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Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

who has such a personality and has had the experience". of experience. He did have a lot He'd been a secretary or an aide to Mr. Kleberg, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. It's been so many years ago I'm not exactly sure just what was said specifically. I remember Mary Margaret was with Lyndon. and she had taken a tumble down the Capitol steps. My husband who is an orthopedist administered some sort of emergency aid

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of State for Latin America, and he had the cognizant Latin American officials there--AID, Peace Corps--well, person there. I guess I was the only Peace Corps But the USIA and the State Department people from Latin America weJ'!'e there, and Senator

Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for national purposes, on maybe a critical point of the economy or the war on poverty or foreion aid or a trade bill, this kind of thing, and that he was at a level to know really better than the Congress what ought to be done. I can recall some votes

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, having to hurdle, let's say, fellow aides. P: I don't think the problem was any different with respect to Truth in Lending, probably, than it was Truth in Packaging or other consumer legislation. I think it was a basic problem of getting consumer

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, the state aid areas which were out in the country--none of these could really be disassociated from natural beauty. And she gave, in her quiet way, great support to our program and to the work we did. Of course, I have no way of knowing the influence

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

should have told us. F: Is part of this current feeling against foreign aid--I know of course part of it is an assay of 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Roosevelt's programs? V: Yes, they do. In some ways they're more fundamental. concept of the field of education. I mean his See, we fought, bled, and died during most of the Roosevelt era to get an effective program of federal aid to education

Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at it. hadn't taken a swing at me. M: But being Mr. He wouldn't have been happy if he (Laughter) Your business that you're currently involved in is one that is closely related to at least one major government activity, AID. P: That's right. M: Was Mr
contract; advising LBJ on political matters; LBJ’s use of staff vs. outside advice; Pace’s work with the AID and corporation for Public Broadcasting; Pace’s lack of involvement in political activity; Truman’s character as a politician and administrator; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Do you recall yourself going to him to get some help from him on legislation that you were interested in? Y: Yes, that happened quite often. G: Can you recall any bill in particular where he was instrumental in aiding you? Y: Well, I think

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--no longer feared that if you did have an aid to education bill, this would be another reformation. And earlier education bills had been quietly killed in the Senate by the church representatives going around and just putting a damper on it, saying, "Look, we

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of military aid to both sides th~had to go for compromise. Ayub could see that if the war continued much longer that he was up the creek. He would run out of military resources. to go to Tashkent. That was why he had LBJ Presidential Library http
The Congo crisis of June 1964; how the Russians got credit for settling the India-Pakistan crisis of 1964 and U.S. involvement in the crisis; how LBJ obtained and evaluated information; U.S. military aid to Pakistan; the Three Week War

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, perhaps, as is so frequently the case, the attacks on the department and on me tended to draw us together and cause a little more effort. B: I've left out an area here--this whole area of federal aid to local law enforcement which, as you've said
Safe Streets Bill; use of electronic surveillance (telephone wire taps) for national security; federal aid to local law enforcement; assessment of LBJ

Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the 1950s, General [Dwight D.] Eisenhower sent to Congress some legislative proposals, one including some economic aid for Middle Eastern countries, and there was considerable controversy about the economic aid and reluctance to grant it. And Senator Johnson
stockpiling; economic aid to the Middle East; the decision to place the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado; deliberations regarding sending military forces to Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam; support for Republic of China's President Chiang Kai-shek

Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

] Lodge pretty much insisted that Lansdale be sent out to be his aide, or one of his aides, when Lodge became ambassador of South Vietnam. TG: Why didn't that happen earlier? Didn't Diem ask for him earlier? RG: The State Department resisted his

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and this was something that was a concern to Ford. How was it handled? C: I don't think it ever deeply affected Ford's relationship with LBJ, because I think in situations like this, people tend to think that it's the aide, this s.o.b. aide that's really doing

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, and getting out releases after he'd been on a trip. Tuen the late hours usually were ended up with Walter Jenkins who would be going over all the mail. And as he would sign it, I would fold and stuff it; and we usually ended up by getting it to the post

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; Reedy’s relationship with LBJ after the Presidency; LBJ’s use of the telephone; LBJ’s power of persuasion; LBJ’s positive attitude; Walter Jenkins; President Nixon; LBJ’s and Sam Rayburn’s view of Nixon; LBJ’s separation from reality; LBJ’s childhood; Sam

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

over, say, a ten-hour period. He'd turn over in his grave if he knew I told you he drank a fifth a day, but he did. G: Well, you learned of the heart attack and you went back. B: I came back to Washington, reported in to--called Walter Jenkins

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was in--I think I--yes, I was in the AID picture myself at the national level, and therefore had a lot to do with the senior advisers of the AID picture that were in what we called in those days Rural Development. This was before OCO [Office of Civilian
Jacobson's opinion of John Paul Vann; Vann's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam and his death; Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) relations with the press, including Joseph Alsop, Don Oberdorfer, Peter Braestrup

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

was president of Princeton, and he and I got to be very good friends because we were the new presidents in the AAU. We sat with each other and talked with each other about the extent and kind of federal aid, what should we be planning? And he reached down

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: The Dominican Republic is not that much better off than it was, but it's not that much worse off. Indeed, we had a very substantial AID [Agency for International Development] recovery program and that sort of thing. It's an impossible country in the sense
the summer of 1967; LBJ's interest in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and "bridge building;" LBJ's view of foreign aid; whether or not LBJ was able to get a variety of opinions in his advice; LBJ's personality; the admiration and affection most staffers

Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that was known then as Director of the Development Loan Fund. The Development Loan Fund was the Foreign Aid Bank. Mr. Coffin invited me to be General Counsel of that organization. I went over there and carried on as General Counsel but had the additional
Background; Oscar Chapman; SBA; Eugene Foley; relationship between White House staff and agencies; coordination; OEO program for Indians; AID; Economic Development Administration's programs

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, with him talking and discussing different bills and other political matters\vi th senators and their aids. I stepped out of the room. During a couple of the telephone calls But the long and short of it was that I loft his office that evening, fascinated

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and with his aide Neal Kennedy. Nick Katzenbach had to do that at the level of the Senator, and I worked with the Senator when he was working with Mr. Katzenbach. I went through an entire redraft of the bill with Neal Kennedy, with a group of persons

Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

some experience overseas in areas where one sees many more of these kinds of problems. The service offered me the opportunity to be loaned to what is now AID, but in those days it was ECA [Economic Cooperation Administration], then FOA [Foreign

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the NLRB even further. It was just too complex, nobody wanted to play with it. G: Well, I think we've covered the labor bill pretty much. Of course it was passed by the Senate but not by the House. Let's go on to the federal aid to education
1958; Kennedy-Ives bill; Texas labor; Arthur Goldberg's concern about Senate Republican Policy Committee charges; federal aid to education; National Defense Education Act; Mike Mansfield's leadership abilities; Supreme Court bills; death of Mrs

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Kennedy wanted to move in so many directions in the domestic front and as Vice President, Johnso~ who had been majority leader in the Senate, was personally familiar with the senators. That would be a great aid in passing legislation. M

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ing pressure through the Alliance for Progress aid to get goodies for our American business community . time . We were leveraging all the This wasn't because the Administration wanted to do it . There was pressure from Congress ; there were some

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

personnel and AID personnel, USIS personnel, com bined what were existing operations of all three. And that was approved as an NSC directive; it had institutional authority approval. It wasn't just an ad hoc organization created out in Vietnam. M: What

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or foreign aid. I guess our largest margin of Republican support in the House was in the vicinity of twenty or twenty-two votes, and that was on the Rules [Committee] change. I don't know as we ever achieved that level again on hard legislative proposals. We
to add a Medicare rider to a welfare bill; American Medical Association (AMA) opposition to Medicare; Jennings Randolph's role in the defeat of the Medicare bill; a bill to provide aid for medical-school education; education aid and concerns over

Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

star is rising rather rapidly. I: To go back, when I came to Congress, Walter Jenkins, who you also know, was also from Henrietta, Wichita Falls, and he married Marjorie Whitehill, who's from Wichita Falls. So when Ed Gossett, who was the congressman

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the campaign, in October of course we had the Walter Jenkins incident and you 13 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

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh HORWITZ -- I -- 13 of something conveyed his message. So that sometimes you weren't sure what the assignment was because the guy didn't have any conception .who was transmitting it. Senate~ Walter Jenkins, was Fortunately

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on it. But they moved from there to the building they're presently occupying. G: Did Lyndon Johnson also have an interest in some apartments north of the University on Red River? J: No, Walter Jenkins had some there. G: I see. I see. I thought those were some

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was not followed. B: Did you see anything of the members of Mr. Johnson's senatorial staff? C: Yes. Walter Jenkins? I came to know Walter Jenkins, I thought very well, although you never, of course, can be sure. B: lIve seen it said that Walter Jenkins

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

daily contact with Mr . Johnson or his office--you know, not always with him, with Walter Jenkins, George Reedy, etc .--the guys that were in his office, John Connally, etc . But at that point, beginning in 1953, I began to have nearly daily contact
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
[For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and I became head of one of its divisions. I was assistant director for Mutual Security. Then I went to London as chief of what was left of the AID Mission and also minister for economic affairs in the embassy from 1952 to 1955. In the summer of 1955 I
; 1947-1949 Paris with Governor Harriman; with Harriman in DC in 1950; 1952 for Truman; London as Chief of AID; Minister of Economic Affairs in Embassy in 1952, 1955; Alliance for Progress; to Brazil in 1961; Dominican affair; OAS Charter; Assistant

Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

characteristics as a dual system among both pupils and teachers. The new guidelines put us in the position of having to raise the question of whether a number of school districts should continue to receive federal aid because their free choice plans were

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