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Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- then. Your committee assignments are on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Veterans Affairs Committee. Before running for Congress, from 1933 to 1950, you were a practicing attorney and probate commissioner of Allen County, Indiana. your LLB from
- INTERVIHIEE: JOHN SPARKNAN INTERVI EL~ER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Sparkman's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's begin with your years in the House together. You were on the Military Affairs Committee and President Johnson
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CHARLES BOATNER (Tape #2) JOE B. FRANTZ 1969 This is the second interview with Charles Boatner in his office in the Department of Interior Building in Washington on May 21, 1969 . The interviewer is Joe B . Frantz . Charlie
- millions of dollars to the Post Office Department for the below cost operations. It includes your villages, it includes your rural routes, and it includes delivery of your publications. They're subsidized, you see. These big magazines that yell
- histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 17, 1968 F: This is an interview with Mr. Charles K . Boatner, the Director of Press Information for the Department of Interior, in his office in Washington, December 17, 1968
- started--when I came back from the service, I happened to have my office next to the Veterans Administration Office, I met our congressman, John E. Lyle in Italy before he got elected to Congress, John E. Lyle happened to be a good friend of President
- great knowledge of political affairs and things generally in the country. And then I remember a situation developed after he and Lady Bird had gone on back. I watched her taking a few notes and listening most intently while he was talking freely
- Early relationship with LBJ; 1960 campaign; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; JFK leadership; Department of Commerce problems; JFK’s staff; LBJ and civil rights; LBJ and the Vice Presidency; JFK-LBJ friction; Business Advisory Council; relation
- , 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
- , 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
- ://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
- as assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture I became Director of Information of the department and then under Secretary Wallace was both Director of Information and Coordinator of the entire department--which Secretary Wallace had appointed me. LBJ
- Biographical information; FDR; LBJ's relationship with Eisenhower; invitation to LBJ to speak at Johns Hopkins; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Chamizal dispute; LBJ as civil rights leader; Latin American affairs; 1960 election; Dominican Crisis; Panama
- a real speech in the House. in the debates. I don't recall that he participated very much He apparently was a very steady worker. He was on the Naval Affairs Committee. M: Were you on that committee too? S: No, I was on the Military Affairs
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- solved a murder up at Amarillo. The paper offered me a job and I quit school and went down there and took it. college education. I have no I went to work on a newspaper and grew up in ignorance. M: Just to depart briefly, what was this murder
- Biographical information; Dockrey Murder case; Garner of Texas vs. Snell of New York; Miller’s appointment of LBJ; Edward Jamison; first impressions of LBJ; three famous Texas political figures; LBJ’s interest in military affairs; rating LBJ
- successful in the affairs of Washington and were successful in our district. Judge Mansfield was very old, and his friends appreciated the fact that I had not attempted to be elected in the new district. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
- of a school where we had the group assembled. It took a little arguing with the police department to let him get in there, but finally we convinced them it was all right. It worked out in good shape. F: Where did he speak mostly when he would land
- understand. I told Kennedy that I couldn't leave the broadcasting job that soon. He said that he didn't have in mind me stopping there, but he didn't know what that might lead toward in the State Department or in other fields. LBJ Presidential Library
- report on civil rights; 1960 campaign; opposition to JFK-LBJ ticket in Florida; NAB; KTBC; Community Relations Service; Department of Commerce; Calvin Kytle; transfer of the Community Relations Service to Justice; campaign for Senate; retirement
- have to close the job down . This was a rather unique dam to begin with. It was on the Colorado River, and the Reclamation Department was overseeing it yet they had no land in Texas . So there was a hiatus in the law, just whether they had a right
- , or dissident State Department people. What happened was our sources became the people who were in the field, and who, finding that their pessimism was not being paid attention to by their superiors, turned increasingly to the press corps. Neil Sheehan
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to go a step further with respect to tidelands, when Daniel got to Washington, his big issue had been tidelands and Johnson was completely responsible for him being made a member of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee which was the committee
- remember just exactly what they talked about, generally about the state of the nation, the Roosevelt Administration, Lyndon's plans for the Senate, about local affairs of interest to Mr . Carter . I do distinctly remember that Lyndon had his face within
- down a little. B: Brought down there by whom? M: An employee of the Department of Agriculture. B: With the knm.,rledge of the Administration? M: Oh, yes. B: That's an interesting point. M: It's interesting. B: You recall the names of those
- and several people that were strong Stevensonians. We had a number of them. to look up the records to give you all-- I would have It grew into quite a good affair. We ran sort of a secret campaign in the headquarters space that was given to us to try
- /show/loh/oh 4 F: How did you try to counter this nationa l support? M: The only way I tried to cotmter it was by speaking against the Nationa l Adminis tration interfer ing with local affairs. F: Did your speech seem to get across? M: Yes
- of the State Athletic Commission which had charge of--supervisionof boxing affairs in the State of New York, and I served at that position, I served as Chairman from 1925 until I retired to go to Washington on March 4, 1933. LBJ Presidential Library http
- that work when I could be doing something else that might be of aid in the war effort. So I went in in June '42, received a commission as a captain in the Judge Advocate General's department; and from there on had a rather interesting and active career. M
- that Eisenhower was supplying no new ideas at all in the conduct of American affairs, either domestically or from a foreign relations point of view. F: Sort of characterized by his Interior policy which had the slogan "No new starts." L: That's right--no new
- was the principal movement in getting the location down here ; I guess it was then the Naval Affairs Committee . He was chairman of the subcommittee or on the subcommittee that chose this site, and so I had some connection with him in those days . I have
- . Mrs. Shriver came down and Mrs. Robert Kennedy came down. I remember that was the first time that the Kennedy women were involved in this, and we set up a big affair at the Shamrock. I was the emcee and introduced them. We had a couple or three
- . Johnson felt like his vote won for him also. B; Had any of the ca:mpaign bitterness lingered over into that co:m:mittee :meeting? S: Oh, yes. place. It was a heated affair and bitterness was very evident all over the Everybody was working feverishly
- in the Senate in his position, might very well be able to carry this talent into the international field, and I put most of my hopes at that time on a . candidate that could do something in international affairs. I wasn't too concerned--obviously the domestic
- ever had a president that worked any harder than Lyndon Baines Johnson. He read, contrary to popular belief, a tremendous amount of material and was, I think, very well informed in the affairs of government, as much as anyone man can be. M
- affairs. I also took a rather active So one day a Jewish mother comes to see me and indicates that her son is being discriminated against at a military installation. I at first thought, well, it was just a mother's concern, but I did a little checking
- . F: Now, in the beginning it looked as if the convention were going to be a cut-and-dried affair and hard to get any great interest in it. Did you have a feeling that the interest then built up that it did get to be a kind of good convention? M
- . We didn't spend a lot of money; we didn't do a lot of things we would normally have done. Then I don't remember if it was before or after, I guess it was after the campaign, we had a very large and successful fundraising affair here to pay off
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rauh--II--24 guy who ought not be President. I also had a deep feeling that he knew nothing about foreign affairs and that he would get the nation into trouble. One of the things that had given me