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  • /oh 2 T: I graduated in January of '59 from law school and went to Washington in June of '59; served up there for just the one year, which is the tenure of the clerkship; returned to Austin in July of '60; and became an associate with a law firm
  • and '67 crisis-- F: These were not newspaper bugaboos, then? K: Not at all. The Turks were getting on the ships. intelligence as to what they were doing. didn't need any intelligence. We had good As a matter of fact, we They told us they were
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • , Mr. Joseph Dodge, whom I had known at the Pentagon through his assistance to the Army in connection with the Japanese and Korean financial matters. As a result of that, we had been professionally associated. He called me, asked me to come over
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 if you want to call it that, of CIA support of National Students Association and some publications. I presume this goes back to the period in which you were
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
  • a bit of work in this area and I do a lot of other work, but I-- F: You haven't confined yourself to that? H: No, I do not limit my activities to transportation. F: Did you have any association with Mr. Johnson beyond an occasional social gathering
  • in work of ICC; JFK assassination; President of National Trade Association for Inter-City Motor Bus Industry; return to government service in DOT; maritime industry; Urban Mass Transit; formation of DOT; Alan Boyd; party for Luci and Pat; LBJ established
  • became Johnson's associate special counsel, what did this do to your duties? A: There were a few other duties added, I think, as is true of most of the people on his personal staff. They didn't have just one niche. I also had the responsibility
  • Bar Association; LBJ’s sense of propriety in discussing legal/political matters with Thornberry; education for the deaf; being nominated to the Supreme Court; LBJ not running for re-election; LBJ’s retirement.
  • Warren Woodward who at that time had moved to Houston and was with a savings and loan association there. B: Were you involved with or associated with any of the various groupings in Texas' factional politics at the time? V: No, not really. I did
  • ? C: That's right. B: Had you not served prior to this on the McCone [John A. McCone, former head of CIA] Commission investiga the Hatts riots? C: Yes. B: I know Mr. Clark also made a trip out to Watts after the riots. become associated \vi th
  • very special ties with Great Britain. It's a great mistake when people think that must be so, this one or other. If we had a British-Australian association, I would be a vigorous member of it, as I'm the vice president of the American-Australian
  • publicity because it had drawn the support and attention of Dr. Martin Luther King and his associate, Dr. [Ralph] Abernathy. It had ceased to be strictly a labor dispute, but emerged as a matter of the dignity of minority people in Memphis. i~volved
  • should point out here for the record that since 1960 you had been with the Washington Planning and Housing Association, a private group, on the board and for a term the president of the group. P: That's correct. S: I assume that that is a private
  • Presidential Library http://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 5 to the Secretary, and I came in as an associate
  • interesting experience because, as I men- tioned in the earlier interview, one of Mr. Johnson's closest and long time associates was Irving Goldberg, who now serves as a judge on the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Goldberg agreed to become vice chairman of the Texas
  • . Taylor, I know you've had a very long and close association with the Johnson family, and I would like to just begin this interview with asking you: first, when did you come in contact >vith the Johnson family, and what were the circumstances
  • . the National Association of Broadc3sters. I believe it was Ilm not clear in my mind about that-F: He amplified a little bit from the March 31 speech; he enlarged a little on what was said there. T: Correct. He decided that he would go out there. I think
  • how and whether it can be done. But basically of course they do have constituencies that are represented by public spirited organizations; they have foreign policy association, United Nation associations. And then they have some that go further, like
  • association in the Congress. We were never close and intimate. The Texans had their own fraternity which didn't require so much outside relationship, although I don't mean that they were isolationists or that they were exclusive. But still the Texans had
  • happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which
  • : No, I stayed on in Chicago for two or three days and then was relieved by Associate Deputy Attorney General John McDonough who had been there from the beginning, and I returned to the Department . B: Then the next one was in the summer of '68, in both
  • the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
  • by the President's attitude. Mu: So even those that might have been conservative otherwise turned out under his influence to be maybe more sympathetic than it had appeared? :(,1e: Yes. I would say that personally this association lasted right from the minute he
  • to be the deputy mayor. I want a city manager for that job." Horace Busby then called Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers Association; and Mr