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Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Slide 6 Slide 7 Peace Corps Host Nations Slide 8 Tip ONeill (D-Mass.)James Delaney (D-NY) Slide 9 Slide 10 Slide 11 Slide 12 Slide 13 Slide 14 Slide 15 Slide 16 Slide 17 Slide 18 Slide 19 Economic Opportunity Act (1964) VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) Job Corps Head Start Legal Services Various local anti-poverty programs & targeted medical programs Community Action Programs provides services, assistance, and other activities of sufficient scope and size to give promise of progress toward elimination of poverty or a cause or causes of poverty through developing employment opportunities, improving human performance, motivation, and productivity, or bettering the conditions under which people live, learn, and work. Slide 20 Slide 21 Slide 22 Slide 23 Slide 24 Slide 25 Slide 26 Slide 27 Slide 28 Slide 29 P RESIDENT J OHNSON : I think were doing the best we can, John. I dont imagine theres much we can do. Youll probably have a roll call on the Minority Report, I gather. J OHN B AILEY : I think we better have it late tonight, dont you, if were going to have it? P RESIDENT J OHNSON : I dont know; I dont know. I dont care much. Im awfully disappointed that folks would act that way. And Im distressed that they would treat me that way. But I dont want to say anything about it. I mayI may... well, I may be in touch with you a little bit later. But I justI think you will have it, and I know its pretty difficult on both sides... B AILEY : Well, theres no need for it, really. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : No. Not a bit. But... B AILEY : Well, some of the people have got the bit in their teeth. You know that, between you and I, that Mrs. [Edith] Green is a bitch. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Yeah. B AILEY : Huh? P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Yeah. Yeah. B AILEY : And [civil rights lawyer] Joe Rauh keeps saying he wants to help, but he cant get on the television often enough. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Yeah, thats right. B AILEY : Just stirring the dogs up. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Thats right. Slide 30 Slide 31 Slide 32 Slide 33 Slide 34 Medicaid (1965) --children under 6 whose families are 133% of federal poverty level --children 6-19 whose families are below poverty level --currently 35m children covered Slide 35 Slide 36 P RESIDENT J OHNSON : They told me that youve got to change your bill, or you wont have it. And I told em just to not change itjust go on, and vote it up or down. If we lose, why, well just lose, and well let the Catholics take over the country. But I aint going to be browbeat or blackmailed... And if you can get it [the bill] out [of committee] without it, all right. If not, Id take the whole goddamn section out. We dont have to have that part of it. P HIL L ANDRUM : Well, now, I think thats a wise decision. HeresI think we can get it out of committee without [Bay Ridge congressman & future New York governor Hugh] Carey. And I believe if we get this thing out of committee, we can bring the responsibility for any roadblocks after that on the Republicans. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Yeah, thats what Id do. [Break.] P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Well, my judgment would be, if you couldwe dont have to get everything in one year. L ANDRUM : Mm-hmm. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : If we dont get anything but a work camp, were all right. L ANDRUM : Yeah. Well, thats the truth Slide 37 P RESIDENT J OHNSON : If I had toif I had to, and the Catholics made an issue, Id just lay it right there in their lap with the Republicans, and say, All right, you vote it out, and let em vote it out. L ANDRUM : Well, heres what we can do: we can justify this by $100 million, with the first title of the bill. And I think P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Is that your work camp? L ANDRUM : Yes, sir. Work camp, and the work-study program, for the poor college boys and girls. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : What do you do there on the Catholic college? L ANDRUM : We dont do anything. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : You pay it direct to the kid? L ANDRUM : Thats right, through the college. After he makes his choice. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Yeah. L ANDRUM : After the child makes his choice. Theres no direct line from the director to the P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Well, Id just sure say (I dont want to be quoted) but if I were you, Id just seriouslythats what were going to have. What you need is three camps in Danville, Georgia, and take these kids, and prepare em where they wont stay on relief all their life. And L ANDRUM : This Community Action P RESIDENT J OHNSON : To hell with Community Action! L ANDRUM : It should be junked entirely. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : To hell with Community Action. Slide 38 Slide 39 P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Hello? C ONGRESSMAN A DAM C LAYTON P OWELL : Hows my friend? P RESIDENT J OHNSON : [stonily] Fine, Adam. What the hells been happening to your [Education and Labor] Committee? I thought you told me two months ago that you were going to pass a [education] bill for me. P OWELL : Thats right. Well, what happened: all hells broken loose, because P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Well, now, what the hell are you blackmailing me on a P OWELL : Thats not P RESIDENT J OHNSON : four hundred... Well, hell, you didnt [because] you want a $400,000 appropriation for you, we couldnt pass a billion, two hundred million [dollar funding bill] for the schoolkids. Now, you know Im for you, and you know that Im going to help you any way I can. Ive got nothing to do with what youre doing in the House investigation [of Powells personal finances]. But you damn near defeated the best education bill Ive got. And I hope youre going to be proud of it. P OWELL : No. Now, you know your Appalachia bill, that there is P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Well, now, Appalachia aint got a damn thing to do with you. If you handle your committee and let us handle the other one! Slide 40 P OWELL : Yeah, but theres a clause in there, Mr. President P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Theres a clause thats been in there for a long time. And if youre going to let [Ohio congressman William] Ayres [the committees ranking Republican] and [Oregon congresswoman] Edith Green [a conservative Democrat] lead you off the reservation, well, then I ran for nothing last year P OWELL : No P RESIDENT J OHNSON : [continuing] With 15 million votes. If youre going to tie up this Congress, and screw it upwhich youve done for three weeks, by running off [to Bimini, in the Bahamas] till you got a 400,000 [dollar] appropriationwhy, we never can get anywhere. And you defeat this [bill], and you hold it up, and you delay it, and you get us in this kind of shape, why, we cant pass anything. And thats all right. But I think youll beat a hell of a bunch of your liberal Democrats [in the 1966 midterm elections]. Im going to be hereits not going to bother me. But I just sure thought I had better leadership on that committee than what Ive got without even talking. P OWELL : Well P RESIDENT J OHNSON : And Im awfully disappointed. Just very disappointed. Slide 41 P OWELL : Now, Mr. President, dont you think I have an entitlement to P RESIDENT J OHNSON : [forcefully] No, I dont think youre entitled to a damn thing that you did. I think you told me, and looked me straight in the eye P OWELL : Mm-hmm. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : [continuing] And said, Ill report this bill, and Ill get it on the floor. And you didnt do it. P OWELL : [By] March 1 st. P RESIDENT J OHNSON : And you did not do it. P OWELL : It was [by] March 1 st, because P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Well, Adam P OWELL : It was March P RESIDENT J OHNSON : [voice rising] No. Oh, hell no, you didnt say till March 1 st. You told me you were going to do it. And then you ran off for three weeks and they couldnt even locate you... And your people [African-Americans] are being damn well taken care of in it [the bill]. [Break.] P RESIDENT J OHNSON : Hey, listen: if you cant trust me on Appalachia, you damn sure cant trust an amendment, or the Secretary of Commerce, or anybody else. P OWELL : Mm-hmm. Yeah P RESIDENT J OHNSON : If theres anything thats going to happen in Appalachia thats anti-Negro, I wont let it happen. Period. Slide 42 Slide 43 Slide 44 Slide 45 Slide 46