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Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

then on he went back and he took hold of this thing in the Senate. It was only his tenaciousness and his guts in seeing about the investigating committees, the preparedness committees, the tenacity with which he held on to appropriating that money during
; Corcoran's work for LBJ at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Corcoran's efforts to convince Sam Rayburn that LBJ should accept the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Mike Mansfield as Senator Majority Leader; Jim Landis; Ambassador

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

committee [for the] NYA. [Alvin] Wirtz was the chairman of it. last time. Senator I think we mentioned that Do you want to talk about any of these other people on it, or what role that committee played? (Interruption) Z: Of course I know Bob Anderson
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a lot of that was the feeling that Johnson was still a New Dealer, a Roosevelt man, or a loy~l or liberal Democrat. _and Joe Kil gore and Ray Le.e and· Gordon· ful cher;. Buck· Hood; Tom . « · Mill er·, tne mayor: Bob Phinney; myself; and one
Wheeler-dealer charges; Gene Autry; 1948 Senate campaign; helicopter; Coke Stevenson; George Parr; State Democratic Executive Committee, 1948.

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to go to the national Democratic convention in Chicago. When was this, in June that we're talking about? G: May. I think late May. R: May. Well, the national one met in June or July, probably July. Both groups went to the 14 LBJ Presidential
for his daughters; the death of Rather's mother; the 1944 state democratic convention and later national convention; friction between Democrats who supported FDR and those who did not.

Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. [1947]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 29 (Item)

easily lead to World constructive tun &upport to the democratic , civilization of com · War III. I believe that toughnee ■ breeds United · Nations, then these na petitive ~nterprls111 at a time when tions can &'Ive full ■upport to the most of the reat

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)

to deal fully with it. So, as a result, I was, for all these reasons, frequently in conflict with my committees. But I didn't consider that a failure. To the extent that the committees were not representative of the national interest and were pursuing
and congressional military committees relations with Defense. Role of Presidential Tuesday lunches; domestic policy.

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 8, 15 April 1976," LBJ Library (Item)

members of the Friends living in the eastern United States will be unable to attend this anniversarv event, this year an appreciation party will also be sponsored by the Library in Washington, D.C. It will be held at the National Archives Building on May

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/10/1967 (Item)

" _ Monday Day '' leadership /. 8:32a —9:50a White House 10, 1967 - second floor dining room HOUSE/DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP President was prepared for his mtg two memos from H Wilson -report on the status of the legislative in the House -- and a suggested

Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Employment, which again grew out of my being on a special Senate committee studying unemployment problems which Johnson largely instituted in 1959 and was headed by Senator Eugene McCarthy. I was general counsel to that Select Senate Committee
Biographical information; War on Poverty; Labor Department; President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency; Model Cities; Job Corps; Neighborhood Youth Corps; personal impressions of LBJ; Adam Clayton Powell; legislation

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 35, 1 November 1985," LBJ Library (Item)

document the nation ·idc conserva tion programs and legislation spcarhcadcd by Mr:-. Johnson and the accor1pli:.hment!-. of the Committee For A More Beautiful Capital, for which she served as Chairman. Include

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was just before the collapse of the German armies in Europe and just before the time of the San Francisco conference. M: And you were a consultant at the United Nations at that conference. Is that right? F: I was a consultant. After I retired
Biographical information; Finletter Report; 70-group Air Force; George Mahon; Adlai Stevenson; Vietnam; decline in power of Democratic party; John Foster Dulles; NATO; meeting with LBJ on 4/10/64 on MLF; lack of support of MLF; Ottawa speech; Non

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

delegate. But the Stevenson thing did roll on. I'm looking for the date of the Democratic convention. Do you have the date of the convention that year? M: No, it's usually in August. You mentioned awhile ago the Ziffren committee. Where does
The complex Democratic two-camp division in the 1959-1960 campaign; being confronted by Kennedy about his alliance; Rauh’s version of the Kennedy, Humphrey, Johnson party choice for President and Vice-President; Rauh’s disappointment over JFK’s

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 10, April 15 - May 31, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORM OF DOCUMENT -#Ba me me CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE to P~eside ~t DATE :&om Dee:m: Rt::trtt Sec!E t' '9¥2b Li st Cgmmeaity RESTRICTION -05/2'9/65 ~F
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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

White House room at a rather late hour. l'larry Jersi 9 of San Antoni 0 and hi s wi fe occupi ed the apartment across the corridor from mine. During 1966 the President appointed me a member of the National Advisory Council for the War on Poverty
First meeting LBJ; the invocation at LBJ's inauguration; Chancellor Kiesinger of Germany; Hugo Black; Harry Jersig; the National Advisory Council for OEO; Sargent Shriver; Maury Maverick, Jr.; 1967 trip to South Vietnam to observe national elections

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 15, September 23 - October 14, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 5 (Item)

the Paks off rather than t..11.e reverse. ~EGRET· ( -SE-CRE~ Page Two Indian Attitt:.des. Embassy Delhi emphasizes that Indian succes : -: has united the nation and produced a new surge of nationalist fervor. :C..owles and his UK colleague flatly
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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 7, 1 November 1975," LBJ Library (Item)

University, and is President of the International Solar Energy Society. He and his family have Jived in a solar heated home of his own design for nearly 20 years. Dr. Lo£ was selected by a Committee co-chaired by Mrs. Lyndon Johnson and Dr. William J. McGill

Folder, "Mississippi Summer Project Voter Registration," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Mr. White: Louis Martin called to say that a committee of 8 hasbeen chosen to call the Attorney General or his designee at Justice Department in connection with the three mis sing people in Misso A Resolution was passed

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is a union is a union. One of their biggest targets was the so-called closed shop. Now to most of the members of both the House corrrnittee and the Senate committee at the time of the Taft-Hartley Act, the closed shop was merely a monopoly of labor
Dubinsky in reforms of the Taft-Hartley Act; Arthur Goldberg as chief counsel AFL-CIO; the Kennedy bill; McClellan bill of rights; secondary boycott provision; picketing; the conference committee; the Landrum-Griffin bill; barbecue at the Ranch for Lopez

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

control of the Senate. If you I think I'm right on this; you may want to double check some of my facts, but I'm sure I'm right. They were going to contest this before the Senate Rules Committee. But the Democrats won control of the Senate
Biographical information; regional staff; appointment to Naval Affairs Committee; Albert Thomas; 1941 Senate campaign; Colorado River dam projects; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

a substantive committee. And the substantive committees were concerned and they wanted to keep control, and one way was to make us come back. Of course, when you had a Democratic President and a Congress that was made up of Republicans and conservative
of senators; procedures in preparing bills; Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act; the Young Americans Act; grant program controversy; National Institutes of Public Health

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 42, September 15-20, 1967 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 22 [2 of 2] (Item)

On September 16, General Bonesteel in his capacity as Commander in Chief, United Nations Command, briefed President Park Chung Hee at the (!tter's request on the Demilitarized Zone infiltration problems and North Korean subversive activities. Tl:e briefing
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Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in this area and that their expertise would be brought to bear at the local level rather than through the national organization. r: .. ~ There was a pilot program that the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency was running in West Virginia, I think

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

and served in that capacity with some leaves of absence for brief service periods in government up until 1962. Well, I took a year's leave of absence and went up to Wesleyan University as a Fellow. After that I became national affairs editor of The Reporter

Folder, "Gen OS 7/9/65- [OUTER SPACE]," WHCF OS, Box 4 (Item)

to~• (White House File Copy) Preaideat NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS ON AERIAL MAJOR USMC DONALD E. KEYHOlt DIRECTOR COMMITTEE PHENOMENA WASHINGTON. D. C. 20036 GORDON I. R. LORE, JR. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR o,,,ca: ■ 1 ADMINISTRATIVI: 11536 CONNECTICUT

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 36, July 25-31, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 20 (Item)

Order 12356'governing access to national security information. (8) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document. (C) Closed in accordance with restrictions conta ined in the donor's deed of gift. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS
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Folder, "Politics - 1952," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 30 (Item)

bigwigs on hand for Stevenson's acceptance speech. Front to rear: "Fishbait" Miller, Joe Gill (with glasses) , Jack Arvey, Rayburn , Presi dent Truman, National Committee Chairman McKinney and Chicago Mayor Kennelly. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE 17

Folder, "January 30, 1968 - 8:30 a.m. Pueblo 10 - Congressional Leadership Breakfast," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

OF THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP January 30, 1968 In the Mansion The President: I want to tell all that we know about the Pueblo incident. We are spending days and nights on the situation. I want you to treat this as a very confidential

Folder, "[October 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

are frustrated and want to be Secretary of State. The reasons for our being there are clear to most people. Morale of the fighting men is good. There has been phenomenal progress in the last two years in building a democratic government in South Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

see him carrying the big states. So myself, in my own mind, as we moved on into '59 and '60--and I was then as the big national issues were concerned, I was deeply involved with the Labor Reform fight because I was on that committee, and all of us felt
Biographical information; Rayburn; JFK; 1960 Democratic campaign; LBJ’s vice presidency; Lady Bird; Interior; Job Corps; RFK and LBJ

President's Daily Diary entry, 2/8/1966 (Item)

of the policies and purposes of the Declaration of Honolulu. " ^ The above reported from the plenary session contained in TEXT OF jOINT COMMUNIQUE BY PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND LT. GEN. NGUYEN VAN THIEU, CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE, REPUBLIC

Folder, "Green, Edith (Cong.)," Name Files, WHCF, Box G-259 (Item)

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORMOF DOCUMENT CORRESPONDENTSOR TITLE DATE i;..i;.,Q.J..--1....,.~..:-.(~..J?.L/.ST._'Y'"_ ,.._..1--'l.,L2.l,L6£----....._ ~~----1-W,;i..1.,,1,,,1,;ii,l;i:i....i

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Committee fight. If we had no hesitancy in 1961 to engage in head counts and work with the House Democratic leadership to bring about the increase in membership of the Rules Committee, why in 1965 not express an interest and state a position? The position
Efforts to enlist the help of Katharine Graham and the Washington Post staff to get support for D.C. home rule; LBJ's support for House Rules Committee reform that would help the liberal members of the House; the regional medical centers program

Folder, "Douglas, Paul H., 1/1/66 - 12/31/66," Name Files, WHCF, Box D-251 (Item)

of the year to honor Senator P be held at the Women's National Democratic ub, 1526 New Hampshire Avenue, Northwest at 6 p.m. t is evening. Senator Proxmire who is co-chairing the r ception•buffet apologized £or the lateness in inviting·you. I told the Senator

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: At Middleburg . George Brown, at the time had been on several commissions ; one, under President Truman, the [William S .] Paley Committee, I believe it was called, on the needs of this nation for raw materials for the next twenty or thirty years . Eisenhower
Senate campaign for LBJ and using the helicopter; work and campaign style; controversy over Hispanic soldier being buried at Arlington National Cemetery and subsequent legislative investigation; LBJ’s relationship with Herman and George Brown; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: In this capacity, did you attend any of the general sessions? A: Oh, yes, I attended all of them. For most of them I served as a member of the US delegation to the United Nations and in that capacity I was the US representative on the Fourth Committee which

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/2/1965 (Item)

hosting a . RECEPTIO N honoring th e 8 1 yearold yearol d former forme r Chairma Chairma n o f House House Arme Armedd Services Services Committee Committe e see page 10 for guest Georgia-Democrat. Car Car l Vinso n Cathy MacArthur Bill ticker

Folder, "Memos to the President – 1966," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 1 (Item)

they•.- ■een over and over. Attacbecl are 23 informal portrait■, aay of which mi&ht be a ■ecl to fill req••t• each a■ the oae attached from tu .Democratic If yoa agree, tho ■ e plaoto■ COlllr•••ioaal Dlaaer Committee. which yoa apprcwe co.W be uaecl to fill tbl

President's Daily Diary entry, 2/14/1968 (Item)

•^•P^ Watson -pl Cater -pl r RECEPTION AND REMARKS to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY STATE CHAIRMEN "who are attending a one-day conference sponsored by the Democratic National Committee - OFF RECORD list to DT VHITE HOUS E Dat e Feb DENT LYNDO N B

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/22/1966 (Item)

to make 25 major decisions between midnight and one. Secy Fowler n*t, Sept. ISbaxpEMi White House p^ 22, 1966 Thursday Activity (;nc!ude visited bv) ture Expendi Code Lt. Governor Pat Lucey of Wisconsin (is the Democratic nominee for Governor

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and giving every man his day in court. He [Vinson] handled his committee masterfully. G: How so? K: Well, just what I said. and Democrats alike. He gave every man his opportunity, Republicans He had strong support on the Republican side, which made

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