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Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • referring? (In the framework of foreign affairs, how did you see the relationship between State and Defense? While it is generally thought that your relationship with Rusk was good, there are those in the State Department who thought you had usurped
  • McNamara’s first contact with LBJ in 1960; assessment of Johnson’s personality and abilities; McNamara’s assessment of successes and failures of Defense Department while he was Secretary; relationship of Defense and State Departments; Congress
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Deason -- Special Interview (White Star) -- 24 D: I don't know what--no, he was the public information, public affairs man with the State Bar Association for many
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • bit; this affair in 1965 and what with everything else going on. What I would like to do is, there are really three or four topics I'd like to cover today. One would be this Dominican invasion, and as much as we can focus on what Johnson was doing
Oral history transcript, Walter Mylecraine, interview S-I, 7/12/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE 1 OF1''1CE Olt lWUU \T.TON 2 J ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
  • Henry Loomis’ relationship with LBJ; reorganization of the Office of Education; the Bailey Report; flaws in the former administrative management of OE; comparisons of State Departments; efforts to bring OE closer to communities and educators
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 20 ­ MCKINZIE: Did you recall deali~g with any of those? JONES:. Yes.. There was a very efficient soldier, General John Hilldr~~g, who, _in the Defense Department, was head of th~ Civil Affairs Division
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • in there, and Les and I were sitting at breakfast, and he was asking me how I would run the department. I said one of the things was to try to ensure, before I took a recommendation to the president, that it had been properly talked out and staffed out, if you
  • negotiations; LBJ's White House taping system; comparison of LBJ's abilities in domestic and foreign affairs; LBJ's inheritance of the Vietnam situation; McNamara's assessment of the LBJ presidency; Six Day War, 1967; hot line call from Kosygin.
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • , 1996 INTERVIEWEES: Harry Middleton and George Christian and LBJ School Students PLACE: LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas M: Max Sherman [dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs] says that he is not going to say anything
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • is a harder man. D: The point I was going to make is, I think there is a distinction--the point you're raising about Johnson: Trial and error; ad hoc--see, I think in domestic affairs there was a clearer vision of where he wanted to go. B: He had a much
  • Robert Dallek's work on LBJ biographies; LBJ's personality; comparing JFK's and LBJ's knowledge of foreign affairs; LBJ's relationships with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and JFK during his vice presidency
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • parks. p: The roadside parks were the first major statewide project we had and the first in the United States. RR: Yes, that was the first NYA project. FR: It started under Jimmie Allred and the State Highway Department. Lyndon made the contacts
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)
  • House. -came as a special assistant in counsel in 1965. I understand you You came over from the State Department. M: Right. I came on loan fro m t he State Department for about six months. I was still being paid by the State Department
Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • into this war and I don't know how to get out of it. I'm listening and I can advance your views there." I said, "I laugh about some of these damn things that they send me from the State Department." (Interruption) He couldn't take a walk on the streets
  • and people in the oil industry; LBJ's campaigns against Hardy Hollers and Buck Taylor; the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947; how LBJ was offered a position on the House Naval Affairs Committee; attending the funeral for LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.; Billie Sol
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Grace Radcliff of Union Valley. So it was sort of Stockdale-Union Valley affair until I came along. I was a little, I guess, retarded in life. I didn't get married very early. As a matter of fact, I didn't get married until I was forty years old. World
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Connally and wanted to make him head of the CIA or assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs. Connally wasn't interested in either one. He was interested in being secretary of the navy, but then he decided to come back and save Texas. And he
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • , I think at that time, was assistant secretary of state for cultural affairs in the State Department. But Harry and the President knew each other and I think that Harry's voice was being listened to, but the main person who was in the White House
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin and Harold Howe II, interview S-II, undated (Item)
  • . The Johnson Administration, in introducing all these~ new programs, has introduced them across the board in the Federal Gove~~ent. You find them in the Office of Econo!l)ic Opportunity, in the Labo::i Department, in aspects of the Model Cities Program related
  • Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • of Public Affairs], in that Max Sherman, the head of it, or whoever has been head of it, has been part of the committee structure of the Library, so that we are one. And physically we are just across the terrace. And it's served both purposes. So I think
  • to the public; Library Director, Harry Middleton; how Middleton made and maintained ties to the University of Texas, the LBJ School of Public Affairs and former LBJ staffers; the JFK School of Government; possible inaccuracies in oral histories; LBJ's use
Oral history transcript, Inez Hughes, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • : Oh, Tommy was one of the sweetest, finest fellows. I was sort of his escape valve when he had his affairs with his loved ones, and they didn't go right, and he would come for sympathy. When I went on to Baylor, the girl he had been very much in love
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)
  • as a full professor, teaching political values and ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She now holds the LBJ Centennial Chair in National Policy and has added a second course on policy development. LIZ: MS. Magazine wants to know what you