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  • at that time was, "My role as first lady will emerge in deeds, not words. 11 F: The President made a magnificent speech to Congress, a State of the Union speech in 1964 right after he had taken office. He talked about the poverty situation around
  • authoritatively about what Lyndon Johnson was doing, what he was like and all that, and to my knowledge, in the four years I was there, the only time he saw the President was at that ill-fated Arts Council display on the South Lawn and it was only a passing thing
  • off three times--bwice, they tried it the third time and we resisted, to have a hearing in Mississippi under that administration, despite the fact it was obviously the worst state in the Union and we'd had the most complaints from there and we'd taken
  • ) INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER October, 1969 B: This is an interview with James Farmer, who at the time of the interview here in October of 1969, is assistant secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Administration. F: That's right. B: And just very
  • a reception at the Carlton Hotel for Vice President and Mrs. Truman. F: At the Carlton here? s: Yes. During the reception someone, either Secretary Forrestal who was secretary of the Navy at that time, or Mrs. Forrestal, suggested that my wife and I come
  • that was required to establish the basis for a [Texas] Ranger's pension. The State Legislature at one time had passed legislation which enabled men who had taken any part in defending the frontier communities against the Indians, if they established
  • the organization of the auto industry. We were very active in that because at that time the Negro leadership of Detroit was very much against all unions because of the craft union concept which barred Negroes. The CIO came in with a new type of industrial unionism
  • concluded our session last time--our Ist interview--we had chronologically gotten up to the period of about 1966, and I had just started to ask you about the increased criticism that really began at that point and reached a pretty harsh level. Just generally
  • was there as an honor guest, and also Mrs. Alma Lee Holman, who was the Democratic committeewoman. John Connally gave a talk on the man, Lyndon Johnson, and then naturally they had some singing. There always is. This time it was old familiar Jesse James of KTBC fame. He
  • . But the convention, if I remember correctly, vms in July or the first of August. Immediately thereafter I took Cl. short vacation and then threw myself Hholeheartedly in the campaign. At that time I was Director of Political Education for my union, so I
  • ; criticism that LBJ didn’t devote enough time to party’s political machinery
  • for a substantial length of time the editor and executive vice president of the Washington Post and held previous editorial positions with that paper, I guess, on back into the late 1940s. W. 1946. M: Right. You were a Washington correspondent in the thirties
  • like you-- R: Well, it took me a long time. I had been trying to get off for quite some time and thinking about it and making real efforts for quite some time. I: Did you have any connection with Mr. Johnson at all prior to the time you joined
  • no experience in this area at that time. However, I did graduate in personnel management and later went to the advanced business school at Harvard as pertains to finance and political problems that come in the advanced management program. So I assume
  • and explained that Mr. Johnson was involved in this campaign, and he had been--he had lost time because he was in the hospital. I think he was up at the Mayo Clinic to have a gall bladder operation as I recall [It was a kidney stone operation.]. G: Right. N
  • for the campaign trip; the logistics and staff work involved in the helicopter-based campaign; costs associated with using the helicopter; public reaction to LBJ's speeches and the helicopter; LBJ shaking hands; typical flight times and experiences for pilot, Jim
  • for the 1964 campaign. And so Wilson had offered six people full-time jobs at the Democratic National Committee as full-time advance men. That was the first time, really, that there had been full-time advance men; in the past it had been a part-time deal
  • Vietnam soldiers; handling crowds and the press during trips to the Philippines, Korea and Mexico; preparing for the 1966 State of the Union Address; Edmund Muskie; May Craig; landing Air Force One at National Airport; LBJ’s view of war/leaders; Pachios
  • be reflected in a treaty, subject only to reasonable safety precautions. The USSR has sought to qualify the right of access with such concepts as nreciprocityn and agreement as to the timing of visits. b. Reporting - Our treaty article as tabled provides
  • the same time. meaning more elderly people depending upon a shrinking work force for support. The proces is already taking hold in Japan. -uropc. and the European parts of the former Soviet Union-and may be beginning in China. Young History Researcher
  • , of trying to improve the lot of the least advantaged people in society by all kinds of programs. He would have wanted--I've heard him on this subject so many times--it to be through minimum wages and through endorsement of labor union programs. He has
  • the United States and the Soviet Union as Co-Chairmen of the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee are L g J submitting to the Committee a draft treaty to stop the dangerous spread of nuclear weapons. " (2) He would like to delete the words, "without further
  • . The time had not yet come tor Jehovah to move in world affairs in such a way as to build the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. It seems as though God must have designed a particUla.r destiny far America; as though the Lord might have said during the growth
  • to recommend a DOT to the President. Second, the role I played in helping hold the FAA and its employees behind the bill. But let me tell you how I spent my time after the decision was made to establish a DOT. The State of the Union Message was delivered
  • of radio time. Ys LGt•e don't waste time on him. de.teu recket. , Y; H1 Will till Fair Pe.rk, tour thousaud, may over-tlQW, I elshing out, but it doesn't make any difference. Ro\\1 about A. J. He 1s pulling the old con.flict-of­ irtz1 ls he caning
  • ARCHIVES PROCESSING NOTE You will find two versions of the document withdrawal sheets in this file. The original document withdrawal sheets were completed in the 1970s and early 1980s. Since that time, many of the documents have been declassified
  • there. There's no excuse for those towns now, because they can go to the county seat in less time in an automobile on a good highway than they could get in a horse-and-buggy or a wagon into the town and do their shopping and get back out to home in time to milk
  • VHITE HOUSE . DENT LYNDO N B . JOHNSO N began his day at (Place) LB PLt Time J RANCH , TEXA S _ Telephone f or t 11 ; Da ..... Col d an d ic y outsid e bu t n o slee t o r rain 7:45a Awak y weight In Out Lo LD • , , r
  • I MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON NOTES ON INFORMAL COFFEE IN THE FAMILY DINING ROOM - JANUARY 31, 1968 Present: The President George Christian ~ Hugh Sidey - Time Carroll Kilpatrick - Washington Post Merriman Smith - UPI Frank
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 19, 1968 W: I was born of southern parents in St. Louis, where they were residing at that time, briefly in 1923. We returned to the South. My mother and father were Tennesseean and Alabaman people with a long
  • , that is directly. I started working for Time magazine in Paris in 1950 and at that time the French war in Indochina was going on. So I had a good deal to do from the Paris end of covering the story, that is, from the French end of the story. And [I] became
  • •resident began his dayat (Place) Time Telephone 1 f. 1 In Out Lo the I or t ...... Activity LD 11:34a t - _^r" ___^____ White House ______ July 17, 1967 Day Monday (include visited by) Joe Califano - pl
  • with the White House, you r;iean? F: This was discussion with the White House--this was a discussion with President Kennedy. We had a discussion about it first in New York from early in December of 1960. And it was considered for quite some time. On the one
  • welcomed shade and that comfortable feeling of deep roots. There was a marveloU.:s; swimming hole off the campus that must by now be lost t c-; the forces of progress. But the center of life was the Union Building. We all gathered there at the Post Office
  • frequent conflicts with party leaders, Mao's authority has not been seriously challenged sµice that time. In July 1935 he was elected to the Executive Committee ot the Comintern and thus seems to have enjoyed the Soviet union's blessing at the time. The Red
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gordon -- IV -- 2 happy phrase. I didn't at the time. There \Vas just none better around and for SOme reason it was felt necessary to have a rubric
  • IssueNumberL August1, 1991 "It's all here-The story of our time, with the bark off!' -LBJ at dedicationof Library,May 22, 1971. 20 years of Library faces, pages2-3. "20 Yearsof The faces on these pages and the cover are some of the leaders
  • but that certainly has no objection was rather if the u.s. more milj,. time for U.S. weapons, the Joint Committee to the PAL System for U.S. weapons. mentioned also that the destruct had been weapons at the bases visited, and he assumed on other weapons 1n
  • : Hello! CULBERT: Hello, George Christian? CHRISTIAN: CULBERT: Yes, sir. This is David Culbert calling from Baton Rouge. couple of questions? Now, is this a convenient time? May I ask you a I know that you are leaving the country tomorrow
  • was something of a secretary to Dick Kleberg. That's when I first met him. I had a great affection for Kleberg. He was a very interesting person. But the time came when a vacancy developed in Texas; and Lyndon Johnson went back, announced his candidacy
  • think he wanted to be a judge. That's my recollection. I mean I was not in the White House at the time. I may have been there at the time the switch was made. I don't think I was there at the time Celebrezze decided to go but, yes, he wanted
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN CONNALLY INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Governor Connally's office in Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Governor, you and I, I think, share experiences in this. We must have both been undergraduates at the time that Lyndon
  • in excess of two hundred thousand jobs were found for disadvantaged kids that summer at no cost to the government, and some one hundred and fifty thousand full-time jobs for the hard-core unemployed. What makes it really remarkable is that the whole