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  • begin with Adlai Stevenson and LBJ's attitude toward him. B: Adlai Stevenson in 1952, if my memory serves me correctly, was the governor of Illinois. Evidently Stevenson had been elected in 1948 when Truman had won, so he probably was serving out
  • Adlai Stevenson; 1952 presidential election; Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Gene McCarthy; John Sparkman; Amon Carter; Senator Richard Russell; Kentucky Derby; LBJ’s relationship with President Eisenhower; economics
  • legislation through the Congress in 1965 - - nearly 20 years after . Harry Truman had proposed it. resc~e Federal moneys were made available to the school systems, mainly in poor districts. A formula was worked out that minimized the Church-State
  • McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-
  • or briefing memo for the meeting often with specific suggestions or questions to ask Bill Martin. we were all equals in his eyes. But once we got with the President I would sometimes open the meeting by sayi ng, "We thought we ought to di scuss thi s
  • Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
  • and pessimistic side. The truth is that we are winning militarily, but t~{s story is not being told. The failure of the press accounts for som; of the d i sallusionment among t he p eopl e . I i I II / r1 1 ~MtSFtilG TO HANDWRITIN~ Ffll 3 The President