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  • the feeling of security had been strong. Those who had been "within the protection of the · Government" found out how wlnerable they were. There is a fear of further attacks.and there are new opportunities for Communist . .:. propaganda and subversive
  • started in the Johnson Administration, and you had agreed to remain as an assistant special counsel :for the new president. We've talked about the problems of getting a Kennedy staff reoriented into a Johnson staff and meshed with 2. Johnson staff
  • would go down on Friday morning, go to the races on Friday as pre-Derby races, and you'd have fun at night. Maybe go to the Kentucky Colonel's Dinner. Then, of course, they came to the Derby breakfast when I was Governor. Then we would generally come
  • between Secretary Rusk and Foreign Minister Gromyko in New York on October 6. Meanwhile, I di.5cussed our three points with Ambassador Harriman, whom I saw on September 17, and with Ambassador Vance, whom I saw on October 3. Both fully understood our
  • concurred very quickly I went back to Goodwin and Goodwin redrafted the Eleanor Roosevelt speech. He and I talked at that time about a new rostrum for this Great Society. Peering through presidential speech appointments, we fastened on the University
  • will strike India in August, September and October just before the new crop is gathered in November, the following suggestion is offered for consideration. The accession of the new Indian Prime Minister presents~ logical occasion to suggest that the mounting
  • again on Saturday morning, and at that point it may be wise for us to call you and take a final reading. It will be very difficult to do a good job of the pause if the decision is put over beyond that point. 3. My own basic reason for supporting
  • of dead and wounded guerrillas deferred untll morning, October 9. Bolivian armed forces believes Rangers have surrounded guerrilla force boxed into canyon and expect to ellmlnate them soon." w. WWRostow:rln CO!~FIDE!iTIAL W. Rostow ( SECRET •• GODE
  • with the White House in the first place. B: I was born and raised in Argentina, in Buenos Aires and Patagonia. I was educated in New York and Virginia and Massachusetts at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. During my last year at the Fletcher School I
  • of Labor W. Willard Wirtz Stegall ; Thomas in ; New York City & Mrs. Jay Smith --houseguests in 327--departed) President to th e Oval Office w / orge Christian — 'HITE House Date April 27 , 1967 ENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON MARY resident began his
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XI -- 6 J: Oh, I know he did! He just opened his eyes to--well he just--not opened his eyes; he turned his eyes in the direction of the outside world. Of course, I do remember a lovely spring trip into New
  • . also be covered in new tasking for CIA collection efforts. 1. 2. We should do more to exploit the intelligence as sets of other countries. The Australians, for example, should be encouraged to add at least one officer to-their :.Wlilitary Attache
  • , and winner of an American Institute of Architects Gold Me.d al for "distinguished achievement i n an a11 i e d fie 1d . '' A native of New York City who studied at Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin, and Harvard University, he spent two years
  • A. 0 )ICATE: (HARGE TO Origin 01 §tate /1071 LUSE COLLEC,: ~llleril'',701;'\.il;,m{ ' ACTION: Amembassy NEW DELHI ..•..... A SC Please deliver to Chavarn.: QUOTE May 28:i, L 64 I too am so1t:1t:ywe did not h.ave the opportunity I
  • 1958 when Senator Johnson was deciding who in the new class elected in 1958 would get what and who would support him on some thing-- I don't rememb~r what it was--that was coming up right at the beginning of the Congress oi 1959. But certainly we
  • anticipation of Negro violenc e l ed to heavy- handed uses of official for ce that provoked violence which might not have othe~wi~e occurred , The news media , for their part , sometimes shared in c r e atine a c limate in which viol ence could be expected
  • . M: Someone else, an Edna Ferber, can have you work on their papers or give them away, and there's a limited interest. But anything a presi- dent has done at any point in his life is a subject of news and can be a subject of either friendly or very
  • school at the end of the Eisenhower Administration. As a means to an end I signed on with the Park Service to work I knew not where, but I was assigned to what was then called the Custis-Lee Mansion, Arlington House. As a native of western New York State
  • Vietnamese Constituent Assembly's second and third largest political groups have recently merged to form the Democratic Alliance Bloc. The new bloc -- composed of Catholic, Hoa Hao, and Nationalist Party supporters -- seems to represent an effort by some
  • ·doubled in the past year. Exchanges with Rumania are up one-third. Our universities, working together, signed new and expanded exchange agreements with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. - - -- r - - -- - -····-- - 8 -- An American airline has
  • the right to be where we were. If we had accidentally been inside territorial waters, the North Koreans still have no right to do what they did. If the Soviets went into New York Harbor, we could warn their ship, or sink it, but we could not under
  • in the morning, and I am in his office. My name is David McComb. To start off with in this second session, you mentioned that Lyndon Johnson had an impact in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare with regard to civil rights, and lid like to ask you
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jackson -- I -- 2 the fact that he came from Texas and was in the thirties, as I understand it, a New Dealer. And that liberal image in the eyes of Mr. Roosevelt gave
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  • news organizations, to my recollection, had staff correspondents based in Saigon, I think except for the news agencies. correspondent. The New York Times had a visiting Usually it was a person from Hong Kong who came down just the way I did. LBJ
  • into the South; Abe Fortas; reporters and public opinion on the war; the effect of the news media; evaluation of other reporters in Vietnam; American generals in Vietnam; locations and dates of his field reporting; covering the Communist side of the war; books
  • the new arrange­ ments may have on the administration of the area. A month after the issuance of the President's order in 1951, the Secretary of the Interior issued his own Order No. 2658 to "delimit the extent and nature of the authority of the Government
  • . I I ... .. . . .. , --WASHINGTON, Thursday (AAP-Reuter). : - ~ ·President Johnson paid a .new tribu!e yester­ .· day to. the the Australian people, calling them :· ·' America's friends and allies. · President Jpok~ at a White · ~o~se · ·._:ceremony
  • now, trying to develop an actual agreement. F: MOving forward, just this week you indicated that you were going to permit buses on the George Washington Parkway. H: Well, I was out of town. When I got back here this morning I saw that news
  • predicted my appointment in the spring, I think it was, and I, therefore, concluded I was safe. M: Did you know anything about it at that time? R: No, I knew nothing about it at that time. M: How was the news broached to you? In what manner did Mr
  • a lot of that was the feeling that Johnson was still a New Dealer, a Roosevelt man, or a loy~l or liberal Democrat. _and Joe Kil gore and Ray Le.e and· Gordon· ful cher;. Buck· Hood; Tom . « · Mill er·, tne mayor: Bob Phinney; myself; and one
  • 1946. After getting out of the service and going to Xavier University--there was a strong chapter of NAACP in New Orleans, there was a strong NAACP-type group activity that existed between the student bodies of Tulane, Loyola, and Xavier
  • of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; work on minimum wage; the Neshoba County deaths; Council of Federated Organizations movement; FBI opens new office in Mississippi; RFK, Hoover and LBJ told FBI to get on the job in Mississippi; Freedom Democratic Party
  • million tons, this leaves 1 million. Autho±-ize no new agreement now, but allow the Indians to buy wheat in the United States on the understanding that the bill will be paid either through a n:ew PL, 480 agreement later, or from Indian foreign exchange
  • , for it would be folly to undertake i. I I I a brand new effort without realizing that a large number of people have spent •1 I extensive little time and effort effort persons to tell the story has been spent trying working with veterans
  • , and San !Mia and Nogalee, Arizona; ... Parks are being built or renovated 1n Browns• ville and El Paeo, Texaa, and Tecat•, California; •· Public bu.lldin • a.re being landscaped Yeidro, California; •· A ewinunlng pool is boing openod in Columbus, New
  • °'-' ----- NEWS CONFERENCE OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CLARK M. CLIFFORD at Pentagon 10:00 A. M. Thursday, I shall April (EST) 11, 1968 SECRETARY CLIFFORD: I have a brief statement attempt to answer questions that you may have. The President has ceeding to call
  • budget. It was before he got into his new offices. He was over in the Vice President's office still and it was with Mr. Heller, Mr. Gordon and myself about the general shape of the budget. That's when I carne down very firmly that it had to be under
  • of payments; LBJ's relationship with JFK's people; appointment of new Secretary; Vietnam; role of Major General William Dupey
  • there was not a strong and yet poorly articulated commitment. During the first many months of his Administration Johnson did nothing either very new or very definitive to try to reduce or indeed to increase our involvement. It was basically, from his point of view I
  • on nominating my former col leag0e, Jam e s P• Co I ema n , f o r Fe d e r a I Ju dg e a t New Or I e a n s • JEF;cb IN □ UR 39TH YEAR CODE 734•12S1 205 T '~ WHIT HOUSE RECEIVED 1965JU 21 N I 56 ,-----__,.,,-~---~----------------------J Dear
  • IMMEDIATE _.-TO SE.CSTATE. STATEGRNC • -BT - S ~ C ft ~ T SEOUL-5590 • 1 NODI $ REF: STATE 144Z52 1. PRES!DENTP'1tRK -WELCOMEDMESSAGE CONTAINED REFTEL. HE WISHESTO REARRANGE HIS OWNSCHEDULE ANDWILL INFORMME-TOMORROW MORNING IN CONNECTION WITH PROPOSALFOR
  • challenge. Until they do. month-to ...mouth action make• good sense. (See Phil Potter atory in the Baltimore Sun ,wi.erday But none ot u aee • any point ill leldng the morning, Tab A). pipeline break. ao I would like to authorise Komer to give the areea
  • in their official undertakings. B: Was it jus.t assumed by everyone at this stage that Sargent Shriver was going to be the head of the new office to be created by this bill? P: Sargent Shriver was a special assistant to the President in undertaking the War
  • Presidential Task Force on the War on Poverty; drafting War on Poverty bill; Shriver’s dual responsibilities; Community Action; Adam Yarmolinksy episode; problems of the new agency; Legal Service problems; return to the Justice Department