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  • that ,,,as the thing that they were concerned about. Another thing, for instance Elgin, at least, was anxious to get a federal building. We didn't have one. were renting a building. We had a post office, and So they had already presented it to Mr. Buchanan
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the people involved were, that's a pretty ex post guess. G: Did the task force consider the issue of whether the poor should actually control the Community Action Agency? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and then had stayed on in California as the state industrial commissimler. So Mr. Henning had been named to the post. Unfortunately, he and Secretary Wirtz found it quite impossible to develop a good working relationship. The Secretary made his views known
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the Washington Post. M: Of course. R: I was asking Carroll and Pete Lisagor and a couple of other people if this was really true, if Johnson did have this notion LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the Dominican Republic, post crisis. That's really when I did get to know him. G: So then you left the government. M: I left the government and went over to Senator Kennedy's office in, I think it was either late April or May of 1966 and stayed there. LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Relations Committee? M: Well, yes, I did. The Foreign Relations Committee post opened up rather unexpectedly, to me at least. I had been kind of waiting in the wings for an opening on the committee for some time, since that was my primary area
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • downtown at a hotel, which was sort of a command post, and the only time I remember being involved was the night before the race when were down at headquarters . remember Jack there - exactly, I don't . but I remember a lot of commotion � � LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that it was the place, I would mark the site with streamers of yellow crepe paper here on a fence post or somewhere. Yellow is more visible from the air; that's why we used the yellow paper. And then the next thing we'd do, we'd go to the newspaper and we would place
  • that I worked \'lith in the Post Office .. PB: You didn't have any Inspector General investigating you during that time, did you? BP: No. - l' And I think they never connected me in any \'lay with that Army investigation. thing ab ou t i t anyr.:my
  • up to the first landing and I would tear out, flying down, and they wouldn't be on the first landing. By that time I was so shaken lid hop on the bannister and go scooting down the bannister. And the newel post had a curve like this and many times
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Now as far as Valenti's calling and calling on editors and asking them to drop our column, that, I'm sure, came from the President, because Valenti wouldn't ever do a thing like that on his own. The Houston Post was one, the Los Angeles Times
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ahead of us. I just want to keep you posted." He said, "You really think it's that serious?" I said, "Yes, I do, Mr. President; I wouldn't be wasting your time if I didn't think so." He said, "We'll talk about it." I don't know how well you knew Lyndon
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , in 1944, in Austin meeting with the mayor and the city council and other people on post war planning and discussing employment and conversion back to a civilian economy and housing, and things of this nature, to prepare the Tenth District
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a message that was etched onto a sterling silver plate--a rectangular piece of sterling silver. The message is in her own handwriting. The words Mrs. Mellon wrote allude to the dedication of the garden, the name of it, the datej this was posted on one
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of furious about that. He didn't want I found later that he knew there was a story coming out in the Washington Post about him as a possibility for the Presidency. He didn't want to knock it in the head at the same time; he didn't want to kill it right
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for Alaska and for Hawaii, giving all the reasons that both statehood advocates of Hawaii and Alaska gave. He really worked for it, too. M: He would have been more or less working on the R e p u b l i c ~ n s . B: Yes. M: And he was in a cabinet post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with that firm. John didn't go with that firm, as I recall it. I could be incorrect, but I think he came here and opened his own office. Now, whether he came here simply as a listening post for the Congressman, whether he ever intended seriously to practice law
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ought to be called back to their posts of duty. And it ought to be made plain when they called them back that they were not calling them back to get them out of positions of danger but that they were calling them back to what the President thought
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • helping in the course of the campaign. I think Sarge Shriver had made a commitment to the President about going ahead to France. F: This was, of course, at this particular point one of the more sensitive posts. It's always major-- K: That's right
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • keep saying he was at the Ranch. It was 1965 when he had that operation. I guess he hadn't been operated on at the time of steel; it was post-steel that the gall bladder was taken out. But he was at the Ranch at the time the decision was made to send
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the Post or the Times, get them over in my office--I have a dim recollection that it was Ed Dale--and tell them we were going to put out even more aluminum. And that clearly was enough to break the price. (Long pause) There is one other thing I should
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • one, wasn't it, in the [Washington] Post and the New York Times? C: The story was page one. Well, it's New Year's weekend. There isn't a hell of a lot of other news. G: What was the industry reaction? C: The industry was, well, the industry
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • recommendation should be accepted. "I've got reports that have been submitted to the President on what was happening. I've got reports from Defense and Commerce and the Post Office because of the impact of the strike on the mails. I would not conclude
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for the War Department School of Civilian Personnel Administration. With the post-war decline of the War Department and the passage of the unification legislation of 1947, I transferred to the Bureau of the Budget at the Bureau's request. There I became
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • by the wire services. About four or five days later, there was a little story on the front page of the Washington Post which said, "Five days ago Secretary Wirtz spoke in De troit, or Chicago (uhichever one it was), and expressed views against the Vietnam
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • agricultural economics at the University of California Is that from California? from '46 on, and were head of the department there from '57 on. You have an impressive list of advisory and consultant posts. M: I was also Director of the Giannini Foundation
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the close' friendship of those two men, and I can tell you that it was because of Earle Clements l friendship with Lyndon Johnson that I was called to the White House to meet with President Johnson when he asked me if I would consider a couple of posts
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • thing begat another as a result of this one visit. Mr. West told me that Mrs. Kennedy was thinking about publishing and selling post cards on the White House at the White House, and he wondered if the Park Service had any kind of vehicle which might
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Obviously, I don't remember perfectly . G: But that's still pretty tough talk . B: Yes . And Pepper Martin and I, Pepper had been in Asia pre-war, prePearl Harbor, and I had been there almost since post-Pearl Harbor and so forth . We sort of looked
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was not there at the time that it was passed. But do you remember anything about its significance at the time, or his discussion of it? J: Not intimately. I knew, of course, that the bones of the treaty were that basis on which a post war foreign policy was built
  • on civil rights over the years; socializing with Marjorie Merriweather Post and Senator Theodore Francis Green; Miriam "Ma" and James "Pa" Ferguson; Stuart Symington; President Eisenhower's heart attack; LBJ's depression after his heart attack; LBJ's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • surrender; preparing for the return of U.S. soldiers; the housing shortage in Austin; University of Texas married student housing; President Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan; a post-war planning conference in Austin; Jesse Kellam coming
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • from his office asked me for it. And no one in the State Department asked me for it. M: When this was disclosed, did you get any flack from above about this? D: No, I got a query from the Washington Post and they asked me why and I told them
  • . But this was with the idea that I should say what I would like in the way of a reward, and did I want some post in the government? And I said, "No, I don't want anything. All I am interested in is, I'd like to stay with the committee, if the President wants me
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • on and was there for the first two years of the Peace Corps program. Later, after I returned to the service as the chief of the Bureau of Medical Services, I was selected by then-Surgeon General William Stewart for the post of deputy surgeon general, and it was in that position
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Deerfield Academy, he went into the government as Surplus Property Administrator, and my grandfather was still in the House. I think I recall my father asking my grandfather if he should accept a post under LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • demonstration and dissent in prior commitments of our troops? For instance, now we have some of these coffee house organizations outside of our Army posts. R: I think the coffee houses are something I am not aware of the Army having had before. But from