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  • thinking more in the vein I suppose of Tad Szulc-- PM: Theodore Draper. M: And Draper, and Homer Bigart, and Dan Kurzman of the Washington Post. ~lell, first of all, I think they are honest reporters. think they wrote what they believed. otherwi se
  • of 1963; causes of Dominican Civil War, 1965; military intervention; posting Martin to negotiate a cease-fire; LBJ’s fear of a communist take-over; Ambassador Bennett; Martin’s negotiations in the Dominican Republic; Martin’s book Overtaken by Events, 1966
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was to be there, the agents would come and go through the church quite carefully and they also would post themselves on the streets outside and around the building and so on. The little church is quite small and it's an easy place to provide security. Normally one
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- II -- 10 United People of America. And see, little by little without realizing the whole thinking has changed completely. Not completely, but substantially. G: Would you add the post office? J
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • totally involved with the program through 1966. At the end of 1967, I found that it became more and more difficult to balance responsibilities in the Post Office Department and my continuing responsibilities regarding the legislative program. However
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • efforts; literally started a campaign for the post. I was able to persuade Pat Harris to accept the role of chairman if she were elected. She accepted with considerable reluctance. She recognized that this would be very controversial. She was not enamored
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • considered for any post in the civil rights field? You had the background through your parents. A: I did. I actually had been approached by Sarge Shriver and turned it down--the Peace Corps. But that certainly wasn't civil rights. 11m sure live had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of view of getting the minority story told as well as important.power centers togo to minorities, I stressed the media a good deal--the New York Times, the New York Post--in those New York hearings, the various networks in both the New York hearings
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and the [Washington Post], and one other paper. But he always read the Times and the Post. G: The Baltimore Sun? J: Yes, the Baltimore Sun. It was around. There were several others around, but he wouldn't read them all the time. G: How about the [Washington
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • had gone to China in the early clipper ships and brought home Chinese export of lovely dishes of all sort and furniture and art objects. He had portraits on the wall of Greens from generation to generation to generation who had had important posts
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • actually we were in a much more sort of cozy family way in the Saturday Evening Post, too. I believe I remember I have some picture of him on the Capitol steps and two little girls dressed up in alike dresses--that was something one did in those days
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • presented by President Truman, but to no avail. He could not be persuaded. F: The Chief Justice didn't want to leave his post, I presume. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • this Appropriations Committee post came up he wanted it and he wanted it badly, because he again recognized the power of being on that Appropriations Committee and handling that money. He knew what it could do in his district, and he knew what it could do among his
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • go to some form of post-secondary school; in this state, we're still 45 per cent, and that's not just a black problem. When we accepted that consent decree in the Title VI litigations, a hundred million dollars was granted these five historically
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • something for a parcel post sale?" "What's your favorite recipe for my recipe book?" "How do you raise your daughters?" That was always the hardest one. But we would stumble around and find a recipe and answer, whatever. I'd just type the letter, sign her
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • did that night was, I just had the girls who make telephone calls to issue invitations, which Emily Post will tell you you're not supposed to do from the White House but Emily Post doesn't know that we have to work with the possible; they called
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? H: I was on North Capitol Street just at the main Post Office Building. F: What did you do--hear it by radio or word of mouth? H: Well, I stopped for a traffic signal and someone drove up to my side
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -thirds of them will either roll up their sleeves and correct themselves, or if they can't or don't want to, they begin looking for another post. Because very few people really want to stay on in a situation in which they are not doing their job
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Jacinto. [It'~where I said, There was a Jewish synagogue on the corner of You probably wouldn't remember that, would you? the post office is noW. So I called Jess and told him about this piece of property, that it was an excellent buy. "10th and San
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the war was over and we all returned to civilian life, Frank came to ~';ashington, initially became executive assistant to the Post Master General, then was appointed by President Truman as Director of the Budget, and then subsequently as Secretary
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • be. And he said to me, IINow, Mary Lasker. you go and talk to Mrs. Roosevelt, and tell her that I'm thinking about this~ and also talk to Dolly Schiff, the publisher, and also editors of the "Post. They've got the idea that I'm anti-Negro and that I'm
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , "Don't talk to Mr. Khrushchev unless spoken to," and, "Stay away from him." The press was penned in behind a rope with metal posts, like those in theaters. We had to stay behind these posts, and we were all being very diplomatic and acting like State
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • step I suppose was putting together your department, gathering personnel, and so forth. 0: This is right. One of the ingenious provisions of the Department of Transportation Act was a device to assure a post-enactment planning period. We did
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . D: It was days before-- F: ~fuere this? did you set up your office; where was your listening post for all of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • for only VHF channel in Austin; JFK assassination; ICC Commissioner; change in LBJ after his heart attack; post-Presidential visit to Ranch; LBJ as a very sentimental man
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that Humphrey would be knocked out by double ca::ee.ts in Hisconsin and West Virginia; that Symington would be for a deadlock that wouldn't occur and would be left w2it~~~ at the post. E~t in connection with this Vice Presidency, if I was going to select
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • /show/loh/oh FISHER -- I -- 10 Mc: Did you have any occasion to sori of deal with Mr. Johnson or his staff in relation to what was happening back with your constituencies-post offices and things like that? F: On occasions I did. Usually my dealings
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • who felt that he was overstepping and overplaying his hand. Once again, Goodwin was exiled, this time to the Peace Corps, where he became a speech writer for Sargent Shriver. It was in this kind of obscure post which someone said is as far as you can
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • immediately assumed that somebody had duplicated the key. Now in the case of Vietnam, I've always had the feeling that we reasoned from the analogy of our experience in post-World War II Europe. We looked at Communist China as though it were Russia; we looked
  • : Johnson had originally offered me a post on the Securities Exchange That's right. Commission in about '63 as his first appointment, but I just was not interested in that particular post. So I was asked--I think I saw Fortas and he said I should come
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • thing I knew, Johnson was in the act saying, "You can't do this to Gene Cox. He's a fine man." So we started looking at the case and we held it for some time, and the FCC got annoyed about it, so they went over to the Washington Post. And I do remember
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Bird was taking journalism, she could be, you know, like what's her name with the Washington Post. And in that way Aunt Effie certainly was ahead of her time, I think. Her dream was not of Bird marrying and having a family. Bird to have a real career
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana
  • the convention to an end without a riot and a split in the party. So I guess that's how it happened. behind the door. I'm not sure what went on But anyhow, I think Rayburn engineered it. G: Did you know Phil Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post? M
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • then was--I'm not sure whether it was late 1963 or early 1964, but anyhow in that time span, post-Diem coup. G: Did you receive any special instructions in the wake of the [Charlie] Mohr departure? M: No, only that the problem with Charlie had existed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • by_ evaluated this situation. I'd Senator Russell called me and said, "I've I need somebody to fill my press secretary's post right away, and the job is yours if you want it." I said, "Well, I definitely want it, but I think it would
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was Dean Acheson at that time. We had adjacent offices and of course we got to know each other both in a substantive way but also socially. G: What special briefing, if any, did you receive before you were posted to Cairo? N: I had quite a long gap
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • this--in order to get to MAAG, we had to go by this big Binh Xuyen post that's right in back of what was then MAAG headquarters, which was down in the middle of Cholon. Xuyen were, manning the ramparts there. Here all the Binh We went in and we started
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that lie took tn.at position as simply a messenger boy position and parlayed it into a reasonably influential post. P: Do you have any recollections of that? No, I don't, but that's perhaps the most logical explanation of it that I've heard. He
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , of the three partners of Powell, Wirtz, and Rauhut. Senator Wirtz brought him back. Senator Wirtz, of course, had been under secretary of interior, or some sub-cabinet post, and instrumental in getting the [Lower] Colorado River Authority established
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)