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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 90, January 2009," LBJ Library (Item)

Johnson was dis covering America." An elocution teacher, and a jour nal.ist with a sense of history, "Miss Rebekah," as she was known to friends, felt the need to record this most momentous mo ment in her family's life. From the beginning Lyndon Bain

Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

, and their actions further proved our devotion to honest and democratic elections. White asked if Ky and Thieu were taking much advantage of their incumbency. The President said they were, and there was a further problem in their use of our language in talking

Folder, "Guatemala (1 of 3)," Papers of Drew Pearson, Georgetown Files, Box G 284 [1 of 3] (Item)

THEAMERICAN PEOPLETHESOCIAL,POLITICALANDECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BEINGCARRIED OUTANDTO LEARN ABOUT THEFORTHCOMING TRIP TO THEUNITEDSTATESor PRESIDENT YDIGORAS FUENTES AT THEEND or APRILIN WHICH OCCASION HEWILLREFERTO COLONIAUSM IN AMERICA ANDPROPOSE ANANTI

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Government's Stake in American Culture, September 14, 1995," LBJ Library (Item)

, and added that From the very beginning, there was never a disagreement on the committee between Democrats and Republicans, or conservatives and liberals, about one proposition: Washing ton should never have the power to be able to determine what

Folder, "Demonstrations (August 1965 to December 1966) [1 of 2]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Investigative Subject Files, Box 64b (Item)

, ATTN: SECRETSERVICECPID>. 001 FROMDIRECTOR,FBI Ct.tiClASSIFIED>DEMONSTRATIONS PROTEST ING UNITEDSTATESINTERVENTION IN VIETNAMCINFORMATION CONCERNING). THE STUDENT PEACE~ION A PACIFIST GROUP ANDSTUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY,UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the hell was going on. Because I saw, as he saw, that when you were sitting there at the top and something went wrong, who is the first one they called? It was Shriver. It could be something wrong in VISTA [Volunteers In Service To America]; it could
in the Community Action Amendment giving mayors more control; Joe Loftus' article about the "Green amendment;" Green's efforts to have quotas for female positions in the Job Corps; changes in OEO, including the idea that OEO should give control of its programs

President's Daily Diary entry, 3/10/1966 (Item)

of America Pickett, Col. George - Dir. N. C. Dej3t of Water Resources Potter, W. H.- -Beaufort Fisheries Preslar, Lloyd Price, Eugene - N. C. Seashore Commission Price, Woodrow - Chmn. , N. C. Seashore Commission Race, Cong. John A - House Interior Committee

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in Chicago, the summer before the Democratic convention, there was a telephone strike which for awhile threatened to foul up the whole convention. B: They were not Communication Workers of America . Ba : They were not Communication Workers? B

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, not a mayor, and secondly, it's very Republican. And Dallas is very conservative. Lots of people attacked the War on Poverty as being too liberal, but one of the most conservative mayors in America, namely the mayor of Dallas, and one of the most independent
on the Community Action Program; why the War on Poverty was unable to get the funding Shriver thought it needed; lack of publicity for War on Poverty success stories; lesser-known War on Poverty programs providing legal and medical services to the poor

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 36, July 25-31, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 20 (Item)

Campaign 1 1 I l 1 lI l The political action mechanism organized by Ky before he withdrew his presidential candidacy is reportedly continuing its independent activity. According to Thieu's principal campaign advisor, Ky is not contributing these assets

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 3, April 1-30, 1964 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

the feasibility of democracy in Latin America. Betancourt may press you on the following: He may advocate the _Venezuelan policy of non-recognition of Latin American governments that take power by overthrowing democratic, constitutional governments. You can say

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Senate. Democrat it gave him a one-vote majority. Did he talk to you before you came up to Washington to find out your intentions? T: I don't recall his talking with me himself. body else talked to me about it. I think probably some- But I had told

Folder, "Uganda, Volume I, 11/63-12/67," Country Files, NSF, Box 101 (Item)

PAGE 02 STATE 86428 19 DEMARCHE TO MOBUTUSHOULD~E MADESOONEST~y S~EBBINS OR BY BURNS IF TIME PRECLUDESSEEING MOBUTUIN KAMPALA.FOU,,;OWING POINTS SHOULDBE MADE• (Al U,S, GRAVELYCONCERNEDOVER POSSIBiLITV CONGOL;SEMAYTAKE MILITARY ACTION AGAINST RWANDA

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 52, 15 April 1992," LBJ Library (Item)

and economic action. But not all of them. The white America ·s almost total ignorance of Black culture-and the Black America's resentment of that insensitivity-are Il()t matters for leg islation ... a11y more than are the Gentile's appreciation of Jewish tra

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in very sensitive and extremely important major legislative actions. G: Who would you add as a third to this? O: I want to look through this. I think NASA falls a little bit in that category, too. You're talking about some basics legislatively affecting
of congressional liaison staff in LBJ's 1964 presidential campaign; the 1960 JFK-Nixon debates; presidential debates since 1960, such as the Reagan-Mondale debates of 1984; campaign finance issues; the rise of political action committees (PACs) and lobbying

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 87: July 5‑12, 1968," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 37 (Item)

threat. - - The communist ·s' nAlliance of National Democratic and Peace Forces" has had scant non-communist support and relatively little impact; Hanoi seems to be holding it in reserve as device for possible use in political maneuvering related

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 16, 15 May 1979," LBJ Library (Item)

and competitive steel industry. ("We've got to re-tool America," sai Jack Conway.) • holding down unemployment, and in fact creatrng millions of new jobs - particularly for the hard core unemployed in the ghetto (thereby defusing- a "social time bomb.") Rohatyn

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this history [of] chairing this poverty oversight thing. He's traditionally a Democrat although I don't know when he last voted Democratic. Known all over everywhere. I've known several men like this, who can always have a part in anything. They find a way

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

watcher in America, then you'd have a pretty good survey. But this would be so enormously expensive nobody would do it. I just don't know enough about their techniques to make any judgment. I had a feeling when I was at the Bureau, and I think
; 1965 Voting Rights Act; Democratic party politics; THIS U.S.A.; Vietnam elections; Election Research Center; HHH; assessment of LBJ; polling industry.

Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)

subcommittees during his membership on the committee. I will now attempt to outline some of the actions that Mr. Johnson was involved in during the time he was on the old Naval Affairs Committee that stand out most in my mind. When the history of Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Senate? I wouldn't say that I knew him well. However, while I served on the House side, I would get over to the Senate side from time to time to see the Senate in action. Of course, Lyndon Johnson was very prominent in those days as the Senate's
rights; LBJ’s speech at University of Michigan launching the Great Society legislative program; LBJ’s success dealing with Congress was legendary; objections to Justice Fortas in 1968 as political maneuver to prevent Nixon making an appointment; Democrats

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the oil business. F: The reason I ask the question, you know some of them [businessmen] really look on any brand of Democrat as a kind of pariah and a liberal Democrat as something unspeakable. P: Oh, yes, there are many people that do. are like

Folder, "Bowles 11/3/63-1965 [2 of 4]," Files of Robert W. Komer, NSF, Box 13 (Item)

EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA New Delhi, India, December 2 2, Dear Bob: I am enclosing a photostat of a. recent essay by Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times in which he analyzes the forces which are shaping Asia and comes up

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not want action patching up the 1957 bill to be solely on the initiative of a Republican president. stamp on it in his judgment. G: Had to have a Democratic And that's why he introduced the bill. There was one difference between his bill and Eisenhower's

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Democratic Policy Committee of the Senate. How did you get that position? M: Through good luck. I had a cousin working on Senator Johnson's staff named Jack Hight, who was an administrative secretary to the Senator. He told me that Gerald Siegel, who
Biographical information; implication of Joe McCarthy era prompted him into law and public services; Democratic Policy Committee; General Counsel; calendar calls; LBJ’s degrees of interest in legislation; 1946 Legislative Reorganization Act; 1957

Folder, "Steinbeck, John [Copies from the Social File]," White House Famous Names, Box 9 (Item)

• . CD I J 't·'.· ,. ~ i : :- . '·-) • I 1964 Democratic ·, Party Platform Pol~cy.Plank Foreign :..! !; .i .. ~ l .., ... ' •.. .I I -I .. jj • ..·. •·.~\/Peace a~d freedom are America's business. Peace affects t J

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

overwhelming victory in November '62 filled the national party with some jubilation . I think that they were all very anxious to see that Richard Nixon was defeated . He wasn't very well liked in Washington . I had the support, I think, of the Democratic Party

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Curtis -- I -- 3 G: The Democrats had taken over the majority by one or two votes, I believe it was, a very

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

mTERVIB~EE: FRANK CHURCH INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Senator Church's office, OS08 405, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin simply by identifying you, sir. You're Frank Church, senator, Democratic senator from Idaho. You came

Folder, "Whistle Stop [4 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)

in 1963, formerly served as president of the University of South Carolina from 1952 to 1957. Mrs. Boggs• husband has been Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives since 1960. The train schedule is still incomplete, but it is planned that the train

Folder, "March 13, 1965, #38, Backup Material For the President’s Press Conferences, Press Office Files, Box 71 (Item)

, the bloodthat was shed, the life that was los~ must strengthen our determination to bring justice to all our people . This is not just the policy of your government or your President . It is the heart and the purpose and the maning of America . ~ 3 We all

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Inspection at the OEO. It was run by Edgar May. His mandate included everything that we did, so he was out evaluating Community Action and Job Corps and Head Start and everything, and he did--or his evaluators did--make many studies or evaluations of Job
teaching experience in Cotulla, Texas; Head Start Director Dr. Julius Richmond and early Head Start office facilities; why Congress could support programs like Head Start but not Community Action; giving leadership roles to intended program participants

Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [2 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)

tq tolerate actions active This encouragement to avoid so far as possible opposition. certain seemingly qy Amini which do not really s. The U. should be anti-American damage any major America;q. interest~ 3. against T~at the should

Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the auspices of the Americans for Democratic Action, of which I was a member and which George Lambert then was heading. I'm rambling on your question because I can't think of any specifics. I've had dealings with Rayburn, but not in those years in any
Contact with LBJ in the 1940s; Democratic Advisory Council; Rayburn's role; Ralph Yarborough; 1956 state and national Democratic conventions and labor; CIO and Texas politics; Frankie Randolph; Texas Observer; committeeman/committeewoman controversy

Folder, "V.P. Johnson's Trip to Middle East, August - September, 1962 [4 of 4]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 2 (Item)

the problems that you face and tho aspirations that • you have, than do your friends in America. Wo, too, Mt-. Vice President., aro a young nation. We, too., made tho choico to walk the wa:, of independence that Cyprus is walking. Wo, too, were blessed

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Frontier-Great Society period that what was needed was dramatic and drastic action in these areas. It fitted perfectly into our concept of the federal role. G: One of the controversial aspects of this bill was the discretionary authority given
14(B) of the Taft-Hartley Act; combining 14(b) with a farm bill so that urban and rural Democrats would support each other; Orville Freeman's involvement in lobbying for the farm bill; the Appalachian Regional Development Act and the Public Works

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to kind of stay in the middle and keep both sides together. G: Russell gave an interview I think to U.S. News and declined to say whether he would support the Democratic ticket or would refuse to head a 5 LBJ Presidential Library http
Observations from 1952-1953; the Smithwick suicide; LBJ’s membership on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; Texas backing of Eisenhower for president; the Bricker Amendment; LBJ and the White House liaison staff; LBJ and the Democratic National

Folder, "Boutelle, Paul Benjamin," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 7 (Item)

1, 1967 39205 PAULBENJAMIN BOUTELLE SECURITY MA'lTERSOCIALISTWORKERS PARTY On October 5, 1967, confidential source number one advised that a meeting sponsored by the Tougaloo College Political Action Committee, Tougaloo, Mississippi, was held

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that it was possible to have a greater impact on a national committee of that sort than in our own small vineyard putting up signs and carrying banners. F: Are you a Democrat by political persuasion, are you apolitical or-- L: No, I am a Democrat. I've been
for the Performing Arts; relationship with the Kennedys; Bill Moyers; Tommy Thompson; Lincoln Gordon; the Dominican Republic crisis; Castro and Cuba; Free Trade Association meets in Montevideo; Central America foreign ministers meet in San José; Fernando Eleta

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

crises at the same time like the Middle East and Viet Nam. Was that a distinct distraction from government action? R: That's just not true. Viet Nam was never such a problem as to cause us to neglect other areas.There were times when for weeks on end

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