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Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 67: Mar. 14‑18, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 31 (Item)

take place later: beginning approximately April 15; -- the co st of thi s pa ckage would be for FY 1968 $2 billion extra. To this must be added the $3. 4 billion extra to which we are already committed by actions taken. The extra cost for FY 1969

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] Yarborough Democrat. And that was a deliberate move by the White House to checkmate Johnson. That created the possibility and the necessity, since Jerry Holleman had a lot of other responsibilities as assistant secretary of labor--for Mexican labor

Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

- cracy in Latin America, but the fact of the matter is that three times out of four the democracy is inept, inefficient, corrupt, and not really democratic. And while I certainly don't like military dictatorships, though some are worse than others--Mr
' responsibility; Foreign Service morale; conflict between State Department administrators and Foreign Service officers; Latin America; Brader Bluebook episode; knowledge of LBJ; secretaries of state; service in Argentina, Yugoslavia and Shanghai

Folder, "Greece - Visit of King Constantine - 9/11/67 [2 of 2]," Country Files, NSF, Box 127 [2 of 2] (Item)

and of the constructive role he has played since the Greek coup, (3) express the concern of the American Government and people at the suspension of democratic processes in Greece and·our strongest ' hope that they will be restored, and (4) impress upon the ·civil war

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the Congressional records. But just to begin with, you were elected to the 76th Congress in 1939 as a Democrat from Oklahoma, and you were succeSSively reelected to the House through 1951. At that time you were elected as Senator and served in the Senate until

Folder, "Bryant, Farris (Gov.)," Name Files, WHCF, Box B-542 (Item)

. Governor Brya.~.:.t said tha·: attitude was about standard and what he would have anticipc.ted. Governor Bryant noted th~t he had talked recently with ..ocal Democratic leaders other than office holders. Based on thes-e conv,e rsations, it is Governor

Folder, "Japan, Volume 2, Cables, 5/64 - 11/64 [2 of 2]," Country Files, NSF, Box 250 [1 of 2] (Item)

Washington departments and agencies have been reflected in it, but it has not been formally coordinated and cleared by other agencies. are The following additional being taken as a result a. specif~c follow-up actions of consideration of this paper: State

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Cleveland, and then was connected with every other Democratic administration. F: Really gives you a feeling for continuity that goes beyond when you actually come into what the Baptists call "accountability." D: I was sort of raised in this briar patch
Administration; role of White House press secretary in 1945; impressions of other press secretaries; recollections of LBJ's early days in Washington and his race for Senate; support for Truman; Democratic Party allegiance; 1960 Democratic Party convention

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the administration. He was working in the government at that time and has been a life-long Democrat and is acknowledged to be Hubert Humphrey's. 11 D2:Tr.ocrat and is an old personal friend of But he's a very remarkable man in that while he is an acknowledged

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 51, November 16-25, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 25 (Item)

Presaure action -- the kind of action of the previous August -- would be from the North was not just maint~lned, it was It was necessary to take new measures to try to slow and make more difficult the flow of armed mea and aupplles comillg from

Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that there was truth in his statement of the incidents and subversive action of the Communist Party. G: Let me ask you a bit about Lyndon Johnson as a senator and as a Democratic leader. He has been credited with having a great supply of parliamentary skills

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of accidents. My previous governmental service after the war was not connected with Latin America. I spent the war on the staff of the War Production Board. Then for several months in 1946, 1 was on our delegation to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Secretary of Latin America 1967; leaving government for Johns Hopkins University in 1967

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

to the art of politics? R: Is he unique in this at all? Well, he's a master of the political art, perhaps unmatchable unless it would be by Franklin Roosevelt. Some people fail to recognize the significance of the political art in making democratic

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, of course, I had had strong impressions of Senator Johnson before I met him in his office because I had had many conversations with his staff, and I knew before that he was a very strong-minded individual, certainly a strong Democrat and certainly

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

various elements of it--Community Action, the VISTA volunteers, and a job-oriented program that would be modeled after the CCC camps--only they would be better. He spoke in generalities. It was a brief meeting, and then I went off with Sargent Shriver

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

for about thirty years, and have been in the State Senate for twelve years, having been first elected in 1956. I am now nominee of the Democratic Party for re-election the fifth of November thi s year. PB: Running for re-election in 1968. Now, I happen
to depend on public polls; LBJ winning by a small margin in 1948; one vote put his name on Democratic ballot; LBJ as a popular President, except in 1968;

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 10, April 15 - May 31, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)

of the Inter-American system may carry out their intended responsibilities under Inter-American treaties and assist the people of the Dominican Republic in re-establishing democratic government under conditions of public order. The actions of the United States

Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as whip in the early 1950's? A: I hope so. I don't know for sure, but I was the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1950. And for a short time the Democratic party nationwide was sort of leaderless because the then chairman

Folder, "Bush, George," White House Name Files, WHCF, Box B-611 (Item)

GOOD DEMOCRATIC SENATOR RALPH YARBOROUGH THE CANDIDACY OF RATS HARRIS COUNTY TEX. ~'~'If.~~-·.-••-'•'' • ~ .. _ ' ...... '7'..' ' . ! I, • 'y ,I l . ' .. ::: !" • ~· -~\, :;,, ,: .. • ·• h•:,"1,.-,.{.;i. f' ___ ·••I

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the committee on the Democratic side [said], "Mr. Chairman, I would like to propound a question to the staff member." "The gentleman from Texas," said the chairman. "Have you checked this with the RFC?" Well, I looked at this member, whom I didn't know, really
[For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ’s role as member of House Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s role as Democratic leader in the Senate; LBJ’s qualities of leadership; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; White House-Congressional relations.

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WIGGINS -- I -- 5 was a man who was able to make the democratic system work, make the Senate work, make the government work. He had a gift of action within the democratic process and from that interview

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

and perhaps not as fully as could be. And that is, in the formulation or putting together of guidelines, for example, in Community Action, does the general counsel's office participate in that kind of endeavor? B: Very much so. It varies from subject
Biographical information; Community Action; LBJ and the poverty program; Sargent Shriver; the Yarmolinsky episode; Baker's responsibilities; the Employment Service; Head Start Program; OEO's mission and future; Legal Services program; 1967 riots

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and saw LBJ from time to time when he was in the Senate, during the early part of his career, later as majority leader, and then as vice president. After Kennedy's death, I saw him quite often. The Women's National Democratic Club had a private dance group

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Martin – II – 2 I was very interested in his doing it because occasionally he would call me over at the [Democratic National] Committee and ask me questions about something. He showed me over the first
Vice President LBJ’s meeting with black cabinet, resulting in blacks helping with Democrats by distribution of literature through barber shops and beauty shops, use of radio, the press, and the influence of black ministers, especially Marshall

Folder, "COLEMAN, JAMES P. (GOV.) [3 OF 5]," White House Name Files, WHCF, Box C-320 (Item)

Executive Director AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION FORMER NATIONAL CHAIRMEN NATIONAL WILSON WYATT 1947-48 LEONHENDERSON 1948-49 H. HUMPHREY 1949-50 HUBERT FRANCIS BIDDLE 1950-53 M. SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR JR. JAMESE. DOYLE (Co-Chairmen) 1953-55 JOSEPH L

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

' neighbors. from it. Even my state of Arkansas suffered I was defeated in 1958 largely because of this dissident feeling of my opponent who said during the campaign, "Mr. Hays is a national Democrat and I am an Arkansas Democrat. Mr. Hays is a Harry

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to elaborate on the administration's relationship with Carl Vinson. O: I think the relationship as it progressed with Vinson was somewhat typical of the improvement in relationship that took place involving several senior southern Democrats. George Mahon
The John F. Kennedy (JFK) administration's relationship with Carl Vinson and other southern Democrats; funding for an aircraft project and Vinson's argument with a staff member over his decision to support JFK; the knowledge and influence

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I was at the Ranch. Now it wasn't focused; it was just, "We have to show that we can rebuild the cities of America." The first sort of serious discussion--and that was on my agenda from the day I went in to the White House, didn't know how we were

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 75, June 2001," LBJ Library (Item)

to the White House. As presid nt, TR oversaw the constru lion of the Panama anal, that stupendous feat of engjneering. (It was a dm-ing and perhaps unscrupulous exploit in int rnational politics as well.) To dramatize America's com ing of age in the family

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 4, May 1-27, 1964 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

, our troops stationed on the territory of the German Democratic Republic with the provision, naturally, that the reduction of your troops would not be compensated by the further increase in the number of the armed forces of the Federal Republic

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, don't like those they owe something to . F: No one likes the banker . B: We also told the American people that it would buy votes for us in the U .N . On the contrary, as a sensitive state when you get aid from America, you're inclined to disagree

Folder, "Greece - Visit of King Constantine - 9/11/67 [1 of 2]," Country Files, NSF, Box 127 [2 of 2] (Item)

a >/:.~ c ..: (· ~· . 4o THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS TO THE WORLD OF - A DEMOCRAT~C WAY 6F DEDlCA.TION TO NOBLE AIMS., AND IT IS THESE HIGH IDEALS THAT HAS BEEN.THE ALWAYS BEEN.~AN E~iMPLE LI~E AND o~ : SuPRE~E OUR ·cOMMON !OEVGJTION ·ro ST

Folder, "Longoria, Felix [Newspaper Articles] [Originally filed in the Senate Papers, opened with Civil Rights Papers]," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 3 (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

had been, I don't recall right offhand, had been discussed earlier. The Community Action was the newest. It bore obviously some imprint from the juvenile delinquency program which contributed both to some of its strengths and some of its weaknesses
Biographical information; Community Action; LBJ and the poverty program; Sargent Shriver; the Yarmolinsky episode; Baker's responsibilities; the Employment Service; Head Start Program; OEO's mission and future; Legal Services program; 1967 riots

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 93: Sept. 1-11, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 39 (Item)

AND THE SOVIET REACTION THERETO IN WASHINGTON AND· ELSEWHERE. AND THEY APPRECIATED WHAT PRESIDENT HAD DONE. · ,· D. MANESCU PAID TRIBUfE TO SECRETARY FOR MAKING POINT· TO DOBRYNIN' , THAT US IMFORMATION AND ACTIONS NOT BASED ON ANYTHING ROMANIANS HAD . SAID

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 19, January 19 - February 4, 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [1 of 2] (Item)

directly threatened by communist subversion (i.e., Venezuela, Peru, Guatemala, Colombia). The concern led Peru to propose action in the OAS denouncing the interventionist character of the Havana meeting and its sponsors. Support for a strong resolution

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WHEELER -- I -- 3 first time I had ever seen him in action, and I was very much struck by one characteristic which I saw him display thereafter on many occasions. Mainly, he insisted that if we decided

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 7, October 1 - December 31, 1964 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)

that the Communists very much need a reminder of our will and determination. 6. While a reprisal will not produce political stability in Saigon, it does seem likely that specific, firm action now will be somewhat helpful in assisting us to continue to make

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. And even the action he had taken by sending guys around other states looking for allotments was legal . So actually as far as we were concerned in what investigations LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

came to the conclusion we had an uphill situation, even with a California victory. G: How about New Jersey? O: Hubert Humphrey, vice president of the United States, had been in the forefront of progressive action in the Democratic Party for thirty
; O'Brien's obligation to work for Humphrey's campaign through the end of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Humphrey's role in getting O'Brien's work obligations postponed to 1969 and later cancelled; offers from Look and Life magazines to do

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