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Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in Maryland be open to all service personnel or else be open to none. As a matter of fact, since that time the policy has been made generally applicable and has been accepted, I think, with considerable cooperation of both the realtors and our service
Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Senate under Senator Johnson was highly cooperative in this. It's fair to say that we had more trouble with Senator Goldwater on the issue of scholarships than perhaps we did from anybody on the majority side. F: Did you get the feeling
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • And we developed with, their cooperation, a grant-in-aid program modeled on the BOR grant-in-aid program which would allow the States and cities to accept grants and work on a matching basis with these utilities to retroactively underground power lines
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • no trouble getting the White House pool to work for you? S: No, sir. In fact, well, as you know, they have a correspondence section at the White House, and Mr. Hopkins, who's still at the White House, was the single most cooperative, helpful LBJ
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] Beulah, and he did offer all facilities of the government, and the federal government was very cooperative with the people in charge of disaster work. I wasn't involved in it particularly, but they're all very grateful for the assistance that was given
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that I was fighting not only businessmen, but I was fighting some of the people around the White House, too, and they were harder to deal with. M: What about the businessmen? P: I got tremendous cooperation from a lot of them, bless their sweet hearts
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)
  • disagreed with that. I think in that case there would have been some defections by South Vietnamese officials, perhaps not overt but tacit cooperation with the VC. Some few, of course, were in effect VC agents, and that would have increased. M: Did
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • director, so did the CIA station chief. (Interruption) G: So the heads of the various bureaus cooperated. L: They cooperated. We had a few arguments, and in particular I had arguments with Barry, but we always resolved them amicably. And the funny
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 5 G: Did you feel like you were going to get cooperation from the Department of Labor and the Agriculture Department? M: Yes, I guess there was a feeling in those days that--and there was a genuine cooperation, at least I felt there was. I know
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • but didn't, as we saw it, have any great merit. There were protective elements in the bill; you weren't forcing [it] down the throat. You had local compliance, and cooperative effort was a requirement. G: Another element of the proposal was a loan guarantee
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • construed to be undue delay and lack of cooperation in that area. It follows the same pattern as the six hundred thousand dollars. As far as many of us were concerned, there were clear indications that the "Johnson people" were most reluctant
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that had to do with committee operations was up to the chairman. If the chairman saw fit to lean upon the Speaker or to go to him for advice ahead of time, invariably the Speaker was cooperative. If the chairman refused or failed or neglected to work
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would cooperate. Once the company officials saw that we were not going to do a job of utility bashing, cooperation was terrific. During the next day, we brought in our technical advisory people. They arrived the next morning. And there we planned on how
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of it?" And essentially their answer was, "It has gone about as far as it can go .. " The cooperation under the new target was going to be, but if you expanded that target it was unlikely that it could be done. I intimated at that point that in that case I would
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • as concerned national defense because we thought we had fought the war to end all wars, and now the proposition was to maintain the new infrastructure of government-cum-university cooperation in science that had been put into place during the war. We wanted
  • Biographical information; how Carey came to work for the Bureau of the Budget; John Steelman; post-war work and staff of Bureau of the Budget; cooperation between government and universities in scientific research; National Science Foundation Act
Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • had excellent cooperation from the White House in my views, and after the bill was enacted, of course, we had no trouble at all. I pointed out the weaknesses of it in conference before LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • term? S: Well, I wouldn't say F: You've got a lot of mutual problems. $: Yes, with the different departments. Of course, we had a lot of relations. I would say that I had fine, fine cooperation from the . . . F: Did you get the feeling that he
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to duplicate what is on the written record. Was there any difficulty among your group, the Washington group, in Detroit? Was there any difficulty in dealing with state and municipal officials? Any failure of cooperation? C: No, I wouldn't say there was any
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , as they call it, a CFC--Cooperative Financi~g Corporation--in which they will get money on the open market and consolicate that with the-­ [ interruption] F: We we=e talking about the REA. W: I think they're somewhat reconciled to the changing world
  • FPC concerns: pollution, future energy requirements, nuclear power generation; cooperation between the FPC and the AEC; the changing role of the NEA; the 1965 NYC power failure ("brown-out"); LBJ summons the FPC to action, the beginning
Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into contact with Jere Cooper, who was the chairman for awhile, and of course ultimately with Wilbur D. Mills, with whom I worked out the Medicare plan. Similarly on the Senate side, I intimately knew and worked with Walter George; I worked with Pat Harrison
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cooperative. The Long sub- committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, as I say, pushed through that confirmation without even calling me up there. disappointed. F: I was Normally you would testify. I presume in sOTtething like this you need the support
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was concerned.You'd have a Democratic policy announced that many of the Southern chairmen simply could not go along with publicly. The great trick of leadership was always to get them to cooperate to the extent possible, without making it an ideological issue
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of a bind. I found real cooperation from Bill Wirtz and from Califano and the White House staff. There was no problem really on that score, but there was always this psychological question mark. M: Was it simply the fact that the idea of the merger
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • presidential candidates; discussion of cooperation in planning the 1972 Democratic National Convention, support for the party's reforms, and fund raising; an agreement to work together in opposition to Nixon and limit candidates' media spending; George Tames
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • administered wholly by the Secretary of Agriculture, with the cooperation of oth~r agencies as the occasion demands. all in the national forests, four of them. But they're essentially One of them, the Rogue River in the State of Oregon, will be managed
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it happened we got very little cooperation from [Idar] Rimestad's office, a real dragging of feet, and I think Mich [Michel] Cieplinski who was never very cooperative 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • problems, such as how a new antipoverty program could obtain the cooperation of the public schools, the public and private welfare agencies, and other important local actors. G: You mentioned that Dick Boone felt that Sargent Shriver was at first
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Keith -- I -- 15 K: It has basic--it's a very interesting political amalgamation. It consists of really two traditional elements. The first is the cooperative, almost socialistic element that came out of--the Farmer-Laborites, which
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • told to work with us. Also, they were politically accountable, and no one would want to be criticized for not cooperating 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . There were times al so when I worked with Walter Jenkins, and after him with Marvin Watson. r~; Right. H: Then there were times when I worked with Jacobsen's successor, Barefoot Sanders. them. I always had understanding, had cooperation from As I said
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , is concerned with his state. he's elected to be concerned with. things, frankly. That's what I really see no conflict in these We've had very good cooperation, excellent coopera- tion, among the state governments. In many cases, on tangible projects wnere
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the Kennedys just didn't like Lyndon Johnson and had just deliberately shoved him in the back seat? J: No. I didn't actually think that. I knew that Robert Kennedy was not too cooperative with President Johnson, and I knew that President Johnson didn't
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with your duties. You have Mr. Feldman to work with. 0: You have met your Then what? Well, then we went to work, and as I say, we were fortunate in getting a good staff. vle had good cooperation. M: Did you have offices there? D: Yes. M
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • not 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/loh/oh 18 get some cooperation
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Oh, very frequently--in the news stories principally. I'd say he figured certainly weekly and sometimes almost daily in the news stories. M: Did Mr. Johnson cooperate, either with Mr. Jamison or yourself so that he did get that much publicity? T
  • as a Congressman; McCarthy hearings; LBJ’s cooperation with Eisenhower; rating LBJ as a Senator and Majority Leader; Timmons’ Conventions Record; Democratic and Republican conventions; LBJ and 1960 campaign; Barry Goldwater; “Trial Balloons;” LBJ’s high standing
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)