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- for the 1964 campaign. And so Wilson had offered six people full-time jobs at the Democratic National Committee as full-time advance men. That was the first time, really, that there had been full-time advance men; in the past it had been a part-time deal
- How Pachios got involved with Peace Corps; JFK’s assassination; LBJ comparing himself to JFK; Eric Goldman; Pachios’ work as an advance man in the 1964 Presidential campaign; Maine governor John Reed; Eugene Pulliam; campaign stops in California
- it at the reporters. You can imagine what a spectacle that was with the leader of the Soviet Union throwing handfuls of corn at people because he didn't understand why all the reporters were there. He did complain to Eisenhower. He asked Eisenhower to get
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb
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- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Your trips abroad perhaps present one of the greatest challenges to the overall protective picture. You normally send a team of advance special agents who work with people who are communicators
- Secret Service car following him on the highway; paint throwing incident in Melbourne; death of Clarence Kretsch’s child at LBJ Ranch; nationally televised remarks to Secret Service personnel on the White House lawn
- the color of this wall, about eggshell or off-white. M: Dirl it have the police insignia on it? C: No. r,1: Just a plain car? C: Yes. M: Then the people got in your car, and I've read that Johnson for security rreasures sat on the floor
- the American public been willing to listen to the people that they now glorify as the moderates when they were considered radicals--I remember my own confirmation when I was considered by some to be a Communist because I had been the chairman of the national
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
- ://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 Bolling -- I -- 5 M: Not the kind of personal leadership that he is associated
- County--Russellville. It's in the Arkansas River Valley halfway between Little Rock and Fort Smith. We had a good-sized colored population~ I would suppose about twenty per cent of our people in the town were black. challenge~ ism there. And it had
- , got there a little ahead of the presidential p~ane, as did Vice President Johnson. So we saw Kennedy and Jackie get off of Air Force One; Johnson and Connally and, I guess, Yarborough were there in line--the people who greeted them as they LBJ
- had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- of it was quite overt. Yes, people thought of it perhaps as, well, we just never thought of that. "But they did think the negative. They thought the exclusion through pretty carefully and thought of it as more Or less a male club that they wanted to run
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- - national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my
- that because we had some colored troops at Camp Swift, and Bastrop was not used to colored soldiers and we were all on edge about that, being fearful the rapist might be black. Frankly, I was quite relieved when I found out he was a white soldier out of my
- had to explain to a lot of people, including my wife. B: Including yourself, I would suppose. C: Including myself most of all. We had run into a situation out there where they had a new national committeeman who was a very capable man and a very
- Biographical information; day of JFK's assassination; Jim Jones; Marvin Watson; 1968 campaign; Marty Hauan; Will Sparks; DNC; George Christian; Mike Monroney, Jr.; advance work and trips to Honolulu and Huntington, West Virginia; Whitney Shoemaker
- --the mayor and the deputy mayor and myself and some justice people. I went to a Pentagon meeting in the early hours of the morning where we discussed the situation and tentatively agreed that we should have the National Guard on the street by the following
- Biographical information; Mayor of Washington, DC Council and DC police force; recruitment; conflicting jurisdictions; coordination with government departments; intelligence unit; MLK assassination; Poor People's March and Resurrection City; 1968
- into the state and helped our people advance. F: There wasn't any suspicion whatsoever that this might cause you trouble? $: On anyone's part. I can say that we thought that he was strictly going for the benefit of the Senator's campaign. As to the manner
- Biographical information; what his jobs were for LBJ; how the staff decided which invitations LBJ would accept; Senator Dodd; advance work; Bobby Baker; working with the Kennedy staff; the JFK assassination and Sinclair’s work in the following days
- in the government and that I should seek my career objectives in some other avenue. I consequently talked with a number of people outside of government about opportunities. While I was in the throes of such interviews, I was approached by the then-Budget Director
- would have wanted to have been a good one. If Mrs. Johnson had gotten into automobile manufacturing, he would want it to be successful. He, Mr. Johnson, is a competitor at heart. He likes to be associated with enterprises and people who are successful
- ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 if you want to call it that, of CIA support of National Students Association and some publications. I presume this goes back to the period in which you were
- ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
- . In the meantime the story goe s that Wright Mor row personally guaranteed- -he's a man of considerable means--a national television broadcast for President Truman. By reason of that he, in a way, ingratiated himself with the people on the National Committee
- and 1960 campaigns; Democratic National Committeeman; Los Angeles Democratic Convention; JFK’s meeting with Houston ministers; LBJ’s running for Senate and VP; LBJ relationship with John Connally; LBJ as VP; reasons for the 1963 Dallas trip; wrote letters
- done nationally. Then of course we had six different organizations working at the local level. And people came with leaders. Every bus that carne in had a particular leader, and he had certain very important things to do, and did them rather well
- actually spend time with agriculture programs, they are tremendously complex . And it is difficult to ex plain to newspaper people about them. After all, once upon a time we were an agriculture nation . We're not any more, and newspaper people just don't
- Crusade; Larry O'Brien; Clement J. Zablocki; 3/31 announcement; Citizens for Humphrey; Humphrey's campaign; Kennedy people's rivalry and friction after assassination; Bill Moyers; LBJ's knowledge of the Department of Agriculture; Department
- , on a personal basis, and they ought to be grateful to us . F: It was a kind of charity in a way . B: Yes, and that of course is not what it should be . We told the American people that the world would like us better, which it won't . Nations, like people
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- very special ties with Great Britain. It's a great mistake when people think that must be so, this one or other. If we had a British-Australian association, I would be a vigorous member of it, as I'm the vice president of the American-Australian
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton
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- at KTBC as an announcer. B: And after being hired as an announcer, Mr. Pryor went on to be program director and master of ceremonies of, I should say, national fame. You ha ve done shows all ove r the count ry since that time, have you not? P: Yes
- discussion last time, Dr . Baker, one aspect of our two prior meetings has occurred to me that I thought I might make a matter of record . I have not undertaken any preparation for our discussions . I have not known in advance the subject matter that you
- to be the deputy mayor. I want a city manager for that job." Horace Busby then called Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers Association; and Mr
- Appointment as Deputy Mayor; LBJ's hopes for city government; work with D.C. Council; relationship with Congress; difficulties from serving unrepresented constituency; high percentage of disadvantaged people in D.C.; budget process; program budget
- want to get associated with it. B: Was one of the ideas of the train at its inception to kind of make people stand up and be counted? S: That was one way, I think, of bringing some of the, you might say reluctant, so-called Democratic leaders out
- of the United Nations. The United Nations effort goes back to the time he was a mayor of Minneapolis in 1947 and 1948, and he was then involved with Mrs. [Eleanor] Roosevelt and other people who were very instrumental in establishing the active American
- Did you ever consider a council-manager or any other variety of municipal government? P: We did consider those things. And I talked with people from the National League of Cities and the Council of Mayors, and we scratched around looking
- AActivities as presidential adviser on National Capital Affairs; reorganization to commission and council system; selection of Walter Washington as mayor; council members; evaluation of White House staff operation; Pollak’s nomination of assistant
- with companies--potential advertisers. F: He was seeking national advertisers? W: Both local and national. Most national advertisers have local interests in the Texas area. F: And so he was hoping to work through the horne office to induce local people
- was a very friendly man, a very down-to-earth man, a man who attracted poeple and knew how to deal with people. >. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- Bar Association; LBJ’s sense of propriety in discussing legal/political matters with Thornberry; education for the deaf; being nominated to the Supreme Court; LBJ not running for re-election; LBJ’s retirement.
- that shml7ed up, as \vell as the people in this very large hall that Here attending the meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters. I also remember that on the way to and returning from Chicago the President kept \vanting to stay in contact ,'lith
- March 31 speech, the process of drafting it, and speech-writer Harry McPherson; radios in the White House cars; calling people to forewarn them of the speech’s contents; White House activity following the speech; LBJ’ hopes that the speech could
- of the Johnson treatment that he used to give people in the Senate particularly, Congress a little less so. As a member of the staff, did you see evidences of this? Is this legitimate, or is this something that his associates and the press have invented? P
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- , their presence on the floor of the House, the speeches that they make, the effectiveness of their speech, logical, sound, their contributions, their associations with their fellow colleagues, their personality. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
- First impressions of LBJ; close relationship with LBJ; FDR-LBJ relationship; Truman was close to LBJ; LBJ’s national outlook; LBJ’s leadership in the Senate; progressive; Board of Education meetings; bill to admit Hawaii and Alaska; minimum
- up a great deal of strength on the second ballot. What Johnson's problem was, I feel there were just too many strong people in the rtmning, and that the nation didn't know him too well, even though he had been Majority Leader. I think those were
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
- . A few months later, I found myself down there with the Thirteenth Air Force. F: Asking yourself whether this is advancement. 5: Yes, well, everybody had to do their own thing, and this was mine, and being, what, twenty-two or twenty-three at the time
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- be on the side that Texas was on, irrespective of the fact that he did occupy some national position. However, among the informed people, this was not really a major problem. They understood that he had a dual function and they understood that he had to take
- Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election
- in '48? that notion somewhere. I picked up Who followed the candidates around mainly for the Star-Telegram? K: In '48? F: You told me you had gone to the two national conventions. K: Yes, and covered part of the national campaign that fall
- First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
- histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 6 of people, somewhat of a recluse. That is not true at all. delighted in the association with a small group. He And I thought it interesting, too, that he always went to every
- the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F
- Assistant Director of the Office of Tax Analysis, which was the successor organization to the Division of Tax Research. The Division of Tax Research--and now the Office of Tax Analysis--is the place in the government where advanced research and thinking