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  • in the United States, and I predict that one of these days it will be the greatest bulwark of strength that the United States government will have in financial institutions. F: Of course it has gone beyond that. I've seen it in Latin America where in some
  • LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate
  • have been of group nature rather than individual nature. B= Have all of these meetings been in connection with the work of the Soil Conservation Service? W: Related to work of the Soil Conservation Service. For example, the Keep America Beautiful
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Keep America Beautiful; LBJ strong support of conservation and development; Soil Conservation Service; Lady Bird’s interest in the outdoors and natural beautification; Great Plains Conservation Program
  • and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Ben Barnes of Brownwood, Texas do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal
  • affecting the American people and affecting the American economy. Those would be: spending policies; tax policies; social security policies; housing policies; monetary policies; farm policies; international economic policies; and basic regulatory policies
  • will sound very simple, but people thirty or forty years from now might not consider then quite as simple as they now are. Don't let them limit you. If you want to ramble around and talk about something else, by all means do so. You were with United Press
  • Senate; served in World War I; entered the United States House of Representatives in 1933 and served until 1946 or '47. must have been a lap of terms. R: Yes. I was elected in 1946 to fill a vacancy. There LBJ Presidential Library http
  • assisted in this by sending troops, sending their people into Africa and into Latin America. over the place. There were Chinese all So there was a basis, it wasn't just a . . . . But I think the mind set of even the liberals in the United States
  • of Americans for Democratic Action; the Democratic Farm-Labor Party; the Sino-Soviet bloc; Humphrey's good relationship with JFK; Ed Lansdale; Humphrey's relationship with LBJ; the Diem assassination; Humphrey's trips as VP to Vietnam, India and other places
  • in Latin America that would like to come and live in the United States than there are people who come and live in the United States. I think that would be a fair statement. But this gets so involved LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] size of the agreement. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 But in that case you have a union in the United Steel Workers and an employer-bargaining group which
  • INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS PIKE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Pike's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Would you recount how you came to enter government service? P: I worked for the United Nations in Korea during the Korean War and then came
  • for this thing, and army units were assigned to go in and reoccupy the southern tip of the country, which was Ca Mau. This one psywar company that they had was assigned to do propaganda, and a staging area was set up in Soc Trang, which was north of Ca Mau
  • in that division was spent in working on the growing interest of the federal government in medical care and in the shortage of manpower. I was Executive Secretary of the Bane Committee, which developed the document "Physicians for a Growing America," which formed
  • Times, assistant to James Reston. I stayed on in Winston-Salem for a number of years. F: Winston-Salem. Is the New York Times running a farm club down there? W: Well, in a way. But I stayed down there for a long time, and ulti- mately, early
  • in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also
  • that that was very definitely in the American interest. In other words, the Marsha.ll program, while it was regarded by some people as simply a program. to help European countries, it was also a. program to help the United States of America -- both from
  • , outline your career, private and govermental? B: I might begin with my upbringing on a farm in southern New Jersey, I was born in 1934 in southern New Jersey, began farming there as a youngster, a future farmer and 4-H member . I developed a large
  • been horrified if he knew how little I knew when I started. Mc: Did you continue in this area? P: Yes--and all the way through, although we did a good deal more in 1967 in thinking through farm programs, programs for rural America up
  • Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies
  • , hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statement approved by me
  • of this material into the physical custody of the Archivist of the United States. 2. It is the donor's wish to make the material donated to the United States of America by terms of this instrument available for research as soon as it has been deposited
  • : This counterinsurgency business was a very fashionable sort of topic, as I recall, around the early sixties. Do you remember when this first began to surface and demand attention? L: Yes, it was in 1960-61, and we organized a counterinsurgency unit down at Fort Bragg
  • does he give it his stamp? G: That depends on how interested he is in doing that. I think he can make a very real impression on the agency if he wants. decide, He can for example, the priorities between Latin America, Asia, LBJ Presidential
  • was the second youngest of eight children, and he was born in San Fran­ cisco . My grandfather was a gardener in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco . My maternal grandfather was a farmer who lived on his farm all his life--never left it, as a matter of fact
  • that particularly; I try to keep things on an even keel. But I do think that over the years it was a remarkable job that the agency did, with support from Air America and the United States Army, the whole government worked together with CIA in the lead. And when
  • a supervisor in a cut-and-sew industry to be sure that the merchandise that had been assembled was ready to be moved to the market of the public of the United States. He had courage to insist on a 10 per cent surtax and worked hard to see that that went over
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 certain feeling in Latin America that the United States was paying no attention to them--putting all its attention on Europe and Asia. F: Did Congressmen ask you questions on these ten years
  • toward, what do you call it, Landover Center--Mall [in Landover, Maryland]. Landover Mall. It's just that close. You can see the workers working in the field over there and of course after they got the mainland they thought that LBJ Presidential Library
  • of Chiang Kai-shek; Judd giving medical treatment to Major General Shozo Motogawa; how Judd left China; the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; Judd's prediction of war with Japan and the role of the United States in relations with Japan; how Judd came
  • ; it would be too much of a substantial increase. Maybe he didn't say it, but I felt that maybe he felt that it was too much for the workers of America to earn $1.00 an hour. And naturally he must have had a lot of opposition from his friends, too
  • Peterson of Simsbury, Connecticut, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United St~tes of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted with Mrs. E. L. (Bob) Bartlett on May 14
  • system in the United States. And since that was more or less in my area of professional competence, since I did know virtually the whole trade quite intimately, it was something that was professionally intriguing and it was also an area of work in which
  • of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Chris Dixie of Houston, Texas, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape
  • to read out loud a rather lengthy statement that John Kennedy had delivered as a Senator to the Massachusetts Farm Bureau state convention. It was a speech in which as a young senato~ Kennedy came out in effect against the agricultural price support
  • and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C.-, 397) and regulations _-0'. I) ' I ._ issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, /;7,;tifvi; /L_ ,hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America
  • Millsaps College there for a while and left during the Depression to go work. You eventually ended up in Marshall County, Tennessee, farming and served a term in the Tennessee general assembly in the late forties. You were the manager of the Tennessee
  • to the United States of America by terms of this instrument available fo= research as soon as it has been deposited in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Lib_rnxy . 3 . A revision of this stipula tic :: governing access to the material for research ray be entered
  • . Did you know Mr. Johnson at all in the period before you went to Washington? C: I knew him only to the extent as a big city mayor and as president of the United States Conference of Mayors and as president of the Municipal League. We would have
  • of th ederal.p;Jperty and Adminis(44 U~~~97? ~nd regulations _. hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and conve to the United States of America for eventual deposit i~ the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
  • Property and Administrative SerVices Act of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, ~. L. Gulley , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America
  • to that. You asked for names of those who worked in the coalition--Joe McCarthy would be in that coalition. M: Another program that you are very closely associated with that I'm sure you are quite proud of is the United States Information Agency, which I
  • Act. Subsequent to this, I was appointed by President Johnson as a public member of the United States-Puerto Rico Commission on the status of Puerto Rico, a commission that was chaired by James M. Rowe. This commission met from 1964 until 1966 when
  • the thing, but he didn't do it and it just went from bad to worse. In the meantime, we started out--for example, one of the kinds of programs we had was a program of distributing an improved breed of piglets to farm families in the center, many of whom had