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  • the amount of money we could get. This is no news to me. We've been fighting this battle for a long, long time, and the people that have been fighting it and the people that are managing the program, and I think doing it well, are discredited in a significant
  • of surplus commodities to Third World countries; the Rural Development Service; daily Department of Agriculture staff meetings led by Freeman; legislation Freeman proposed; food stamp programs in relation to direct distribution; Freeman's efforts to keep JFK
  • four feet? G: Did you read the coverage it was getting in the New York Times? A: I read a fair amount of it; I didn't read it all. G: What did you think of the way the major papers covered the trial? A: It improved with age, and I think it's
  • that particular day, but I do recognize this statement here, "LBJ postponed the vote for two hours while they got some Democrats to the floor. II That was a daily practice. G: Really? C: He got the votes there and they voted, and he being the leader, we
  • of acquaintances begin there and professional relationships begin there, but there was a very strong identification of education with the Johnson Administration as a result of that conference. it M: ~ Everybody felt that the dawn of a new day in education. Do
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 grandson and ULcd to sl!()\" hil~l He" off ane! liked to have him around. called Luci and told her to bet Lyn ready, that he uanted to take Lyn over to meet a new friend
  • time and all of a sudden to start bombing Hanoi at the same time you're on a peace offensive just doesn't make any sense." At any rate we had almost daily meetings. Each day I pressed for the opportunity to sit down and talk to the Hanoi Ambassador
  • on up to New York. Went up to Hyde Park. M: Did you know Mr. Roosevelt? F: Sam had met him. We saw him make his acceptance speech that night out at Franklin Field. He had met him, yes. M: And he knew John Nance Garner, I suppose. F: Oh, he
  • the traffic that was made available from all the embassies. The cable traffic you showed me, for example, part of the daily fare would be a stack of it. Some of what you showed me was SI, was back LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • . The workers in that industry are paid almost entirely on an hourly or a daily basis, because they don't work every day. This is one of the reasons, by the way, that the wage rates in the building trades industry are so terribly high. They look terribly high
  • people are going to get hurt or killed. G: Did you have an opinion on the way that Hanoi was apparently able to convince some Americans that we were, in fact, bombing the civilians? Harrison Salisbury, I think, of the New York Times, was perhaps the best
  • beating up on people who were raising their prices. And the President was sensitive to that, and that may have been what ultimately led him to conclude that at least we should make some attempt to deal with this, with the situation in New Jersey
  • to create new institutes of health, what I used to call them, and I think others have taken it up now, the disease of the month club. You know, "Mothers March for . . ." and all that sort of thing. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • with the 1941 campaign was four or five days after the election and when the Texas Election Bureau made another late return. F: It looked as if he had won, didn't it? K: It looked that way long enough that, as I remember, the Dallas [Morning] News
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 12, 1969 This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May 12, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon B. Johnson, that is you
  • 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
  • and press assistant to then-Representative Jacob K. Javits from what was then the Twenty-first Congressional District of New York, which is the upper west side of Manhattan ranging at that time from West 114th Street north to the end of the island
  • was primarily on bird life and in the last few months the focus has been on what effect this has on man himself. In this way it's sort of indicative of the whole sweep of the conservation movement and the fact that it's taken on new dimensions in the last few
  • INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Krim, let me just begin by asking you to sketch the origin of your friendship with President Johnson. Do you recall the first time you
  • Meeting Vice President LBJ; Ed Weisl; birthday event for President Kennedy in 1962; occasions where Krim saw LBJ before he became President; Krim’s work producing films for President Kennedy and LBJ; New York fundraising for LBJ; history
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVII -- 3 got to know Don Cook from New York, who became special counsel of one of those subcommittees. Absenteeism involved his hours and his brain and his passion, but some of his thoughts were
  • in the 10th District in 1943; Mrs. Johnson's teeth; portraits and photos hung in the new KTBC office.
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Moving to the next presidential election in 1964, was there any effort made to have a debate between President
  • the burning of a Vietnam village; television news coverage of Vietnam; Stanton's belief that the Vietnam war would have been shorter if there had been presidential debates in 1964; Walter Cronkite's effect on public opinion and LBJ's concern over Cronkite's
  • , an old patrician, delightful character, so far removed from Lyndon geographically and socially and in so many ways, but always very fond of Lyndon. And [he was] seconded also by [Dennis] Chavez of New Mexico. The fact that Chavez was Latin American
  • that money would be put. I was opposed to that. For one thing it would make these cases interminable. For another thing, what it did, in effect, was give us a new and very extensive jurisdiction. We had no licensing authority over either transmission lines
  • suggestion that Securities and Exchange Commission powers over the utilities be transferred to the FPC; LBJ's influence on Swidler's work; Swidler's talk to New England power companies and the resulting efforts to integrate and coordinate systems without
  • INTERVIEWEE: NASH CASTRO INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton PLACE: Mr. Castro's office, New York City, New York Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 M: We're going to talk now about the establishment of the Wildflower Center. Ted Gittinger on our staff prepared a chronology
  • missions better or offers new military missions of importance. 2 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
  • to learn about the problems there," and I did learn. I mean, water is something I never understood, I don't think, until I went to both the University of Texas and New Orleans. I went somewhere in New Orleans, I think--but I think it was just the sense
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: THOMAS CORCORAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Corcoran's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Let's talk about the New Hampshire primary in 1968 and what happened to the President there. C: There was a primary
  • a Texan? H: I was born in San Antonio, and I grew up here in Austin. lJhen my family moved here, I was just a little fellow, about seven or eight years old. F: When did you join the Dallas News? H: 1916, on the old Dallas Journal, which
  • that year for the San Antonio Light as a cub sports writer and each summer thereafter for three years, coming home from school for the summer months, and then went to work full-time for them about 1930-31. I left the sports arena and went into general news
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: MOLLIE PARNIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Miss Parnis' office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: I want to begin by asking you to tell how you first met the Johnsons. P: Well, I first met Mrs. Johnson when she
  • INTERVIEWEE: NAJEEB HALABY INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Halaby's offices, Pan Am Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Najeeb--to his friends known as Jeeb-Halaby. First of all, I'd like to know something about your
  • Democratic Party dinner in New York. He came right from the airport to the dinner and delivered a rather flowery tribute to the President. That sort of stilled things for a while. But it wouldn't stay down, and I think the President r s response
  • force version of the aircraft, both here in the U.S. and overseas, though in my opinion these have not been abnormal incidents, but typical of the kind of difficulties one has with the deployment of a new aircraft. In the case of the navy, however
  • during the first five years of the Kennedy-Johnson Administration when the rate of economic growth was twice as high as in the previous years. And we began to get the new and recent price inflation when the economy got into trouble again. There has
  • interest rates; Rexford Tug-well; Keyserling’s influence on the New Deal; lasting effects of New Deal reforms; military spending and the economy; Vietnam war; planning public spending; jobs and on-the-job training; evaluation of LBJ’s domestic policies; how
  • the arrival in New York was like cattle. It is true they had a sort of a board, and you had to report to it; you stood in line. And, of course, everything was done long before I ever arrived in New York. The consul in Trinidad, American consul in Trinidad
  • family home in Cologne, Germany; photography methods and a photograph of LBJ in Austin with the Jewish Brotherhood; the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in New York and Amsterdam; LBJ's involvement
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 2, 1968, in his office, New York City JBF: Mr. Farley, to begin, tell us something about your background, how you came to get into politics. F: Well, I was born and raised in a little community called Grassy Point
  • in the real estate business, managing apartment houses in syndication in New York City. I had gotten into interpreting quite accidentally, at first for the Carnegie Foundation; subsequently the Young Women's Christian Association, the national board
  • going to be in the future. 1 believe--\vhen the Department of Transportation was created, was it not part of the administration put the Maritime Administration in that new department? pol~cy to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org G
  • capabilities; nuclear power; safety regulations; cargo preference legislation; new maritime program; transportation revolution; relationship between government and maritime industry.
  • your own Department? U: Well, with my Department, and you know my Department is not one of the big major Departments in terms of its programs and responsibilities like HEW has been the entire 1960's. We were initiating a lot of new programs. I think
  • of Congress, we were trying to develop some new legislation that we might put through after the election of '58 that would improve the situation for producers of various farm commodities. And Mr. James G. Patton, president of National Farmers Union, and I
  • , 1977 NTERVIEWEE: ANNA ROSENBERG HOFFMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Hoffman's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 H: I wasn't active on the passage of the Selective Service Act, but I heard a story about it that I later found
  • , although Lyndon Johnson always thought I was from the Northeast. I'll explain why later. I was born in Chicago the day the United States entered World War I, April 6, 1917. parents had migrated westward from New York two years previously. My My father