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  • Date > 1969-03-21 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • about foreign aid. He made the best single speech on foreign aid I've ever heard by anyone. It was the first inkling I had personally of this fundamental strand that runs through his whole political life and, of course, ran through his presidency; namely
  • First impressions of LBJ; JFK and LBJ; JFK and the White House staff; LBJ as VP; LBJ on foreign aid; LBJ Berlin speech, 1961; LBJ on foreign policy pre-presidency; LBJ’s first State of the Union message; Vietnam; CIAP; Latin America; White House
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , since you were one of the pioneers, is the issue of federal aid to education, and so I'm going to let you be narrative, ask questions as they seem pertinent. D: I recall very well when the matter of aid to public schools began to gather some momentum
  • Discussion of issues associated with LBJ's political service; federal aid to public schools; Supreme Court appointments
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • your decisions a.bout where you want the Space Program to go, where the government ought to concentrate its efforts in aid to education. Right now, at this moment, we're in a crisis of defense budgeting. Well, these are not only money problems
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; that that kind of massive federal aid in obvious response to a riot might have adverse effects? C: Yes, this was really a major burden of the task force, and it gave us quite a split personality. The riot had, you know, just stunned and polarized the community