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Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

aides or staff members getting that much press. So Oki, who had been in USIA [United States Information Agency], went back to USIA as head of their Still Picture Division, and I'm not sure, it's still up in the air as to how long he was gone

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It was small by present-day comparisons . In the first place in our School Aid program, if my memory serves me right, I think an average of about six dollars a student was allocated to the school, depending on the size school and the number of students

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Let's see. Let me find that. Yes, the party for congressional aides. The President knew that I had spent years on the Hill, and he knew that I knew many, many of the people who 24 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
the Kennedy family; Adam Clayton Powell; a party LBJ hosted for congressional aides; staying at the LBJ Ranch; the telephone system used by LBJ and staff; radio communication at the Ranch; having picketers near the Ranch arrested and later invited to the Ranch

Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

while he was talking on the telephone, and then when he put down the telephone he would go on without filling in. So the first time I went in there I came out and I said, "Walter"--Walter [Jenkins] sat outside. There were three offices: his office

Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Johnson opened his headquarters i.n that hotel. As I recall, Walter Jenkins and John Connally, who after- wards became governor of this state, were working in the office on the mezzanine floor putting some banners around there and sort of getting some

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that they just felt that my background was such that it would be good for this particular job. G: Can you recall the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? R: I certainly can. I was in visiting the office, I believe talking to Mildred Stegall, Walter Jenkins

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Bundy, Walter Jenkins were with him. F: You had a regular White House pass or EOB pass or something like that? R: You had no difficulty in getting in? In those days, that's right. up that night. And we met in the EOB elevator going LBJ

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a police department. Atlanta had been exceptionally well trained in attitudes towards Negro people. Chief Jenkins is liberal by nature, has a distinguished record and has been through the whole civil rights movement and is highly regarded

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

bring John Connally or Frank Oltorf or Gus Wortham. We had our canasta games with the Jenkins and the covered dish, and then with the Thornberrys and a covered dish, and maybe Zephyr [Wright] would fix us up something sort of special out at our house

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And everybody would have a big laugh. I don't think he ever had that kind of a relationship with Mills; I don't think he ever felt that way about Mills. G: Now, he came to the aid of France when the franc was in trouble. B: Yes. I was looking at this Poor

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. That's broken down so that it has a Subcommittee on each one of the twelve departments, and then one on foreign aid. believe they have one on Supplemental Bills. And then, I also But 14 different subcom- mittees and they're the ones that hear

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 S: Well, Ild hate to give a specific instance and then be wrong. was mostly on foreign aid, and that sort of thing. definitely on foreign aid. But it I think I

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

me through October. was as Special Consultant to the President. On Again, that the first one, I should say, it was technically special consultant to AID, but it was really the Bureau of the Budget and White House job. M: I have been talking

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That was the debt ceiling and foreign aid. The debt ceiling afforded an opportunity for the Republicans to play some games and cause you difficulties and embarrassments. But you did not overreact to all of that. You had to go through this exercise, which
Security eligibility and exempt local telephone services from the excise tax restoration; the annual debate over raising the debt ceiling and foreign aid; a proposed rider exempting the proposed National Football League (NFL)-American Football League (AFL

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that there is a solution. My own belief is simplistic. I think if you're going to operate a war against poverty, everybody who's not poor has to understand that the money you're spending is to eliminate poverty. For example, AIDS. We've got this AIDS epidemic now

Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dale -- I -- 11 AID program and so forth. This is chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury and the other
-1967; Special Drawing Rights (SDR) system; IMF effect on U.S. aid programs

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of snow on the ground. We didn't get to bed until about two and had to get up at six because the Congress was still in session. aid bill. I was s ~orn The Congress was voting on a foreign in at seven o'clock a.m. on December 24, Christmas Eve. F

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

are viral in nature and some of that very same research, I was told later, and particularly when AIDS came 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

and local governments and counties. They were largely in the form of categorical grants-in-aid, adorned with all kinds of requirements and conditions mandated into the acceptance of the money. There were constituencies who were delighted, and they were

Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and submit to the committee within the next sixty days a program proposal setting forth a general outline of the content and scope of such a review of the research programs conducted by the department and by the States and financed by cooperative aiding

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/loh/oh Perkins -- I -- 10 (Interruption) P: What was it? G: The church-state issue. P: Well, we had that issue, it had been hang i ng around here for years in How did you resolve this? the education bill that really killed the first federal aid

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the debate in the Senate, and he was aided and abetted by Spessard Holland of Florida particularly. So that I think Lyndon Johnson's skills in the tideland issue probably came from the manner in which he scheduled debates on amendments and that kind of thing

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into legislation that you had some sort of relationship with after he was President. I wanted to ask you, first of all: did you feel, when you came back up here, that the battle for federal aid to education was won? I mean, was this a problem to you, or were you

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the national defense. And we got some school construction funds in what we call the aid to federally impacted areas, both for operation and construction, at the time of the Korean War, the build up during the Korean War and the mobilization that took place
in 1950’s; Construction and aid to impacted areas; LBJ’s interest in education; LBJ’s position on “liberal” issues; LBJ’s impact on Eisenhower’s foreign policy; LBJ’s instructions to HHH in political maneuvering/timing.

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he is. A: When we were sitting in the office, aides kept bringing him, as they did from time to time, these clippings off of the news machine, and there was Joe Rauh making a speech or some comment about the failure of the President to enforce

Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to vote on an issue. In fact there was one time when I was opposing a Presidential nomination--- M: Was that [Rutherford] Poats [as Deputy Director, AID]? B: Mr. Poats. This went on for about eighteen months, and I got it delayed, and kept it off

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you have any difficulty getting AID [Agency for International Development] funds for El Salvador? C: No, I think El Salvador spoke for itself. The people are rather energetic. I think the presentation was well done; the government was sharp
Arguedas Mendieta; the effect of the CIA's alleged involvement with Guevara and Arguedas on U.S.-Bolivian relations; bomb-throwing incidents at Castro's home while he was ambassador to Bolivia; problems getting U.S. aid into Bolivia, especially due

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the election, and he started to m3nd _ his fences immediately. M: So you were called in as a political aide? K: That's right. M: Were you willing to help him? K: Sure. Sure, I traveled the country for him and with him. I flew with him for two or three

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and style, assigned me as an aide to Lodge for that visit, knowing of our past relationship. I was sort of running Lodge's temporary office and running his message center and facilitating his mission on his visit there, which had many facets. This is all

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the Office of the Naval Aide to the President who was then Commodore Vardeman, later Mr. Clark Clifford who is today our Secretary of Defense. I was detailed to his office and assigned to the Entertainments Office for duty. That of course was from '45 to '47

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh the law was the federal aid to the law enforcement-V: That's correct. The federal role in law enforcement, as most people think of law enforcement, is very limited. The federal government

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

mean the aid programs. last there, I got a little burned up. Foreign Aid Program myself. You see along the I was having trouble with the I've always supported it, and I'd be the only Republican from Indiana that would. The darned thing out

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 Development Act of 1965; the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1966, which for the first time provided for effective liaison between the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Agriculture with respect
; AID and international program activities; pollution; legislation drafting process; Vietnam; personnel recruitment; racially integrated staff

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for International Development, which is a part of the State Department. So I was observing the MACV thing from quite another angle, really, and was not ever anything important at all in the military aspects of MACV. G: What was AID doing in Vietnam in those days
McGarr, Charles Timmes and Paul Harkins as commanders of Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) and later Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV); Jacobson's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam; the 1963 coup in Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

deal. For example, take one minor success in a way. We took the AID budget last year and are doing it again this year. At the figures that the President is going to propose and then at lower figures, very sizeably lower figures; and then region
; the Senior Interdepartmental Group; the AID program; national security advisers; crisis management; Vietnam policy-making; the "nongroup;" Walt Rostow as a second secretary of state; peace feelers; Marigold; the Ashmore-Baggs trip; anatomy of leaks; the March

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

deductible year after year after year, and turned them over to Walter [Jenkins]. The thing that broke that rhythm was when we finally--somewhere in the vice presidency I began to slack off, and then I completely quit that in the presidency. 11 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
the assassination hurt Dallas’ reputation; Walter Jenkins; the effect of LBJ’s position on their friendship; Dale’s work as chairman of LBJ’s inauguration; the inaugural balls; money made from the inaugural events; accompanying Lady Bird to parties; LBJ and parties

Oral history transcript, Ralph Moreland, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

good personnel. ~1: Right. And they've worked for him. . . Well, only my very best peopl e work as diligently for me as they do for him. talking about some strong capable ones: ~~alter Jenkins, some others. And I'm Jess Kellam, Don Thomas, Very

Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Lyndon Johnson represent your interests adequately? B: Oh, absolutely . of his . Jimmy Burke from San Antonio was a personal friend I knew Walter Jenkins, his assistant . had done some remodeling work in Walter's house . In fact, our firm When Mr

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in that campaign, and ~/alter Jenkins. You've often been compared to Lyndon Johnson. Did vou have anv ideas of modeling yourself after his career? B: No, I didn't have any ideas of modeling myself after his career. I must confess I'm kind of amused

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