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  • . Are you suggesting that neighboring countries have a right to seize vessels of this kind1 At the meeting of February 2 you charged that the mission of the PUEBLO constituted an QTE act of aggression UNQTE by the United States, The PUEBLO was engaged
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Walt Rostow, Vol. 59: Feb. 1‑6, 1968"
  • sat down with a map and explained to the American people just what the hell was going on over there, why it was of interest to the United States--I've said that I think he would still be president. Because the American people would not have been
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 come down in flood times and would put water up in the streets of Austin and below Austin would do an enormous amount of damage to towns and farms. The State had established
  • container port on the West Coast and now one of the biggest in the United States. There's a good deal of industry in my district; it was the original home development of Caterpillar Tractor. But there weren't any people who were particularly interested
  • : When I was a young lawyer, I was appointed law clerk to the Chief Justice of the United States, Fred Vinson, in 1951 and 1952. Then I \"ent to work for Governor Adlai Stevenson as his administrative assistant in Springfield [and] was with him during
  • Jects might pose. In carrying out this responsibility let me assure you that the Air }?orce is both objectiv~ and thorough i!} its treat­ ment of all reports of unusual aerial ob1ects over the United States. Under the name "Project Blue Book," the Ai:r
  • ■ !or local cun-ency) w• ar• nosotiatina to •upply beans la the tallowing am0\1Dts: 1. 000 tone to United Arab R.~lic, '• 000 tone to • th• Congo, and 500 tou to Ecctador. l trust that thi9 will ••rve to uaure promote ~•• 1a••tul commo4Jd.••• you Iba& we ar
  • , Ala., Jan. 11 •· Negm students stoned polire -after ch·il rights workers urged them to lea\·e classes and Join a • Lansing, Mich., Aug. i -8 White >·ouths attad,,-d Negroes, dt•monstrntion. · and Negroes rea
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Robert Conot - Miscellaneous"
  • : Yes, indeed. period. But as I say, the period of time was an interesting I learned to have a very high respect, which I still have, for a man who later became president of the United States. F: When did you first become aware of Mr. Johnson other
  • and condemned the action Warsaw Pact five. ce·ausescu· appealed to the populace and ready 0 at any to be calm and firm but vigilant, moment to defend.our socialist fatherland, Rumania." Ceausescu announced the estal>lishment of worker• Peasant Guard uni ts
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Walt Rostow, Vol. 91: Aug. 11‑21, 1968"
  • to be considered as the ablest and the strongest man in the United States · Congress. Now when you have that kind of reputat i on and there are no proven leaders for the nominee, you have to be one of the persons to be considered. But nobody really thought
  • States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Nell Colgin Miller of Waco, Texas, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript
  • and convey to the United States of America all our rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted on December 6, 1979 and April 20, May 4, and June 10, 1982 in Seguin, Texas and prepared for deposit
  • appointment to that position? F: In 1962, perhaps, or 1963, the United States Advisory Commission for International Education and Cultural Affairs, which is a citizen's group but established under statute to advise the President and Congress, had said
  • career and my life. with it. I don't think that anything else could quite compare The Court at Saint James, or the Court at Tokyo, are all more or less well knownand mundane, but presenting my credentials as Ambassadorof the United States of America
  • and we would team them up with a professional from a university. By that time we had established a bank of professionals--psychologists, social workers, early childhood educators, pediatricians who knew something about children in the substantive
  • 'and the people Every STATEMENT over these reason: many years States, President for a Non-Proliferation it is in the interest of the United American FOR THE PRESIDENT including who has borne age has known that the danger of the United generations
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Walt Rostow, Vol. 98: Oct. 5‑9, 1968"
  • when he felt like it, called them a bunch of damn Ku Kluxers. but Daddy never lost an election, you see. G: So really there were good times. Anyhow, So-- Were there also bad times, say, years when the crops were bad, where farm prices were bad
  • Middleton PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 J: My overall remembrance of the year 1960 is one of total confusion, travel all over the United States
  • controlling vital oil and gas resources in this country. Furthermore you had in Texas hundreds of thousands of landowners who had a direct stake in the oil business through their leases, through some production. And then you had many people in Texas, workers
  • in the United States Senate when he was president. I'm not a letter writer of compliments, but I wrote him a letter, and said, "No president, not even Franklin Roosevelt, went as far as you did. I don't know what else you're going to do, Lyndon
  • the boy-• are oall•4 b6ok into the C&mpt • U. ahould speak on the BUl ot Right• t.nd Out1o• or th• le youth ot America, and the ram.11101, mother• and tather1, who are ocm.tr1but1ng their tam.117 unit to th• ut1Te arme4 roroe to defend A.mor1ca. Th
  • , r would like to have you tell me a little bit about your background, how you became interested in state politics and up to the point when you first met Lyndon Johnson. G: Well, as to my background, I'm a country boy from East Texas. on a farm
  • the President of the United States. P; Sure, it is. Then you'll recall that the President invited sugges- tions from the city public for persons to go on the council. carried through for a period of time, That Many came in and I worked sorting through all
  • and take her to the Driskill to dinner . Because I was--I had the feeling--I didn't know Mr . Johnson would ever become President but I thought he was going to continue to be a great man in the United States government and I wanted to learn as much as I
  • , this is a subject that's been hashed over endlessly and has raised an awful lot of smoke and that concerns the effectiveness of a number of methods used in pacification. There were Provincial Reconnaissance Units--or PRUs--People's Action Teams. The Marine Corps had
  • . Johnson, who is in cparge of the office while. her hus- . ba~d is .on active service : in .Jhe: United States ·navy, · notified Bas­ tropi city officials of . the favorable actioµ. · ._. .. . - The city recently /had -presented the .. needed improvement
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Public Activities - Biographic Information - Navy"
  • Country File, Latin America, "Mexico, 11/68 1/69, Filed by the LBJ Library, Box 60, Sanitized, NLJ 93-11 ..C:Af 83843, -C 1 P·" the President (}.Qt f2¥lC_. Q-8-l~ (JlDn Rostow to the President S 1 p. Sanitized [dup. #11, NSF, Country Bombing Halt
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Walt Rostow, Vol. 108: Nov. 23‑30, 1968"
  • to Texas many, many times on stories--enemy territory, you know--and come back. So finally one guy who was there--Max Fine [?] of United Press--said, "Creekmore, who was the best governor of Texas?" We knew who they all were from Ma [Miriam] Ferguson to Pa
  • , Even in areas df war or South America, In recent years, the rtse of with not more than four or great tensloo,-C~rua, •Is­ rael, Panama a'a d France guerrllla activity has been five carried out •byfirearms. Hunting ts ,popular in during the workers
  • The Secretary of Commerce The Secretary of the Interior The Secretary of the Treasury The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration SUBJECT: Development of the Front_iers of South America At my direction the Policy Planning Council
  • See all scanned items from file unit "NSAM # 349: Development of the Frontiers of South America, 5/31/1966"
  • Latin America
  • Memorandum # 349, Development of the Frontiers of South America, 5/31/1966
  • . Lyndon has always been a hard worker and a driver and he knew what it took to make the things tick . He did his ticking as far as the people were concerned and they kept sending him back and back and back . F: Then the first time he ran
  • a lot of people, but he had never really made an impact . So out of the delegation, if there were thirty in the delegation twenty-six of them would have been Lyndon Johnson people . F: Did Florida have the unit rule, or could you split the vote? B
  • , how you happen to be where you are right now. C: Well, I guess lid have to go back to about 1943 when I came into the United States Air Force, or at that time the United States Army Air Corps, from my boyhood home in Alabama. raised in Andalusia
  • that in an emergency period material resources would be available to the United States from all nations except Eurasian Com:munist States, the northern tier o~ the Middle East {Iran, Iraq, and Afganistan), and Southeast Asia. 3. Conventional stockpile objectives
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Mashman -- I -- 3 twisting of Amon Carter, when Bell was trying to decide what part of the United States to build [in]. F: Another superb arm-twister. M: That's right. We went ahead and took this helicopter, fairly new
  • aolidify We can argue th&t So-viets have ao that in. helping ua Ind.t.an.ewould real enemy th• Chico~. •v•n U Shutri ~ Indiana to ante up evan a b.oapital unit., you ahould know our juda-ment that nothlni Shutri'• to you, th~t Ada In point of !act
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first of the file unit.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Bowles 11/3/63-1965"
  • got to go. I'm going to get off here." The boat pulled into the Alexandria Navy Yard, and everybody said, "Mr. President, where are you going?" And he said, "I'm going to a birthday party"--of one of the Mine Workers officials who was living
  • ? FR: I can't recall that, but I do know that we had one of the outstanding programs in the United States. Hours meant nothing to Lyndon nor to us, because he kept us up there many a night until they turned the lights out in the Littlefield Building
  • ? C: Well, he saw it as inflationary but he also saw it as inhibiting economic activity that would otherwise take place. His view was farms would close, small businesses couldn't make any money and it would have a depressing effect on the economy