"This government is with us": Lyndon Johnson and the grassroots War on Poverty

War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 31-62

  McKee, Guian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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2. Sherwin J. Markman, "Memorandum for the President", March 14, 1967
3. Sherwin J. Markman, "Memorandum for the President", May 9, 1967, 5-6
4. Robert J. Donovan, "G. M.'s Black Director on 'Opening Doors, '" Washington Post, May 27, 1972.
5. Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969 (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1971), 85.
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14. James L. Sundquist, Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years (Washington, D. C.: Brookings, 1968), 115-25;
15. Matusow, Unraveling of America, 107-20;
16. Noel A. Cazenave, Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007), 19-63.
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24. The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson, vol. 3, The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, January 1964, ed. Kent B. Germany and Robert David Johnson (New York: Norton, 2005), 275.
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26. Judith Russell, Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War on Poverty (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004);
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28. Presidential Recordings, 3:179.
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30. Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson Digital Edition, ed. David B. Coleman, Kent B. Germany, Guian A. McKee, and Mark J. Selverstone, War on Poverty Series (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010).
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35. Lyndon Johnson to Carl Sanders, July 24, 1964
36. W. Sherman Birdwell Oral History Interview, 3-19, April 1965
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39. Presidential Recordings, 3:651.
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43. Gillette, Launching, 98.
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48. Lyndon Johnson to Phil Landrum, May 14, 1964
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50. (Bill Moyers to Lyndon Johnson, May 14, 1964
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56. Lyndon Johnson to Bill Moyers, August 4, 1964
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60. Sidney M. Milkis, "Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society, and the 'Twilight' of the Modern Presidency", in Great Society, ed. Milkis and Mileur, 6-13, 31;
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62. Charles Schultze, "Memorandum for the President; Subject: Poverty Program; Opposition from the Mayors", 1-4
63. Lyndon Johnson to Dwight Eisenhower, August 18, 1965
64. Eve Edstrom, "Civil War Develops in Antipoverty Leadership", Washington Post, December 16, 1965;
65. Eve Edstrom, "Poverty War Group Fails to See LBJ", Washington Post, December 22, 1965;
66. "4 Protestors Arrested near Johnson Ranch", Washington Post, December 24, 1965;
67. OEO, "Office of Economic Opportunity", 86a-91.
68. Johnson to Richard Russell, June 2, 1966
69. Lyndon Johnson to Bill Moyers, December 26, 1966
70. Congressional Quarterly Almanac, 90th Cong., 1st sess., 1967
71. OEO, "Office of Economic Opportunity", 598-604.
72. Lyndon Baines Johnson, "Special Message to the Congress: America's Unfinished Business, Urban and Rural Poverty, March 14th, 1967", Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967 (Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1968), 1:334-35;
73. "It's Official", New Republic, March 25, 1967, 6.
74. Lyndon Johnson to Dean Rusk, February 19, 1968
75. Lyndon Johnson to Richard Daley, March 23, 1968
76. Lyndon Johnson to Joseph Califano, April 27, 1968
77. Johnson, Vantage Point, 74;
78. Richard N. Goodwin, Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties (Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), 268-78, 285-87.