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  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy G: ~- XV -­ 22 Now, this letter that we discussed evidently got into the hands of some of Johnson's adversaries. Wayne Morse
  • ://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 ! . SIEGEL I -- 27 B: Mr. Rauh's influence . S: Wayne Morse was just bouncing
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 State Department has submitted such legislation to Congress several times, and I believe it was largely blocked by Senator Morse--at least that was my
  • [Wayne] Morse criticized him for using steamroller tactics to get it through. Do you remember anything of that bill or what that was about? W: No. G: In September Jimmy Allred died and LBJ went to the funeral. Did you go to that? W: No, didn't go
  • about 1964, Senator [Wayne] Morse introduced a bill that gave weight to several factors including unemployment, the number of children under aid to dependent children, and the bill was referred to the Department. And it was during that period of time
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 15 [Wayne] Morse, regarding Vietnam. I remember his saying that he just couldn't understand how, if he had the same advisors and the same State Department as John Kennedy did, it was that he was so
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Fisher -- I -- 14 print this, Wayne Morse would put it in the Congressional Record where it was printed some place else and say we'd censored it. Now, which would you rather have?" Well
  • and perhaps Wayne Morse than it did out of the task force. They threw the idea into the task force. You see, in 1961, I guess it was, when the Kennedy task force was operating, we were still in that period when you couldn't get federal aid to education
  • [Wayne] Morse and [Ernest] Gruening, and-R: We certainly were. They even provided us with congressional testimony by the antiwar advocates, of some of the people that you've just [named], Gruening especially, from Alaska, McGovern and some
  • Humphrey crowds--all the people working for Hubert. We usually had strategy meetings of about seven, eight, ten people. When we got there Rowe proposed that we pullout of the District of Columbia and give it to Morse, in return for which Morse would
  • didn't go to the Hill; I got into a very nasty fight with Senator Morse about this, but I distinguished very strongly between my idea of delegating Head Start to an office in HEW, and spinning it off to the Office of Education, which is what Dominick
  • ; Senator Morse; Job Corps; Nixon’s views on OEO/poverty program; Mr. Agnew’s statement; Green Amendment; TWO Project; effects of Vietnam War on war on poverty; OEO handling of budgetary requests; LBJ’s support of OEO; liaison between from OEO and White
  • was number two under-F: Joe Clark. C: --Morse on the Senate Education Subcommittee, had told him at a party that the Higher Education Act would have died if it hadn't been for--that there had been an ego fight between Morse and Adam Powell, in which
  • , which is FAA now. These boys, they'd learn, you know, how to build these transmitters and they'd learn the Morse Code, the key and all that. The electronics industries started expanding with these air- planes, and a lot of that training, so they said
  • of view was Senator Russell of Georgia. or two others, and I guess Ellender. And, one The people who helped put that bill through was Magnuson of Washington who, of course, had a fish interest, and I guess Morse, to a certain degree, but I don't
  • of these people who might be on that side of the argument in the House Foreign Affairs Committee? B: Well, I think probably, by and large, it's the Republicans who have been more vocal, led by Representative Morse of Massachusetts . (Rep. F. Bradford Morse, R
  • construction, and also, we trained a lot of men in Morse code and whatnot. I had a very interesting thing in Austin. I had a radio behind my desk that I could get thirty-three different stations, NYA stations, in Texas. My phone bill wasn't very high
  • you comment on his charge? I don't remember Goodell's specific charge. That's a charge that has been made against this agency by many including Congresswoman Green and Senator Morse, Senator Dominick and others. Certainly not to my knowledge have
  • and make a quorum." He was always complaining to me about it. you get those guys. He said, "Why don't That Senator Morse, and I love Senator Morse. know, these guys don't trust me. You I'm for the civil rights bill, and you know it seems a damn shame
  • of these aspects. Senator Morse, for example, who opposed the resolution, told the Senate very frankly what this resolution meant, and because it meant that he himself opposed it. It was a very far-reaching resolution. In the testimony, by the way, Senator
  • to do? U: He asked everyone to stay on. lVI: Yes, the blanket - ':1 : He asked everyone to stay on. :f'/iy first direct con tact vli th him vlaS shortly after his becoming President to arrange for Dave Morse, who is Director-General of the ILO
  • hell broke loose. Phones were ringing; he was calling Kay Graham in one place, Senator Morse LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
  • by the unanimous or near unanimous vote that it did earlier in the House and Senate. But if Fulbright thought for one moment--or Senator Morse--that they had the votes to reverse it, they would have considered such a resolution. I think that if President
  • Committee was the prize committee. When Lyndon wanted something he would put you on the Foreign Relations Committee! The result of it is, we have a Foreign Relations Committee that's made up of the Morses, all the people Lyndon wanted something from: "I'll
  • ; veto power and overrides; creation of the National Advisory Council; Perrin’s duties as deputy director of OEO; Senator Morse; involvement of BOB funding; political red tape; GAO investigations; Nathan Report from Brookings and its effect on efforts