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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-03-19 (remove)
  • Subject > Vietnam (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • basis in 1954. M: How did you know Arthur Burns? P: Through professional contact. My thesis was published as a paper in one of the volumes that the National Bureau had published four or five years earlier. I had met him at meetings and so
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to his wife, so it was a combination of patronage and nepotism, I guess. But I came back as Chief Counsel to the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress that Senator Monroney chaired and was there for two years until our bill passed the Senate
  • ; LBJ’s efforts to get bills through Congress; Secretary Freeman and Secretary Udall resented staff arrangement; Udall’s proposal to use Antiquities Act to acquire land for national monuments; Secret Service protection legislation for Presidential