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Adler, James (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Department of Labor, 1962-1963; Department of Commerce on Appalachia; Member, Task Force of the War on Poverty, 1964-1965
Cahn, Edgar (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Attorney; With spouse, Co-author of "The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective," The Yale Law Journal
Cahn, Jean Camper (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Attorney; With spouse, Co-author of "The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective," The Yale Law Journal
Capron, William M. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Government official; worked on the War in Poverty
Merrick, Samuel V. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor for Legislation, 1962-1968; Involved in the War on Poverty programs
Hamilton, Ann Oppenheimer (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Economist and government official with the Peace Corps, 1961-1964; Adviser to the War on Poverty Task Force, Bureau of the Budget, 1964
Berry, Theodore (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Member, National Board of the NAACP, 1963; Director, Economic Opportunity Community Action Program, 1965; Chairman, Community Action Program of the War on Poverty, 1965-1969
Carter, Hodding, Jr. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Newspaper editor, Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Mississippi; Active in the civil rights movement and the War on Poverty
Sundquist, James L. (James Lloyd), 1915- (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture, 1963-1965; Member, Government Studies Senior Staff, Brookings Institution; Member, War on Poverty Task Force
Weeks, Christopher (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Senior examiner, Bureau of the Budget; involved with Peace Corps and War on Poverty, 1960s; Deputy Director, Job Corps, Office of Economic Opportunity
Telephone conversation # 1643, sound recording, LBJ and OFFICE CONVERSATION, 1/29/1964, time unknown (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • DISCUSSION OF FUNDING FOR WAR ON POVERTY
Goldfarb, Ronald (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Attorney; Special Assistant, Organized Crime Section, Department of Justice, 1961-1964; Consultant, War on Poverty Task Force, 1964; Director, Brookings Institution, program on courts and administration of Justice, 1966-1967; member
Horowitz, Harold William, 1923-2000 (Item)
  • 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
Kelly, William P. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Director of Contracts and Logistics, Peace Corps, 1961-1963; Associate Assistant Administrator for Procurement Policy, Agency for International Development, 1963-1964; member, War on Poverty, Task Force, 1964-1965; Assistant Director
McCarthy, George (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Staff director, Survey division, 1961-1964, Engineering Services Division, 1964, Office of Civil Defense; Member, War on Poverty Task Force, 1964-1965; Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, Office of Economic Opportunity
Telephone conversation # 1815, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 2/1/1964, 6:28PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ READS PRESS COMMENTS ON HIS PRESS CONFERENCE; ORGANIZING WAR ON POVERTY; PEACE CORPS; JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH; EVALUATIONS OF JACK VAUGHN, BILL MOYERS, ROBERT MCNAMARA; PANAMA; VIETNAM; DIEM COUP; FRANCE; VP SELECTION; LBJ COMMENTS ON RUNNING
Telephone conversation # 2383, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 3/7/1964, 11:50AM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • LBJ ASKS FOR A STATEMENT ON THE COSTS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL IN UNIFORM OVERSEAS FOR UPCOMING MESSAGE; FOREIGN AID MESSAGE; LBJ SUGGESTS STATEMENT FOR THE WAR ON POVERTY MESSAGE
Telephone conversation # 3678, sound recording, LBJ and ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, 6/11/1964, time unknown (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • POWELL SAYS HE WILL WORK WITH NYC MAYOR ROBERT WAGNER IN MANAGING WAR ON POVERTY FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR HARLEM; DAVE HACKETT; DISCUSSION OF SCHEDULE FOR PASSAGE OF POVERTY BILL
Telephone conversation # 4336, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 7/25/1964, 10:01AM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
  • DISCUSSION OF RFK, VP NOMINATION; LBJ REPORTS ON CONVERSATIONS WITH SOUTHERN, BORDER, MIDWESTERN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS; PENNSYLVANIA LABOR SUPPORT FOR RFK; MIDWEST DEFENSE CONTRACTS; OTTO KERNER'S ROLE AT CONVENTION; WAR ON POVERTY PROGRAMS
Hayes, Frederick O'Reilly, 1923-2002 (Item)
  • . Johnson's task force on the War on Poverty in 1964 and helped develop the Community Action Program. After the Economic Opportunity Act passed, he joined the Office of Economic Opportunity. He took a position as budget director for New York City
  • LBJ Connection: Bureau of the Budget 1953-1963; member, 1964 Task Force on the War Against Poverty; Office of Economic Opportunity 1965-1966
Telephone conversation # 1807, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 2/1/1964, 2:25PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 1455, sound recording, LBJ and KERMIT GORDON, 1/22/1964, 12:00PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 1517, sound recording, LBJ and LIZ CARPENTER, 1/24/1964, 11:55AM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 1992, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 2/10/1964, 10:30AM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 2368, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 3/6/1964, 7:20PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 2172, sound recording, LBJ and WILBUR COHEN, 2/24/1964, 6:40PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 2671, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 3/26/1964, 12:55PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 2612, sound recording, LBJ and WILBUR COHEN, 3/21/1964, 6:04PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 3123, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 4/23/1964, 6:03PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 4172, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 7/7/1964, 12:04PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 4173, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 7/7/1964, 12:04PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 3425, sound recording, LBJ and CARL ALBERT, 5/13/1964, 3:30PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 3493, sound recording, LBJ and MARTHA KROCK, 5/21/1964, 5:15PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 3507, sound recording, LBJ and ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, 5/26/1964, 12:05PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 3691, sound recording, LBJ and HALE BOGGS, 6/11/1964, 4:21PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 3394, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCORMACK, 5/11/1964, 2:36PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 3153, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES RHODES, 4/28/1964, 1:01PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 3168, sound recording, LBJ and CLINTON ANDERSON, 4/28/1964, 7:05PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 5418, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 9/2/1964, 11:05AM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Telephone conversation # 4869, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 8/10/1964, 5:44PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty