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  • and dcolassifIcatlnn (•, ^ Tor gccRST ----V• ; • COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN Background^ It was impossible to conclude a comprehensive testban treaty in 1963 because of differences between the United States and the Soviet Union on the problem of verifying
  • . But the Michigan case is I had written a brief in the Supreme Court of Michigan--I worked on a brief in the Supreme Court of the United States. I had also been very active in public accommodations matters, and had been a guinea pig and established the right
  • every day taking my envelopes full of wallpaper samples and all sort of paint samples and Max Brooks' plans. Sometimes Max Brooks would go with me. We'd walk around all over the house with the carpenters and the workers here and there. Marcus Burg would
  • think I'd only been out one time, and I had never been to Washington before I went to work for him in the fall of 1939. And it was an exciting time. We worked awfully hard. He was a prodigious worker, just incredible energy-mental and physical. We had
  • the order became effective, the committee received thirty-two complaints on behalf of workers in the Marietta, Georgia facility of Lockheed Aircraft, 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • of Regional Medical Programs. Some had felt that it should be sort of an auto- nomous unit, some had felt that it shouJd be in one of the other bureaus, and there had been vigorous debate. I was told when I first came that the division would be set up so
  • Deason -- VI -- 10 WD: I started to say I had a theory on that. He was a junior senator. He really was not wise in the ways and the operations and the nuances of the Senate of the United States. I think he found himself rather lost and largely ignored
  • recollection is that Aubrey Williams, a social worker by trade, who loved political manipulation, often went to the horse races and elsewhere with members of Congress. In the course of one of those episodes he was talked into appointing a fellow in Texas
  • to Ireland, got my papers ready and the visa and everything to come to the United States. M: How come you came to Texas? S: That's another story. My desire was to be a priest and to go, well, almost anywhere, and so I found a friend of mine in Ireland
  • that was informally referred to as a land reform program that would enable poor farmers to buy land or a cooperative would buy a larger tract of land and then sell it to the poor farmers for farming. This was not included in the final act. Do you recall
  • ~ TO ~E FRC~ COVEY OLIVER ON CCUNTERIMSURGENCY. OEVELO?t-!E!lTS I~J LATIN AMERICA WILL GIVE YOU SOME SAT I SF.ACT rou. AS 10\7 KNOW,. WE AND T?E U~TIMOS H.1\VE OUR UPS AND DCt,JNS IN THE CDUtJrERtNSURGENCY BUSINESS. BU! I WANT TO CALL TO YO!JR ATT~NT
  • 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. 40, September 1-10, 1967"
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  • 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. 81: June 7‑12, 1968"
  • , was a passionate teacher. He loved his subject, and his subject was principally the history of South America and Mexico. He used to just really get mad that the histories of the United States were written as though they all began at Plymouth Rock and up
  • . I worked with him not only in the House but to an even greater extent after he went to the United States Senate and became majority leader. F: Yes. Now then, when he became Senate majority leader your relations continued, in fact, if anything
  • ,,,1.,•-:~"l IIMil\YMC'S,U,.::;a 'ff.Al, a.UTN ~ Decetlber l.2 1 A.:.-....T-.Jrt 15,66 ~!.ORA?IDUM To: Vice Ad:nira.l Paul E. 'l'r~le United States Coast Guard Cha.in:wi, De;,art?lle:it o"! Trc.zu,'l)Orta.tion Task.Fore~ W. DeVicr Pierson
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Vol. I - Narrative History, Part II, Implementation of the DOT Act--the Trimble Task Force"
  • 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 "Middle East, Volume I, 6/65-3/68"
  • be to acquire land, ranch land, farming land, because the nature of the farmer and rancher is such that he wouldn't sell to Jesus Christ for a quarter less than he could get from his neighbor. ain't no way. him. There just He always thinks it's worth more than
  • there? M: Right. Everybody had a special job to do. Like the Wades and Mary Ann Burns worked at the house. James Burns worked on the ranching and farming end of it with Dale. Jockey was just sort of both places. He helped Mrs. Johnson whenever
  • of that American Airlines girl? G: Carleen Roberts? B: Carleen Roberts, yes . G: What sort of stories did he tell? B: Not off-color . G: But, I mean, were they Texas political--? B: No, not political, just Texas down-on-the-farm stories . G: Crider boy
  • to Senator Wayne Morse's. He had a farm somewhere around Washington. I remember going out to Senator Morse's home, and I remember some of the people that Dad used to have over for dinner, and I don't recall whether Senator Johnson was one. We used to have
  • there? That's if you start looking closely there, you will find an enormous impact pushed almost exclusively by the President. Manpower programs, when Johnson took office, were almost exclusively for white males: many programs for sons of union workers, people
  • there was no way that she was ever going to avoid signing that petition once he had her on the phone. There was a rather lengthy conversation with all the pleas that Johnson could make and all the cajoling. But that was kind of effort the President of the United
  • DATE: September 5, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 4 J: So the last week of July 1948 found us--Lyndon, me, all his campaign workers--in the mood composed
  • found out a little bit how he operated. My view of why Mr. Johnson was so successful as a legislator is that he personally, and his staff, cultivated the everyday worker, the kind of the underlings in those departments. Because he knew, and I later
  • Delinquency under Dave Hackett in the development of the community action program. The typical program funded under the PCJD involved funds from Ford, sometimes from the National Institute of Mental Health, often from a unit of the Labor Department
  • says you took missiles and take out IL-28's and nuclear weapons - we can 1 t say no invasion unless you give U.N. inspection on Cuba - We will not invade if you behave yourself. l • Get Pres, statement Tuesday. 2, McCloy OK 1s Kuznetsov when mil. unit
  • gotten this idea from my studies while I was at the University of Michigan that grew out of my book of which I was coauthor, called Income and Welfare in the United States. And I had been studying during the late 1950s the relationship of income
  • on Ionosphere nission Peets and Poetry share ( SEE PAGE 19) EUF-59 U.S. PROTESTSSHOOT:IllGDOW?-J OF PLA?-JE OVEHEAST GE~Y WASHilJGTON,MAICH 11 - - - -'ll-IE UNITED STATESMADEA "STR~G ORAL PROTEST" TO THE OOVIETUNION TUESDAYt-JIGHTOVERTHE
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Visit to Greece (funeral of King Paul)"
  • television sets around the town, socle of them were in the press offices of the White House. Hany figures of considerable prominence, both from the United States and foreign countries, have told me of watching television that night, how they had stayed
  • would be given five times X. I don't know how much a vote. dollars, you'd get twenty-five dollars. like if it was five Lyndon and some other people, there were several workers like Lyndon, were handing this money out. ~~e ~istaken, And also
  • dedicated people. They were wonderful He had truly wonderful aides, dedi cated hard workers, extremely intelligent, and I was tremendously impressed with those people. M: Who was it in Congress that gave you the most aid? LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Skiles -- I -- 29 S: It seemed to work. The case workers, or whatever they called them in those days, apparently didn't have any problem of getting enough people to fill the jobs
  • for Then Pete [Harrison] Williams I think took it over in the Senate, and they began to do something about domestic migrants. I remember we used to say you're better off if you're an immigrant migrant worker than if you are a domestic. All we ask
  • in those days and had been doing studies in the Division of Public Health r·1ethods on the number of physi ci ans and the number of health workers. We were, through these studies, quite conscious of the fact that we weren't turning out enough physicians