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  • and Reserve Affairs. Mr. Fitt, you were appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense by President Johnson and approved by the Senate on October 6, 1967, which is just over a year ago. Prior to that time, from '61 to '63, you were a Deputy Assistant Secretary
  • : A Machinists Union strike has snarled or halted service on a number of railroads from coast to coast. The walkout threatens Vietnam war shipments and promises massive commuter jams tomorrow in some big cities. Some railroads hope to keep war sup plies moving
  • militarily. It would not be in Czech interests or ours. The ''Cold War'' is not over. Our relations with Soviets are in transition. We would go anywhere at anytime to further interests of peace. We have thought at times we have made Progress. We have
  • were involved-- the trade union movement and our union in particular was involved in the question of a minimum wage for the vlOrkers in this nation, and I buttonholed congressmen and one of them was Congressman Johnson. M: A brand new one at that time
  • Reference No. 13618a November 25, 2008 Processing Note . Transcript only of this conversation; there is no recording. DATE: 10/31168 TIME: 6:05 PM CALLER: Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, George Wallace Pages ofTranscript: 15 pages Barbara Cline
  • *TRANSCRIPT ONLY OF THIS CONVERSATION; THERE IS NO RECORDING; LBJ IS MEETING WITH JIM JONES AT TIME OF CALL; HHH, RICHARD NIXON, AND GEORGE WALLACE WERE REACHED BY TELEPHONE; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY
  • physical exams out at Kelly My heartbeat was then at the maximum, but it had come down from Field . 172 to the time I took the physical exam which was about three weeks later-­ M: Was this due to being struck? B: Yes . M: Caused your heart
  • they paid for it on the basis of it being delivered on the docks. MU: About that same time Mr. Johnson had his first real strike crisis. this didn't involve one of your unions. I think It was the railroad strike in 1964. Did you get involved with him
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape II 2 (Nov. 13, 1968, Nov. 14, 1968) A: I felt this was one of those times when it did make a difference who was the American chief representative in this mission--in this case, Sofia. That, quite possible, if I had been
  • to. Tnese are voluntary associations. We want the members to take an active democratic role in th~peration of the unions. And yet in a time of inflationary pressures, people trying to leap-frog wage settlements one after another, it has made it darned
  • price policy; union democracy; stockpiling; Direct Investment Program; balance of payments; transition; cabinet committee work on post-planning for economic consequences of the end of Vietnam War
  • thereof. Both Korea and the South Vietnamese episode became highly unpopular during their course. I'm not sure that the Korean war wasn't even more unpopular than the Vietnamese war at the time; many people have forgotten that since. Obviously no one would
  • capabilities vs. conventional forces in relation to the Soviet Union's spending and capabilities; the Navy and the development of the F-111-B; difficulty designing equipment that is useful for more than one branch of the U.S. military; operational losses
  • transcript series. DATE: 1/10/69 TIME: 5:11 PM CALLER: Richard Nixon Pages of Transcript: 3 pages Barbara Cline Archivist ·. • S:llpm - Friday January 10, 1969 A - Dick, we are trying to finish off our State of the Union and I thought it would
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS UPCOMING STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE AND STATEMENT HE WANTS NIXON TO ISSUE IN SUPPORT OF LBJ'S REMARKS IN THE MESSAGE ON THE SURTAX
  • become a highly unpopular subject with the American public. present Another one is that when you're dealing with foreign aid at the time~ you necessarily are dealing with the lesser developed countries; so that the normal supporters of foreign aid
  • , except that I would like to ask you this same sort of question in regard to relations with Communist China, perhaps not in terms of relations, but developments over the same period of time since 1960. N: My mind was going back earlier than 1960. P
  • to the U.S. House in the 79th Congress. He was an advocate of statehood for Alaska throughout his entire delegate days, and of course when Alaska was admitted to the Union in 1958, he was elected to the Senate and was re - e l e c t e d in 1960 and in 1966
  • unnecessarily and therefore compromise even further the position of Soviet Jewry. The main concern of the government of Israel, of course, was to get their people out of the Soviet Union. G: Right. So did they eventually give some aid to South Vietnam? F
  • in. Secretary Rusk: Let's wait until we have all the You don't have any estimate of what might happen. Secretary Fowler: Th ere have been some money flow. The President: We have three messages: Economic State of the Union -- Budget Message Don't tie
  • of Communism? P: Appealing to these more politically aware young people. A: Well, every time, of course, that the trusteeship council meets, the Soviet Union makes a great pitch to try to tell these people--there are LBJ Presidential Library http
  • -third bot~ - 7 J..:r, c2.se_ contin~i~; military com:nan~. by ___ grew of c. ~n time a st:::-iking and without judg~ent part was was It do both authorized . an inc~eas to deci- priority not directly however, June, any gospel
  • the course that we should adopt. Of course, the last agreement, the Interim Agreementon offensive wea­ pons, left the Soviet Union with having a big superiority in numbers of launchers, both ICBMand SLBMlaunchers, which in part was offset by our superiority
  • about the state in the Johnson City Windmill bragging about his vote for the TaftHartley Act, and criticizing Coke Stevenson for accepting organized labor's endorsement. That would be the AFL endorsement at that time, the state AFL endorsement meeting
  • , but there was no direct personal M: No direct personal reaction . reaction . You were a consultant for the State Department at various times during that period . B: Yes . M: Did any of those tasks bring you in direct contact with him? B: No . M: Not until you
  • not before Congress as a platform for the Democratic party in '56 and again in '60. Most of the time I was governor of New York--a considerable part of the time I was. Then afterwards I still remained as a member because we were very much concerned
  • Biographical information; Advisory Council to the National Committee; LBJ and foreign affairs; role in peace negotiations; Poland/Yugoslavia visit; India and Pakistan; Soviet Union prevented bombing halt in Vietnam; trip with HHH; Manila Conference
  • , from the time he went there until he left . F: You were educated entirely in California? B: Yes, both my wife and myself are products of Lowell High School in San Francisco . She went on to the University of California . I went to San Francisco
  • and I got it through the House. That was in 1934. Today there are 23,000 credit unions in the United States and 25,000,000 members with over $20,000,000,000 in assets. It has several times as many members as all the other financial institutions
  • in 1941; credit unions; Rayburn and LBJ’s strong Congressional leadership; Congressman Buchanan; Board of Education meeting; John Nance Garner; passage of the Veterans Bill; Robinson-Patman bill; Joint Economic Commission; REA projects; space program
  • . The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through
  • Samuelson; recruitment of economists by JFK and LBJ; 1964 Task Forces; Bill Moyers; Task Force on Intergovernment Fiscal Relations; Alice Richlin and Anita Wells; revenue sharing; labor unions; embargo on all Task Force Reports; Heller-Pechman Plan
  • who you see working to try to get something done, to get some kind of community of interests with the communists, the Soviet Union, at the same time very, very skeptical of the international aims of communism, very skeptical that any communist party
  • Asia, 1961-62 (Outline only) 7: China and the Soviet Union in East Asia as Seen from Washington, 1961-63 8: Disillusionment in Laos, Hope in Vietnam (August 1962 - May 1963) 9: The Decline and Fall of Diem (May to Nov. 1963) 10: Retrospective: A Road
  • /oh Thurmond -- I -- 2 they felt the nominee would be sure to be elected. At that time the nominee would normally have been elected but in view of the special circumstances arising we were able to win the race. Senator [Burnet R.] Maybank died
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 24, 1969 F: Let me make a brief introductory statement. This is an interview with Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, long-time Prime Minister of Australia, in the Sheraton-Crest Inn in Austin, Texas, on November 25, 1969
  • . We do not want to get the Soviet Union and China into this war. I constantly get statements from Ford and other people like him. You get more press play from complaints than you do from compliments. Some of these attacks have hurt our social programs
  • this was the first time the North Koreans knew that the ship would be in t..'1e area. Three thi.'1.gs are clear: 1. It was a conscious effort to provoke a response O!" a lack of response. 2. The Soviets knew of it in advance. 3. T!ie North Koreans have
  • to prevent South Vietnarn from being taken over by Hanoi. At the same time, we s eek to avoid a confrontation with either the Chinese Communists or the Soviet Union . S ec.r etary McNamara: Summarized the military situation in Vietnam: a . The nurnber
  • l had not covered the Hill in the days when he was majority leader, although obviously everybody in town knew him. M: You were. overseas, l suppose, most of the time. A: Much of the ti;ne, I. was. terribly well. I was in and out, but I never
  • were waiting the way. comfort the American bombers the timing At the little even gr eater September that of with increasing any such action. feelings am the Wilson, in terms vt..,,oy the month was mixed on the American jet
  • did; the chap who handled Western Europe and the Soviet Union did. I was in a somewhat strange situation because Vietnam became so operational that Bundy spent a very substantial proportion of his time on Vietnam and much less on other hunks
  • we begin, because I think this is a time period central to our area of discussion. I have down here that in 1960 to 1962 that you were director of the Joint Staff organization within the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This would be here at the Pentagon. W
  • it says something about being suspicious of labels, and I am. I am just now working on an autobiographical book in which I say even good labels are bad for you because they limit you. I guess I hope I defy all labels. There was a time when I used
  • a big bureaucracy on both and that's the way they're handled. But without making any predictions about the relationships, I said, well, I had been studying the Soviet Union for a long time but I am also keenly interested in China, and I think it would
  • passage 0£ the civil rights bill . 0 .1i::_:\ .. ::·,.:::,, for which he £ought so long. We have talked long enough in this ..·}t· ~,:'.:,:._i-·~--~\~or more. It is time
  • Intelligence, not Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. When the agency was established by law under the National Security Act of 1947, the individual who held my job at that time was given the title of Director of Central Intelligence