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  • may object. to the' term. . . --. -·-. .... -· -· - .... - CHICAGO DAILY NEWS Sept-ember 15, 1967 .... - ,,-.---- .. ---- ... ·Connnent ';vI cNa1narciCredibility·Rating Plunges B3 William McGaffin an indiscriminate bombinJ of in private talks
  • it for trips to Philadelphia and New York--short trips. We have helicopters--white-top helicopters that are roughly five minutes from the lawn here at all times when the President's in residence here at the White House. A telephone call will have one sitting
  • into the retirement program . So, if you do it the way I provided for suggest, you will automatically get the new programs when 2 1/2 million federal employees, and you will not become a target each time improvements that you're bound to want come along ." Mr
  • stop him short on the first ballot, then on the second ballot, he would lose strength. And therefore, it would be a completely new convention. It turned out that the key states to hi~ winning on the first ballot were the states of Iowa and Kansas
  • Kennedy and staff in 1965 over an anti-Vietnam speech; work at the White House as a House of Representatives liaison and assistant to Marvin Watson; Chicago and Philadelphia ghetto experiences and ghetto reports to LBJ; rise of black power; White House
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
  • for the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who has just started this new thing called the Peace Corps." had read about it. do." He said, "Do you want a job?" I said I I said, "I think I So he wrote on a piece of paper in his notebook the name "Bill
  • for yourself . Because you it as a journalist ; you go through the daily routine of reporting this story and reporting that story, and sort of face it and say, "All at the end of each of my visits and you rarely right, what does to Vietnam, sit down
  • . 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
  • Council health Council Southern .) year~ Yuntil in the next it almost political triumphal In this Suu himself the admin­ in sel­ This Phan Khac Suu ~-~ to the J . in the Navan­ but stage, somewhat he guided new Charter
  • . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
  • . Since returning homeI've been having myoffice, usually Bob Beaudry, who's my principal assistant nowwho replaced John Getz, been having him come out in the morning with the daily summariesand the telegrams to keep me up to date on what's happening
  • w illin g to ta k e th e ju d g m e n t o f h is to ry a s to th e m e r its of m y cause. I n o te in p a ss in g t h a t th e w a rn in g s w h ic h th e S e n a to r fro m New Y ork, M r. L e h m a n , a n d th e se n io r S e n a ­ to r fro m O
  • : ·:. .•.'../ •/,;:._._ppecial Message to the Congress recommends the establishment of a .. ,.,:' ; ::,_:\ :~:·:· : . new 9abinet Department of Housing alld Community Development . .·.·;-~.-~·>·:
  • by stagecoach from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia. It would take two or three days. But as each new mode of transporta- tion came in, we moved up--sailing ships, and moved on up to crude woodburning engines and to--the Pony Express came
  • 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
  • level of defense spending to finance expensive new projects without evaluating the consequences in relation to our fo'reign and domestic policy goals. The question that should be asked is: Would the security of the nation be measurably improved
  • to Philadelphia, got my early education there, and then went to Groton School where my grandfather was headmaster. He was also the headmaster of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and he was still headmaster throughout the time that I was there. FDR was President
  • for years. Between my sophomore year and my junior year in undergraduate college. my father moved to New Orleans to become professor of pediatrics at Louisiana State University's School of Medicine. So I went along with the family, finished my junior year
  • Lady Bird & Muriel Humphrey to Philadelphia to appear on the Mike Douglas Show; Dorothy McCardle conducts interview with Lady Bird on airplane ride back; Lady Bird & Lynda Robb to Bethesda Naval Hospital to visit maternity facilities; Lady Bird
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • in the morning, that noon he was over at our cormnission meeting saying, "Don't have the hearing in Mississippi, it will complicate our trial at Philadelphia." And we said, "Look, we've already been asked to call it off twice by this administration, once
  • Ford several times. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -2- As a matter of fact, I sat next to his wife at a Yale alumni law banquet in New Haven a few years ago. I was at that time vice president
  • days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way
  • , the Sheep Meadow, was in the bandstand, the platform from which the speeches were made, and I heard a reporter for a major New York paper, the New York Daily News, call in, and I may not have the figures exactly right, but I think I even have the figures
  • and said that Califano was developing a new legislative package in education for the next session of Congress. That was in the summer of '65, and would I write up the international education part? So I became a government consultant officially and worked
  • and Teetering 22B: The Pleiku Attack and the Shaping of a New Course 23: Competing Pressures and the Baltimore Speech 24: Negotiations: Word and Deed, Public and Private 25: Shoring Up Proves.Not Enough 26: The June-July Policy Debate: The Framework
  • . describe even emotio:i board, inc::::-eased. past that away from drawing side, inevitably was bound such t: ..e US role, t..'-1e old addi tio::al one's New Yo::::-k.e=:cartoon Vietna.~ese also for any Back, to see .,., I
  • but this may not be s o. We should look again at our programs and examine all ideas without thinking whether or not they can be done without increasing our expenditures . {8) The Defense Department i s studying several new military recommendations made
  • . This transcript begins with Marvin Watson entering the President's Office at' 2:35 PM_, but according to the President's Daily Diary, Goldberg's meeting with the President was from 1:24-2:30 PM. DATE: 12/6/67 TIME: 2:35 PM CALLER: Arthur Goldberg Pages
  • *TRANSCRIPT ONLY; THERE IS NO RECORDING OF THIS MEETING; DAILY DIARY LISTS MEETING BETWEEN LBJ AND ARTHUR GOLDBERG ON 12/6/1967 FROM 1:42P TO 2:50P; MARVIN WATSON APPARENTLY JOINED THE MEETING AT 2:35P
  • to go to the urban centers, and they were not equipped to earn a living in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, you name it. And they became recipients of the welfare system. Therefore because of this mobility of the American population
  • to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver
  • one, was quite conservative. paper~ I Jim Free of Birmingham, I think, as southerners go, is quite liberal; certainly more so than the . Birmingham paper. I was. Bruce Jolly, of the Greensboro Daily News, at that time, was I thought more liberal
  • ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
  • had been good. But this was the first time that Lyndon Johnson as President saw how the Council of Economic Advisers could perform. From that very moment on, he would expect to be kept up-to-date--to get these daily memos. This is the way the New
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
  • involved calling up reserves. Secretary Rusk felt that it was important that the new military proposals have civilian (i.e., State Department) endorsement. He thought he should participate in the Congressional testimony. Mr. Bundy suggested
  • that would do if we stop the bombing. We've had maybe 200 flickers and Harriman tracks down every probe, but so far there has been nothing." ### August 7, 1967 NOTES ON PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH VIRGINIA PREWETT OF THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, MARCH 14, 1967
  • should not be impatient. Weshould be willing to sit them out. Andjust because they turn something down, I don't think that meanswe nec­ essarily· have to comeforward with something new. Aboveall, I don't want to get negotiating with ourselves before
  • equi;:,ment Washington substantial number But even at the anot~er ½;ii:c Laos.** and flow of new weapons in and perhaps Hanoi * rifles Chinese) became highland border ;:aobili ty basic (mostlv regiment, in If was Cong
  • STATES:MIGHT BE MADE'. •-:°'.'-'. .. , .... ' ,,r 1 1I~' • •· . IT WAS LEVISON'S SUGGESTION THAT.':.PEOPLE LIKE-:JQHN KENNETH GALBRAITH,,' . ,_..:;·;-· :: ' KING, JAMES WECHSLER, ·THE EDITOR ·or THE' "NEW ·YORK POST~, DR.,'.JOHN .. BENNETT, PRESI DENT OF UNION
  • A State Embtel Top Secret 2096 from Bangkok (Section 2) 3 p 05/19/61 A State Embtel Top Secret 2096 from Bangkok(Xection 3) 2 p 05/20/61 A State Embtel 2751 Secret from New Delhi 2 p 05/19/61 A State Embtel 2767 Conf. from New Delhi 2