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  • , Corps of Engineers projects, reclamation projects, small watershed projects, post offices, were just big time consuming items. As I said earlier, congressmen were always on the phone concerned and worried about these. There was always a natural
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • from transfusions or from the use of contaminated needles, went up. I think there's just a normal corollary to the increased sticking of needles in arms. G: Right. What about this phenomenon that's called post-traumatic stress disorder? How do you
  • Agent Orange; health requirements for returning to the U.S. from Vietnam; self-inflicted wounds; drug use among soldiers in Vietnam; post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems; the psychological development of people before they join
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , rolls of barbed wire were all across the street, and there was a police post right across the street from me, and I negotiated that and negotiated out to the main highway, and started down the main highway, and all of a sudden my CB came up and Public
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : Did you get to go out to those islands on that one? M: I was on that trip. Yes. G: What was he like on publicity during the post-presidency years? I've heard reports that he was rather shy about photographers and so on. M: He was. He didn't care
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • 1-A. I was at one post during World War II where we had four or five men who were actually cripples. It was incredible. Those men could just get around, and the army took them into the hospital, performed surgery on them, got them all fixed up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . And that I did not know while I was trying to get them into Trinidad. And I succeeded. And this is a story completely different than that. It's a remarkable story. Remarkable story. I go to the post office in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The lady, the cashier
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Saunders -- I -- 20 East, and Walt brought from the Policy Planning Council [William] Howard Wriggins to be the senior person on that area. In the spring of 1967 Howard was preparing to leave and go back to his academic post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -establish the Democratic Policy .. Committee, which was the major staff available to the Democratic · · Leader. And as Democratic Leader, he held all of the leadership posts . that in the Republican Party are divided among four different
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Administration on this? B: No, I have no recollection of that . F: Did President Kennedy offer you a Cabinet post? B: No, he never did, F: There was some rumor on that, you know . B: Never even suggested it ; never offered me anything, as a matter
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . an opportunity to form an opinion of me and as to whether, in his judgment, I would be suitable to fill the post that was available. I went to Washington, met in his office in the old House Office Building, and had a very thorough discussion with respect
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . G: Is he the one that Johnson got so mad at? C: Yes . He was a very controversial guy, but I forget where he left us . I guess he left us in--we were taking him out to his post, and I don't know which post it was . But Johnson got angry at him
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • on the Hill? A: No, we did very little of that. We testified, you know, fairly .1 frequently for the Joint Economic Committee, and occasionally before Ways and Means on major tax legislation. I testified a few times on post-war reconversion--we were
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • research . In 1949 I went to the Johns Hopkins University and spent one year in post-graduate training in pathology. � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • entered public activity when I was appointed to become the assistant prosecutor of Hamilton County in 1939, where I served for three years, took a leave of absence to accept a post in what was then known as the Office of Facts and Figures, which
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . You hit him in the head with a cedar post . G: B: G: Let me ask you some more about the--we could go in any direction . We're not getting down to any bases here . I know that . Okay . Let me ask you one more thing about that staff meeting which you
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • came through here to get his support. W: I imagine it could have been quite interesting. F: I think it could have been quite. Did you ever consider taking any post with the government? W: No. No. As a matter of fact, in, I think it was, December
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 to them. And of course all of the rest of us, who kind of like to read the thing, had to smuggle it in. And no offense to the St. Louis Post-Disoatch, which is a good newspaper, everybody who had been getting
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the clippings from the Ho us ton paper. Let me know how my health problems and everything are being reqarded down there. Go by the Chronicle and the Post and see what you can find and nose around a little bit. 11 This is early in the campaign. weren't off
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was a controversial post. You could be asked t o do so much in directing the affairs of the Senate that you'd have to neglect your af fairs at h6me. I think he felt at t hat ti me tha t he was in a good, strong enou gh position back home that he could risk it. I
  • Moody, and Magnolia Oil; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; first post-heart attack appearance at Whitney; LBJ excels as a rural campaigner; LBJ in the 1956 campaign; Price Daniel; the state 1956 convention; as executive secretary of the SDEC; "Dollars
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and it dissolved. That's what a task force is supposed to do. Well, this post-inauguration group was to be an operational task force. Berle was given the title of chairman of the Task Force on Latin American Policy. He was given an office in the new State building
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -- Interview I -- 15 what you were doing and give it narratively. H: Incidentally I wrote an article for the Washington Post that very afternoon. I don't know whether you have a copy of it or not, but as soon as it happened I wrote it down so that I can send
  • started? J: Well, he had to get some decent committee assignments. G: Did he have help on those? J: Yes, I'm sure he did. Mr. Johnson did. I can't tell you just what, but he didn't go on Post Office and Civil Service. He went on Armed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • person, somebody who could and would do a good job for the post office, for the government, and for the congressman. When you got ready to go home and make a speech in Lockhart or Luling, first person you wrote was the postmaster. He would set about
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • mother's estate, or anything, we would buy a good-looking dining-room table or chairs. One of the family jokes, which was much resented by Luci, was that in trying to date a picture that appeared on the Saturday Evening Post, a family picture of Lyndon, me
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and this was a rather detailed process at the time and the men need special tools. G: Did you have any maintenance facilities while you were in Texas, at different airports or places? C: We really didn't need anything. Other than the running post-flight and pre
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • there can be. Well, there have been taps on foreign establishments--embassies, U. N. posts. Thousands of people call embassies for a variety of reasons. A mother wants to get some information for a paper that her son's writing on the country; a person's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to be another way, he'd never catch up. M: You can't retract a story like that. C: Right. And I remember the Star was quite good about it. Then we went to the News, and then we went to the Washington Post, and then we went back to his house, and Walter
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • when the local District government made its request to the White House for federal troops. F: Where is the command post in this case? Who coordinates? Does it come out of the White House? C: Well, yes. After the President-- F: I can see people
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and we still were working for Republicans and Democrats alike. That was a post-1968 development that I sort of deplored, as far as the Armed Services Committee at least. It was--as far as the staff was concerned, it was a very happy arrangement to work
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for LBJ? E: Well, we felt a certain rejection. We were always friends, but something happens when young people--Washington was like doing post-graduate work after you've lived in Austin for a while. You know, that's the real thing there, so you grow up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . It wasn't a very attractive post as of that time, but it was the general feeling that the President should be supported, and while many of us had reservations as time went on about [policy]--including McNamara himself by the end of 1967 or 1968--we didn't
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • there. And that is where the people for Town B would get on at Stop A. They would get on that car, and there was always somebody there to greet them. John Ben Shepperd and Buford Ellington and Bill and Hazel Brawley. B: Brawley? A: Bill Brawley used to be in the Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • up with that preliminary draft of the Claremont Terminal report and wrote a column about it. It was ultimately published; I've got it somewhere. Whatever his name was, who's the editor of the [Washington] Post? [J. R. Wiggins?] They apparently had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the [Washington] Post, I've mentioned Butterfield, several others. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview II] 20 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , there were quite a few, not only black people, but white people as well. I spent all of that day in the Mayor's command post at 3rd and Indiana Avenues, because we thought that decisions might have to be made in a hurry and sometimes in consultation
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to the nuts and bolts with the AID people, they always had more immediate needs that they wanted, things like building highways or building businesses. So getting a bigger share for something like education was not always easy. I haven't seen any post mortem
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -- III -- 17 coming out. He was quite unhappy. He said, after all this was his White House, and here someone had been selectedCthat really made him feel like an idiot. G: Did he attempt to have her relegated to a lesser post than the White House? C: I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of that; that's my recollection. Of course, in the White House itself, much of the activity in those first few days was by the Kennedy staff making the arrangements for the funeral. They sort of had a command post there. Dungan was the man there. Ralph
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • plans, after this newspaper man had done the final write-up and Mr. Johnson had checked it and double-checked it, had been typed up. I took it to the post office late at night to go to Washington so you could get the green light. M: In living
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)