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  • a liking to Johnson as a young Congressman and wanted to make sure that he got broader acquaintanceship with people throughout the country, and he asked Hopkins to put him in touch with someone in New York who could introduce him around, and Hopkins picked
  • and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Capital Airports and their Washington Area Office, which was really a part of the Eastern Region based in New York, to a new office building in Falls Church, Virginia. with the people involved. operations were. This move was, by the way, very popular
  • in legislation; urban mass transit situation; problems of highway beautification program; rapid rail transit to New York; the SST program; employee transportation; miscellaneous organization problems; Nixon transition
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 12, 1969 This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May 12, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon B. Johnson, that is you
  • 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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ." question came up of ticker tape parades and I said, "Gee, I'm not much of a ticker tape man, Julian. Is this the thing we really ought to do?" "Yep," he said, ''we 111 go up to New York and Chicago and San Francisco and Houston." I said, "Gee, that's
  • Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the witnesses were forced to espouse the Administration's position when they really didn't want to. F: To move ahead, you were quite active in New York politics, most particularly in city politics in New York, in the early 1960 ' s. Did Mr. Johnson as either
  • and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it. F: Didn't have anything to move with. H: Didn't have anything to move with. Purely on a political side I think that the majority of people supported him in my own state. F: New York? H: We were concerned politically. We had every indication
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Johnson decided he'd run for the Senate. Lyndon knew that. And, of course, He asked him if he could carry Colorado. Johnson was a wonderful man, a great old man. that some new people had come in. Well, the trouble was A young New York sort of lawyer
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the morning [Washington] Post and there was an article saying that Glen Wilson and Eilene Galloway have been appointed by Lyndon Johnson to new space jobs. I was appointed a special consult- ant, and Glen was appointed a coordinator of information
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ~ through the years he was a photographer, too, in his early days. He worked with the New York Times, and he worked in th~ Seattle Post-Intelligencer s so he was photo oriented and knew the value of pictures. He was a real sharp editor and knew pictures
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • be very quick to say, if they wanted to know a good reason that by the time the troops came down here--and at that time, people were coming here in busloads from New York, et cetera, going around .Congress--by the time they got through seeing the people
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that they had indirect control of where a missile could reach Washington or New York and not reach Moscow. So the situation was somewhat different. Furthermore, the bulk of opinion was that what we were witnessing in the build-up in the summer of 1962
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 W: The first I even heard about it was some little item in the New York Times that I was one of several people who were being considered for this post which I hadn't even been aware of. But it was just
  • program; relationship between JFK and LBJ; selection of Houston for space center; NASA budget; supersonic transport planning; Post-Apollo planning; HHH as Chairman of Council; 1967 Apollo fire; visit with LBJ in retirement
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and sold it there. The money was remitted to New York, and was placed in the hands of Castro agents in New York. And the real owners of the sugar sued for the recovery of the proceeds on the grounds that Castro had violated International Law and had
  • a deal with Adlai Stevenson, who people wouldn't think would make a deal but he did, and he made a deal to deliver Michigan, New Jersey, California, and New York to Stevenson if Stevenson would throw the convention open, and that's the way Kefauver got
  • acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • dates, because that is on a written record. W: But I recall vividly the following Monday. that, but it was a Monday. I don't know the date of Mr. Weisl came in--Ed Weisl from New York-- and his assistant was Cy Vance, as everybody knows by now. Mr
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEl~EE: DONALD C. COOK INTERVIEVJER: THOMAS PLACE: Mr. Cook's Office, 2 Broadway, New York. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, if "Ie may begin at the beginning, I know that you first went to work for tk. Johnson in 1943. Did you have any acquain
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 discussions around the world I've bailed out his reputation in the way that came almost as complete news
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Governor But I did go over there . The Watts riots took place, and I immediately flew back . Joe Cali- fano met me at New York, and offered all the assistance in the world . As a matter of fact, they flew me back in a Presidential jet--not the big one
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • every accommodation that you could get at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. You could have a radio, you could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway, a good
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : Was he the kind that would second-guess you? S: No, not too bad. He liked to have his way and all, but that's natural. Well, he had made the contacts about the witnesses, you see, and we had a very able lawyer in New York that was quite helpful and he
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Eisenhower. K: So at least there was that background on the situation. When I first went up to New York with Senator Taft and Senator Millikin to talk with Eisenhower after he had become president-elect, but before he was sworn into office, we talked
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a 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 14 talk in New York a few days
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for this, "but not Barry Goldwater. II There were about six things and all of them, "but not Barry Goldwater." And it ended by saying this ye3f we're going to elect a new president, "but not Barry Goldwater." So I sent it to Bill Moyers. the Democratic Convention
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • losing the initiative in space to the Soviets. On September 16th, he went over to the White House to discuss with the President how best to handle the problem of continuity at NASA after the election and a new administration had taken over
  • Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • 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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • believer in air power, solid. In those days, before the nuclear submarines, air power was by far the important weapon. He and The missile picture was just beginning to develop. r, for example, were very strong for the B-70, the new bomber proposed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • conducted a number of field tests throughout the United States, from 1963 on through 1967, at various Army posts and various air bases throughout the country. We've also participated in some major field exercises that the military have conducted and have
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • adoption of the House rules. Normally that's a routine matter but this time John Rankin had indicated that he was going to use that occasion to add, by a new rule, a special committee to investigate un-American activities, make it a permanent committee. I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and expenditures were made throughout New Mexico during his tenure on that particular committee. I think it's similar to Senator Kerr's capabilities within the committees which he headed up, wherein they established dams and lakes throughout Oklahoma
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the apologies were addressed? G: One would have been Senator [Arthur] Watkins of Utah, and the other--the name slips [from] me--was from New Jersey; it was a long name, I can't remember. He called Watkins a "handmaiden of communism," and the other one was just
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)