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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-03-13 (remove)

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  • Capital Airports and their Washington Area Office, which was really a part of the Eastern Region based in New York, to a new office building in Falls Church, Virginia. with the people involved. operations were. This move was, by the way, very popular
  • in legislation; urban mass transit situation; problems of highway beautification program; rapid rail transit to New York; the SST program; employee transportation; miscellaneous organization problems; Nixon transition
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to full strength when you left to take the new post? M: Yes. As we brought it up to full strength, then President Johnson proposed an increase in the department of a thousand new positions approximately. Congress approved that so we have brought it up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • /show/loh/oh 9 office at Newsweek in New York, and Mrs. Johnson called up and suggested that I come and have a cozy evening, more or less alone, with them. F: This was while they were still living in the house? G: [It was] before they moved
  • First acquaintance with the Johnsons; Clean Elections Bill; Philip Graham’s background; Joe Rauh; Graham’s support of LBJ in 1960 election; selection of home for Johnson family; 1958 dinner at Alsop’s with JFK; Washington Post editorial policy
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the Navy in the Maritime Service, elected again to Congress in 1946 from one of the New Orleans districts where you have served since; in 1956 named Deputy Whip and in 1959 Whip of the Democratic party. And, as I say, that is a very brief summary of a long
  • interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for that post, and Kennedy eliminated that prejudice. Johnson, in keeping his commitment in being LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)