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  • 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: March 13, 1969
  • Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb
  • 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: October 31
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
  • and wants to talk with you. II 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Symington
  • car." going to get my car. driver. He So he was LBJ said, "You see that fellow. He's my He's been the driver for the majority leader for many years, going back to Joe Robinson. II F: Joe Robinson from Arkansas. M: He said, liDo you know he
  • type like Eddie Rickenbacker. Then we hoped we could add to this some prominent World War II flying people. We had hoped we could get some of the real early barnstorming aviators--the Wing Walkers and stunt men and so forth. We wanted to tie in some
  • Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • ]? On air bases, we had just finished closing up bases after the end of World War II. We had opened up several as a result of Korea, and when Korea started to wind down we were trying to find LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • just a very brief biographical background on your career, so we can kind of get started. D: All right. Basically, I am an artilleryman in the Army--or was through World War II. I was an artilleryman in General Patton's Third Army in the European
  • picture~ will treat you very nicely. II So that's a part of the space industry and the contribution it's made to us. And the other contributions, hell, I went over to West Virginia, to the University of West Virginia, to a conference one time
  • then after World War II, as to whether that would be under the military or be a separate entity, and it was decided to make it a separate entity and that had worked well. more than just a military matter. And the space venture was thought to be Von Braun
  • in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas, worked for Lockheed, [saw] World War II service in the navy, and in 1952 [received] a doctorate in psychology from the University of Texas. Then after a time at teaching and as a research psychologist
  • nationalization took place? H: I think periodically the Foreign Relations Committee has exercised a role. It did following World War II; and as you say, that's one illustration, the so-called Hickenlooper Amendment, which said we shouldn't give American
  • was a temperamental Irishman. F: I've never talked to any McCarthy enemies who didn't like him personally. G: I think that's true. I knew Joe before he ever came to Washington. I knew him when he came out of World War II and he used to come out to Arizona
  • World War II. I'd' been there actually a little less than a year when I was asked to head up this new board. The history of that was I had had a major part in setting up the arrangements under the National Security Council, under President Truman
  • it and gave it to the Vice President. And soon after, the Vice President saw me in the hall and said, "Cecil, I want you to come over sometime and make a picture like you just made of the President. II Just like it, same pose, hand on the desk, and every
  • of the words. F: I can go back before that because I was in the British Navy in World War II, and I know what they thought of him there as a politician. H: He could get along with people. He could get people in the room, and as I have often said I think
  • , served in World War II in submarines in the Pacific, in 1949 got a doctorate in Physical Metallurgy from Stanford, and from 1949 to 1968 worked for General Electric-the last five years as manager of their Tempo--GE's Center for Advanced Studies--in Santa
  • . But the first opportunity, Mr. Roosevelt made it apply to all people who had a worthy project that was in the public interest and couldn't get financing locally at reasonable rates. He said go to the RFC and get it. You know when World War II started
  • , and that was what the old NACA had and it worked for them. But it wasn't going to work for a total U.S. space program. So we had Title II in the act setting up "Coordination of the Space Activities", and space was at the top level of the government. The president
  • Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz
  • Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
  • responsibility for procurement. This involved the placing of a vast number of very large orders, and the reactivation of World War II plants that had been shut down--and various actions. Of course, we were in very close consultation with the Senate LBJ
  • don't think had to say, "We 11, you know how to vote on oil dep 1eti on, II but he voted right. There were occasional instances of this sort of thing. I do not recall any myself and that was probably because of several things. One, he maybe sensed
  • . And I won't run without you. II F: Do you think Jack Kennedy felt then that this was as good a Vice President as he could have gotten? W: Yes, he ~id. He had a very high respect, I'm sure, for the Vice President. LBJ Presidential Library http