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Lyndon Johnson's 1953 Desk Diary, telephone list (Item)
  • . . 3-9004 "TOPFLITE SERVICE" TRANS WORLD AIRLINE, lnc. _____ RE. 7-7798 I "SKYCHIEF SERVICE" UNITED AIR LINES, lnc. __ _._____ __RE. 7-5656 .... • •: " .·, ·
Halaby, Najeeb E., 1915- (Item)
  • World Airlines, 1965-1968
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . This is an interesting situation because it brings to bear almost every part, every major branch, of our federal government. Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the airlines were in considerable need of financial assistance to pay for the heavy new load of equipment
  • and passage of a bill supporting the CAB's view; the awarding of trans-Pacific routes to the scheduled airlines in 1968.
Folder title list, White House Central Files, Subject Files, Labor - Management Relations (LA) (Item)
  • /BRANIFF AIRLINES, ETC. Processed. Emergency Board #158 created by Executive Order 11131, 12/11/63, for dispute between Braniff, Continental, Eastern, National, and Trans World Airways and International Association of Machinists. LA 1-1/Airline/Five
Folder title list, White House Central Files, Subject Files, Civil Aviation (CA) (Item)
  • House Central Files, Subject Files Series: Civil Aviation [NAID 585561] http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/pres/whcf Trade Winds Airline Trans-International Airlines TWA Trinidad-US Trans-Atlantic Case Trans-Pacific Case United Arab Republic
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/22/1966 (Item)
  • , Director, Trans portation and Warehousing Policy, DOD Mr. Braxton Carr, American Waterways Operators, Washington General William F Cassidy, Corps of Engineers Mr. Gerald W. Collins, Exec VP, Natl Defense Transportation Asso Mr. John Connor, Secy of Commerce
Telephone conversation # 4179, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM DOHERTY, 7/7/1964, 8:25PM (Item)
  • HR 6455 GIVING TAX BENEFIT TO UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS' RETIREMENT HOME IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA, POSSIBLE VETO, POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS; CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL PAY BILL, MORRIS UDALL AMENDMENT; SEABOARD WORLD AIRLINES; A.I.D
Telephone conversation # 4263, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM DOHERTY, 7/17/1964, time unknown (Item)
  • LBJ READS RECOMMENDATION TO VETO HR 6455 GIVING TAX BENEFIT TO UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS' RETIREMENT HOME IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA; TELLS DOHERTY HE WILL SIGN BILL ANYWAY, IS SIGNING IT AS THEY SPEAK; DOHERTY ASKS ABOUT SEABOARD WORLD AIRLINES
Buck, Raymond (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time political associate of LBJ; Associate General Counsel to American Airways and American Airlines; Insurance executive
Folder, "The Message - Vol. I [1 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • , ......... .. . . > .....-~ .. FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM Joe Califano John Connor •ubmitted the following name• a• po••ibilitle• to chair the Committee to promote a Department of Tran•portation. I . have indicated with an aeterbk the more likely Chairmen in my mind. I can mOTe out from Would you
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Folder, "The Message - Vol. I [2 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • .. .q.e,&&e. private The number and of private has almost doubled. Twenty years. ago commercial they fly a billion miles. airlines flew 209 million miles. Today r I - 4 - Thus investment Research and ~elopment towards that permits
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President's Daily Diary entry, 5/20/1964 (Item)
  • Director Kermit Gordon (b. 1) bookends Geo. Reedy (b. 1) presented marble Senators Symington and Edward Stuart Mr. Tran Quoc Buu (So. Vietnamese Labor Leader); Geo. Meany and Irving Brown, ICFTU Rep to United Nations presentation of Safety To Rose Garden
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 Texas airline called Trans-Texas . were up to . They didn't quite understand what we We had instituted a proceeding . Trans-Texas
  • Meeting LBJ; public power; Renegotiation Act; Temporary National Economic Committee; tax policy; O’Connell’s resignation; being offered the chairmanship of the Civil Aeronautics Board; the temporarily certificate of Trans-Texas Airline; aviation
Folder, "The Message - Vol. II [2 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)
  • . Ervin Non-coinm.ittal. Gruening Okay. Muskie Sounds pretty go6d, but warns that Scn~tors will bo conce1·ned ahout rol of cc1·tain existing agencies such as FA.A, after trans!e1· to new Dopt,.2/: All the way with us I •Ribicoff Harris Open mind
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President's Daily Diary entry, 7/29/1966 (Item)
  • the principals deci to call representativesof unions and carriers to the White House for a meeting later this morning. (^ 8:Z6a 1 t Charles Murphy, Annapolis, Md. b.4 re airline negotiations Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board and to congratulate him 1 (today
Smith, C. R. (Cyrus Rowlett), 1899- (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Chairman of the Board, American Airlines, 1964-1968; Secretary of Commerce, 1968-1969
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 10/20/1965 (Item)
  • Arrived Lincoln Center. Frank Stanton conducted tour with his assistant Edgar Young. Harriet and Abramowitz Philip Johnson 3:55 Left Center 4:10 Arrived Museum of Modern Art 4:25 Departed and drove by Asia House, UN Building, World Fair Grounds 4. 5:30
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 65: Mar. 1‑6, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 30 (Item)
  • of the Tet offensive must be channeled and harnessed to effective purpose. The fronts being formed by Tran Van Don and Tran Van An, a front being formed in Danang, are examples. These should work together cooperatively and if possible to be tied to gether
Folder, "Japan - January 1964-March 1966 [2 of 2]," Files of Robert Komer, NSF, Box 34 (Item)
  • Conversation with Senator Inouye' telephone conversation LBJ /Ikeda Read draft statements RWK suggestions we expect for Senator's s personal secretary re trans-Pacific 6/18/64 LBJ to make and Ikeda text remarks: M s.s, 17.'~ 1
Folder, "United Kingdom - Wilson Visit, 4/15/65," Country Files, NSF, Box 215 (Item)
  • of a British presence in Vietnam. Mitchell essentially shrugged his shoulders. The Prime Minister, he said, was now calling up 150 technicians from private life into the territorial forces for use around the world. These statistical data showed how badly
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Tennessee on a hillside farm nea r Knoxvi 11 e. G: ~Jhat brought you to Texas? S: Well, you won't believe it but I'll make it as interesting as I can. I was in the service in World War I, July, 1917 to December, 1918. [It was] the first time I had been
  • Braniff and Eastern Airlines over postal contracts and routes; grandfather clause in Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938; Texas National Aviation Defense Board; Lady Bird; soundness of the dollar; general impressions of LBJ
Folder, "Passage and Signature," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 3 (Item)
  • ~aritime A1ministrator serving as Chairman, and two other Presidentially appomted members, to handle maritime subsidy matters. AGENCIES AND FUNCTIONS TRANSFERRED S. 3010, as amended, would trans{ er to the new Department the following agencies
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Folder, "The Message - Vol. II [1 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)
  • Today there miles of paved roads and are 2.: 7.million surfaced miles, miles. were 38,000 active are more than 90,000. aircraft, private The number and of private doubled. commercial they fly a billion miles • . were airlines flew 2.09
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President's Daily Diary entry, 7/27/1966 (Item)
  • n,,, July White House Q^, 27, 1966 Wednesday Today announced appt of Bayh L. Rasmussen Director of the Dept. of Interiors Bureau of Land as management Cliff Carter Secretary McNamara George Meany (b.4) re airline strike negotiations Mike
Folder, "The 1964 Task Forces," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • to one side, important increased and construction the world and will save an estimated Statistics traffic project are available that in 1963 merchant of the 41, 000-mile is now open to the public, is underway, While few figures Z% and barge
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Telephone conversation # 2075, sound recording, LBJ and MYER FELDMAN, 2/13/1964, 5:24PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE AIRLINE STRIKES; LABOR UNIONS; BRANIFF, NATIONAL, CONTINENTAL AIRLINES
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • to be in the airlines business. I'd flown during the war and I was getting along very well in a struggling little industry there. B: Pioneer Airlines. Now to back up just a little bit, Pioneer Airlines was the predecessor for Trans-Texas, was it not? W
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The interagency committee had been in existence before President Kennedy so it wasn't a creation of the Kennedy world. It included people from HEW, from Justice, and most importantly from the Bureau of Narcotics within the Treasury Department. the strong man
  • LBJ's intellectual powers; his sources of advice; Abe Fortas; White's brief assignment as liaison in the counternarcotics effort; named special counsel in 1965; acting on the CAB's international air cases; the airlines' influence and the role
Folder, "JCS -- War Games, Vol. 4, 7/65 ‑ 1/66 [1 of 2]," Agency Files, NSF, Box 31 (Item)
  • coot1ol offu:-erto pan • RpeCific vehicle id,,oti&e• l,y llceue tag numl>eria a deaig11aled parkinc sectioa of the Pentap pa,king area. The per■it is not tran,detable except ia tht" cast' of • properly registered cu pool. n .. permit
Folder, "Japan, Sato's Visit Memos and Cables, 1/11-14/65 [3 of 4]," Country Files, NSF, Box 253 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • greater restrictions on foreigners, culminat­ ing in 1638 with the expulsion of all foreigners and the severing of all relations with the outside world except severely limited com­ mercial contacts with Dutch and Chinese merchants at Nagasaki
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ginsburg -- I -- 3 Club, just sitting around, laughing, talking. He was then already vice president. We had a good time together--all of us. But your main interest today is the airline strike
  • -wage control in the airlines; the need for increased revenues without tax increases; Wilbur Mills' perceived opposition to taxation; International Association of Machinists (IAM) president Roy Siemiller's efforts to break the 3.2 per cent wage-price
Woodward, Warren (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time friend of LBJ; Assistant to Congressman and Senator Johnson, 1948-1953; Involved in most LBJ campaigns; Employee, KTBC; Member, National Advisory Committee on Selective Service, 1966; Vice President, American Airlines
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • thought he should have been. But in this case, he's really taken a pretty bum rap, so I think he has cause for some legitimate complaint. The Trans-Pacific Route case is the largest international route case that has come before a president since World
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 75, June 2001," LBJ Library (Item)
  • of nations TR ·ent America's Gr at White Fleet of battleships around th world. But Congress would only appropriate half of the mone • ne es-.,an. Quit all right, niffcd Ro c\·elt. I"II only send them halfv,a): C n""ress can get them ba ·Ii.. Lu kinbill R's
Folder, "Foundation For Action - 1965 Task Forces [1 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • FOR 0 Alan S.~ ~oyd .., Thi• will confirm that the meetin1 on Tran•portation acheduled for 6:00 thla eyen­ ln1 by BW Moyer•' memorandum of July 23 baa been reacheduled for 8:30 a.m., Tue ■day, Augu■ t 3, 1965. Joaeph A. CalUano, Jr. Spectal A■ alatant
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Folder, "Holt, Harold E.," Name Files, WHCF, Box H-373 (Item)
  • Minister of Australia, Mrs. Holt and their party will arrive at Dulles International Airport aboard Trans World Airlines Flight 64. 5:10 p.m. The Prime Minister and Mrs. Holt, accompanied by the Honorable James w. Symington, Chief of Protocol
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . KTBC--TBC stood for Texas Broadcasting Corporation, which came into existence subsequent to World War II. nally. I don't remember what the call letters were origi- Maybe they were KTBC. As I say, that was before my time. And as I told you in our
Folder, "Background on stops for Whistle Stop [2 of 2]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 12 (Item)
  • lifeline is Georgia's gateway to world trade, and foreign trade port between Baltimore and New Orleans. linesa 33 deep water terminalsa in 1963 more than 1500 at the porta water borne commerce in 1963 1 -,110,000 tQna. the Southeast's leading Served by 109
Folder, "President's European Trip Briefing Book - June 1963 (II)," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • concurring in a~ jure recognition of Partition. This Irish position is now believed in some quarters to be compro­ mised since Ireland's accession to the United Nations Charter in 1955. B. Irish Neutrality. Since the end of World War II and more recently
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/26/1966 (Item)
  • to give the President a report on things on the Hill and the Airline Strike" Returned to the Oval Office and resumed meeting w/ Hon. Eugen e Locke and Mr. Rostow t^ July White House Day Tuesday Activity (inciude v t sited by) CABINET MEETING