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  • is an extreme eastern edge of-F: Kind of an off-shoot of Pittsburgh, in a way. B: Yes, it is, yes, just across the border. We got up there--I covered this event--and they had Johnson for president signs all over the walls and a lot of Johnson presidential
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • step I suppose was putting together your department, gathering personnel, and so forth. 0: This is right. One of the ingenious provisions of the Department of Transportation Act was a device to assure a post-enactment planning period. We did
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : Johnson had originally offered me a post on the Securities Exchange That's right. Commission in about '63 as his first appointment, but I just was not interested in that particular post. So I was asked--I think I saw Fortas and he said I should come
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was a member, first, of the President's Air Policy Commission, and then served as a special assistant to Secretary Forrestal before the National Defense Act of 1947 provided for a Deputy Secretary of Defense. I occupied that post as Secretary Forrestal's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the legislative assistant to Senator Symington, you partici­ pated then in the post-Sputnik Preparedness Investigating Sub-committee and then in the Senate special committee drafting the Space Act, didn't you? W: Yes, that's correct. B: I know a good deal
  • program; relationship between JFK and LBJ; selection of Houston for space center; NASA budget; supersonic transport planning; Post-Apollo planning; HHH as Chairman of Council; 1967 Apollo fire; visit with LBJ in retirement
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the Acting Administrator? P: No, my contacts really fell into two categories--one were the contacts in connection with the budget question which we just discussed. The other was the series of contacts with the President in the post-flight activities when
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the morning [Washington] Post and there was an article saying that Glen Wilson and Eilene Galloway have been appointed by Lyndon Johnson to new space jobs. I was appointed a special consult- ant, and Glen was appointed a coordinator of information
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of furious about that. He didn't want I found later that he knew there was a story coming out in the Washington Post about him as a possibility for the Presidency. He didn't want to knock it in the head at the same time; he didn't want to kill it right
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Administration on this? B: No, I have no recollection of that . F: Did President Kennedy offer you a Cabinet post? B: No, he never did, F: There was some rumor on that, you know . B: Never even suggested it ; never offered me anything, as a matter
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . an opportunity to form an opinion of me and as to whether, in his judgment, I would be suitable to fill the post that was available. I went to Washington, met in his office in the old House Office Building, and had a very thorough discussion with respect
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • from the last administration would know who these people were. We'd put their picture and name at all the guard posts and make a little book. I'd go around to all these offices and go in and just take snapshots and put their name under it. F: You
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • paper, in the Post. F: They had this folk opera out there. P: Yes. And two of the most prominent people in connection with it were born in Texarkana. F: I was going to say this Scott Joplin came out of there. P: He was born there. And this black
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • conducted a number of field tests throughout the United States, from 1963 on through 1967, at various Army posts and various air bases throughout the country. We've also participated in some major field exercises that the military have conducted and have
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • 1958, when I was asked to come back to the Budget Bureau. B: As deputy director? S: Initially as assistant director, then three months later as deputy director. But the deputy post was planned in my coming back. I stayed on in this job after
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the contribution of his post-Sputnik investigations in regard to the contribution they made to our later space effort? H: I think they were very helpful. I think those investigations realized the importance of our not, first, not abandoning the space field