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  • days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way
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  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT LASKER) INTERVIEWER: Clarence Lasby PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 ML: [People aren't] interested in the subject of health unless they're sick themselves. And nobody ever
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  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 would have to do something about briefing. It was decided that I would go up to New York on the plane that was to take him to the area; And I met Cy in New York at the airport; we set
  • of [John J.] Rooney, maybe from New York-- G: That's right. Brooklyn, I think. H: --was on the trip. Now, the reason President Johnson had asked him, at least as I 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
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  • of 1966 the New York Times carried a front page story by Ed Dale which said, "The Johnson Administration stopped trying to roll back individual price increases. The unannounced modification policy was confirmed today by authoritative sources." That story
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  • , the Desegregation Bill, and the economy, the issue of the anti-inflation tax is all on the front page. G: New York Times, yes. C: In any case, as you might expect, the South not liking them, and the North. . . . Here's Bob Byrd fighting the guidelines. It's
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  • , but there was a senator running from New York State at the time, who, by the way, was defeated, who was supposedly getting all kinds of rumors that there were offensive weapons going into Cuba from refugees supposedly coming out of Cuba. The whole thing was we were unable
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  • not sufficiently aware of them all to tell you about them. But I remember that he went one day to New York. and that his good friend Ed Weisl up there was supposed to be gathering up delegates and so forth, and that he was certainly more successful even than I
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  • perhaps. J: I don't remember it. G: Now, Russell visited the LBJ Ranch after the election. when he came? J: Were you there Do you remember that? No, that fall I was in New York most of the time. I'd left the Senate payroll and sold
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • not be able to guarantee the future of the voluntary program but I didn't know what the alternative was definitely going to be. I called Jack Connor, who by that time was in New York at Allied Chemical, and I talked with him because really the voluntary
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  • Roosevelt said was, "Lyndon, up in New York the first thing they taught us was to sit on the ballot boxes." So I can remember that time he came back in a very black mood, said his wife had been abused and attacked, and he didn't think he would ever run
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  • in California, what did you do? H: I went to New York to work briefly in the financial world and then was appointed as a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission by President Kennedy--with some minor jobs in between that aren't worth recounting--a few
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  • at that time, and then turned around and tried to be an objective chronicler of what happened. G: That's interesting statement. In what respect was he an actor? S: He was an actor in the sense that with the New York Times as his outlet, and his reporting
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  • , naturally. At that point, I was introduced to Werner Wiskari, who was a New York Times correspondent in Scandinavia and who was Finnish. He had been born in Michigan, where there are a tremendous number of Finns in the northern peninsula, and he spoke very
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  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 discussions around the world I've bailed out his reputation in the way that came almost as complete news
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  • was advancing a trip that very day, in fact, for then-Vice President Johnson to New York. I was in New York with Secret Service agents for the big B'nai B'rith meeting at Madison LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
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  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT B . ANDERSON INTERVIEWER PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Anderson's office, One Rockefeller Plaza, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You don't have any connection with Arkansas? A: No . I had connections only
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  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Donley -- I -- 10 Javits of New York, I think, was the ranking Republican member. I know that Senator Mondale
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  • the city very well, but she came down from New York as a sort , 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
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  • with the Atlantic Ocean and ends at the western part of New York State, and then there's nothing until you get to California. You never send me anybody unless they're from California or New York or Massachusetts," or what have you. So he wanted somebody from
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to wait a little while. So we advised And finally, then, on December 15th, as I recalled the dates he did recognize the new government. What I'm trying to say is that the death of President Kennedy actually delayed recognition of the Dominican
  • of 1963; causes of Dominican Civil War, 1965; military intervention; posting Martin to negotiate a cease-fire; LBJ’s fear of a communist take-over; Ambassador Bennett; Martin’s negotiations in the Dominican Republic; Martin’s book Overtaken by Events, 1966
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  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- II -- 10 United People of America. And see, little by little without realizing the whole thinking has changed completely. Not completely, but substantially. G: Would you add the post office? J
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  • or July or when, because I did return to Austin later on. At any rate, sometime during the summer I went to see our old friend Dr. Will Watt in Austin and got the big news that I was, at last, pregnant. It was big news because from 1934 to 1943--of course
  • the war in 1942-1943; James Forrestal as secretary of the navy; the 1944 division among Texas Democrats; women in Texas politics in the 1940s; a woman's "I remember Johnny" speech about LBJ helping her find her son; receiving the news of D-Day, June 6
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  • this at this time, because that's not the way they're going. A: When, the fall of 1965? F: You made a statement that got into the New York Times. A: That must be a holdover from a much earlier period. In 1964 and early 1965, many people were worrying about
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  • the money you'll give us half of the amount that you will give to New York or Michigan or some other state." But I think the civil rights fight and the signing of the Civil Rights Bill contributed a lot to the passage of the 1965 education act. I remember
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  • President Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] did, very candidly, was to get it a new euphonious name. Alliance for Progress. More on LBJ Library
  • nothing. I think it's obvious that that, politically speaking, is a situation fraught with trouble. And of course we had that trouble everywhere. In Texas or Alabama or New York, wherever you do that, you're in trouble. G: What is the solution? 9 LBJ
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  • have had some influence. R: There were, of course, national lists of supporters from the professor groups published in some of the leading newspapers with wide circulations such as the New York Times. **** LBJ Presidential Library http
  • His opinion of the post-Johnson foreign policy; the poor and breakdown of law and order; early years in Johnson City; infrequent visits in adulthood; LBJ as master of the political art; analysis of presidential power and LBJ'’ influence; growth
  • /show/loh/oh Parker -- I ~- 14 New York"--who was the next in line in seniority--" in that job." And he said, "It's a little queer for me to ask you if you could be completely loyal to me in what I was doing if I were working against Senator Connally
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  • ] became governor of the Federal Reserve Board in New York. But he just had bright people. But of all the United S t a t e s senators that I have known, I thought John Sparkman had less ego than most senators. His selection by Adlai Stevenson to be his
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  • on that convention? 0: My most clear recollections involve the vice presidential race . trary to what had happened in 1952 when a few people, Mr. Con­ Rayburn and several of the leaders, Jake Arvey I think of Chicago and Carmine DeSapio, as I recall, of New York
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  • that General Walker either ought to be stopped or relieved of command or what have you. It wasn't a booming, blasting, all-out issue when it first appeared, and the New York Times made it sort of a campaign. F: Mainly it was just among the few that were
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  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 in Washington and in New York, and hammered out a piece of paper which eventually became theCo~!
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  • Secretary of the Task Force on Health. Dr. George James, who was Commissioner of Health in New York City at that time, was chairman. I did most of the writing of the report for that task force. M: This waS a general survey of health in America, or what
  • an important term--appearance in connection with dedicating what we called our Oklahoma Ordinance Works Authority Industrial Tract . I received word of this trip through the news media on a certain afternoon, and it troubled me all evening because
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Means, Mrs. J. H. Means; her husband was a professor at Huston-Tillotson College for black students; and Ada Anderson, an activist black, well educated; her husband was in real estate; and Arthur Dewitte, he was a news journalist LBJ Presidential
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  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -22Schwartz from New York University Law School came down there and he was just going on a tangent that had ~ sound approach to finding out what was going on to the extent that something should
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  • to plan it. Because we were new in this type of endeavor, she was very specific, saying, IIIf I ever catch any of you in any of the pictures, I'm going to break your damned necks," and she-F: I can hear that. C: --and she meant it. That stuck with me
  • The Grand Teton trips; Appalachian trip; New England trip; the Crossroads trip;
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  • in educational television were all ready to call on the President to set up a task force to come up with a new initiative in this field. M: About what point in time is this? C: I cannot give you a precise date on that. I would suppose that was probably
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  • of 1963, Ed Weisl and I went up to the Hotel Carlyle to visit the President. It was after Dallas, and we sat around for a few hours. F: That's in New York. W: That's in New York. At the end of the discussion, I turned to him and said, "I'd like to ask
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)