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Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the capital for civil rights legislation, generally under the leadership of Clarence Mitchell, who is the Washington representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Of course they had their direct contacts, so it wasn't
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and Reserve Affairs? F: That's hard to do briefly. The Assistant Secretary at this desk has the function of worrying about the standards for entrance into the Armed Forces, how we procure the people to meet those standards, and then how we treat them
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • mising his securi ty by not telling · the Secret . Servic e." The Presid ent But I think in the Presid ent's mind he figured that perhap s the greate st· danger is in too much advanc e plannin g--with advanc e word people lay on a lot elabor ate prepar
  • of troops in domestic disturbances; the Chicago riots in 1968; the media and the riots; the National Guard and riot control; the Army Cemetery System; the Civil Works Program of the Corps of Engineers; Governor Branigan of Indiana; the Trinity River Project
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the people of the United States and other nations"--it goes on to say, "to promote international cooperation for educational and cultural advancement," and this is the part that I particularly like--"and syllogism. ~"--it almost sounds like an Aristotlean
  • Affairs Council; Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Activities; report “Beacon of Hope”; LBJ’s kindness; Budget cuts; international and national crises; Vietnam; International Education Act; appointment to U.S. Customs Court
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to subject. As a normal rule where programatic guidelines are involved, the program people for instance in CAP will put together the first draft. And then we'll work with them to check them for legal sufficiency, clarity, accuracy and whatnot, and also
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • too many people in the campaign that were willing to concede that we even had a chance. F: In something like that, there's not really any relationship between you and the national ticket, is there? C: Not directly, nOa F: You don't tag along
  • . Conference of Mayors; National League of Cities; July 1967 riots in Detroit; Kerner Commission Report
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this sort of problem? I realize this gets into the knotty question of a national police force. V: Yes, it sure does, because, as you know, in the federal establishment you don't have what you'd really view as police; people whose duty
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • affiliates conventions and also our National Association of Broadcasters. In the early fifties J. C., at o~e the Broadcast I first met Mrs. Johnson, through of our CBS affiliates meetings, and in about 1955 or 1956, t~usic, Incorporated
  • Biographical information; Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Sarah Hughes; Commission on Civil Disorders; Detroit riots; Kerner Commission Report; 1964 Democratic National Convention and campaign; Peden's Senate race; Doers Luncheon; Eartha
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 M: You worked on both of them? H: Yes. M: Is that in organization of the ceremony and that sort of--? H: That's right. People that chaired
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • experience, such as in partisan politics at the state level in California or at the national level? C: I've never run for office. I was, in 1959 for four months, special counsel to Governor Brown of California. At that time, I helped him \vith his firat
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • an overall point of view, I think the number of deserters and people AWOL in this war are probably significantly less than in World War II and Korea. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 their mvn and where only 3 to 5 percent of the electorate nationally have anything to say about what they're doing, and the only people that vote are teachers
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Y: 1960, that's right. F: What was your role in the preconvention workings at that time? Y: I was not a member of the California delegation to the national
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in the ghetto to show people what was going on and to demonstrate his belief based on the faGts, of course, that were coming out of the Labor Depar,tment that things were worse in every way than they had been at the beginning of the John Kennedy Administration
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • association with the President was closer than the majority of people that were on the commission because of our long-standing acquaintance. Knowing the characteristics of the President and knowing in a sense some of his operating methods, I think I could
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MOORE -- I -- 3 I wanted him to understand that I had had some part and had been active in Senator Goldwater's campaign in 1964 and was identified by some people who knew
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • away from people; that we were not requiring registration, which is what the National Rifle Association kept saying we were doing; that all we were simply trying to do was to say that, "You can't have mail order shipments, that private individuals can't
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • police specialists in that area also. B: Excuse me--what exactly does this mean? What kind of resources did you have to put in? c: Well, take the community relations area. Nationally there are less than a hundred professional people
Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • businessi right. But, as you can imagine, on an island like Cyprus where our economic national interests aren't substantially engaged, the interest of the economic section of the embassy is strictly in the political impact of the local economics