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Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • [Department of Justice]. Let me outline here just very briefly your background, subject to additions and corrections. You were born in Chicago in 1928, bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, naval service in the early fifties, in 1956 a law degree from Yale
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . The operating departments--Job Corps, VISTA, and CAP--were not on speaking terms with Public Affairs because the previous director had felt that he was the one who made policy for these divisions, and consequently ran head on into them at various points. So I
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • section with the President for a press conference in which he was planning to cover some Defense Department stuff, and I was there along with I suppose the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. He kept interrupting the briefing session
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ~JER : Paige DATE January 6, 1969 IV[ : Nulhollan Let's identify you for the purpose of the transcriber here. You're George L-P I'Teaver, currently Assistant Se'cretary of Labor for International Affairs? W: That is correct. And you've been
  • ; campaigned in Texas in every election since 1954; 1957 Civil Rights Act; LBJ’s philosophy of the art of the possible; labor issues; 1960 support of Symington; Lady Bird; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt; comparison of Labor Department under JFK and LBJ; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /oh 2 nomination. With a number of Kansas people I did take part, to some extent, in the campaign--which I can elaborate on later. B: I'll ask you later. S: Then in February 1961, after Secretary Freeman had been named to head this Department, I
  • to poverty programs and area development; inter-departmental activity; small family farms; Departments of Agriculture name change proposal; Trade Expansion Act of 1962
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • great knowledge of political affairs and things generally in the country. And then I remember a situation developed after he and Lady Bird had gone on back. I watched her taking a few notes and listening most intently while he was talking freely
  • Early relationship with LBJ; 1960 campaign; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; JFK leadership; Department of Commerce problems; JFK’s staff; LBJ and civil rights; LBJ and the Vice Presidency; JFK-LBJ friction; Business Advisory Council; relation
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • us very briefly about who you are and how you came to be here. W: I'm presently Assistant Attorney General of the United States in charge of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. My relationship with bhis government, I suppose, starts
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for international security affairs--a mouth-filling title--from September, 1965 to September 1, 1966 when I left to come here to Harvard. M: Right. That brings you up to date. Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior to the time you entered government in 1961
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on it was quite apparent that Rayburn had developed a kind of fatherly affection for Johnson. So had Vinson--Carl Vinson is who we are speaking of, the chairman of what was then the Naval Affairs Committee, later the Armed Services Committee. And that to them
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • areas, the famous interagency youth committee, which was to circumvent the State Department and USIA, or at least the stodgy parts of it. But no, I don't remember specifically. G: Anything on a cabinet-level committee? Did he advocate that to your
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with Orville Freeman and John Schnitker and others at the Department and became the listening post back and forth on farm programs. There was always a good deal of disagreement between the Department and Budget Bureau and the Council of Economic Advisors on our
  • Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the responsibility of carrying it through, yes. r.,,: And you worked with the White House staff on thi s, or \'that? P: Well, ,yes, I worked with the White House staff, with primarily the people in the Department of Agriculture, but to whatever degree I needed
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , for which he covered South American affairs. We were young and full of vim and vigor and we carried those jobs LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • affair occurred. H: Yes, it did, and we didn't have much fallout. As a matter of fact I think we were in Puerto Rico at a time when the Dominican Republic was still a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • are made that can't be kept . Too frequently, the aid program has been in the hands of the country desks in the State Department, which have used it politically . Instead of striving for economic growth, the objective has been to quiet down this general
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • going to--well, the State Department reception for the foreign dignitaries was later. F: That was on the R: That was on Monday after the funeral. I~onday after the funeral. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in agreement on public affairs, my father having been the son of a Democratic judge in Baltimore and my grandfather being Republican. During my school days, until I was out of high school, my father was in business. In 1945, the year I graduated from
  • to food and China; the problem of being under a committee system; East-West trade and U.S. trade policies; Nixon’s proposal to open international trade; the Department of Agriculture; how Symington became assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • much interested in civic affairs in Texas. He attempts to organize people to do things that are pro- gressive. He works at it. He is openhanded with contributions. He is not a millionaire as people think--I think he is well-off as people go
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • into Oxford and a number of other things. And the Justice Department was active in Mississippi during that period. Were you ever contacted by any representatives of the Justice Department about the events in Mississippi and their work? c: Oh, yes
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • affairs like the Alliance for Progress. F: He took no part in that himself? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • mean in the clergy, although we certainly had an interest in it. My grandfather had a driving interest in his students taking an active part in public affairs, whether political or administrative. The record of Groton boys is certainly remarkable
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an answer, and you know he had one of the biggest constituencies there was. G: Did you also contact the various departments? H: Oh, yes, yes. At this time part of my job was the appointment of the [military] academy people, the young men
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the war through the time of his death. M: r~r. Bartl ett, your newspaper career has certai nly been concerned for a large part with Washington, heads of government and politics, and foreign affairs and domestic problems, so I would like to emphasize
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Herman could not be described as liberal, at least in my relationships with them, which later on in middle and late fifties became rather, I won't say intimate, but I at least was, insofar as Johnson was concerned and other affairs relating to the city
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think it was maybe in the State Department. demonstrated his great sensitivity. courteous man. But it just You couldn't find a more I imagine, although I have never actually experienced this except maybe once or twice, that President Johnson can
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in international affairs, more concerned with domestic things. Did you find him pretty well versed in what was going on at that particular assignment that you accompanied him on? H: Yes, I found him very well versed; and I also found his knowledge of how things
  • liability; press assassinated LBJ politically; JFK legislation; investigation of Adam Clayton Powell; Hays’ feud with Romney; briefing of Foreign Affairs Committee by Secretary of State; LBJ’s hostility toward Senate Foreign Relations Committee; advice
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Washington. I am, I'm not too far wrong. I may be wrong on this, but if I don I t recall Lyndon Johnson making an appearance at a political affair in Ohio during the '50s, up LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT