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- at dinner; and Aaron Schaffer was a man that I would normally consider a very kindly and gentle person, but an unreconstructed liberal out of the New Republic school. And after dinner, we got around to coffee. He turned to Miss Grace and he said, "After
- , and Senator Connally, and Democratic Leader [Ernest] McFarland, and all of his--he really did his best for them. Then, we also went up to New York, and [I] have a delightful picture of all the six of us on the Empire State Building. In fact, that was our
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to the President. I was on a vacation on a fairly remote lake in New York State when one afternoon in July somehow the White House operators got through up there, and it was Joe Califano at the other end of the line asking me whether I would mind coming down
- of an hour [later] the phone rang. It was Jim Eastland. He said, "George, there's this guy from the New York Times there. He says I called that fellow Sadat a nigger. I want you to call him up and tell him that ain't so." I said, "But why don't you tell him
- and Robert Kennedy; civil rights legislation debate; civility among legislators; the New York Times not running a story about Senator James Eastland referring to Anwar Sadat as a "nigger;" McGovern and Frank Church meeting with Hubert Humphrey about support
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , yes. Yes, there was Alex Hurd~ acts~ and this-- the chancellor of Vanderbilt, [he] was the chairman; Walter Thayer, then president of the New York Herald Tribune, one of the stalwarts of the Republican hierarchy on the Eastern Seaboard
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- a syndicated colwmi.st. r thought I would just .begin by introducing you and then at the end of that, you can add whatever you'd like to it. You were born in 1924 in New York City. In 1947 you received a B.A. I from U.C.L.A. and in 1948 received a Master
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 W: The first I even heard about it was some little item in the New York Times that I was one of several people who were being considered for this post which I hadn't even been aware of. But it was just
- program; relationship between JFK and LBJ; selection of Houston for space center; NASA budget; supersonic transport planning; Post-Apollo planning; HHH as Chairman of Council; 1967 Apollo fire; visit with LBJ in retirement
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- named Walter G. Andrews of New York was the first chairman of the brand-new Armed Services Committee, and he was determined to make the committee work. The people from the old Naval Affairs Committee were determined to make it not work, because
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- hope he was to get the degree. F: Where were you on that fateful November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was shotZ P: Having lunch at the Rockefeller Center in New York. F: What did they do, interrupt your lunch? P: Well, nobody could believe it. So I
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- a leader in my campaign before he went to New York and had been very active in my election, and he came to see me and said that President Kennedy insisted that he had to have support from some elected officials in the South. He asked me on behalf
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- director and the build-up was taking place, at that point we were having trouble with the totals. too large when you added them all up. The programs were There was still a great drive on the part of the President to continue new legislation, keep them
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- going to handle the New York-New England region, and they were up on one section of a floor, and somebody else was some place else. became the cadre. And then eventually that But most of these people had gradually fallen into the system in which \Ve
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Zorthian? Yes . it a little tough for him to do his job, doesn't it? Well, I had first known Alan Carter in New Delhi, seemed to be a pretty able guy . G: shall I say, That's another parallel, I think, India, too? He worked for Ken Galbraith
- Cabot Lodge; the new regimes
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- : No. G: We've looked for a maker and can't find it. P: I don't. Let me give you the history of this organ. It was owned by Walter Hornaday, who was the political correspondent for the Dallas Morning News during the thirties, forties and fifties
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- F: Were you seriously considering for lieutenant governor up in New York in 1 9 6 6 , or is that just a rumor that got out? A: Actually, the lieutenant governor was rumor. asked to run for attorney general in New York. Then I was actually I told
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- as opposed to failure? H: Well, there are two parts. I think one was what type of programs they came up with [such as] Mobilization for Youth, which had been going on in New York City on the Lower East Side of New York. Columbia University School of Social
- and start programs; what the Committee looked for in creating a new anti-delinquency program; Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited Associated Community Teams (HARYOU-ACT) programs; the Lower East Side experiment; increasing local involvement in planning
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- House staff, and with Bob Kennedy. The March on Washington civil rights thing came on the scene very quickly after I left the government, and I became deeply involved in that. represented ~Ja Her I Reuther on the committee, both in New York
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to Mayo's for a checkup, and I went to New York on a city trip with Gene Boehringer Lasseter, and we did a lot of sight-seeing. She went to see a young man from East Texas who was destined to make quite a mark for himself in the world of music. He was Van
- Closing up LBJ's Senate campaign headquarters after the 1941 loss; trip to New York City with Gene Boehringer Lasseter to see Van Cliburn; the political importance of postmasters; LBJ's involvement in the extension of Selective Service and the draft
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- McPherson of the White House staff. Back in January 1967, John Macy held a meeting at the Sky Club in New York with Alexander Trowbridge, then undersecretary of commerce, I believe, and some leaders of the business community, headed by Sidney Weinberg
- of Congress and the executive branch in developing new legislation; Congress' ability to draft legislation; statutory commission funding; Wozencraft's involvement on the tripartite Commission on Political Activity of Government Personnel; the Commission's
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- yacht, which I guess is how New Englanders analyze character. anything. I didn't drive the boat into any rocks or But, more seriously, we talked about the mission and his plans, and I think it was largely just a question of being personally acceptable
- before the coup; an offer to move Diem out of the country to safety; visiting the Presidential palace the day after the coup; flying with the Nhu children to Rome; JFK assassination; post-Diem conditions in Saigon; Georges Perruche; an explosion
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . G: How did they get the application through? J: Royls application got hung up because they passed a regulation at the FCC, because of the need of strategic materials, that no one would be permitted to build a new radio station using strategic
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- in New York City and Chicago are quite different than they are in Austin and Dallas. B: Is there any obvious animosity at the convention between the Johnson staff and the Kennedy staff? A: I'm sure that they had as many mean things to say about us
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ; started out in the newspaper business as a reporter for the Temple paper and Macon paper; '48 to '56 with the United Press in South Carolina and New York and London; ,..th~n -. in '56 joined the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, first as Vice President
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , and sold it there. The money was remitted to New York, and was placed in the hands of Castro agents in New York. And the real owners of the sugar sued for the recovery of the proceeds on the grounds that Castro had violated International Law and had
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- in journals . B: At that time, I was considered one of the candidates . I went back to New York--oh I think in November of 1959,--and did a very poor job . meeting in New York, they had all of the candidates . At that It was the meeting of the National
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- campaigning in the early primaries against Kennedy. And so I pretty much stayed out of that one. I went to the convention as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and did some writing. I did have the distinction of being the first reporter to carry
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Corps volunteers in and see whether they can help do something." That kind of concept doesn't have any relevance to Harlem, New York where you obviously have an awful lot of people around there, there's no shortage of people, there's no shortage
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- in New York City. I also have honorary degrees, one from my own alma mater, Doctor of Divinity, and one from Midwestern University in Wichita Falls, Texas, an L.L.D. My pastorates have been rather long for our denomination, and most of them--all of them
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- a deal with Adlai Stevenson, who people wouldn't think would make a deal but he did, and he made a deal to deliver Michigan, New Jersey, California, and New York to Stevenson if Stevenson would throw the convention open, and that's the way Kefauver got
- acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: DONALD C. COOl( INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Cook's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 By terms of the legal agreement, pages 1 through 10 will not be available during the lifetime of Robert McNamara. LBJ
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- wanted to go to any political convention until finally in 1956 I went. I think Lyndon went to every one from the time that [they nominated], oh, the governor of New York who was the 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to highlight the D: issues? I thought he should be opposed. went to the Harvard Club. I went up to New York City and I There was a meeting--and I don't like labels--but a meeting of highly intelligent reactionaries, if you want to call them that, although
- Post-WWII background; University of Texas; family oil interests; county politics and 1948 meeting with LBJ; Johnson-Stevenson race in 1948; George Parr
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Settlement Commission and rewrite all the job descriptions. It was through Mr. Macy that I obtained some very fine new personnel. M: So he was probably the one who kept your name in the top of the pile as far as prospective talent for the various jobs
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- outside counsel. So he called his good friend Ed Weisl from Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett in New York and actually coerced him over the telephone to come and take it. And it was really a tough job because this was around November 4 or November 5
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- A't/a rd; you kno\o'J, it was goi ng to be an every year type of thing. suit out of it. I don't think it was, but I got a new I don't know but what that suit made him do it, but I doubt it because he was always very interested in publicity. G: Why
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- as director of the new President's committee. I knew that there was going to be one. I was an advocate of a policy that would be affirmative--I invented the word affirmative action, by the way. It had come out of the New York statute of 1943, had never been
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ' bellow would roar out suddenly, "And what about eggs!" and then he'd tell his story. A grand newsman in those days, long dead and forgotten, was Lemuel Spears, a New York Times correspondent. men Mr. Ochs himself hired. was concerned. Lem Spears was one
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , they're the problems the same in Texas or New York, California or Connecticut, then eventually if the states and local subdivisions do not respond, then the federal government will respond. So in those areas I think the federal government should
- after he went back to New York, Doug Dillon once or twice did, a matter of sending messages. But the decisions about what we ought to try to achieve, and a good share of the public relations about such increases when they came to public attention
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)