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  • on education, we would make an effort to invite the number one education writers--and many women are in this specialized field of journalism--education writers-­ somebody from the St. Louis Post Dispatch or somebody with the NEA Journal. 19 LBJ Presidential
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 I got into a row with Jim Deakin of the Post-Dispatch one time along similar lines. I had to, occasionally, call a reporte r into my office after a briefing
  • decent. His family came to this country and settled in Pennsylvania where he was born in 1773. When he was 18 years old, he was a dispatch bearer for Mad General Anthony Wayne. He was one of a party of 15 to settle the city of Dayton, Ohio, in 1796
  • , a very active and enthusiastic person on his job and he came in our office many times and he prosecuted his job with all energy and dispatch, with, I think, great foresight for a man of his age, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • , what can we usefully do? Then I took a mission of five fellows to Latin America within a week of Kennedy's inauguration, it was the first such commission dispatched under his administration. The mission brought to me, especially in the light
  • was assistant to Judge Thornberry and the word work never came up. It was always at a social function or to dinner in their home or at Judge and Mrs. Thornberry's. G: He didn't dispatch you on errands? W: Oh, not at all. G: Yes. W: He enjoyed
  • Republic after held dispatched the Marines. Before they got the spigot turned off, there were twenty-four thousand troops ashore. The first criticism in foreign policy. You know~ everybody bitched about it. M: That's where Fulbright broke. S: Yes
  • : This was the local meteorologist and dispatcher. 8: The visibility-- M: The funniest thing at the Ranch was that time down there when we didn't know why, all of a sudden we got a call from Willie Day--it was when he was vice president--to say that Mr. Johnson
  • moved up into a ball park place on the outskirts of Detroit and were ready to move in and we didn't know how many there were and so forth. At about nine o'clock, nine thirty, I was dispatched upstairs to write a statement for the President's sending
  • on the floor of the Senate on that resolution in order to make a judgment on that kind of point, because as I recall one Senator asked Senator Fulbright whether this resolution would encompass the dispatch of large numbers of forces to South Viet Nam. Senator
  • Pulliam liked him, even though he was a right-winger and he was from Barry Goldwater's home state. As it turned out, Eugene Pulliam disliked Barry Goldwater more than he liked Lyndon Johnson, but it served the same purpose. So I was dispatched
  • mentioning Lansdale in any official letters or dispatches. I gave him a free rein. G: Did he report to you on what he was doing or directly to Washington? W: As I recall he would come in every once in a while and give me briefings and discuss conditions
  • Frank Coffin and he'll give you the money. You need fifty volunteers. So see Sargent Shriver and he'll give you fifty volunteers." The Peace Corps under that idea would have been a place that selected, trained, and dispatched volunteers, period. Well, we