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- . There was a good deal of interchange because they had groups--private groups with all the civil rights people in the government that met privately over a six-month's period. We were not ever in very close liaison--let me put it this way--with the White House
- House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican
- could make that one So we did, and I still enjoy it. At the time, it was quite different. rising of the question of color. At the time, there was just a Many people were talking about it; but not very many doing anything about it. After
- had the congressional committees on our side. Even the city organiza- tions like the National League of Cities and the Conference of Mayors, which some HUD people thought would oppose the plan, refused to opposed the transfer. I say a few hard
- to get the votes, they also would tell him. There was no double talk. There was no rather crude partisan politics between the three men. I think I could also say in the associations that I had both with the Speaker and Mr. Johnson it was exactly
- ] 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
- in the space program. I think that it's fair to say also that he was interested in the military space programs. It wasn't just the manned program, although of course with half of NASA's work going into this area and with the national prestige association
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- thing on his own. Of course, they would pick out the size or the color if there was a question. But he \lIas very generous in that respect, always coming up with some sort of a little surprise for people to try and make them feel comfortable. He
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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- of Nixon's aspirations at that B : time, and how much help, if any, you received from the national party . Nixon, of course, flatly denied that he had any Presidential ambitions-that he intended to spend four years in Sacramento . But I hammered away from
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- but of many of the people and in a service secretary's position, one has to do one's best to try to marry the people and the systems into a program which is aimed at producing military capability in support of national policy . I think that Air Force people
- , served in World War II in submarines in the Pacific, in 1949 got a doctorate in Physical Metallurgy from Stanford, and from 1949 to 1968 worked for General Electric-the last five years as manager of their Tempo--GE's Center for Advanced Studies--in Santa
- made that first trip through space as first astronaut. of Broadcasters was meeting in And the National Association ~Jashington. could I please try to get [Shepard]. They called me and said Kennedy was going to come to LBJ Presidential Library
- with companies--potential advertisers. F: He was seeking national advertisers? W: Both local and national. Most national advertisers have local interests in the Texas area. F: And so he was hoping to work through the horne office to induce local people
- up a great deal of strength on the second ballot. What Johnson's problem was, I feel there were just too many strong people in the rtmning, and that the nation didn't know him too well, even though he had been Majority Leader. I think those were
- 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
- . A few months later, I found myself down there with the Thirteenth Air Force. F: Asking yourself whether this is advancement. 5: Yes, well, everybody had to do their own thing, and this was mine, and being, what, twenty-two or twenty-three at the time
- . But it was a colorful thing. They sang, liThe Yellow Rose of Texas lt and there was a lot of activity. It got off to a bad start which is a famous story by now about the first stop outside of Washington was Culpepper, Virginia and there were about fifteen people out
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- association with him as a member from the House on the Joint Committee. M: I see. When Mr. Johnson became a Senate Leader, as Minority Leader and later as Majority Leader, how would you characterize his relationship with the Republican leadership, of which
- LBJ as Senator; Atomic Energy Control Bill; LBJ and space program; LBJ and foreign policy during 1950s; LBJ and Foreign Relations Committee; LBJ’s foreign policy; Atomic Energy Policy; Test Ban Treaty; Lewis Strauss; LBJ and JFK people; Dominican
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 18, 1969 This is the interview with Dr. Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council from '61 to '69. Sir, to start back before you joined the Space Council, back when you were
- was viewed by our people as being much more conservative. prevailed until he actually became the Majority Leader. This His attitude toward the things that we were interested in, I would say, became more favorable as time went. But still
- by the requirements of 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh COOK -- I -- 6 the national
- a liking to Johnson as a young Congressman and wanted to make sure that he got broader acquaintanceship with people throughout the country, and he asked Hopkins to put him in touch with someone in New York who could introduce him around, and Hopkins picked
- Natural resources and national parks
- of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force
- a national party; he didn't know how to handle people outside of the narrow acquaintanceship that he had, and this contributed to his downfall as much as the Vietnam War. F: Well, now then, why didn't Bailey move into this vacuum and run an organization
- Natural resources and national parks
- of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , and to this day the overall functions have been dispersed in the executive. It was handled with foresight, but when they chopped it up and gave the functions a little bit to the National Science Foundation, a little bit here and there, the only way people could
- any very much effect when the crunch comes on a matter of either what people regard as nationally important or a matter of individual conscience. I would never, and I don't think any member of the Senate that I know of, would change his vote or vote
- Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil
- the Secre- taries Association here on the Hill, just the House of Representatives. That's the first association of its kind that was organized, and it shows too that he was always on the job doing somethings, organizing, getting people working with him
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- rights issue; Nixon’s inflation of economy; LBJ’s sound ideas regarding national economy; interest rates; history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency.
- are, but he was appointed by a Democratic president. For the most part, it's a question of seeking out someone who seems to have a big national reputation, and somebody with a name; and, generally, those people, unless you can really offer them something
- LBJ's Senate office; Defense Preparedness Subcommittee; Senate Aeronautical and Space Science Committee; National Aeronautics and Space Council; NASA; development of space program
- steer you in what not to do, but do you think they have as positive an approach sometimes to issues as the people who are not lawyers? G: I think you probably have to have lawyers in any legislative body, but my complaint about them is that they want
- INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE P. MILLER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Millers' 22~ 1974 home~ Washington~ D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: My association with Lyndon Johnson was a very pleasant one. F: You overlapped in Congress, didn't you? M: Overlapped
- as Republican national committeeman for California when Earl Warren, who had been national committeeman, resigned at the time he was going to run for LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- started attracting favorable attention very quickly and -F: How do you account for that rise? Did he just get along with the right people? S: You can't account for all of it in anyone point, but he's what I call a natural worker. He went to work
- 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
- in on the secrets of any important bills. Any that you remember particularly, how they were done. So much of that is just not in the record, and unless we get it from people like you, who were part of it, we just don't know. about Tidelands legislation at all. I
- Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
- that had long sessions every year at the United Nations, in his yearly State of the Union message to the people of the United States--in all of these arms control was actively considered. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Symington -- I -- 3 to do that, didn't think I knew enough about Missouri state politics. Later some people in Missouri, prominent people, persuaded me to run for senator. another. President Truman had