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President's Daily Diary entry, 1/7/1967 (Item)

_• , | .1 |i : | Ij jj ! -^— 1 j I ! : xero x cy s o f biographies o n most of e t o d . territo) _ _ C/ Willia m Graham , W H Fellow , „ 1 Be n Wattenberg _. v Charles Maguire , Kintner' s of c ' I C^ Ed Hamilton, NSC~ ~ James Gaither , Califano' s

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

added Jim Gaither, who was a lawyer at the Justice Department and who was brought to our attention by 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

found out [Joseph] Califano was on duty and [James C.J Gaither was on duty at the White House, so--in fact, I never did leave this house. I got Rod down there, Rod Leonard, who was by then administrator of· Agriculture Marketing Service I guess--he's

Folder, "Diary: Vol. #9, 3/31 – 10/19/68," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 12 (Item)

Civil and Racial Disturbances (Item)

folders of agency responses to James Gaither's request for comments and recommendations re legislation concerning the Poor People's Campaign. Boxes 370-371 White House Central Files, Confidential Files, 1963 – 1969 (NAID 12005682) Arranged in the same

Folder, "January 27, 1968 - 1:25 p.m. National Alliance of businessmen luncheon," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

. McDonnell, Jr. Roger P. Sonnadend John D. Harper Leo c. Beebe Secretary Wirtz James Cook James Gaither Clyde Skeen Howard Samuels Albert Nickerson Quentin Reynolds Harold Geneen Henry Fordll @ MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE W AS HINGTON January27, 1968 7

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/25/1968 (Item)

Califano John Roche Cater Walt Rostow Christian Matt Nimetz Gaither Goldstei n During this mtg the President presented each b Hardesty perso n with the book "To Heal and t o Build." June 24 he signed bookplates to paste on the Tom Johnson books , and Sandy

President's Daily Diary entry, 3/6/1968 (Item)

of Science mtg at the OECD in Paris; and 3, a personal matter. Joe Califano - pl 1:51p -4HB& t Jim Q^2:25 3:30p LUNCH3:00p t 3:29p " Gaither w/ -JK: Dr. Donald Hornig Liz t " Carpenter MW ^jf VH!TE HOUSE date 1968 '_ Mar 6, \ DENT LYNDON B

President's Daily Diary entry, 3/13/1968 (Item)

1968 Wed. ri TT Expend.Activity Code LD 13, \ Jim (classified) DeVie Meet Stewart Udall Orville Freeman C . R. Smith Willard Wirtz Acting Secy of HEW Wilbur Cohen Secretary Robert Weaver Alan Boyd Earle Wheeler Gaither r Pierson by DeVier Pierson

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/22/1968 (Item)

Actions in Labor Dept and asking Secy to suspend such actions. Califano (b. 2) reporting on his talk w/ Reynolds, approval by Gaither, reorganization Date Oc t 22 , 196 8 The Whit e Hous e Tuesda Day y i. Activity (includ e visite d by ) tur Today

Subject Guide: Arts (Item)

) "Higher Education" "Hirshhorn Gallery, Groundbreaking" "Groundbreaking Ceremony - Hirshhorn Museum" 5 15 15 Office Files of James C. Gaither, 1964 – 1969 (NAID 12034480) "1967 Annual Report National Endowment and Council on the Arts" "1968 Annual Report

Folder title list, Task Force Reports (Item)

Opportunity. Textual Records: Program suggestions file, 1964. 1966 Interaaency Task Force on Educational Television, Leonard Marks, Chairman. For a folder containing information and a sunmary of this report see Gaither, Box7of material opened for education

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with the departmental view of most of the issues. But anyway, we finally went in. We ended up primarily with Jim Gaither, who was helpful except on the OEO thing. He was quite pro OEO on a separate issue which I will mention in connection with both coordination

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Gaither, who was the first person I hired, after working with John Douglas on a lot of price problems. John Douglas was then the assistant attorney general and Gaither was his special assistant. I tried to get Gaither. The first time I tried I failed

Folder title list, Office Files of Irvine Sprague (Item)

of 1966-68 material from Sprague's, Markman's, Gaither's, Califano's, and Fowler's files dealing with proposed tax bills and the tax increase. This folder contains duplicates and originals. open "Fish Inspection" [1968 Legislation] open "Gun (Leg. File

Folder, "Memos to the President – 1967," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 1 (Item)

Cooper ,"),..,O Tom Cronin &--Nat Davis ~rvin Duggan &...-tarry Eagleburger ~Jim Gaither .....,_ Bill Graham \,.,ffob Hardesty vDick Holbrooke i..-£d Hamilton t.-'rom Johnson ~ill Sparks Attached is today. ~im Jones , Bill Jorden ....Spurge Keeny

Folder, "Ex AG 5-1 PEST CONTROL," WHCF AG, Box 8 (Item)

-1 August 28, 1967 t-1,E rl s p ~ l,, fG tt-•S Dear Mr. Gaither: Enclosed please find 26 prints showing rat bites in human beings, rats in their natural habitat, rat damage and contamination of food, and methods of rodent control and rat stoppage

Folder title list, Statements Files (Item)

Folder, "Diary: Vol. #8, 6/6/67 – 3/29/68," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 11 (Item)

, with the progress that's been made, to get the kind of bitter resentment, the lack of confidence (end of tape ) ... Saturday, June 10, 1967 -- Last night at ll:OOo'clock the phone rang. It .· was Jim Gaither in the White House. purposes for 12:30 today

Folder, "C.F. - FG 170 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (1967)" WHCF Confidential Files, (Item)

proposals made by the Commission or . Task ;Force should be discussed at that meeting, ple·ase submit the1!1 to M~. • Gaither by the close of business. on Friday, November'.24. l t. 1. I I '4/f ~,.- ,,._, ,., .. 0 ... .. ·1. ~ ! i ,. ..I ,. ' LG

Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Gaither. good close personal working relationship with both. I had a I had far more contact with Jim Gaither than I did with Califano, but I did work closely with Califano, as well as Gaither, on many issues. I found them to be quite stimulating

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

office on March 31 the two people who were working around the clock literally to put this material together John Robson--and I hope that when somebody interviews him, they raise this point--and Jim Gaither of our staff, were both in there working to meet

Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Parseghian, the Catholic, and I needed my good black friend, Jake Gaither, from Florida A&M. Old Jake Gaither stood there, big old tears rolling down his cheeks. I never will forget that. And he still talks about it when I run into him. That was one

Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Wright Patman (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

or 1967. And there was great enthusiasm on the part of [James] Gaither and Califano to put this through as the capstone of the President's education program. This was the way that it was presented to LBJ; that this would be the only thing that hasn't been

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

assistants, Jr. [James] Gaither, I would, yes. But you know, these reflections are very, very difficult for me to really detail and sustain. as such. These are impressions, and I have to represent them The staff work of Gaither and Califano doesn't begin

Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Mayhew -- I -- 23 Joseph Califano and James Gaither at the White House both liked the idea very much and presented it to Lyndon Johnson, and--with the idea

Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Joseph A. Califano (Item)

. Oral History Interview - Clifford, Clark M. Oral History Interview - Gaither, James Oral History Interview - Goldberg, Arthur Oral History Interview - Haas, Charles Oral History Interview - Heineman, Ben W. Oral History Interview - Holleman, Jerry Oral

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 47, 1 July 1990," LBJ Library (Item)

"Hopefully," Jim Gaither wrote after he returned to San Francisco, the symposium made "a meaningful contribution to the history of that period." Many others wrote or telephoned in the same vein. ''I think we made a real record," Orville Freeman said

Folder, "Ex LE/AG 5-1 [LEGISLATION - PEST CONTROL]," WHCF LE, Box 27 (Item)

President's Daily Diary entry, 1/18/1967 (Item)

Duggan UPHff [_ _ back to the mansion at night he fears that the country might not hold together for Jim Gaither ___

President's Daily Diary entry, 2/6/1967 (Item)

, Julius Vice Pres' Office / Fulton, James G. , Cong Cannon, Howard W. |Sen / Gaither, James WH_ Carey, Frank j ' Associated Press. Galler, Sidney • Smithsonian Inst Carey, Wm. D. | Bur of Budget N Gram , Nils L. Scientific Attache, Emb of Norway. Carlson

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

interviewed him. T: Joe Califai.10 on the I·i'bite House staff, and Jim Gaither who was his assistant, started ~ee~i~g relative to a reorganization of the Labor Department, particularly relating to the Manpm"er Development Program. The reorganization had

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the big struggles was to get hold of a copy of the Gaither Report, and the administration refused to give it to the corrmittee. R: I only have a dim recollection of that, because the Gaither Report was like so many of those reports in those years

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

formed the basis for publications of political organizations. We used to review almost anything in the domestic area that came out of the Democratic [National] Committee, or anywhere else. For a brief period of time Jim Gaither went off the payroll

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

going to be instituted against any states. [Inaudible, reading to himself] This looks to me like J.G. here, Jim Gaither. It looks to me like this was recast into one memo, and I must have sent a memo to the President or Cater did-G: Okay. I'll check. C

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with the cabinet officers and the programs the cabinet officers had for the poor. That stuff was all cleared in my office. Jim Gaither, for a period of a couple weeks, did nothing but clear statements by cabinet officers and what have you, trying to put a program

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

House was trying to pull the reins in on this task force operation? C: No. Oh no. Oh no. K: Okay. In his oral history at the LBJ Library, James Gaither tells about one little incident you might have had a role in. He said it took place in January

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

combination. G: Do you recall the Preparedness Committee's interest in getting the Gaither Report from the White House? M: Yes, I just remember that; I don't recall anything more about it. They certainly used it, Johnson used it, as a club to beat up