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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

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/12/1965 (Thursday) (Item)

■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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/21/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/18/1964 (Monday) (Item)

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/10/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Dr. Arthur Harris, interview S-I, 7/10/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/3/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/19/1965 (Friday) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/24/1964 (Friday) (Item)

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/14/1968 (Monday) (Item)

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

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, 3/14/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)

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

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