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Folder, "Greece - Vol. 3, 8/67-2/68 [4 of 5]," Country Files, NSF, Box 127 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • and , of a type embraced by mo.re does not like constitutionalism democracy. In mode.r n times i P,racticed in this country; why people than any other-that o! Greece made sounder progress ; snould he advocate it for the Soviet Union and China. Greece
Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam; Jordan Arms, 2/1/1965, Volume 3, Tab 26," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • and at that time we would decide to go ahead. If we agreed to give the sup e rsonics, deliveries coul d be scheduled for 19 68 ­ 1970. The planes would thus be under our control for a period. The Jordanians would be dependent on us for replacements and spares
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ERIC TOLMACH INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL PLACE: Mr. Tolmach's office, OEO, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Last time when the tape ran out we were talking about Community Action in the task force period, and I think that the last question
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LLEWELLYN B. GRIFFITH, SR. INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas MG: Let's get this on tape, the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. LG: Yes. I was the chief engineer of the WPA for the Central Texas area
Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a great deal of time with Doug Cater. And I know that when the chips were down, the White House always supported this program, sometimes on the basis of fact and sometimes just on faith because we didn't have time to gather the facts. I personally feel
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 1, April 1 - 30, 1966 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 7 (Item)
  • mac1e in the wake of crises .. For it is only in time of crisis that people are moved to contemplate large chang~s: Marshall Plan, NATO, Mutual Security Program, Alliance ~or ProgressJ etc. 2. Both the Vietnamese and NATO crises offer a chance
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 53: Dec. 1‑10, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 26 (Item)
  • German forces this year. I have added to Secretary Rusk's draft a personal note on page 3, The urgency is this: Kiesinger ough~ to get it before Secretary Rusk sees Willy Brandt on Mondayand in time for him to relay to Brandt your message. B . .PM Wilson
Folder, "Ex FG 659 Committee on Population Control and Family Planning," WHCF FG, Box 382 (Item)
  • : The Transition from Concern to Action. Your deep and continuing concern for problems of population, clearly set forth in your State of the Union Message in 1965 and repeated many times in the intervening years, has made the Nation aware of the great importance
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 3, May 16 - 26, 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 7 (Item)
  • . However, they feel that the present situation is tolerable and time is gradually eroding the problem. There are clearly fresh winds blowing in the Israeli Govern­ ment · and greater willingness to think about a long-term Arab­ Israeli accommodation. We do
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 14, September 1 - 22, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 4 (Item)
  • a curfew and braced for further disturbances in the capital and other major cities as opposition party elements, labor unions, students and extremists gave signs of mobil­ izing for protest demonstrations. An uneasy calm prevails. Our Embassy reports its
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
  • . to Vietnam for the first time; Victor Krulak-Joseph Mendenhall visit; Jocko [John] Richardson and John Mecklin; Rufus Phillips; General Paul Harkins; Mike Dunn; Bill Trueheart; security for Ambassador Lodge; Lou Conein; coup of 1963 and meeting Diem an hour
Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • Walter Ridder, Ridder Newspapers James Cary, Copley Newspapers Bernard Gwertzman, Washington star Richard stoiUey, I!fe Wayne Kelly, Atlanta Journal Cauley asked the President to discuss his philosophical approach to his office at this time in his service
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Quite a man. P: A beautiful story about Mr. Sam: Mr. Sam never called me Pucinski; he had some sort of a mental block. Every time I was in the well seeking recognition he would say, "The gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Puccini." He did that for, oh
Folder, "Flying Saucers," Papers of Drew Pearson, Georgetown Files, Box G 274 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • resolution. We are ready to serve yo'LUPdocumented information any time. Call: N.Y. NR2-7948 at evening 8:00 P.M. IN.TERCONTINENTAL U. F. 0. RESEARCH INSTITUTE ORIGINATOR COOPERATION 01" PROJECT.G 01" ALL ANC DlftCCTOR COLMAN OP' THI
Folder, "Brown, George and Herman [1952]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 30 (Item)
  • will be tranamitted ua telegram or ordinary cablegtam. WESTERN UNI 0 N NEWCOMB CARLTON CHAIRMAN OF THIE BOARD A, N, WILLIAMS PRl!:SICENT 1213 CHECK ACCOUNTING INFORMATION TIME FILED J, C. WILLEVER FIRST VICl!·PAl£SICllNT Send the following telegram. subject
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 65, 15 March 1997," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Burnham of the University of Texas led off the morn­ ing session, with Robert Strauss, for­ mer Chairman of the Democratic Party and one-time Ambassador to the Soviet Union. The three joined in agreeing that, overall, the political culture in Washington
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1944" (Item)
  • , and the cook has recovered. . . . For the time being we seem to be getting along very well.” 4/26 On FDR’s orders, Army troops take possession of Montgomery Ward and Company after Sewell L. Avery, company chairman, and company directors refused to obey
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 37, August 1-10, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 20 (Item)
  • pendltu.r es .and no s.uperscnics -- has given his Finance Minister the greeu light to segotiate with us. I think we hav-, a.chleVQd our lmmedlate objective of buying time on th« purchase of anperaoai.cs by ou.r Latin Ai::nerican friel'h.is. W. 'fl
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 2, May 1 - 15, 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 7 (Item)
  • Scranton is coming to the end of his term, and is not eligible for reelection. He has worked in the Department (1958-60).. Walter Reuther has won elections in his union as well as sought to influence them on the national level. In the Board of Consultants
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 14, September 1 - 22, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 4 (Item)
  • had been shifted elsewhere--after a decent interval of time had elapsed--and if someone else whom Tshombe was disposed to trust, or who was more capable of winning his trust, had been assigned to represent us in Leopoldville. This brings me to my
Folder, "A Report and Related Paper re: VP Johnson's Trip to Germany," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • the four-power treaty with a three-power arrangement, or to place the Berlin issue before the· United Nations at this time. The latter was amplified by pointing out that the General Assembly was currently in­ volved by the Bizerte problem. The Mayor a 'g
Folder, "Longoria, Felix [Correspondence] [1 of 2]," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • • Deferred Cable ( 02 }-.- ' . PRESIDENT .. .. tune shown .m the date lme on telegrams and day letters IS STANDARD TIME at pomt of origm. nu, fi.lllig . WZ079 PD=LAREDO TEX 13 1015A= HON LYNDON B JOHNSON= U S SENATOR SENATE BLDG• SYMBOLS NLT•Cable Nlskt
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 39, August 18-31, 1967 [3 of 5]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 21 (Item)
  • , in exchange for the Front's recognition of Cambodia's existing borders. Prior to that time, several high-ranking National Liberation Front officials have periodically visited Cambodia.) The Front leaders themselves admitted that harassment of their supply
Folder, "January 31, 1968 - 8:40 a.m. Pueblo 13 - Breakfast with Congressional Leaders & Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • than his information. We have spent a great deal of time on this situation. I have received reports from 90 ambassadors. I asked Clark Clifford, George Ball, Henry Cabot Lodge, and General Taylor to c,ome in Sunday and go over this. We are calling
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , or wanted recommendations on how to cure rural poverty, poverty in rural America, within ten years. Angeles. And that came just about the time of the riots in Watts in Los That weekend I sat down and did a lot of talking back and forth with my wife who
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- V -- 2 really a rather funny thing. The Republicans had operated under the mythology for many years that the Yalta agreements signed by Roosevelt had been treacherous agreements which turned over all kinds of things to the Soviet Union. Well
Folder, "Diary: Vol. #4, 5/29/64 – 12/28/64," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 9 (Item)
  • drinkir).g -- some fences. Wednesday I_had a very hectic day -- fl.Ying to Kansas City to speak to the Packinghouse. workers, then into Minneapolis to speak to the . . . .AmalgamatedLithograph Union, and had dinner with Mother who_·seemed in tolerably
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • -time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • deal . I remember talking with LBJ on this subject one time and I said, "I'm not sure that you understand the aid program in India thoroughly, but I know your grandfather would ." He asked, "What do you mean by that?" I said, "Your grandfather
Folder, "Food for India - Newspaper Articles," Food for India, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • of surplus wheat as a stop- have begun to run short of gap measure to me 't Jndinn wht•t1t hy th ('nd of 0
Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. [1940-1944]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 12 (Item)
  • · of living v ersus slavery and a , lower stand­ a rd ot living fo all ex cept the Nazi g overning class." · · ".Time afte r Ll ""I" thr? Pr'!~[de .t v oiced th e broadest pcssib!e waru ­ i n gs to the p ublic in an e•..ort to s ti r ou r peopl e -from the:i r
Folder, "V.P. Johnson's Trip - BENELUX Countries, November 4-10, 1963 [removed from]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • . II. PURPOSE OFVISIT. Paycholo1ical: There is a large reserve of good will for the United States in the Benelux countries. At the same time, these three relatively small countries feel that the United States often takes them for granted. The visit
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 20, February 1- 11, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 13 (Item)
  • , "butchered" it. "Ii' . ._ .... .,.. ' ~ ~ . - i ,. Nonetheless NEWSWEEK apparently picked up the q\lote used by Breslin. TIME intended to use it but, after checking with me, abandoned it. What I told Breslin -- again confirmed by Pierpont -- was simply
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 113: Jan. 1‑15, 1969 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 44 (Item)
  • mar alM attead. No fermal r ... rb are eapecle4 after ,- recelYe tile 111eUl. Yo. llan approwed a&atemell& wblcll will " 1..... ~ the Pi'••• Office at tbe time of tlae ceremo-, (Ta• B). YCMI mlpt waat te to.cb oa oae or two Qftlle poiat• la tat
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the dance was to be held, I met a hostess who asked me what my fraternity was and I told her Phi Delta Theta. So, some time later, in the course of the afternoon--I didn't intend to stay any more than just to make certain that I could get in there if I
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • that it meant a substantial cut in salary and a move from a place where I had been established for fifteen years, where my children were going to school--and I still had one daughter in school. But the climate of the times was such that everybody was very
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • conversa ti ons today, 11 and then he said, "You tho_ught it was time that you and he talked." He still didn't look up. to talk about. I know him. He said,-"! don't know what there is I like him. r trust him. I need him." I said, ''Mr. President
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I took some of my consternations over to George Christian, who was the press secretary at the time, who was present at the ranch in Australia when Mr . Johnson was tendered the offer of the kangaroos . George said he had enough to worry about ; he
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • supporters here in Houston to have him risk a House seat to run for the Senate? S: No. I think I was what you would call an old-time or loyal supporter. I thought he ought to make the race. G: Is that right? S: It's my recollection. G: Even though
Folder, "[Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 13, 1968 TO: Mr. Jim Jones FROM: Ruth McCawley (per Harry McPherson) I called each person's secretary listed below to alert them that a meeting will be held in the Cabinet Room some time tomorrow after­ noon