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Folder, "Background on stops for Whistle Stop [1 of 2]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 12 (Item)

for the manufacturing of livestock food and provides farmers a large grain market. Although agriculture is predominant, Wilson has diversity or industry, meat packing, manufacturing of refrigerator boxes, automotive fabrics, various wearing apparel to mention a few

Folder, "The Message - Vol. II [1 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)

for every square mile of land -- and yet provides time-consuming, and wasteful It is not good enough when it produces I ,. frustrating, or no relief from conge stiori. sleek and efficient jet I I aircraft -- and yet cannot move passengers

Folder, "Quality of the Environment," Office Files of Joseph A. Califano, Box 63 (Item)

of problems typically affecting STEPS TOW ARD CLEAN AIR 3 representative communities in various parts of the country. Wit nesses who provided testimony at these hearings included govern mental air pollution control officials, Governors, mayors

Folder, "The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency During the Johnson Administration-Part 4," Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Administrative History (Item)

of the United States Government primary responsibility for searching out ways to put an end to the arms race. The Act provides that the Agency "must have such a position within the Government that it can provide the President, the Secretary of State, other

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: LOYD HACKLER INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL Place: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Mr. Loyd Hackler, formerly the assistant press secretary of the White House staff. I'd like to ask you to provide for the tape

Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. at the Austin Club, a beautiful place, in Austin on Eighth \~olilans and San Antonio, the lovely house that's still there. I was living But Bird often visited me. Then when she got her first degree, her B.A. in journalism in 1933, that's when we went out

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as a combination sports editor and general assign- ments reporter and shortly thereafter had a letter from Paul Thompson at U .T . [University of Texas] journalism school asking me if I'd be interested in a fellowship . Took the fellowship in journalism

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think I should draw a distinction there, that while an awful lot of journalists I think were emotionally involved, I think a bare minimum of them, and I wouldn't know how to express it, let that intrude on their practice of journalism. I don't think

Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)

in Austin and I went to colleg~ in Montgomery and we corresponded regularly. r.Je· wrote about: everything--ati.l our dreams and ambitions--life--love--politics--prohibition--and the like. She was taking Journalism. and wrote most interesting

Folder, "Photo Personnel - Office and Lab," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 2 (Item)

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 71, 30 April 1999," LBJ Library (Item)

hero. Her detailed accounts and journals led to a revolution in the practices of nurs ing and sanitation. The University of Texas at Austin's School of Nursing follows Florence Nightingale's model of out reach in nur ing. he School partici pates

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. But it was the beginning of the period of advocacy journalism and, you know, you took them as they came. G: Who were some of the good reporters from that period? M: Oh, the best are really no longer there. John Hightower was the senior Associated Press correspondent

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. But it was the beginning of the period of advocacy journalism and, you know, you took them as they came. G: Who were some of the good reporters from that period? M: Oh, the best are really no longer there. John Hightower was the senior Associated Press correspondent

Folder, "Civil Rights Boycotts – Alabama and Mississippi," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)

-- the Montgomery bus case and the nationwide boycotts aga~inst certain chain stores to get them to serve Negroes at Southern lunch counters are examples. Such cases can provide a focus for informal government mediation. This does not appear to be the case

Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on the yacht that used to be provided for the Secretary of Defense on the Potomac, and there was only a handful, including Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. was the first time I had been close to them. There were very pleasant conversations, and this led to many more

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was like, how often it met, what it did, what the purpose of it was? W: That Press Club at San Marcos? G: Yes. Was it made up of people that wanted to go into journalism, do you think? W: Probably. Because Lyndon persuaded Doc [Tom] Nichols to teach

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- III -- 14 know; I'll just have to kind of guess and put two and two together. She was a graduate in journalism at the University of Texas. Newspaper work and radio work are a little bit similar. He often said, in fact he would say it nearly every two

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

matter. But I don't remember Bird's ever cutting a class. G: Anything else on her favorite courses there? S: Well, I know journalism and history. ite. English history was her favor- I wish I could remember her professor's name, he was very well

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 10, 15 July 1977," LBJ Library (Item)

, has come home to Texas. She was recently named Govern ment and Public Affairs Woman of the Year by Ladies Home Journal and is a mem ber of the President's Com m 1ss1on on International Women's Year. Among her varied activities, Mrs. Car penter

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 47, 1 July 1990," LBJ Library (Item)

the "awe some record" of the Great Society some ''400 pieces of landmark legislation," including: • Protection of the consumer in the marketplace; programs to provide safer cars, tires and highways; a Truth-in-Packaging law; a Child Safety Act to protect

President's Daily Diary entry, 1/20/1965 (Item)

of Columbia, transmitting a draft of proposed ness. and other Members in order of seniority. legislation entitle d "A bill to provid e for the May they be men of vision and of valor, Following the Presidential oath of of- mandatory reporting by physicians

Folder, "Canadian National Film Grand Members, September 24, 1968," Papers of Bertrand Harding, Box 42 (Item)

pictures on OEO programs for telecast over Canadian broadcasting. The last one produced by a Canadian crew was, for example, made by Romeo LeBlanc who is now Press Secretary to Prime Minister Trudeau. Also we have provided Canadian outlets with our films

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 8, July 1-15 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 9 (Item)

ments have in no small measure b~en ma.de possible by the shield of security provided to the region by the determination of the gallant people of Viet Nam and those assisting them to repel Communist aggression. The President and the Prime Minister noted

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and that would by and large be negative. Based on that specific, often negative [incident, the press] would draw conclusions that ended up being quite at variance with what the official channel of communication provided the Washington policy makers. You know

Folder, "Whistle Stop [1 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)

are provid:1.ng in-formation and Mrs• Donald Russell, .. conversa.tio11 ;,rith a North-6tld. .South. Cs.rol.i.M., .. Georgia.~ FJ..nrida., Alabama, Raleigh, Although President to for all. 51 women. and Louisiana.. Ta:_labassee, contribution Mrs

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, there was no policy in the State Department, there was no policy in AID to provide direct assistance. ~ere was a policy which was articulated at the U.N. in 1962, December, by Mr. Richard Gardner, a lawyer who has gone back to Columbia--he was Deputy Assistant

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 41, September 11-14, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 22 [2 of 2] (Item)

". The National Intelligencer presumed "that our President and his Cabinet are by this time convinced that they -have forfeited the public confidence ..• " Other Whig journals assured Mexico that "her cause was just, that a majority of Americans detested the war

Folder, "Ex FG 618 Federal Executive Board," WHCF FG, Box 372 (Item)

opportunities for the "hard core" unemployed, by encouraging and assisting Federal managers as employers to provide jobs for the disadvantaged, and by working with local representatives of the National Alliance of Business men in their efforts to make the JOBS

Folder, "Ex FG 170-6, Federal National Mortgage Association" WHCF FG, Box 257 (Item)

Ml!M>RANilJM FOR MR. CALIFANO Subject: Creation of a private FNMA The Housing and Urban Development conference bill provides for converting ffiMAto a private corporation, essentially as proposed by the President. If we can accomplish

Folder, "Disasters," 1962 Subject Files, VP Papers, Box 131 (Item)

, to provide various types of assistance in a major disa.s ter declared by the President. Under sub· section (d) of Section 3, Federal agencies provide assistance by ttmaking emergency repairs to and temporary replacem~nt.s oi public facilities of local

Folder, "Ex PU 1 / FG 731 [Publications / President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity]," WHCF PU Subject Files, Box 23 (Item)

. "The Committee has provided the kind of lead ership that has stimulated all areas of American life to greater effort to make sure that each man is given the opportunity to develop his capacities and to find employment that will fit' them. "In this effort we have

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That was not unique to journalism. I think that the entire U.S. command structure had exactly the same problems. You would discover, for instance, that young agency [CIA] or State Department or military people at the district level or lower had a pretty shrewd

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2. feature article, The Wall Street Journal had a long side column, and Life magazine devoted about twenty pages to a young president

Folder, "JCS -- BETA War Games‑SM Keeny, 1967 [1 of 2]," Agency Files, NSF, Box 32 (Item)

senior meeting each week, between 1400 and 1530 hours, on the following Tuesdays: 25 April, 2 May, and 9 May. A final critique will be held between 1400 and 1530 hours on Tuesday, 16 May. In addition to your own participation, I hope you will provide one

Folder, "Volume I - Narrative History, Part III [2 of 2]," Department of Transportation Administrative History, Box 2 (Item)

of the rationale underlying the transfef of the mass traosit program to DOTis that mass transit is part of a ~ingle urban transportation system, and that the mass transit·program should therefore b~ brought into the Department.that provides Federal aid fortthe

Folder, "C.F. - FG 170 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (1967)" WHCF Confidential Files, (Item)

" (- ., .:··.:>:· :··/_. ":~~ • AVCO in Boston. The Company will lease a plant in. :>~· ..;.;',:,-'. ,' .:·.•>·; ;'.':: .. ·-.·~·._-:.Roxbury which will provide 12 jobs within the next 2 ·, •• • ' ·.•·· :',,. • •· weeks and 55 jobs within a month. AVCO will.also .. ,, spent $1 million

Folder, "Ex FG 170/A-Z [4 of 6] [Department of Housing and Urban Development/A-Z (FG 170/A-Z)]," WHCF FG, Box 256 (Item)

codes .•. and development total welfare and aided finds that standards can be encouraged housing and_ building to provide there State standards, in order to determine bui_lding costs, to serve ~s iarge a part as (it) including

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 39, August 18-31, 1967 [1 of 5]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 21 (Item)

to provide an evaluation of ROLLING THUNDER Operations. Future reports will be submitted on a monthly basis in order to provic,le a continuing e·valuation of CINCPAC's objectives, accomplishments and future intentions concerning ROLLING THUNDER Operations

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the statehouse. And since the age of media-handouts--press releases--had not yet reached the Capitol, reporting the statehouse was a full time job. As a foot- note to journalism, Kennedy and myself possibly speeded along the age of handouts at the Capitol