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Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were saying that every community has to have a committee of poor people. Why don't we have a national advisory committee made up of poor people so that poor people from different districts would also come together occasionally and exchange experiences
  • ; "maximum feasible participation": how poverty programs helped people understand the potentials of the democratic system; public involvement in poverty programs; Community Representatives Advisory Committee; Humphrey meeting with the CRAC people; union
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROY MILLENSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Millenson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: As I indicated, the last time you talked about the Senate Labor Committee, Senator Javits' work on the committee
  • in nursing legislation; a minority amendment related to closed captioning and George Murphy's involvement; Javits' involvement in other health-related amendments; Wilbur Cohen's effectiveness as a lobbyist; the National Defense Education Act and student loan
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • elements. I think that the National Committee was the gathering agency for the bringing of all the states in. He never used any practical old-line Democrats that knew the country. He brought in people from Texas, and they were limited in their knowledge
  • campaign for Truman; LBJ’s social legislation while president; labor’s support of social legislation to help working people; wage-price control; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with the Democratic National Committee.
President's Daily Diary entry, 12/3/1968 (Item)
  • by) to the Mansion President departed Smith Grounds OFF RECORD Women's National Democratic Club for farewell honoring President and Mrs. Johnson (Mrs. Johnson left the Mansion earlier since the President was late. ) v^*"""" reception 7:44p 7:50pm Tuesday
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the commission? L: Oh, I think it was the President's. After all, DeBakey was the famous heart specialist; he was a Democrat--and there aren't all that many Democratic doctors who are well known--and he was from Texas. G: You had worked with him before? L
  • The genesis of the Heart, Cancer and Stroke Commission; Dr. Michael DeBakey; goals of funding national clinical research; influence of the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health; Dr. James Shannon; LBJ’s interest
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • were going to be able to have a Democratic National Convention in Chicago because of the threatened IBEW [International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers] strike. (Interrupt ion) R: It wasn't the IBEW, it was the communications workers and the IBEW; I
  • Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Chicago Belt Railroad threatened to halt Democratic National Convention.
Folder title list, National Security Files, Files of Francis M. Bator (Item)
  • National Archives and Records Administration http://archives.gov National Archives Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov http://www.lbjlibrary.org/ SERIES DESCRIPTION and FOLDER TITLE LIST Collection: National Security Files Series: Files
  • Folder title list, National Security Files, Files of Francis M. Bator
  • National Security Files
Bundy, McGeorge, 1919-1996 (Item)
  • Bio: McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996) was the national security adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1949 Bundy became a lecturer of government on the Harvard University faculty. He quickly rose to become the dean of the College
  • LBJ Connection: Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, 1961-1966. Head of National Security staff and coordinated Staff work. Had jurisdiction over Situation Room and Classified Message Center.
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 61, 15 November 1995," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . The occasion: a presentation by the eldest Johnson granddaughter, Lucinda Robb. Ms. Robb, a co-curator of an exhibit titled "Our Mothers Before Us" for the National Archives (she works in its Center for Legislative Archives), brought that exhibit
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 41, September 11-14, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 22 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • ). In late August 1864, Henry Raymond, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and editor of the New York Times, advised Linea ln: · 11 "The tide is setting strongly against us •.. Were an election to be held now in Illinois we should be beaten
  • A (National Security)-SANITIZED
  • National Security Files
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to put you on a committee. I know you want to be on it, but I want you to remember who put you on that committee." I think that's why he was really so effective. He worked at it. He put in one hundred per cent of his energy and his life and everything
  • ; speculation that LBJ might run for president in 1956; the 1955 tax bill; the Reciprocal Trade Bill; Smathers' view of Medicare legislation; parliamentary procedure in the Senate; the 1955 Minimum Wage Bill; the 1960 Democratic National Convention and LBJ
Folder title list, White House Central Files, Subject Files, National Security and Defense (ND) (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org White House Central File, Subject File National Security and Defense (NAID 591590) http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/pres/whcf BOX SUMMARY, FOLDER TITLE LIST, and SUBCATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS
  • Folder title list, White House Central Files, Subject Files, National Security and Defense (ND)
Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Edward M. Cape (Item)
  • the Government Printing Office, Geological Survey (GBRA) Files Water-Supply Papers, state-financed publications relating to water, Report of Water Policy Committee of the National Reclamation Association dated 1952, Summary of Conference on Texas Water Problems
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is that Scott Lucas had gotten defeated in 1948 [1950]. That left a rather dangerous gap in the Senate. Up to that point there had been an understanding in the Senate that the Democratic leaders would come largely from the Middle West. It was because
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • amendment there was the disability program at age fifty. That was one, if I recall it correctly, and that's the bill I have in mind, where several of us on the committee favored the disability protection. The people from the American Federation of Labor
Folder, "The Message - Vol. I [2 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • on which the prosperity The Growth of our Transportation States. and rivers, commerce. skein of rough trails network In a nation that spans a continent, growth and democratic bond of a few roads is the same. for bond of a single engaged
Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • politics . That is, I was a precinct officer and was a member of the Dallas Democratic Executive Committee as a precinct chairman . You were operating then pretty close to the grassroots? B: I held no offices any higher than that, but was interested
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the airplane at the National Airport the next afternoon, as I was leaving the city. Macy had asked the President whether he would want to see me and unfortunately I was getting on the plane when they were paging me in the airport. So I missed
  • into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically
Folder, "C.F.- CO 151 Korea - 1967, 1968," WHCF Confidential Files, Box 10 (Item)
  • NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORM OF DOCUMEN T CORRESPO NDENTS OR TI TLE DA TE RESTR ICTI ON 1 J. J. V • (CffiWIDI]ffIAL) ~ S - / J-tf 1 IY LJ Kf-1.:,~ fan the Pres. (X ref-FO 3 2) re
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in terms of military aid. I thought that just generally, in terms of economic aid, one of the very apparent problems was the fact that the foreign aid program is built on being opposition to communism, rather than as nation building. I think as it looked
  • Clark as attorneys general; the so-called Kennedy and Johnson camps; Edward Kennedy's work on the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare; Senator Ralph Yarborough; former senators as presidents.
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • a brilliant husband who had been the assistant chairman of the then-Republican National Committee, and I finally got him interested really in Johnson, and he voted for Johnson the last election. But he was originally a Republ ican. But he was very, very
  • Dr. Michael DeBakey; the Heart-Cancer-Stroke Committee; LBJ’s interest in helping people; Albert Lasker giving money to the University of Chicago; George Brown; the regional medical program; Senator Lister Hill; Dr. James Shannon and the NIH; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out of committee. We were able to defeat it in committee, I believe it was, the Public Lands Committee of the Senate where they had before them a resolution declaring that the Tidelands were a part of the national domain. F: Now, whe n
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Deputy Representative to the Security Council of the United Nations. You are also a member of a number of organizations including the Civil Liberties Union, the American Juridical Society, National Society on Medical Research, and the NAACP
  • Biographical information; LBJ as speaker at commencement; 1961/1965/1966; personal relationship with LBJ; phone calls; appointment as Deputy Ambassador to UN and to Committee on Trust Territory and to Board of Visitors of Naval Academy; other Negro
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Long -- II -- 2 husband, Stuart Long, had certainly done a great deal to help organize the state that year, and he was on the Democratic Executive Committee, and he
Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Frances Lewine (Item)
  • ” (Republican National Committee) [Press releases, print, event program],--Jan. 1960 [2 folders] Khrushchev Family [Press releases, notes, article drafts], 1959 [2 folders] 1 Eisenhowers--WH debut--1960 [Article draft 2 [Unlabeled folder] [Kennedy- Latin
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that it was possible to have a greater impact on a national committee of that sort than in our own small vineyard putting up signs and carrying banners. F: Are you a Democrat by political persuasion, are you apolitical or-- L: No, I am a Democrat. I've been
  • Meeting LBJ in 1963; Robert McNamara; Dean Rusk; David Bell; Ralph Dungan; James Farley; Alfred Gruenther; Eugene Black; John Gardner; General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs; James Perkins; Robert Kintner; Kennedy Center
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Hannegan, who was also head of the Democratic National Committee. At then- Attorney General Tom Clark's suggestion,Bob Hannegan took me in to administratively run the Post Office, because he had other responsibilities. He had a considerable closeness
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a favorable vote, even out of his Ways and Means com­ mittee, for an early tax increase at this time. With the congressional elections of 1966 looming, his committee members, including key Democrats and probably including himself, would not favor putting
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 39, August 18-31, 1967 [3 of 5]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 21 (Item)
  • REPORT I NL,J/41« aa .....- - - - - - - - - By ~ ' A I .(was impressed with the 1111 "d"e•t~e-r~i~o-r-a•t~i~o•n-1•n-..N"'a..t•1•o•n•a . 1•L.-.i,be•r•a•tll!'i•on Fr ant morale and supply situation. National Liberation Front leaders no longer consider any
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  • National Security Files
Folder, "Longoria, Felix [Newspaper Articles] [1 of 2]," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • reburied with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery here a,t Washington, where •ctead of our nation's wars rest.' , · "Or, i! his family pref~rs, he can be .reburie,d at Fort Sam Houston National Military Cemetery at San Antonio
Folder, "Douglas, Paul H., 1/1/67 - 12/31/67," Name Files, WHCF, Box D-251 (Item)
  • ,o/sTi3 OFFICE REFERRAL Democratic Tot Attn: National Committee Dat.s October 18, 1967 Mr. Joma Criawell ACTION REQUESTED Draft reply Ion -____ Prealdent'■ ■19nature. ---- Umleral9necl ■ ■lQDature. 0 NOTE -- Memorcmdumfor use cm
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from working on legislation. But [in] any case, they thought they'd have a rest, and they get this monumental legislative program. G: Do you think it was largely a desire to mollify the pressure from the civil rights groups and committees that led
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the Selective Service Advisory Committee [National Advisory Commission on Selective Service] when we get to that and their report on the problems. I mean I know we got a letter from a bunch of university presidents complaining about--I think [Director
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Governor Price Daniel, who was a young lawyer in Liberty, Texas during the 1930's and whose political star was beginning to rise. I supported him actively. F: You knew Price Daniel then back in your young Democratic days? H: Yes, I first met Price
  • in work of ICC; JFK assassination; President of National Trade Association for Inter-City Motor Bus Industry; return to government service in DOT; maritime industry; Urban Mass Transit; formation of DOT; Alan Boyd; party for Luci and Pat; LBJ established
Folder, "Hays, Brooks," Name Files, WHCF, Box H-185 (Item)
  • I' . I -d rJI/ ~' I> . ,k_ .., THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE .. MEMORANDUM f TOi FROM: t( This afternoon I spoke on the phone with Don Ellinger, who was here at the committee and is now the Machinests Political man. He had three
Folder, "The Message - Vol. I [1 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • changes in the draft are reconmended for your conaideration which we believe will strengthen the purposes of the legislation and the effectiveness of the Department. The Federal Aviation Agency, like the Coast Guard, baa extensive national defense-related
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 4/20/1966 (Item)
  • Organization in State Dining Room (1,000) 4:40 To second floor (Guests left at 5:00) 5:15 Worked with Ashton 6:05 Jean-Louis came for comb-out 6:15 J.L. left Entry No. Time Activity 6:30 Guests (73) arrived Blue Room for Democratic Committee members 6:55
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 5/6/1966 (Item)
  • Department), Louis Martin (Democratic Committee), Arthur Krim, Marvin, Barbara Keehn, Liz 5:20 Left in car w/ President, A.W., Jesse, Mr. Stubbs, Don for Reagan, Martin and around LBJ Ranch. 7:15 Return main house 8:30 Dinner w/ President, Mariallen and A.W
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 11/11/1964 (Item)
  • Democratic Executive Committee 7:30 Returned to ranch 10:00 Dinner w/ President, Tony and Matianna, Jack Valenti, Liz, Marie, Vicky, Barbara Keehn, and J.C. Kellam Page No:
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 5/2/1967 (Item)
  • -American Parliament delegates: Senator Ted Moss, Congressman Frelinghuysen, and group (approximately 12). 6:30 To the Diplomatic Reception Room to greet the West Virginia Democratic Executive Committee. 6:36 Visited with Lynda on the second floor. 7:40