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  • about little bitty new quails falling into those cracks. Lyndon was introducing, along with other senators, a request for emergency aid to the cattlemen. [Dwight] Eisenhower had already declared the area a drought disaster area. G: LBJ worked
  • and the executive branch. F: Were you privy--you know Ernest McFarland lost in '52 and they needed a new leader for the Democrats, and after some backing and filling Senator Johnson became then the Minority Leader. Were you in on any of that talk with the Senator
  • [Estes] Kefauver visited New York State recently, not a single member of the Democratic hierarchy showed up to greet him, including Averell Harriman. An aide to Kefauver said that Harriman wants the Democrats licked so he can jeer, 'See what happens when
  • , telling political stories. So then the next morning--we were assigned different bedrooms or cabins--after breakfast he said, "Well, let's all go in the new office." It wasn't completed then; it was just being built. So we sat on the saw-horses and piles
  • did want me to arrive as soon as Lodge left, which was quite unusual for a new ambassador to arrive the day his predecessor left. Lodge left in the morning and I arrived in the afternoon. Usually there's a gap of some weeks or even months
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hopkins -- IV -- 8 that he didn't attend and "Mefo" Foster spoke. What do the news accounts show on that? G: They show that you attended and they show that Neff was invited, but I'm
  • to this day look upon Lyndon Johnson as a great liberal leader, not a great Southern leader. I believe that I indicated in my first interview it would have been extremely easy for a man from New England or from the North to support Hawaiian statehood. advocacy
  • and going, and I got a message then telling me to proceed immediately to Vietnam. In the end of the thing, they put "God bless you" on it. I said, "Geez, They knew. that's bad news, whatever it is." G: Who sent the cable, do you remember? L: I don't
  • later on I would have done entirely differently, but being the new boy in town did the best I could), in a period of two or three weeks we got them about ten kilometers away and then about fifteen and then about twenty and so that wrapped that up
  • INTERVIEWEE: HER~lAN TAUIADGE I NTERV I El4ER: THO~1AS H. BAKER Mr. Talmadge's office, New Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, to begin at the beginning, do you recall when you first either met or had any knowl edge
  • the country, testing the water. I had never been with him in a campaign for office in Texas. I had never campaigned with him. so it was a new experience to see how much he enjoyed it. He just had to reach the people, you know. The Secret Service had one
  • it the New Clark--the only thing new about it was the door. Anyway, we were standing out on the sidewalk in front of this hotel with our wives--neither of us had the tickets to get our wives into the gallery--discussing it; LBJ Presidential Library http
  • or some similar position before they would get to know him to the point where he would be a factor in national politics. I felt that he could carry the South; I felt that he could carry Texas; but I didn't know what the people of New York
  • : Durbrow, yes. L: Yes. G: Did you know about that? L: Well, yes, we had a fair amount of that kind of difficulty. something new. Here was Here was something new, ambassadors having as a part of their activities a military organization and so forth
  • and maybe not in the news. high at that time, 1952. Because Joe was riding pretty LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • for this, "but not Barry Goldwater. II There were about six things and all of them, "but not Barry Goldwater." And it ended by saying this ye3f we're going to elect a new president, "but not Barry Goldwater." So I sent it to Bill Moyers. the Democratic Convention
  • . Here I was the new one from the outside, but I knew my state, I think. G: What was he like, Bobby Baker? P: Oh, a very sharp guy, very, very sharp guy. he was tough to work with. was very headstrong. I liked him. You know He was a great deal like
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pike I -~ 7 up in New York City you are probably going to be a somewhat different kind of a person than if you
  • of President Kennedy? P: Not as a presidential appointee, as a so-called administrative appointee of Fowler Hamilton, the new administrator of AID. M: Then you were in this agency then during the course of the Kennedy Presidency, and have remained
  • and the terrain, and Palmer was new to the scene. As an example, one of ffly more successful tactical moves was when I foresaw that the -:!nemy would try to take over the two northernmos t prov inces. As I saw thdt coming, we began on a priority basis to build
  • ]. there are jokes on me that wouldn't hurt. I guess I remember one time - -I gues s a lot of people know it, too--but when he would get his new shoes, he would ask me to wear them and break them in for him. So one day when we were at the White House, I met him
  • and Lee School. I University and to Harvard Business I got s ornewhat disturbed about Mr. Roosevelt l s packing of the SupJ;lerne Court. ,\ After I left Harvard and went to work in New York just before the war, I was introduced to Wendell Wilkie
  • , and if Kennedy won and he had turned it down, he wasn't in any position to work-F: To work with the new President. W: --with the new President. F: Then he would be spurned. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
  • of the Department of Interior. Stewart Udall was the secretary of the interior. They waited until the day before Johnson left office and announced--and I think I'm right in this--without ever checking with the President that the name of the new stadium would
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Tell us about the grand life on the presidential yacht, the Sequoia. L: Right. I was going to give you a summary
  • the war for a year, and read the Dallas News, which was in those days a rather jingoistic newspaper, which announced with regularity that Texans were bombing Berlin and invading Italy and so on. Anyway, we came down here never supposing that the first
  • here, that we were trying something new, things were going well, we certainly had our difficulties. G: Have you ever read Halberstam's book, One Very Hot Day? M: Yes. G: Do you recognize the people in there? M: No, not really, and I
  • , dumb, academic questions and finding out who knew what and so on. So I guess I was probably the first 001 analyst to go overseas, back in 1950. I went to London to set up the exchange of NIEs, the National Intelligence Estimates, which were new
  • in a sort of formal way we all went out into the State Dining Room and then there were news people there and they circulated and they interviewed other members of presidential families. That's why this got such wide coverage. We got around a thousand
  • law with the law firm of Preston, Thorgrimson and Horwitz for about two and a half years at which time I was appointed an Assistant Attorney General with John J. O'Connell, who was the new Attorney � � � LBJ Presidential Library http
  • and Boggs on the Democratic side and Ford and Cooper on the other side--and John McCloy from New York and Allen Dulles would be willing to serve on that commission if I was to head it up. And he said, "I think this thing is of such great importance
  • start to look at these papers, and now I look--you look at these papers, for sure going up there in 1966 with a State of the Union Message that I can tell you, I remember that night, [it] just blew their minds. A dozen or so brand-new programs. Nobody
  • the campaign I to1d you that I had been to Washi.ngton, that I was familiar with Washington, I knew where the offices were, and I knew who was in charge, and I had had some experienc e, and you wouldn't have to break in a new man; that I could go
  • or another. So my recollection was that they just said that he was so unpredictable that they didn't want him. G: Was part of it to get someone who was not sympathetic with the New Deal or Roosevelt for fear that they would naturally lean toward LBJ since
  • in that first day. G: When did you first become acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? Do you recall? H: I think it was soon after that, after we were in the Senate with all the new senators. I was over at the Committee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce
  • , but Buzz was quite 1ate. They finally got a wire from him saying, 11 Snowbound. 11 The wire was sent from somewhere in Mississippi, where I don't think they'd had snow in a hundred years. G: (Laughter) Did Busby replace someone or was this a new position
  • Reminiscences of 1945 touching on the hiring of new staff, the Marshall Plan, 70-group air force; detailing LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate
  • to a movie, but sometimes I would go with women. There was a lot of intellectual fodder for us in those days. G: You mentioned reading books. Did you read many magazines in this period? J: There were weekly news magazines and sometimes to put myself
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XIV -- 9 conservative Jesse Jones and a young New Deal congressman on the other hand running for the Senate? J: No, I can't say that I do