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  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 O: Watergate has been part of our discussions throughout this oral history. At this point, it might be helpful
  • /oh Shriver -- I -- 2 to working with poor people, you might say almost exclusively; third, to pacifism. I used to work from time to time in the office of the Catholic Worker, which was down in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. So
  • to that column; Shriver’s opinion of LBJ keeping Kennedy’s cabinet members; Shriver’s ideas for new vice presidential duties; Shriver’s conflicts with Secretary of Labor Wirtz; the Neighborhood Youth Corps; Shriver’s determination to solve problems without
  • with that effort which really was very good in the sense that it was not a confining sort of job, but it permitted contacts with key people in a number of the New Deal agencies to get material to write a story explaining the Rural Electrification Program
  • -sawmill-farming community west of Jacksonville, which was where I grew up . I attended the public schools there, and I also attended the public schools in New York and Massachusetts . M: Your family must have moved some then? B: No, I had a lot
  • , and the President said, "What's going on here?" He wanted us to find out. So Stu peeled off--he never did get to talk with the President--and he was on the phone the whole time trying to find out what had happened. It was the same story as the one in New York except
  • , or administrative law judge's, work in deciding the FPC's cases; Seymour Wenner; the questionnaire FPC distributed to obtain data from the gas producers; hearings in connection with Wenner's two-rate system for flowing gas and new gas; the expansion of natural gas
  • is concerned~ I would say as to the Interior Department on the whole, there has been a rapid expansion really under Secretary Udall, first of the number of areas under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department in the establishment of new national parks, new
  • me to New York to work at the United Nations and all those kinds of things. But that is how I got to know John Connally, whom Senator Connally wanted to run his re-election campaign. John Connally refused him. There was really very little doubt
  • on, but it was the way in which it was presented more than anything else. I don't think anybody was surprised by the fact that a new Secretary was discussing or reviewing the situation in Vietnam, but it was the way he presented it which at least led me to believe
  • : I don't believe so. W: --went to Houston and made the tapes, and to Beaumont and to New York to meet with presidential nominee Kennedy and to appear on nationwide TV and then back to the Valley and on up to Corpus Christi and then into Austin
  • in the fifties after the 1954 act, until you got to the 1959 act, which was passed with the new Congress brought in by the 1958 election and after two vetoes. But the content of the housing act of 1959 was again pasteup, cobbled together from stuff that hadn't
  • ; the problem of OEO potentially taking over issues for which other departments had been responsible; why a new agency was created for the War on Poverty; the accelerated public works program; criticism of Community Action Programs; opposition to public housing
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: We finished last time with a discussion of the Salt Lake City speech which, I believe, was the end
  • of vice-presidential debates; Spiro Agnew's reputation; Wallace's support from organized labor; money to promote voter registration in New York; the campaign status in September 1968; campaign committee meetings; the recording and release of the Salt Lake
  • appointment to the Redevelopment Land Agency? H: I remember that I was driving back from New England and that I stopped in New York to see my wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Ross. We were on the beach in Long Island when I got a call to call the White
  • never gotten published) but which if the library wants, it can have. critical points in decision-making. It was my last effort to think out these new Following that, the Kennedy brain trust emerged and those details, I think I have set down on record
  • that Bill I really For the Dallas Morning News , I can't person with a particular candidate but probably like Allen Duckworth, who was of course I would say the prime political correspondent for the Dallas Morning News , probably Dawson Duncan to some
  • of comparison, New York City has about twenty-eight thousand policemen, so the thing that we have to remember is that law enforcement in this country is a matter of local initiative and local resources. The Safe Streets Act recognizes, however
  • . The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
  • , that he got some money from Jewish contributors in New York. And Weisl, Balaban, and who knows who else communicated with Gerry Siegel and he provided Johnson with a lot of feeling for and understanding of the Jewish community's views on the Israeli
  • for that kind of a phone call was an upcoming Presidential speech and they want some new idea or initiative to put into it . M: Was the Policy Planning Council a frequent contributor to Mr . Johnson's speeches as President? 0: I think Walt contributed some
  • Contact with LBJ; Walt Rostow; Dean Acheson; Policy Planning Council; bureaucratic resistance to new ideas; multilateral force; non-proliferation treaty; Andrew Copkin; MLF; PPC's contacts in academic community; Vietnam policy; Bureau
  • analysts weren't in agreement on some aspects and we needed to take another look at certain aspects of the data, I was asked to get them together and to come up with a new estimate that took into account the things that were discussed in that office
  • groping for new ways to get on about this job of handling the impact on the environment. And I think that Hr. Ruckelshaus, the head of the new Environ::iental Protection Agency, demonstrates he's a pretty con­ scientious fellow; he's pretty bright
  • Pollak -- IV -- 4 home rule, or did you just assume that that was impossible to begin with and start in on what became the new form of government? P: Yes. The home rule bill had been defeated in 1966. When I got to the White House, Horsky was at work
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Some general items early in your tenure [as postmaster general]: first, one question regarding your
  • under O'Brien; how the Post Office Department dealt with mail fraud and obscenity; a threat to O'Brien's safety in New Jersey; the role of postal inspectors; the 1966 Chicago mail crisis; discrimination in the Post Office Department; changes in mail
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
  • these things. At the end of the war--we're getting to about 1945 now, '46--1 returned to Columbia and graduated from their law school in the class of October '48. From there I went into private practice--a small firm in New York City located on Wall Street
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with this. I was asking you about Katharine Graham and the D.C. home rule. O: Well, this of course
  • problem at that time, going back to the rheumatic fever bit, and I ended up with a series of five heart attacks in three days. And so my army career was finished just under ninety days. This was at a time when the new person going into the army wasn't
  • time with them after the termination of my first season with the Metropolitan. Before I left New York to go to Virginia and to enjoy the country and the beautiful estate, I filed an application with the Immigration (Bureau) which was at that time, I
  • to prior to the convention itself. The two states in which President Johnson had the strongest support were New Mexico and Arizona. There was a very strenuous struggle for both of those delegations, which is a very interesting development. I hope you get
  • , was the one in New Hampshire. K: That's right. F: Did you work in that? K: No, I wasn't involved in that, actually. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • , which would make quite a difference in a few years in terms of professionalization and science and technology and new standards in salaries for police and things like that. Important elements of our bill were gun control legislation, the right to privacy
  • "lciatit"ln with all of them. They each had the right tf"l terminate my (appointment). one was designated. I presented my offer to move on each time a new As a Foreign Service Reserve Officer, one l s appointment is theoretically good only for as long
  • the President and yourself? Gu: Colonel Cross said, as I recall, I~r. President, this is a new man that I've brought in to be my administrative assistant. He's a Marine." The President said,"I understand from Cross that you can walk on water and replace
  • these two objectives, one important one was in the Manpower Administration. deal of money involved. from growing pains. There was a great It was an administration which was suffering It was a whole new dimension in terms of the Labor Department's role
  • in the Department of Commerce, revised in the White House before going down, of course, and we took this to be the general intentions of the President in regard to this new organization. M: Where did the inititative for the reorganization originate? W: It's hard
  • division as a dermatologist. So in November 1965, I was now the Chief of Dermatology with the reassignment of Dr. Anderson. I have no records with me today but I would guess as documented in the recent news releases when we reviewed all of the tissue
  • things he did was to send Dale out to buy a new herd bull, because they 3 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
  • graduated in '32, I took permanent work with the Forest Service. I worked for about 9 years in Arizona and New Mexico, Flagstaff and in Tucson, still in range experimental work and with a few details to Washington. Then I was transferred in '39
  • and Jack Porter had more to do with my surfacing as a voice and as a leader in the party in the state than anybody else. F: I've been intrigued, looking at it strictly as an observer, with the new faces, new names-you're one of them, O'Donnell's one
  • Symposium. As you said, it stems from a magazine that you were responsible for producing in New York many years ago. I am one of your fans who was there at the time. I was a young man in New York, and I remember quite well what a celebrity you were, and how
  • , and the time is 3:35 in the afternoon. We are in his office in the new Housing and Urban Development Building in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lapin, can you tell me something about your background, where you were born, when? L: I'm from California, and I was born