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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1968-11-19 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the American public been willing to listen to the people that they now glorify as the moderates when they were considered radicals--I remember my own confirmation when I was considered by some to be a Communist because I had been the chairman of the national
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the standpoint of career people, I think very few of us have been directly involved in, say, state or national political campaigns. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • Biographical information; political involvement of career men; branches of Department of Agriculture; National Science Foundation; foundations; coordination among departments of government; financing of research activity; effect of President
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that with the general overview of the economy and the nation's problems that we had at the White House staff which tended to transcend any particular view of an agency that we would be in a better position of trying to serve the country's needs by directing the programs
  • of the Budget; the privilege of working hard for a president; keeping ideas fresh and balanced over time; LBJ's strengths, especially in communication and helping people.
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • through. I indicated what happened with the John Gardner task force. The child development task force of 1966, which was chaired by Dr. Joseph Hunt from the University of Illinois, had perhaps the top fifteen people in the nation in child development
  • Biographical information; Joe Califano; Nicholas Katzenbach; John Douglas; formation of yearly legislative program; task forces establishment; outside task force organization; regional diversity within task forces; finding qualified people to serve
Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The outside people that deal with us, primarily the patent attorneys from out of town--like this facility very much . They can land at National Airport, right next door here as you can see and conveniently come over here . It's very simple . Washington