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  • - that was attacked most fiercely on the Hill. The last year when I acted as principal witness at Congressional hearings we were given an e.normous cut. For the future, I think it should be noted that the argument came about through the Vietnam War. M: Oyer
  • INTERVIEWEE: SARAH McCLENDON (and her daughter, SALLY O'BRIEN) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Press Club, Washington, D.C. 16~ Tape 1 of 1 M: I thought you might be interested to know the first time I ever met Lyndon Johnson. I can't
  • , "No, I can't do that. I can't do that." Then I got in touch with some of the Democrats, and I said to them--to Dawson--I had been Dawson's secretary in the Third Ward Republican Club when I was going to school in Chicago. Republican then, and he became
  • . That was after the war started, down here in Washington at the Touchdown Club. This was in January. [Must have been 1942 or later]. M: And then you got a law degree from Harvard later. P: After that I went in the Navy, where I was in the submarine service
  • Tobriner, I went to lunch with him at the Cosmos Club before I had taken on my position. We talked. I pledged to him that I had no desire to be a public figure in that job. That incidentally was one of the things that I determined upon as I went
  • in the Texas legislature, the House. I heard about a young whipper- snapper who was in the Congressional race to succeed [James P.] Buchanan who had died. He had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee. I say a young whippersnapper because that's
  • and was very helpful in terms of the congressional liaison with the California delegations. [The President] nominated Irv for FDIC, which was one of the positions that was confirmed. Joe Califano had a very important personal decision to make vis-a-vis Arnold
  • at headquarters, and he was the focal point of information coming in from Washington. F: That's one thing that always struck me about Johnson and that was there never was this kind of officers club/enlisted man situation. The whole crew goes together
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s 1948 congressional campaign; Mashman’s work as pilot of the helicopter provided by Bell Aircraft Corp.; impressions of LBJ; techniques in using the helicopter; visits to the Ranch and the White House; preparing
  • was to make, I believe, at the National Press Club. The memo substance suggested questions to be posed to me. It was so ridiculous that upon receipt of it I dropped it in the wastebasket. It suggested that questions be posed to me as to whether there was any
  • : That was after World War II . After World War II . Because of that I was summoned before congressional committees from time to time . I had occasion then to see President Johnson, but again only casually . My.real beginning of any close acquaintanceship
  • . They aren't the kinds of strides that I was at all happy with, but they were again light years from where they were. But there was agai n a timidity to - challenge the structure. There vIas the old club atmosphere, and there was no real help from the top
  • in Congressional liaison--who had been former state Democratic chairman of Iowa and resigned later from the Department, and now runs the Washington Farm Letter . of set the thing up . He had sort Freeman ; Clyde Ellis, who was then general manager
  • 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
  • something, [and say] "Does this remind you of anything?" We must have saved the taxpayers millions of dollars doing it that way because of his memory for the details of things that you'd never find in the record, would not be in the Congressional Record
  • ., Aero Club of Waahington, 1629 1t St • NW._ Waablqtoa. ». C. 20006 R£CE\\JE'1 • I OE.Cl ~) 1968 CEi1\\1J\\. fl\.~~ ~ ... - - - ---------------------------- ...... EXECUTIVE _ _ ~.f,:/ t:;l'J JIJ.1 THE WHITE HOUSE ~pj " WASIIINOTON I (J.S4-/ i
  • Federal blue-prints on the Congressional level for health and security and education of the individual through government.) 2--Work for all that man has as a tool in material prosperity. money can stop work. It is false that Work makes wealth and wealth
  • patronage, the nomination of Bishops and the like, and another is a full-time note-taker. Of course, a Prime Minister doesn't need "a Congressional Relations Staff" since he and his colleagues are in and out of the House of Commons every day and, in any case
  • , Institute of Current World Affairs, and Executive Secretary, Alicia Patterson Fund Fellowship program. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Phi Beta Kappa, Middle East Institute, Yale Club; Governor of the Arctic Institute of North America
  • "UNCLASSIFIED" LIMITEDOFFICIALUSE -2- 2¢6, AUGUST 23, FROM:B~IRUT AS THIS WASA HEARTENING ASNWER TO CONGRESSIONAL ANDOTHER CRITICISMOF OURFOREIGN AID PROGRAM.· HE WASDELIGHTED TO HAVEFOUND SUCHUSEFULAMMUNITION IN SUPPORT OF THAT PROGRAM IN LEBANON. VICE
  • ( ISRAEL - ARABS - EGYPT) .. including Arab blockade ot Gult Shipping. INPORMATION ONLY: Aclmowledgements to releases re above which were sent to members ot the President's Club ­ Filed GENERAL ND 19/CO 1-6/PR 18-3 • ROrHING ELSE TO BE FILED
  • : Then at the congressional level you had Luther Patrick from Birmingham, but Luther got defeated. VFD: But in the House, Vito Marcantonio, who was a radical from New York, carried it in the House. The reason he was able to get it carried in the House was because neither
  • CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. SENATE This resolution bad been passed by House and Senate with no opPosition ex­ cept for the rivalry of similar bills, an honorable rivalry generous]y ended when the Senate, at the suggestion of the Sen.­ a tor from Michigan [Mr
  • ~njoy grass, split- grants and ~~l:~~~ :,.~:·:.· .:::::.:::,. ••.:;_.,·. '.:··:· • •.-~._0,·.·• . levels, clubs and swimming pools and :. ,:'·,:··. •.. ·:'... • · • : . ~ ::~ : . look across in holy horror at the poor FleeingCity Hall ·-v
  • that following the favorable reaction he found in his consultations with Congressional ·leaders (which 1 reported to you on Saturday), we should make a public statement about progress in the Panama Canal negotiations. A draft statement which has been coordinated
  • of the DuBois clubs there. The crowd by acclamation passed some sort of resolution demanding reformation of the police department. The crowd then went to a police station but left it before any damage was done. There were a couple of liquor stores looted
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I remember decorating his Empire State lunch club
  • : No, the reason for releasing the Naval reservists was the obligation that we have under the Congressional Act that we must cut a very substantial amount from our 1969 expenditures. By releasing these reservists we are able to save quite a substantial amount
  • :, withdrawals .for~~mplc, - pi-edicticns by ~en who h~·,c a rig kt-~ a ju-diment: lato. in 1967, nt t~o 'Natiosml Press Club~ Gen. 'VTestm:orel.:.-id G~id -_'. / • •that ''wi~h,two years" ke.'1)\~ugbt ":::~m~ U. 5~ foi"ces r.-ilght be wit:1.dra~". • • , / . P
  • phase of suggestion ahead of a real fi ght. I -2- It is: we took some bf. his marbles but not enough. He is now mad and is standing watching us with a pile of rocks and a club. To hell with him. Let us fight and get more marbles. Skinny, you say I
  • you ~ 21 straint. !r 22 was congressional J 23 weapons i 24 same pressure 25 Khe Sanh .,. N is the road to peace,. and to try to rec ore ile ;ii ,0 ,... N with the statement of Foreign Minister Trinh of North 0 N J