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  • associate general counsel of the Democratic National Committee. When World War II began, General William Donovan, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), appointed Cuneo liaison officer between the OSS, British Intelligence, the FBI, the Department
  • with Senator and Mrs. Connally at the Women’s National Democratic Club. 6/6-6/10 The Senate is in session all day Friday and until 4 a.m. on Saturday. 6/11 Sunday. LBJ leaves for Mayo Clinic, where he stays all week. Later LBJ reports to Judge Ben Powell
  • LBJ ASKS OPERATOR TO HAVE PRIVATE LINE INSTALLED IN LITTLE OFFICE; REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE VOTE OPPOSING WHEAT SECTION OF FARM BILL; POSSIBILITY OF DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS; HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE, HOWARD SMITH; APPOINTMENT OF DOROTHY JACOBSON AT USDA
  • REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE VOTE OPPOSING WHEAT-COTTON FARM BILL; NORTHERN DEMOCRATS' SUPPORT FOR BILL; DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, PAUL DOUGLAS, EVERETT DIRKSEN; HOWARD SMITH, HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE; HAROLD COOLEY; REACTION TO SEC APPOINTMENT; CIVIL RIGHTS
  • POSSIBLE MEETING OF HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE WITH LBJ; QUESTION OF MEETING WITH FULL COMMITTEE OR DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS ONLY; AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION BILL
  • LEGAL PROBLEM WITH SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE RESOLUTION GIVING PRESIDENT, NOT CONGRESS, AUTHORITY TO ORDER AIRLINE STRIKERS BACK TO WORK; DEMOCRATIC SENATORS' VOTES IN COMMITTEE; LBJ SUGGESTS AMENDED WAYNE MORSE RESOLUTION BE SUBSTITUTED
  • Bio: Harry Cummings McPherson, Jr. (b. 1929) was a lawyer and government official. He served the U.S. Senate as assistant general counsel to Democratic policy committee, 1956 to 1959; associate counsel, 1959 to 1961; and general counsel, 1961
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant General Counsel, Senate Democractic Policy Committee, 1956-1959; Associate Counsel, 1959-1961; General Counsel, 1961-1963; Deputy Under Secretary for the Army for International Affairs, 1963-1964; Assistant Secretary
  • it is now. We were very democratic in the state, and so every man more or less ran his own race. We didn't receive any funds from a national committee or any national group whatsoever to help my husband finance his campaign. And I think
  • The Bentsens' friendship with the Johnsons; Texas politics in 1952 and 1956; 1968 Democratic Convention; Allan Shivers
  • , and we still were working for Republicans and Democrats alike. That was a post-1968 development that I sort of deplored, as far as the Armed Services Committee at least. It was--as far as the staff was concerned, it was a very happy arrangement to work
  • Senate Preparedness Subcommittee hearings in the early 1950s relating to the draft; problems with drafting doctors for military duty; Darden's work under the Armed Services Committee; problem with drafting WWII veterans for service in Korea; how
  • Bio: Hugh Heyne Smythe (1913-1977) was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the 16th session of the United Nations General Assembly, and served as a senior advisor to several United Nations commissions and committees. He was the U.S. Ambassador
  • Bio: Diana MacArthur is a co-founder of the Rockville-based Dynamac Corp. She was married to Donald M. MacArthur and is a niece to Lady Bird Johnson. Mrs. MacArthur was appointed by President Clinton to the President’s Committee of Advisors
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 B: I believe that is right . M: Even the National Committee he was poor with . B: Well, certainly locally . And it's the truth . Is that correct? The Democratic Party here in this region is split in three or four different
  • Biographical information; Democratic politics; contacts with LBJ; campaign fund raising; Johnson's organization on the state level; low income housing
  • was at that time, I don't know what the term was, but the staff director of the Democratic Policy Committee. So I was placed over in the Senate Democratic Policy Committee office with George Reedy, and with Pauline Moore, and some other people working
  • Policy Committee: going to work for Senator William Proxmire in 1958 as a liaison between Proxmire and LBJ; Proxmire's and LBJ's different political styles; Senator John F. Kennedy gearing up for a national political role in 1958; Proxmire's committee
  • on his staff, the Democratic committee. He wanted me as his committeeman and Mrs. [Claude B.] Hudspeth as his committeewoman, which of course we got. The conservatives got the majority on that. I was named and Mrs. Hudspeth was named. G: Let me ask you
  • Beauford Jester asking Groce to be involved in his campaign for governor in 1946; Groce's involvement in 1946 and 1948 Texas state Democratic conventions; Bob Calvert's actions as 1948 chairman of the state executive committee which led to LBJ
  • y0u attach to resolving these problems. In that atmosphere of leadership, we have attempted to carry out the challenging mandate you gave us. The Committee's report is a concise statement of needs and opportunities that exist to improve this Nation's
  • See all scanned items from file unit "COMMITTEE ON POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING (CO 659)"
  • This folder is from the WHCF category for FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS, subcategory COMMITTEE ON POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING.
  • Folder, "Ex FG 659 Committee on Population Control and Family Planning," WHCF FG, Box 382
  • for distribution around the world. There was opposition, of course, that was building to this, particularly if the feeling was that the particular area of the world where some of these might be going did not coincide with the views of this nation and its democratic
  • Biographical information; Greigg's congressional campaign in 1964; the Feed-Grains program; Democratic Party support for Greigg's campaigns in 1964 and 1966; how Greigg gained a seat on the House Agriculture Committee; a vote involving whether
  • Scholars, 6/8/65 Kermit Gordon Party, 6/9/65 11 opened 11/83 White House Festival of the Arts, 6/14/65 (4 folders) National Accessions Committee, 6/18/65 American Symphony League, 6/19/65 White House Fellows, 6/28/65 Shriners' Wives, 7/9/65 Children's
  • as far as he possibly could. G: Okay. Now, right after this you gave LBJ some advice on handl ing the Democrats of Texas, the liberal group. It consisted of several sug- gestions: one, that he use his support by national labor leaders to exert some
  • ' a&tlon or.., (Sec:tloa_ 11 q. ) la defined bathe Atomic E~••IY Act to baclllde "&DYfonlp political aabdiriaion A lepl opudon pnpal'od la attached u Appendix 3.. of any auch gowrnmellt by the .Joint Committee pwnment or nation or other eslty." Staff
  • A (National Security)-SANITIZED
  • National Security Files
  • LBJ Connection: Associate General Counsel, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1961-1964; member, War on Poverty Task Force, 1964, and National Advisory Committee to Legal Services Program, Office of Economic Opportunity, 1965-1973
  • Bio: (1908-1974) Member of California State Assembly, 1933-35; California State Senate, 1935-39; Republican National Committee from California, 1938-42; U.S. Senator from California, 1945-59; Republican candidate for governor in California, 1958
  • LBJ Connection: Chief, Division of Social Medicine, Montefiore Hospital, 1951-1965; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, 1965-1968; Professor, Yale University, 1969-1984; Member, World Health Organization’s Expert Committee
  • of policy in the original intended sense? R: '!here is no such thing. B: One wonders how such a thing would possibly conflict with the Democratic National Committee; if you wouldn't get on some pretty sticky political grounds. R: Well, Congress
  • in the field rather ~n- the ··national leveL :r would be entirely Possible to have such candidates .noml... . nated by State Democratic con• ventions, by caucuses · of ths Legislattlfe; OR BY t>ntECT ACTION OF TI!E STATE . LEGISLATURE iii. the various states
  • [NAID 18539626] Series: Subject Files, 1/20/1961 - 11/22/1963 [NAID 18539665] https://www.discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/prepres/vp VP Papers: 1962 SUBJECT FILES Box No. Folder Title [Padre Island] Water POLITICS Democratic Party National Committee
  • Committee: Senators Hayden and Young. I would talk to Congressmen Mills, Mahon, Byrnes and Bow. THE PRESIDENT: I do not believe you could get anything. Tell them for eight months your proposals have been up. The Democratic leadership has been unable
  • committee, with everyone, with the National Committee, with each of the candidates. One of the things that the Rules Committee did: when they did away with unit rule, I think that was possibly the greatest thing that the Rules Committee has done in many
  • His political background; campaigning with LBJ in IL in 1964; Martin Luther King’s assassination and subsequent activities in Chicago; Shapiro’s involvement with the 1968 Chicago convention; the National Guard at the 1968 Chicago convention
  • was highly controversial, but again, I do not recall Lyndon Johnson's part in that debate. You had Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee leading the debate from this opposition point of view. I don't recall. G: Reportedly he was responsible
  • election; Wayne Morse; the Lewis Strauss nomination; the McCarthy censure and the Watkins committee; LBJ’s relationship with Richard Nixon; relationship between Republicans and Democrats in Senate; civil rights legislation; statehood for Hawaii and Alaska
  • INTERVIEWEE: CARL B. ALBERT INTERVIEWER: Dorothy Pierce McSweeny PLACE: Congressman Albert's office in the Capitol, Washington, D.C. Tape I of 1 M: In our last two sessions, we had brought the interview up in time to the 1964 Democratic National
  • the significant thing was that every report out of Truman's committee was unanimous by both Democrats and Republicans, and the same was true of Johnson's committee. I don't think there was ever one dissent in any report that came out of the Preparedness
  • LBJ’s election as whip; Senator Ernest McFarland; Senator Richard Russell; Preparedness Committee; Senator Estes Kefauver; Douglas MacArthur’s speech to Congress; natural gas bill; Tidelands bill; Walter Jenkins; LBJ’s love for the ranch and cattle
  • Democratic Party for four or five years. After elections, the precinct election judges bring the tally sheets in to the county secretary, who takes them before the executive committee to have them certified. The tally sheets showed how many votes there were
  • Biographical information; Donald's duties in Jim Wells County during the 1948 Democratic U.S. Senate primary; Coke Stevenson's efforts to see the voting records; suspicions regarding the final 200 names on the Jim Wills County voting/poll list
  • Election Results [1968 Democratic National Convention] 1968 Elections DSG – Democratic Study Group The Democrat, April – May, 1968 News Clippings – 1968 Misc. News Articles [Apr. 1965 – Aug. 1982] [Untitled Paper – No Date] Captain James Alan Hockridge
  • 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 10/10/17 FOLDER TITLE LIST National Archives Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov Folder Title The Democrat, Jan., Feb., Mar., [not in box 4/22/75] Speech Backup: Violence 1968 Speech Material: Thank You
  • Eliska Hasek Coolidge Richard W. Coughenour, VP Credit Allocation Credit Cards Credit Control Act of 1969 Justin Dart, Dart Industries Democratic Convention Charles T. Manatt, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee John Diebold, The Diebold Group
  • . At the same time, where the security of the nation may be at stake, it is impos sibl e for this committee to state categorically now that there will never be a contingency in which overriding national security interests may require an exception- -nor would
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  • This folder is from the Confidential Files, file unit "Oversize Attachments: 12/2/68 (Cater 2/67-10/67 material re U.S. Government and Private Voluntary Organizations, Committee on Voluntary Overseas Activities (COVA), also the Rusk Committee).
  • , Tl1omcs JohnR>n w. Meeting began: 9:46 a. m. Meeting ended: 10: 18 a. m. eor~F IDENTIAL NOTES OF THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN January 23, 1968 Fish Room The President said he had just met with the Democratic
  • Folder, "January 23, 1968 - 9:46 a.m. House and Senate Committee Chairmen," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2
  • chairman of the National Committee in '59. M: That's correct. After the '58 election, which really was one of the worst debacles in the history of the Republican party. Here we had the White House, and we took a terrific beating in the Congressional
  • the Democratic Policy Committee of the Senate. How did you get that position? M: Through good luck. I had a cousin working on Senator Johnson's staff named Jack Hight, who was an administrative secretary to the Senator. He told me that Gerald Siegel, who
  • Biographical information; implication of Joe McCarthy era prompted him into law and public services; Democratic Policy Committee; General Counsel; calendar calls; LBJ’s degrees of interest in legislation; 1946 Legislative Reorganization Act; 1957
  • . B It was one of the most He 1 s a very decent fellow. What about the Present situation? Let me ask you. Can you in any way entertain that idea of a appointing a Committee? I tell you why•••• Kennedy called me, and he says a lot of people
  • National politics
  • ON COMMITTEE
  • of committeeman and committeewoman elected to the national Democratic committee. In particular those of us in organized labor were by that time completely loyal to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Organization of Democratic Advisory Council; Sam Rayburn; LBJ and labor; the black community; Brown and Root; Harris County Democrats; Frankie Randolph; precinct organization; 1956 State Democratic Convention; committeeman/committeewoman controversy