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  • the system of public welfare in America. The welfare system, as I stated to the Congress last year, pleases no one. 'J:'.he cost of administering welfare is far too high -­ because workers mu'•t spend 900/o 0£ their time investigating recipients · to make
  • of these recom­ mendations, costly as they will be, will go a long way to solving the crisis in our city and this same crisis exists in every city in the United States. The accomplishm.ent of these programs demands sacrifice and unselfish work on the part of all
  • See all scanned items from file unit "EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA (HU 2/ST 5)"
  • File unit description: The events and aftermath of the riot in Watts, Los Angeles, August 11?15, 1965; calling up of federal troops; decision whether or not to declare Watts a disaster area; situation reports on daily events; programs to improve
  • Latin America
  • DISCUSSION OF BRACERO PROGRAM TO PERMIT MEXICAN FARM WORKERS TO ENTER US FOR AGRICULTURAL WORK; POSSIBILITY OF UNEMPLOYED US WORKERS PERFORMING MIGRANT FARM WORK INSTEAD OF IMPORTED LABOR
  • members, one each from the United Way, Inc.; the Los Angeles Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO); the Welfare Planning Council, Los Angeles Region, and the Los Angeles County Federation of Coordinating Councils, each to be voting members, and the Los Angeles
  • See all scanned items from file unit "EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA (HU 2/ST 5)"
  • File unit description: The events and aftermath of the riot in Watts, Los Angeles, August 11?15, 1965; calling up of federal troops; decision whether or not to declare Watts a disaster area; situation reports on daily events; programs to improve
  • , Chairman of the United Civil Rights Committee Rev. Casper I. Glenn, Pastor, Bell-Vue Community Church Spencer Wiley w/ Brookins R. Sargent Shriver, Director, Office of Economic Opportunity Jack Conway, Deputy Director, Office of Economic Opportunity
  • See all scanned items from file unit "EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA (HU 2/ST 5)"
  • File unit description: The events and aftermath of the riot in Watts, Los Angeles, August 11?15, 1965; calling up of federal troops; decision whether or not to declare Watts a disaster area; situation reports on daily events; programs to improve
  • Delinquency under Dave Hackett in the development of the community action program. The typical program funded under the PCJD involved funds from Ford, sometimes from the National Institute of Mental Health, often from a unit of the Labor Department
  • Latin America
  • ADMINISTRATION OF POVERTY PROGRAM, POSSIBILITY OF GIVING CONTROL TO DEFENSE DEPT; TED SORENSEN; SARGENT SHRIVER, CONGRESS & EXECUTIVE DEPTS; EFFECT OF TAX BILL ON FARMERS, WORKERS, BUSINESS, STOCK MARKET; UK TRADE WITH CUBA; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT
  • Latin America
  • LBJ REPORTS HE DISCUSSED FARMER'S CONCERNS ABOUT BRACEROS WITH MEXICO'S PRESIDENT ADOLFO LOPEZ MATEOS; FARMER REPORTS ON MEETING WITH ELECTRICAL WORKERS UNION ABOUT POVERTY PROGRAM, EXPRESSES APPROVAL OF SARGENT SHRIVER AS HEAD OF POVERTY PROGRAM
  • Latin America
  • LBJ ASKS IF CONNALLY OBJECTS TO REGIONAL OEO HEADQUARTERS, JOB CORPS CENTER IN SAN MARCOS; CONNALLY EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR PHYSICAL, VOCATIONAL, LITERACY TRAINING, TRAINING FOR MIGRANT WORKERS' CHILDREN; STATE SUPERVISION OF PROJECTS; REUSE OF CLOSED
  • President.) 10. Strengthened Manpower Administration 11. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1968 15, 000 workers are killed on the job each year; 2 million are injured; $5 billion loss to the economy; now only 34 of America's 75 million workers
  • represent discriminate. I hope you will put an end to this. It's just not American. Some people tell me I should remake the nation quickly. I know that cannot be done. I had more sense than that 30 years ago. We can't remake America with ghetto labor alone
  • material from various statements and edited the book My Hope for America, which Random House published. I took on that job too. I also went to the convention and served as a kind of speech editor at the convention to make sure that all the speeches were
  • ; John Kenneth Galbraith recommends people to LBJ; "skinny dipping" in the White House pool; producing My Hope for America; the 1964 campaign; genesis of the task forces; Oscar Cox, Walter Lippman, and LBJ's interest in education; ESEA and the church
  • . th~ I .&' • • . .I. _·> ~-.!.fic\1.l ties encoun1..ercd b:.." t!lc Office. Wj_ th regard to th~ qu2 stio!l th~ t you :J.~kc:d as to uhether .. : ·th~ Office of Education (or, if not the Office of F.ducatiq:n, so!:'le : ;unit in th~ Goverr
  • Latin America
  • LBJ & Dominican crisis; Lady Bird on LBJ's cold & weight; Lynda's article in "Life" magazine; Lady Bird meets Metropolitan Opera singers, two PROJECT HOPE workers, National Gallery staff on Pictures for Patients, and MS Mother of the Year; Lady Bird
  • them an awful lot of vocational or quasi-vocational training, things that would be useful to them as farmers and as entrepreneurs in rural America . . He said he didri't see why we didn't start some urban land grant colleges which would produ ce
  • Latin America
  • RESPONSE TO PRESS ABOUT DELAY IN TRIP TO LATIN AMERICA; PROTECTION FOR SOVIET, OTHER EMBASSIES; APPOINTMENTS TO POVERTY PROGRAM; OTHER APPOINTMENTS; POSSIBLE LBJ PRESS CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY, FOCUSING ON VIETNAM, SITUATION IN SELMA, ALABAMA
  • DISCUSSION OF DRAFT STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH; LBJ SUGGESTS THEMES OF FOREIGN POLICY, VIETNAM, BETTER AMERICA, FOOD AND POPULATION CONTROL; MOYERS' UPCOMING PRESS BRIEFING; GEORGE CHRISTIAN'S HEALTH; MOYERS DISCUSSES FRANK PORTER'S STORY ON TAX
  • be open to you -- the labor leaders of America. 11 ­ 2 George Meany To negotiate with the Viet Cong is like negotiating a collective bargaining agreement with an invisible employer. Every responsible citizen must be against withdrawal in Vietnam
  • Lady Bird meets with Sargent Shriver and Eric Goldman about Operation Head Start and VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America); Lady Bird must decide which program to focus on; Lady Bird assesses Shriver; farewell party for Luther and Martha Hodges