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  • a policy but to explore various alternative courses of action that could be undertaken. I think the general conclusion was that at least for the time being we ought to do more of the same, which was basically putting Americans in an advisory role
  • my first memory is his campaigning in the area, and we would always go, and Tom was helping hold elections here, and we were pretty active Democrats, which wasn't an easy thing to be in this county. (Laughter) G: This is Gillespie County. BW: Yes
  • How the Weinheimer and Johnson families knew each other; meeting LBJ and Lady Bird; LBJ’s 1954 campaign; the Weinheimers being Democrats; the history of party allegiances in Gillespie County, Texas; the impression LBJ made on local citizens
  • that we're beginning, and international education. "Expand trade . . . program to [re]build on a scale never before attempted, entire central and slum areas in several of our cities in America."--Model Cities. "I recommend that you attack the wasteful
  • into a regular course of conduct; retaliation is not an attractive premise to base major action on, and you're comparing apples and oranges in the most classic sense if you're trying to judge whether to strike X target because of a barracks' dynamiting
  • administration recommended adjustments in salary to the Congress that followed that particular pattern. The President was particularly vigorous in seeing to it that this commitment was validated by congressional action and that the executive machinery
  • approach of some kind, how do you get it into the action channel? 0: Send it as a memo to the secretary . M: Is there anyway you can then lobby it forward? 0 : Oh sure . I can go and talk to him about it, or I can ask for a meeting in which other
  • conception. the Manpower Training Act was passed in 1962. As I recall It probably took some time to get this going. R: It did. M: And you came in about the time that it was in action. R: Well, the first programs were really started in early 1963
  • Biographical information; Manpower Development and Traveling Act; Office of Manpower Automation and Training; Community Action agencies; business in ghetto areas; Social Security Office; Chamber of Commerce; employment programs; NAB; labor union
  • work I respect, and I think that very often in their reporting one got an insight into a situation or a mood or an action that one didn't get in the action reports that were coming through official channels, often through eight filters and so on and so
  • that I would be accused of having brought the government down by this action. I felt this was just really silly, but I accepted it and I'm not going to try to insult the president of the United States. He just got the story all wrong. Later he as much
  • had to take the positions and information that came to me from those sources as the benchmark for my own actions. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • attorney in the state of Texas principally and have been since my graduation in 1933. In addition to being an attorney and representing for many years the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, which is the association of members who
  • Biographical information; how Tocker came to know LBJ; the billboard bonus law of 1958; Tocker’s work for the Outdoor Advertising Association of America; passing an amendment to the billboard bonus law; LBJ’s stance in regard to the billboard bonus
  • . And then the government collectively has to run to catch up with itself: What are you doing about the OAS [Organization of American States]? What are you doing about some form of peace making down there? And in effect, the action has gotten ahead of all the necessary
  • been horrified if he knew how little I knew when I started. Mc: Did you continue in this area? P: Yes--and all the way through, although we did a good deal more in 1967 in thinking through farm programs, programs for rural America up
  • , but when he goes to Turkey or South America. He seems to have some particular genius at organization and handling people. attractive man. A very Valenti had met him somewhere, I don't know where, maybe when he was there. Valenti called Monsignor
  • on the CCC experience. G: Did you see the Job Corps as the component that would yield the fastest results in the War on Poverty, say as opposed to Community Action or VISTA? S: That may well have been true, I'm not sure. I am sure, however
  • Corps; Jeanne Noble and Bennetta Washington's involvement in women's Job Corps centers; Bill Kelly taking over for Ted Berry as director of Community Action and Kelly's later work in Job Corps; talking to LBJ in December 1964 to get the Job Corps budget
  • : Okay. Well, I ask because the 1955 White House Conference on Education, sponsored by the Eisenhower administration, did make a fairly specific set of recommendations for federal action, for state action, and local action in education, and I
  • some way to jar you into action, so that your delay must be constructive and using the time to get into the forefront issues that you feel need to be there, postponing to another day the ultimate decision which you would have a sharp conflict. 2 LBJ
  • The importance of maintaining a high moral standard; proposed revision of the Administrative Procedure Act; Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) strategies to delay or expedite action to accomplish their intended goals; how to get a viewpoint heard
  • for repressive legislation would be even greater without affirmative action by the administration. We had been building up toward this for a couple of years anyway. So we went forward. B: May I ask here because it's a part of the bill: Am I correct in assuming
  • period between the proposal and the action. Things sort of hatch and get warm and ripen, but the seeds have been planted through this by this very thorough study of the operations of the federal government which call for some very fundamental reforms
  • your expectations are against you, don't get yourself in a position where you haven't any course of action open to you. Suppose you get a tragic over-run of our forces in the DMZ. The reaction in the United States will be tremendous, but I doubt very
  • to enlarge the initial program, these didn't meet with favorable action from the Congress insofar as appropriations were concerned. B: Did you conceive of the purpose of this office to be primarily planning as opposed to operational in the sense of grants
  • sure it makes a difference from the overall standpoint. so-called "action" programs. The It probably has lesser effect on the research, which is I think not as closely politically oriented as the department's action programs. But the general
  • ://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 11 federal troops in Chicago were extremely restrained in their action and in my
  • was the National Advisory Council? P: The National Advisory Council also was created by the act to bring together, at a high level, citizens simply to serve as an advisory group for the director of OEO. It subsequently, through Congressional action
  • , as I saw it even in those days, a rearguard action. I was trying to slow down or prevent the escalation of the war. I was trying to persuade the President and my other colleagues that we should systematically seek to cut our losses and disengage from
  • as But in my judgment the USSR completely reversed the spirit and thrust of the Yalta agreement at Potsdam in August, 1945. M: The history textbooks indicate that the realization that America was in a Cold War came but slowly in the few years following
  • . Then the rather traditional thing followed. I always made it the business in areas that I was working in that each thing would trigger a succeeding action. And he, I think, in that speech, although you would have to check, indicated that he was going to set up
  • weapons conference were held earlier, it would be the non-nuclear powers getting together and having an advance caucus for making a rather high price with going along with the non-proliferation treaty. So the timing of these two actions was fairly critical
  • , financial supporter, of the Democratic Party, or at least the Lyndon Johnson Democratic Party. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • is probably too strong a word, but a program of actions designed to warn the North Vietnamese that something forceful might be in store for them if they didn't lay off supporting operations in the South? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • mosquito netting and soap and blankets and stuff like that, that people needed, because this--I'm trying to recall when this was--this was about October, I guess, in 1954. He also introduced me to a guy named Hanh [?], who ran the Ministry of Social Action
  • advice and recommendation and if the U.S. firm does not wish to accept it, then we have no alternative. M: What has been the experience, particularly in cases where your advice might be based on the judgment or the action of an international organization
  • a look at that. So you're getting a tele- vision picture, probably, of bits and pieces of about twenty per cent of the war--maybe fifteen per cent of the war. action out of that. And they only pick the dramatic So that's what you're getting on your
  • seemed harsh at the moment, and they sometimes did, his actions always later proved to be in my best interests. But I continued to have trouble with my finances, and once when the pain had been severe for some time I summoned up the considerable courage
  • not established contacts with the outside world or been interested in that aspect of America's national interest as much as maybe Mr. Kennedy had. In any case, certainly in a country like Japan and most others he did not have a great image the way Mr. Kennedy
  • reaction to crucial U.S. decisions; exchanging his role as Asian scholar for that of ambassador; importance of early action to avoid later crisis; SEATO; attempts to minimize the bad Japanese-American relations; the Vietnam War and why U.S. methods didn’t
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McPherson - - 7 axis. I remember that Pat began to tell me in I guess it was 1966, maybe early 1967, that the Community Action Program would destroy Johnson. This was perhaps typical Irish hyperbole, but he was very
  • on remedial programs; Moynihan's critique of Community Action; White House conference, "To Fulfill These Rights;" Martin Bronfenbrenner; Head Start experiments; function and selection of advisory councils and task forces; urban land-grant colleges; Federal
  • ? LG: Oh, there's a trade-off, but I think that a president is able to explain these things and justify them satisfactorily when the cause is justified. For example, take Central America. I think there would be no difficulty whatsoever getting
  • on . on fiscal policy . But I think some of the basic ideas of the task The task force emphasized the need for prompt action We've had lots of examples of that in recent years, have urged strongly the proposal for giving the President some discretionary
  • Department--the third member was the Finance Minister--and they urgently sought from Dean Acheson and General Marshall support for the French forces fighting in Vietnam in the action leading up to Dien Bien Phu. They urged that we have our light bombers