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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- April 1969x
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- Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 as a recruiter of talented persons for government service; setting up the guidelines for executive branch presidential appointments; evaluating and recommending appointees; generating appointment…
- White House reaction to Watts riots; LBJ’s speech to the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission regarding rioters; Clark group’s report on Watts; LBJ-HHH relationship; Roger Wilkins; death of MLK; LBJ’s feelings about MLK; Louis Martin;…
- Biographical information; developing the Mekong project; Shriver tries to get Zwick into OEO; named assistant budget director; surmise that Vietnam would not last long; the task force to create the Department of Transportation; role of J. Califano;…
- President LBJ’s relations with the press and Louchheim’s efforts to improve such relations; Louchheims work in State Dept.’s Community Advisory Service 1964-1966; encouraging foreign service employees to go on domestic talk circuits; foreign…
- First knowledge of LBJ; Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune enthusiastic regarding LBJ; Mrs. Bethune and the NYA; friendship with Stuart Symington; LBJ getting building for Huston-Tillotson College; relationship with LBJ; 1957 Civil…
- Relationship between Foster Dulles and LBJ; meeting LBJ; trying to establish trans-Atlantic nuclear force; going to the German government with a proposal for a MLF; LBJ’s understanding of, and congressional relations on, the trans-Atlantic nuclear…
- Working on the War on Poverty Task Force; JFK’s plans for “Widening Participation in Prosperityâ€; Economic Opportunity Bill; land reform proposal; extension service; urban vs. rural poverty; lack of support for rural communities; division in…
- Office of Economic Opportunity
- Speeches Taylor wrote for HUD; citizen participation programs; Public Administration Society speech in Dayton, Ohio; black power; Graham Watt; Roger Prear; rhetoric vs. reality; operating through city government James Sundquists’s view of citizen…
- Okun’s background; work on the Council of Economic Advisors; how staff worked together to set up budgetary requests; comparison of Dillon’s and Heller’s views of budgetary items; “Okun’s Lawâ€; 1964 tax reform; dealing with the Federal…