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Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

as the assistant to the AID [Agency for International Development] representative, Mr. Thomas Letz. He was newly arrived, a professor of agronomy in Texas, and this was the first province in which two AID representatives were to be assigned. We were assigned
Wisner's career in the Foreign Service in the early 1960s; Wisner's duties in Vietnam upon his arrival in 1965; Agency for International Development [AID] work in Dinh Tuong province; organization of pacification efforts; Wisner's responsibilities

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

generalizations on such things as foreign aid, and so on.Taking the Middle East first, that's a crisis that arises in a very short time frame. I've heard people say that the government, under any Administration perhaps, can't really deal effectively with two

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

in pulling together a very fine visual presentation of how all of this would work and organization charts. Dim the lights and-- M: Training aids? T: We had all the training aids. God, we had George Meany, Henry Ford and Edgar Kaiser--you name them

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for a legislative package dealing with beauty, with beautification, with what the federal government could do to aid private citizens, states, and local governments in doing something about the-F: Did he set any outer limitations for you, or were you in a sense

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. -~ XIV -~ 2 And there were usually two other persons in the office, one other secretary to sort of handle relief and various typing chores, and that varied so much that I can't remember one single person, but then usually an aide, so to speak. G: Who

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

of health of New York City, who was the assistant secretary. David Bell, who was the administrator of AID, also was from Palo Alto, but didn't know me prior to my coming to Washington or they were beginning to recruit me for the job. My dad had been

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

on me as a helper. In other words, if the Vice President said, "Cross, I want you to go do something for me," I'd say "Yes, sir." I didn't have to be just a pilot, so I'd help him in any way that I could. M: Were you his military aide, too? C
Military biography; flights with LBJ when Majority Leader, VP, President and as permanent pilot; appointment in July 1965 as military aide to LBJ; military aides for White House social events; operations of presidential flights; communications

"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)

if I could arrange to take off a few days and come up and help out as they were just swamped with work. I reported to Walter Jenkins the next morning. When I walked in Walter said: "What are you doing up here?" I told him of the Senator's call. He
suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 1952; LBJ's call to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Chairman Stuart Symington on Stegall's behalf; Stegall's work with Walter Jenkins, beginning in 1956; a story about Glynn answering a phone call from Franklin

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and my campaign aides decided that I needed treatment, and they had me sent out to the Naval Hospital. The doctors put me on my back, gave me a pad and pencil, and told me not to say a word. If I wanted anything or anybody asked me a question, [he

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at their house several times when the Achesons were guests. Our canasta parties still continued. We'd have a casserole and some salad, and we'd all gather at the Thornberrys or the Jenkins or the Johnsons. We did it about once a week, rotating where we would go

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and I told them this exact count, and damned if they wrote this in the paper on Sunday morning that "Horace Busby, Johnson's campaign aide" or something of that sort, "said that there were 425 people present. However, the local chief of police said

Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Sparkman's aide on any specific piece of legislation? H: On some housing legislation and also on some small business legislation. M: H: Did Mr. Johnson try to master the details of a law like that, or \'Ias he more of a t~ctician who was interested

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh JOSEPH -- I -- 26 the Congressman. Of course, my knowledge of Mary Rather--I've known her since she first went with him, and Walter Jenkins and all of the others that he had. F: He managed to keep the same crew with him

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

never heard about it until after the convention was over. F: It's a good thing you didn't hear the introduction. D: r would have collapsed. Absolutely! I took the LBJ statement that came from one of his aides that he himself was supposed to read

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at this. Not successful, but interesting. I worked in the Labor Department, really on problems to do with Aid for Dependent Children. I go that far back. It seems to be the new change--Mr. Nixon is changing the welfare program. where it began. Well, that's

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of that? W: Well, they just had a kind of get-together on the co-op board members, to meet the people. G: Did you know Walter Jenkins pretty well? W: Oh, yes. G: He joined the staff about this time, I think. W: I don't remember just when it was. G

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with [Walter] Jenkins or [George] Reedy, mostly in responding to a quick phone call. And I did everything from work on the Dominican Republic to get Juanita Roberts promoted in twenty-four hours. It was just a hodgepodge of stuff. On the day after the election

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 21 Mrs. Kilgore, as women are wont to do, I don't think will .ever forgiv e Preside nt . Johnson. She felt that, through Walter Jenkins or whoever Joe had talked with in the White House--maybe the Presid ent- there was the understanding Joe was going

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to apply for a job at KTBC. He sent me to the Senator's staff, Walter Jenkins in particular. G: This was in 1953? H: 1953, in I would say September or early October. Because I went to work immediately. The Senator was on one of those off-year

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

staff, which then consisted of Walter Jenkins, George Reedy, and several others. He pointed out that he wanted to see Senator [Earle] Clements, who at that time, I believe, was a senator from Kentucky. He was already planning how he would have his

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, but anyhow. It's not necessary to our narrative. M: Our grants-in-aid program is funded by that. It was about this time in May, and you are looking at May in that book right there, that Senator [John] Kennedy defeated Senator [Hubert] Humphrey in West

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 20 lobbyist and he'd come around every day, and I'd ask who he represented. I asked Spacek who I sat next to who did he represent. And he says, "Oh, the big boys." hearing aid. He was a little deaf and had a And his secretary said, "You know, he's

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. He was a madman. But anyway, I did what I could to help the President and Mrs. Johnson, and expose them to people. visit I ~aid Going back to my notes to the him after the heart attack in 1955, I remember a conver- sation in which I said to him

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

organization the Warren Woodwards, John Connallys, Walter Jenkins, and who was the other gentleman who is now in Washington as a consultant? F: Consultant to Johnson now? M: Oh yes. He's in a consultant field of his own. Has a very short name. F: Busby

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

. But we first went to Africa. aide on that trip. I went along. 8ill Moyers was sort of the presidential 1.4e came back through Paris. He vrent to Geneva, and then to Paris, when he had some NATO exercises to do; then we went on home. That vIas our

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wil son -- I -- 4 find." Weeks went by and nothing happened. All of a sudden, Walter Jenkins called Glen and asked to see

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

are in effect telling them to get to work and discipline themselves. J: I would say insofar as AID was the agency of State in these dealings, and it was supposed to be, they were in pretty general agreement with the position of Agriculture when we began

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-- II -- 2 I stayed there off and on for about two years. Then I left the government in 1959, went to work for my father in Airways Engineering. Then in 1962 I got a call from the director of AID, Far East, a guy named [Seymour] Janow, asking me
Phillips’ work in Laos; getting involved with the AID mission in Vietnam; reorganizing AID in relation to its rural efforts; a strategic hamlet program; organizational problems in the U.S. military approach in Vietnam; working with what

Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the press, it doesn't do them much good and doesn't make them feel good and doesn't expand their ego. M: What about the issue of foreign aid? You've sometimes been an opponent of Mr. Johnson's activities in this general area. Has he put pressure on you
Foreign aid
to JFK regarding RFK and Senator Fulbright; supported foreign aid for 19 years; first one to propose selling wheat to Russia; LBJ’s accomplishments on domestic side will outweigh Vietnam War.

Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

aid from the Alliance for Progress. Some programs had more success. In others, we noticed that there was perhaps too much bureaucracy involved and that the programs were too expensive. The programs that have been especially successful

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

1966 when I came to the White House as a Marine Corps sergeant major to work as Jim Cross'--who was the Armed Forces Aide at that time--as his administrative assistant. He was in the process of reorganizing the Armed Forces Aides office at the White

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to know what to call you, Mr . Secretary, Mr . Ambassador, Mr . Governor--you've had too many careers . Let's talk a bit about what you were telling me just a moment ago, and that is Mr . Johnson and Indian aid . B: You've started with a big subject
U.S. aid to India; reasons for US aid; purpose of AID; Food for Peace Program to India; U.S. wheat shipments to India; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Valenti, men like that, Walter Jenkins, and so I did that. Oftentimes matters would come up and President Johnson might say, "I want you to sit down and talk to Bill Moyers about this." I think he was at that period perhaps using the experience that I
Kennedy family attitude toward LBJ; Kennedy staff; discussions of staffing pattern for the White House; 1964 campaign; Republican National Convention, 1964; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam issue in the campaign; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ’s inheriting

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and teacher and so forth--instructor and leader. worked out a great many pieces of legislation. Together they I took an increasing interest in matters relating to foreign affairs, and especially such bills as the Foreign Aid Bill. I recall on more than one

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

America sort of deteriorate after he became president? I'd be interested in what you think he did in continuing the programs of President Kennedy, with regard to the Peace Corps, the AID [Agency for International Development] and the Alliance for Progress
The relationship between John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and LBJ; LBJ's legislative achievements and programs started by John F. Kennedy; LBJ's willingness to listen to various points of view; foreign aid under LBJ; Nicholas Katzenbach and Ramsey

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

figured he would or I wouldn't have gone to the trouble of writing it. Well, Cecil Burney, a young attorney from Corpus Christi who was an aide to Jim Rowe, who \'Ias chairman of the Johnson-Humphrey conmittee--that s on the seventh floor of the Watergate

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Aubrey Williams a communist and a red, and here you're putting it right in his home town. s aid, "0 h, I did n 't know t hat. " I can't understand it." The n I s aid, "Well, the fir s t t hi ng you've got to do now is to go see the Mayor." mayor

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Interior, wanted to go into private business. A friend of mine asked me to go to India to help open up the AID [Agency for International Development] mission. And while I was in India that was in 1952--for two years, Foreign Service kind of got in our blood
Lathram's career history and how he became a Foreign Service officer; how Lathram was assigned to be the deputy director of the Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam; safe haven locations for the families of Foreign Service officers

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