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Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • constituents. I took care of them and the phone, and then I would get someone in the office, Walter [Jenkins], but after a while Walter was gone, and then O. J. [Weber] was gone, Norman [?] was gone, anyway, someone would talk to them and try to help them
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson? B: I think that we were the only ones that were there. I was taken there by that young lad that later got into trouble. F: Walter Jenkins? B: No. F Bobby Baker. B: Bobby Baker. I can't remember whether Fred
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of it when he went to the Ranch or through the so-called Texas office, his senatorial office where Walter Jenkins and Arthur Perry and those people were. They may have heard more about it than I did. G: Do you think the question of interposition
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lee was in town for one of those and Anne Bird Nalle. Josefa I always tried to include, as well as Marjorie [Jenkins] and Billie Norman, Mrs. O. L. Norman, with whose husband we had worked on the LCRA [Lower Colorado River Authority]. That's my first
  • station; the choice between VHF and UHF in television and AM and FM in radio; Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners; Senator Virgil Chapman; Walter Jenkins' run for Congress; tidelands; Lynda's weight; Wesley West's daughter, Betty Ann's visit to Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a forty-thousand, fortyfive thousand-[dollarJ job. But he was working in my position. He came to \Jashington as a young boy and he wanted a job, and Walter Jenkins didn't have a place for him. Then he put his application in with Congressman Clark
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about little bitty new quails falling into those cracks. Lyndon was introducing, along with other senators, a request for emergency aid to the cattlemen. [Dwight] Eisenhower had already declared the area a drought disaster area. G: LBJ worked
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • from AID on terms of--well. I don't know. It wasn't disloyalty, it was a thing of going out of channels and so forth on his part. that he'd known. It had come up over a Chinese or Japanese girl And he was fired and I asked him to be cleared enough
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • early on. D: Enough teachers? G: Yes. D: No. NYA didn't employ any teachers as such for the first year or two. We had project supervisors. The problem of assisting young folks was broken down into two main divisions. One was called student aid
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -state relations, or federal aid to cities, or anything like that? W: I didn't have any specific conversation just with the President about these matters, like I'd call him up on the telephone, or he'd call me on the telephone about a matter
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • during the fifties, it started before then, that it was misnamed "Federal Aid to Education." I know you offered a compromise bill on federal funding of school buildings. H: Yes, I thought that was the way to get it done. have been for any kind of aid
Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that, we pointed out that there were a number of aspects of the bill that were not narrowly categorical within education. This was true of the graduate fellowships program, which was originally a proposal in the Administration bill for institutional aid
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and technical assistance programs. Senator Fulbright, for example, has registered his principal objection to foreign aid, not to foreign aid as such but to it's unilateral character and the danger of involving us in unilateral ventures abroad. What he's
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on the top of his head. He voted pretty strongly Democratic on all occasions. I rarely can remember any occasion where you'd find him giving aid and comfort to the political opposition. And he was good at that. I mean, he'd take the floor and in a few
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Diem assigned him to the civic action project. So we worked on the organization of that and got a decree through, and sent some of his people over to the Philippines to take a look at what they were doing, and worked up a program to present to the AID
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • speculation. I don't know, that's And he spoke out once--I can't remember, unfor- tunately, the specific criticisms. G: Okay. In 1958 you introduced an amendment to the mutual security bill to bar aid to Yugoslavia. P: Did Johnson become involved
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)
  • ] Zorthian, the head of AID, and others was to meet once a week. The military attache to the Ambassador was designated the secretary. I think Lodge saw the committee as a divisive thing eroding his authority as ambassador; so after the first meeting, he
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in a consulting sort of way with a wide spectrum of government. In fact, from 1964 to 1965, when I came here, from May of 1964 until October of 1965, I was deeply involved in studies in Southeast Asia, first for AID and then in Vietnam on an economic assistance
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --the President had not arrived there yet; we had gotten there a few minutes early--to see some familiar faces. We noticed Simon McHugh, Vicky McCammon McHugh, and some of the military aides, and before long Senator Jackson came on board and Senator Gale McGee
Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was writing of the problems the Special Publications Department had in getting pictures for this book. It was the Johnsons who were so very generous with their facilities and aid in getting the kind of human pictures we wanted for a story of this kind
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • predominant color if we look a little longer. We, I think, went too far in our reaction to the India-Pakistan war in cutting off economic and political aid to them. I think that this was the result of enormous concern in the Congress and in the public
  • on the Arts; Bill Fulbright; UAR ambassadorship; incident in Egypt; Dr. Ramsey Stino; US-Egypt relationship; US aid to Egypt; Congo; Greek coup; Yemen crisis; Arab-Israeli War; Tri-Partite Declaration; Johnson administration as pro-Israel; opening of Abu
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • position. We lost that vote by a tie vote, forty-two to forty-two, with seven abstentions. It's interesting that a great number of the forty-two nations that opposed us on this have probably as their mainstay financially our foreign aid programs. This did
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it, but they thought they had it on such good authority they should go with it. G: Was LBJ irritated about it, do you think? C: He wasn't mightily irritated. I mean, I was probably more irritated than he was. The problem was, for me, that I was the White House aide
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ," with full funding [of] Medicare, Medicaid, Elementary and Secondary Education, all these programs. Okay? The War on Poverty, full funding, that's the second item in this list. Then he goes to foreign aid, and we start all these international health programs
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Cliff Alexander, who was a black aide on the White House staff, calling--the President having Cliff call King and saying, "Wait a minute." G: Was there also a concern that the Great Society programs were not being administered--? C: Well, I
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there as fast as you can go." said, "I'll take off in five minutes." I I did, going by helicopter. I took my aide de camp, Lieutenant by the name of George McBride, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for revamping all foreign assistance. At that time it was known as ICA, the International Cooperation Administration. There was a huge amount of sophisticated work done to transform ICA into AID, the Agency for International Development. That transformation
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • she have any association with Senator [George?] McGovern? D: She was a close friend. Pete Edelman was an aide to Senator Kennedy and Marion Wright was a native Mississippian and she was a good friend of Senator McGovern, I think, as the years went
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • your decisions a.bout where you want the Space Program to go, where the government ought to concentrate its efforts in aid to education. Right now, at this moment, we're in a crisis of defense budgeting. Well, these are not only money problems
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was. M: I think they prolonged the war. Do you think that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has a role of policy initiation in foreign affairs, such as your Amendment, I believe, to the Foreign Aid Bill of 1962, limiting aid in certain cases where
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the people's surprised remarks that saw him in the wheelchair. They couldn't believe it because his image was standing, although holding on to the arm of an aide. M: I have to admit I lived my first fifteen or sixteen years under Roosevelt and I was a grown
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and then with the Georgia delegation relating to releasing of the Federal Aid Highway funds that had been temporarily withheld because of the inflationary problems the country was encountering at that time. I met with him about specific projects here in Georgia. B: When
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , with me coming to Washington, went on over the period of a couple of months. And we finally capitulated. What Marvin wanted me to do was to go over to the Department of State for a few months to help them get the foreign aid bill through. Then if I
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • are going to have to change our goals. B: There has already been some criticism that farm programs don't necessarily aid farmers or consumers, but aid mostly landowners. W: That is correct. And we are now actively working on analyses of how
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • aid or military assistance; there you've put in the lives of your own people. And General Marshall was quite clear that a time would probably come when the American people would be unprepared to do that. I think he was particularly moved
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • decided to take him home. He [Johnson] was very noisy, very loud--we asked around and he had no aides with him, he had no car. So we took him down the elevator and put him in a taxi and sent him home. The next day, you know, the Majority Leader used
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • referring to aides and secretaries, or just secretaries, or just aides? Did he have more-- R: You mean at the White House? G: Yes. Did he have more of each in the White House or more of both? Advisers--or are you talking largely about the secretarial
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bartlett -- I -- 12 the forties and the fifties, who was aiding your husband the most as far as congressional people
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • wrote it; it appeared in Newsweek. One of Johnson’s aides passed the notes of our meeting off to Newsweek, and my editors decided not to run the scoop but Newsweek had no compunctions; they ran it. G: Do you know who the aide was? T: Sure, it was Tom