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  • , 1973 INTERVIEWEE: CLIFFORD ALEXANDER INTERVI [VIER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Alexander's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: You're the new head of the EEOC. A: I found a number of things through various techniques that we use
  • : Visit a few minutes and go on. K: I remember one time right after he had had his kidney stone operation he came up there and spent about an hour looking around the place. F: Did the newsmen look on him as pretty good source of news, or is this just
  • Truman Democrat and I am an Orval Faubus Democrat." F: And never the twain shall meet! H: That experience~ of course, is beside the point, except that it brings us together in this matter of geography. F: I think New York City is beginning to get
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 H: Yes, the legislature adopted a new legislation code or a revision of the Texas election laws in 1951, I guess it was. And one of my duties as executive assistant attorney general was to handle
  • : January 11, 1974 INTERVIEWEE : MRS . JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Her Manhattan apartment in New York City Tape 1 of 2 First part of tape missing (35 feet) F: Let's continue, then, our broken interview
  • started reading my columns and news stories in the paper in Oklahoma, which is his home state. We became friends and a dialogue developed. expressed an interest. I I told him that I wanted to work for the President if I could, do anything
  • ; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America
  • for a short time. B: Of course, the surpluses diminished, too. J: Yes, the surpluses diminished, only in part, however, because of the food shipments, but also because of the acreage restrictions--the philosophy had changed under the new administration
  • to widen his political spectrum and meet new young people to gain new allies, to add to his cadre of supporters in Houston. But I must say that I was not unattended by any doubts. B: You had some knowledge of Mr. Johnson before then? V: Yes, I had. My
  • to his office. In the course of the conver- sation he informed me that the new administration was going to enlarge the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • , he would wait until the last moment before he would personally authorize the wheat shipments . As a result, the Indians found it very hard to maintain a rationing estimate, because they couldn't know what to count on . The American Embassy in New
  • : It came about because the former un-dersecretary was named by Presiqent Johnson to be ambassador to New Zealand. F: That was who? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • the new LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pollak -- I -- 2 Solicitor
  • : Oh, yes, considering that I was new and green. I was the main political guy for Brown, so there was some value from their viewpoint. B: But it was pretty heady stuff. What was your impression then of Mr. Johnson's chance for the nomination? 0
  • yourself in a position to have a job in the new Administration? S: Yes. As 1960 moved on and I was chairman of this wheat task force--and wheat was in a kind of crisis situation with nearly a billion-and-a-half bushels stored up--a real surplus crisis
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
  • to have a meal with him or to have a talk with him. F: You didn't know him particularly well though before he became President? M: No. F: Relate the circumstances surrounding your receipt of the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. Where
  • , and Lyndon Johnson heard about it, was in town, and personally came over to welcome me in my new job. Secondly, we had several meetings very early, just the two of us, and then with others around his responsibilities heading the President's Commission. I
  • , then I got there about the tenth of December. I got there about two weeks after the assassination. G: Okay. F: When I got back to Saigon I obviously had a lot of catching up to do because I was out of touch, you might say, with the members of the new
  • went to Florida, I was responsible for the state of Florida. I went to New York and saw people in New Jersey and was in Washington some. M: So I worked around all [inaudible]. That must have been difficult for you. As I recall, Johnson wanted
  • would assume you heard of the news of the assassina- tion over the radio, or did someone phone you? H: Oh no, I was in that planeload of cabinet officers going over the Pacific. You see there were seven of us who were members of that Japan-U.S. Trade
  • saw Thornberry and Thomas, Brooks, I think Gonzalez, but I can't be sure. They were there and we were all talking in hushed tones. I still had not seen the new President, didn't know where he was. We were sitting there some time when suddenly he
  • so well, a 1924 model new Ford, Model T, that did not have a battery ; we always cranked it . He wasn't privileged to campaign very much because my mother was ill and because he was making a crop, as well as teaching school . went with him, I'd say
  • , they're the problems the same in Texas or New York, California or Connecticut, then eventually if the states and local subdivisions do not respond, then the federal government will respond. So in those areas I think the federal government should
  • what I was getting to. VM: He ran in 1941 and was defeated. OM: That's right. F: You were still pretty new on the ground yourself. OM: Well, that was the year we moved to Washington, you see. No. I misunderstood the date. That's the one you
  • a job that I thought would be constructive . Government Operations fitted that category . be done . It was available, it could They were putting some new members on it . The Republicans controlled the Congress, you understand, in January of '53
  • these faucets on and off. But first of all, the extent to which you can do this is sharply limited. I ."ouldn I t want to pull a figure out of the air. But we've got now a new budget concept which is approaching 200 billion dollars. Only a very, very tiny
  • . B: You were the latayer retained in the case . Schwille case that Yes, and worked with another lawyer by the name of James P . Donovan who is now deceased, who was a member of the Texas Bar and the New York Bar . LBJ Presidential Library http
  • , but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new
  • /loh/oh 2 K: Because he was new and Douglas knew that I didn't know him and he thought perhaps, I imagine he thought, that I could be of use to Johnson in his career and that Johnson would eventually be a man of influence that I should know because
  • the . F: No, I mean after the assassination and the coming of a new President . B: It was a smooth transition . State . . . Yes, we had the same Secretary of There was really little change in terms of operating procedures, and in terms of what we
  • Roberts -- IV G: -~ 16 The ordination of I guess it was Archbishop [Terence] Cooke in New York. R: No. You know, if I saw a piece of paper or if I saw a picture or something of the kind, it might spark a thought, but no, I don't remember. G: May
  • door yelling that the President had been shot. So we all rushed into the kitchen of the ranch house and watched Walter Cronkite report the news on the television set in the kitchen, Secret Service men included. Some of them were back
  • because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
  • was advancing a trip that very day, in fact, for then-Vice President Johnson to New York. I was in New York with Secret Service agents for the big B'nai B'rith meeting at Madison LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • index : Page or estimated time on tape Subiect(s) covered 1 Biographical 2,3 Organized labor's view of Senator Johnson 4,5 Trying to put across a new labor view in Texas 6 Communication Workers of America 7 Local union 8 Union
  • Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
  • . by no means unique in that attitude . Oral history is really fairly new, and we are just sort of relying on the intelligence of the future scholars to be well aware that that kind of circumstance does develop . And indeed I think perhaps the purpose
  • the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
  • deal. Of course, the FBI was here, and they We examined various items and questioned where certain things happened and all that sort of thing. I'll get to Warren now. He had a very brilliant lawyer from New York that he was fond of, and he made him
  • of the country. And then on the closing day of the campaign, on Monday night before the election on Tuesday, he asked me to join him and two of his sisters in New Hampshire and Massachusetts for his closing speech in which we were glad to take part. And then I