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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Did he ever seek advice from you or aid from you in these early years other than just to try to get the CIa to come out against him? R: No, After he was in the White House, he asked me to put together LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; Walter Jenkins; Bobby Baker; Mrs. Johnson’s and Rowe’s work on the Beautification Committee; taking Mrs. Johnson on a tour of Washington D.C. public housing; Mrs. Johnson’s personality and role as wife; visiting LBJ at the Ranch.
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : May 13, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Jenkinsls office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me explain first of all, Mr. Jenkins, what lId like to do is go back and really systematically record
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • discussed with all of his-aides . meeting? B: Oh, no . What was the conclusion of the Did they decide anything? This was just opening remarks on his part . He Was going around the table describing to each one of us how much we made . See­ "I've got
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter Jenkins; Bobby
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there, as you know, as Kleberg's aide, and he obviously had a real feel for parliamentary procedure and was a past master at it. w-ould say, very early on. He acquired that skill, 1 One hears more discussion about him as Majority Leader in the Senate
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not actually meet him, as I recall, until the latter part of 1952. In 1951 his Administrative Assistant, Walter Jenkins, left the Senator and came down to run for Congress in a special election. Through a mutual friend in Dallas, Mr. Jenkins was put
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 Woodward, I guess was in the crowd then, and Walter Jenkins. I remember over
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a mistake. You ought to be talking about and taking credit for the Kerr-Mills bill for medical aid for the aged. You're not talking about that but you ought to be." Senator Johnson was walking back and forth in the room buttoning his shirt, and said
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • never heard about it until after the convention was over. F: It's a good thing you didn't hear the introduction. D: r would have collapsed. Absolutely! I took the LBJ statement that came from one of his aides that he himself was supposed to read
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at this. Not successful, but interesting. I worked in the Labor Department, really on problems to do with Aid for Dependent Children. I go that far back. It seems to be the new change--Mr. Nixon is changing the welfare program. where it began. Well, that's
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and teacher and so forth--instructor and leader. worked out a great many pieces of legislation. Together they I took an increasing interest in matters relating to foreign affairs, and especially such bills as the Foreign Aid Bill. I recall on more than one
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • for the aid, but the decision was made, obviously for political reasons, not to directly propose to the Congress grants. The administra- tion I believe proposed a fairly generous program of loans which all colleges would be eligible for. The histories
  • Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • called, they would do everything in their power not to answer and not to return his call . It was a strange feeling . been Admiral [Chester] Nimitz's But I took the opposite tack . I had aide before coming back to Washington, � LBJ Presidential
  • ; shipbuilding operations; contractor, etc.; Bird as congressional liaison; Bird as naval aide to LBJ; LBJ and blacks; LBJ as VP; LBJ and Truman; Bay of Pigs; LBJ and Adenauer
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • regarding any position on foreign affairs policy by the White House, for foreign aid bills? F: During the Kennedy Administration, I had an interesting experience, and I'll make it brief. When he was asking for a four-year extension LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F: You were seeing the world? N: Seeing the world! F: Did you have any kind of a New Year 1 s Eve on the train? N: No. F: It was a quiet trip? N: Yes. John Connally took Walter [Jenkins] and me the next night
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and getting out releases after he'd been on a trip. Tuen the late hours usually were ended up with Walter Jenkins who would be going over all the mail. And as he would sign it, I would fold and stuff it; and we usually ended up by getting it to the post
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . That's broken down so that it has a Subcommittee on each one of the twelve departments, and then one on foreign aid. believe they have one on Supplemental Bills. And then, I also But 14 different subcom- mittees and they're the ones that hear
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • the assassination hurt Dallas’ reputation; Walter Jenkins; the effect of LBJ’s position on their friendship; Dale’s work as chairman of LBJ’s inauguration; the inaugural balls; money made from the inaugural events; accompanying Lady Bird to parties; LBJ and parties
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • aides did you find yourself dealing with mostly? M: I dealt primarily through both administrations of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Kennedy with Larry O'Brien. Almost anything I would say would be colored by the fact that as far as Mr. O'Brien went I don't
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in large measure because of our heavy military deployments over the world, and because of the foreign aid program. So we began to make an attack on this problem that was only dimly viewed LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • during the fifties, it started before then, that it was misnamed "Federal Aid to Education." I know you offered a compromise bill on federal funding of school buildings. H: Yes, I thought that was the way to get it done. have been for any kind of aid
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . aid. That was primarily when the program was student Of course we continued to have it, too, but the work project program didn't come into being until near the end of 1935 and the beginning of 1936. So somewhere in those months after the work
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 inside and say, "I'm backing you up but don't do it that way again!" But he had this for Walter [Jenkins], and I
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and he put in a call for me that afternoon he made his decision. I called back, and by that time I got one of his aides, and it was all over, I guess, I didn't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • walked up, too. called that night. I don't think the President I had so many problems that I couldn't remember, but if the record says he did, he did. F: Well, is this R: It \'/as typi cal of him. F: Was this something where you could use the aid
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • own; I'll give him leave, or sOlllething like that." So I got down there for the last two or three weeks. I remelllber the night of the election the campaign results were coming in. in Austin, Walter Jenkins, Juanita and 1. conceded the election
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • start to rewrite my ad--" And he wanted to see it. I went over to poor old Jenkins and I said, "I don't care whether he's mad as hell. What are we going to do?" He said, "Let's print the goddamn thing and say you didn't get the message." So we printed
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the local Tulsa situation . [Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Editor of The Tulsa Tribune Jenk Jones is one of the hardest-headed newspaper editors in the nation . B: That's one description you can put on him, among others . F: Are there any attempts
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the barbeque and then came up here on August 1 of '61 . Doing what? I didn't know until I got here, but I found out that I was a generalist and was sitting in for Walter Jenkins when he was out of the office, and I was sitting in for Cliff Carter when he
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • holding the Party together than a lot of people. I think that we're in real trouble. but that's a matter for the future not the past. M: Right. Did your first personal association with Mr. Johnson begin with the aid that you gave him in the 1948
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : You did not include in those [reasonsJ Johnson's candidacy as an aid in defeating Shivers at the precinct conventions? You don't think that he felt that was--? B: Yes, I think he was an aid and I thought I mentioned that in that he would be able
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with commercial loan operations, but this is too much like foreign aid--like giving it away. II That was the difficulty we ran into. Now with the Inter-American Bank, the Latins had felt for many, many years that they needed a bank of their own. They said
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Motor Company. So in the 1930s, when Couzens was still in the Senate, it is thought by many--and I am one of those--that Senator Couzens was instrumental [in] blocking federal aid from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the First National Bank