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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1978-07-26 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but it was the elite. Every member of the Space Committee when it was first created, both Republicans and Democrats, were already chairmen of a parent committee: [Warren] Magnuson on Commerce, Hayden on Appropriations; Bridges, every one of them, see. They needed one
  • " conservation; the formation of the Space Committee; the decision to build the Space Center in Houston; the Kerr-Mills Bill; billboard legislation; natural gas legislation; Kerr's relationship with the oil industry; Senator Jennings Randolph, Kerr
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RUSSELL B. LONG INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Long's office, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me ask you first of all about your appointment to the Finance Committee. Do you know why you were
  • Service on Senate Finance Committee; Civil Rights bill; Bobby Baker; Joe McCarthy
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but in March of 1964 signed an executive order which finally gave teeth to what the Kennedys had started with the legislation in 1961, namely a permanent group, a permanent White House Committee. The office of the curator really never existed except
  • impressions of Eartha Kitt; Mrs. Johnson and porcelain Dorothy Doughty birds given to her as gifts; automobile privileges; Mrs. Kennedy taking a presidential desk; establishment of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House and Office of the White