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  • Phil ·. and Bob Esterbrook. Both of whom were obviously convinced that the ticket had to be Kennedy-Johnson, and were working on it that way, and they were saying to me, "Look, .we• ve just got to persuade Senator Johnson to take the second spot. 11
  • . B: There was always a strain of that in the Progressive Party-- C: Once in a while you'd find some really dyed-in-the-wool and dedicated Progressives who'd say they thought McCarthy was a great fellow because he was just like old Bob Lafollette
  • that there could be a little thing like that, so you wouldn't be surprised if you hear it." Well, that was the wrong thing to say, because he was so hopeful that they would fire a hundred and forty thousand rounds at Quemoy in his honor, and of course they didn't
  • House staff, and with Bob Kennedy. The March on Washington civil rights thing came on the scene very quickly after I left the government, and I became deeply involved in that. represented ~Ja Her I Reuther on the committee, both in New York
  • and on Sunday and holidays it fell a good deal to my lot to go in and work with the President. And at that time I was associated with--oh, we worked on speeches, every kind of matter that the President is concerned with, and with Judge Rosenman and Bob Sherwood
  • we were doing a lot of interesting things that I hope will be regarded well by history. But both Presidents seemed to have a great deal of confidence in me and therefore I had pretty much of a free hand. There was very little that was initiated
  • on the Pearl Harbor affair; Bob Jackson when he went to Nuremberg; and some earlier ones too. And practically all of us had expressed the belief that it was not wise for members of the Supreme Court to accept positions on presidential commissions. I had
  • these years in a fashion that was not necessarily political--that is, Democratic versus Republican-but to exercise a more liberal point of view in the Congress in the hopes that this would have its effect upon the Administration and not in small part also
  • ; veto power and overrides; creation of the National Advisory Council; Perrin’s duties as deputy director of OEO; Senator Morse; involvement of BOB funding; political red tape; GAO investigations; Nathan Report from Brookings and its effect on efforts
  • ! Too, a m o n g o ld f r i e n d s t h e r e w a s n o b o d y I w a s h a p p i e r to s e e t h a n Bob A n d e r s o n , now of G r e e n w i c h , C o n n e c t i c u t - - u s e d to b e f r o m T e x a s , R e p u b l i c a n , ' s; t s t a u n
  • .¢'417? .antjJ=, NARS, Date 6P.67 CONFIDJO.TTTATI -, ASSISTANT SECRETARY WASHINGTON In reply refer INTERNATIONAL Dear SECURITY to 1-11356/62 AFFAIRS OF DEFENSE 25, D. C. 2 0 S::P1962 Bob: This letter, in response to your telephone date
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  • purposes; secondly, in trying to execute it intelligently; third, in having a considerable dedication to its purposes over and above the business of being a federal government administrator. G: As we go into the evolution of the program, I hope that you
  • porch." So he came out in the yard. Bob Taylor and I were standing there during the argument. We were always the kidding kind, and we joked with him a little bit and said, "Oh, you Japanese kid, get away from us. You're terrible." Of course, we had been
  • November 15, 1967 MEMORANDUM FOR MR. Subject: Military Significance of Soviet FOBS I have a number of comments on Bob Ginsburgh's recent memo (attached) concerning the passible military significance of the Soviet FOBS. To begin with, I have a fundamental
  • . to know about things, and I hope to be seeing more of you o " I 1ike He asked me what kind of family I had and had I bought a house, recommended that I buy a house, said investment in real estate in Washington is a good investment. wish I had. I didn't
  • Bobby up pretty well. Bobby was "Ruthless Bob." He was the one person that I think Lyndon Johnson had a problem [with]. And I loved Lyndon Johnson. It's been my theory, and I think it's a good one, that Roosevelt had Harry "The Hop" Hopkins
  • a little bit in regards to details of what you hoped and what actually happened? l: Yes, but it had nothing to do with President Johnson. Do you want it anyway? M: Certainly, I think it would be important. Because, for one thing, in President
  • to somebody who was indeed conspicuous; because qualifed I wasn't, conspicuous I was. I think that what they hoped was that the image from television would carryover. In fact, Mr. Macy said something to that effect; I'm not just inventing
  • suddenly realized what LBJ's attitude toward him was when I shared an office with Kilduff. One day LBJ stood leaning--you looked up and there he was leaning up against the doorjamb. All he said to Kilduff [was], "Kilduff, I hope your mind isn't as cluttered
  • The ·President of The United States? Why shou1d he be allowed to hold in his hand the whip which can make a national election go Hof'f'a 1s way-or else~ I hope that action may be taken at once to halt procedure before it is too late. Respectfully December 12
  • tho developmeDt of recreatlo11 around Federal r~eervoll" projecta.. \Ve thS.Dk)hla b ii good blU and hope that Coagreaa wUl ad 011 it fav.or~'bly IA the 11eu future. J r-~ ........ -- -Sincerely, 1 LtJe C. White . l fmt.m'vtlJ APRl ... • CENTRAL
  • DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12356, Sec. 3.4 FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM LODGE Herewith some advice which I hope may be helpful. By _ Nq r"i , 8?- 7S" NARA, Date , 8-'/-JL Although everything that we get is wispy and inconclusive, I do feel that in Hanoi today
  • a He based intervene a constructive 5 alternative best to the situation objected hope would be a situation of competition leadership", Federal Maritime he said, shipping, regulation but that the public interest.•• function determine
  • have any idea how the Black Stars originated? S: Yes. In a way I do, because Bob Shelton was one of them, and A.D. Hildreth [?], and they might have organized the year that Jesse Kellam was there. Jesse was there in 1920, but he left in 1920
  • of the other candidates that year were really rather ridiculous. You certainly couldn't go to [Averell] Harriman. I don't think Bob Kerr had as many votes as he [LBJ] had, although Bob Kerr technically had Nebraska as well as Oklahoma. So what had
  • candor and rudeness the party's labor bosses guillotined the be­ loved and v,enerahle 74-year-old Vice President Alben W. Barkley (next pas,:), who had hoped to win the presidential nomination. That night a group of Young Turks-includjng Franklin D
  • conaista of: Budget support $ Roads Community avelopment Airports aad aircraft Total for Bolivia $ 4.5 miWon Z.4 2.1 II 13. 5 ti It -zz. S million. The AID-BOB-Treasury strategy was to offer the budget support lean rig.ht awar. but held
  • food, ~ broad treatment of the problem; the growing urgency of chronic £60d scarcity; the race with population growth; our efforts to stimu­ late self-help; the bitter irony of Congressional aid-cutting just when tbe need is greatest; and the hope
  • Report of the President which laid the groundwork for what came to be known as the War on Poverty. That work was begun in the spring of 1963 by Bob Lampman, who was and remains one of the distinguished experts in the field of income distribution. 1 LBJ
  • Williams, the girl from Hillsboro who married Bob Novak; Colonel Jackson; and his secretary Lynn Machado. F: Now, who's Colo nel Jackson? C: Bill Jackson. He was an army aide who was very anxious to do a good job. [Whispers] He didn't always succeed. F
  • to become commu."'list. Rusk~ Bob.1 President: McNamara: could. Ha. 1::; they ever applied pressure? President: Rusk: time. 1 During the first Yes. Mc~amara: . The . Soviets have not applied all the pressure they pa~se. - t hey said they didn't
  • the centerpiece from which this was set up, this committee on urban lands. G: Now, who else was on the task force? K: You mean the committee? G: Yes. K: Bob Weaver and [Robert] McNamara and I, we were the three. operated that way for about a year. That We
  • happened in that hectic couple of days, including the Vietnamese statement and including the visit with Bobby Kennedy. We talked about that, because he said he was going to take the position with Bob that he had mentioned to me the night of March 31