Correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed documents, newspaper
clippings, and other records relating to policies and activities
of the
office of the President and of White House agencies, especially
as these
relate to Arkansas and Arkansans.
Sub-series 1. President (The White
House), 1952-1974.
4 boxes.
Office file code: 1
Records pertaining to the office of the President. Subjects to
which material
pertains include: political instability in Indochina, 1961 (Box
1, Folder 4),
recommendation, 1967, for a meeting between President Lyndon B.
Johnson and
U.S.S.R. Premier Kosygin (3.7), proposal that U.S. send
representative to
funeral of Ho Chi Minh (4.4), Cuban missile crisis, 1962, JWF's
efforts to
influence foreign policy, other events and issues relating to
foreign affairs;
JWF's remarks on illness of the President (1.2), rumored
deactivation of Fort
Chaffee, political situation in Arkansas and prospect of a
presidential visit
to the state (1.4), proposed appointment of Knox Banner to head
Housing and
Home Finance Agency (2.1), political support for President Lyndon
B. Johnson in
Fayetteville, Arkansas (2.4), other political events and issues;
dedication of
Greers Ferry Dam by President John F. Kennedy (2.4) and federal
water resources
program in Arkansas (1.2); opposition to President Richard M.
Nixon's policies
on anti-inflationary wage limitations (4.6) and on increased meat
imports
(4.7), and other economic affairs, consumer interests, and
agricultural trade
issues; proposed 1964 World's Fair in U.S. (1.2); constituent's
offer of a gift
of furniture to the White House (2.3) and other constituent
concerns;
assassination of President John F. Kennedy (4.4); race relations
and civil
rights.
Records pertaining to federally funded programs. Subjects to
which
material relates include: watershed projects, particularly in
regard to
Washington County Muddy Fork project (5.1); Little Rock Community
Health
Program (5.7); Fulbright scholar ship program; small business
grants;
housing loans; requests for wage and price freeze exemptions.
Sub-series 4. Office of Defense
Mobilization, 1960-1962.
3 folders.
Office file code: 1c
Records pertaining to civil defense and disaster relief in
Arkansas,
particularly as regards requests for federal financial assistance
to state and
local civil defense programs and for flood disaster relief for
Harrison School
District.
Records pertaining to wage and price controls, particularly as
regards
requests for removal of controls over the health, sugar, steel
and paper
industries.
Sub-series 6. Office of Emergency
Preparedness, 1961-1962, 1973.
4 folders.
Office file code: 1-c
Records pertaining primarily to disaster relief projects and to
Phase
IV price-freeze complaints.
Records pertaining primarily to civil defense and to the
involvement
of the Central Intelligence Agency in such international
organizations as
the Truth About Cuba Committee, the Foreign Broadcast Service,
and The
Experiment in International Living.
Records pertaining primarily to: presidential appointments;
disaster
relief; railway labor contracts, particularly as regards
opposition from
Mammoth Spring to a 1962 Railroad Commission labor report (6.1);
and wage and
price controls, particularly as regards Pine Bluff Police
Department (6.2).
Sub-series 9. Office of Emergency
Planning, 1963-1972.
1 box.
Office file code: 1-d
Records pertaining primarily to: complaints registered by Wortz
Biscuit
Company of Fort Smith of alleged discrimination against small
businesses on
the part of the Department of the Army (8.1) and other problems
of small
business firms; efforts by Arkansas Governor Dale Bumpers and
others to
acquire federal disaster relief funds for the state (8.2);
depletion of
titanium oxide, nickel, and antimony deposits in Arkansas (8.3,
5, 6);
complaints against public utilities price increases (8.8, 9);
complaints about
the applicability of the Fair Labor Standards Act to pre-school
training
institutions in Arkansas (8.11); requests for wage and price
freeze
exemptions, particularly as regards Arkansas petroleum companies,
the
Marshall School District, and Arkansas teachers (8.7).
Sub-series 10. Office of Economic
Opportunity, 1965-1974.
2 boxes.
Office file code: 1-e
Records pertaining to Head Start program, Job Corps, VISTA,
Neighborhood Youth Program, and other anti-poverty programs in
Arkansas,
particularly as regards Head Start in Van Buren and Harrison
(9.4), the
1976 OEO survey dealing with the relationship between poverty and
violence
in the state (9.9), and federal funding of emergency food and
medical
services and drug rehabilitation centers in northeast Arkansas
(10.15).
Sub-series 11. Office of Science and
Technology, 1964-l971.
1 folder.
Office file code: 1-f
Records pertaining to a constituent's request for establishment
of a
national clearinghouse for information generated by various
research
projects.
Records pertaining to the office of Vice President, particularly
as
regards: events relating to resignation of Vice President Spiro
T. Agnew; Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey's support, in 1966, of JWF's
appraisal of situation
in Indochina; and Republic of Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Cao
Ky's defense,
addressed to Humphrey, of actions and policies of Ky's
government.
Records pertaining, in particular, to proposed establishment of a
Job
Corps Center at Fort Chaffee and to the cotton industry's
proposal for
implementation of a cotton-stamp program as a supplement to the
food-stamp
program.
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