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- [Mitchell] Sviridoff, who was running the New Haven organization, and Joe Slavet, the director of ABC in Boston. All of these organizations were organizations that had been initiated in various ways but they had some form of Ford support together with other
Folder, "[Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3
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- take. One thing _we have had going for us in our second century is · abundance. Nothing in the world's experience has matched Ainerica 1 s r .• . growth since the Civil War. Between. Appomatox and 1900, we hewed out of the wilderness enough new
- ■I' 1965 T h u r sd a y , A u g u st 12th . W as lik e a cam p aign d ay. I had w anted to spend at le a s t one day s e e in g PR O JEC T HEADSTART in o p era tio n . We ch o se New J e r s e y b e c a u s e it w as c lo s e and I could s e
- New Jersey
- Lady Bird visits Project Head Start in Newark and Lambertville, New Jersey; airplane filled with press; press conference in the classroom; Lady Bird to Governor's mansion; Lady Bird makes speech in Morven; Lady Bird is interviewed on plane by Los
- New Jersey
- is that it is 6n its way to becoming [9 of 26] - 6 - a paper of major national influence. Certainly, its new crew, headed by the young Chandler, is genuinely con cerned about exercising ' leadership to straighten out the sorry state of affairs politically
- and Disarmament. The President then outlined the Job Program: 1. America Today: 75 million Americans are working. In the last 4 years 7. 5 million new jobs have been created and t he unemployment rate has dropped from 5. 7% to 3. 8% lowest in a decadeo 2
- and Frances L ew ine, whom I think are p ra ctica lly twins; M a rie Smith of the Post; Isabelle Shelton of the Star; Eleanor P o llock of the Philadelphia Bulletin; and Nan Robertson, who w rote such good color s to rie s in the New Y o rk T im es about
- schools of Montgomery, the Barnes School for Boys, went from there to Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire, got my undergraduate at Harvard, served two years during the war in the OSS, went back and finished my undergraduate and got a master's degree
- fields, and at the subprofes sional level in mental hospitals, schools, child care aides, recreation, social work, and probation. 5. The funds would come in part from existing Federal programs like OEO but substantial new funds would be needed. Note
- ay 9» 1964 P a ge 3 Then we went quickly out to M itc h e ll F ie ld on Long Island, fo r the dedication o f a John F , Kennedy Educational C iv ic and C u ltu ral Cente r . The scene was oddly ru ra l so clo se to New Y o r k C ity. fie ld , w ith
- New York
- New York
Folder, "[September 15, 1967 - Meeting with AFL-CIO Executive Council]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2
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- in the past three years. Our goal is to assure that every man has a decent job at a decent wage. There is much :work ahead to fulfill this aimo The President looked to the three great domestic problems: Crime, Housing, and Training for new skills
- of flo w ers. And then I went upstairs fo r the nagging troubles of the day, that is, to listen to a tape of a news conference which two Republican C ongres smen had had, a fter they had made a v is it to m y tenants in Autauga County, c a r r y ing
- of 4] TO: Honorable LeRoy Collins Under Secretary of Commerce Sheraton West Hotel Los Angeles, Califonnia The agreement on a new community action agency for Los Angeles and Los Angeles County outlined in your telegram to me meets the requirements
- . My good f r i e n d , S e c r e t a r y U d a l l , M i s s S y l v i a P o r t e r , th e G o o d w i n s , a nd h e l i c o p t e r e d o v e r to S a n M a r c o s to a t t e n d th e I n a u g u r a t i o n of t h e new P r e s i d e n t of the C
- T U ESD A Y , JANUARY 10, 1967 p ag e 1 T u e s d a y , J a n u a r y 10th w a s th e S ta te of th e U nion. N ot u n til .it ;' ■„ .^ i t is o v e r do you r e a l l y f e e l th e New Y e a r h a s b eg u n . It i s a n o b s ta c le , a m o u n
- of Congressman John Fogarty; impeachment of Adam Clayton Powell; new African-American Senator, William Brooke; Lady Bird describes reaction to speech; Lady Bird answers press questions; Johnsons to Speaker's Room & White House with guests for supper
- it ie s , A u stin am ong th e m . T h ey a r e so fu ll o f youth and en th u sia sm , I w as d elig h ted to s e e O pera in d eed has a new fa c e . N ex t I w en t to the Red R oom to m e e t two w o rk ers o f PR O JEC T HOPE and to r e c e iv e
- is ne1.. mission, the .new emph
- 1962-1963 was Associate Commission in Bureau of Education Assistance Programs (BEEP); three divisions: 1. State and local elementary and secondary 2. Higher education 3. Manpower training; abrupt increase in staff in 1964 required new emphasis
- then, the only p o s s ib le new a s p e c t o f the speech w a s som e s ta tis tic s on how our cou n try is turning into an urban s o c ie ty ; that the annual g ro w th o f the m a j o r c it ie s in this co u n try is 8% g r e a t e r than the gro w th
- -Cleveland Hotel for speech at YWCA convention; Lady Bird refers to "War on Poverty"; reception for Cleveland women-doers; back to D.C. via car; dinner at a Howard Johnson's; LBJ to New York
- a rd e n . t. V' : . ' of j u s t c a llin g fo r th f r o m h i m s e l f and f r o m e v e r y o n e a r o u n d h im the l a s t o u n ce of s tr e n g t h . - T h e new t u r f is b e in g ■‘ 'i saa MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINOTON M
- my l i f e ' s b lo o d f o r a l l th e h o u r s we h a v e sp e n t t h e s e l a s t two m onths in p la n n in g , p a in t in g and d e c o r a t in g th em . th e ro a d And somewh e r e a lo n g go t th e new s from Lynd o n the ah
- a b o u t t h e New Y e a r , , p a r t ies t h a t t h e y h a d f o r a b o u t t w e l v e y e a r s i n a ro w - . ' ■ - 5 T o s o m any of‘ t h e m we cam e! c I n w h ich a l l d i d a s k i t a b o u t W a sh in g to n l i f e . so g
- rights conference in 1966, which had a large education element in it- H: I'd like to go back to that, because you've really opened a new area for me there, since I haven't looked at the civil r_ights _papers. say in preparation for that you brought
- and Hartman ranches; Hartman House - LBJ's "own poverty project;" LBJ talks to Mr. Hartman about birth control pills; Lady Bird calls Mary Lasker about New York benefit dinner
- 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
- a l c i t i e s , b u t nobody h a s e v e r c a l l e d f o r a n a ti o n w i d e b e a u t i f i c a t i o n p ro g ra m . She showed me th e her p i c t u r e s o f h e r g i f t t o th e c i t y o f New Y ork, t h e t u l i p s and j o n q u i l s
- ra n to n , lo o k in g v e r y p a tr ic ia n and c a p a b le on th e f r o n t ro w , M r s . H e w le tt S m ith o f W e s t V ir g in ia . th e n M r s . Jo h n K ing o f New H a m p s h ir e . A nd M a in ly i t w as th a t n e tw o rk of w
- Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -----~---- DEPAR'n1ENT OF EALTH, EDUCATION AiID WELF ARE Was hing ton, D.C. . Inte rvie w of I FRANCIS KEPPEL . I I by John Sing erho ff New York City Jcl.y 18, 1968
- n io n h a l l , th e r e w a s a n o th e r new e x p e r i e n c e too. D avid u. M acD onald, in in tro d u c in g Lyndon, pled g ed t h a t "the Union s h a ll do a l l of the d o w n - t o - e a r t h w o r k that is p o s s ible,-t o e le c
- at Giant Food stores; LBJ Library meeting; LBJ & Senator Richard Russell interrupt meeting; Lady Bird bowls; office work; phone calls to houseguests; dinner; LBJ talks about poverty programs; news article about McGeorge Bundy & bombing halt
- 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
- as secu red th ir ty -fiv e new additions to the N a tio n a l P a rk S y stem , one m illio n a c r e s - - t h e eq u ivalen t of Grand C anyon N a tio n a l P a rk and Grand T eton com bined. T h ere a r e now 163 ^ lin e a r m ile s of sh o r e lin
- to ld th e s to r y of a b o u t how S te v e n so n h a d co m e to h im a n d to ld h im h e w a s th in k in g of ru n n in g fo r the S en ate in New Y o rk S ta t e . That w a s in th e s p r in g of ' 64, a n d w h at d id L yndon th in k a b o u
- ill of R ig h t of o u r ow n •r i'" ' ^ ‘ ‘ . ' " . . d a y . So t h a t t h e s e th in g s th a t w e a r e s e e in g .-- th e T e a c h e r s C o r p s , F e d e r a l '^’S’ i-'-; fundso r H u n te r L i b r a r y , an d new s tu d e n t