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  • such as the National Association of Governors. I didn't know Mr. Johnson personally or well, however. B: Another area that really is somewhat touchy because it's largely personal and subjective, there was some indication that, after Mr. Johnson became President
  • a delightful time with her and the women newspaper reporters from the White House that she was entertaining on a trip in her final days in the White House. B: Did you or anyone else in your office brief Mr. Johnson before the various missions last fall? P
  • a policy of trying to get the strongest possible government after Diem, and to rebuild and intensify the various efforts of Pacification, political reinforcement, military advice, and all the rest, which were associated with the policies of 1962 and 1963
  • : Can you tell me about the circumstances of this appointment? H: This was a strange one, too, because I saw the speculation in the newspaper about who was to be appointed. I must honestly say that I was sort of relieved--which is sort of a self
  • in 1945 the acting Illiite House press secretary. D: That's right. F: Now then, as a veteran newspaper man and son of a newspaperman and a man in and out of Washington all your life, I'd be very interested in your commenting on press secretaries during
  • , but it was very clear to me that both of them were anxious to have Sarah Hughes have that nomination. This was a particularly difficult one to get President Kennedy to approve for the peculiar reason of age. The American Bar Association was not willing to approve
  • Service at Austin and a correspondent for a large number of newspapers. Is that correct? K: Yes. B: During that period back in the 19305 a man named Jimmie Allred was elected governor. I believe that you and I thought a lot of Mr. Allred, did we
  • air calls the roll and welcomes us. He is Lyndon B. Johnson, the future 36th President of the United States. I will be closely associated with him on part of his climb upward, at least until this day in August 1971, and he will be the best friend I
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD HELMS INTERVIEWER: ' TED GITTINGER PLACE: Ambassador Helms' office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Ambassador, if it's all right, we'll start. H: Okay. G: How far back does your association with the CIA go? H
  • sir, and it became a link in the chain which was later to be American Airlines, formerly named American Airways . M: And you've been associated then with American Airlines? B: I've been associate general counsel to American Airways and American
  • old enough to read poetry, with Aunt Ethie. MR. CATER: Do you rem~er any close friends or associates she had besides her relatives there in Alabama? • . I MRS. FISCHESSER: I do not know of any in Alabama. All I know were distantly related. She
  • was looking for the first good job I could find, and so I had applications out both in the newspaper area and in the government area. I had no luck in 1934, so I went back and spent some more time at U.T. on government work, but did find a part-time job
  • Biographical information; coverage of creation of LCRA in 1934; Alvin Wirtz; opposition to Wirtz and Buchanan forces in the legislature; water rights issues; public power; first association with and impressions of LBJ during the NYA period; Mrs
  • with me as I finish out my role as secretary in helping me to reorganize the work of the Department. But as a Southerner too, and as a man who came up in the newspaper field, he brought me into association with a great many other kinds of people, some from
  • , amongst other things, to begin putting together a review of all federal programs that impacted on juvenile delinquency and to do some of the speech writing that was involved for different persons associated with the program. The Ford Foundation was very
  • at that point, working with Mac Bundy, and he called me over a few days after I joinej the government just to talk. So that was the first time I met him. M: Turned out to be a rather close association, didn't it, as time went by? J: Very. M: Quite
  • , a Mrs. George, and Bob handled the publicity, newspaper stuff. He had come from San Angelo and the Harte newspapers. Lyndon and I did all the physical work in the office. Mr. Kleberg never came to the office in the morning, but came to the Capitol
  • strongly associated with one element as opposed to the other? B: That is correct . I might add, one problem that could arise here--now I'm not saying this would be too formidable, is making sure that there would be one place in the department
  • make this arrangement possible. I suggested at that time that we form a non-profit corporation, as we have in the case of other national parks. I wrote a memo that went to Mrs. Kennedy from the Associate Director of the Park Service proposing
  • : CARTHA D. DELOACH INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. DeLoach's office, Hilton Head, South Carolina Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with your initial association with President Johnson. Was that while he was in the Senate? D: Yes
  • in the newspaper business, magazine business, World War II service in the Air Corps, and, after the war, your own public relations firm. When in this process did you first meet Mr. Johnson? M: I saw him when he was running for the Senate in 1948. I did
  • it on the wing, and to that extent it threw us out of gear. But, on the other hand, I think the task force process was a plus for the Budget Bureau in that the White House could not possibly have staffed out these forty or fifty creative enterprises without
  • trip to Asia. But he didn't want to get associated with a loser. Now, that reputation went out everywhere--that Lyndon wouldn't fight and take a licking, under no circumstances would he risk a licking. And that hurt him in a great many places. Then he
  • of more federal governmental involvement in their business. They believe that with the free enterprise system that it is their responsibility to see to it that there's enough power to go around and that it's reliable. I think that's probably right
  • is associated"--the Great Society, let's say--"he attained great eminence as an opponent before he attained even greater eminence as their advocate." Johnson was not the supporter of Medicare in 1960 that he was in 1965. He wasn't the supporter of major
  • ? M: t·e~, and for about ten months in Europe. G: With what newspapers were you associated? M: Well, I worked in Washington ·for a bureau called Western Reporters that represented a number of western newspapers. I W8.$ . Then I went
  • primarily rather than official. K: It was truly social. the years. So that our relationship really grew stronger over Of course, knew him reasonably well at the time he ran for vice president because of the necessary association that had
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasseter -- I -- 4 G: In childhood. L: No. G: When did you begin to become closely associated with her? L: Well, I don't know
  • Biographical information; association with Lady Bird; life and activities in Austin in the 1930s; the University of Texas; the Johnson courtship and marriage
  • to Brown University as an assistant professor. That was in '46. From there on, it's the fairly usual kind of story. M: At Brown, according to the information I have, you went from an assistant professor to associate, to full professor. H: I
  • to confer with them any more than we were with our executive associates. We were the representatives, not the principals. Well, we were talking. I don't want to spend a lot of time on things that don't run directly to the inquiry. President. They run
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Frantz -- I -- 2 speaker. We'd had educators, and we were going to have newspaper publishers and so on, but we'd never had Mr. Johnson in any of his
  • recall precisely what you did? E: It was purely on the local level, on the Houston area level. M: You would talk to your business associates then? E: That's right. Contact people; send out cards, postcards, the old campaign technique, sign
  • at a very delicate stage in our association just at that time on settling the claims, and the State Department--I speak of "the" Department as if it were an anonymous entity--which you do, you know, when you are in it--but actually by that time I really
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: LeROY COLLINS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Collins· office in Tallahassee, Florida Tape 1 of 1 F: Governor, when did you first get any sort of an association with Lyndon Johnson? I know with your interests in things
  • me over. I He talked to me about his great I think he was already aware of my background-- well aware of it as a matter of fact. As I think you're aware, I've been associated with the Continent for--well, let's see, I went out in 1941, twenty
  • , and comments in letters and newspapers and that sort of thing. But how or why I particularly came to his attention, I do not know. Incidentally, in this chronology I failed to note one of the more interesting experiences of my association with the President
  • : STANLEY KARNOW INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Karnow's residence, Potomac, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Karnow, would you begin by sketching for us your professional association with Southeast Asia? K: It came rather late in my career
  • the airplane, waving to the television cameras and so forth. G: Did you have any association with LBJ while you were at the Peace Corps? P: None. In fact, the first time I was ever in the White House was on November 22, 1963. I was working at the Peace
  • not give too fair an interpretation of what went on. Interesting thing--the Stars and Stripes --got copies from Viet Nam and all over the world--did as good a job about printing what we said and what went on than almost any newspaper, because Associated
  • depended on the radio, newspapers and direct view t6 acquaint ourselves with appearances. And it happened that I had not seen Mr. Johnson until I came to Congress. Mc: What was Mr. Johnson's relationship with members of the Texas delegation? F
  • of Transportation, were you opposed to this or favorable? S: I think that for, partly perhaps for sentimental reasons and the fact that the association with the Treasury had been such a long one and such a happy one that generally in the Coast Guard the first