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  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh He didn't ever really trust Joe Clark very He was skeptical about Paul Douglas. Did it seem to you sometimes he was more suspicious of fellow Democrats than he
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
  • as we would like to have it. Would you describe that as fully as you can? WH: That time I recall in detail because I was running for Democratic nomination for a place in the Texas Senate. It was the 19th Senatorial District, composed of six counties
  • Met LBJ as a student at a political meeting in Blanco, TX; Hopkins campaigned for Democratic party nomination to the Senate from 19th District, TX; Sam Johnson as a friend and supporter; Alvin Wirtz; Richard Kleberg's election to Congress, 1931; LBJ
  • . Johnson indicated that the Congress itself had been ahead of the Administration in urging action, and he did that all the way through. But his record is a very interesting one LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • olicy still make se but that our military olicy baa becom "irrel v nt. • ereaa w once lo ed to iatan s the one • ure ldout a i st Communism in the eubcontinent, ues that now "lndi '• dom tic objectiv of via 1 democratic 1d her foi-eig policy obj ctive
  • - June 16. 1967 MEMO.RANDIDA FOR 1.4HE PRESIDENT SUBJECT: Status or Follow-Up Actions on the OAS Sumrrut Two montb.s after the OAS Summit, this h where. we stand on fcl10\i1-up: l. Special Publlcltr -- State has published an illuatrated bookle·t
  • out there were reservations about it and less than a hundred per cent enthusiasm about it, he was annoyed. But that was the sense of the meeting; there wasn't any specific action to undo it. TG: He didn't express his annoyance in the presence
  • to be interesting campaign-wise. So Candidate-wise, Democratic party-wise, we had a lot of things going on behind the scenes. I was very busy doing those things together with the build-up of trips and just stuff for the campaign. F: Did you cover
  • said, "If you can, sign the discharge petition--to bring it out for action, and I'll appreciate it very much. on it is something else--I won't ask you." How you vote LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
  • Saigon, which we reached by chopper. I sat on one side of the helicopter and Senator Hickenlooper of Iowa was on the other. We each had a machine gunner standing beside us, who watched small clumps of trees below us for any action by the Communist
  • fiscal action, namely a tax increase. Oh, I think at one time he did contend that if we didn't do something about this budget deficit that the alternative might be direct controls on wages and prices. just for dramatic effect, I don't really know
  • So Stewart talked to me about coming into this F: What should this job be? B: Well, Jim had the idea of never counseling with the Secretary on things, actions that he was planning to take that he could readily see was going to cause trouble
  • of November ll, 1966 (Public Law 89-808). (b) Executive o·rder No. ll252 of October 20, 1965, is here­ by revoked. (c) Except to the extent this order, rulings, all determinations, certificates, and other actions that they may be inconsistent
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  • as an action group, which enjoys the cooperation of both civil rigQ.ts organizations and state and local bar associations. A unanimous resolution was passed by the Mississippi State Board of Bar Commissioners last May ur ging cooperation with the Committee
  • very amusing incident that might be worthwhile as an insight as to how a new President comes along and worries about the role he's going to have to play. Almost the first major action that I had to take for President Johnson was a letter to King
  • a sweeping program to help the "black" peopleo In the article, Congressman Conyers was depicted as "a black militant and peace fighter." It was indicated that he would be one of the leading forces which would establish a "black" caucus at the Democratic Party
  • , for the Denver speech and a few, but never actually was on the campaign trail except in Massachusetts. But I was deeply involved then in the effort to reorganize and revitalize the State Democratic Party of Massachusetts. That period went on. We were
  • involved in the affair. And subsequently Jack Anderson, the news columnist, published some papers which were the minutes of the meetings of the WSAG, the Washington Special Actions Group, which we had on this subject. Those papers bring out quite
  • , and who would be equally good in your shop. I cannot recommend too strongly that you take whatever action is required to get Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann, Infantry. There is not the slightest doubt but that this officer is the best adviser at any
  • in the Japanese ambassador on the last knotty point and I don't know what he said, but I assume he said it firmly and we got it worked out. In the background of this was a series of actions before the Tariff Corrrrnission under the escape clause
  • the tension between the mayors and the feds was real. For example, [John] Lindsay was the deputy chairman of our Commission, a Republican at that time, and a lot of the mayors were Democrats and fearful of criticism from the Commission. So the Commission had
  • didn't call him and didn't put him in on the thing or try to commit him not to run. If he did I don't know about it. Mr. Avery's theory was that differences between Mr. Buchanan's friends could be settled more safely in Democratic Party primaries, than
  • for [the Democratic LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wilson -- I -- 9 presidential
  • \'Ioul d be up there speaking on some subject and every- / body was gone. rilW: And the Senate Democratic Policy Committee staff. GW: Right. All the official operations, the bill clerks' room and the whole thing all had to stay in operation while
  • ambassadorial post to the current administration, whereas Taylor, a military man-- M: Had come out of the Democratic administration. I mean, he rose to his pinnacle of power in the United States under Jack Kennedy. G: Yes. Was there a difference
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Humphrey III -- I -- 14 take actions on those memories, and I don't know whether Dad did that. I don't know of any real incidents about that. But at that point he didn't have time, and I guess that was the thing. Maybe he just
  • his father did not win the election; Humphrey Jr.'s activities after the 1968 election; LBJ's and Humphrey Jr.'s talkative natures; Humphrey Jr.'s at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Skip's reaction to the lack of liberal support
  • everything was transferred to HEW. The main purpose of it was to convert what was the Federal Security Agency into the Department. This had been attempted several times before. K: I did not know that. S: Oh, yes. The Democrats, particularly I think
  • .for trustworthy public ser­ vants with courage, bravery, , fairness and right conduct. Tenth district can .sb..ow its sincerity in this by demanding that Lyndo,n Johnson's name be placed ~n the democratic . election ticket this 'summer, and re-electing him without
  • --it's an old trite saying that you hear very often now--that was where the action was in politics. So I began to work for Leslie Carpenter, who still is a correspondent in Washington for several newspapers. F: Including the Austin American-Statesman. S
  • briefing, which I think he could have gotten out of the newspapers. I think it was more a question of touching base with Truman in order to keep a past Democratic president happy than any thing else. There was no real significance to it. I remember
  • together what you would do if you were president. Don't come to me with your separate points of view without having sat down and tried to figure out how you would put those into a sensible course of action, knowing the responsibilities that I have
  • than any other. B: Was that work in the early '60's in any way frustrating--more advisory than action? H: Yes. But again it has prepared me--see, the present commission on which I serve--of course this is a full time responsibility--but I'm trying
  • Hodges, I think, basically alienated himself, as I understand it, from the traditional moguls of the business community and he ended up on the trip that I took with him to Central America, for example, bringing really-I wouldn't want it to be third level
  • references to analogies between the traditional European ghettoes and the enforced racial residential segregation in America. But I don't think the term had been used in that capacity generally before, and I know it had not been used in the title of a book
  • didn't match with Clifford's private actions with the President. I think the President thought probably that some of that was to protect Clifford, and I think he must have thought that some of it was planted by Clifford himself. Consequently, my
  • and stable; organizing advance operations; LBJ’s 1965 trip to Mexico; LBJ’s last-minute travel plans; LBJ’s around-the-world trip; Manila Conference; LBJ’s interest in Southeast Asia and Latin America; going to Adenauer’s funeral in Germany; domestic trips
  • historically, that the Democratic Party had been best for the people, and "the common people" was the phrase used then without all that much pejorative as it perhaps is now, a feeling. And so, not that Adlai Stevenson was cut from the same cloth that Lyndon
  • Miller is keeping the stiletto out for me and probably will continue so to do for some time to come. I got a kick out of your description old boss, "Darin'" Dave Lawrence. Regards, Drew Pearson Mr. s. J. Fitsgerald Democrat and Chronicle Rochester 4
  • h e p e a c e and s a f e t y o f th e ■ p a rties t o tihe t r e a t y ; T h e r e fo r e be I t • R eso lv ed by th e S en ate and House o f R e p r e s e n ta tiv e s o f t h e U n ited S t a t e s o f America in C ongress a ssein b led . That th
  • would seek negotiations. It appears that continued dis­ organization or the appearance of a neu ralist government are sufficien ly probable so that we venture to sugge cont·ngent action in the event of ither develooment. S ould South Viet Nam cease