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  • not witness firsthand. G: What was Moynihan's contribution to the task force, do you recall? A: He philosophically was well versed on the problems of poverty. One of the issues that he and I talked about was whether labor unions would be cooperative. We
  • not continue ou. B: Oh, yes, every four years, every time there was an election, one was frightened. This building is a cooperative building, and in 1948 in August my mother and I decided we had better move in, we would like to buy, and this was an election
  • ] he was going to make it more than just a title, an office, he was going to work at it if he could, and [he] apparently did . I guess that was with the cooperation of President Kennedy . F: Did you get any sort of insights into the awarding
  • was in Prague in the fall of 1929. I left the United 6 W D W H V just about two weeks or three weeks before the crash of 1929. M: That wasn't a bad time to leave, Z D V it. In regard to the Defense Department, does the cooperation you talk about extend pretty
  • you have a fundamental conflict there? U: No, there's no problem there. They've got to advise on certain matters and they usually cooperated with us and were pro-Indian. One of the things that I did, however, the last two years, was to give my Indian
  • Cooper, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, to the all-American boy, the Henry Fonda type, through the mod type, the Marlon Brandos and Steve McQueens, the unattractive males. And at the moment I personally think we're on the trend of the attractive male. I would
  • saved President Eisenhower. There's no doubt about that. Those were his two interests. M: Do you think that Mr. Johnson's cooperation in working with a Republican President, Mr. Eisenhower, affected his relations with other elected Democrats? W: Oh
  • Cooperative (PEC); Lady Bird Johnson's interest in preserving trees along the highway between Johnson City and Stonewall; Winters' involvement with the Marshall Ford Dam; LBJ's lack of popularity in Gillespie County; the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor
  • : Here's a note in February that LBJ hosted a party for Texas Rural Electrification Association officers in Washington for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Convention. W: When was that? G: This was 1959, February of 1959. W: I think
  • . They are multiple and continuing. He's been very cooperative. C: He called me all hours of the night during that. Fauntroy would be worried. I provided kind of a release valve for him when he couldn't get things at Justice. Not that I overruled Justice
  • and Shivers about who was to control the delegates going to the national convention. Mr. Johnson won, and at that point, through his efforts to cooperate with Governor Daniel, and vice versa. Thus the party machinery was kept in the control
  • much in fav or of foreign assistance, but r was wi lli ng to help those countr ies t hat would help us and cooperate with us an d wh o had proven it. But I did not want to go up and give money and vote appropriations to countries that might kick us
  • , you can't force a major, or a colonel, or a general to talk to someone. But even the critics, by and large , Mary McCarthy, for instance~ who came out to write a nasty story~ got some awfully cooperative LBJ Presidential Library http
  • admiration for Dwight Eisenhower; LBJ's interest in space; Jim Webb; Jacobsen's opinion of Eric Goldman; LBJ's failure to get the appreciation or cooperation of people in the arts; the 1965 White House Festival of the Arts; Vietnam in 1965; LBJ's view
  • 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 cooperation of Marcos to have it appear as Marcos' suggestion
  • ; the Green amendment; Har-You Act and CAP; OEO-White House cooperation; the Job Corps; SWAFCA; assessment of the agency and office
  • to get through over the objection of some people who took a very adamant stand against any movement Ln that period. F: Were you privy to the developing cooperation between what became the Senate Minority Leader Dirksen and Senate Majority Leade r
  • , controlling the violence of white people. And until then, many blacks had a feeling that whites will cooperate with themselves when there is a problem, but now we've found out that white people act just like anybody else. Do things. Do good. Do bad. No big
  • the initiative away from him really. J: That's right. F: And you got, I gather, complete cooperation from people. J: Yes, I think completely. at least. I think as far as Washington was concerned, I don't know anybody that was for Stevenson
  • irascible, and domineering, and difficult to work for, but he and Senator Wirtz just got along just fine. Senator Wirtz was a tough, strong, independent man, very cooperative, but couldn't be bent if he wasn't persuaded to agree. Titles and position
  • and absolute no-questions-asked obedience. No more arguments offered, no dissent offered, lest Lyndon regard it as disloyalty or less than full cooperation. Of course I had trouble with that. At any rate, I go down to do this big dinner and the Washington press
  • , a highlight of what was going on and showed the cooperation that we had in working in that area, so . . . H: A little--political opportunities--who were some of the, I guess, giants that you have met 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • , and that was fine. This is where we ought to go. And it wasn't very long. This grand jury had to have a lot of cooperation from the law enforcement people to do this, because grand juries don't investigate, themselves. But within a couple of months, maybe, wham
  • everyone became very cooperative, that is all these Americans that came out there. Ortiz ran this thing. And the South Vietnamese, some of them anyway, tried their best to sort of play this game. But it didn't last very long, because your public
  • the people in his district to get some kind of electrification project for their farms. It turned out that they needed the cooperation of some big electric company. They did a lot of groundwork and everything else to try to get this all arranged
  • over there? We That's a Because he was suffering with his broken shoulder, I said, "We're going to go there and if they are people that'll help us, fine. If they aren't cooperative, we'll just give up. make it otherwise." We are not going to I