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Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as I remember. look it up--twenty or tHenty-t\Vo. A number of the things were done, but of course many of the things weren't done. emphasis in its programs. I could AID did change the Of course it's ahrays hard to know whether it's not just
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than the Republican members of the Senate in many instances. Foreign aid is a perfectly good example. I mean LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • Foreign aid
  • Staff officer of Eisenhower; treated as family by Ike; met LBJ in 1953; became LBJ’s close friend, politically and socially; Tidelands Bill; foreign aid; Ike got 83% of legislation through Congress; good political leader; knew intimately government
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . But when we came down to getting special funds for poor areas, special funds for equipment, special funds for aides to help, a breakfast program, that kind of thing, we obviously ran counter to some of the basic value concepts of some of the people
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for International Development (AID) bill, which would limit aid programs; OLC's efforts to appeal to the self interest of the parties involved in a disagreement and to maintain a high moral standard.
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and he said, "I'm your aide while you're here." me. That sort of stunned And he said, "You have an appointment with the President tomorrow at eleven O'clock, and we'll pick you up at about nine-thirty because LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • schools]. K: Well, up this point, really--I'm sort of getting up to the Kennedy education initiatives--there was really no clear precedent for federal aid to sectarian or independent elementary and secondary schools the way there was a precedent for aid
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the old- timers that were with us for many years [were on the staff], like John Connally was his top man. John just came with the promise to stay one year only and get him started off. Walter Jenkins and Mary Rather and Dorothy Nichols. We got Glynn
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Margaret [Wiley]; he can fire Mildred [Stegall]," Walt's [Walter Jenkins] secretary. Well, I knew better than that. Of course, Lyndon didn't know what a chief of staff was. He wanted to be his own chief of staff. What he wanted was an expediter, somebody
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Busby, was writing, doing all his campaign speech writing for him, Mr. Busby and several other people. I think he was still in there. I remember Walter Jenkins, My remembrance of him is being--I had no problem, he seemed to be in a good spirit. He
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that occasion, do you recall? IG: No, he was so worried, so excited, I don't think I'd even--as a matter of fact, I think [Walter] Jenkins is the one that told me to go and where to go and how to get there and all that. As I remember it he sent someone
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Walter Jenkins in the campaign; I tried to do some fund-raising; and just generally tried to do whatever I could. F: Was Walter Jenkins' misfortune much of a problem there, or was it pretty well understood by the electotate? H: I didn't find anyone who
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that with the Vice President of the United States. But I voted against them a couple of times. I became a friend of Walter Jenkins during the course of this time. I used to see Walter around town and worked with him on a couple of problems that we had
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into the bearer of bad news. at all. I didn't see that trait He just didn't have much patience with people doing dumb things, particularly if they were working for him. So his smartest and his best talent, like Walter Jenkins and later George Reedy--George
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and here I was, a kid that weighed about 140 pounds, so there was quite a contrast in physical size. I recall John Connally was his administrative assistant; Walter Jenkins was with him, Mary Rather; I was working with him. He had heard that I knew more
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he had been opposed to the bombing, that he wanted to de-escalate the war and things like this, how did the President deal with that? Did he try to talk to Humphrey directly about it? Did he have aides, mutual confidants, that he could go
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was that he wasn't around the Truman White House so much. Maybe I told you this before. And he said, "He has this curly-haired fellow down there named Clark Clifford." Everybody knew Clifford had come to the White House--he was from St. Louis--as a naval aide
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • consisted basi~ally of two the student-aid division which concerned part-time employment for students in college and in high school, sixteen years or over. So the student-aid broke down into two divisions: the college division and the high school
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • to Senator Connally, Mr . Jackson was secretary to Congressman R . E . Thomason . Am I correct? J: Yes, but I was not his secretary. G: And the President was aide to Congressman Kleberg . I was a clerk in his office . Now I had just asked
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to do a great deal of talking, you have to have intelligence sources, you've got to know who is irritated today, who is vexed, who may be waxing expansive, when is the time to make your move to enlist the aid of certain people. magic formulas or magic
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Festival where their daughter was going to be the queen of the festival. An aide hurriedly closed the door, and I waited for about five minutes at the end of which President and Mrs. Johnson came out of the bedroom. President Johnson then took me over
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • aides did you find yourself dealing with mostly? M: I dealt primarily through both administrations of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Kennedy with Larry O'Brien. Almost anything I would say would be colored by the fact that as far as Mr. O'Brien went I don't
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • War III in Eastern and Western Europe. G: Could you define in any way who took what side on these issues? Were there splits within agencies, for _example? Was CIA more pessimistic than AID or anything of that nature? N: As I recall, the greatest
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thought they were wrong. The administration felt that if there were any amendments in the Senate they would have to go to conference and they might lose the bill. They had had that much trouble with education. Remember this is pioneer federal aid
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in large measure because of our heavy military deployments over the world, and because of the foreign aid program. So we began to make an attack on this problem that was only dimly viewed LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was ultimately turned over to the Bureau of Land Management or to the Forest Service, whichever one was appropriate . Today we have a vast array of aids to not only farmers but to non- farm rural residents and to rural communities . Most of this legislation has
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • three or four offices to start wi.th. phases of the program. There were two particular one, was the school aid p - ro-gram, in which we made allotrneatia to the various schools and uaiversities . The officials of the various schools and particular
Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • mentioned to you many times--that we began building up a hamlet militia, the SDC [Self Defense Corps], I guess you called them, and also a force for the district chiefs and the province chiefs, to come to the aid of hamlets. Also, I think it was the CIA
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • emerged. Not long after LBJ became president, as he was pushing a major education bill through Congress, I was part of a group working closely with his education aide, Douglass Cater, and the under secretary of the Treasury, my good friend, Joe Barr
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the communist aides that Dr. King had, so there was concern that King would be manipulated. I think it was by and large accepted that Hoover had identified some people who were communist or communist-leaning who had an interest in getting Dr. King LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Tennessee ham and grits and red-eye gravy and hot biscuits and all sorts of good things that you could possibly have, all for the same price. We were furious because we got there too late, after they'd quit serving. The next day we met up with Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . Even Walter Jenkins, he belonged to the "boy stood on the burning deck" school. Even Walter--I think he started to leave; maybe he did. Everybody had bet on [the] chance that Lyndon might get the nomination for president and they were completely
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall, a fairly vivid pair of crimson pajamas with yellow somethings on them, flowers, and so he stood there, and he was looking around. I think he was looking either for Buzz or George Reedy or maybe Walter Jenkins, one or the other of the key staffers
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : You were just always fully dressed and ready to go? F: Yes. Always had everything ready. There was no time, because he'd walk through and say, "Let's go." The work would come to us from Austin. Walter Jenkins each day would send an envelope to KTBC
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , is gone. Bobby Baker \'l/as very clever and a good nose counter. G: He could count votes though, I understand. S: Yes. And Johnson was high on Walter Jenkins, as was I. John Connally, of course, was one of the brightest and most able people lIve
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Atlanta had a very outstand- ing mayor--a mayor who had a conscience in this particular realm. B: This must be Ivan Allan. H: No, this was William Hartsfield at that time. Chief of Police was Mr. Jenkins. Then I believe the name of the He likewise
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to help you. And he helped a lot of sorry people and he helped a lot of good people. To Walter Jenkins' eternal credit, even though he got in trouble up there in Washington, anyth i ng that Wa lter wou 1d te 11 you, it was just that way without any ifs
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the help of the Vice President in getting over to USIA. He was not averse to my leaving and actually was very instrumental in my finally getting an appointment. As Walter Jenkins told me later, the Vice President ran into Edward R. Murrow, who was head
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Corcoran -- III -- 12 assume, because McCarthy talked to me about it. I was sent to talk to him by Walter Jenkins to hold him down in the convention in Atlantic City. F: What do