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Oral history transcript, Joe Keen and John Singerhoff interview S-I, 7/12/1968
Interview with Singerhoff and Joe Keen of the Office of Education: funding of education legislation
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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; prosecuting White House sit-in demonstrators; Frank Reeves; Howard Reed; Ralph Roberts, clerk of the House, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; David Dellinger and the March on the Pentagon; "Murphy" confidence…
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Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie
Biographical information; Jacques Reinstein; planning for postwar Italy; anti-Italian feelings on the part of the British; Palmiro Togliatti and the communist movement in Italy; General John Hilldring; political developments in postwar Italy; postwar…
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Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963
LBJ’s views of Vietnam while he was Senate leader through his presidency; the views of various senators about bombing; comparison of financial and physical support from the U.S. and the United Nations; Bobby Kennedy’s desire to see Rusk removed…
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Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ as congressman; Joseph McCarthy; bipartisan foreign policy under DDE; Space Committee; statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; LBJ legislative strategy as majority leader; 1955 Minimum Wage Bill; Hell's Canyon; Senator Richard Russell; Senator Dirksen;…
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Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview S-I, 7/12/1968, by Jack Broudy
Conversation with Samuel Halperin; "The Federal Government's Remaining Role in Education"
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Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Premonitions about the Dallas trip of November, 1963, and the JFK assassination; the transition from JFK to LBJ; Hays-Moyers relationship; LBJ story of internal revenue and a contribution to a Baptist Church; anecdote on admission of Outer Mongolia…
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Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette
Connections between Community Action Programs (CAP) and the Ford Foundation; guidelines for awarding Community Action Programs grants, including the requirement that programs be in impoverished areas; efforts to disperse grants fairly and broadly;…
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Oral history transcript, Dr. Arthur Harris, interview S-I, 7/10/1968, by Jan Sofokidis
1962-1963 was Associate Commission in Bureau of Education Assistance Programs (BEEP); three divisions: 1. State and local elementary and secondary 2. Higher education 3. Manpower training; abrupt increase in staff in 1964 required new emphasis on…
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Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin and Harold Howe II, interview S-II, undated
Conversation on "The "Federal Government's Remaining Role in Education;"
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Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview S-I, 7/24/1968, by Steve Trachtenberg
Biographical information; Senator Wayne Morse; Clayton Powell; Chair of Education and Labor; loss of power in 1966; Edith Green; liberal on education; lasting impact; offered amendments under JFK and LBJ; critical of Office of Economic Opportunity…
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Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert
Daily summaries of TV networks to LBJ; Bureau Chiefs set up TV control room at White House; Bill Moyers and Peter Benchley leaving the White House; Jack Valenti; monitored 11:00 to 1:00pm TV news shows for LBJ; LBJ believed Texans were resented;…
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Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater
Mrs. Fischesser first encounters Lady Bird; Lady Bird's Aunt Effie; Lady Bird's love of reading; Mrs. Fischesser's first encounter with LBJ; Mrs. Cooper's first encounter with Lady Bird; Nettie Mason Patillo; Mrs. Cooper's first encounter with LBJ;…
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Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Landrum Griffin bill; relations between Senate staffs of JFK and LBJ; JFK LBJ relationship; labor and the 1960 campaign; Walter Jenkins; Vice President LBJ involved in Texas politics; 1963 trip to Texas; JFK assassination…
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Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996
Difficulty in seeing LBJ's personality through his papers; LBJ's power in the Senate and ability to persuade people to support his ideas; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Russell's reluctance to serve on the Warren Commission; LBJ's…
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Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; LBJ as an atypical southerner; writing article on Ernest Thompson and the Texas Railroad Commission; Cater as visiting professor at Princeton; LBJ shows signs of liberalism; Cater turns down first offer of employment by LBJ;…
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Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Personal observations of LBJ and JFK before their White House years, especially LBJ in the congress; LBJ's Senate campaigns; the 1960 campaign; "Whistle Stop" campaign of Lady Bird; the Bobby Baker scandal; Rayburn-LBJ relationship; LBJ and the…
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