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Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and consolidation in this new Department, and the name was to be the Department of Economic Affairs--at least this was the recommendation. I think the death knoll was when George Meany discovered that he had set out in one direction and his troops weren't
into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the territory? More than one reporter, I know, was interested. K: Well, of course, there were many people interested. We had a foreign affairs reporter who spent most of his time at the State Department, but he wrote more about Vietnam than I did at the White

Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with Congress . My own direct involvement has been limited to briefings and replying to information, for the most part . Others in the Department, including principally our Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, were heavily involved in helping
Biographical information; not active in partisan politics; Indian food crisis; PL 480; self-help concept; differences with AID on emphasis of priority; operating under State Department's budget; improvement of Vietnamese agriculture; defoliants

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK M. WOZENCRAFT INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Wozencraft's office, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 W: About two weeks after I was sworn in as assistant attorney general in April of 1966, I
a 1966 interdepartmental conference on proposed legislation to establish a fishery zone beyond the three-mile territorial seas limit; Bureau of the Budget's role in uniting the positions of various departments; the Department of the Navy, State

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to the extent that I asked for. I didn't feel that the economic and financial affairs that were the business of the Treasury Department were being short-cut or passed over by reason of a preoccupation with anything else. M: Did Lyndon Johnson ever talk

Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Commerce. How long have you been serving in this [position]? F: I've been Director of the Bureau of International Commerce for a little bit better than three years. I've been a career civil servant that has served in the Department of Commerce for Some
Biographical information; Henry Kerns; Secretaries Hodges, Connor, Freeman, Fowler and Trowbridge; export expansion; Ernie Goldstein; Ed Fried; role of Commerce Department; trade centers; Charles Bohlen; Battle Acts; COCOM; August 1968 trip; Easter

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and Mr. Johnson stay out of Democratic National 60mmittee affairs in that period? M: To the best of my recollection they did. B: When did you first see any signs of presidential ambitions in Mr. Johnson? M: I don't know. B: Well, back

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Secretary Wirtz was keenly aware of an admonition which the President had given to all of his cabinet in June of 1968, urging them to streamline all the programs within their departments so that as he left office services could be delivered most effectively

Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Business, which position you have held since--well actually formally since August of 1967, and you were acting-Mc: Starting February 1. M: Right. Now you've been in the Commerce Department, however, for the entire period of Mr. Johnson's presidency. Me
; Cissy McQuade; LBJ’s famous phone calls; Califano; LBJ’s staff; Punta del Este speech; Bill Roth; Kennedy Round; Maurice Stands; “The American Establishment;” Wilbur Cohen; impact of the Commerce Department; New England foreign trade zone; Secretary

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Department thinking in those days, as a stump we've got to p10w around or something. C: No, he really wasn't. He didn't impose as much of his personality into the State Department affairs as a Rooney did. I guess, in a sense, you would call him more
Contacts with LBJ as Senator in 1958 while a budget officer for the State Department; LBJ's reactions to State Department's "guidance" for his foreign country visits as VP; LBJ's concern for good impressions by his party in foreign countries; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a career minister that I wouldn't have had the same freedom and the sane independence, you might say, to do what I thought was right, lacking clear-cut instructions from the Department. I wasn't afraid, or I wasn't worried, about my future. I can always go

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1980 INTERVIEWEE: MARY RATHER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Miss Rather's residence, Austin. Texas Tape 1 of 1 R: In the year 1941 I was working at the Interior Department for Senator [Alvin] Wirtz, who was under secretary
decision to enter active military duty following the attack on Pearl Harbor; how LBJ's office was run with Lady Bird Johnson's help during LBJ's deployment; life in Washington D.C. during World War II; LBJ's involvement in the Naval Affairs Committee

Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it to a degree. From the outset the department also had its own youth opportunity activity. Sam Merrick had come down from the Senate as the assistant to the secretary for legislative affairs, and we were pushing some youth bills. I believe
Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; Labor Department; Job Corps; Youth Opportunity Centers; influence of organized labor groups; minimum wage; Willard Wirtz; Jack Henning.

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the foreign aid program, in overall charge of it, as Undersecretary of State and Undersecretary for Economic Affairs. I was sort of the ultimate re sponsibility in the State Department for its legislative progress of that bill every year, so I had to talk
Appointment as Secretary; relationship with LBJ during Eisenhower administration; State Department Appropriation Bill and Foreign Aid Bill in 1959 and 1960; LBJ's role as VP; Cuban Missile Crisis; differences between LBJ and JFK; budget; balance

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

1963 to 1967, you served as secretary of the navy; and from 1961 to 1963 you served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. Earlier from 1946 to 1953, you also had government service in the State Department
Biographical information; the duties of the deputy secretary of defense; how Nitze met LBJ; the issue of balancing deterrent and war fighting forces; maintaining an alliance among non-Communist countries; 1960 Department of Defense issues

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

section with the President for a press conference in which he was planning to cover some Defense Department stuff, and I was there along with I suppose the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. He kept interrupting the briefing session

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: BROMLEY SMITH INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Smith's office, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's get your identification on the beginning of this tape. You're Bromley Smith, and your official designation
Biographical information; NSC; JFK’s Administration; briefing LBJ while VP; space program; LBJ’s relationship with JFK; LBJ and foreign affairs; organization of NSC operations; Senior Interdepartmental Group; Tuesday luncheons; McGeorge Bundy; role

Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

to return to Worcester Polytechnic when the head of the department took a leave to complete a very painstaking work on the United States Senate, in which he had been engaged for years . So I taught again there and then shortly afterwards had
Biographical information; positions at the Department of Labor; Task Force regarding the administration of the Landrum-Griffin Act; Labor Board; Bureau of Standards; Federal Workers

Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

actually started working on foreign affairs in 1948, when I was assigned to the State Department, and then was intermittently engaged in reporting on foreign affairs for a number of years thereafter. In 1949-1950 I had a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard
Marder's career history covering foreign affairs; LBJ's foreign affairs-related experience as he entered the presidency; LBJ's credibility gap in the press; LBJ's tendency to exaggerate; Marder's August 1964 coverage of the Tonkin Gulf incident

Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

obviously was a three-pronged affair involving State Department, Defertse Department, and AEC. But because it had heavy security overtones, most of the inspection work was actually done by us. M: Is there anything else in this intervening period

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in late fall, November 1933. I worked for the Public Works Administration until 1938 as an attorney. I went from there to the Treasury Department as an assistant to the General Counsel. It was while I was in the Public Works Administration that I first

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

department and so on. And I think particularly within the last year we've developed a pretty good system of operation. The inaugural affair this year, I think was the proof that we were able to take care of a very dangerous situation. M: You mean

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

agricultural economics at the University of California Is that from California? from '46 on, and were head of the department there from '57 on. You have an impressive list of advisory and consultant posts. M: I was also Director of the Giannini Foundation
advised; poverty programs regarding food; political exploitation of hunger; food stamp program; Wilbur Mills; Department of Agriculture’s over-emphasis on urban problems; Commission on Consumer Interests; Dept. of Agriculture’s international activities

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

associated with the War on Poverty. I understand that you are originally from New York or New Jersey. Do you want to explain how you got involved in the administration? RG: Yes. I was working in the Department of Justice during the Kennedy
Circumstances of becoming associated with the War on Poverty Task Force; early organization; duties; need for coordination of the program; decision-making; naming VISTA program; pressure from departments; LBJ’s interest; philosophies on dealing

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in actually as the Chief of the Message Center over there. When would you say that the Department really developed a serious negotiating position for the first time? R: Well, the first one I recall was in the fall of '65--we called it the XYZ Affair. M
Escalation of the Vietnam War; Gulf of Tonkin incident; inadequacies in advice given to the President; Ed Gullion episode; XYZ Affair; UN and U Thant; Bundy-Dobrynin conversation, fall of 1965; A-B Theory proposal; Glassboro; Averell Harriman

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of employees, naval people, who were working at the Navy Department. I think the same was true at the War Department. The Naval Affairs Committee got the idea that too many people were on duty in Washington at desk jobs instead of being at sea or in foreign
personnel; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Carl Vinson, the Naval Affairs Committee Chair; the Big Inch pipeline; how Lady Bird Johnson got the money to buy the KTBC radio station; Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ's early talk of buying a small

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

~JER : Paige DATE January 6, 1969 IV[ : Nulhollan Let's identify you for the purpose of the transcriber here. You're George L-P I'Teaver, currently Assistant Se'cretary of Labor for International Affairs? W: That is correct. And you've been
; campaigned in Texas in every election since 1954; 1957 Civil Rights Act; LBJ’s philosophy of the art of the possible; labor issues; 1960 support of Symington; Lady Bird; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt; comparison of Labor Department under JFK and LBJ; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

rela tionship. The controversy \vhich seems to have been mOlIDting emotion- ally for many, many months now generally directed against the Department of Justice--if that doesn't sort of hamper your activities in Congressional affairs? C: There's

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Johnson's resolution were put to the test, [it] would have received the support for his policy in Vietnam from Congress. M: Well, that introduces your area of particular expert knowledge and specialty. Z: You've been on the Foreign Affairs Committee, I

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

series of these with your taking over the job as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, and you had briefly described what that job involved.A couple of questions arise. One of them--you've already established that Senator
Fulbright and Rooney’s interest in position of Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs; Meeting at Airlie House meeting; White House position as Special Counsel; speech writing; Georgetown circle; JFK’s staff/women; RFK

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 18, 1969 M: This is an interview with Dr. Philip R. Lee, who is the assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs in the Deparbnent of Health, Education, and Welfare. The date
Department of Housing, Education, and Welfare

Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the State Department hierarchy, being in 1961 as, first, Policy Planning Council chief, and then later as Undersecretary for Political Affairs under Mr. Kennedy. Did Mr. Johnson take, that you could see, a very large role in foreign affairs as Vice
Biographical information; Lady Bird’s Congressional role while LBJ was overseas; first acquaintance with LBJ was social; LBJ’s interest in foreign affairs as VP; changes in Germany; JFK’s visit to Germany; LBJ should have visited Germany while

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and evaluating intelligence with respect to that matter. B: Is that unit cooperative within the Justice Department here--that is, it involved the activities of more than one division? V: Oh, yes. As a matter of fact, over a year ago it was set up on inter

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

any part in it. I was simply there on the sidelines, holding Adlai's hand. It wasn't a very happy affair, because none of us expected him to be nominated, but one had to see it through. M: What about Mr. Johnson as vice president? You were

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was that this was done in the context of the Department of State supplying a spokesman in those situations where a sponsoring group had requested a State Department spokesman. G: I see. F: Now, just about anyone could request it. it, and I went to many universities

Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Department generally in fairly low repute. Why do you think that is? C: Who holds them in--? M: Oh, the various analysts, if you want to call them that, who are writing currently about foreign affairs say the State Department is sluggish and rigid
' responsibility; Foreign Service morale; conflict between State Department administrators and Foreign Service officers; Latin America; Brader Bluebook episode; knowledge of LBJ; secretaries of state; service in Argentina, Yugoslavia and Shanghai

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Affairs, because he must act as a liaison with the Department of State and see to it that we are pursuing consistent policies on the various situations that arise. P: Does this type of interpretation and this coordination with the State Department make
Biographical information; government service; F-111; general counsel to Defense Department; tactical aircraft study; Harry Ashmore and Bill Baggs; meetings with LBJ; Pueblo Crisis; Military Assistance Program

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was that we moved the water resource planning and programming functions out of HEW but he kept the Bureau of Indian Affairs. We never renamed it a department of natural resources. Water Pollution Control Administration which is in HEW. The corps of engineers

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/oh 2 nomination. With a number of Kansas people I did take part, to some extent, in the campaign--which I can elaborate on later. B: I'll ask you later. S: Then in February 1961, after Secretary Freeman had been named to head this Department, I
to poverty programs and area development; inter-departmental activity; small family farms; Departments of Agriculture name change proposal; Trade Expansion Act of 1962

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

but never pressure . G: John Connally was commissioned, too, wasn't he, about the same time? B: Yes, about the same time . But I know they were both during that period . (Interruption) G: In July 1937 the House Naval Affairs Committee
Biographical information; LBJ's Naval Commission; Naval Affairs Committee; LBJ military service overseas; LBJ and Sam Rayburn; LBJ and Forrestal; LBJ and John Connally; Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy; LBJ investigations of Navy Department

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