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Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or grants of any consequence--that is $5- or $10,000,000-and a little later all PL 480, Food for Peace sales and grants--I should say sales of any size. It was initiated, I believe, because of his desire to have a close personal control over the timing

Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of this for state purposes, but nothing on the national level . M: At the risk of perhaps getting you to use some very limiting labels, could you very briefly define what you feel your political philosophy is? B: Every time I've been asked this question I

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Could you date that information? B: That was a matter of a very short time after the legislation came up, which was in March or April, it would have been formed. G: You were aware of the activities of the task force--the early task force

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Truman left the Senate before it was established again. the Korean crisis, as I recall it. But it was established again really from And I was the chairman at one time there--the Korean crisis and we have a very short armament--of shells and so

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

believe, were on there. She was from the Dallas Times-Herald. Who else? And the rest were mostly newspapermen from weeklies. Just a free trip. G: I see. Does that mean they couldn't go because of space or time requirements? R: Oh, they couldn't go

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and saw something of the then-Senator Johnson at that time. The first time I recall talking with Senator Johnson was during the fall of 1956 when Senator Kefauver and I were campaigning throughout Texas with Senator Johnson. Senator Johnson led us
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Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. But by the time I got there I realized I should do a broader book. That was Viet Congo From then on, of course, as long as the war continued, I was labeled an expert on the Viet Cong and experienced in Vietnam. get out of the field. So I couldn't I spent

Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

activities in the northern Rocky Mountain country. Then I moved back to Washington as a deputy chief of the Forest Service in charge of Cooperative Forestry Programs with all the states in the Union in fire protection, insect and disease control technical

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

grievances and so forth. But I don't remember minimum wage. And you say, [reading from outline] "Has there an urban orientation? primarily on urban instead of rural poverty?" G: Last time, right. Y: Yes. "How did the task force function? We talked

Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

theater of World War II. After World War II, I also served in Korea as Division Artillery Commander in 1956-57 time frame. From then on--when I came back from Korea in '57--1 spent the next approximately ten years in intelligence as the Director

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

ten months, selected as one of the first fifteen White House Fellows. I decided at that time to leave the University, though my dissertation was still hanging, because I could not resist the irresistible, which was a chance to work for the State

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

time. R: Well, the problems which we encountered at Chicago had already begun before we went to Chicago, and I trace a lot of them to that session that we discussed in our earlier meeting where he was so rude and loutish to the members of the labor

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

like that. I used to listen to him on the radio. At one time we had three Democrats from Wichita Falls, he being one of them, running for governor. And then after he won in the general election-his Republican opponent, Orville Bullington, was from

Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

positions, as I have them recorded here, include research associate at Harvard Center for International Affairs from 1961 to '62. At that time I think you were on leave from RAND Corporation. You worked briefly as an economist for the Conference

Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

I guess every time a person went out of office and a new person came in they fired everybody down to the ranks of a foreman and then hired their own people. him. Dad figured that was enough for So he went out to Long Island and got a job

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be in 1960. Had yoct any particular acquaintance with Johnson prior to that time? S: I had known Johnson when he was Majority Leader, I'd known far better very close friends and supporters of his, esp2cially J[m Rowe and Phil Graham. At Jim Rowe's

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1968 INTERVIE\'lEE: BE~; INTERVIE\{ER: T. iL\?2.I BARER J. 1,'I/\.TTENBERG Mr. i;;"ttenberg' s office, Executive Office Building, PLACE: Washi~gton, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Hr. Hattenberg, we '..;'2.re talk.ing last time about the group of you

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to affronts . He also I remember one time--I don't know whether it's on the previous tape or not--he came to Fort Worth to speak . He � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

perquisites available to the floor leader of the Senate, to the majority leader. times. He had different people staffing it at different Ashton Gonella, as a general rule, was in the outer office, and I think Mary Margaret [Wiley Valenti] was in the inner

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

talked with my scientists about the time the book came out. They felt that in the main she was on target and that we ought to come down on that side of the argument. If you may remember the agricultural interests generally pooh-poohed the book, reacted

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

over and was interviewed. Airlines, and she came onboard. She had been working at American And she left me at the time of the Humphrey campaign because one of the reasons why she came to work here was hoping to work on the President's campaign. So

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

consultant to the--? R: Senate Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee--right. B: You were fairly well acquainted with Horace Busby at that time, weren't you, who was already one of Mr. Johnson's assistants? R: Yes, but only because of my

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

and providing for the tape some background information, at the end of which time I'd like you to fill it in or complement it in any way you feel fit. You were born in 1900 in Atlanta. In 1923 you received the bachelor of arts degree from Morehouse College

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for approximately a year--which, by the way, is the length of time people ordinarily stay with the Supreme Court as youngsters because it's a very low-paying job. It's more for the training and the honor than it is for the pay. Governor Daniel hired me
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Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Job Corps, the director of Head Start. So at that time Bill Kelly would have been closing them up, and Bill Kelly was just terrifically good as a manager and thank God he was in charge. That's one reason why I don't remember the details. G: Did

Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in electronics and aerospace products in particular- in industry . I had been a student of foreign affairs though for some time . P: What is your educational background, Mr . Borum? B: A graduate of the Naval Academy, Engineering . Graduated in 1953

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to everybody. I extended the study so that it wasn't just a study of cul- tural affairs officers, but of the functions of educational and cultural diplomacy generally. I turned it in on time. President Kennedy was dead. By that time, of course, I turned

Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a t th e c o r r e c t news- paper? H: I began on the newspaper in 1919. I was s t i l l a s tu d e n t a t J e s u i t High School and I wrote prep school s p o r t s a t t h a t time f o r th e [New Orl e ans] Times Picayne . I became th e a s s

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