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Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the war against poverty was that you had all these different governmental departments battling a little bit for turf and they wanted to have, somebody maybe like an impartial umpire to draft the statute so there weren't any hidden kickers in there which

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the CCC experience. G: Did you see the Job Corps as the component that would yield the fastest results in the War on Poverty, say as opposed to Community Action or VISTA? S: That may well have been true, I'm not sure. I am sure, however
to expand the Job Corps and addressing criticism that it grew too quickly; comparing the War on Poverty to military wars the United States has fought; Congress' rush to criticize the Job Corps; why Otis Singletary was chosen as first director of the Job

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. (Interruption) G: Mr. Adler, I want to begin by asking you to describe where you were in the government at the time the War on Poverty was planned. A: I was at the Department of Commerce but on the payroll or being paid by the University of Pittsburgh
Position in government during War on Poverty; Appalachian program; Kennedy

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that it deserved to really oversee the War on Poverty by his own participation. B: I don't recall him participating at all. But I'm sure that if who- ever set it up had the idea that they were going to oversee the Har on Poverty in the sense of directing the War
Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; rural conservation centers; Job Corps vs. CCC; rural anti-poverty program land reform; migratory farm work; task force meetings; maximum feasible participation; OEO legislation; SWAFCA (Southwest

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

could go forward. They were committed, the two of them, to a War Against Poverty. They really were enthusiastically for most of the Great Society programs in education and health and good job opportunities. These were the areas in which they had had
LBJ was convinced to be John F. Kennedy's running mate; LBJ's and Hale Boggs' dedication to the War on Poverty and civil rights, especially in the South; Lynda Johnson dating George Hamilton; Hale Boggs' involvement in Adlai Stevenson's 1956

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Service; the controversy over taking a corner of Brackenridge Park in San Antonio to improve roads; creating the Department of Transportation; dispute between mass transit interests and the highway programs; the War on Poverty and road programs; the PPBS

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the tape we were talking about what seemed to me to be a reason for launching the War on Poverty, and that was the large percentage of youth who were being rejected from the draft. Y: Yes, and I said that that was only a piece of argumentation

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Survey Program, and its intensity had dropped off and it became just a matter-of-fact program again. And of course all of the interest was in the start up of the War on Poverty. That's where I wanted to go, and I made arrangements to have a detail. I went
How McCarthy came to work with the War on Poverty task force; John Blatnik's involvement in Minnesota Job Corps centers; McCarthy's work with Job Corps; the organization of Job Corps; the Labor Department's work with the War on Poverty; initial

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

else, somebody on his staff, and he read it and then he really didn't know what he should do after that, after he got an answer. I have a hunch that's often the case. Now six weeks after Johnson came in as president, he announced his War on Poverty
Contact with LBJ; assassination; tax issues; Wilbur Mills; comparing JFK and LBJ; CEA; War on Poverty; committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; procedures; agriculture issues; 1964 campaign; Walter Heller; Wright Patman; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; Bryce Harlow; southern Democrats' assistance with recommittal, but not final passage of certain bills; LBJ's view of the War on Poverty compared to JFK's commitment to alleviating poverty, which was influenced by JFK's visits to West Virginia

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't remember his name. G: John McCone. W: Yes. Yes, I think that was his name. I took a dictation from him. I remember Bess Abell and her husband being there, and Liz Carpenter. G: There was work being done on the War on Poverty at this time too

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of responsibility. (Interruption) I was responsible in the Department of Agriculture for extending the War on Poverty into rural areas. service. That was my primary function in my And I don't remember for sure whether the idea for a task force had been broached
Origin of Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Life; LBJ's interest; Opportunity Homestead proposal and its objectives; extending War on Poverty into rural areas; Rural Community Development Service; problems of rural poor in cities; inadequacy

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

," with full funding [of] Medicare, Medicaid, Elementary and Secondary Education, all these programs. Okay? The War on Poverty, full funding, that's the second item in this list. Then he goes to foreign aid, and we start all these international health programs

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the War on Poverty, and the President repeatedly saying, "We're going to end poverty; we're going to end poverty." And the reality of the difficulty of doing that [was], one, it was more difficult than we thought it would be, but, two, these gleaming

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about the Economic Opportunity Act, the War on Poverty. This is another issue that came through your committee and I guess was handled by Senator [Pat] McNamara. 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he had done what he had done with his War on Poverty and the civil rights bill and so forth. Frankly when I heard him make his speech, the one we call "We Shall Overcome, II I was really taken in and thought that Lyndon's finest hour had come

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ANTHONY PARTRIDGE INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Partridge's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start. I want to ask you to begin by tracing the origin of your involvement with War on Poverty. P: Okay. I went

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Opportunity, Secretary of the War on Poverty, Sargent Shriver, and down the line." And mind you, no one had ever asked him for the creation of this agency, nobody knew anything about it. Nobody had heard about it, and certainly how would we know, because

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it as being sOnlething that would be appropriate for him to build up. He started to expand it into what later became the war on poverty, and he involved nle in that. had rather different ideas. idea was going to work. I had been right. I didn't think

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were going to be heavily involved. But after that, the War on Poverty got an awful lot of publicity and it didn't take long to start having applications come in and inquiries and so on. G: How much did the representation of an area by a member
Welfare and War on Poverty
; the relationship between LBJ and Sargent Shriver, especially relating to CAP; the difference between Hispanic and African American community groups; Ted Berry as head of CAP; Shriver's staff meetings; the role of the War on Poverty Office of Inspection and William

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of everything he was doing was in the War on Poverty, Appalachia, and Vietnam. Saying that every kid in America who is educable ought to be able to get an education. If he couldn't afford it, if he could be educated, the government ought to find some way

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Bookbinder's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me ask you a few more questions about the operation of the [War on Poverty] task force, Mr. Bookbinder. What sort of records did the task force keep? Did it keep any sort
Task force record keeping; task force work process and working with Congress; task force leadership; communication problems with agencies; the OEO in the Executive Office of the President; Shriver; "revolutionary" aspects of the War on Poverty

Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: HAROLD W. HOROWITZ INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dean Horowitz ' office, Los Angeles, California Tape G: of 1 Well, let's start with your own involvement in the War on Poverty Task Force, describing at first where you
Circumstances involvement in War on Poverty; meetings; work on program; Adam Yarmolinsky; types of people on task force; Mike Harrington and Paul Jacobs; choice of clients for programs; different locations; working out the programs and the bill

Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall any of the efforts here to make that a more prominent part of the War on Poverty? H: Well, there are plenty of efforts in terms of individual lobbying and struggling and PR and everything else. The Labor Department, philosophically Wirtz felt
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.

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; 1960 and 1964 elections; civil rights legislation; Dirksen/LBJ relationship; Medicare; LBJ’s foreign policy; Senator Mansfield; LBJ-Nixon transition; 3/31 announcement; War on Poverty in Kentucky; decision to retire; political parties; Ray Bliss.

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, of course at the same time he was mounting a war on poverty. Did the two movements come together at the conference? Was there any focus on the War on Poverty at the Civil Rights Conference? A: When did he establish the Conference on Economic Opportunity

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

official positions were as special assistant to the secretary of defense-Y: I was the special assistant to the secretary of defense from January, 1961 to February, 1964 when I became deputy director of the president's task force for the War on Poverty. I

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

administration has been put in than probably in the whole history of our country. And the war on poverty. Well, say they can't see where it's done much good. people with no foresight. of good. M: A lot of people they are those I can see where it has done
; Berlin Wall issue; Barr as an observer during the 1967 Vietnam elections; Barr's view of the War on Poverty; Model Cities; Head Start; 1964 LBJ campaign visit to Pittsburgh; the March 31, 1968 speech; 1968 Democratic convention; housing issues; 1968

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in preparation for education of poor youth was an important thrust . And it was also felt that while communities were groping there had to be a real front opened on the War on Poverty, and the front of dealing with poor youth was a major one . G: Was this also

Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)

with welfare. To believe in a War on Poverty program, for instance-BARBARA: Yes. LIZ: --as President Johnson did. How you reconcile those challenges at this time when we have a political party that was re-elected by a large margin with kind of a hair shirt

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

--the Open Housing Bill; the War On Poverty Bills, particularly on funding I think this was a major area of problem; the Demonstration Cities in this year which-- A: There was a lot of opposition to Demonstration Cities. The Poverty Bill

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

matter. And various things There were other assignments that I got in connection with the National Alliance of Businessmen, and really all of the manpower programs for that matter. And others relating to OEO and the War on Poverty. P: In your

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] the swearing in of Sargent Shriver as chief of the Job Corps. G: Of the War on Poverty? LG: The War on Poverty. I must say I was so impressed. The President was so positive and said, "We are going to remove poverty from this country," and he certainly

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whitney Young -- Interview I -- 6 rumored, for example, that you were offered the Deputy Directorship of the War on Poverty. Y

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No, I didn't handle poverty. G: The other perhaps also was not relevant to you. A new daycare provision related to the War on Poverty that he introduced. M: No. I just sort of remember right around the edges, but I didn't work on that. G

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but it was also very annoying to an awful lot of other people. G: There's some suggestion in the War on Poverty legislation that he insisted on an enormous 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
of committee members and staff, including Edith Green, Phil Landrum, Carl Perkins, Frank Thompson, Hugh Carey, Peter Frelinghuysen; Arch Moore, Albert Quie, Charles Goodell and John H. Dent; the Economic Opportunity Act and the War on Poverty; efforts to raise

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jacobsen -- II -- 23 G: Well, it seems to me that perhaps one of Johnson's resentments toward the War on Poverty was he felt that it was a bastion of Bobby Kennedy people in OEO [Office of Economic Opportunity]. Did he ever express

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

with the White House; War on Poverty; changes in professions open to women; today

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on Poverty, but not this. F: Oh, yes. Well, Adam was very much involved in the War on Poverty, but he was also involved in this because he was McNamara's guy. We notified them about the air force problem. We recognized the political implication it was going

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