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- think that Lyndon grabbed the ball just for
Lyndon's sake or politics. I think he had enough friends in the academic field and in the
manufacturing field that they pointed out to him the importance of space. No other man
except Bob Kerr worked as hard
- would call him or when he was down would bring it up.
our legislative branch:
Then
Jerry Persons was the head of it; the main
man in the Senate was Jack Martin, who was Bob Taft's administrative
assistant and knew Lyndon Johnson very well
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M:
What's the importance, as far as the impact of our programs
are concerned,
of our hopes that they will do this largely
through private initiative in the recipient country as opposed to
government initiative?
G:
Well,
we all would like
- Biographical information; Presidential impact on AID; comparison of JFK and LBJ; Presidential approval of specific loans; BOB and Treasury Department involvement in policy decision; White House and State Department involvement; B/P loans; AID
- of the U.N. because
I thought the only hope to bring any peace to that part of
the world would come through activities in the U.N.
of course.
F:
And it did,
The truce came -- let's see, when was the truce?
I'm not sure just when the truce did come