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  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 S: I would say probably, certainly not at that time, but later. You never quite know whether you Ire seeing a Cabinet post dangled or not, especially if you are as totally disinterested as I always was in any Cabinet post. But I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for the American-Statesman. I started as a capitol correspondent for the Galveston N~s, and then the Trans-Radio Press; that was a news service. Then I picked up another paper--this was [as] capitol correspondent, [the] Wichita Falls Post, which is no longer
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  • from an important post returning to Washington would be received by the President. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
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  • : Would frequently be handled by the different cabinet posts. B: 1.s that going to.be coordinated with the M: I wOuld think there would be a large degree of coordination but not in the initial stages. Senate~ too'? There has to be coordination
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  • to full strength when you left to take the new post? M: Yes. As we brought it up to full strength, then President Johnson proposed an increase in the department of a thousand new positions approximately. Congress approved that so we have brought it up
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  • , who is a tax man, and have kept my interest in taxation throughout my professional career. I remained in the Treasury until mid-1953. As I said, the highest post I had was as Assistant Director of the Office of Tax Analysis. I then went
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  • ? That there was going to be an investigation, or that people were going to come in here? P: When they had posted these returns at 765 to 60. And I think it came out in the paper the next Thursday, this little old weekly paper, LBJ Presidential Library http
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  • in the Washington Post on the editorial page, I think it was the Washington Post, they had a list of quotations as long as your arm going back over the years, the so-called optimistic, over-optimistic statements and so on. from any member of the Joint Chiefs
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  • it must have come later. B: Later? Really? Of course, he was a strong Kennedy man, he was a strong Kennedy man. But on the other hand, in a way would that have been considered a comedown to go from a number-two cabinet post to a number-two OEO post? I
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  • . Shortly after Charles and I were married in Austin we went to live in South America, where he had been living when he graduated. And someone in South America brought to my attention the Saturday Evening Post, which did a whole series of things about George
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  • his selection of John Gardner as HEW [Health Education and Welfare] secretary immediately following the conference. Did you or others at the conference have any inkling that Gardner was going to get this post? 18 LBJ Presidential Library http
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  • to Acapulco; LBJ's memoirs, The Vantage Point; LBJ's daily routine at the Ranch following the administration; LBJ's interest in golf; the Malecheks' home on the Ranch; Scott's work as LBJ's post-presidential secretary; Scott's experience talking to the press
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  • of the effectiveness and the timing of cease-fires throughout the Middle East and elsewhere in this post-World War II period touches on this fundamental question that you've raised. You take, for example, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, in the first forty-eight hours when
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  • a little like the zone rates on parcel post. Within a certain number of miles you charge one rate and for a further distance of miles another rate, a bit higher, and so on to the end of the line. Naturally, there is always a lot of contention among
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • because there was nothing written about it in the newspapers, nothing in the Post, nothing in the Times. Finally Arthur Sylvester, who was the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said, "You dumb ninnies,"--was a favorite expression of his
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in Washington which was if I recall corr.e~tly late December or early January, I think it was early January, no, we had no more contact. We went back to finish upĀ· the post-flig ht reports, and that was our last contact that I can recall. M: Were you
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  • that was taking essentially a sub-cabinet post, and not .necessarily the most important sub-cabinet post. M: You're a career appointee and not a political appointee. S: That~s right~ a career appointee rather than otherwise. So that was really my first
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  • for the policy committee. And I must say that this really was my post-graduate education in political science. F: George himself is a bit of a political philosopher. H: Yes, he's very good. And George was very good about opening up to me. I had the usual
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  • remember that very well. He had worked for Mr. Johnson's subcorrmittee as a naval officer during World War I I. G: Was Cook reluctant to leave his post? J: I don't think so. 7 ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
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  • ://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 Johnson -- XXII -- 10 post cards and then they'd write them a little personal post
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  • all else in life - friendship. Working at speech-writing in Washington I had favorably caught the eye of the wonderful man, Eugene Meyer, owner of the Washington Post, father of the present owner, Katherine Graham. He was so close to Harry Truman
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  • shouldn't take the time, but I like to tell the story, so I will. When that meeting was over--it was not open to the press at that time--a reporter from the Washington Post who has since died, a marvelous reporter called--with an E, a woman reporter, I'll
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • realized we had to have it. You know, the command post was the trailer moved outside the convention hall where Lyndon stayed. Mr. Rayburn was on that delegation. Price Daniel was head of it. As they called the roll call of the states, the minute Lyndon
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • this on balance and go right on? C: We would like for her not to have been assigned by the Post to cover. But when they assigned her, we couldn't do anything but accept her, put up with her, and hope we survived. F: And did. Did you ever have any opportunity
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  • field, who had served as the Public Relations Officer of the Post Office under Day and had then gone down to Florida and had left his job there and been LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
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  • there until about March or April of 1970. So I was in Vietnam for two years, from post-Tet to just before the invasion of Cambodia. G: I see. What was the situation like, post-Tet? What did you find when you came in country and took over the division? E
  • Biographical information regarding Vietnam tour of duty; post-Tet to pre-invasion of Cambodia; Delta; Long An; Dinh Tuong occupations by Viet Cong; TO & E NVA units and Viet Cong main force; press and TV coverage of Vietnam War; body count; Hamlet
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  • bean on vacation too. F: Since we had to make the trip we decided to look at Mt. Rushmore and some of those things. And we were right by the post office where the car stopped at a signal, and a man stuck his head in the window of my car and said
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for the Fort Worth Record-T: Fort Worth Record in 1906, I was 16 years old. M: 1906, right. And in 1912-1913 you came to Washington and worked for the Washington Post. You have been an editor and owner of newspapers. In 1917 you became the Washington
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  • it between Lyndon and me. Washington. So that's what we lived on in You just had to make your money stretch. But when you can ride for twenty cents in a taxi you know that everything else was in proportion. The post office was in the building
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with the Daily News editorial staff to tell them his aspirations for the City Council. And the News--nobody had this story about his being withdrawn but the Post, and until the Post said it, of course everybody I guess was trying to investigate it. So he told
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a big deal out of it. It's in the Washington Post the day after the funeral. it was overdone. I thought But anyway it was all part of Johnson's effort, coming in as a Southern conservative Vice President, to appeal to the liberal forces. I \'Jas
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)