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Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he would like for her to do the same thing. Well, by the end of this, all of us were scheduled to go see Eddie Senz, Eloise Thornberry and Marjorie Jenkins also. So just a tradition began. We all began a friendship with Eddie Senz. G: Was he the one
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with John and Nellie [Connally] and somewhere along the way Walter Jenkins, just an endless number of them. And those that didn't live there used it as their voting address so they could vote in Texas. G: Well now, during this summer when you moved back
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • remember it. And I'm sure it was the work of--C. R. Smith had something to do with it. M: The notes here say that the President and Walter Jenkins, and Woody, were looking at a plane that the President was considering buying for the LBJ Company. But I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • secretaries or people like that that he did not like because he didn't think they were doing a good job, or he thought they'd get into some kind of a problem. But what's firing? Was Walter Jenkins fired or did he resign? M: Right. Which comes first? C
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and with Lodge, with AID Director Bell, Bundy, Rostow, all present. What was the gist of that? K: I don't recall what the gist of that particular meeting was. Let me say--you know, you asked me whether I had many meetings with the President as a prospective
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: In 1967 the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was greatly expanded to the largest school aid bill in history and it was passed an hour before the adjournment. Any recollections of that? C: Well, the only recollection I have of that hour
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • red me. . Then we'd work late every night . I 4le was working on the student aid part df it then, so a lot'of times we'd be there at eleven . or twelve o'clock at night . LBJ would come by or be there and sign the payro! 1 s and . send them on i n
Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of his personal aides, Harry McPherson, to give whatever time was necessary to the Smithsonian in the efforts to persuade the members of the congressional committees that we should indeed not only accept this fantastic gift, but that we should make space
Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • met him down G: Where was this? K: In San Ma reos. O~ My the courthouse square. brother was worki ng for what was then the State Department of EtJ:3tion, now known as the Education Agency. just taken over 25 director of the Rural Aid Division
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by the then-chief of staff to aid and assist him in any way possible during his tours. And that's how I came to know him. G: Do you have any insight as to why Mr. Lodge was appointed to Saigon? 0: In my own view, he took the appointment really as a patriotic
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • supported the gradualism at the start, to feel out the reaction not of~Hanoi but of Moscow and Peking. Dean Rusk, by no means a timid man, emphasized the possibility that these great communist powers might be committed by treaty to send forces to the aid
Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -11- Undoubtedly the Vietnam problem has affected your whole economic setting, internally and externally. It has affected the mood of Congress in relation to foreign aid, and so
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • aid to school construction. Do you recall any efforts there to get this education aid passed with or without the segregation? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org R: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We was working on the student aid part of it then, so a lot of times we'd be there at eleven or twelve o'clock at night. LBJ would come by or be there and sign the payrolls and send them on in to the WPA at Austin, who processed them and sent them
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was the Stella School District bill. It was a bill to provide some aid--it was in effect a private claim bill for the Stella School District in Missouri. I believe that was its name. And it was chosen--it was a bill from the Judiciary Committee; it had passed
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that were best able to serve the regional needs were the ones that got the first priority in aid and support. Do you recall--? M: That probably was from New York State. G: Is that right? 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from the Philippines a few years later. G: In connection with Vietnam, Rutherford Poats' nomination as deputy administrator of AID was confirmed-- O: After a real struggle. G: It was a battle. O: It was a real battle, spearheaded by the senator
  • for International Development (AID); the 1967 Joint Economic Committee report, which some congressmen used to oppose the Vietnam War for economic reasons; the proposal of a tax surcharge to compensate domestically for the increasing cost of the Vietnam War; Wilbur
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Security Council meetings; he held practically none of those. He'd have an occasional executive committee of the National Security Council. But there was nobody that saw much of him in that last year. G: Did you deal largely with other aides
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and dealing with all the old-line legal aid agencies who all wanted to domi nate it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and its provisions? T: Not as such. Not directly because we had our own military police, our own guard. I was the OIC [officer in charge] of the presidential air crew, Cross was the military aid at the White House. I stayed at Andrews and I had an office
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Johnson was very proud; I mean he was going around the White House saying, "No Kennedy aide ever got this. No other aide for any other president had somebody," you know. And I left to go to Sea Island on Friday, and I got there. It was a big deal, I mean
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 47 (XLVII), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • need out there. The idea of reducing, or eliminating, in effect, impacted aid to schools where there were heavy federal installations. It was really because we thought that was a preposterous program. The military installation, if you
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty (Item)
  • '• cabin--the Fre1ident'• office cabin which wa• Uled by the Prelident, There were two tabl••--on• l&rge table on each aide and one llll'l&ller table you could sit at and a ch.air facing th• Frelident. The•• two chair• were e=pty. I 1at with Congre••m•n T
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/16/1970, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would assist you as a freshman congressman? J: Yes, they were extremely helpful to me all the time. Every request I made. Those requests came in the form of damming and controlling the Colorado River, aid for the farmers, aid for the youth projects
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this is recognized as one 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 5 of the ways to aid
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • seven-day weeks until about midnight and sometimes all night, all of the ideas had been pulled together and organized by categories such as education, health, foreign aid, foreign trade, and so forth. And then a meeting was held to discuss the ideas
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • committee assignments. My third year in the Senate I went on the Finance Committee, I'm sure primarily at his behest, and also the aid of Senator Russell, who at that time was the dominant force in the Steering Committee. But the Majority Leader
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • to JFK assassination; LBJ-RFK friction; LBJ’s difficulty in delegating; B/P; foreign aid; business and government; resignation as Secretary; LBJ’s loss of public support.
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Leader during those days. M: Did he have a well-developed position on foreign aid? That has been one of your chief interests, I believe. Mundt: Yes, and I think he was totally wrong on that. he's totally wrong. I still think I've had long exchanges
Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in. I was called into the Vice President's office by one of his aides, and was advised that he understood that I was not going to go to the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. I said, "That's very true, but it's not because of the Vice President at all
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in chapter eight, and I will just go through it. I think that he was pushed into--he didn't anticipate with sufficient vigor, in my judgment, the rising importance of the developing world and the role in it of development aid and other things that might have
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that meet regularly, we have committees or panels that look at these programs . M:: Do you have funds to aid in research? If you want to find the answer to a problem, can you contract this out? B: We could contract it out, and on occasion we have done
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -training experience to this group of people. The second one was what we called our school aid program, in which we got so much money by a formula that no one could understand, so that Mr. Kellam could decide exactly how much each school got. Whenever
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wozencraft -- IX -- 21 But anyway, we're moving into this larger problem of federal aid to the states. There are many
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • but my recollection was that we ultimately made a deal with him which was, "You roll back the price of copper and we'll give you some more AID [Agency for International Development] money." This could be way off--my recollection is it was fifteen million
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . Do you feel that, from your vantage point as a leader of higher education, that the task force's major higher education recommendations--I think aid to disadvantaged students, loans and grant, aid to developing colleges, and new community LBJ
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to rebuild the country, the countryside and things of that kind. With our AID 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