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Telephone conversation # 11191, sound recording, LBJ and PAUL DOUGLAS, 12/22/1966, 9:00PM (Item)
  • DOUGLAS' CONCERNS ABOUT HIS POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT TO COMMITTEE TO STUDY CITY PROBLEMS, CUTS IN GREAT SOCIETY BECAUSE OF VIETNAM; LBJ DISCUSSES INCREASE IN FEDERAL SPENDING ON POOR, POSSIBLE TAX INCREASE; DOUGLAS RECOMMENDS CUTS IN SPACE PROGRAM
  • Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976
  • Telephone conversation # 11191, sound recording, LBJ and PAUL DOUGLAS, 12/22/1966, 9:00PM
  • PAUL DOUGLAS
Telephone conversation # 9856, sound recording, LBJ and PAUL DOUGLAS, 3/9/1966, 9:15AM (Item)
  • ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK; LBJ THANKS DOUGLAS FOR HIS ACTION YESTERDAY (ON TAX BILL?), DISCUSSES FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY OF RECENT BILLS; GEORGE MEANY'S SUGGESTION ON TIMING, RATE OF MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES IN PENDING BILL; EFFECT OF BILL ON ELECTIONS
  • Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976
  • Telephone conversation # 9856, sound recording, LBJ and PAUL DOUGLAS, 3/9/1966, 9:15AM
  • PAUL DOUGLAS
Telephone conversation # 3536, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/28/1964, 11:03AM (Item)
  • REEDY ASKS ABOUT ITEMS FOR PRESS BRIEFING: LBJ AND DOUGLAS DILLON'S STATEMENTS AT CEREMONY THIS MORNING; LBJ'S MEETINGS THIS MORNING WITH JOHN MCCONE ON WORLD SITUATION, WITH WILLARD WIRTZ ON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, POVERTY, EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Telephone conversation # 3539, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT KENNEDY, 5/28/1964, 11:45AM (Item)
  • CIVIL RIGHTS BILL; CAMBRIDGE, MARYLAND DEMONSTRATIONS; DICK GREGORY; UNEMPLOYMENT; RFK SUGGESTS IMPROVEMENTS IN US OLYMPIC PARTICIPATION; BARRETT PRETTYMAN'S NARCOTICS STUDY; DESEGREGATION IN AUSTIN; RFK'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; DOUGLAS DILLON; WALTER
Telephone conversation # 7050, sound recording, LBJ and DON COOK, 3/10/1965, 9:30AM (Item)
  • LBJ DISCUSSES POSSIBLE CANDIDATES TO SUCCEED DOUGLAS DILLON AS SECRETARY OF TREASURY; CRAWFORD GREENEWALT'S CONSERVATIVE POSITION ON SOCIAL SECURITY, GOVT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS; UPCOMING ANTITRUST RULING ON DUPONT; EDGAR KAISER; KERMIT GORDON
Telephone conversation # 8546, sound recording, LBJ and ROGER BRANIGAN, 8/17/1965, 6:36PM (Item)
  • Branigin, Roger D. (Roger Douglas), 1902-1975
Telephone conversation # 10572, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 8/5/1966, 1:00PM (Item)
  • NEED TO COUNTERACT RFK'S INFLUENCE WITH PRESS, EMPHASIZE SENATE INACTION ON VARIOUS ADMINISTRATION BILLS FOR CITIES; MCNAMARA'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNNAMED POST: DOUGLAS DILLON, JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, ARJAY MILLER; LBJ'S ACTIONS ON AIRLINE STRIKE
Telephone conversation # 10945, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 10/14/1966, 4:28PM (Item)
  • DALEY INVITES LBJ TO CHICAGO FOR RALLY, PRAISES LBJ'S SPEECH ON SOCIAL SECURITY, TELLS HIM NOT TO WORRY ABOUT NEGATIVE POLLS; DISCUSSION OF ILLINOIS CONGRESSIONAL RACES; PAUL DOUGLAS' RE-ELECTION CHANCES; LBJ'S UPCOMING TRIP TO MANILA CONFERENCE
Telephone conversation # 6305, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 11/9/1964, 11:57AM (Item)
  • MARGARET CHASE SMITH ADS FOR GOLDWATER; EFFORT TO PURGE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN WHO SUPPORTED GOLDWATER; HHH'S REPLACEMENT AS SENATE WHIP; LADY BIRD JOHNSON DISCUSSES ACCURACY OF HER ELECTION PREDICTIONS; CIVIL RIGHTS SITUATION; DOUGLAS DILLON
Telephone conversation # 4179, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM DOHERTY, 7/7/1964, 8:25PM (Item)
  • HR 6455 GIVING TAX BENEFIT TO UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS' RETIREMENT HOME IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA, POSSIBLE VETO, POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS; CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL PAY BILL, MORRIS UDALL AMENDMENT; SEABOARD WORLD AIRLINES; A.I.D
Telephone conversation # 3500, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 5/25/1964, 8:15PM (Item)
  • MOYERS IS AT HOME
Telephone conversation # 4246, sound recording, LBJ and MYER FELDMAN, 7/16/1964, 11:15AM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF HR 6455 GIVING TAX BENEFIT TO UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS' RETIREMENT HOME IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA; PRESS STORY ON EO DIRECTING PREPARATION OF PROCEDURES FOR TRANSFER OF FAA TO DOD IN EVENT OF WAR, PROTEST FROM AIR TRAFFIC
Telephone conversation # 4261, sound recording, LBJ and MYER FELDMAN, 7/17/1964, 1:29PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF LBJ'S SIGNING HR 6455 GIVING TAX BENEFIT TO UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS' RETIREMENT HOME IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA; NEED TO CONTACT GEORGE MEANY, GEORGE SMATHERS, SPESSARD HOLLAND TO TELL THEM LBJ WILL SIGN BILL
Telephone conversation # 4263, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM DOHERTY, 7/17/1964, time unknown (Item)
  • LBJ READS RECOMMENDATION TO VETO HR 6455 GIVING TAX BENEFIT TO UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS' RETIREMENT HOME IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA; TELLS DOHERTY HE WILL SIGN BILL ANYWAY, IS SIGNING IT AS THEY SPEAK; DOHERTY ASKS ABOUT SEABOARD WORLD AIRLINES
Telephone conversation # 4264, sound recording, LBJ and SPESSARD HOLLAND, 7/17/1964, 1:50PM (Item)
  • LBJ TELLS HOLLAND HE HAS SIGNED HR 6455 GIVING TAX BENEFIT TO UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS' RETIREMENT HOME IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA, DESPITE CONTRARY ADVICE FROM SOME MEMBERS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION
Telephone conversation # 5068, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 8/21/1964, 11:15AM (Item)
  • APPOINTMENT OF JOHN MACY OR BERNARD BOUTIN AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POVERTY PROGRAM; LBJ SUGGESTS SHRIVER HAVE MILITARY OFFICERS LOANED TO PROGRAM; LUCIUS CLAY'S WWII EXPERIENCE; POSSIBILITY OF BOUTIN EVENTUALLY BECOMING DIRECTOR; HOME BUILDERS ASSN
Telephone conversation # 8668, sound recording, LBJ and AL FRIENDLY, 8/28/1965, 4:15PM (Item)
  • LBJ DISCUSSES NEED TO PASS LEGISLATION TO REMEDY BASIC PROBLEMS IN IMPOVERISHED AREAS AND TO PASS WASHINGTON, DC HOME RULE BILL; REACTION OF PRESS TO LBJ'S RECENT STATEMENT ON WATTS, CIVIL DISORDERS
Telephone conversation # 8801, sound recording, LBJ and ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, 9/1/1965, 8:45AM (Item)
  • CANDIDATES FOR HUD SECRETARY: ROBERT WEAVER; LAURANCE ROCKEFELLER; ROBERT WAGNER; RICHARD DALEY; URBAN RENEWAL PROBLEMS; WASHINGTON, DC HOME RULE BILL; LBJ'S POPULARITY, WEAKNESSES; TANK SALES TO ISRAEL; LBJ'S PLANS TO SEND OTHERS ON DIPLOMATIC
Telephone conversation # 9049, sound recording, LBJ and ROY WILKINS, 10/30/1965, 4:03PM (Item)
  • LBJ DISCUSSES IMPORTANCE OF VOTER REGISTRATION, VOTING; DEFEAT OF REPEAL OF 14-B OF TAFT-HARTLEY ACT, RENT SUPPLEMENTS, WASHINGTON, DC HOME RULE, MINIMUM WAGE BILLS; LBJ ENCOURAGES WILKINS TO WORK WITH NICHOLAS KATZENBACH; WILKINS' LA ORGANIZATION
Telephone conversation # 9673, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE MAHON, 2/25/1966, 3:55PM (Item)
  • POSSIBLE AEC FACILITY IN MAHON'S DISTRICT; MAHON'S CONCERNS THAT FACILITY WILL BE PUT ELSEWHERE IN TEXAS; RELEASE OF FUNDS FOR FARMERS HOME LOANS; FRB DECISION TO TIGHTEN CREDIT; DELAY IN RENT SUPPLEMENT, TEACHER CORPS APPROPRIATIONS; VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 5649, sound recording, LBJ and OFFICE CONVERSATION, 9/24/1964, time unknown (Item)
  • "VOICES ON THIS RECORD RALPH DUNGAN; WALTER JENKINS - JUANITA ROBERTS; J. ROBERTS - ASHTON GONELLA; PRESIDENT, LEE WHITE, & 3 WOMEN FROM MCCOMB, MISS. RE BOMBING OF THEIR HOMES"; POOR SOUND QUALITY
Telephone conversation # 8822, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 9/2/1965, 7:50PM (Item)
  • SHRIVER TELLS LBJ ABOUT FAVORABLE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ON POVERTY AUTHORIZATION BILL, INCLUDING REPEAL OF GOVERNORS' VETO PROVISION; LBJ CONGRATULATES SHRIVER; STATUS OF POVERTY APPROPRIATIONS BILL; WASHINGTON, DC HOME RULE DISCHARGE PETITION
Telephone conversation # 9915, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 3/26/1966, 4:30PM (Item)
  • CONTROL OF OVERSEAS TRAVEL; POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF CARL SANDERS TO CIRCUIT COURT; GEORGIA POLITICS; WH CIVIL RIGHTS CONFERENCE; DC HOME RULE; WALTER, BENNETTA WASHINGTON; ARREST IN VERNON DAHMER MURDER; KKK; SOUTHERN VOTER REGISTRATION EFFORTS
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/18/1964 (Monday) (Item)
  • Brandt, and I was glad to see there such old friends as B ill Douglas, Dean Ache son, L u c iu s C lay, and Tom C orcora n that Drew Pearson and Joe Alsop w ere included. Glad al so And Dr, M ilton Eisenhower, who's working on Lyndon's P r e sidential
Folder, "[September 15, 1967 - Meeting with AFL-CIO Executive Council]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • and opportunities. He mentioned the insurance companies' pledge o1 $1 billion to aid the construction of homes for poor families as an example of the needed involvement of the private sector. The President hoped that "the labor movement will want to outdo
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/21/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • . Up ea rly and out to the a irp ort to c atch the chartered Convair at 7:00--with L iz , of course, and B ess b e cause we w ere going to her home te rrito ry , Kentucky; and Congre ssman C arl P e rk in s whose d istrict we would be covering; B ill
  • Lady Bird trip to Kentucky; press; Lady Bird meets Gov. & Mrs. Breathitt; 8-hour tour by motorcade; Lady Bird halts car to shake hands with schoolchildren; Lady Bird walks to Arthur Robertson home & Lick Branch School; reminiscences about Fern
Folder, "[Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • discrimination of every kind• .We can provide a decent job for every worker and a decent home lI I ! for every family. I ·I I Today, most .Americans are not poor; most young people have ..... ·an opportunity for college education; most mothers
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 11/22/63- 8/23/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)
  • -Experience program to provide emergency child-care services for both the children of those who will be working on projects and for those who for other reasons might be absent from the home. IMPLEMENTATION Mounting emergency efforts in Los Angeles will require
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 8/24/65-9/11/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)
  • will cost $3,300,000. [4 of 8] ­ - 2 - 5. The Los Angeles School System will hire 32 additonal community coordinators and 32 new neighborhood aides to initiate a joint project of school-comminity cooperation to determine both school and home related
Folder, "August 9, 1967 - 6:40 p.m. President's meeting with labor leaders," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • of catastrophy are a always had prophets of doom. Some assistance versus domestic growth. for a war against aggression. abroad standard American fare. We have say that it is a matter of foreign I believe we have a responsibility and a war against poverty at home
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of occasions I would spend a long evening up in his office. I only went to his home in Washington once. I've forgotten the exact year, but I remember I dropped by to see him in his office and he said he was having a dinner party that night in honor of Joe Alsop
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/21/1968 (Sunday) (Item)
  • to Arlington, Virginia, to see Lynda and Chuck Robb's home; At Lynda & Chuck Robb's new home; Lynda tells humorous tale of neighborhood children watching them through the window; photo of Patrick Lyndon Nugent in the newspaper; the Arthur Krims are houseguests
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/23/1965 (Friday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird goes to Marjorie Post's home, Hillwood; office work; meeting at home of David Lloyd Kreager to view artwork; visit with Peter Hurd about portrait of LBJ; Johnsons go to Camp David with guests; Lady Bird watches Gregory Peck movie, Mirage
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)
  • a par t of the whole lea rni ng pro­ cess so tha t they might continue it at home aft er it was ove r, tha t [th ey] migh t get some sense of wha t the Head Sta rt_ group was try ing to do. And the oth er [group were brought in] wit hou t _mothers
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/7/1966 (Friday) (Item)
  • watches home movies; small dinner party; architect chosen for LBJ Library; Poverty programs; photographs by Okamoto; talk with Luci Johnson; Pope's visit to New York; upcoming State of the Union
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/4/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • meets residents, Episcopal Home for Aged, and the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce on 66 thousand project; Lady Bird to Senate Ladies Luncheon; LBJ briefs members of Congress, has Congressional Leadership meeting, and presents award to Adm. H.P. Smith
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/3/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • f C l e v e l a n d , O hio, s c h o o l t e a c h e r ^ g a t h e r e d up i n t h e s t r e e t s , b oys fro m p o v e r t y s t r i c k e n homes who were w a n d e rin g l o o s e , j u s t w a i t i n g t o g e t \\ in t r o u b l e . He s
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/24/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • t h e ir w a y alon g the m o u n ta in s id e . We la n d e d in a m e a d o w , c lo s e to the c o m m u n ity o f Inez, and d r o v e up the m o u n ta in sid e to the home of Tom F l e t c h e r . Now, a l l the s ig n s w e r e hom e m a d e
  • Steelworkers; to Huntington, WV, & Inez, KY; visit to Tom Fletcher's home; to Paintsville, KY, & Mayo State Vocational School; LBJ's Courthouse speech; the Appalachian recovery plan; Lady Bird interview by Helen Thomas and Frances Lewine; LBJ TV speech
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/5/1967 (Sunday) (Item)
  • with guests; dinner; bridge game; conversation about aid for India, war on poverty at home, Vietnam and China; Lady Bird talks on telephone with Luci and Pat Nugent, who are snowed in at Waukegan; Luci is expecting baby in June
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 9/12/65 - 3/20/66 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)
  • this and other matters if his time permits. However, I know he is very busy and I am loathe to impose upon him and, furthermore, he may be down at his home in Johnson City. However, if he is around and does have a little time, I would like to talk with him