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  • with the White House, you r;iean? F: This was discussion with the White House--this was a discussion with President Kennedy. We had a discussion about it first in New York from early in December of 1960. And it was considered for quite some time. On the one
  • on telling them what I knew. "Tell it to me and see what happens." She probably made a recording or just told him the whole [inaudible] tale. The following day they called me up and said if I was interested in visiting New York, "I've Got a Secret" program
  • Eisenhower at Walter Reed [Hospital] a lot. B: And I went out to California a couple of times with him to visit. G: Did you? B: Yes. I don't have anything else to say. G: He went to New York on May 20 and spoke at the Arthritis Foundation. B: Yes
  • the South Vietnamese to the peace talks before the elections in order to help Humphrey. And of course there's the story that Beech's dispatch was misrouted and ended up in some isolated place instead of the Washington desk of the Chicago Daily News
  • d be just for a very brief period and Tom would get him out. He owed Tom a law bill that you couldn't add up with an adding machine, so Tom, in lieu of cash, each time he needed a new case of Gordon gin, he'd ca 11 up the bootl egger and he waul d
  • the necessary information we have needed to go on with the development of new nuclear weapons. MIRV warheads. That includes the development of the ABM and the So I do not think that the limited test ban has had any deleterious effect upon the U.S. 's ability
  • at that time, why, the Depression was the biggest news in the country. There was a lot of publicity. Some of it which we of course tried to generate. (Interruption) G: How about the problem of getting enough teachers? This seems to have been a difficulty
  • separated itself from the University, and therefore from its Baptist affiliation, and became an independent corporation and [got] a new Board of Trustees. M: That's right. Well, now, working here in Houston with all of your multi-faceted medical duties
  • Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans
  • there we shared, and we fought for audience in that overlap of our signals when they were operating before they went to the tall tower. They encroached on the mileage separation with their proposed new facility with the distance to the Weslaco station
  • accurately predicted the coming results of the election. He was very pessimistic about Governor StevEmson and Senator lIIcF'arland's chances of election. I remember Hr. Symington suggesting - they were discussing who the new I'Iajority Leader should
  • of the country. And then on the closing day of the campaign, on Monday night before the election on Tuesday, he asked me to join him and two of his sisters in New Hampshire and Massachusetts for his closing speech in which we were glad to take part. And then I
  • 24617781] G: I know that FDR did that. R: I don't either. G: Was FDR criticized for that move? R: A little bit by the New Dealers. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I'm not sure it was tied to-- No, I
  • that date he was, I think, doing a lot of thinking about what to do with himself and was not a driving force in the new-proposals area. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • Fathers in New Orleans. '40-'41. And I attended one year, that was I came back during the summer of '41 and decided to volunteer in the Air Force in September of 1941. This was a time when the war clouds were gathering and boiling all LBJ Presidential
  • going willy nilly. People in the South used to give black people one-way bus tickets to New York and Baltimore and St. Louis and Memphis and Chicago, just to get them out of the state. And that is not a way that develops a human resource very well. G
  • had an opportunity to ride with him up to Hyannis Port. So I got on the plane. He had a man from Georgetown and he had [Allen] Duckworth from the Dallas [Morning] News. Most of the agencies preferred to have their people at the various points to make
  • up there, is that right? M: Yes, and went to a school which I learned two months ago has now been destroyed--Brackenridge High School. and then on the News. Then I went on the Light there On the News I was an assistant sports editor. From there I
  • for him. So we worked together in the fall of 1966. That was a very useful period for me because it gave me an opportunity in a more relaxed atmosphere than you have here in Washington to get acquainted with my new boss. We talked about a number
  • Biographical information; Senator Richard Russell; LBJ’s decreased popularity and its sources; civil rights; LBJ’s relationship with Russell; activating battleship New Jersey; Russell’s criticism of LBJ’s Administration; editorial cartoon; growth
  • of a Westinghouse bid on a nuclear desalting plant, more sympathetic treatment within the IMF, the IRB, and the New York banks. Then there were certain political items that the Egyptians were very interested in. One, they asked that we help mediate their diffi
  • in the news He was very friendly and very fine. Then I shanlt forget he told me to go over and have a press conference, which just terrified me. am I going to say?1I I thought, "What in the world Frankly it was at that press conference that I began to get
  • out and seeing what was actually happening in the countryside. And my report recommended a very radical overhaul of AID, with the creation of a new rural affairs division, but at the level of assistant to the director so that it took its authority
  • me all of the part of the prior draft which had not been included in the new draft. draft. I would staple pieces of the old draft onto the new I considered it my purpose to endeavor to include in the new draft all of the provisions that I piled
  • friend of the President or are the rules too well set out? Q: Oh, no, nothing at all except the satisfaction of knowing a great guy. I've never asked, not ·when he was a Congressman or a Senator, him to do anything for this office. and want a new desk
  • on the flight out to Milwaukee, because the New York Times had written some story which was just totally fallacious--there was no basis for it--about the Vice President. I know that this just irritated the daylight out of him, flying out to Milwaukee. But he
  • . There would be no reason for that . Clearly, I didn't work in New York . Clearly, I didn't work in the South, because in those days the southerners considered me even more of a traitor than they do today, a traitor to my class or my race--I'm not clear
  • thing on the question that the office sent on the problems of HEW, I have noticed that's in the news again. I believe even your predecessor Mr. Ribicoff said it should be dismembered when he left the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • . on with you about developing." invitation to fly immediately to Then he said, "I'd like to have Mr. Shriver explain what this is all about." to an being Sargent Shriver said, "We want to talk part of an exciting new program we're I replied
  • officials were waiting any changes effected by the new administration? 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
  • interested this ally how it happened . G: Sure . B: Okay . This was November, December . Let's in actu­ I don't know if you are or not . My recollection is that it was New Year's Eve, and Joe Duke, who was sergeant at arms of the Senate, called
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- I -- 3 there was some marvelous new operation that could be performed that would cure
  • a very strong man for a very long time, was finally getting gnawed at by age and physical problems, and financial problems. To begin new endeavors when you are in your seventies and eighties is, I think, an unwise thing, and Daddy had made, actually, he
  • /show/loh/oh ...... PICKLE -- III -- 2 stalled for an hour or two while we scrambled around to get new typewrite rs and chairs. That was the kind of attitude that was . preva 1ent. But it did go on to the courts. Whatever they say about Mr
  • to this day. It continued in These are largely cosmetic changes, and OCB was abolished. I was unhappy over the fact that here I not only had won my spurs with the New Frontier, hut that I was clearly not only known to, but favorably regarded by President
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- IV -- 3 still was apprehensive, but I went ahead with the plans and got an airline to say that it would bring them in on a training flight. They were training some new pilots to go to Australia, and they would
  • background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
  • 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 Johnson -- XLII -- 11 new thing, a carpet, a sofa
  • was older by a good bit than I was. But the Governor--we met in 1946 and he talked to me a lot about the Rainey campaign, and I was very flattered. So in 1947 I was at that point working at the State Capitol in the International News Service Bureau
  • the infiltration thing. And I have no doubt that in the subsequent programs a new phase will pop up, or in his book a new phase will pop up. He spins off of this central core of the guerrilla strength and whether these odds and sods, as the British would call
  • magnificent it would be to have new and strong leaders and that sort of business. tion about that. There was a group of cheerleaders, there's no quesThese weren't people who were simply contacts with another political faction; they were advocates
  • along in there. I had worked as a copy desk man, as a news editor, and so on. PB: Mostly as a newS editor. Now I want to ask you to do a rather difficult thing. I want you to go back some thirty years in your memory to the time when you first met