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Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shriver -- III -- 4 mine was something that came to the forefront of my head right away. Consequently, I saw the Job Corps as an opportunity to do nationally what I
Oral history transcript, A. Scheffer Lang, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in railroads? L: Yes, we do. M: Then what is your relationship to the National Transportation Safety Board? L: Well, our relationship to the Safety Board is essentially the same as LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Biographical information; Robert C. Wood; HUD development; formation of DOT; urban mass transit; transportation safety; National Transportation Safety Board; role in relationship to railroads; threatened national railroad strike; poor communication
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS PIKE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Pike's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Would you recount how you came to enter government service? P: I worked for the United Nations in Korea during the Korean War and then came
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : INTERVIEWEE: MICHAEL FORRESTAL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Forrestal's .office, Shearman and Sterling, 53 Wall Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Michael Forrestal. You were a Far Eastern expert with the National Security
  • Chairman Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam in March 1964; his duty to brief VP on Far East; after T.G. massacre in 1961 had two jobs: to dredge information from Ambassador Averell Harriman and to brief Congress and VP; painful
Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the National Advisory Committee to the Selective Service, for the selection of doctors, dentists, and allied medical personnel. He did put me on that. M: Was this while he was President? C: I believe this was shortly after he became President. The previous
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as a research assistant to Professor Clair Wilcox, an economist at Swarthmore, ,,,ho was doing a study for the Temporary National Economic Committee. I spent the whole year working on a monograph that was subsequently published by the Temporary National
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in particular . One other point about this . Where did the idea of the National Transportation Safety Board come in? B : The NTSB was a development in the course of the legislative process ; I'm not sure who came up with that particular name, but it became
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh were doing wrong and then getting out before anything else could happen. At any rate, Dick said there was that committee. But he also said there was this thing they were trying to put together. quite sure what
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • guess dating back to 1965, RPP&E had been charged with construction of the so-called Five Year Plan or the National Anti-Poverty Plan and in the incorporation of the budget process within your division as well. L: No. Did these two have any relation
Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --chairperson for the advisory committee for the Peace Corps. While I did not have direct involvement with him, I know that he LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • view of that? N: That is not my view. My view is that it is important that our military establishment be responsive to the will of the president and the national security council. In fact I can think of nothing more important than that the military
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and also all concepts of really what good government called for. The District Committee tried to design the highway system, part of which would have had a throughway running underneath the C & O Canal along the Potomac, which would have been quite
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] from the time Mr. Johnson took office until the summer of 1966. B: Until the end of September of 1966. M: Then you came back as ambassador to the United Nations for a very short period. B: A period of four months beginning--I thought
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it had a civil rights aspect to it as well. We were still struggling with manpower training. We really didn't come to the National Alliance for Businessmen until the following year, if I'm right. I don't remember, 1968. B: You launched it in 1968. C
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • over that period of time. While Vice President he followed foreign affairs very closely and traveled to foreign countries a great deal. He sat with us in the National Security Council and sat with us in the Cabinet, and I had many informal talks
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • through. I indicated what happened with the John Gardner task force. The child development task force of 1966, which was chaired by Dr. Joseph Hunt from the University of Illinois, had perhaps the top fifteen people in the nation in child development
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Hous e when he was on the N: ~\ayy He never gave up. Watchdog Committee:? Well, he ?:.::: me to work on it. I was supposed to be a go-between between r.ci:::: and the investigators. for awhile. We worked down in the Navy It was understood
  • became staunch friends; Navy Watchdog Committee; LBJ never expressed a preference for a candidate before a primary.
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • --arise? J: Well, the Bureau of the Budget at the request of the President set up a committee composed of a representative of the Bureau of the Budget, Customs, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • on reorganization; O'Connell Committee survey on baggage handling problem; elimination of 53 political appointees in Customs
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was how the effort was going to be financed. I very clearly recollect the discussions within the commission [the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders] as to what we were going to do about it. The best idea that arose, at least I thought so
  • Financing the recommendations of the National Advisory Commission of Civil Disorders with the fiscal dividend; the rush to release the Commission's report; communication between Ginsburg and Joe Califano; John Lindsay's political aspirations
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on those interviews and came to certain insights which he passed along to the British about them. So that in a way the guerrilla warfare and vulnerability to it was part of the potential pathology of developing nations. I followed the work being done
  • ; the Quayle Report; North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese nationalism; the domino theory in Southeast Asia; Thailand's importance; the likelihood of China expanding into Southeast Asia in the early 1960's; Alexei Kosygin's 1965 trip to Hanoi; the major split
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , they of our nondiscriminatory the same ones. M: The African K: The Africans. And so I think policy go as far as, nations? doesn't South Africa, attribute on one we can do. the difference in Viet objectives. really States South Africa do
  • [Description is for all three Katzenbach interviews] LBJ's focus on military waste while on Preparedness Subcommittee; LBJ's concern with constitutional authority for his powers as vice president; LBJ and the PCEEO; Space Committee; JFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • [The Negro Family: The Case for National Action] at just the time the conference was being anticipated, somewhere between the time Johnson made his Howard University speech and, what he must have regretted more than once, rashly promised this conference
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan's involvement in the White House "To Fulfill These Rights" conference; Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action;" deciding who would be invited to speak at the conference; Fleming's career and how
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . explained that by we worked through Dean Moore at the university. I He had I'm sure a committee to help him, but they decided, under certain ground rules which NYA laid down, who was eligible to receive parttime jobs. univ~rsity University students, we'll
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • HURD -- I -- 5 for my wife and me and for the John Walkers. The director of the National Gallery of Art, the great Mellon Collection. He and his wife, who was a British noblewoman, my wife and I, and Mrs. Longworth were at the lunch
Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , for example. Copper is a good one. S: Right. M: You would get involved right in the middle of that. S: Right. You see, there he would make his comment to the special assistant who is handling this and it would not normally be somebody on the National
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • regular schedule on it. I'm sort of attempting to explore how the decision-making process was with Mr. Johnson, of course relating this to the military decisions. And I'm thinking in terms of the National Security Council as an instrument in advising
  • Meeting LBJ; McConnell’s appointment as vice chief, and then chief, of staff of Air Force; Joint Chiefs of Staff budget conferences with LBJ; making recommendations to the President through JCS; National Security Council and Tuesday Luncheons; U.S
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thought there might be any problem on. I'd prefer a chain of command idea on this so that you don't at least create another impression. M: How does the problem of administering the State Department relate to the national security advisers in the White
  • [Description is for all three Katzenbach interviews] LBJ's focus on military waste while on Preparedness Subcommittee; LBJ's concern with constitutional authority for his powers as vice president; LBJ and the PCEEO; Space Committee; JFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • asked to serve on any committees or task forces outside of Defense? E: Well, not directly that I can recall. I'm always afraid with a question like that I'll be missing some or forgetting some obvious example, but offhand I don't recall. Mr
  • Meetings with LBJ; role of McNamara; Cabinet Committee on Residual Oil; import quotas; maritime policy; application of economic analysis and systems analysis in Defense Department; Office of Research and Engineering; future of systems analysis
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the Vice President was chairing on the other hand? S: I don't remember any overlapping on that. F: When President Kennedy was killed, you were named to a state committee to look into the assassination. S: Yes. What happened was that as soon
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judiciary Committee], Joe Fowler
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • figure as vice president than he had been as majority leader. V: In what way do you mean that? G: Well, even though he had been majority leader, he was one of one hundred senators, whereas being vice president, elected nationally along
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Califano -- IX -- 6 C: I mean we didn't want them going back and checking with Roger Blough and checking with [I. W.] Abel or the union executive committee, whoever was not there. It was also to give them just a sense that there was nothing else they were
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or those days, so we went up to the living quarters and they showed me some things there. They quite frankly told me they approved this, and they already had personally given me my clearance. I remember we got a White House car and went to the National
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a southern committee chairman--and they're almost all southern--to get one of his pieces of legislation pushed through, he would be reminded that his men in HEW were "persecuting" the South on the school desegregation question. And in effect those southern
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it, it was a persistent theme in national security circles ' thinking about Cuba that we ought to be able to overthrow Castro, or get rid of Castro as people tended loosely to say, in other ways than by invading his island, as we sort of did in the Bay of Pigs, or trying
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was there and because we were doing the Benelux [nations]. And then, let's see. I guess we went from there to the Netherlands and then back to Brussels, was the last stop. But we actually flew from Amsterdam to Brussels, if you can believe that, on Air Force Two. MG
  • LBJ’s November 1963 trip to Luxembourg and other Benelux nations; William R. Rivkin; LBJ’s loyalty to JFK; LBJ’s complex personality; LBJ’s daily schedule while on trips; LBJ’s preference for hotels; Crockett and Dwight Porter; John Rooney; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Carey would influence [James J.] Delaney and Delaney was on the Rules Committee? Carey had an opponent in the primary, I suppose, who was making a big thing of the fact that the government was going to close the Brooklyn Navy Yard and who had
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • intervention and during the Vietnam escalation in 1965. J: As a background, the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate was always the depositing ground for dissenters and unpopular senators. That was not a good appointment. Foreign Relations back
  • The Senate Foreign Relations Committee; William Fulbright and his relationship with LBJ; writer William S. White's relationship with LBJ; Fulbright's opinion of minorities; LBJ's opinion of Head Start and Job Corps; the relationship between LBJ
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • committee composed of the province chief, the AID representative, and the military advisory group representative. They would be given a budget, including some contingency funds, for a variety of activities, which included everything ranging from hamlet
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was Weaver--as secretary--the bill was defeated. It either never got out of committee or it was defeated on the floor of the House and Senate. President Johnson was very conscious of that. As we got nearer to the date, I think he didn't know and I certainly