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  • at the Cosmos Club, which gave me the opportu­ nity not only to know you person&lly but to exchange points of view on matters concerning your and my country. I thought it advisable to send you some information concern­ ing the projects which my Government has
  • at. shorthand, he sat in on meetings of the Cabinet,· on breakfasts with davk swearing that he "had no kriowl- two years after his marriage to Mar.·' jorie ("Babe") Whitehill, a Catholic. congressional leaders, and occasionally on sessions of the National
  • at. shorthand, he sat in on meetings of the Cabinet,· on breakfasts with davk swearing that he "had no kriowl- two years after his marriage to Mar.·' jorie ("Babe") Whitehill, a Catholic. congressional leaders, and occasionally on sessions of the National
  • on the ball and were reading the calendar, reading the bills, and calling those of interest to the attention of their Senators, we would hear from them.Occasionally a Senator would come in the next day, having read that a bill had passed in the Congressional
  • anything that he didn't say before he got the nomination ought to have his head examined. I can remember that particular day. He did it all in one week. I remember walking into the Headliners Club, and Walter Prescott Webb was at the bar--he and I were
  • ), Sen. Howard W. Cannon, of the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, and Rep. Chet Holi­ field, head of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. The warning of top military plan­ ners could hardly be more emphatic. Herc is what two
  • attitude tow2:.rd African dcivelopment problems is evident in the fellowing quote from the Agency;s Congressional presentation for FY 1968: -- '';Economic 1J:itoblems and the devalopmer1t challenge moved even more to the foreground• . • (in J':.frica
  • at National Press Club Luncheon) Ambassador Goldberg - {Out of the country) · Mr. Rostow - {Out of the country) I · 1 i l . THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Saturday, Feb.. 12, 1966 2:00 P. M. \ J( Mr. President: (~ l /4;~ tv' ,_/' \ For information
  • be an appropriate time to get together . But, frankly, as the Congressional elections impended, it didn't seem likely that the President would wish to do it in that period . l have done a memorandum which is available in the Library . I wrote it to Walt Rostow
  • . At the present time, well, for example when he ran for President in 1964, we got about twenty-six thousand more votes in this Congressional district than was needed to carry the district . And the margin in the state was something like forty-six thousand, so
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: JACK ALBRIGHT INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start with the circumstances of your being hired to begin with, General Albright. A: Right. On the twenty-fifth day
  • is e . COPY LBJ LIBRARY CONGRESSIONAL DISCUSSION OF TONKIN GULF AND RESOLUTION A u g u st^ , 196i|. th r o u g h A ugust 2 1 , 1961; COPY LBJ LIBRARY on N arcotics of th e C om m ittee on Gov ­ ern m e n t O perations was authorized to m eet
  • ' /4.?.::>-- ~ FOR THE PRESIDENT Henry H. Wilson, c=
  • . Without such a bill, AID cannot move forward in the elimination of its "deadwood" as desired by the President. I believe too much is at stake in the passage of H. R. 6277 to jeopardize it for a very unlikely possibility of Congressional approval now
  • additional relevant. legislation except in certain limited areas n t particularly Legislation is needed to use donated funds and funds appropriated from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. In any event, it would be desirable to have Congressional
  • of your Administration in foreign. policy. Saturday. October 14, 1967 A t.: I had lunch with Joe Alsop, at hla suggestion, at the Metropolitan Club. He gave me an extremely vlvld account of progress ln Vietnam. It is hls belle£ that by June 0£ next year
  • Javits has now proposed (February 1 Congressional Record) that the Senate Banking and Currency Committee conduct a study of the eff~ctiveness of existing legislation in protecting US fir~ from the Arab boycott. This may set off a new campaign on the part
  • Song" aner discussing recent statement United States administration and congressional leaders in support Viet-Nam's struggle for survival in large scale Communist onslaught, said: "We can be sure that from now on US and other free world countries
  • of Alabama, ~ho has been_{eliable in the ast. \'VC.._ JJ~tri.v One of our informants in Alabama reports ✓--t definite plans have now been completed for the Governor_ Jallace clubs to offices in be set up all around the country with the principal Alabama
  • in that sort of position, or were they just two news people that he could trust? J: I think that was basically it. F: He didn't feel he was doing them any disservice? J: No. Bill White was a longtime friend of his, going back to congressional days, and he
  • to support congressional candidates and for non-political reasons; the credibility gap; LBJ as a captive president; LBJ’s respect for the role of presidency; LBJ’s trips to the Ranch; LBJ taking the advice of numerous people; each staff member perceiving his
  • , 1980 INTERVIHJEE: CHRISTOPHER WEEKS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washi~9ton, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Weeks. let's start with your involvement in the War on Poverty Task Force. lid like to ask you to trace your earlier
  • Joaquin Trejoa Fernandez. As in the pa.et, local government, congressional, btudness and religious l0aders will attend. In pr0vious years,, you have sent a rnessage to the President of Costa Rica on this occasion. State recomn1ende that you do so (Tab
  • Joaquin Trejoa Fernandez. As in the pa.et, local government, congressional, btudness and religious l0aders will attend. In pr0vious years,, you have sent a rnessage to the President of Costa Rica on this occasion. State recomn1ende that you do so (Tab
  • ----- 2. Set up presentation, with Congressional and other guests, and possible Presidential policy statement 3. Disapprove ----- 4. Speak ~o me ----- I ----- - Mr. 1->re side nt: The State Department draft a proposed talk to African
  • ,,- / September ZO, 1966 ME MO FOR MR. ROSTOW SUBJEC T: Congressional Statements on Vi t-Nam I got out t o statements on Vi t-N m -- in answer to the Repub ican po icy stat m nt -- by 11 :30 thi morning. They were r -typed and went to Henry ilson' s office
  • Bell, they were told 1 among other things, that (a) AID is under a Congressional prohibition against providing budgetary assistance. and {b) notwithstanding this prohibition, the present US balance of payments position would not permit us to comply
  • Congressman condemned Alabama's troopers and Gov· ernor and demanded action rani;ing from the sending oC Federal troops to cutting the state's congressional delega· lion in half to shutting down all military installations there. But even as the White House
  • Kellam here, and to meet with different people in this congressional district. Lyndon was going to resign and [become] secretary of the navy and I was going to run for Congress in his place. That was the deal. I never will forget being in Jesse's
  • governor. I was secretary of the Young Republican Club at that time and became involved in a general [way]. [It] at least gave me a general knowledge of politics in Michigan, and I became very interested in that sort of thing. Then of course we came
  • of World War II, I was going to school at Oklahoma Baptist University, and he was running for U.S. Senate in 1948. I liked him so I helped organize what we called Young Citizens for Kerr for Senate clubs all over Oklahoma. Then he was elected. After he
  • . The way it really works is that the members of the Senate are constantly piling up money in the bank. They will be doing favors for other people whenever they can possibly do that favor. This is the essence of the inner club. I won't say every member