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- Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh here . You began your service with the Agricultural Department in the 1930's, I believe, with the Resettlement Administration
- for international security affairs--a mouth-filling title--from September, 1965 to September 1, 1966 when I left to come here to Harvard. M: Right. That brings you up to date. Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior to the time you entered government in 1961
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- mean it was almost automatic that there would be a Community Action department, there would be a Job Corps division. There would be something that would handle education, congressional relations, et cetera. I don't recall at this moment any major
- , This is state of affairs. How close attention does the President pay to specific programs that AID either conceives or undertakes? G~ Well, there's a real difference between President Kennedy and President Johnson there because in President Kennedy's time
- Biographical information; Presidential impact on AID; comparison of JFK and LBJ; Presidential approval of specific loans; BOB and Treasury Department involvement in policy decision; White House and State Department involvement; B/P loans; AID
- being in the Far Eastern area, of course with Germany a major sector as - well. The tourist expenditures as well being of primary interest to the [U.S.] Travel Service, which was in the Department of Commerce. Well, all of these factors were reviewed
- the military problem quite well in his article in Foreign Affairs last fall. He said for the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong to win is not to lose, but for the Americans to lose is not to win. That really is the military problem, because as long as we
- issues relating to an all-volunteer army; the ratio of officers to enlisted men; managerial re-organization in the Defense Department under Robert McNamara; McNamara's systems analysis office and a comparable army office; the value of a service secretary
- got my notes right here--came on out through some State Department officials. I believe that the President felt that Robert Kennedy had triggered or stimulated the leak. F: Trying to bring some pressures before he got to see him. K: There was some
- was receiving sort of congressional opinion on these tiresome people in Panama and weighing it more heavily than either the people in the State Department or the people on his White House staff would have tended to do. M: Was he more inclined to listen
- met him. He was talking I was impressed with his drive and his good looks. Now when you were in the Truman Cabinet he was on the Naval Affairs Committee in the Congress; did he take any active role in either pushing for or holding back from
- Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; 1948 kidney stone attack; B52s, B70s, B36s; Senate Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; NASA; impressions of LBJ and his
- voted for a particular president or party I don't think really gets in the way. M: Your chief contact was the State Department public affairs people. How much of the administration's difficulty came from poor press operations in LBJ Presidential
- was working in the early days in the public affairs department. G: While the bill was before the Congress this was where you were? T: I personally started out in what might be called public affairs, although it was certainly not a department; then worked
- an acquaintanceship in the medical fraternity. In middle December of 1960 Governor [Abraham] Ribicoff called me from Connecticut and said that this job of special assistant to the Secretary for Health and Medical Affairs existed in HEW [Department of Health, Education
- Council environmental study; Jones' work for the Senate Appropriations Committee regarding the funding of medical research; how Jones became special assistant to the secretary for health and medical affairs in the Department of Health, Education
- , 1968 I NTERV I EWEE: ESTHER PETERSON INTERVIEHER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mrs. Peterson's office in the Labor Department Building, t1ashington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Your first contact with the then-Senator Johnson would be while you were
- : Did you meet Ramsey Clark in that period? Y: Yes, I did. I met him in the Justice Department but really didn't have much to do with Ramsey until later on. B: I gather Selma was probably was his first serious involvement. This isn't directly related
- ;” work for Senator Joseph McCarthy; Justice Department and Ramsey Clark; Community Relations division; Roger Wilkins; Leroy Collins; FBI and J. Edgar Hoover; 1965 Voting Rights Act; solution to race and peace problems.
- an excuse. The departments are under the direction of the President, and the White House can stop anything it pleases, or require anything it pleases, so long as it's not against the law. We were in touch all the time with the Bureau of the Budget, which
- departments and agencies; Huitt's role as assistant secretary for legislation at HEW under John Gardner; the annual process for developing legislative proposals; working with members of Congress and their staffs; the collaborative nature of legislative work
- were working on research for the air force. At Rand You joined the Department of Defense in 1960 in the Office of Defense Research and Engineering. Analysis. In 1961 you were appointed Deputy Comptroller for Systems In 1962, [you were] appointed
- 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
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 22, 1968 B: This is the interview with Fred M. Vinson, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, Department of Justice. Mr. Vinson, if we may begin with something not directly related to your present
- . The arrangements that the President had in the Defense Department with Nr. McNamara were, I think, rather special and gave Mr. McNamara rather wide latitude in choosing men to come work in the Pentagon. I was asked to come down here in the autumn of 1965 and did
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 4, 1969 This is an interview with Mr. W. True Davis, Jr., who is a former Ambassador to Switzerland, and also a former Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Treasury. morning. The date is March 4, 1969; the time
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- .back to become the director of the Office for Refugee and Migration Affairs within the Department of State . years . I served there about three Then a very, very severe recurrence of this thing that I'd had in Germany caused me to have to think
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWEE: NORBERT A. INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Sch1ei's office, Los Angeles, California SCHLEI Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start with your initial involvement in the Justice Department and any experience there that led to your work
- Biographical information; War on Poverty Task Force; members of the drafting group; Job Corps; role of the Labor Department; Willard Wirtz; women in the Job Corps; legislative input; delegation of authority; Sargent Shriver; Community Action Program
- think that we were kept reasonably well abreast, not normally through White House channels but through defense and state department channels largely. F: Did you have the idea that the President knew you were getting it from defense and state department
- it to the Budget Bureau, which in turn sent it to all the Departments and Agencies involved. He set down a number of guidelines. First, that he would not talk to any of the carriers or their representatives, knowing the sensitivity of doing that; second, that he
- FTC; dealings with Labor Department and Wirtz; tax surcharge; balance of payments; formation of DOT; assessment of Secretary Trowbridge and C.R. Smith; relationship of Trowbridge and Smith with LBJ; regulatory agencies; furor over final invitation
- Administration was as minister-counselor for public information in the American ·' Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam. But prior to that, you had been I believe deputy public affairs officer in India for several years and had spent some time with the Voice
- /exhibits/show/loh/oh March 12, 1969 M: Perhaps the best way to begin is by identifying you. You are John Leddy and your position at the end of the Johnson Administration was Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. Prior
- bill; Greek Coup; mishandling of MLF; role of the State Department and the White House.
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton
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- entertained Adenauer. very colorful affair. It was a There were, I guess, about a hundred guests. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and was assigned to what was then known as the Procurement Legal Division of the Navy Department. Its name was changed later--although its functions were the same--to the Office of General Counsel. Its duty primarily was to furnish advice to the secretary
- As naval officer assigned in 1943 to subcommittee on naval affairs investigating shipyards under LBJ’s supervision; called back by LBJ during the Korean conflict to investigate morale of draftees; merger of three services into Defense Department
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , and [it] was modestly successful--I've forgotten how many there were. Then I also passed as a part of that bill a law calling [?] the same thing couldn't be done on the human affairs side in terms of welfare, health, et cetera. The [inaudible] department would
- LBJ's views on the food stamp program; the connection between civil rights and food programs; President Kennedy's involvement in food-related aid; funding and congressional support for the food stamp bill; Department of Agriculture involvement
- that as early as August 1970, within ten months of my return as national chairman, there was a memo suggesting I had an association with an entity called Public Affairs Analysts.Bill Safire, who was on the White House staff at that time, suggested an attempt
- ) chairman; an August 1970 memo suggesting that O'Brien was connected to Public Affairs Analysts, which was supposedly engaged in foreign activities; efforts by William Safire, John Caufield, John Dean and H. R. Haldeman to investigate all of O'Brien's
- -- 2 invited to work at the Labor Department, writing speeches and generally working out of the information office. G: Who invited you in Labor? T: It was the Office of the Secretary and the Public Affairs .director, John Leslie. They knew
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Office Department had a public affairs poster project for all their facilities and equipment. Tape 1 of 1, Side 2 G: You were saying that there used to be an insert or a place on mail trucks and mailboxes where you could have public service
- of selling anyone on the fact that it was crucial? B: Oh, yes. The government didn't even agree on it themselves. In 1959 I remember the State Department said that we probably didn't have any balance of payments problem. The Treasury was deeply
- departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ
- was then assistant general counsel of the Treasury Department called then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson and asked him if he were acquainted with me--I had shown an Austin residence--and indicated to the Congressman that I appeared to have the qualifications for the job
- Biographical information; Bullion's involvement with the House Naval Affairs Committee's personnel subcommittee, which was chaired by LBJ; Bullion's involvement with the Johnson's income taxes; LBJ's efforts to ensure that his taxes were done
- with the Defense Department. There could have been, I thought, some prohibitions in the sense of making public what is in essence private correspondence. Mc: Did the President okay it? M: Oh yes, the President would always have to okay this. He would
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- is of the relations of the Defense Department with Congress, and whether it has hurt, helped, hindered, our progress either in national security or international security affairs. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- Nonproliferation Treaty; relations of Defense Department with Congress; comparison of McNamara and Clifford; transition; U.S.S. Liberty
- believe, under the Department of Labor, if I'm not mistaken. I had come to America on a visitor's six months' visa, not being sure of being able to obtain a quota. The Austrian quota was very small, and I wanted to be sure to get to the United State s. My
- of Representatives. You were elected in 1936. M: I was elected in 1936. When I came to the House I sought to get on the Naval Affairs Committee because of the nature of my district. It included the Bremerton Navy Yard, which is one of the largest in the country
- Appointment to Naval Affairs Committee in 1936; how he met LBJ; trip to Central America to evaluate a second canal; war service; President Roosevelt and LBJ; LBJ as senate majority leader; LBJ
- for the Presidential nomination. Also, it had been indicated to me, either by President Kennedy or Secretary Di110n--I've forgotten now which--that we in the Treasury Department should extend, make every effort to keep the Vice President informed as to significant
- /Quadriad; FRB; Mark-Franc crisis; transfer of Coast Guard Narcotics division out of the Treasury Department; Warren Commission; Customs Service; Secretary of Treasury duties; surtax proposal; travel tax; B/P; Organization for Economic Development; Group
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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- CARRILLO FLORES -- I -- 7 money to build these facilities?" "Yes, you can." Then he asked me, "Who is the man directly in charge of this problem in the State Department?" And I tol d him the Assi stant Secretary for Latin American Affairs and in a lower
- : Well, it was a rather difficult reception . . . ? I think, in the State Department, the responsibility for that problem had gone to the Bureau of Economic Affairs, and the attitude of the Assistant Secretary at the time was : we made one mistake