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Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

there was any resentment. The needs are so great--were then, and still are--for financial aid to the police that they welcomed the federal government's recognition of their problem and a willingness to do something about it in a very material way. The only real

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. . . . One thing I notice here, this would be Thursday, August 25, I guess, "LBJ aides quietly visit slum areas," the Washington Post. We ought to do something about that. B: You've got a file on that. G: Do we? B: Some memos, [inaudible]. C: Well

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of this report was the first recognition of the American Medical Association that there was a shortage of physicians. M: Is it true that there had been some interest in federal aid to doctors and medical facilities on back into the early 1950's? S: That's

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

administrations; agricultural legislation; Freeman’s “report and review” sessions; 1965 Food and Agriculture Act; BOB; price support program; Farm Bureau; Food for Peace Program (PL480); India; self-help feature; aid to Latin America; AID mission; relationship

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

men, for aid and guard and so on, and they're on almost every sizable--almost every town. Almost every district's got one of them, and you can't get them closed, even LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Judd family history and childhood in Nebraska; how Congress has changed since the 1940s; the future of US democracy; how WWII changed US citizens' perceptions of their rights; the rise and fall of governments; 1944 trip to China; WWII US aid

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: I have a long montage of election nights, but I don't--many of them took place in the Driskill Hotel in the Jim Hogg Suite, or in some big room there where we'd have a blackboard, and Walter Jenkins would be as busy as a one-arm paperhanger writing

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

about the transition and coming back to Austin and what he T..las going to do once he got dmvn here. And on mo occasions, he told me that the very first thing that he wanted to do when he got back to Austin was to look Walter Jenkins up and go see him

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F: You were seeing the world? N: Seeing the world! F: Did you have any kind of a New Year 1 s Eve on the train? N: No. F: It was a quiet trip? N: Yes. John Connally took Walter [Jenkins] and me the next night

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

everything just exactly right. G: What about Walter Jenkins? N: When John worked in the office, John was head man. didn't, Walter was head man. Where did he fit in here? When John He ran the office, and more and more so as Mr. Johnson became Minority
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
1948 campaign; John Connally’s role; Lady Bird and LBJ as campaigners; fund raising; Senators Wirtz and Russell; FDR and his death; venison story; LBJ’s relationship with his employees; letter count; Glenn Stegall; Walter Jenkins; compassion

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Walter Jenkins had his great difficulty. I must say, that's a mark of a very decent, very fine, very warm, and very courageous human ceing. She wasn't thinking about what the hell impact this would have in Texas or New York or Greenwich Village
The appointment of Robert Weaver to HUD; acting as gift adviser to CTJ and Clark Clifford, drawing up guidelines for wedding gifts; CTJ responds to the Jenkins incident; LBJ's insistence that staff be on call; LBJ's blocks the transfer of Perry

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a feeling that some aides were trying to block out memoranda or ideas from other aides? Was there a competitive--? B: Oh, sure, we had lots of that! (Laughter) The first one in, the first one to get their perspective in, the first one to get their views

Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

'SO's, I can't remember the date, a new element was added to this with passage of something called the Battle Act, which set up the Mutual Defense Assistance Control, which came theoretically under the aid program, then I think called the Mutual Security

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. I worked there on federal aid to highway construction for seven years to 1940, working on all types of bridge and road-street construction involving federal funds. I then was transferred into the Washington officer here to work on the development

Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, '~ook, So this sort of information then we've got to make some changes here in the target area of the Manpower Development and Training Act." And of course at this time we were also aided and assisted and proded, you might say, by some of the things

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] met Dean Rusk before. -18- I talked to one or two of his aides, Moyers was up there, and, of course, Marvin Watson was up there. Bob Comer. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
in Vietnamese regime; Westmoreland; Abrams; personnel in Vietnam; Clark Clifford; LBJ’s acceptance of Locke’s race for Governor of Texas – no aid from LBJ; 3/31 announcement; estimation of LBJ; Texas political structure; Lady Bird; political nature of LBJ.

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. So I sponsored the first bill two years after Eisenhower. When the Republicans lost the Congress, I became chairman, you see, of the Aviation Subcommittee, and I got the Federal Aid to Airports Bill through. Later on I continued my interest

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was supporting--I think he was supporting Fred Hinkel of Missouri . It was generally thought that his former aide, Herb Waters, was the man that he'd like to see as Undersecretary . Californian . Herb Waters was originally a He had been tied to Humphrey so

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

said to me, "Now, Fred, you're going to run the department, but you're not to touch anything affecting the White House or the National Committee ." Mr . Bishop was given that assignment because he was the personal confidential aide to Mr . Day when

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

hearings and as a back-up fellow. We've talked of Dutton, Lee, Krizek, Zumas [from the] State Department; Craig Raupe, AID, I remember him very favorably; Joe Bowman, similarly, at Treasury.Joe Spilman at Treasury I don't recall particularly. Adam I
to civil rights; senators who did not vote; the civil rights bill-signing ceremony and bill-signing pens; the transportation bill and issues of scheduling; how George Mahon replacing Clarence Cannon on the Appropriations Committee affected 1964 foreign aid

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Jenkins, or George Reedy, neither on,~ never str'.lc·k me as being particularly pushy types. S: No. Walter Jenkins is a very admirable, sensitive man, it seems to me and George Reedy, a man of great in:elligence and character. Bo:h Reedy and Jenkins

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

this sort of automatically bring you in contact with Mr. Johnson, and was this an aid to the developing of a friendship 'way back in 1947? A: Yes, it was. But I can't remember the exact date that I met Lyndon Johnson. I shook hands with him before I
; Barkley; Rayburn-Johnson conversation regarding the Democratic nomination for president; LBJ's working relationship with Eisenhower; Rayburn; Civil Rights Act; Federal aid to education; Gerald Ford

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

with Mr. Johnson, but I think it may be important a long time from now, and that's of course what we're trying to anticipate. You were director of American aid to Greece and Turkey in a very critical time--l947-l949. What is sometimes called the New
and Mr. Kiesinger; Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; reunification; effects of Vietnam War on Germany opinion; ambassador-at-large; Director of American aid to Greece and Turkey, 1947-1949.

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of this medical knowledge at the doctor-patient level and the need to close that gap. M: That was always talked about, but I don't know how great it was. Did you ever hear anything else about it? One time we tried to get a bill through for federal aid to medical

Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the human resources of a country. It was general, as opposed to country-specific. But yes, I was heavily involved in the presidential commission that was more commonly known as the Draper Commission. G: This was a study of the direction foreign aid should
Stilwell's relationship with General William Westmoreland; the CBS/Westmoreland lawsuit; Stilwell's involvement in the Draper Commission regarding foreign aid; Stilwell's experience with Vietnam before 1963 and his assessment of the situation

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was about to ask him for. All the time it was about five times as much. And Lyndon, with a great gasp of relief, took it, shook his hand, thanked him, and went racing out the door and back to the office. I wish I could be precise. Perhaps Walter [Jenkins

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

: Walter Jenkins. J: Walter, and my heart hurts when I think of Walter. Walter is one of the best human beings that I've ever known. And so able, and all of the good Christian virtues. And Walter had lots of crosses to bear, known and unknown. And he
of the KTBC building in Austin; Lady Bird Johnson's impressions of George Reedy, Bill Moyers, Liz Carpenter, Walter Jenkins, Horace Busby, Mary Rather, and Juanita Roberts.

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Jenkins; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries; break between Moyers and LBJ; George Christian; Lady Bird as a business manager; LBJ’s love of giving gifts; communication between Lady Bird and Jackie Kennedy.

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. They had been running school construction and general aid bills up there; they had been running all manner of manpower programs and whatnot through the Congress, migratory worker bills only to have them die on one side or the other, or by Presidential veto

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the Pacific against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945 shortly after Vice President Truman became President, I was summoned to Washington by then President Truman's Naval Aide to assist in his office. He had been a former client of mine in St. Louis; his name

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

"oreign aid. W: I think if you take military assistance as meaning just some degree of subsidization of military equipment for foreign countries that the future is quite dim. I think that you've got two basic problems. One is that foreign aid has

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

--of which we had very few, known as the Boston bomber--they wanted all we had to come and assist them in the relief of the actions going on in Vietnam. You see, that brought it immediately under the military aid program, in spite of the fact

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a pound. P: Because you were on national television. L: Yes. P: At a later time, did you participate or aid in helping the Apostolic delegate in Washington form a liaison with the White House? L: Well, I'll tell you, if I did, that is quite

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the average member of Congress. usually. If you called the White House, you got a call back You'd explain it to the President, and maybe he would turn it over to one of his trusted aides--and he did have very good aides--to either document it or to amplify

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nes -- II -- 11 What about the Soviets during this period? I know that there were concerns in the State Department that the Soviets were increasing their influence through military aid
Cairo; UAR; PL480 flood assistance; economic projects; Nasser; Sadat; Soviet position; PLO; AID; 1967 crisis; UNEF; Robert Anderson; Liberty incident; 1973 war

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

left; John had been doing some dealing with the press. Lodge took over press relations into his own office. Joe Lubin. He got himself a young aide named He became his own press officer and in theory at least, Mecklin no longer, up to the time he

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

appointments; difficulty dealing with Otto Passman, especially on foreign aid; the creation of the Agency for International Development and opposition from Styles Bridges;

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and had strong control of the Senate. I think his principal aides were Senator Russell and Bob Kerr in the Senate. Then of course on the House side he had Mr. Rayburn. M: What was your opinion of his accepting the number two position? A: I think

Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

their weaknesses and their strengths, and he played on their weakness and their strength. G: Well now, didn't he also help you with aid to depressed areas? D: Oh, yes! G: Can you recall how he did this? D: It was not openly stated, but he got the Senate

Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the Senate Lyndon Johnson to seek his support for a program to aid the railroads of the country, particularly at the commuter level. The railroads, in the East particularly, were having real difficulties, and I was very much impressed with Lyndon Johnson's

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