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Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • well publicized? R: You mean, in this particular discussion. of other people in on that discussion. Well, there were a number In fact, the more significant discussion took place at the Trademoor Hotel where Walter Reuther called me one morning
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -Soapy Williams-Walter Reuther opposition to the decision? B: No, I was told that later that there was tremendous opposition on their part, but I did not talk to them personally. F: Of course, they had no choice in the matter. B: No, no. F: You
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And it had been the subject of discussions in late 1966 with Horsky and Philip S. Hughes, deputy director of the Bureau of the Budget, Harold Seidman and Bob Prestoman (?) of the Bureau of the Budget, Califano, and [Walter] Tobriner and Schuyler Lowe
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • abor had been i nterested i n, and Walter Reuther and George Meany had gone to ,Johnson for seven years and received no t hi ng, but showed the door. So f knew what our problems Nere, particularly with let 's say the left wfog of the labor movement
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; assassination; 1964 Vice Presidential contest; HHH; LBJ's legislative ability; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam; O'Donnell's resignation; decision not to run again; 1968 Democratic convention; Czechoslovakia invasion; peace plank
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • mostly oriented toward the Michigan group, Soapy Williams and Walter Reuther. the choice of Johnson. They were very upset at I never will forget being in the hotel that night and listening to this fervor of their discontent about this. B: Later