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Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • the Department of Defense to be an assistant secretary for evaluation and policy, and he had hired Phil Lee to be the assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs. There hadn't been any assistant secretary for health before, there had only been special
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was to perform whatever administrative role there was for the project called the LBJ School of Public Affairs in those days before a dean 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • The creation of a new committee related to the LBJ School of Public Affairs; how the committee members were appointed; the committee duties of administration, budgeting, architectural planning and searching for a dean; Norman Hackerman; considering
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to approve President Kennedy's promotion of me from Deputy Assistant Secretary to Assistant Secretary . Then--actually the decision was in February, but the appointment in March--President Johnson moved me over to Far Eastern Affairs in the Department
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and precipitated the hostilities there, which caused the crisis of '67. M: When something like that breaks out suddenly, does it immediately get kicked over to the White House and become Presidential as opposed to the Department's handling it? R: Well
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • either within the corr~ittee or from the Executive branch of the government, including both the President and the Defense Department itself. B: Is there anything else about the work with the Naval Affairs Committee that stands out in your mind, sir
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and served in that capacity with some leaves of absence for brief service periods in government up until 1962. Well, I took a year's leave of absence and went up to Wesleyan University as a Fellow. After that I became national affairs editor of The Reporter
  • Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: BROMLEY SMITH INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Smith's office, Department of State, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: I know you don't have any means or necessity of recalling what we talked about last time, but we
  • White House-State Department relationship on foreign policy; Vietnam; bombing; bureaucratic machinery; opposition to the war; leaks.
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that there ought to be a study of the offices overseas. study. functio~ of cultural affairs The Brookings Institution was asked to perform this The State Department and I think the White House under the Kennedy Administration w"ere very interested
  • ; John Rooney and the Appropriations Committee create problems for State Department programs; characterizes Wayne Hays, John Brademas, John Tunney, Donald Fraser, Peter Frelinghuysen, Benjamin Rosenthal, Albert Quie; Patsy Mink, Wayne Morse, George
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that the bureau is the President's chief supervisory agency over the departments? S: Yes, particularly in the domestic area. Much less so, for all sorts of reasons, in the military-foreign affairs area, although it is to a lesser extent true there also
  • Biographical information; the Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ Administrations and the Council of Economic Advisers; new economics; Troika; tax cut; contact with Congress on economic matters; Appalachia program; SST; Agriculture Department budget
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • are on the Committee for Foreign Affairs and you are the fourth ranking Democrat. You're chairman of the Near East Sub-Committee. Also you are a member of the Government's Operations Committee and I believe fourth ranking Democrat on that committee. F: That's right
  • to North Carolina; Congress under JFK and LBJ; objecting to Adam Yarmolinsky as head of Poverty program; LBJ’s strategy on passing legislation; Freeman’s agricultural policy; Foreign Affairs Committee; schism between Fulbright and LBJ regarding Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • interpose some questions as it seems judicious. U: All right. The question of Indian policy was one I found one of the most frustrating issues of my Department. I made the rather foolish statement the day President Kennedy announced my appointment--he
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Protection. G: I think this was Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs, perhaps. Did you see it or did Freeman see it as a way to expand the mission of the Department? L: Yes, Freeman supported that idea, and he did feel very strongly that the mission had
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 ambassador to Canada, and I had understood that this was a good probability. But apparently someone in the--I don't know who it was--in the State Department. perhaps. who had other
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • going to some countries; because practically everyone there speaks English. briefing in Swedish affairs. But they did give me an intensive In the first place, every department in the government which has any affairs with any foreign country from
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of this material in the earlier interview, but what I hoped we could do is go into much more detail, particularly in two areas: one, your work with the subcommittee, investigating the-C: Which [subcommittee]? G: The Naval Affairs Subcommittee during World War II
  • Biographical information; naval affairs subcommittee; Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve; shipyards; trip to Europe, 1945; Carl Vinson; committee work; reports
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , political and when you were in private business? B: I was, for example, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1947, in charge of International Affairs in the Department of Commerce under then-Secretary Harriman . In that connection, I had to make a good
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 28, 1969 M: This is the second session with Dr. Philip R. Lee, who was the assistant secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for health and scientific affairs. The date is January 28, and the time is 9:40
  • Department of Housing, Education, and Welfare
Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • , is that correct? S: Yes, that's correct. I finished in 1941 and even during the time that I was a student at The University of Texas I was very interested in public affairs and in politics, and I had been a county attorney, an assistant district attorney
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • floor of the State Department with access to material through the Secretariat of State, sensitive material to follow the line which we both--which I had envisaged and had structured for the foreign affairs aide, which was to serve like an attaché
  • Mondale’s trip to Paris; how a trip to Italy led to a job working on LBJ’s staff; Scandinavian trip with LBJ; LBJ “misbehaving” on VP trips; LBJ and foreign affairs; LBJ’s old-fashioned nature; LBJ’s ability to win over a crowd; delivering important daily
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was desirous of being the U. S. Senator, but because of his opposition to the reclamation program of the Department of the Interior. I challenged him on this issue. He was as destructive in his opposition as Joe McCarthy was later to the State Department
  • Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • real interest in it is the process by which it got in the talks; it came directly from the President really overruling most of the State Department. So this is one that I think probably ought to be put in. Otherwise it has been pretty routine
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • [Council] staff, the [McGeorge] Bundy shop, in the White House up until, you said, April of 1964. Then you went to the State Department. What was your title there exactly? F: .- I went to the State Department as special assistant to the Secretary of State
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1968 INTERVIEWEE: NICHOLASKATZENBACH INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Katzenbach's office at the State [At] the end of our last session, Department, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: peace feelers, or alleged and you had just talks
  • and civil rights leaders; LBJ-Yarborough conflict over patronage; Bobby Baker; Jimmy Hoffa; wire-tapping issue; communications satellite program; law and order issues; National Crime Commission report; Katzenbach moves from Justice to State Department
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • back to newspapering and writing about foreign policy with a good deal more understanding and appreciation of what it's all about." So I went in, and my first assignment was as a member of the Policy Planning Council in the State Department. I just
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • this mean you're going to support Mr. Disney for the United States Senate race instead of the thenincumbent, Senator Elmer Thomas," who was a veteran in the Senate. tilted his cigarette a little big higher, and he said, "Indeed not! And he I told Wesley
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the Department of Medicine at Yale, I accepted an appointment as associate professor of medi cine at the Johnson Hopkins University School of Medicine . In 1957 I was made Professor of Medicine, and in 1958 I became Professor of Pathology and Director
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: We're in time now to 1967 when you became the presidential advisor on National Capital Affairs. I think I
  • AActivities as presidential adviser on National Capital Affairs; reorganization to commission and council system; selection of Walter Washington as mayor; council members; evaluation of White House staff operation; Pollak’s nomination of assistant
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • us very briefly about who you are and how you came to be here. W: I'm presently Assistant Attorney General of the United States in charge of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. My relationship with bhis government, I suppose, starts
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not join any task force operations at that I continued in the Solicitor General's Office, did that draft- ing task, and continued to stay out of their affairs. Or, another way of putting it, I continued not to be invited in their affairs. I LBJ
  • Presidential Task Force on the War on Poverty; drafting War on Poverty bill; Shriver’s dual responsibilities; Community Action; Adam Yarmolinksy episode; problems of the new agency; Legal Service problems; return to the Justice Department
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • some feeling for the Alinsky Dick Boone had come out of Cook County as a captain in the sheriff's department. Anybody who tried to organize in Chicago was up against a major political force in the Cook County Democratic Party organization, so
  • Department of Housing, Education, and Welfare
  • Biographical information; community organizing; Saul Alinsky; evolution of the War on Poverty; OEO legislation; Sargent Shriver; Labor Department; HEW; Community Action Program; urban affairs task force; Dick Boone; Fred Hayes; political problems
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by identifying you. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You're William Chartener, and your title currently is Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, a position which you've held since January 1968
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talk briefly about your role in the 1964 campaign. P: Okay. At that time I was still in the Consumer Office. We were also serving as kind of the central point in the White House for Women's Affairs, probably due to Esther's background on the Women's
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and accomplishments would answer it. The Department of Urban Affairs, and the creation of additional facilities in transportation, and development of HEWand all of these were basically a need to meet the problems of the cities. HUD came about entirely during
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • are in your department?" Well, it would be impossible. I never even knew who they were, and I was pretty active at the level at which they probably occurred. They LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • talked to the President about it, and this was what the President was suggesting. M: Katzenbach was still in the Justice department? H: He was then the Attorney General. But I never spoke to the President about it, and he never spoke to me about
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . To begin with I suppose it's good to sort of qualify you--how close as Deputy Secretary of the Defense Department were you to Presidential decision-making on Viet Nam? V: I would say I was quite close to Presidential decision-making. I of course did
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . M: Stayed on, yes. W: This suggestion was made by the Post. It came as a result of Robert Kennedy and the Justice Department raising some questions about the District affairs and not being able to get a satisfactory answer in his opinion
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • play any part in the briefings in the 1954 episode connected with Indo-China, which grew later into the Vietnam affair? At the time when the French were about to pullout, a meeting of Congressional leaders? H: Yes, I did, mostly through the Foreign
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • officials in the Interior Department, in the Agriculture Department-F: How did you happen to get HUh the Inter-American Affairs Bureau? D: Well, I came into Washington with the Department of Agriculture and worked as a field agent in the Western States
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Atomic Energy Commission on this matter. I know that he took some actions which subsequently resulted in the creation of NASA, on the one hand, and a concentration of authority in Department of Defense, on the other. F: You had no personal relationship