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  • effort to bring the pros and cons of major controversies within the field of defense to light--in this case with speeches and writings and statements that were published in newspapers of record such as the Washington Post and the New York Times--we
  • , Kentucky; Representative Hal Boggs, Louisiana; Representative Gerald Ford, Michigan; Honorable Allen Dulles, Washington; Honorable John Day [J.] McCloy, New York. RUSSEL L: Well, now Mr. President, I know I don't have to tell you my devotion to you. But I
  • in information; LBJ's interest in the news; LBJ as a liberal; what LBJ would have thought of 1996 political issues; the relationship between LBJ and Connally; speculations on LBJ's career if he had run for re-election in 1968; how LBJ's presidency will be viewed
  • it in our own Hmv \vot/1 d you 1 i ke to be treated? country. 1o~ the same way. Treat the other fe l- I don't think you want.these people to go to un2r:ployrn2nt rolls in Detroit and Los Angeles. I think they ought to be trained here at home so
  • because we have not learned proper evaluation techniques, nor do we have personnel trained to do the evaluation job. Henceforth, with our new techniques and with our newly trained personnel, we have the resources to evaluate our programs. Therefore
  • was very fond of Frank and I think he did a wonderful job for the arts and his counterpart in the Republican side was Ogden Reid from New York. You see, Javits and Reid were interested in the arts because the arts were focused in their district, really
  • formerly called services, su.c h as those for libraries and audiovisual aids. In addition, the new division included the program of grants-in-aid authorized the year before in Public Laws 815 and 87l;.--the program to help build nnd operate schools
  • for two major new directions in Federal edu cation pr ograms. ·o ne of these directions can be sugge sted by the word "consolidation "-·­ some kind of pi.:lling together of existing programs so that th ey relate better to each other; so that t hey have
  • this pretty often? I don't know. I think he watched programs like "Issues and Answers 11 and "Meet the Press" and news type programs, the Sunday programs a 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Special telephone interview regarding the impact of television on public policy; White House Communications Agency; use of videotape; White House Naval Photographic Unit films; LBJ's close relations with the press; television news reports; effect
  • , nI've got four names for you to consider and I can send yoLl over a memorandum detailing what background in each one of them was.'' of NBC News. It happens one was Bill Small~ who is now president One was Bill Monroe that runs "Meet the Press
  • Daily summaries of TV networks to LBJ; Bureau Chiefs set up TV control room at White House; Bill Moyers and Peter Benchley leaving the White House; Jack Valenti; monitored 11:00 to 1:00pm TV news shows for LBJ; LBJ believed Texans were resented
  • , and professional experience before you got to the White House and then we can focus in more directly on what you did in the White House with Mrs. Johnson. W: I grew up in Syracuse, New York. I went for undergraduate work to St. Lawrence University, which
  • president spot I went to Dallas to speak, and the revulsion expressed itself. They spit on us. They knocked Mrs. Johnson's hat off and said a lot of ugly things. That is pretty commonplace now, but it was new to us then. And it was in Dallas that we learned
  • of success in focusing on downtown, and the idea is not just Washington downtown, but downtown anyplace, whether it be Fayetteville, New York, or in a big city. You know, the idea of "Let's not junk our old downtowns; let's instead do something to spruce them
  • : Rayburn, yes, oh yes. And Johnson was working with a lot of different people. Rayburn helped raise money, yes, he did. D: And was it money from Texas? C: Most of it. But it was from New York, it was from California, it was from various places
  • wonder if you recall any of those discus sions or if your work involv ed any of · · that postwa r plannin g? JONES: As I rememb er [Benito ] Musso lini was arreste~ and [Pietro ] Badogl io formed a new govern ment in the autumn of 1943. The King
  • this, but it was the fact that the news media never went into personal things about her father, and I think that's a great consideration. He was a very likeable man and a very handsome man and a very good businessman. G: I gather he was quite a tall man. H: No . . . G
  • brother Charles get his farm started for a year or two and then he joined a wagon train that was going west. He wanted to still go further west and seek adventure so he went out into the Territory of New Mexico and for a couple of years herded sheep
  • down and requested permission to get a new outfit and he wired back, "Authorized. New outfit at your discretion.” So the whole school went down to Los Angeles to a place called Bullocks and there we practically bought out the store. I bought a--I used
  • down and requested permission to get a new outfit and he wired back, "Authorized. New outfit at your discretion.” So the whole school went down to Los Angeles to a place called Bullocks and there we practically bought out the store. I bought a--I used
  • down and requested permission to get a new outfit and he wired back, "Authorized. New outfit at your discretion.” So the whole school went down to Los Angeles to a place called Bullocks and there we practically bought out the store. I bought a--I used
  • down and requested permission to get a new outfit and he wired back, "Authorized. New outfit at your discretion.” So the whole school went down to Los Angeles to a place called Bullocks and there we practically bought out the store. I bought a--I used
  • in American edu­ cation. There arc four steps, as we sec it, as being, .. essentinl: One, basic research \dtich has the responsibility· for funding new knowledge in education; The second step, that of development l~ich in- valves, in using nev kno
  • to have the Bible read to him. B: Yes. G: I had several new versions of the Bible that made it simple. He liked that very much. B: He liked to refer to the Bible in his public speeches and all, and I got the impression he had a familiarity
  • An Interview With Barbara Jordan by Liz Carpenter February 5, 1985 MS. Magazine inaugurates with this issue a new series called, "What Are You Thinking?" It is interviewing a variety of women whose names are news and whose impact is great. We begin with Barbara
  • : November 10, 1993 PLACE: Professor Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 D: What I wanted to first ask you about is the Dominican Republic. That was not a topic we spoke about last time, and so I wanted to get you talking about that a little
  • [problems] in a town like Austin, which is not known for its public transportation service, is a continuing thing. How do you define these-- LC: Idiosyncrasies? DC: --idiosyncrasies of Harry, yes. LC: Well, think of the young man in New York City
  • and Wirtz convinced FDR that the tax case was inspired by anti-New Dealers in Texas, that they were-(Interruption) C: He would hug up an enemy that didn't speak to him, shake hands, walk across the street. And a lot of them he won back were very much
  • everything that he could find on the subject of guerrilla war­ fare and was organizing the Green Berets and everything else that was calculated to give ocir troops a new ... expertise in that general field, and make them ready and prepa reel to dead
  • : Robert Dallek PLACE: New York City, New York Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 B: What are you doing with this [material]? D: I am working on volume two of my Johnson biography. Volume one, Lone Star Rising, came out-- B: Yes, I remember. I haven't read
  • ability~ and his political knOW-how. When he came into Austin~ Texas~ I was a student at the University of Texas, but there was considerable publicity about the fact that he was there and had taken on this new job. Every day there was another story
  • of relatio nship did Presid ent Johnso n have with the news media betwee n 1963 and 1965? I have 12. no first-h and knowle dge of that. What observ ations would you care to make about Presid ent Johnso n's relatio ns with the Congre ss? Obviou sly my
  • to Austin and I've got a new job. I want you to help me get started." I said, "Well, tell me about it." He said, "I don't have LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • Ii A.cJ.r1ca. in order to accommodate the new crisis in And this meant tha t everybo4y who was in that milieu l I) I g I in either USIA or the V~ice was . accu~tome~ to having their resource availa bility cha ngedj owi1:tg
  • is ne1.. mission, the .new emph
  • 1962-1963 was Associate Commission in Bureau of Education Assistance Programs (BEEP); three divisions: 1. State and local elementary and secondary 2. Higher education 3. Manpower training; abrupt increase in staff in 1964 required new emphasis
  • ancl the - ­ Mrs . Saunders: - - and different places, you know- -that was the time they were harvesting, you know . Mrs . Roberts: Yes . M r s . Saunders: - -and we enjoyed it- -it was something new to me. Mrs . Ro~erts: Uh huh. Mrs . Saunders
  • rights conference in 1966, which had a large education element in it-­ H: I'd like to go back to that, because you've really opened a new area for me there, since I haven't looked at the civil r_ights _papers. say in preparation for that you brought
  • ! r3o's~ essenti ally with the be ginning of the New Deal, ~hen 19 11 the I' ty10 thi ngs h ppened: One , the Nationa l Vocatio na l Edu- . 2 0 l cati on:;.l Prog1"'t..m.s were bro ught by l aw j_ nt o the Office of I 2 1 j Educatio n
  • i- ·t S0 t '.1 is po int . f·./ . ;-1 r• . ­· c· 0 U~ o· 0i:.r '~ ,J~ · (-- .o' ­ ,_ ' ( i - a nd in -se rvice tra in i ng pro- by th is g 1·oup tha.t } g r am s focus on new r. ·1 ay~3 of organizing for 1ns ·truc·tion
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -----~---- DEPAR'n1ENT OF EALTH, EDUCATION AiID WELF ARE Was hing ton, D.C. . Inte rvie w of I FRANCIS KEPPEL . I I by John Sing erho ff New York City Jcl.y 18, 1968
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 20 I ( l 2 authorize new lcgisla.tinn • j .j As . He i i \\'ha t is by a long t . I. 4 consi~er c~ Senate i _; the Unitecl States both noted the other day shot ~ the ~ most compr c­ ~ hcnsivc p~ecc of hi ghe