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  • Johnson's Mailbox: A Young Fan Writes February 2, 1967 Dear President, I and my friends Bob and David would like to go up into a space a week from next Monday. We always wanted to go up into space. Do you have space suits that would fit us? We would fit
  • over. That's when he sent me the memo which says, "Are you out of your fucking mind?" I don't know if you've got that in the Library. I hope I can find it in these papers. But you've got the memo in which I proposed a compromise. If you get
  • for neoe•at.ry homa Improvement. without hl.vlq to move. t, I hopo you will eoon be •••lq and ~oying the reeulta ol the r~ba.billtation work that now gets underway on· your home. And l hope ~t tbo1e of your fellow citlaona ln the ''West End" area
  • -o vernment to put. lt down. 4. I eaclo•• the text of the Queatio·n. and Aaawe·r. I kaow how concerned you were that nothiJII abould be aald on the public record which would further -c omplleate the eituation on thla from and l hope that you wW
  • , and the potentlal beneflta 1reat. I am looklng forward to getting your current thinklng, and your eugge at lone for lmprovlng the package. In the meantlme I wanted you to know of my profound hope that we can ahow algnlflcant progre•• on land reform ln the next
  • Johnson. This is March 19, 1965. I am sitting here in my residence in Saigon, Vietnam this evening after dinner and am undertaki.ng an experiment which I hope will be of interest and use to my grandchildren. I am not quite sure how far I will get
  • Kennedy's. I was very, very active in the 1960 convention; there were forty of us that would meet every morning at seven o'clock with Bob Kennedy to map out-K: Sort of acting as whips. G: --what each one of us would do. the day. That's right. What we
  • • that you send Hussein the followiq mes sa1e: ''On this &DDi-..ersary of the bidependence day of Jordan, I conaratulate Your Majesty and send to the people of Jord&D good wi ■hea from the people of the United States. We eincnely hope that Jordan. under your
  • i:dsbt ensue :trm t.h1a action. However_. he could und.c:rstand a.~ appreciate that it m:tg}lt be a good gamble far the tr.xJ 1n the hope that it W0llld 1 ~ the situation. E1Jsena R. Bl.iu?k ' MEMORANDUM .'. \ THE WHITE HOUSE ACTION WASHINOTON
  • that, is that .• t. less than difficulties, peace demands are amply justified Even more so now that dangerous for many, and of peace are infinitely of war. matter, evils between one the path of hope and security. evils if we only think to live Today
  • C a ssa tt, nothing w ill e v e r r ep la ce ' it r e a lly . I hope I'm not one of th ose people who, b eca u se so m eo n e h as given m e so m eth in g fo r three or four y e a r s , is hurt when they w ithdraw it. I m u st a lw a y s rem em
  • in d e e d I w ill be c o m in g b a c k to N ew Y o rk . I am s p o ile d . I hope once o r tw ice a y e a r . I s h a ll t r e a t m y s e lf to so m e of the s a m e , though i t w ill in d e e d n o t b e the s a m e w ith o u t B e s s a n d
  • . And then M r. W est c a m e up an d Bob K nudson took the p i c t u r e of the t h r e e of u s w ith the b l u e p r i n t s of the W hite H ou se so th a t sh e can f it in into a n y of th e f a m ily r o o m s h e r own f u r n i t u r e o r th in g s th
  • . And I hope m a y b e t h e r e w ill b e s o m e u s e of it o t h e r th a n j u s t a s an e x h ib it in the L i b r a r y . E v e n s o i t ' s in the c a n , an d I m a r k off on m y m e n t a l t a b l e t one m o r e c h e c k b y th in g s d o
  • Weap ons Talks We have engaged the Sovie t s i n discussions which we hope will eventual l y l ead to an unde r standing limiting the further deployment of stra t eg ic nuclear weapons , both offens ive and defensiveo These negotiations will be both
  • r ly , s m ilin g lad y put out h er hand and sa id 1^ ^ M EMO RANDUM c TH E W H I T E H O U S E WASHINGTON T u e s d a y , June 16, 1964 Page 3 I'm M r s . C h a r le s M a r s h ." II Tl Thank g o o d n e s s I didn’ t fa in t. I hope m y
  • - Danville , Va . Mr. Mandel l Ourisman - Ourisma n Chevrole t Co . Inc . - Marlo w Heights, Md . Mr. Richar d Hughe s Tulsa , Okl a Mr. Rober t "Bob " Neima n and Mrs. £/Col . Ralp h E. Vandervor t USA (Ret . 'Mr. B ob Gittlema n ^K (i n charge ) a K1 Z
  • , Bob Jackson, who is now head of the Corpus Christi Caller Times, and Arthur Perry who at that time was secretary to Senator Tom Connally, walked together from the Capitol complex over to the Dodge. to eat. After washing' up we usually went together
  • in government I attribute to his starting me in it. I hope that whatever record I make will be a credit to him. PB: Well, that's commendable. NOW, what other campaign did you first take an active part in? CH: I took some part in the 1941 campaign when he
  • was elected; nominated in the runoff primary and elected. I came up here in December, late December, and was here, of course, and have been here since that time. F: This is my thirty-eighth year in the House. Now Johnson was Bob Kleberg's secretary
  • . But by the use of the headline, '~at's Right with Dallas," I could say the same thing that I would have said the other way and received a terrific amount of public approval and approbation. I think it helped stimulate--I hope it did--a more objective look
  • at [his home]? I think they lived at Dr. Bob ~10ntgomery's at this point on San Pedro. Getting the NYA people together for weekends and going over regulations, things like that? r~: No, I don't remember anyth i ng abou t tha t. (Interruption) He were
  • by--? B: In fact we were called in immediately when they sent the Oh no. first skeleton bill to the Hill. Bob Weaver had us all in and went through the thing point by point and asked for suggestions, and suggestions that were made by the mayors
  • wanted me to do. I mean I was at all times, I hope, respectful but when they didn't want to do something the President wanted done and didn't have a good reason, I'd get them to do it. I always had difficulty dealing with Bill Wirtz. He was a nice
  • h e r e w as M r s . Bob K i n tn e r ( J e a n K in tn e r ) w h o m I 'v e known f o r so long and b e e n so fond of, a n d M is s K a t h e r i n e Q uinn, who i s M is s D e m o c r a t , of n C o n n e c tic u t. It m u s t have b e e n s o
  • Brown -- I -- 1 2 about, A . C . Perry, and Bob Jackson, who was in'the Senator's office . Whenever there was an announcement of some new development in our district he was competing with them to be sure that the announcement came from Kleberg's office
  • some reasonable hope that I could go with the attorney general's department, frankly at considerably more money, I nevertheless agreed to go to work for him at $175 a month as his secretary in Washington, and did do so. We went up. I don't recall
  • a r r y H a l p r i n . And J i m i l u M a so n who h ad done the b u s t of L y n d o n . A nd Bob M e r r i l l of the M e tr o p o lita n O p e r a w h o se p e r f o r m a n c e s th is y e a r a r e u n f o r g e tta b le - - a n o th e r new m
  • should prepare plans for a State - AID- Agriculture - BOB effort to prepare studies and recommendations as to the ne>..1: steps to be taken in the war on hung e r . A major objective of this Administration is the export 0£ food, health, and education. Top
  • ,>;.:;;:.~ ·::-:~· and explain to them that the situation in Zanzibar is considerably worse than it _ .' was when Duncan Sandys was in East Africa two weeks ago. I would hope that your man ·_:· would underscore the implicat ions of a Communist-dominated island.· for tne
  • 20 M: What's the importance, as far as the impact of our programs are concerned, of our hopes that they will do this largely through private initiative in the recipient country as opposed to government initiative? G: Well, we all would like
  • Biographical information; Presidential impact on AID; comparison of JFK and LBJ; Presidential approval of specific loans; BOB and Treasury Department involvement in policy decision; White House and State Department involvement; B/P loans; AID
  • with companies--potential advertisers. F: He was seeking national advertisers? W: Both local and national. Most national advertisers have local interests in the Texas area. F: And so he was hoping to work through the horne office to induce local people
  • no intention of not supporting the nominee--always had and hoped we always could. And the events which caused us not to support Stevenson occurred after the convention, not during the convention. F: You made that famous trip up to Illinois to see Governor
  • in this economic field in some fashion were people like Bob Jackson, who was then in the Department of Justice ; Bill Douglas, who was then chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission ; Leon Henderson, who was an ­ economist of note and who had been active
  • in this country? And, frankly, could we have survived? I don't know. Well, it's easy enough to point to the rioting, but what about all the rioting that never did occur? And there were new hopes. So my feeling is that the trouble with history is that you never
  • health--I know that rumor keeps bobbing up. I mean, I know his doctors too well. One of his doctors in a sense is my doctor--Jim Cain, and I think that I know about as much about Mr. Johnson's health almost as he does. decided that the game wasn't
  • in the tv.ro equations. F: Do you think that Johnson in a sense was mesmerized by Bob McNamara, and by Walt Rostow, or do you think that it just happened that in that one period h their lives that thei: views coincide with his? S: I don't think