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- that the President, as it were, got to know me and knew who Ed Re was. Then when the question arose as to who should go to the State department as Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, I received a calIon one occasion by Mr
- Biographical information; early contact with LBJ; Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs; East-West Center; Washington riots; Foreign policy implications of education and cultural exchange; Mutual Education
- and consolidation in this new Department, and the name was to be the Department of Economic Affairs--at least this was the recommendation. I think the death knoll was when George Meany discovered that he had set out in one direction and his troops weren't
- into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- was not involved in that. I handled only personal affairs--dinners and luncheons and what-have-you when they were just having friends-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID