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  • ~ Mr. Fulbright; the number two man on the Foreign Relations Committee, which in those days was Senator Hickenlooper--in other words, the senior Democrat and the senior Republican--and then Senator Mansfield as the Majority Leader. He's also on foreign
  • ; not involved in policy making; Fulbright letter and the ruckus McCarthy made; February 1967, the National Student Association problem; Pueblo Mission; Tuesday lunches in 1967; halt of bombing in Vietnam; 3/31 speech; Six Day War; Kosygin on hot line; LBJ’s
  • assistant secretary of defense for manpower. McS: Were you in need of any political credentials in this job? Did you necessarily have to belong to the Democratic Party? McG: Not that I am aware of. I imagine it didn't hurt, but I am not aware
  • with White House staff; meetings with Joe Califano; McGiffert's responsibilities relating to legislative affairs; McNamara's relationship with members of Congress; a preparedness subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding public statements
  • revolution without losing their democratic stability I don't know whether they can do it. I'd be very interested in what you think. is going on down there. No question but what Allende is a Marxist. There's no question but what he is going to nationalize
  • briefly, a summary of an active career, you were born in Marshall, Texas, and went to Wiley College there, and then to Howard in Washington. F: That's correct. B: And in the 40's you were one of the founders and the first National Director of CORE
  • , I worked with Senator Humphrey from 1955 through the time he went into the vice presidency and then went over with him as his chief of staff in the vice presidency and held a somewhat ambiguous subtitle of assistant for national security. I had
  • Duties with Humphrey; foreign policy assistants; development of Humphrey's thinking on Vietnam; Humphrey's interest in arms control; Food for Peace; the development of democratic institutions; health research; civil rights; NATP; founding
  • Clarence had simply settled here, regrettably, and nobody had gotten the county lines changed, because Lyndon voted in Blanco [County] always, from the beginning, as I still do. The Republican National Committee met in Chicago. [Robert] Taft's drive simply
  • Furniture for the LBJ Ranch; living at the Ranch for the first time in the summer of 1952; LBJ's legislative work in 1952, including military waste and tidelands; the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago; controversy surrounding
  • 18 2:30 P• m. Reception, film (Paintings in the White House) and tour for the National Accessions Committee, a group who select paintings for u.s. Embassies Friday, , June 18 9:00 p.m. Luci Johnson will hostess a party for a group of Diplomatic
  • National Archives and Records Administration http://archives.gov National Archives Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov http://www.lbjlibrary.org COLLECTION DETAILS and FOLDER TITLE LIST Collection: Papers of Lindy Boggs, 1964 - 1965 [NAID
  • Service Unit, June 16, 1942 Detroit investigation brings in this one: The President of the Michigan Manufacturers• Association says that the National Association of Manufacturers inspired. the Dies Committee to offset the effects of the LaFollette
  • of Mexican extraction or Mexican descent, whatever phrase you want to use. And we were never aware of any particular discrimination insofar as people belonging to different religions or belonging to different nationalities. raised in the same kind
  • and Chancellor E. Don 'alker, Co-Vice Presidents. Walker and Christian were also appointed t ser.c on the E:x~uthc Committee. Also elected Lo Board: Library Dir ·tor Harry l\1iddleton. Tom John,;on LBJ School Fellowships Created to Honor Strauss One thousand
  • administration and is tied for the best among public universities." A search committee has been appointed to seek Sherman's replace­ ment. In Memoriam: McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Johnson Saunders Covert
  • .o absorb its largest competitors, France and England . The democratic states a re not prepared tc defend them­ selves against Germany because they have not organized themselves for SlCh national mass product ion . They have had much unemployment
  • back the southern Democratic opposition in the old southern Democrat-Republican coalition. We used to carefully monitor our roll calls and committee action to see if we were making progress in that area. And we were. We were reducing, little by little
  • as co-chair of the Citizen's Committee for Postal Reform; LBJ's 1965 gall bladder surgery.
  • to add to what you wrote in the book? M: I don't think so. G: One of the questions I want to ask you about that is with regard to the selection of Democratic members of that censure committee. Do you recall any effort by LBJ to appoint a Democratic
  • that they should be televised, but I'm not sure of that. He didn't really get into the McCarthy thing too actively till right near the end. G: Now, Senator [John] McClellan was, I guess, the ranking Democrat on that Government Operations Committee
  • ' Commission., "Report of the Committee on Agriculture and Food.," November 28 - December 1, 1965, p. 5. "Changes in Agriculture in 2 6 Developin,! Nations., 1948 1963.," Fordgn Agricultural Economic Report #27., Economic Research Service, u. S. Department
  • NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORM OF Ill report DATE CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE DOCUMENT Background Paper on Factors Which Could Influrence Nation ial Decisions Concerning Acquisition of Nuclear
  • See all scanned items from NSF Committee Files Box 1
  • Folder, "Background Paper on Factors which Could Influence National Decisions re Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons (Garthoff)," Committee Files, NSF, Box 1
  • Committee Files
  • National Security Files
  • Truman. In 1946 the President had appointed me the first American permanent chairman of the United States National Commission for UNESCO. I became the Vice Chairman of the delegations to the annual conferences LBJ Presidential Library http
  • , and we're now about a forty-five man law firm. I'm politically a Democrat, and I have worked as an advisor on the edges of government and in various political campaigns, in the course of which I've come to know the president and also President Kennedy. live
  • Biographical information; role of lawyers in government service; Tightrope Committee/Federal Aviation Administration; service with OEO; Business Leadership Advisory Council; Job Corps; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; opinion of LBJ's
  • was much more conscrvali\C than most Democrats . . th foreign policy of the nation wa, one that he had made ... When it came to playing things carefully. Lyndon Johnson was a geniu~. and he pilled th Republican Party against Eisenhower ... It worked
  • : Mr . Johnson then, you would say, did have some interest in foreign policy prior to the time he became the national officer, unlike what some of his critics would have you believe? A: One cannot serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee
  • remember Governor Daniel, he was chairman, I believe--I forget whether he or Rayburn, they were the two leaders of the delegation--went up to the then-chairman of the Democratic National Committee--I forget his name--but anyway, to try to get some tickets
  • Biographical information; met LBJ in 1937 through Baines family tree research with LBJ’s mother; LBJ’s six years as Democratic Majority leader in Senate; JFK nomination; LBJ as VP; Heath as Ambassador to Sweden; as Chairman of UT Board of Regents
  • ? P: Johnson has had a long record of being his own political boss. He doesn't bother much with party machinery. I think it's actually a mistake. I think that he let the Democratic Committee run down and didn't use it. F: Did you have any connection
  • National Archives and Records Administration http://archives.gov National Archives Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov http://www.lbjlibrary.org FOLDER TITLE LIST and SUBCATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS Collection: White House Central Files, Subject Files
  • to work with. G: Of course with Daniel's election LBJ suddenly became the senior sena­ tor from Texas and at the same time I guess the Democratic leader. This would have been 1953. J: Yes, he became the minority leader, not the majority leader, which I
  • LBJ the rancher; the tidelands issue; Senate Preparedness Subcommittee investigation; Shivers takes control of Texas Democratic Party; Russell campaign for president
  • . We've had-- F: Do you have sort of a newsletter? P: That's normally done out of the National Democratic Committee. example, we had Vice-President Humphrey down here in 1965; For it was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • . G: Now, you also as I understand represented the National Committee against Mental Illness. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • ; research funding from Congress; support for health issues from Senators Claude Pepper, Lister Hill, and Edward Thye; support for health issues from Congressman John Fogarty; Mike Gorman's work for the Committee Against Mental Illness; Mahoney's work
  • of the Senate, both Republicans and Democrats, particularly when he tried to put over legislation of a national character. In other words when there was no bipartisanship, and I attended many of these conferences and he had the leaders of the various--he had
  • in northern California. This organization was the political vehicle for Republicans, Independents and dissident Democrats who wished to support the KennedyJohnson ticket. When I"say dissident Democrats, I mean Democrats who did not want to vote within
  • STATEMENT BY SENATE DEMOCRATIC On Floor of the Senate LEADER LYNDON B. JOHNSON June 25, 1954 FOR RELEASE Mr. UPON DELIVERY President: There Council are urgent reasons for approval of this re solution The most pressing is the meeting
  • , and to look a­ head to the no less inspiring certainty that she will he our ally in peace. The tradition of friendship between these two great nations, the U. s. and the U.S. s. R., dates b3ck years beyond the attacks which have made us warring allies
  • National Archives and Records Administration http://archives.gov http://www.lbjlibrary.org COLLECTION DETAILS and FOLDER TITLE LIST National Archives Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov Collection: Papers of Paul J. Tierney, 1964 - 1968 [NAID
  • ), serving with both until 1977. Brzezinski was a member of the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council, from 1961 to 1962. In 1964 he was a member of the steering committee of Young Citizens for Johnson, and from 1966
  • National Archives and Records Administration http://archives.gov National Archives Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov http://www.lbjlibrary.org COLLECTION DETAILS and FOLDER TITLE LIST Collection: Papers of Joseph L. Block, 1964 - 1968 [NAID
  • movement all along to get-­ F: Were you doing anything? P: No. Except that I was then serving as executive director of the St ate Democratic Executive Committee under Governor Daniel. Then Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn had a general
  • election of 1960; John Tower elected; LBJ-Pickle relationship in the vice-presidential years; LBJ's generosity; Ed Lyles; "Dollars for Democrats;" Homer Thornberry and Pickle; Gene Fondren, Charles Herring, and Pickle reach agreement on running for Congress
  • Leader. F: Right. Let I s talk very briefly about the period when you T,qe re the leading Democrat in the Senate, and Mr. Johnson served as junior senator but was definitely on his way. One of the things that came up T,-las the confirmation of Leland
  • : Yes. G: And then from 1966 to 1967 you were the chairman of the United States Select Committee on Western Hemisphere Imigration. S: Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration. G: I'm sorry, my mistake. You are a member of various
  • ; 1965 Voting Rights Act; Democratic party politics; THIS U.S.A.; Vietnam elections; Election Research Center; HHH; assessment of LBJ; polling industry.
  • National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
  • Contact with LBJ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; 1963 Philadelphia speech; Green funeral; 1963 meeting of American Municipal Association in Houston; city program; HHH; urban disorder; 3/31 announcement; 1968 campaign
  • .? o'beiIworked for a number of years as a di trict or anizer for the Communist Par in a 10 onvention, he Louisianao In December, l 59, at the Party s as was elected a member of the Party's National Committee under a pseudonymo In 1960, at which time he
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