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  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 And the utilities in my section of the country like TP&L, were very cooperative with rural electrification. Mr. Carpenter and Bill Lynch were the ones who were running
  • is typical of the Johnson pattern ever since the Eisenhower years. Mc: How do you mean? P: He made ever effort to be cooperative with Eisenhower. It's the con- sensus business, and I think he honestly felt--there is a great streak of fundamental
  • of cooperation from different members. Some wouldn't. Some would always. We kept a careful record, a book, on every congressman's vote on every issue, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • the middle of Marigold, such as the change of instructions to Chester Cooper in London when he had to withdraw the note to Wilson and so on? J: Cooper just exceeded his instructions, that's all. M: So these were not errors that were, in all cases, made
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I think history has recorded the fact that there was extraordinarily good cooperation between the two
  • a bit longer, just textually, than the ultimate Tonkin Gulf Resolution. M: About this same time, the contact arranged through the Canadian, J. Blair Seaborn, took place, and I believe you and Chester Cooper were the briefing officers for that mission
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wallace -- I -- 22 interested in was the maintenance of law and order, and certainly we wanted to cooperate with all the officials who were there to preserve law and order
  • a number of countries in Asia. Did I leave again from Washington? (Mark) Yes. H: I remember Senator John Cooper was along. We made a number of stops. I've forgotten who else. The President asked me to make sure that the leader understood his policies
  • as far as I was concerned. President Kennedy and President ~ohnso~ were always very cooperative with me on legislative matters. M: What about the medicare thing, that one took longer and perhaps is more important than many--did that come out of your
  • departments and agencies? C: Yes, there was. G: The files do reflect some tension here. C: Yes, there was. My recollection, just off the top of my head, is that there were a number of departments that were not eager to cooperate at all. In fact
  • , with this American citizen at all? A: In this particular situation, I had very good cooperation from the CIA man, who happened also to be the Consular Officer who was most directly concerned with this whole case. He, as I mentioned, was not present that day when
  • a memo saying here's what we bombed and here's what they're putting in. G: How do you spell that? LG: O-D-E-E-N. It was myself, Phil Odeen-- He's now a partner here in town, Coopers and Vibrand [?]. And a guy worked for Odeen by the name of John
  • a real hot war And the first of these is that as far as Congressional cooperation with the President, as far as the President checking with the Congress is concerned, every check was made with the Congress. The chairman of the Foreign Relations
  • of regionalism, regional economic cooperation in the developing areas and that when Walt Rostow was head of the Policy Planning Council some of the work he did on Latin America � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • think in This was the summer of the Co-Fo(?) and there was a good deal of cooperation between both black and white elements in the South at that time. I'm not sure of my chronology, I'm not sure whether the three murders had occurred prior
  • in the South of some sort to support or cooperate with the effort from the North." J: Oh, I think that's quite true. I think that's quite true. I don't think that's a devil's advocate position; that's a very realistic position. I think there was great
  • , although I had helped recruit some of the speech writing staff. Bill Jorden, who is down in Texas now with him, I got out of Harriman's office. And, oh, Chet Cooper from the CIA who was working then, who since I gather has become critical
  • it took awfully strong character on his part to resist these pressures and to do what he knew was right. M: I certainly thank you for cooperating, General. to give us the time. W: Thank you, sir. It's mighty nice of you LBJ Presidential Library http
  • to cooperate particularly with government agencies and other tax-exempt institutions in promoting public welfare. In that capacity, most of us do assist government agencies to the extent that we can. We have an unwritten rule that any agency can calIon
  • the poverty program. And in good spirit, understanding, cooperation, we were each doing what we had to do. So sure enough, we went back home. My wife had put together some tuna fish or something, soup, and we did feed them and we talked a bit and we talked
  • just didn't show up. Nobody gave us the right numbers. So the President was sick and all through that fall, I went out--didn't get into Viet Nam--but I went into Thailand with Senators Cooper and Symington. And the military and intelligence people
  • already in existence then. We're very interested among other things in the relation of departments and agencies concerned with the same problem. and well? field? Did that committee function smoothly Was cooperation between agencies fairly satisfactory
  • . In the case of Wirtz and later of Johnson, that got translated into the big power companies. This is all on my husbandls tape. So they were strong advocates of public power and the REA-type of cooperative, and very mistrustful of the big power empires. MG
  • of--Well, we did debate in this room a lot of the questions of how far the Federal Reserve ought to go and so forth. But there was never any question about the Federal Reserve's willingness to cooperate. They obviously had their own standards, their own
  • as budget. We were It was also constrained by the necessity to obtain the cooperation of the localities, the states and local governments. just to go in and do this. We were not permitted under statute It was also constrained by some of the habits
  • twenty years of government service which began in 1948 after completing your law degree and an association with a New York City law firm. From 1948 to 1955 you were associated with the Economic Cooperation Administration, and your last position
  • How Reynolds came to work for Senator Robert Kerr in 1953; LBJ's relationship with Kerr and Richard Russell, especially regarding civil rights; cooperation and leadership among Russell, Kerr, and LBJ and why they were successful; Senator Robert
  • totally wrong, was not born out at all by the FAA man when he came out and went over all facts and heard all tapes. The Egyptians finally, as is so often the case, were cooperative after it was too late to be cooperative, and helpful. M: After
  • , 1964, when he met with business and labor leaders urging cooperation and support for Medicare and civil rights. about his effort then? Do you remember that? Did he talk to you LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • of the FBI. So the first thing that they did was to try to destroy the spirit of trust and cooperation and patience and human sensitivity, without which no movement can grapple with difficult problems or build a different kind of spirit. But the second thing
  • over the damn. But the whole posture from the early fifties was still one of support of and cooperation with the regime. The economics recovery and strength of that island and that government was just beginning to unfold, and it's been, of course
  • on your committee, weren't they? H: All three Kennedys sat on my committee. B: So you must have known all three Kennedys pretty well. H: I did. And they all cooperate mighty well. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY