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Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Southeast Asia and the Far East. The day before we left on the trip Davis broke a story saying that Vice President Johnson was taking to Saigon a commitment of a hundred million dollars--I believe that's the precise figure--in new and additional aid
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was probably the most corrupt leader in the history of the world, but our people didn't know it. He stole over a half a billion dollars of our aid money and sandwiched i t away in Swiss banks. We were talking about campaign contributions, I almost, as I get
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a Roman Catholic, bringing it to your attention!" B: Do you recall who that was? H: Yes, that was Walter Jenkins, which I will later develop. senator read the letter and told Mr. Jenkins that, '~aybe So the you'd better check the writer
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in which he could bring support to bear to help our efforts. The program was originally called Third Country Aid, and it was basically aid from other countries, other than the United States, to help the government of Vietnam. very open-ended. The more
  • Job duties for the Free World Assistance (FWA); LBJ’s support of the FWA; requesting the involvement of other countries in aid to Vietnam; 1965 Pleiku incident; public relations speaking engagements about Vietnam in the U.S. and Europe; the use
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • two weeks, and he had Walter Jenkins call me one day and say, "The Senator wants you to come up and handle his campaign over !_n the h,ati.ona~ Committee . " I said, "Well, of course, I'll be glad to do any".hing i can ; I always have, but I really
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] WOODWARD -- I -- 5 International Airport. Walter Jenkins was the administrative
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • floor of the State Department with access to material through the Secretariat of State, sensitive material to follow the line which we both--which I had envisaged and had structured for the foreign affairs aide, which was to serve like an attaché
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; LBJ's golf game; President Truman's containment policy; LBJ's opinion of communism; Johnson employees, including Patsy White, Zephyr Wright and Glynn Stegall; LBJ's prank on Glynn Stegall; Walter Jenkins; the Taft-Hartley Act; LBJ's votes that were
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson -- XXVI -- 9 the men were doing their work. We had become quite close to the Thornberrys. I believe this was the year when there began that delightful little interlude of playing canasta at the home of either the Walter Jenkins or the Homer
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WILSON -- I -- 7 and all, and I got through the guards and went in and talked to There were very few people there. \;Ja.lter Jenkins. I
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a week's duty and was coming home. W: The first word I heard of that, I was at the swirraning pool. was a telephone right by the pool. There I don't remember whether the operator got me and gave me the FBI or whether Walter Jenkins called. But I used
  • LBJ's awareness of the importance of symbols, weighs whether Lynda should continue to live in an all-white dormitory at UT; LBJ considers inviting civil rights leaders to the Ranch; LBJ-staff relationship; Jack Valenti; George Reedy; Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PERRIN -- I -- 7 G: Walter Jenkins was also with Senator Johnson's staff at the time. Do you recall what your impressions of him might have been
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the way it should be; that AID, for example, did not use the food potential or concern itself with it. As a matter of fact, I felt from the very beginning that AID was very poorly organized and very poorly conceived. I wrote a memorandum and presented
  • price; LBJ and agriculture legislation; 1965 farm program bill; Food for Peace; failings of AID; LBJ’s interest in India; FAO Convention in Rome; Madame Ghandi’s visit to the White House; Honolulu Conference; surpluses; European over-production
Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not actually meet him, as I recall, until the latter part of 1952. In 1951 his Administrative Assistant, Walter Jenkins, left the Senator and came down to run for Congress in a special election. Through a mutual friend in Dallas, Mr. Jenkins was put
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • come down there and get into the political matters, because I was on the payroll, and he just felt it wasn't right for me to be engaging in a lot of political efforts. G: Do you know how he did aid Lyndon Johnson in that 1948 race? H: Oh, I don't
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a military aide to Westmoreland--General Westmoreland--during World War II. He had later been adjutant general of the National Guard in the State of Illinois, and he had held rank of at least major general. He had initiated, as far as I know, the first
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Strauss -- I -- 11 a little unique I might add to this story. We met Walter Jenkins and his wife and John Connally and his wife in Las Vegas three or four nights later. I'd gone
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Herring and, I believe, Walter Jenkins and I went down to the PK Grill or somewhere and had some eggs. We got back and a county reported that had reversed its vote very substantially in our favor. in. Then another county or two came Suddenly John just
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and was a graduate nurse from St . Vincent's Hospital in New York . With his aid and the supplement of several other chiefs from the Navy, we established a program of exercise which was carried out religiously each day. The President also enjoyed swimming and he
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://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 8 Woodward, I guess was in the crowd then, and Walter Jenkins. I remember over
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Yalta Papers with a reasonably skeptical and reasonably detached perspective would have come to the conclusion that Yalta merely recognized the realities of the world power at the time. G: You did a memo about this time for LBJ on foreign aid
  • LBJ and the Majority Leadership and various Senate activities, 1955; committee assignments; LBJ and Drew Pearson; LBJ and the oil industry; foreign aid; LBJ and organized labor; Paul Butler; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ's heart attack; Whitney speech
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Walter Jenkins thing happened we expected them to try to get other scandal s--we didn't know what they were, but we felt like the other shoe would drop. We knew that the other side was getting increasingly desperate, and when an opponent is desperate
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the right and left of federal aid and state aid? LBJ Presidential Library 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
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the student aid program in NYA? S: No, I can't recall anything in connection with that one. G: I guess Jesse Kellam worked a lot with education. S: Yes. G: And L. B. Griffith was the engineer. S: I don't remember him. G: Really? 5: No, I didn't
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dollar suit as a gift from Lyndon . he had to pay taxes on it . Service considered that income to him and triggered this, but Now I'm not certain that that was what Revenue, 14alter Jenkins while I was in Washington with Internal and said the President
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • the house wrapping the pipes with tape. You do that to keep them from freezing. They can build a house for forty thousand, they say. M: Luci and Ian [Turpin] are very active in the whole campaign against AIDS in Austin, too. J: Yes. They are good citizens
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on to India as head of the AID--brought in a clipping from McClean's column in the Daily News in Washington which said, "Waiters are reporting an enormous increase in tips since the tax cut." Lewis LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And [there was] the welfare director from Oklahoma, Lloyd Rader, Senator [George] Smathers, and some other senator and their aide. We were waiting on Clinton Anderson. We were going to study proposals. Kerr told us to research how much a half a per cent increase in Social
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the National Rural Electric Co-Op Association ; James Rowe-­ Jim Rowe, who was head by that time of the overall Citizens for John­ son-Humphrey ; Herb Waters, who was assistant to the Administrator of AID and a close friend of Humphrey's ; and some others whose
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . It was a wonderful feeling. I tried to do a good job, and while I was there I visited the mayor's office. Roger Tubby sent me a driver and an aide, and I went in and visited with the Mayor of Geneva. The Mayor Pro Tem of Geneva was a woman, which was rather unique
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh as he did you. ~1: He knew us all. He communicated with us Walter Jenkins. He asked us all to stay. either directly or through that was in a personal conversation
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. was a very dramatic one. That Paul Popple was the man who handled most of those investigations. G: LBJ seems to have, at that point, been endeavoring to increase his staff, to get more good staff people. I guess to run for Congress. [Walter] Jenkins had
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a mistake. You ought to be talking about and taking credit for the Kerr-Mills bill for medical aid for the aged. You're not talking about that but you ought to be." Senator Johnson was walking back and forth in the room buttoning his shirt, and said
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Committee pretty much devolved down to the question of the foreign aid bill each year which we acted upon. The only other things of major importance I suppose . . . . One that I recall, which was a setback certainly for Mr. Johnson, was the Punta del Este
  • Foreign aid
  • ; Punta del Este Resolution; PUEBLO incident; personal friendship with Taft Sr.; foreign aid; White House receptions
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the standpoint of export trade and from a standpoint of reducing defense costs. F: You always saw it more of an investment than you did in any sort of an aid sense, didn't you? H: I made a statement at one time, which appeared on a front cover of TIME Magazine
  • Foreign aid
  • First awareness of LBJ; administrator of Marshall Plan; UN Development Program; Joe McCarthy attack; free trade; representative to UN assembly; Bunche mission; civil liberties; campaign expenditures; foreign aid; International Peace Corps; advisory
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it and installed it, had to go back because the installation didn't fit just right. All of these stories would lead up to the name of Walter Jenkins. We could never get Walter Jenkins' testimony, contrary to the way that things went in the Watergate investigation
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; Formosan Resolution; Tax Bill; Disarmament; Highway Bill; Natural Gas Act of 1956 and reason Eisenhower vetoed it; investigation of Bobby Baker and attempts to get testimony from Walter Jenkins