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  • deed of gift. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS A0MINISTRA TION NA FORM 1429 (8-86) ACTION Monda r - Noftmber 4, Mr. PreeldeDt: R.ar Telle• ha• rec:omme1ulecl that roa rea•••r• PreeldeDt DI.a& Orda& of Mexico aboat the fat.re of CODAY llllder JOllr
  • of wives to come to Saigon as an inducement to certain outstanding civilian officers to extend their tours in Saigon, unless the Secretary feels that such action would jeopardize Section 911 (11) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946. t . i I The Secretary
  • somewhat the same in-party rebellion on Viet Nam that Johnson actually faced. Looking back on it, I think it would be correct to say that this was the Great Divide, when it became absolutely certain to the left wing of the Democratic party that he would
  • ? And what were the circumstances? A: I recall meeting Lyndon Johnson one time when I was visiting thenSenator Humphrey in the United States Senate, and Lyndon Johnson was at that time a Senator and the Leader of the Democratic Majority
  • hi1 action 1n oo ing out t o? Roo.1evi lt 1'111 aH,e nate UlJ other eonaiderable eeotion ot people. Ta I do not think co in Dalle.e tor the rea•o -that 1th Fergu_aon. Tom LOT•• Bill Graw, e.nd Harold Young for BcoaeT lt tllere 1• a general oroaa aec
  • of forces in the international arena is changing in favor of socialism and the anti-imperialist forces. There are many facts to show that among the .broad masses of America -- as also of other capitalist countries -- the desire is growing for normalization
  • announced the convoc.~tion next Monday of a "National Peoples-Arm.ed Forces Congress II to provide a sounding board for the Directorates I explanations of their Danang action. There is talk of a coup headed by Don, encouraged by the Buddhists; and talk
  • together. All the veterans, not necessarily the Mexican-Americans but all of us, to protest the actions of the naval hospital in Corpus Christi in limiting the number of veterans who could go to the hospital. And also practically requiring
  • action _ on certain fundamental problems; -- To join with colleagues 1n Washington 1n assessing the need for a. call up of reserves Ln the wake of the dispatch to Westmoreland of 6 battaliono. · On this matter the clock la ticking.· Congress
  • of the United States The White J:iouse Washington, D.C. of America - F orrestal MemCon I [ Komer /Pai~ - 4/16/ 64 I - I .l • . ~(\~ \. :•; \. :}\~·· FE:EA:CAflorred.Jr:bhm ;• l ( Dra/Jing 0/fiu LIMITEDOFFICIALUSE and Officer) DEPARTMENT App
  • himself to me several times. By coincidence, Governor Meyner's the Democratic candidate for governor this year. I have served two terms. This is the final year LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • ] ­ news re ease ~ 10 FROM THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE PUBLICITY DIVISION 1730 K STREET, N. w. FOR I MMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 31, 1965 WASHINGTON 6, D.C. FEDERAL 3-8750 B - 4003 President Johnson Warns Cabinet, Agency Heads of Their Civil
  • . D: Yes. F: So that you, in one sense, have to look two ways at once. This was the year when Stevenson was first nominated by the Democrats and Eisenhower by the Republicans. According to my notes on August 24, 1952, you announced that you
  • image. That was fashionable in the mid-fifties. So I went up to see Walter. I went in and was introduced, and he said, "Max Brooks says that you're the best secretary in the United States of America." I said, "Well, that's very kind of him." you, I
  • GSA FORM 7122 i(REV. 5•82) Ruth: Col. Bowman said that no action is necessary on this and, since I already received two copies I I'm returning this for your junk heap (whoops, files, I mean). Kay NOFRN THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF WASHINGTON, D.C
  • with the rising costs of the Vietnam War and curb inflation because that was becoming a troublesome matter. The proposal was not submitted to the Congress until late 1967, August, and no action was taken until the next session. He renewed the request early in 1968
  • in various states; the slate of delegates for the Massachusetts primary; Massachusetts state Democratic chairman Lester Hyman; the risks of having someone stand in for LBJ in the Massachusetts primary and the president's position on avoiding primaries
  • , running so-called paramilitary centers operated by educational establishments and private industry. For the first time ppor people, poor youth, black people, people who had heretofore been hidden, were coming up to the surface, and America wasn't liking
  • ~ AJt:::r e; J 3 W JijlJ '1f-~ 2:l memo Rostow to 'Ebe Pr es. re Latin America -e 1 p. 61~ ;l --':). q::, 1J ~ ~ ,_ 3-+-'-/ FILE LOCATION NSF, Memos to the President, Walt Rostow, Volume 24, Ma rch 16 - 31 , 1 96 7, Box 1 4 RESTRICTION CODES
  • , this unconstitutional action, which had gone on for a hundred years had to stop. B: I've heard it said that in a sense passage of the Voting Rights Bill was, if not exactly easy, made less difficult simply because it was a voting rights bill, that there weren't many
  • Sanders was one, is that UpO::1 at the time that Congress adjourned and took its Well, in fact it was the end of Congress. No action was taken. When the Congress reconvened in early January, during the last two or thr...: .:».3 of the Johnson
  • is that Scott Lucas had gotten defeated in 1948 [1950]. That left a rather dangerous gap in the Senate. Up to that point there had been an understanding in the Senate that the Democratic leaders would come largely from the Middle West. It was because
  • will be Mrs. Gandhi's seriousness cycles of Indian pro mis es - when we negotiated the three-year -:CONFIQEN'Fl AL =- - 2 - PL-480 agreement. Each time promises have been bigger than performance. So now we are interested in action more than words
  • recommendations, with~ choice from each list starting from the top. Senate Democrats: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Senator Mansfield (if Senator Dirksen is asked, although we expect Senator Mansfield will decline). Senator Sparkman Senator Lausche Senator Inouye Senator
  • have learned that his two top priority objectives will be eight villages each in Quang Nam and Binh Dinh. The talk now is of a team of 60 men for each village of which the 40 man political action team will be the nucleus. These estimates and plans
  • them I had heard the owner was the biggest Republican in Young County. He was not about to do a favor for a Democrat, especially not the Vice President. The Secret Service had no trouble finding a car elsewhere. One of Glynn's great nephews, Bill Balch
  • bring ma- would b~ primarily responsible in American aid to become an inter.jar and fa r-reaching benefits to administering the funds to give national dole;" he said. "The Con~ their people." credence. to actions and not prom- gress of the United States
  • , Republicans won a lot. Scott Lucas, the majority leader of the Democratic side, was defeated. So was Francis Myers, the 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Frank Ikard -- Interview I -- 3 Falls by the name of Colonel W. T. Knight. He was an oil man and very active in democratic politics
  • under Section Seven of Trad Agreement Act; Suez Crisis; 1955-1956 oil supply shut-off by Middle East countries; Ernest O. Thompson; Price Daniel and the tidelands; LBJ, Sam Rayburn and civil rights; 1960 Democratic Convention and LBJ’s acceptance
  • as representative in the House which gave the majority to the Democrats for the first time in the thirties in that particular era, which, when they reorganized the House, that's when John Garner became speaker. So, when Mr. Kleberg was elected as a Democrat
  • , on the campaign. R: Right. B: And you also said you thought Mr. Johnson needed some help after you looked at the White House staff. R: Oh, yes. B: What does that latter part mean? R: Oh, it was in very bad shape, as was the Democratic National Committee
  • would be a favorable and well received dairy farmers action on the part of the Administration. I just had a call from Ken Birkhead a few minutes ago that for some reason unbeknownst to anyone the House Agriculture the Prommre bill which has passed
  • environs, the Viet Cong are being pushed southward and ever fa:rth·~ r away. 6. Political Intelligence and Action: In the political field, A...--nbassador Bunk.er relies heavily on the judgment, initiative ~d professional techniques 0£ our Station
  • in 1937. R: Right. No, actually, I was probably not too close to the White House day-to-day functioning until about the summer of 1936. Then I went with my father down to South America and back, and at that time he asked me to come into the White House
  • of Congress; Jim Rowe; Abe Fortas; FDR's decision to run for a third term as president in 1940; FDR's opinion of LBJ's military service in World War II; Eleanor Roosevelt's opinion of LBJ; Roosevelt's work with civil rights legislation; the 1960 Democratic
  • Country File, Latin America, "Mexico, 11/68 1/69, Filed by the LBJ Library, Box 60, Sanitized, NLJ 93-11 ..C:Af 83843, -C 1 P·" the President (}.Qt f2¥lC_. Q-8-l~ (JlDn Rostow to the President S 1 p. Sanitized [dup. #11, NSF, Country Bombing Halt
  • that Hunter Pitts O'Dell, who is known as Jack O'Dell, is on Senator McCarthy's ustaff" and is doing a good job. Lev·ison said that, although Peretz feels "our influence" is evident in some of Senator McCarthy's actions, Levison is of the opinion
  • -EDFIFTEEN OTHER Pt.ACES~·1 •. ·THEGOVERNMENT Or THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICOr VIETNAM 'HAS,.D'ECLAREDTHAT_THE-rIFTEEN-PLACES PROPOS.E'O-sv-rHE··u-N lTEO -ST ATEs··ARE 1 NADEQUATEAND··THAT-·THE-OBJECT IONS-:, •• · ~Or T.HE,-A.ME.RICAN GOVERNMENT-TOTHE.-CHOICE
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  • , Democratic Congressmen for dinner at the White House. The President asked me if I would join them for dinner, understanding that this was somewhat of an awkward request--which he admitted--but which I fully understood. So I had dinner with the President, sat
  • of anything: they are results. Nobody reflects that better than Ronald Reagan. He is not the cause at all of the country being conservative. His presidency is the result of a conservatising trend that began when he was still a liberal Democrat and head of one
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