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  • Date > 1969-05-15 (remove)

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  • on the part of some of my associates as to whether or not this was a good idea, and what sort of a return we would get, we put this out as a contest to the ninety-odd thousand people through � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
  • on one or two days' notice to make the speech for Clyde Ellis at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. M: So his interest in this particular project was deep. V: Was very, very deep. I might add, at that point, that the statement
  • the 1960s, when he was st ill a senator? W: No, sir, I had no personal association with him other than in 1956 I was delegate to the Democratic National Convention and was the platform representative from Alabama, and I got on the elevator at, I believe
  • more than they actually developed. The mayors are the pick and shovel people of the nation. We're so close to the problem and we're so beset with unstopping today's sewer that we really don't havea chance to do the thinking that is required. And I'm
  • and middle level NCOs [non-commissioned officers] who had not been to Vietnam, particularly in the categories of skill where regular army people had had to go back to Vietnam for second tours, and thus partially would relieve this repetitive tour problem
  • and so on. How did you get around the sort of formal approach that is usual in these cases? C: By staff people exploring every means they could with the President's full ' support. F: Did you send people in advance to see where you might want to go
  • the same. In fact, I'm often struck that Johnson is eleven years older than I am, but he is really of my father's generation. He's that kind of a Texan, you see. My only point thus being that I, unlike, say, some of the Kennedy people, understood