Johnson, Lyndon, MINIMUM WAGE AND SOCIAL SECURITY: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) amendments, 432, 436–37;
Fair Labor Standards Act amendments, 427–31;
recommendations for Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance, 432
Johnson, Lyndon, MODEL CITIES: creation of Department of Housing and Urban Development, 460–61;
and Model Cities Act, 463, 466–67, 469;
open housing proposal, 498;
Special Message to the Congress on the Nation’s Cities, 460;
task force on Metropolitan and Urban Problems, 460–61;
task force on Model Cities, 462
Johnson, Lyndon, PATRON OF ARTS: and addition to National Gallery of Art, 451;
and Corporation for Public Broadcasting board of directors, 456;
and National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities bill, 443—44;
and Public Broadcasting Act, 455–56, 457;
support for arts, 457;
support for Hirshhorn museum, 448, 449, 451;
support for national humanities foundation, 443–44;
task force on financing public broadcasting, 456;
unlikeliness as patron, 439
Johnson, Lyndon, TAX CUT: and 1965 budget, 29–35;
Economic Report of the President, 39;
emphasis on economy of government, 33–34;
and passage of Revenue Act of 1964, 36–38, 39
Johnson, Lyndon, VIETNAM WAR: antiwar heckling of, 411–12;
assumptions underlying policy, 339–42;
and Battle of Khe Sanh, 476;
concealment of escalation of war, 345;
concealment of war costs, 323, 358–59, 378;
and credibility of government, 536;
deterioration of political position in 1968, 480;
failure to understand military problems, 330;
“guns and butter speech,” 319–23, 526–27;
guns or butter dilemma, 343–44;
halt in bombing of North Vietnam, 518;
hubris, 329, 542;
National Security Action Memorandum No. 328, 346;
nomination of Clifford as Secretary of Defense, 478;
overall performance, 534–36;
press conference announcing war, 348–49;
prior to 1964 election, 338;
refusal to talk with Harrison Salisbury, 413;
response to seizing of Pueblo, 473;
speech calling for peace talks, 491–92; 1968
speech to nation on war, 480–81;
Tonkin Gulf incident, 336–38;
“Wise Men” meetings, 424–25
Johnson, Lyndon, VOTING RIGHTS, 218;
meeting with Wallace, 230–31;
presentation of voting rights bill to Congress, 231;
reaction to James Reeb murder, 230;
reaction to Selma voting rights struggle, 221, 229;
sending of federal troops to Selma, 231—33;
voting rights address to joint session, 235–36;
and voting rights bill, 223, 224, 225, 236–37
Johnson, Lyndon, WAR ON POVERTY: choice of Shriver to head, 98–99;
commitment to, 95;
and community action concept, 96–97;
insistence on no new taxes, 106;
lack of interest in, 112;
and Office of Economic Opportunity, 105;
restrictions on program, 102;
in 1964 State of Union Address, 97;
and Yarmolinsky affair, 110–12, 549 n.8
Johnson, Lyndon, PRESIDENTIAL PERFORMANCE: credibility problem, 536—37;
division of country, 537;
Great Society achievements, 527, 537–38;
inflation, 537;
legislative performance, 528–30;
loss of control over Congress, 437—38;
periods of presidency, 527;
personality, 538—42;
Vietnam policy, 531–36
Johnson, Rafer, 505
Johnston, Olin, 8
Joint Center on Urban Studies, 458–59
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 357;
request for tax increase to finance war, 359;
support for continued bombing of North Vietnam, 480
Joint Commission on Immigration (Dillingham Commission): Dictionary of Races or Peoples, 247
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 448–51
Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Control Act, 89
Kagan, Donald, 525–26
Kaiser, Edgar, 462
Kampelman, Max, 141, 446
Karnow, Stanley, 326, 327, 475, 476;
on “pacification” program, 352;
on transformation of Vietnam by war, 349–50
Kattenburg, Paul, 341;
position on Vietnam War, 327
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 15;
and Civil Rights Act of 1964, 50, 64, 70, 72, 79, 80; 1968
conference on Vietnam War, 477;
and drafting of civil rights bill of 1966, 391;
and federal troops to Selma, 231–32;
and Immigration Act of 1965, 255, 257, 260;
proposal for Warren Commission, 22;
support for sending troops to Watts, 385;
support for surtax, 367;
and voting rights, 215, 223–24, 235, 237–40, 243, 244
Kaufman, George S., 4
Kaufman, Herbert, 462
Kaysen, Carl, 333
Kearns, Doris: on Johnson’s dreams, 9;
on Johnson’s fear of unmanliness, 329;
on Johnson’s isolation as vice president, 11;
on Johnson’s legislative accomplishments, 531;
on Johnson’s loss of credibility, 477;
on Johnson’s mental state in 1968, 488–90;
on Johnson’s need for Kennedy staff, 21;
on Johnson’s paranoia, 541;
on Johnson’s performance after assassination, 26;
on Johnson’s self-doubt, 132
Keating, Kenneth, 69, 155, 162
Keeney, Barnaby C, 442, 443–44
Kefauver, Estes, 60
Kellem, K. C., 453
Kennedy, Edward, 56, 134, 199, 505;
and Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 199;
and Humphrey’s candidacy, 515;
and Immigration Act of 1965, 255, 258;
reaction to Humphrey’s Salt Lake City speech, 517;
and voting rights bill, 238, 239
Kennedy, Ethel, 505
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 16, 496, 501, 505
Kennedy, John F.: and air pollution legislation, 290;
amendments to Fair Labor Standards Act, 427;
assassination, 11;
civil rights bill, 43–44, 80;
Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 89, 96;
creation of Cape Cod National Seashore Park, 267;
creation of Outdoor Recreation Advisory Council, 269;
effect of assassination on public, 18—19;
exemptions to national immigration quotas, 248;
and federal aid for education, 183, 184, 203;
federal relief to the Cumberlands, 91;
on Goldwater, 123;
Immigration Message to the Congress, 251–52;
and immigration reform, 249—52;
introduction of Medicare, 182;
and Land and Water Conservation Fund bill, 270–71;
loose incomes policy, 360;
national arts policy, 441–42;
A Nation of Immigrants, 250;
Panel on the Use of Pesticides, 264–65;
poverty program, 91;
on role of State
Department, 333;
sensitivity to Johnson’s loss of power, 9;
support for District of Columbia home rule, 313;
support for Twenty-fourth Amendment, 223;
task force on health and Social Security, 158;
tax cut bill, 2
7;
tribute to Berkeley, 401;
urban programs, 459–60;
and Vietnam, 326–29;
and wilderness legislation, 276, 277
Kennedy, Norman, 460
Kennedy, Robert F., 15, 89;
announcement of candidacy for president, 372, 480, 501;
assassination, 372;
California primary, 502—3;
debate with McCarthy, 503;
at 1964 Democratic convention, 142;
and Economic Opportunity Act, 108, 109;
and Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 199;
endorsement of Humphrey for VP, 140;
on Goldwater, 123;
1968 Indiana primary, 502;
on limitations of U.S. power in Vietnam, 473;
on McCarthy as presidential candidate, 501;
and McNamara’s resignation, 357; 1968
Nebraska primary, 502;
opposition to House AFDC amendments, 434, 436;
Oregon primary, 502;
and Senate Civil Rights Act debate, 63–64, 70, 76, 80;
and 1964 vice presidential race, 134–36;
and voting rights bill, 238;
and War on Poverty, 96
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 20, 440–41
Keppel, Francis, 109, 185, 213, 394;
child benefit theory, 188–91;
as commissioner of education, 183;
and Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 188–92;
and Higher Education Act, 207;
on impact of education legislation, 212;
and Johnson’s education task force, 186, 187;
and Kennedy’s education task force, 184;
and reopening of Prince Edward County, Va., public schools, 199;
and reorganization of Office of Education, 201–3;
and withholding of federal funds for Chicago schools, 394–96
Kerner, Otto, 419
Kerner Commission (National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders), 388, 417, 419
Kerr, Clark, 187;
firing, 407;
Godkin Lectures, 401–2;
negotiations with Free Speech Movement, 405–6;
negotiations with United Front, 404–5
Kerr, Robert, 11, 60, 158, 161, 282
Kerr-Mills bill (Medical Assistance for the Aged), 162–63, 164
Keynes, John Maynard, 41;
The General Theory, 41
Keynesian tax cut.
See Revenue Act of 1964
Keyserling, Leon, 87;
Poverty and Deprivation in the U.S., 87
Khanh, Nguyen, 339
Kilduff, Mac, 11, 15
Killian, James R., Jr., 199, 453, 454, 456
Killingsworth, Charles C, 206
King, Cecil, 162, 165, 168
King, Coretta Scott, 217, 234, 382, 414
King, John W., 484
King, Martin Luther Jr., 79, 389–90;
assassination, 372, 494–95;
“Beyond Vietnam” speech, 417;
Chicago open housing demonstrations, 391, 396–98;
on civil rights bill of 1966, 392;
and Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, 413–14;
at 1964 Democratic convention, 138, 139;
depression in 1968, 493;
eulogy for Jimmie Lee Jackson, 222;
funeral, 496;
harassment by FBI, 216–18;
letter from Selma jail, 221;
and march of Memphis poor, 493;
meeting with Hoover, 217;
meeting with Johnson, 221;
Nobel Peace Prize, 216;
and peace movement, 416–17;
premonition of death, 493, 494;
proposal for ending Vietnam War, 417;
public response to assassination, 496–97;
response to Johnson’s withdrawal from 1968 race, 494;
response to Watts Riot, 389;
and Selma to Montgomery march, 222, 226, 227, 228–29, 233–34;
voting rights campaign, 218–22, 244
King-Anderson bill (Gore amendment), 162, 164, 167
Kirk, Alan, 332
Kirk, Russell, 119–20;
The Conservative Mind, 120;
six canons of conservative thought, 120–21
Kissinger, Henry, 518, 532
Kitchel, Denison, 127, 128, 144, 148, 149
Klaman, S. B., 460
Klein, Herb, 506
Kleindienst, Richard, 127
Kline, Hugo, 200
Kluczynski, John C., 300
Knight, Frances, 251
Knight, Goodwin, 290
Knott, Lawson, 422
Komer, Robert, 333
Kosygin, Aleksei, 344
Krier, James E., 291, 303
Krim, Arthur, 490
Krim, Mathilde, 490
Krock, Arthur, 74
Krulack, Victor H., 326
Kuchel, Thomas H., 61, 162;
concern about Vietnam War, 380;
and Senate Civil Rights Act debate, 65–66, 69;
and voting rights bill, 235
Ky, Nguyen Cao, 347
Labor-Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Act), 308–9
Labor unions: closed shop, 307;
open shop, 307;
opposition to Taft-Hartley Act, 309
Laird, Melvin: “Get Out of Vietnam” policy, 415
Lake Erie, 280–81, 283;
clean-up, 288
Lampman, Robert, 84, 90, 92;
The Low Income Population and Economic Growth, 86–87;
“The Problem of Poverty in America,” 90, 92–93, 97–98, 106, 112
Land, Edwin H., 187, 453
Land and Water Conservation Fund bill, 270, 271, 273
Landon, Alf, 147
Landrum, Phil S., 107, 110, 111
Landrum-Griffin law, 107
Lange, Dorothea, 84
Laos, 324
LaPorte, Roger, 382
Larson, Reed E., 310
Laue, James, 228
Laughlin, Harry H., 246
Lausche, Frank, 176
Lawson, James M., Jr., 493
Le Due Tho, 532
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 50, 66, 72, 238
League for Industrial Democracy (LID), 400;
disagreement with SDS, 401
Lee, Charles, 193
Lee, Richard, 88, 101;
concern about shift of funds to Vietnam, 409
Legion of Voters, 238
Lehman, Herbert, 25
Leinsdorf, Erich, 252, 456
Lemann, Nicholas, 89
LeMay, Curtis, 508;
hawkishness toward Vietnam, 330
Leopold, Aldo, 273, 275;
A Sand County Almanac, 275
Lerner, Abram, 445, 448, 449, 451
Levinson, Larry, 422
Levison, Stanley, 216, 417
Lewis, Art, 215
Lewis, Fulton, 466
Lewis, John (CEA), 30;
and tax-cut bill, 39
Lewis, John (SNCC), 219, 226
Lewis, Muriel, 215
Lewis, Oscar: The Children of Sanchez, 89;
Five Families, 90;
theory of culture of poverty, 89–90, 91, 93, 102–3
Lifton, Robert Jay, 382, 534
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 439–40
Lindsay, John V., 78, 312, 366;
and Model Cities Act, 464;
opposition to House AFDC amendments, 436
Lingo, Al, 220, 226
Lippmann, Walter, 123, 133;
concern about Vietnam War, 379
Literacy tests, 224, 225
Lithuanian Immigration Service, 249
Liuzzo, Viola Gregg, 234, 244
The Living Wilderness, 275
Lloyd George, David, 83
Loan, Nguyen Ngoc, 475
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 129;
as ambassador to Saigon, 327–28;
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br /> “Wise Men” meetings, 425
Loeb, Henry III, 493, 495–96
Loeb, William, 128
London, Jack, 400
Loney, Kate Deadrich, 200
Long, Huey, 166, 188–89
Long, Russell, 60, 76, 166, 373;
and hearings on Social Security Amendments, 433, 434, 435;
and Medicare bill, 167, 168, 174–76;
and tax-cut bill, 35;
and voting rights bill, 235
Longenecker, Stephen L., 214
Loomis, Henry, 201, 203
Los Angeles basin, 288–89
Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, 383–84
Los Angeles Music Center, 440
Los Angeles Police Department, 496
Lovett, Robert A., 331, 334
Lowell, A. Lawrence, 332
Lowell, Amy, 332
Lowell, John Amory, 331
Lowell, Percival, 332
Lowell, Robert, 381, 382
Lowenstein, Allard, 416, 482–83
Lowery, Joseph, 217
Lynch, Tom, 503
Lynd, Staughton, 381
MacDonald, Dwight: “Our Invisible Poor,” 92
MacLeod, Colin M., 264
Macy, John W., Jr., 202, 242, 456
Madden, Ray, 78
Maddox, 336
Madison, James, 3
Magnuson, Warren, 454, 455;
and Senate Civil Rights Act debate, 71–72, 76
Mahon, George H., 370, 373–74, 449
Mailer, Norman, 423–24;
Armies of the Night, 424
Malcolm X, 221, 388, 390, 402
Manatos, Mike, 161;
and Civil Rights Act, 70;
contributions to Johnson presidency, 531;
and Medicare bill, 166, 168, 169, 176;
and Model Cities Act, 464–65;
and proposed filibuster on House AFDC amendments, 437;
and tax-cut bill, 35, 36;
and Wilderness Act, 276
Mankiewicz, Frank, 102
Manley, John F., 160
Mansfield, Mike, 8, 35, 56–58, 327;
and Air Quality Act, 297;
and attempt to repeal of Section 14b of Taft-Hartley, 311–12, 313;
and civil rights bill of 1966, 392;
on incompetency of South Vietnamese government, 341—42;
and Johnson’s 1968
speech on Vietnam, 490;
and Medicare bill, 166;
position on Vietnam, 341–43, 408–9, 415, 479;
and proposed filibuster on House AFDC amendments, 437;
recommendation of slowdown after 89th Congress, 531;
report to Kennedy on Vietnam, 326;
and Senate Civil Rights Act debate, 65, 66, 70–75, 77, 81;
and Tonkin Gulf incident, 337;
and voting rights bill, 223, 235, 237, 239, 240
Marcuse, Herbert, 400
Marcy, Carl, 380
Markley, R. W., Jr., 293
Marland, Sidney P., 187
Marris, Peter, 96
Marsh, Reginald, 84
Marshall, Bob: The People’s Forests, 275
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