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  • Germany have a national nuclear weapon. But I believe also the Navy was rather interested in the MLF because it would involve an expansion of the Navy and would provide a new type of naval nuclear weapons system in addition to the Polaris, because
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Department and Latin America. In addition to Montevideo and Caracas, I served in Guatemala, El Salvador, and in Mexico--the last two posts as Ambassador. I served in Greece as Counselor of Embassy. Twice, I think it was, I was Assistant Secretary in charge
  • Kercheville. As a matter of fact, since I've been here I delivered a new Cadillac to them over at the Cadillac house. That was a 1938 [?] model, delivered it to him right there next door to him. I drove in that night, and the next morning I went over when he
  • president; how A&O became the White Stars; why Pyland was never the captain of the football team; how new members were brought into the White Stars; making signs to support the football team; how Pyland met LBJ; LBJ's interest in sports; LBJ dating
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , national figure, that we had that had stayed and really tried to help in 1952, and we considered him a loyalist. He had been a New Deal supporter, speaker of the House, had done a great many things. G: Now I guess we should go on to 1956. shaped up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • News said that LBJ and organized labor had made their peace and that organized labor was now going to support him. I wondered if you had any insights on that. W: No. I don't remember. G: What did organized labor in Texas feel about Shivers? W: I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a Texan, I should add, in case that's necessary. [Laughter] But that far away, we were very much interested in the new mayor of Minneapolis, and, of course, it made him a national figure when he went to the Senate. Then you, of course, being young, moved
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 grandson and ULcd to sl!()\" hil~l He" off ane! liked to have him around. called Luci and told her to bet Lyn ready, that he uanted to take Lyn over to meet a new friend
  • ; LBJ’s post-pres. plans to see Walter Jenkins.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • academic year, really ready to tell my tenant to get out of my house back in New Haven, and end my lease here and so forth, that I think Gardner made a stronger plea to the President for authorization to leave his job . It was during the week that Gardner
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . photoplane could. They couldn't see any more than an aerial And of course we had post-strike assessment recon recce photographs. It's just jungle. Made holes in the jungle. G: The aerial photos didn't improve as time went on then? S: The place just
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Kennedy's period. President Johnson carried through on that, and that was a very major furtherance of our post-World War II liberal trade policy. But LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • and LBJ over a Llano bank; LBJ's smoking habit; attending the 1965 presidential inauguration; Winters' White House phone; LBJ's post-presidential relationship with the Secret Service; LBJ boating; LBJ as a horseman; roadwork in the 1920s; Sam Ealy Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , this mid-forties post World War II [period], when the political base of Texas was shifting from agriculture to oil and gas and industry and resulting in a politically conservative trend. How was this affecting the various Democratic leaders in the state
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the Post Office Department, which is just down from the White House a block or two. G: Were these paratroops, or do you recall? C: They were some paratroops, I believe, and some other infantry troops. We had quite a contingent of people. G: But never
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Flynn -- I -- 2 force; the exodus of enlisted guys had finished; new guys were coming in, and we were starting to sort out other missions, useful missions. And then about the next event
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , It was a navel thing in those days. Helicopters were quite new in 1948, and nobody had ever done that before. My own idea of it was that it was a stunt, but I don't know what anybody else thought about it, what Coke thought about it. G: You don't know
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : Reversing it slightly, but when you were secretary of the interior and he was a relatively new senator, did you all have much opportunity for a professional relationship at that time? c: Yes, we did because the Department of Interior is a conglomerate
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • humor. I recall the day Lester Maddox was inaugurated governor here in Georgia, he called me at home in Atlanta and said, "I was just calling to congratulate you on your new governor. I've been looking at the TV. I was surprised"--or something like
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with a bayonet, I believe. There al so were a whole series of investigations of military indoctri­ nation centers and how their programs worked, what their facilities were like, and just the processing of these new recruits. They were Fort Jackson, South
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the amount of money we could get. This is no news to me. We've been fighting this battle for a long, long time, and the people that have been fighting it and the people that are managing the program, and I think doing it well, are discredited in a significant
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was always as a tax adviser or attorney to the Johnsons. M: Then when President Kennedy was killed here in Dallas, apparently the new President, Lyndon Johnson, contacted you immediately. Is that correct? B: He endeavored to. I was in Shreveport
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to get rebuttal on something. G: Now in the spring of 1928 LBJ was working with a group of students to improve Evans Field, to expand it and put a new fence around it. J: No, I don't know anything about that. G: I wonder how he got involved
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • STR, I think. F: Right. M: Yes. F: That's right. When he was deputy. technical side, And so we did a great deal of work for them on the ~nd were deeply involved in the whole effort to develop a new national dumping code and worked very
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was glad to help him. A few days after he had been fixed up, so to speak, his son. Lyndon Johnson, came to see me and asked me to have a talk with him about this new agency that he was going to be the head of, the NYA. It seems that the NYA was in some
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • margin, though, wasn't it? CH: Very, very narrow margin. As a matter of fact, as I remember, the election was on a Saturday, and the Sunday Dallas News came out with big headlines that Lyndon Johnson had been elected to the Senate. That was before
  • that he did. G: Did you ever get to meet him or visit with him? L: I don't remember him. G: How about his mother? L: I I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , that were more advanced than ours, so we learned things from them. we thought. It was quite interesting if we could learn something that they were doing. back to something like that in education right now. And dctually we're going It isn't new
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • proving that it would require more steel to reinforce a concrete pipeline than it would take to build an all steel pipeline. We had a very good MIT engineer, out of the organization of Standard Oil of New Jersey, who very effectively made that point
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ty and we Ire goi ng to hang him and we mi ght as well get thi s trial over as quick as \'/e can. II So we got it over as qui ckly as vie could and we sentenced the man to death. The news got out. and people started calling Terrible nickname. me
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • cadre that I had been working with in the hamlet political attitudinal surveys. And they agreed. So I brought them up, put them on the agency's payroll, and they helped me write lesson plans for the instruction of the new RD cadre. Of course, we weren't
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that I can recall was [Leverett] Saltonstall of Massachusetts, a very scholarly and distinguished and reserved New England gentleman. He made some changes in his family plans and came back and privately expressed his disgust at what had been done. G: I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • home brew and you could get bootleg whiskey, but if you wanted it you had to go to New Braunfels to get it . G: Where the Germans were . B: Where the Germans were . whiskey was not bad . They made some very good home brew, and their I would hate
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Houston and Josefa and I. The car was sitting out in front of the house, and it was rather new. Mr. Johnson--Sam Houston had asked him if he could have the car, and he said no, that he didn't know how to drive it. So Mr. Johnson went in the bedroom and lay
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • office as. Secretary of State. The Planning Board had a representative in Washington, Colonel Paul Wakefield. Then, when he resigned that post, the Planning Board asked me to go to Washington. I had dealings with the Works Progress Administration
  • days? J: Yes, we talked politics. F: This was when the New Deal is hot, and Jimmy Allred is-- J: Yes, and we had a lot of mutual friends. The next recollection I have was going down to my store which I had at the campus. was a campus shop
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 something has been approved that someone omits or overlooks to report to a new President. In the case of the NSA business, Mr. Johnson was forewarned that this was corning over
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and LBJ and some of the New Dealers were supporting Roosevelt. forces? Do you recall that issue, the stop-Roosevelt LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org L: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . He was pounding on the table and saying, "You men have got to realize that there is a new force sweeping this country." Whew! I could almost hear the knives being sharpened. He made one very bad mistake. This was in a closed hearing. I wasn't
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to establish the policy of new senators getting one good · major co11111ittee assignment before passing out other assignments to the older senators. G: He himself moved from Conunerce to Finance. S: Again, that would have been to block, probably
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was being moved routinely, and Johnson was not resisting. The State Department then selected, to be his successor and to do sort of a new job as foreign affairs aide with some substantive overtones-selected Eugene McAuliffe. Gene was somewhat senior to me
  • news to LBJ; Carl Rowan and event scheduling on trips; LBJ’s moodiness; LBJ’s sensitivity about his health; LBJ buying art; LBJ’s dietary requirements; LBJ ability to speak to foreign leaders and crowds.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , we never moved out of Camp Shelby, Mississippi. G: You were going to be in the invasion force, should there be one? D: Yes, one of the new outfits. Then, luckily enough, I came out of the war a captain, which was a little bit lower than I had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)