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  • boards in Florida are elected on the basis of political affiliation, and the Broward school board changed its complexion. Three new Republicans were elected to the school board. F: This was after you had been sort of stockpiled for Broward? B: Right
  • are getting pretty far from Johnson on this thing. M: Hell, no, I'll get back to it here. here. I'm not trying to preempt your material I was driving toward this--the growth of this sort of new agency in national security affairs, advisory staff
  • in to the Congressman from John Connally. And it was perfectly obvious that whatever disagreements there had been over the manner in which his health news was handled, it was gone by the board. I knew everything was back on the track. I think it is interesting
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- V -- 9 perhaps, or Birmingham? I don't remember which one, because from time to time she would find some new doctor or some new source of help. I think perhaps this may
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LVII -- 3 majority. And with the new House, as Henry Wilson's memo of November 22 indicates, we were faced with a continued
  • -- I -- 7 G: I see. Did you meet him in Honolulu and then accompany him? L: I went to fetch him in Honolulu and accompanied him all through the rest of the journey. And then, from Washington, he went to New York; from New York, [he] came back
  • , myself, there was the new group of [Walter] Jenkins, Bill Moyers--I guess, [Jack] Valenti and others, and then there were three old friends, Clark Clifford, [Abe] Fortas, and Jim Rowe. And you could see those geological layers from the life of President
  • support from the administration for a new freshman coming in from northwest Iowa, I don't have all those details. MG: You don't have any indication of what the administration--of what the White House did, if anything, to assist that-- 6 LBJ
  • , and then he'd have another period of despondency. G: Did you do anything during these periods to cheer him up? J: I tried to, or we did. We tried to tell him everything that happened at the office, all the good news, all the wires and letters and so
  • , and when I went out, obviously, I talked to a lot of old friends and new friends in the press business, and that was a major gripe. My recollection is that they were sending it through the telegraph office. I don't know which one, whether it was IT&T
  • McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological
  • , until we got two more judges. F: Now this put you in a new relationship with the now-Vice President Johnson, because you're not in a position where you can campaign anymore. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • : No, none. F: Where had you gone to school? T: CCNY in New York. Got a bachelor's there in Modern American History, Modern European History. F: Well, you got in on some modern history. T: Yes. F: So, you showed up there, then, in a commercial
  • of the administrative and programming problems, planning problems, that a new organization would obviously face--particularly one where these young people would not have had this kind of experience before. B: Did you have any kind of continuing contact with individuals
  • on the northeast coast-F: Yes, lIve been there. W: Well, he'd left there on a bombing raid over New Guinea. He'd spent some timein Brisbane, certainly a number of weeks, staying in a funny little country hotel, and he wanted to go back and see it, which he did
  • of those things. You were supposed to be teaching some of the new methods of something else. He also had prayer and the pledge of allegiance. We did that every day. The children all went outside when they put up.the flag. Instead ofputting it up, the Texas
  • for. Subsequently in 1967 it became clear that the art had progressed to a point where you could design a new plane which could get for the navy what it wanted. By that time it was going to cost more, but that's what we're doing now--we're going down the route
  • brief and yet curiously intense.I was marched across the well of the Senate by Gerry Siegel during a break in the proceedings and introduced to my new boss, and he said, "Glad to have you, do your best," somewhat abruptly but with full force. B: From
  • Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s 1964 campaign speech in New Orleans; Johnson treatment; immense capacity to judge people; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; first signs of Presidential ambition; LBJ’s relationship with oil and gas industries; relationship
  • your chronology here gives the reason, is Johnson's resistance to the idea of tax cuts as an antirecession measure. He was for big spending in response to recession, and part of that I guess is just the classic New Deal and southwestern, midwestern
  • , yes. G: --which was first mentioned in the State of the Union [Message]. M: I was never opposed to it. What I wanted to do was to see if we couldn't balance the budget. I didn't want that additional money to be spent for new things, because he
  • . And I went to work at the White House. (Interruption) R: Recently Nancy and Drew were on a trip to New York and New England, and then coming back they stopped in Washington and saw the sights there. Nancy told me that all of a sudden they passed
  • , which had to have something by about three or four o'clock in the afternoon. So we developed a little technique. I, or anybody that I could get to do it, would figure out some sort of a news lead and write out about eight paragraphs, sometimes less than
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shanks -- I -- 2 borrowed seventy-five dollars to pay down on a brand new Ford, a six-hundred-ninetyfive-dollar Ford--that's
  • as a change of policy . That we were doing what was necessary, that was the policy ; that this was just a couple of new things we were doing, but it wasn't a change of policy . effect, to mute the whole thing . him into that . He wanted, in I don't know
  • can remember seeing he signed his name in one of those— G: Okay, and then May [April?] 25 he went out to Kansas City to see Truman, and then on to New York to see “Advise and Consent.” V: I didn't see that though. It says here, I notice where
  • at me all the time to be sure that [inaudible]. He fussed at all his friends, [inaudible] G: Do you recall when you learned he had had his fatal heart attack? How you got that news? MW: Television. W: Were we here? We were here at the house or were we
  • in history. F: You would say then that he lived up to the question of continuity of the New Frontier ideals? K: I felt so, very strongly in the domestic programs--commitment to these areas which had been a subject of the campaign of 1960, had been
  • was it? On the first of November, on Monday morning, the New York Times ran this story about LBJ is "sputtering mad," and he called me. Even at the time it was amusing; I had a hard time keeping a straight face. He was chewing my ass out, furious about this story. He
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLI -- 4 mess on your hands, and because of that McNamara wanted us to get involved in a construction labor dispute in New
  • there any trades that you recall? C: No. It was just pure heat. I'm sure I talked to the [New York] Times editorial people, the [Washington] Post. It was a full-court press. G: Patriotism and-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • for his particular needs and functions. I recall that I planned that we would have the new big bed arranged on the seventeenth floor and that at the right time, after several days, in order to allow his circulation to stabilize and his blood pressure
  • of [John J.] Rooney, maybe from New York-- G: That's right. Brooklyn, I think. H: --was on the trip. Now, the reason President Johnson had asked him, at least as I 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Let's start today with a little talk about Johnson as a Senate majority leader operating to bring new senators
  • and President [Richard] Nixon during LBJ's retirement. F: Well, obviously this ignores the striking earlier history between the two going back to the Eisenhower years, but Johnson made it a point with the [1968] election barely over--we were in New York
  • Busch and August A. Busch, Jr., and I went to New York and took this contribution of ten thousand dollars, which was made up of the various members of the family. While we were in New York, of course we had an appointment, and we met Mr. Garner and Sam
  • . G: How did they get the application through? J: Royls application got hung up because they passed a regulation at the FCC, because of the need of strategic materials, that no one would be permitted to build a new radio station using strategic
  • but I don’t remember any particular slogan that we had on it. I think it just had “Lyndon Johnson for Congress” and that sort of thing. G: Was there any particular theme? K: Of course he was extremely interested and in favor of the New Deal. G: Did
  • believer in air power, solid. In those days, before the nuclear submarines, air power was by far the important weapon. He and The missile picture was just beginning to develop. r, for example, were very strong for the B-70, the new bomber proposed
  • been urged by others to get a new deputy. There was a general feeling that they ought to have a sort of a new leaf in Sai gon. G: Who had been his deputy before you? T: A man named Cunningham. I'm not suggesting there was anything unsatis
  • first taken office. I can remember very vividly the fact that my dear friend, Maury Maverick, who was then the congressman from Bexar County in the San Antonio district, introduced me to this young new Texan. As I recall it, Maury took him down
  • you very much." G: Oh, my. H: So he went back and reported. I guess that was in December or it was in late fall, and on New Year's Eve, I got a call. He said, "Be prepared to go to Washington on the day after New Years." I said, "For what?" He