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Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] met Dean Rusk before. -18- I talked to one or two of his aides, Moyers was up there, and, of course, Marvin Watson was up there. Bob Comer. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
  • in Vietnamese regime; Westmoreland; Abrams; personnel in Vietnam; Clark Clifford; LBJ’s acceptance of Locke’s race for Governor of Texas – no aid from LBJ; 3/31 announcement; estimation of LBJ; Texas political structure; Lady Bird; political nature of LBJ.
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . So I sponsored the first bill two years after Eisenhower. When the Republicans lost the Congress, I became chairman, you see, of the Aviation Subcommittee, and I got the Federal Aid to Airports Bill through. Later on I continued my interest
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • said to me, "Now, Fred, you're going to run the department, but you're not to touch anything affecting the White House or the National Committee ." Mr . Bishop was given that assignment because he was the personal confidential aide to Mr . Day when
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Mr. Johnson, but I think it may be important a long time from now, and that's of course what we're trying to anticipate. You were director of American aid to Greece and Turkey in a very critical time--l947-l949. What is sometimes called the New
  • and Mr. Kiesinger; Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; reunification; effects of Vietnam War on Germany opinion; ambassador-at-large; Director of American aid to Greece and Turkey, 1947-1949.
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • "oreign aid. W: I think if you take military assistance as meaning just some degree of subsidization of military equipment for foreign countries that the future is quite dim. I think that you've got two basic problems. One is that foreign aid has
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • --of which we had very few, known as the Boston bomber--they wanted all we had to come and assist them in the relief of the actions going on in Vietnam. You see, that brought it immediately under the military aid program, in spite of the fact
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the average member of Congress. usually. If you called the White House, you got a call back You'd explain it to the President, and maybe he would turn it over to one of his trusted aides--and he did have very good aides--to either document it or to amplify
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • left; John had been doing some dealing with the press. Lodge took over press relations into his own office. Joe Lubin. He got himself a young aide named He became his own press officer and in theory at least, Mecklin no longer, up to the time he
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and with Lodge, with AID Director Bell, Bundy, Rostow, all present. What was the gist of that? K: I don't recall what the gist of that particular meeting was. Let me say--you know, you asked me whether I had many meetings with the President as a prospective
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • supported the gradualism at the start, to feel out the reaction not of~Hanoi but of Moscow and Peking. Dean Rusk, by no means a timid man, emphasized the possibility that these great communist powers might be committed by treaty to send forces to the aid
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Leader during those days. M: Did he have a well-developed position on foreign aid? That has been one of your chief interests, I believe. Mundt: Yes, and I think he was totally wrong on that. he's totally wrong. I still think I've had long exchanges
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . Do you feel that, from your vantage point as a leader of higher education, that the task force's major higher education recommendations--I think aid to disadvantaged students, loans and grant, aid to developing colleges, and new community LBJ
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to rebuild the country, the countryside and things of that kind. With our AID 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, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as I remember. look it up--twenty or tHenty-t\Vo. A number of the things were done, but of course many of the things weren't done. emphasis in its programs. I could AID did change the Of course it's ahrays hard to know whether it's not just
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than the Republican members of the Senate in many instances. Foreign aid is a perfectly good example. I mean LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • Foreign aid
  • Staff officer of Eisenhower; treated as family by Ike; met LBJ in 1953; became LBJ’s close friend, politically and socially; Tidelands Bill; foreign aid; Ike got 83% of legislation through Congress; good political leader; knew intimately government
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . But when we came down to getting special funds for poor areas, special funds for equipment, special funds for aides to help, a breakfast program, that kind of thing, we obviously ran counter to some of the basic value concepts of some of the people
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that with the Vice President of the United States. But I voted against them a couple of times. I became a friend of Walter Jenkins during the course of this time. I used to see Walter around town and worked with him on a couple of problems that we had
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • War III in Eastern and Western Europe. G: Could you define in any way who took what side on these issues? Were there splits within agencies, for _example? Was CIA more pessimistic than AID or anything of that nature? N: As I recall, the greatest
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in large measure because of our heavy military deployments over the world, and because of the foreign aid program. So we began to make an attack on this problem that was only dimly viewed LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Corcoran -- III -- 12 assume, because McCarthy talked to me about it. I was sent to talk to him by Walter Jenkins to hold him down in the convention in Atlantic City. F: What do
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson? B: I think that we were the only ones that were there. I was taken there by that young lad that later got into trouble. F: Walter Jenkins? B: No. F Bobby Baker. B: Bobby Baker. I can't remember whether Fred
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -state relations, or federal aid to cities, or anything like that? W: I didn't have any specific conversation just with the President about these matters, like I'd call him up on the telephone, or he'd call me on the telephone about a matter
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and technical assistance programs. Senator Fulbright, for example, has registered his principal objection to foreign aid, not to foreign aid as such but to it's unilateral character and the danger of involving us in unilateral ventures abroad. What he's
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Diem assigned him to the civic action project. So we worked on the organization of that and got a decree through, and sent some of his people over to the Philippines to take a look at what they were doing, and worked up a program to present to the AID
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)
  • ] Zorthian, the head of AID, and others was to meet once a week. The military attache to the Ambassador was designated the secretary. I think Lodge saw the committee as a divisive thing eroding his authority as ambassador; so after the first meeting, he
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • predominant color if we look a little longer. We, I think, went too far in our reaction to the India-Pakistan war in cutting off economic and political aid to them. I think that this was the result of enormous concern in the Congress and in the public
  • on the Arts; Bill Fulbright; UAR ambassadorship; incident in Egypt; Dr. Ramsey Stino; US-Egypt relationship; US aid to Egypt; Congo; Greek coup; Yemen crisis; Arab-Israeli War; Tri-Partite Declaration; Johnson administration as pro-Israel; opening of Abu