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  • is strong and his opponent is weak. Polls are designed by a candidate to show that he is strong. (The President showed Mr. Carroll a recent New York poll showing him rwming far ahead of his prospective opponents.) Mr. Carroll: You must envy Mr. Kosygin
  • and wife relationship. I am sure she was a constant counselor; she was present at times of great stress. I know for example the early morning hours when Senator Kennedy was shot and the following day when the announcement had been made of his death
  • a conservative from Arizona, [Paul Jones] Fannin, to [Jacob] Javits of New York. It ran the gamut. The first paragraph of the "minority views" said we voted for this bill. The second section said this is a hell of a way to run a railroad, pushing through a bill
  • The opposition But most came ~n those from of the arguments all sides. came No one heard that refrain There the testimony. were all points down to one common more our new Secretary in the White I heard of view. denominator: It 1 s impossible
  • SHOULD NOT . BE LEFT TO STAGNATE •NY FURTHER, ~ND · ~o THAT E~FECT A NEW SERIOUS E~FORT SHOUL6 BE MADE .T0 wARD s A F I N AL s0 Lu TI 0 N:1 ~) fHE MANDATE H~LD BY THE SECRETA R~L OF THE UNITED NATIONS AT THIS STAGE~ AS WELL - ~ ~NOWN ~~Tif~6E OF SOME QF
  • taking part in these military exercises. There is no present intention of increasing our n1ilitary in NATO. forces Question· Mr. Secretary. hcJ.rdware for NATO? military Sec rel al·y Clifford: None has there been any commitment made on new
  • the Pacific area. So he doesn't concentrate on it with the intensity that the J-2 MACV [does], but, yes, I followed it very closely; we had morning briefings similar to what they had in Saigon. G: Now, if I have the chronology right, you went out
  • in the license, and no renewal of such license shall be granted ex• cept upon the filing of a new application. Every li­ cense issued hereunder shall bear the imprint of the right thumb of the licensee, or, if that be not pos­ sible, of the left thumb or some
  • don't know if this is on the record. One morning Price Daniel--he was governor then--invited me over there to a breakfast for Jack Kennedy. He was running for president you know. I wasn't going to go. I said, "Oh hell, that's just a lot of politicians
  • as that was concerned. He knew that I had had the confidence of civil rights groups and a good reputation with the bar, and I think he was just concerned about having to start all over again to some extent with a new Attorney General. M: Right in the middle
  • any plans Mrs. Obote without revealing with~ Tentative House plane President Jo Adnse problemso ENDFII. proposed ri.Bito 2a rpt from Canadians if' they reasons for a.ekingo trip to to meet President New York., in COIWS9 presumably June
  • · . ABOUT IT FOR NEARLY THREE HOURS THIS-MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. . ' THE SIG~IFICANCE LIES. IN WHAT HE WAS DETERMINED IF HE dOULD TO GET IN, AND IN THE PASSAGES WE WANTED . WHICH HE WAS EQUALLY RESOLVED TO KEEP OUT. THIS TEXT WAS OF COURSE fOR PUBLIC
  • the atudy of to ■peed tb1 ■ problem. the •tudy of tho Indian nuclea~ problem au Mid be wow.cl laaue a NSAM ahortly. PRESERVATION COPY ~/DRAFT June•• 1966 MEMORANDUM FOR THI: PR.E;IDENT We picked the Indian nucleu in your new ••ri••of meettaa
  • the following points: (1) He must obtain suitable backing for the operation of the ship from the Gulf universities and private sources. (2) Preliminary thinking is that the ship could be set in concrete or permanently ~bedded near Pelican Island, the new
  • of a new political party, to be lmown as the United White Party. " According to the article, the Party was f~rmed at a recently held meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, at which many klansmen were ref.resented. The UWP was reported as being opposed to all
  • . Prior to that you had Prior to that you had been a New York Times State Department reporter. Does that pretty well get tbe last ten or fifteen years? J: It does except my last public service was as a member of the American delegation to the peace
  • in the morning. The interview is in his office in the Department of Transportation, and my name is David McComb. Last time, Mr. Lehan, you spoke about a problem of communication between the scientific community and what you might call the outside world-- L
  • ; high-speed train transportation between Washington, D.C., and New York City; the high-speed train system in Japan; research on short-takeoff and vertical-takeoff aircraft; NASA and FAA involvement in aircraft research; the Supersonic Transport program
  • care of all the administrative and technical and legal problems that his lawyers had prepared, and in part of the process of establishing the new department. And as Weaver saw it there were only two alternatives, nothing else possible. Either he became
  • ? F: No. The only difference was one in degree, not in kind. There was just as much discrimination in New York City as there was in Birmingham, Alabama, except Birmingham was more blatant and more widespread. It didn't matter. When you look
  • , that may have gone up from 5,000 people at the time of the census to 50,000 people five years later, if they can get a capitation arrangement on rebate of money from the state with a new figure, of course they want to take it. I think it's fair to say
  • in pacification. Henry Cabot Lodge made three recommendations: 1.) conduct independen.t audit of how the ARVN is going; 2.) reduce U.S. casualties by adopting a new military policy of "split up and keep off balance, 11 instead of the "seek out and destroy" policy
  • Games. QUOTE Dear Mr. Prime Minister: Now that Japan has added a bright Olympiad chronicle new page to the world I wish to extend to you and the Japanese nation on behalf of the .American people our congratulationa admiration and for your splendid
  • .... " 3 Reflections ofLBJ(continued) The Observations of a Young Idealist Reston The last few months brought re­ flections on Lyndon Johnson from several different sources. James Reston, Jr., a writer like his New York Times-man-father, is currently
  • of McCaiihy­ ism. More successful in shap­ ing the for ign policy f the 1960s and early 1970s were the "new internationalists a group of influential member of Congr s • that included Stu­ art Symington, J. William Ful­ bright, Frank Church and Wi l­ lian1
  • think of, except I had some ideas, and I generally used to get called down when there was trouble. I had breakfast, at his request, with John Kennedy that morning. He knew I was in town and did not want to question me about the Middle East. He wanted
  • employed. E. The enemy has suffered a major military defeat. He has suffered losses on an unprecedented scale. From the early morning hours of Janua:i;y 31 until midnight of February 7, the enemy lost nearly 25,000 killed in action, nearly 5,000 detainees
  • . At this point, he had to leave and we agreed that call him Saturday morning to determine a definite get together with him again. Investigator I would time to Ol"TOUU.. POfllM NO.. 10 MAY 1ta IIOITIOH QSA f'PMR (41
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean
  • to consider it. The new Panamanian Ambassador -- Jorge Velasquez -- w_iH present credenUala to you this morning. He was inetructe~ttQ tell Secretary Ru ■ k yesterday that the situation in Panama was under control. He may give you the same report
  • can to make sure that it's right, but you know that that deadline is there. You want to produce it as best you can, but let's face it, spot news for a wire service; the only quality in there is the integrity of the news itself. They don't much care how
  • Lansdale's missions to Vietnam and his reputation in Vietnam; John Paul Vann; journalists Denis Warner and Wilfred Burchett; the battle of Ia Drang; Stanley Karnow; spies that worked for news agencies in Vietnam; Ward Just; Charles Mohr; Peter Braestrup
  • will total no more than $285 million at the new rate. ~ The F-111~ cancellation is now estimated to reduce U. K. · procurement from the U.S. by $861 million - or $731 million after the $130 million in estimated termination costs are taken into account. ~ts
  • years. he was thro.ugh the news· med ta and so forth, but Of course, I knew who r never had any persona 1 contact with him. B: Th.at would apply even to his acttvtties while he was vice president, . as chairman of the Equal .Opportun1ties
  • Williams with stress on concluding portion outlining Administration's new proposal to break deadlock between spending and tax powers of the Congress. Package would: reduce administrative budget deficit by $11 billion in Fiscal 1 68, and relieve credit
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 weren't happy about it, and a lot of other people were very unhappy . In my opinion the new chairman of the national committee, Fred Harris, has named two new
  • February 26, 1964 \ >(' Mrs. Fred McCaffrey NCCJ - an uet ~~,., Cole Hotel .Albuquerque, , ~l)a.,.._a!'-~ ...-0 (j,,i~/ '-,,_,ve.,,,LJ ,I__c.-l.,,11.. J v q_,1.,'r-;; •, New Mexico .. . ·,·::,\'.,,,.,',: oti~·~t X Brooks Hays, has
  • in Table l. I know you don 1t think much of debt relief; but if it's additional to consortium aid. it's just as g,o od as new ~-:no11ey. \V. W.R• .CONYIDEN'l'.lAL attachment ~§EN~ . DEPART:rv1ENT. OF STATE ASSISTANT S ~_ ARY
  • in Texas since about 1929 When I say a story in itself, it's because of a personal thing that it reminds me of. When I was given the position of director of social services of the Texas Relief Commission the new board did not care to have me
  • Service Commission branch offices, which are also regional headquarters for the U.S. government civil service. I believe Dallas was one, Denver was one, Kansas City was one, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh duties in the Pentagon matter involved setting up a communications network using Border Patrol equipment--automobiles with radios and people with walky-talkies in the crowd. I'll never forget the morning of the march coming
  • for greater publicity for the report. worldwide. Street. It was front-page news We released it on a Saturday morning out of respect to Wall That was the advice we got from--I forget where that came from but anyway, they asked us not to release it during