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  • all right with the people that I worked with in the FBI and the government. But this thing kind of blew up apparently. I was not told about it, I'm sure, out of consideration. Sargent Shriver and Wilson McCarthy, who was the legislative liaison
  • you list Richard Boone. Boone I'm sure worked on it. Hackett working on it. Richard Dave Hackett, I don't remember Dave Bill Capron probably worked on other things. Harold Horowitz worked as a lawyer and I don't remember what part he worked
  • then--I think it was Mac McElroy and Wilson--that this would happen. And they were shrugged off and ignored, and no one realized what a traumatic event the launching of that Sputnik was. Of course, it turned out that most of these decisions were made
  • Humphrey; Charles Wilson; Neil McElroy; acceleration of ballistic missile program; Missile Gap controversy; operating procedure of Senate Subcommittee on Preparedness; Eisenhower as a President; importance of LBJ as Majority Leader; role of Weisl in 1960
  • nations have some edge on us, because they can ignore public opinion of the moment and act in long terms, and we find it more difficult . However, there is much we can do to cast our actions in longer-range terms . Woodrow Wilson has been ridiculed
  • between Johnson and Connally? K: Well, yes, indeed. I of course remember when John first came up to go with Congressman Johnson. I did not know John too well at that time even though he was born in Wilson County, and I was born in the adjoining
  • at that time I was working full-time on the price side. We had in at least part of that period, people like Charlie Wilson--from General Electric, not General Motors--and Lucius Clay in the Office of Defense Mobilization. There was a great deal of conflict
  • Humphrey; Charles Wilson; Neil McElroy; acceleration of ballistic missile program; Missile Gap controversy; operating procedure of Senate Subcommittee on Preparedness; Eisenhower as a President; importance of LBJ as Majority Leader; role of Weisl in 1960