and Taylor's Memo," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)

, and labor. Our economic statistics are the best and most compre hensive in the world. But they can be and need to be further improved. The costs will be exceedingly small relative to the benefits. To this end, my 1969 budget provides for several new

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: The nickname "Chub" came to me at Groton School from the junior headmaster Jared Billings, who had given it to my father when he was at the school some twenty-five years earlier. On me it stuck because all the new boys thought that was my name, when he called

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/31/1967 (Monday) (Item)

d e d - - b y a b o u t 5:30. And L u c i w as le av in g f o r New Y o r k a l m o s t w i t h t e a r s i n h e r e y e s a s s h e s a i d g o o d b y e to l i t t l e L y n . I w e n t to m y r o o m f o r d e s k w o r k a n d t e l e p h o n
company; tea for ladies of the Texas delegation; Lyn Nugent makes appearance; LBJ stops in to say hello; Luci leaves for New York; Johnsons visit with the Abe Fortases & Oveta Culp Hobby; Detroit riots; Lady Bird reflections on leaving White House, Vietnam

Folder, "JCS -- SIGMA I‑66, Game Documentation, 9/66," Agency Files, NSF, Box 33 (Item)

Assembly. That body went deliberately to work fra.ming a new constitution for the war-ravaged country. ~T ' - NOFORN A-2 (BLUE) Page 2 of 9 Pages SEC~ ;,;;,- - NOFORN Prior to the US elections, a prominent opposition spokesman stated, "The recent

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/5/1966 (Monday) (Item)

o n e o f th e b ig g e s t MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE ( WASHINGTON M onday, S e p tem b e r 5, 1966 Page 5 w o r d s in the v o c a b u la r y o f the s a n ita r iu m . m y w o r ld then^ And th ey w e r e b ra n d new to ^ n d I think
LBJ & Lady Bird to Detroit; Gov. Romney meets plane; LBJ gives speech with heckler in crowd; standing ovation; Lady Bird mentions LBJ's health; to Battle Creek, Michigan; 1948 Campaign; as child, Lady Bird went to Battle Creek Sanitarium with Aunt
Detroit, Michigan

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

ty and we Ire goi ng to hang him and we mi ght as well get thi s trial over as quick as \'/e can. II So we got it over as qui ckly as vie could and we sentenced the man to death. The news got out. and people started calling Terrible nickname. me

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

every accommodation that you could get at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. You could have a radio, you could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway, a good

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

was selected to be the pilot for that particular trip as we had just gotten some new jets called the Lockheed C-140 Jetstar, built in Marietta, Georgia. We made the trip; it was successful, although we had some bad weather and some other problems

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

to go to the urban centers, and they were not equipped to earn a living in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, you name it. And they became recipients of the welfare system. Therefore because of this mobility of the American population

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 25-30]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

should not be impatient. Weshould be willing to sit them out. Andjust because they turn something down, I don't think that meanswe nec essarily· have to comeforward with something new. Aboveall, I don't want to get negotiating with ourselves before

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was then Attorney General of Minnesota and was named Senator mostly because of his great work on this subcommittee; Price Daniel, who was former Governor of Texas; fell ow by the name of Kohl er from Georgi a; a Negro congressman from Detroit, Charlie Diggs

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