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Washington Texas-Exes Banquet tonight; both LBJ and CTJ attend, LBJ addresses
the group.
3/3
LBJ and Yarborough host a coffee for the Texas AFL-CIO; CTJ and LBJ attend the
AFL-CIO banquet tonight.
3/4
Busby sends LBJ a memo suggesting changes
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CarolinasenatorsSam EMn and E'N'ett Jordan said }1tS,blA SenatorA
- on a speaking
tour in Austin.
The Johnsons host a coffee for Texas AFL-CIO members at the Capitol.
3/5
LBJ supports Albert Gore’s proposal to establish a Public Works Administration with
$500 million job-creation fund, the federal government contributing 90
- address on the problems of the South and the
need for leadership.
A struggle for control of the N.Y. waterfront between the AFL and the CIO
entered the pier strike as members of the International Longshoremen’s
Association (AFL) started a back-to-work
- , reportedly his Policy
Committee can pass the word and bring this about.
Adlai Stevenson proposes an end to nuclear testing in a speech to newspaper
editors.
c. 4/23
In the Texas AFL-CIO newsletter, Leroy Williams and Jerry Holleman,
president and executive
- defense contractors in
Indian Treaty Room in EOB.
5/3
Meeting of Executive Council of AFL-CIO and Building Trades and PCEEO at 9:30.
2:30 space meeting with Kerr, Ed Welsh; WH dinner for President of Tunisia.
5/4
To NYC, speaks to Albert Lasker Awards
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Addresses AFL-CIO Legislative Conference and attends luncheon in his honor.
During day talks with Halaby (FAA) re: J.T. Rutherford and with Rutherford re:
conversation with Halaby, and later with Jerry Holleman re: J.T. Holleman
[Rutherford]. Meets
- announces that he will retire from the Senate at the end of his
term.
LBJ meets with Eisenhower at the White House at 5 p.m. and later attends the
AFL-CIO Texas Congressional Dinner.
CTJ attends a party given by the American Newspaper Women’s Club honoring
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intervened when we were pretty much up in the air and got us to Mayo’s with
Beverly.”
After months of heated public debate, the Senate Banking and Currency
Committee reports the housing bill. Groups in favor of the bill include the
AFL-CIO, all
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American-owned cargo ship Montana torpedoed midway between Iceland and
Greenland.
[Mid?] September
LBJ and Sam Houston visit Mayo Clinic.
9/18
LBJ has appointment with FDR.
9/28
Two-day strike of 17,000 CIO workers in plants owned by the Tennessee Coal
- an order of the National War Labor Board to extend an expired
contract with CIO union of Mail Order, Warehouse and Retail Employees.
4/28
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox dies.
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May
Rumors of LBJ for Secretary of Navy.
5/4
Mary Rather leaves
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At the state AFL convention in Amarillo, leaders call upon delegates to support
the Democratic Party and New Deal programs.
Richard Russell, in Phoenix, Arizona, for a series of political appearances,
advocates government seizure of the strike-bound steel
- been president of the AFL Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union,
later tells a news conference he resigned because the administration had broken
an understanding with him to request revision of the Taft-Hartley law.
September
9/3
LBJ flies to Fort Worth
