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Block, Joseph L. (Joseph Leopold), 1902-1992 (Item)

Bio: Joseph Leopold Block (1902-1992) was an executive with the Inland Steel Company. He was a consultant to the War Production Board from 1941 to 1945. Block also served Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon
Block, Joseph L. (Joseph Leopold), 1902-1992

Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Joseph Block (Item)

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
Block, Joseph L. (Joseph Leopold), 1902-1992
Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Joseph Block

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/15/1964 (Item)

/ Kay Graham, J.R. Wiggins, Al Friendly, Chalmers Roberts, Edward Folliard, Carroll Kilpatrick, Karl Meyer, John Hayes, Frederick Beebe, Ben Gilbert, Herbert Block, BM The operator - telling her to have GER come to lunch w/ group after finish of press

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/3/1966 (Item)

^ to have the Pres. there but he also Herbert Block, Washington Post pleased thousands of men that he could Melvin Block, Attorney " not see. The President gave Mrs.Gates Kurt Borchardt, Staff Interstate and Foreign Com, Cmtee a pen and hen handed her

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/7/1966 (Item)

Todd, Michigan Cong Henry Helstoski, New Jersey Cong. James Howard, New Jersey Cong. Thoma s McGrath, New Jersey Cong James Hanley, New York Cong Hugh Carey, New York Cong Richard McCarthy, New York Con? Herbert Tenzer, New York Cong Lester Wolff, New

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/10/1964 (Item)

t a n appropriate medal . Present Presentwere were: : George Balanchine , Director , Schoo l of American Balle t Herbert Block , Cartoonis t Gwendolyn Brooks, Poe t Jules Feiffer , Cartoonis t Jose Ferre r Abe Forta s Martha Graham , Director , Marth

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the problem of pouring more and more capital into their basic operations with less and less time to sell the product. Herbert Swope invented the op-ed-page, so-called. Thereupon The op-ed [opinion- editorial] simply took great writers, newspaper writers

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No, I met them only, later, but it wasn't at that time that I'd even met them or knew who they were. G: So I guess that puts you on the bus to Austin. M: Well, I stayed at a little hotel about two blocks from the Littlefield Building. I think
Biographical information; San Marcos; College Star; White Stars; membership; purpose; LBJ as state NYA administrator; NYA public relations activities; staffers; structure of the NYA; projects; Herbert Henderson; working habits; later contacts

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or to be nipping at Eisenhower. He justified that with his fellow Democrats, despite the displeasure of Mrs. Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman and people like that, Walter Reuther, on the grounds that the country should speak with one voice abroad. And we had a lot

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

gave his envelope to Lyndon, and Lyndon turned it over to someone else. W: The Hendersons. But that was not-- There were two Hendersons. One of them died shortly after we were-G: That was Herbert, I think. The other one was Charles? Which one

Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 5/3/1967 (Item)

. (96 guests) Accompanied by the Blocks and the Mellons, went to the National Gallery for a preview tour of the Blocks' collection of Impressionist paintings. Entry No. Time Activity 10:59 Returned to the second floor. 12:30 Retired. ******

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/17/1966 (Item)

Gas Co. Beeghly, Charles M. , Chairman, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp Beers, William O. , President, Kraft Foods Ebesex Black, S. Bruce, Honorary Chairman, Liberty Mutual Ins Company Block, Leonard, President, Block Drug Co. , Inc Boggs, Robert W

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: HERBERT JENKINS INTERVIE~JER: T'.. HARRI. BAKER . Chief Jenkins• office, Police Headquarters, . Atlanta, Georgia .PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 B: · This is tfte interview with Herf>ert Jenkins, chief of police of Atlanta
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Jenkins, Herbert
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker
Herbert Jenkins

Folder title list, Lyndon Baines Johnson Archives (LBJA) (Item)

, Herbert, Jr., 1954-57 Brucker, Wilber M., 1955-57 Bruggmann, Minister of Switzerland & Madame, ca. Brundage, Percival, 1957 Burgess, W. Randolph, 1953 Burke, Admiral Arleigh, ca., 1955-61 Burney, Kara Hunsker, 1957 Burroughs, John, 1959 Busch, August

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ringing and so on to keep it going. We set up offices in the old Hancock House, just west of Congress Avenue two blocks. worked so hard in my life. and would help with I believe that I never We would try to raise money and would make speeches
Biographical information; 1937-1960 campaigns; Congressional secretary to LBJ; lived with the Johnsons; Hardy Hollers; waiting for election returns; appointment as U.S. District Attorney; Herbert Brownwell; Frankie Randolph; Los Angeles Democratic

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

pretty much compose it himself? Do you know, if staff people helped him draft the speeches? J: I believe from the beginning he had Herbert Henderson, who was a man of a very magnificent way with words. He was a newspaperman. They came into our lives I
Roosevelt; LBJ's support for public housing in Austin; staff member Herbert Henderson; LBJ's work on lower Colorado River dams and rural electrification; the struggle to get public power to central Texas; Senator Alvin Wirtz's involvement in negotiating

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. This is the kind of thing that makes you think about Johnson's varied agenda. "Riesel wanted me to pass along his views that Horston [Herbert Holmstrom] [and] [Douglas] McMahon of the TWU [Transport Workers Union of America] are very much activists and that McMahon

Telephone conversation # 4171, sound recording, LBJ and LUTHER HODGES, 7/7/1964, 12:00PM (Item)

HODGES WILL MEET WITH BUFORD ELLINGTON, LEROY COLLINS, ALL SOUTHERN GOVERNORS EXCEPT GEORGE WALLACE; REQUEST BY PAUL JOHNSON TO DELAY MEETING BECAUSE OF MISSISSIPPI SITUATION; EFFORT BY STROM THURMOND TO BLOCK COLLINS' CONFIRMATION; ADVISORY

Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995 (Item)

was made a colonel in the army, but male opposition blocked her from the rank of general. She received the Distinguished Service Medal in honor of her work. Following the war she resigned her commission and returned to Houston.In 1953 Hobby was recalled

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/5/1967 (Item)

to the Cabinet Room as the door between mjdr's room and the Cabinet Room was blocked by the cameras, for at the first of the meeting Okamoto was taking "official Cabinet pictures". \ Secretary of State, Hon. Dean Rusk OFFICIAL CABINET The PICTURE

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

were looking after the cars got them around to the rear of the building, so that we could go to the jail that day. It wasn't far away, about two blocks or something like that. When we got downstairs to get in the cars to scoot over
the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 33, 15 March 1985," LBJ Library (Item)

the "place to be'' n the party circuit-today his Embassy i • on the auction block and h~'s in exile in Switzerland. For all the changes, Washington is still a town ofpart1e,;. I sup pose there will always be stories Ii c the one about the late Sena tor

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1951" (Item)

. They have blocked the appointment and ask LBJ not to get involved on either side. 2/11 The Dallas Morning News reports that LBJ says a survey will be made soon to see how many combat-qualified men in the Armed Services can be moved into field forces

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in those days than it ever became later. It was small. There was John Connally, Dorothy Jackson- now Dorothy Nichols--Herbert Henderson, who is now dead, and I. By the way, I do want to interpose here that I was never paid eighty dollars a month

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1954" (Item)

by LBJ Library archival staff from oral history transcripts and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive. discoverlbj.org LBJ and CTJ attend a dinner as guests of Tom Pickett in honor of Herbert Hoover

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to a white tie dinner in honor of Herbert Hoover. It surprises to me remember some of the things that we did. I think that was about the time that we got over a feeling that we had said bad things about Hoover and actually began to feel somewhat sorry
Social events of the 1950s; Senator Theodore Francis Green; Sam Rayburn; Senator Walter George; Herbert Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriages in 1954; the political situation in Vietnam in 1954; the Texas governor's race between Allan Shivers

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1958" (Item)

claimed that Eisenhower and budget director Percival Brundage “trimmed” military spending requests over his opposition. 1/3 The White House is blocking attempts of the Preparedness Subcommittee to obtain copy or specific excerpts from the Gaither

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

several blocks, and I lived in, I guess what you'd call the attic of his home until my orders came through to go overseas, or to go into the Navy on active duty. And I did go in and served about two and a half years, most of it in the Pacific aboard

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to have heard me four blocks away when that Istop Kennedy" proposal was made. killed. The proposal was promptly There was one thing about a proposal like that. It had to be unanimous, because if it wasn't unanimous the group that disagreed would have

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

office that morning and insulted everyone in here by his action and then tried to illegally block the door to the mayor's office. And we had moved him aside, Captain Royal and I had moved him aside. He then found an incident that afternoon

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was, it was open to old mining laws and could they stake out mining claims and take it away. Well, that started back in the 20's. President Herbert Hoover closed all the oil shale country to mining locations. I think this was a very provident step and the question

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 13, 15 July 1978," LBJ Library (Item)

, it is con sidered a permanent exh1b1l. Radios are part of the new display techniques. From a vintage radio visitor· listen to the voice of Woodrow Wilson. Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt speak from a radio built in 1933 while campaign

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a little pony to pull it?" But I used to put her in it and wheel her all over the area. By 1946 I was getting pretty adept--I think I may have mentioned this--at collecting for the Red Cross in the blocks around there. I had covered them ever since we had
at KTBC; attending the State of the Union Message; 1947 legislative issues; Aunt Effie's estate; President Truman sending Herbert Hoover to Europe to study food and fuel shortages; Mrs. Johnson's pregnancy; the backyard and garden at the 30th Place house

Folder, "Civil Rights – St. Augustine, Fla.," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)

for the elimination of service and employ ment on a segregated basis . " The Commissioners have not responded to this request . In the white community Herbert E. Wolfe appears to be the key to local decisions, especially those relative to the Quadricentennial

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1956" (Item)

that the “Dump Nixon” movement is flourishing again. High-ranking conservative Republicans in Washington are claiming that men such as Herbert Brownell, Jr., General Lucius Clay, Paul Hoffman, and Sidney Weinberg are discussing various alternative candidates

Folder, "Kerner Commission (NACCD) References," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)

. Herbert 18. Richard Freeman, Chairman of the Police Aldermen 19. Mayor Ivan Allen 20. James McGovern, Executive Juvenile Delinquency 21. Judge E.T. 22. Judge Little, 23. C. T. Ragsdale, 24. Dan Sweat, Special 25. Mrs. Eliza K. Paschall

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1955" (Item)

other Steering Committee members to decide on appointments. Pearson also criticizes LBJ’s support of Price Daniel over Herbert Lehman for a seat on the Judiciary Committee. Lehman has more seniority but is not a lawyer, an unofficial requirement

Folder, "Ex FG 170/A-Z [1 of 6] [Department of Housing and Urban Development/A-Z (FG 170/A-Z)]," WHCF FG, Box 256 (Item)

, and is very close to Richard Hughes. Approve General Disapprove --- --- Public Herbert Denenberg, Professor at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He was the chief academic adviser to the Hughes Panel and is well respected

Folder, "Background on stops for Whistle Stop [1 of 2]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 12 (Item)

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