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  • , because this is supposed to be a neutral position; you don't get on the public record that way. Do you have recollection of that? B: I don't have recollection of that. I have recollection of how I felt, and I would hope that I told Bob what I felt, which
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reminiscences of LBJ -- 9 Tape Number 3: The Governor came in. Bob Kerr came in. All the senators that supported me came in. They were all against it. Rayburn said, "I turned Bob Kerr
  • this is a pI'ersona1 argument that the two of us had and I 've forgotten it a1ready and I hope·-Jack has. 11 . This voice came on and said, "I have." And I said, "Wh~t is going on?'' Bill said', "Well, I should have told you, I've got you on the speaker phone
  • , thought he was doing, and hoped he was doing. I'd appreciate it. And then we'll look at the 1967 Middle East war. I believe you were out of the government by then, but I also know that you were called back and played a central role in dealing
  • , the catalogs by subject or by policy area. M: You'd have the outside task forces going in the late summer. Their work would be done in early fall and the inside task force would begin work about then. We would hope to have something into the BOB
  • , and I was a speech writer and there wasn't anything much lower than a speech writer. (Laughter) But I have come on to much more exalted planes. Now, in this library there are some forty some million papers and they are very--I think Mr. [Robert "Bob
  • in the lurc h, afte r all the com mit men ts Eise ni1o wer had mad e, and all that SEA TO had mad e, and all that the Co:: 6 res s had mad e, and all that the Ton kin Gul f said , and all the stat eme nts that Ken :1ed y had mad e, and Bob by Ken ned y had mad
  • he ought to get his own team in line about cna1rmen 1 ♦ .c 01 Humphrey? comrn1.. s. He got \vhat the hell is He s a wonderful man, but. we knmv he 1 i ke Bob Taylor's j goat, he's done voted. We've got to get some other folks in this thing
  • fiscal year 1965 and fiscal year 1966 as the years of hopes and high expectati ons and identify fiscal I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • and in a sense, the presidential library as an enduring institution. We don't want to make this highfalutin. In fact, I'm going to ask dumb-boy questions, which I hope will provoke Liz to speak in nonacademic terms, calculated to be understandable by the citizen
  • with the NYA, was consciously the beginning of a political career? Do you think he had that hope in mind then of coming to Congress later? Did this help to build a political base for him? RR: Bill, I don't know whether he had it in his mind. I would think so
  • that there is untapped fiscal capacity in the States and loca.li ties . I would hope ,,1e could design a general aid program to act as an incentive to tap these resources in return for larger amounts of relativel y unfettere d Federal funds.-· . I I This whole
  • that. But privately he said, "You know, Billy, that was a wonderful thing. I hope that I can live up to the standards that my mother set for me." He had a tremendous affection and awe apparently for his mother. And then there was an aunt of his that was very religious
  • . Johnson talked about my good school grades and so forth, and said how much she hoped the girls would do well at school, and it was a very nice, sort of non-threatening conversation from my perspective, and she was really very gracious. And Liz
  • about social issues. How would you vote if you were in Congress today on cuts on social issues? BARBARA: I would hope that I could vote on a plane higher than politics. Now, that is asking almost the impossible for a politician to vote on a plane above
  • I put it--evoke environmental attitudes in the nation at large? W: I think clearly the billboard issue, even though it sort of went awry later, in terms of it did not live up to its original hope, helped raise the whole issue of urban blight
  • in Washington. He'll be all right." I remember that day I said, "Well, I hope President Johnson makes a good president. I believe he will. But I promise y'all one thing. He'll attend more funerals than any president of the United States has ever attended
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connally -- Special Interview -- 22 D: Okay, well, that's hopeful. I wanted to talk
  • of a Western Europe or Northern Europe concept • . I don't remember any planni~g during the war · years in Washington that would have involved Italy, particularly, in an overall European economic plan; other than the general hope . that Italy would come back
  • or u state-: But two thin.gs ;i1indcrcd this k:ind of an opera- ti on. .. l l ~? They were. middle of planning'· developing, implementing &"1.(l cvaluat­ I ing; .Title ( Yes. \·ie had hoped that states \·;ould he in the very: I I .f
  • --freedom- of~choice, for insta~ce, didn't wo~k out as I we had hoped--but all in all we made a ~ood beginning. on it now, I can see how much credit is owed Looking back ii td the Johnson Administra­ i·! i '. tion--both for its great sensitivity
  • ...... . ll the ND~:~'\~ bsc~~use they h a d al-rmy~ sougr1-C a genm_..n.I li,cde1--al air 1 ·• 1 • I ' ~ 9 j program~ and we were just off of ten yeQrs of disappointment .10 l I coupled with hope for a general aid program, or . at least a . . 11
  • 11! ii ii' \ -- we were in a hope less ad- t ]! 2 •1 f: I i .;i :1i:",.: So He finally prev c-ri led on legal ccut ;3 e l to J[ 1· j .1: .. ; :V 1· ii I f 1 ive situation . :1 ministrat ii'• ! ' \ :, sc m2 kind of racial