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  • , and then this man journeys to Washington, New York, or elsewhere to turn the cards in and actually participates by conduct in what is an impedance and a hindrance to the Selective Service System, that's in our view not protected speech; it's not symbolic conduct
  • associated with the War on Poverty. I understand that you are originally from New York or New Jersey. Do you want to explain how you got involved in the administration? RG: Yes. I was working in the Department of Justice during the Kennedy
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • like, say, New York. G: Did he feel that there was a lot of red tape in Washington, I wonder, did he think they were too slow in approving? O: Well, not really, I think they were anxious to do a good job, too, so they'd get the congressional
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • by us is the highway system because we sure did get to work building one giant one across the United States. That was the spring, I think, that A.W. and Mary Alice Moursund and Melvin and Nita Winters came up to visit us, and we went to New York. We all
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that would pass sometime in 1966 that would need at best a half a year's start-up money in that fiscal year. So the new legislation didn't have a lot of impact on the budget, even something as extraordinary as Model Cities. On drafting the message itself
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Boston, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh It was fairly good, but Johnson is such a tinker
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • naivete I thought, flak you have to go through." '~ell, this is just a little But he told me the Sunday night before he left office when the bulldog edition of the Washington Post came out with a particularly gory story in it, he said, "Now, I'll tell
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • four feet? G: Did you read the coverage it was getting in the New York Times? A: I read a fair amount of it; I didn't read it all. G: What did you think of the way the major papers covered the trial? A: It improved with age, and I think it's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 7 G: B: Did he listen in silence, or did he give his own commentaries on the news? He might have a pungent word or two to throw in if it was something that he
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • And the Austin district then was more of a New Deal district than most districts in Texas. too much of it; I read about it of course. him speak in the campaign. I didn't watch And I don't recall hearing I don't know whether I heard any of the speeches
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and Lee School. I University and to Harvard Business I got s ornewhat disturbed about Mr. Roosevelt l s packing of the SupJ;lerne Court. ,\ After I left Harvard and went to work in New York just before the war, I was introduced to Wendell Wilkie
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to refresh my recollections. G: LBJ moved into that new office, the Capitol office, P-38. Let me ask you to just describe it and the circumstances around his acquiring that office. R: I'm not too sure of the circ1.111stances under which he acquired
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in on November 11, 1966. I came from Rochester, New York, where I had been for some time previous connected with the Xerox Corporation and a practicing lawyer. I was chairman of the Board of Xerox and had been General Counsel and Chairman of the Executive
  • long-distance call from New York. Jack Valenti came in, and he said, IIThere's a long-distance call here that I think you better take. It's from a doctor in New York, and it's about the Duke of Hindsor." So I went to another room and answered
  • Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of New York, a Republican mayor, which he was at that time, would be coming into his city, a Democrat, and he would be subject to criticism. It was then that I got my first clear view of the politics of what was going on or the fear of it. In a quite
  • sources of information, such as the Office of Economic Opportunity and Tom Bradley; visiting Newark, New Jersey, to talk to citizens about rioting; John Lindsay's involvement with the Commission; the chain of command within the Commission; late night/early
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by way of identification. You are McGeorge Bundy, currently president of the Ford Foundation. Your government service, insofar as President Johnson's administration
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for monetary affairs. He came out of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and had a wide acquaintanceship already with some of the people that he was going to meet with in Europe. VanLennap is one that I have mentioned; Ottmar Emminger of the Bundes Bank
  • different than New York But they had been collecting their dues on a national basis, so it meant big, big bucks to them. G: I notice he got, as you say, all forty-eight of the Democrats to vote together. B: It helped him. No, no. Did he make
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . One, it is unique in its visibility. With the possible exception of New York, there is no city as visible in the nation or the world as Washington, D.C. As the mayor says, whenever two bumpers hit, it's heard around the world in Washington, D.C
  • ; initiative for ordinances or legislation in D.C. government; Cloud 9 concept; new D.C. government; urban problems; D.C.'s preparation for marches; April riots after MLK assassination; Brookings study; prevention of riots; gun legislation; Resurrection City
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and I guess we had lunch. And I was very stubborn about this, and I called NBC in New York and found that the man who was the president of NBC at the time, named Robert Kintner, who later went to work for the President as the secretary of the cabinet
  • on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Executive Committee. M: Yes. I was not there. was there. I was in New York, but my business associate Yes,- it ,vas very wild, I understand. B: Of course, Johnson was certified by one vote-- M: One vote. Charlie Gibson's vote from Amarillo, who
  • 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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the press down there. You'll see an account of this in the New York Times, on the front page actually. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Agreement pertai ni n9 to the Oral Hi story Intervi evlS of Nash Castro In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Nash Castro of Palisades, New York, do
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of his humor. He kidded Mrs. Johnson a good bit about a lot of the things she did, about what she wore although she dressed just beautifully. She had that lady up in New York that. . . . G: Mollie Parnis? J: Mollie Parnis. She designed things for her
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • but cannot be expressed in simple terms. And I think at that particular point, Texas was beginning to suffer from a feeling that it was looked down upon by the rest of the nation. That you had all of these eastern liberal snobs up in Washington and New
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jones -- Interview I -- 10 to President Kennedy, whom I had never met, for this position. I told him I had obligations at Emory, I had a new
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , he would wait until the last moment before he would personally authorize the wheat shipments . As a result, the Indians found it very hard to maintain a rationing estimate, because they couldn't know what to count on . The American Embassy in New
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . ~- I -- 16 I had a friend I There was a big party in New York t he was with the Surgeon General's Office; he was a major. All the drug companies were having a big partYt and he had also wanted me to meet his parents who lived in New York. He had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it straight. I remember that Kennedy was very bitter at reporters like David Halberstam with the New York Ti mes, who \'lere tell i ng another versi on of what was goi ng on in Saigon. And I think that this is where this credibility gap gained momentum
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • before any publicly known discussions got under way. The Berlin crisis of 1948 was resolved by private contacts between Ambassador [Philip C.] Jessup and Ambassador [Hakov A.] Malik in New York, and the matter was pretty well settled before the fact
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in this because you are the attorney g:!neral of Texas, and the Republicans want to place you, as well as Governor Shivers and some others on their ticket,which in my experience is something new in Texas history. Did that create any problem for you in this sort
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • first of all something visible. there, and in that way it's blameable. It's organized. It's There have been numerous eruptions of emotion on the part of many.9roups of people. I read just the other day welfare recipients in New York City
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as a change of policy . That we were doing what was necessary, that was the policy ; that this was just a couple of new things we were doing, but it wasn't a change of policy . effect, to mute the whole thing . him into that . He wanted, in I don't know
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to New York and back. And he asked me what I thought. I said, "If you're going back to Alabama and you're going to live there, you don't need this trip." He went, and I give him good for it, but I still think I told him right. But he ruled otherwise
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • just wasn't acquainted with After it was over, my wife and I and my daughter and mother decided we'd drive to New York to see the World's Fair and on the way up Judge Robinson had retired from the bench and was living in Washington. He was a good
  • . were doing to him each day. He got what the press boys He'd get what they did yesterday every morning. And I guess it was about the time of this Rovaniemi incident and the New York Times man had made some reference to how this was not received well
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • sell their catches. He'd sell them fish [inaudible] New York [inaudible]-- G: He owned a lot of land, I gather. T: Yes. Each time he'd get a little bit ahead, he'd buy more land. G: Is that right? T: Yes. G: And what--how would he cultivate
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • exactly vihat all the inner struggl es staff membfi' in the M: edj'llei~ fail~ly \.yC:I~e ff)l~ a years. You'r0 also perhaps in a position to answer a general question. In the sixties there was a great deal uf talk about the so-called new economics
  • Biographical information; the Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ Administrations and the Council of Economic Advisers; new economics; Troika; tax cut; contact with Congress on economic matters; Appalachia program; SST; Agriculture Department budget
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • had men like Saylor and three or four from New York, Florida, North Carolina, and even from up in Massachusetts. reason to run for the Senate. So I saw no Of course sometimes people make LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • on telling them what I knew. "Tell it to me and see what happens." She probably made a recording or just told him the whole [inaudible] tale. The following day they called me up and said if I was interested in visiting New York, "I've Got a Secret" program
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)