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  • . It was the first improvement the city had. It was an Indian village and Maury restored it, with the help of the government funds. G: Did Mr. Johnson know Maury Maverick? Q: Oh, yes, real well. G: Did he assist him either in the NYA or the congressional
  • of the ~~ormon Church had made the &tatemeut that Johnson looked like the man that could lead the free people of the wor ld. Wil:dman said he was ready to start to work and if we were ready to start having Johnson clubs formed then they ,vere ready to go ahead
  • - on the outskirts of St. Augustine, Florida. The Congressional Committee reports that Lynch's harangue lasted more than an hour and "was couched in almost incredibly bloodthirsty language." Following his speech the audience administered a physical beating
  • , or maybe we'd go out to a huge old colonial house on the banks of the Potomac called Collingwood. In any case, it was a big event. Another big event on the women's side for me was belonging to the Congressional Club. There every Friday afternoon we would
  • . following LBJ's 1937 election to Congress; the Johnson's apartment in Washington, D.C.; LBJ's first congressional office staff; the Texas delegation in 1937; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to entertain constituents; political social clubs; LBJ's work to get
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Parker -- I -- 7 P: Oh, they thought he was wonderful. He got together a club for the staff of the [Texas] delegation to have luncheon
  • Johnson? L: During his first campaign for the Senate in 1941. F· What part did you take in that? L: I believe they designated me as his district manager; that is, I looked after the 13 counties that were then in the 15th Congressional District
  • ; “Viva Kennedy-Johnson Clubs;” LBJ’s effort to build up leaders of Mexican background; LBJ’s political sense; BRACERO problems; U.S.-Mexico relations; LBJ’s appeal to Mexican-Americans
  • s, P r e sid e n t o f the N a tio n a l C ap italG arden Club L eagu e, and frien d of B uford MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE T h u rsd ay , F eb ru a ry 11, 1965 WASBINOTON P age 2 E llington; and B ill W aldron, C hairm an of the F in e A rts C
  • Congressional relations
  • Tea for and meeting of the Committee on Beautification; the second Congressional reception; dinner with the George Mahons, Hubert Humphreys, et al; Buford Ellington to head the Office of Emergency Management
  • on fund raising by public relations firm. (June 28, 1967) Campaign Fund Raising. Bill to Reform Fund Raising Introduced in 1966-67 by President Johnson Campaign Fund Raising Bill, 90th Congress Campaign Fund Raising Legis. Reform - Congressional Action
  • . 'The world is very much on the move 1 for women, she told the Congressional Club last year, and who should know better than a First Lady who has herself accomplished so much ? 11 ~uth Montgomery, Columnist Hearat January, Newapapers 1964 "Two p
  • ) Campaign Fund Raising. Bill to Reform Fund Raising Introduced in 1966-67 by President Johnson Campaign Fund Raising Bill, 90th Congress Campaign Fund Raising Legis. Reform - Congressional Action on the Long Bill, April 1967 Campaign Spending. Cost
  • of mine. And the Congressional Club would go through its routine of a party for President and Mrs. Truman, and later on, a party for the Chief Justice and Mrs. [Fred] Vinson. Luci was going to be all dressed up in a lovely ballet costume and model
  • Tom Connally's decision to not seek re-election; increased media attention toward the Johnsons; LBJ's support for Senator Richard Russell becoming a presidential candidate; Jane Y. McCallum; congressional activity in the spring of 1952, including LBJ's
  • . The Honorable :,::_~b~'l:~ 6 ::r 6 '"1~~to get an appointment with the President and did a magnificent job ..., e at we give the same answer to Boggs whichdent. • ed him we would. clubs, political bodies , o County and Calhoun County' • -'>! cate
  • that the second caution was quite as important as the first; in fact, I think it was wholly unnecessary. The President was the greatest congressional liaison operative that I have ever seen, and probably the greatest that history will ever produce. He
  • of currentevents and world affairs. F: Now you became very active in the Business and Professional Women's Clubs and rose to be national president. P: Yes. F: Other than widening your acquaintance, did that have any sort of a political impact? P: That's
  • Biographical information; Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Sarah Hughes; Commission on Civil Disorders; Detroit riots; Kerner Commission Report; 1964 Democratic National Convention and campaign; Peden's Senate race; Doers Luncheon; Eartha
  • Training & Behavior AKC Family Dog, (ISSN 1559-5072), March/April 2010, Volume 8, No. 2, published bimonthly at 260 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA, by The American Kennel Club, Inc. Yearty subscription rates: U.S. one year $9.95, two years $15.95
  • Training & Behavior AKC Family Dog, (ISSN 1559-5072), March/April 2010, Volume 8, No. 2, published bimonthly at 260 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA, by The American Kennel Club, Inc. Yearty subscription rates: U.S. one year $9.95, two years $15.95
  • in that way . Sam was more of the behind-the-scenes operator and I couldn't say-­ I never saw Rebecca really working at a meeting--Rebecca did her work as I could tell with the more organized groups like the Women's Clubs--the B&PW women, and things
  • ] F: --and I presume that from that time forward he remembered you. T: I don't know if he actually remembered me. I think I got better acquainted when he was the Senate majority leader, and I had become president of the Women's National Press Club
  • was the Tenth Congressional District chairman of the women's division. So they had a big meeting. I believe it took place in the Austin Hotel. Lyndon talked to them, by telephone, from Mayo's. Of course Marietta presided and Mrs. Sam Johnson
  • two terms as district attorney in Vernon. I then moved to l~ichita Falls and was elected to Congress from the Thirteenth Congressional District, of which Wichita Falls is the center, in 1938; took my seat January 1, 1939. I married in May, after I
  • " will ·be a tremendous asset in the stupendous, serious job tl}en ahead. AU T.exas is proud.. of the record Lyndon ·Johnson · has made as ·a ranking member on ; ·the congressional naval committee-we . in : the 10th district should be doubly sol . . We're calfing
  • for him while he was president. I can't remember when it was. G: November, 1966, I think you did some advancing for some congressional elections, didn't you? M: Well, yes, I did. This wasn't that time though. an advance for Johnson out in Cheyenne
  • JFK’s 1960 meeting with the greater Houston Ministerial Alliance; LBJ’s 1966 13-state campign trip for congressional candidates and its cancellation; President LBJ’s 1966 rally in Wilminton, Delaware; techniques of advancing a motorcade and a rally
  • of, say, one of the White Stars saying that "we want to elect you ll ? P: No, I don't. G: Well now, there were a lot of clubs at San Marcos. There were the Harris-Blairs and the Sflakespeareans and the A1He Evans. P: Idyllic. G: What sort of clubs
  • Biographical information; subcollege; college work; student population; faculty; LBJ; campus activities; campus politics; teaching school in Houston; 1937 Congressional election
  • invitations you will want £or the Presa Gallery and the Press Club, all besides the Congress membership• we have the Congressional Directory £or that total• it will help. We don't want to add to the burdens or your already over-burdened staff so if you prefer
  • . mourning. We closed the club. There was a general It was very strange. I remember how I think Mr. [Sterling] Cole maybe was so interested in that kind of reaction from the people. Now they didn't, as I remember, talk much about--I think after
  • o m i s e d too m u c h , hoped f o r too m uch. A f t e r w a r d we d ro p p e d L u c i a t th e W hite H o u se an d w en t on w ith L y n d a to th e F S t r e e t Club - - th e f i r s t .tim e I h av e b e e n to th e F S t r e e t Club in a g
  • Congressional relations
  • Bird to F Street Club with Lynda; Lady Bird visits with Mike Monroney about his trip to Saigon; Lady Bird visits with James Roosevelt about portrait of his father, Franklin Roosevelt
  • they responded to some constituent complaining. Send out a hundred letters and check out how rapidly they were delivered. Then come back with their statistics and berate the Postal Service. This congressional activity was grossly exaggerated in terms of failure
  • involvement in cabinet meetings as postmaster general and congressional liaison; the usefulness of cabinet meetings and how they were conducted; cabinet members taking advantage of travel opportunities to help Democratic candidates who were up for election
  • unification amendment. Donald Cook sends John Connally drafts of material for LBJ to present to the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections for their investigation of the 1948 senatorial race in Texas. May 5/1 CTJ attends Congressional Club reception
  • ? t is the yardstick-dollars and But Jealously guard !ts l!berty and independence, For Fil!plnos, th fact should be c ar: But hared !deals? What of the deep !n the schools, In the clubs, In the unions, !n for the United St es;we might not be free
  • and confidential __________ which MW handed him and returned it to MW in an envelope with no comment. He then read the Congressional Record of the morning. . MW told, the President how appreciative several persons whom he had contacted late1y for the President were
  • for building these dams. All of the rationalizations about it just didn't hold up, and there was the side corollary issue of the stupid IRS that started to yank the Sierra Club’s tax exemption because the Sierra Club had run this ad in the New York Times
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  • to administer this very carefully because if we moved too fast, gave too many concessions, it would be regarded quite rightly as a giveaway. On the other hand, there was a feeling of some of the congressional people, particularly the ones from these mountain
  • nxm March The White House Day 22, 1967 Wednesday Activity (inc!ude visited by) Breakfast To th e office To the Cabinet Room for OFF RECORD: meeting w/ Bipartisan Congressional Leadership Meeting mary s asked for HHW gist Senator Mike Mansfield
  • Robert Coughlin Mr. Carey W. Hilliard, Pres., Natl Rural Letter Carriers' Assoc Mr. James L. O'Toole, Pres., Natl Assoc of Postmasters CONGRESSIONAL: J Mr. Daniel Jaspan, Legis Rep. , Natl Assoc of Postal Supervisors Senator Mike MonroneyJ Mr. Wyatt C
  • [ REMARKS by the President List of p atform guests to DT -- (7 applauses) but guests included Cong. Robert (During this time, Senators Kennedy and Javits arrived--had been in Washingto Jones and his congressional on Demonstration Cities bill -- however
  • : Was there a time do you think in LBJ's congressional career before the war when he moved from being relatively isolationist to internationalist or interventionist? R: I think probably it was his committee, being on the Naval Affairs Committee that pushed him
  • Walter Winchell incident; minimum wage bill; LBJ’s Dies Committee vote; John Nance Garner episode; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s work on the 1940 Congressional campaigns; Appropriations Committee appointment; race for the Senate in 1941; the I
  • with the extension service. You had 4-H Clubs; white 4-H clubs, black 4-H clubs. I remember even in the Nixon Administration Marian Edelman--have you talked to Marian? G: She's on my list. I haven't talked to her yet. R: Have you met her? G: No, I don't believe
  • , Jacluonville Chamber of Commerce, Gator Bowl Board, Jacksonville Advertiaing Club, Jacksonville Safety Council, Lion'• Club, Elka, Mooae, Florida Presa Auociation and othen. Former member of the Jacksonville City Democratic Esecutive Committee, and Duval County