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SERIES
- Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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DATE RANGE
- 1980x
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- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; College Star; LBJ's activities; President Evans; athletes; secret organizations; faculty; school clubs; relationship with LBJ
- Employment history; organization and operation of the Democratic Study Group; support of the Great Society program; attending bill signing ceremonies; accepting position with the OEO; Sargent Shriver; OEO staff members; problems in Congressional…
- Circumstances of becoming associated with the War on Poverty Task Force; early organization; duties; need for coordination of the program; decision-making; naming VISTA program; pressure from departments; LBJ’s interest; philosophies on dealing…
- Budget Bureau position; Peace Corps involvement; War on Poverty; LBJ’s early support of the poverty program; Bill Moyers’ involvement; appointment of Shriver; task force on the War on Poverty; Community Action Program; maximum feasible…
- Insights gained from Hackett's work with the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime; giving grants to nineteen cities that wanted to develop a plan for addressing delinquency; pressure to speed up the planning…
- LBJ's involvement with the Naval Affairs Committee in 1943 and efforts to stop absenteeism in navy jobs; food rationing in World War II; how life in the United States changed during WWII; attitudes toward military service; German-American…
- Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; Labor Department; Job Corps; Youth Opportunity Centers; influence of organized labor groups; minimum wage; Willard Wirtz; Jack Henning.
- Biographical information; War on Poverty Task Force; members of the drafting group; Job Corps; role of the Labor Department; Willard Wirtz; women in the Job Corps; legislative input; delegation of authority; Sargent Shriver; Community Action Program…
- The origin of Shriver’s interest in poverty-related issues; Shriver’s involvement with trade unionism, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the board of education in Chicago; Shriver’s work in the 1940s with Eunice Kennedy on the Continuing…