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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-02-24 (remove)

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  • . They had been running school construction and general aid bills up there; they had been running all manner of manpower programs and whatnot through the Congress, migratory worker bills only to have them die on one side or the other, or by Presidential veto
  • on the top of his head. He voted pretty strongly Democratic on all occasions. I rarely can remember any occasion where you'd find him giving aid and comfort to the political opposition. And he was good at that. I mean, he'd take the floor and in a few
  • position. We lost that vote by a tie vote, forty-two to forty-two, with seven abstentions. It's interesting that a great number of the forty-two nations that opposed us on this have probably as their mainstay financially our foreign aid programs. This did
  • high Treasury officials, Office of Education officials, usually catalyzed by Douglass Cater, and consisting of the people I've mentioned plus representatives of the American Bankers Association, United Student Aid Fund, various state loan guarantee
  • it, except that one or two nations offered to vote with us only if they were given what, in effect, would have been commitments tantamount to a bribe in terms of aid or something like that, and Foster Dulles refused to consider that, so we lost their votes