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  • µ~ fl {!T/0111 :: GONFIDENTIAb Saturday, MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: November 11, 1967 FOR THE PRESIDENT Balance of Payments Program A11nouncement Attached is Secretary Fowler's memo recommending a schedule announcements and actions regarding
  • . This was We were moving into a period- -let me put it this way-- moving into a period of commitment to equality of opportunity for people. It seems to me it has been a period of more intensified democratic commitment than any that preceded it. Now, I know
  • , whether by telephone or personally or through his assistants, and that the world around him was the world of action and of motion. Attempting to stop that action and motion to get him to listen with great precision to a long disquisition on some subtlety
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Prokop -- II -- 5 the demands of the White House grew. When he was Vice President, two or three times a year his staff would go out to his house for some social event. You could see him in action or you could talk with him
  • it as a union-busting bill. All the nomenclature and cliches of labor's history were dumped on that bill, and Johnson did not agree with them. What did disturb him to an extent was voting to override a Democratic president's veto. That was very uncharacteristic
  • indicated that he did. Every If he didn't \'Jant to go up, why did he quit Congress, and why did he run for the Senate? \'Jhy did he get himself elected Senate Democratic leader? And I think the reason he hesitated so long to announce it-Sam Rayburn got
  • know you're interested in getting to the subject matter of Lyndon Johnson. I became quite active in Democratic politics. This was occasioned because there was a legislative bill which was put up, passed the legislature--put up as a referendum
  • of the Holiday magazine awards for a "More Beautiful America." I was more particularly pleased because Mrs. Johnson was one of the several other recipients, and it was nice to be included along with her. Mc Did you work any with her on beautification? C
  • that would give a Democratic candidate appeal. I strongly sensed that he was aware even then that he was in an underdog position with reference to Kennedy. But that was my first close contact with him and I saw very little of President Johnson again until
  • seeks history's description as a time when, the dreaming and the planning having laid.the foundations, the doing and building were underway. The last two years of this vast cooperative effort between the United States and the nations of Latin America
  • Bartlett -- II -- 10 had informed Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Senate Democratic leader, t h a t tile Hawaii bill should be called up for Senate consideration immediately following the Alaska bill. If not, he said, a move will be made to udd
  • the Vietnamese were prepared to accept a total halt in the bombing, and if President Johnson's announcement had been confined to this issue there would have been immediate full support for his action by all Vietnamese. Thieu said that he had prepared the people
  • , _Alabama. B. Employment Imperial Wizard of the UNITED KLANS OF AMERICA, INC., KNIGHTS OF THE Iro KLUX KLAN (UKA). A characterization of the UK.A is set forth in the Appen.d ix of this . report ,. Thia document contatns neither recommendations nor
  • to political campaigns. This action on the part of the business leaders generally showed the high standing he had with them; particularly their high regard for the job he had done as president following President Kennedy's assassination, and the very
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: MORRIS ROBERTS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Roberts' office, Victoria, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Mr. Roberts, when did you begin participating in Democratic Party activities? R: Ever since I've been voting age
  • Roberts' career in the Texas state legislature and work on the Democratic executive committee investigating alleged voting irregularities in Jim Wells County in 1948; Roberts' relationship with Coke Stevenson and serving under him on the Texas
  • of military activity - - killed in action, prisoners captured, and weapons lost to the enemy -- have been favorable to the / government. Evidence of arms infiltration from Hanoi increased in this period. Thanks in one case to information given·by a Viet Cong
  • ,St1teDept.Ooidelines By_~_, NA ,,. D:irc 1- ·c31-o3 GPS 2 10 L'l I 2 10. • .. .• • 3,,,. MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Saturday December 6:05 PM Mr. President: Herewith three items, e>f which only A requires 9, 1967 prompt action
  • . will ataad by lt• policy llllcler it• laat ol equallty. ,,, -eoNi wDltlAL ACTION --- Aa J011a-.4, I haft c.laecked te •N •.II.ether 1t la ~•lbla to caacel wJudl JOll .bad preff.OUlf aareect to •· if tile 1.atla America• •,-.dl 1 Bad tllat ,.. caa 1et
  • and politicians of country. of the action and that what is this of mine, M/Sgt. Carl W~ergstedt, at Fort Ord, California and is now enroute to Veitnam. M/Sgt. Bergstedt was due to retire from the u. S. Army with 20 years service on November 31, 1963; but he
  • .... ~--¥~ -~\•. ". ~ ~.. .. . i", ' .' .,.•• L • ... ■ -SECltEI ·.:- -~ -I:- , 1 ,.• -~ ' (' · ~ ·,.JI'uesday, February 28, 1967 ,, . I, Actions Items, Tuesday Lunch meeting With the President I ■ ".J_ . • .... •· ·- .f, ~ ~ . ,. 1r ._• it, Present
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 and of course he had nothing to do with the action in the legislature, but he did come in and make the thing function--made it really a goirg
  • the interview useful. Thu.rade.y. September 14: I had Cyrus Sulzberger (New York Tintes) in to- lunch before hie talk with you. I reviewed progress and problems in Latln America and A£rlca. In particular I put him on to the developments on the inner
  • no need to appoint bad people, but their wants and needs ought to be considered, and also help in their political campaigns. Now Johnson, in my view, neglected his functions as leader of the Democratic Party which substantially contributed to his
  • of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force
  • and Danang; devaluation of the currency; mitigation of the congestion of the port; advancing the nation I s march toward constitutional democracy. These were all deeds. A public man who has such actions to his credit does not need to talk. I said that many
  • and territorial integrity of Viet Nam are being brutally and systematically violated by Communist agents and forces from the northo • It is also clear to both Governments that action must be strengthened and accelerated to protect the legitimate rights
  • by statute or by the agency which originated the document. (Cl Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in the donor's deed of gift. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION. NA FORM 1429 (6-86) ACTION Friday Mr. - November 22, 1968 Pre
  • sailing in hi quest to determine what posterity will think. And for that, posterity should be grateful. LBJ the political figure, congressional leader and President even­ tually will be judged on the basis of his programs and policies and actions
  • demonstrations in early 1968 in Washington, D. C. and other major cities. These demonstrations will take place if requests to the Labor Department for economic, housing, and education legislation do not receive unequivocal commitment for prompt action
  • on national politics. I was organization manager for the state of Texas in the Adlai Stevenson campaign in 1952. Then in 1953 and 1954, I worked part-time for the Democratic National Committee under Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell and Speaker Sam Rayburn
  • and advising Dick Russell.So that's why I say that Dick Russell would not have been a--if he became president I don't doubt that he would have modified. G: Did you have any involvement in or knowledge of his effort to get the Democratic nomination
  • Biographical information; how Abram met Richard Russell; Georgia’s county unit system; Russell and civil rights; Herman Talmadge; Charlie Bloch; Thurgood Marshall’s appt. to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court appointments; the Democratic Presidential
  • into the atmosphere during the period of warning of the missile attack. That is the primary advantage of BMEWS. What the FOBS does is circumvent BMEWS. So if you were a Soviet planner, possibly concerned about the bomber element of our force; this might be one action
  • we left the airport in the motorcade, and there were large crowds all the way into town on the autopista [expressway] from the airport. And all at once--I was in the, I don't know, second or third car, with the assistant secretary for Latin America
  • ; Adlai Stevenson’s briefing on Dominican Republic; relationship between LBJ and Robert Kennedy; 1968 presidential campaign; LBJ’s control of 1968 Democratic convention; Hubert H. Humphrey’s campaign.
  • : or is this also-- This has been a fairly consistent policy or practice on the part of the Democratic Presidents. Incidentally, I want to go back in a minute and pick up a point about the other aspect of the V i c e President as I saw in the early days
  • and Latin America) which were dealt with in your message to Erhard. George McGhee will be in Washington at the end of next week, and we will get a fuller play- back from him then. thi/, ~ McG. B. Atta chm en ts \ 37 c. c )) F·: ·. .- ·'. ·:: a,t
  • --the longest break in the history of the talks. M: But there's no specific cause for this, no action that took place? G: There was no cause for it, and one could not say the talks were broken off because the Chinese followed the procedures of asking
  • •£or ona gallon of certain alcoholic beverages within the existing $100 overall duty free allowance. The categories of beverages would be largely indigenous to Central and South America -- tequila, mescal, coffee liqueur, aguardiente cachaca and plsco
  • Workers. To go further up in the city of Washington in a Republican time. ~ack, I grew My family were Democrats living in Washington, although my family were not political. The gossip of the town is political. My knowledge of politics
  • was in the later actions as Deputy. Kermit Gordon. The Director at that point was This was part, really, of the Johnson review of the Kennedy budget which was all but put together at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. I think Mr. Gordon would
  • you give us your personal impressions of the President, either at the time when you were received by him and were in official relationships with him or at times when you saw him in action in other circumstances? L: When I presented my letters
  • that this was an Administration which would not act? N: I have not been disenchanted with the actions of the Democrats since I have been in the party because, again, I have been in the Civil Rights fight so long. I've seen it from so many angles, and I know what has to be done
  • appointments; black attitudes toward LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; RFK, Truman, Humphrey and John Macy; Nabrit’s switch to Democratic Party in 1964; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s seating fight at 1964 Convention; advising President on civil rights