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Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Committee, which was the committee to defend America, "Aiding the Allies." So this is a long-time interest. I went to the President and urged him to show courage and strength, and told him that every time he did his rating went up in the polls
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Wednesday of that previous week would have been. to Peru. I had just gotten back from a trip I had been down \\li th the State Department on an AID program speaking to a South American seminar on Arequipa. F: I was there at the time. P: Were you? F
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . They had been running school construction and general aid bills up there; they had been running all manner of manpower programs and whatnot through the Congress, migratory worker bills only to have them die on one side or the other, or by Presidential veto
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a police department. Atlanta had been exceptionally well trained in attitudes towards Negro people. Chief Jenkins is liberal by nature, has a distinguished record and has been through the whole civil rights movement and is highly regarded
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : The Johnson aides in describing this are inclined to link the Lawrence nomination with the [Abe] Fortas nomination. M: Yes. That was the other judgeship. G: First of all, was there a connection here? Did Senator Russell oppose the Fortas nomination
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • objectivity either. For example, do you get pressures on this kind of case? V: Oh, sure. There's a great deal of pressure from Congress, I think, to prosecute these aiding and abetting cases; and we, however, have developed certain standards that we apply
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • platform. I recall matters pertaining to Rule 22, the filibuster rule, and getting civil rights legislation going over there. I got quite impatient. I recall sending some rather abrasive letters to the gentleman, and I had Some of his aides call up
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • people that migrated to Illinois from other communities. I discussed with him first and President Kennedy later that certainly some program must be developed, because the category of public aid, the general assistance category, which was one hundred per
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Is there a statutory authority for special aid after riots? C: Yes, there are a number of federal statutes that can be invoked in circumstances in a city where there has been disorder or where there is suffering. However, there was and perhaps continues
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , there should be no intention in any way to interfere with the decentralized operations in the most efficient way . On the other hand, there is tremendous aid that can be given them by letting them know what's happening elsewhere in the Department of Justice
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , the school systems, the welfare systems; the federal government had encouraged , t h r o u g h grants in aids and carrots and sticks, various kinds programs run by local agencies which for the most part they were able to define themselves. All they had to do
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the other man is doing, and what he does that he should no longer do. For example, what could the Bureau do to carryon where, for example, AID has phased out. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • arrival at Metropolitan Airport, which is sort of equidistant between downtown Detroit and downtown Ann Arbor. So all that week there was considerable planning that went into the President's visit. His aides and associates all indicated that he really
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)