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  • number of these type White House initiatives? B: Yes, I think so. M: Generally speaking, do the White House staff people who work on that type of program cooperate what you consider well with the department? B: Yes. M: Do you have any difficulty
  • cooperated with the Administration, and any leader has to, regardless of his political affiliation, on occasions has to cooperate with the President of the country on many pieces of legislation. But Lyndon Johnson was first, last, and always a dedicated
  • ! cooperation bet,·?cen them and the LCRA 2nd really> but for them, the LCfu\ couldn't have grown like it has, but be that it may, Sarah Hughes attacked tbe 2S LCR-A bill on th£: floor of the House -- the main thrust of hcr attf)ck Mr. Horrisoll, the Ralph
  • out doing intelligence work in cooperation with the local police the ~~d other federal agencies in the area so as to determine what cli=~te accor~i~~:y, is. So when you have specific information, then you prepare and in preparing accordingly
  • established the research program development and evaluation staff to serve in a staff capacity for the Director of Science and Education. The function of this staff was to carry out in cooperation with the research agency leaders the planning, coordination
  • [run] but [worked] with other young people primarily from the University of Wisconsin and the labor movement and the farmers I cooperatives and the Farmers Union--I went to work for the Farmers Union as an organizer when I first came back from
  • Early political interest and involvement; work with Wisconsin Electric Cooperatives; editing the National Farmers Union newsletter; views on Benson's farm program; work on Senator Proxmire's staff; LBJ and Proxmire; 1959 Proxmire speech; support
  • for the Forest Service in charge of the northern region where we managed the National Forests for multiple uses--grazing, recreation, forest protection, insect and disease control, and cooperative programs with states, the management of the Forest Service
  • get on well on a bipartisan basis with both sets of governors? C: No problems, first rate in that area. Then the President okayed that; Ellington checked it out. It seemed like we had a very good shot at getting the states and cities to cooperate
  • : CHES TER COOPER INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: July 9, 1979 PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office in Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're Chester Cooper and during the Johnson Administration you served
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  • Cooper, Chester Lawrence, 1917-2005
  • Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Chester L. Cooper
  • briefly how much contact you had with Lyndon Johnsony or how much opportunity you had to observe him during the years that you were a legislative assistant to Senator Kennedy and an administrative assistant to Senator Cooper. W: I certainly had plenty
  • . There are very great difficulties in Brazil; they have a complex customs administration-many problems, but they were worked out with the cooperation of the U.S. Embassy down there. They were worked out. Now, that's an example. Now LBJ Presidential Library
  • of the people of the United States and other nations"--it goes on to say, "to promote international cooperation for educational and cultural advancement," and this is the part that I particularly like--"and syllogism. ~"--it almost sounds like an Aristotlean
  • to California where I went into forest economics, which was what my Master's degree was in, at what was then called California Forest and Range Experiment Station. with the University of California at Berkeley. It was located in cooperation I
  • Biographical information; forest service background; establishment of BOR; Joe Penfold; Conservation Fund; legislation passed in 1968; Stewart Udall; Golden Eagle Passport; Corp of Engineers; cooperation with other agencies; Bureau of Reclamation
  • cooperation and coordination? How do you work How is that accomplished, let's say, between your bureau and Treasury and Commerce and AID and all the other people involved? s: Unless it's a matter which is so delicate and, under instructions from the White
  • Biographical information; Tom Mann; LBJ’s working relationship with Under Secretaries; coordination of Bureau of Economic Affairs; staffing; interagency cooperation and coordination; concept of country team; cooperation of American business firms
  • in this program, they'd be well advised to cooperate on sending aid. That usually worked. It was very simple. We had a clear charter to lean on them hard and twist arms hard, and with LBJ behind you on this thing, it was very easy to be persistent and get tough
  • letter. At that time I was still invited by the Johnson Administration to be in the White House Conference on World Cooperation and a conference on education. I was invited to be in two conferences after I parted company with him. G: Another
  • Campaigning for LBJ in 1964; serving on National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; disagreement about Vietnam War; letters to LBJ about the war; RFK; HHH candidacy; White House Conference on International Cooperation; Spock trial; civil
  • or con; that is, you neither confronted nor cooperated during the campaign? Y: No, I was for Nixon. F: When you offered yourself as Mayor of Los Angeles, did Mr. Johnson give you any encouragement or take any notice of it one way or another? Y: So
  • to have this bank, and this was a wonderful example of cooperation between these countries . They felt that anything should be done to encourage peaceful cooperation among these countries . The second thing that they thought ought to be done was to build
  • Johnson, Ike Culp and W.R. [Bob] Poage. They all cooperated with me in every possible way. Bill Poage was an influential member from the Waco district and was the father of Congressman W.R. (Bob) Poage who is now a very active and able member of the House
  • of the lack of cooperation. of this objective? Did the Model Cities Program obtain any LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • ; naming the 1st model cities; working with the White House as LBJ’s power waned; Robert Wood; Vietnam’s effect on domestic spending; problems with progressing from plans to action; difficulty with appropriation of funds; working in cooperation
  • : On the civil rights issue? G: Yes. J: Oh, I think he was able to get the cooperation of Senator Russell In not offering a stronger resistance? when it came to procedural matters and to calm the fire, so to speak. He was trying to find ways and means
  • with the idea of cooperating with all branches of the government--1egislative, judicial, and executive--rather than being completely independent all the time, I think the purpose that would be served by putting it in a department can in that manner be served. I
  • of Greenville, then a newspaper publisher and now the current assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Another was Owen Cooper of Yazoo City who was then the president of the Mississippi Chemical Company, and president of the Mississippi Chamber
  • to develop an international patent system, which involves the. cooperation between the various countries of the world and their patent offices to make things simpler for they atent applicants to get patent covera-e around the world as well as to make life
  • of cooperation regarding patents; speeding U.S. patent process; right of appeals
  • could sacrifice that and would be willing to cooperate at any time . Both of these doctors have been most helpful and most cooperative since that time . THB : There's a story that's told about the period there in 1964, I believe, about President Johnson
  • that this teaching process had nothing to do with politics per se, President Johnson's attitude as expressed to us was that we should get the job done, and he would take care of the politics. But the teaching focused on such things as need for cooperation between
  • people. M: Have you generally had the cooperation of the labor unions? R: This time this cooperation has been tremendous. Many of the people that turned out to be buddies had done little or nothing in union activities over the years. The presidents
  • cooperation; IBM; Bell & Howell; Henry Ford; meeting with LBJ; rural programs; American Indians
  • , he would manage to get Margaret Chase Smith and maybe Senator Cooper from Kentucky to vote with him and move at about the right time to defeat the Republicans, even though logically they had enough going for them with a popular President who had
  • , national defense loans, student loans, but there was one where that--it may have been easy forgiveness of the loan. It really amounted to a scholarship for certain students. They were going to sneak it through because John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky-Tape 1
  • . Here you're there trying you're M: On a settled On a settled simply ran it, lines. my attention the same kind of cooperation dealing with actual really with policy operations. is sort of the same here, departmental-lines, to resolve
  • on the third floor under us here, in the M. E. Building. Bentsen wrote to me and I wrote him a letter outlining how cooperative he had been as far as the space effort was concerned. His opponent took exception to that, told me that I shouldn't have gotten
  • you'd be able to do it in a week or ten days." So there was a staff meeting and Westmoreland announced this and told all these generals that they were to cooperate with Bobby Montague. By and large everybody cooperated except our good friend, Joe
  • Montague's involvement in Hop Tac; the intended cooperative nature of Hop Tac; why Hop Tac was unsuccessful; security as the first priority in village pacification; differences of opinion between Colonel Jasper Wilson, General William DePuy
  • COOPER INTERVIEHER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: July 17, 1969 PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office in Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 M: We had reached, chronologically, last time right to the brink of 'Marigold,but there are a couple of things I wanted
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  • Cooper, Chester Lawrence, 1917-2005
  • Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Chester L. Cooper
  • : CHESTER COOPER INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: August 7, 1969 PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office in Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 M: It might be useful just to get a negative on that [Chester] Ronning thing; you said you were not involved directly
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  • Cooper, Chester Lawrence, 1917-2005
  • Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Chester L. Cooper
  • then in the Commerce Department; did you run into any of this obstructionism, say, with the immigration people? B: No. Absolutely not. I can say fully and frankly that the cooperation that we got from every other agency of government that was involved in our
  • ; LBJ's personal encouragement; Americans at Home program; Mrs. Johnson; Secretary Hodges; immigration requirements; cooperation from private American travel companies; Travel Advisory Committee; CAB; Charlie Murphy ; Joe McCarthy; Charlie Thayer; Senator
  • cooperation, development of democratic institutions, the funding--he was a very strong supporter of funding of underdeveloped countries' development. So it was not just Food for Peace, but he had a concept for Health for Peace. One of the things he went
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Aiken -- 2 A: Yes, it was close. I don't think there was the cooperation between the leadership that there has been in more recent years. Of course
  • the White House such as the Secret Service and so on. Gu: Is coordination pretty good? Cooperation, maybe, is a better word than coordination. is very good. Clint Hill. Cooperation I don't know if you have met Bob Taylor or not, or These gentlemen
  • Administration, President Johnson has continued his interest in and support of resources development programs. I think I should also mention that as a Texas rancher, Lyndon Johnson has for many years been a cooperator with his local soil conservation district
  • retaliation, or the bombing at the time of Pleiku, or the troop buildup in 1965,would you normally be brought in? T: I would say only by kibitzing. I would kibitz on these later deci- siQns via what Chester Cooper would show· me from the take. And he