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- 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
- some sor t of i ::-: sti tut ion
al aid in bot h hig her
edu cat ion and in ele men tar y
and sec ond ary e ducation-~insti
tutional aid
wit h rel ati vel y few Fed era l
pri ori tie s, rec o gni zin g tha t
edu cat ion al·
··co sts are . spi raH ng
- , then roughly at five or six o'clock in the evening, we'd
start writing the mail. I had taken shorthand and typing my last year in high school and
had become quite a good typist, fair on my shorthand, so I'd take notes from him, Walter
Jenkins and I would
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A question worthy of making some comments has to
do with the relationships of the Federal government and the State
governments and the local educational agencies as this relates, both
directly and indirectly, to the question of general aid or categorical aid
- of employees. Fascinating. Walter Jenkins was
one of them?
C:
He was a loyal . . . Tragedy.
D:
Yes.
C:
He was a loyal friend, dependable friend, and Mr. Johnson didn't keep any secrets from
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LBJ Presidential Library
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
ORAL
- director of the Inter-American Development Bank; Clark's ranking of the presidents; LBJ's work ethic and political loyalty; LBJ's charm in one-on-one situations; Walter Jenkins; LBJ's relationship with Harry Truman; support for LBJ from Texas newspapers
- and t6uch with me, but he really did
the economic work for all of us.
(
later on, that the question of aid
It was only
prog~ams
for I·taly became a possibility (I must say,
.....
going back to the middle of the war, that no
one had ever thought about
- ; postwar Rome characterized; the Italy-Yugoslavia border issue; the Marshall Plan; transfers to China in 1948; evaluates the communist movement in China; Chiang Kai-shek evaluated; the issue of aid to Mao Tse-tung; the communist occupation of Nanking
- speaking or thinking of politics
but in the way of projects for the youth of the country or the state
and the student aid program, I think he was always ahead of the other
directors.
W:
That's the feeling we had in Texas.
Let me interrupt.
Is it true--I
- to destroy me.
I saw Mrs. Kennedy many times. She asked me to change Cape Canaveral to Cape
Kennedy. She said, "You've just got to get Cape Kennedy."
Just as I heard about Walter Jenkins during the 1964 campaign, Bobby said I had to go
see Mrs. Kennedy. I
- to bl!i ld cl ass rooms i11 pub"iic an~ private
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and uni vers it i es alike
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but that they could not j be used to .
il build cha pe ls, nor c9uld they -be used to help ii1 the expans101 ~;
L
II!
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l.,
Quite obviously, the st'udcnt aid
- of harmless stuff--like I can
remember the Congressional Relations Office, somebody over there calling me and saying
that they'd had a request from some congressman's office for a letter from Mrs. Johnson to
aid constituents for some local beautification
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...... .
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the ND~:~'\~ bsc~~use they h a d al-rmy~ sougr1-C a genm_..n.I li,cde1--al air
1
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9 j program~ and we were just off of ten yeQrs of disappointment
.10
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coupled with hope for a general aid program, or . at least a
.
.
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- was deciding what
to do about Vietnam, changing his . views on Vietnam.
lesson I ever
le~rned
from him, the thing he probably
else . • . when he had a
meeti~g
and it would be over
More often the greatest
~aid
~nd
more than anything
we would be staying
- rrlth
l-!r. Willis, who was a gre:>.t believer in general aid and in rrGive the
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money . to the local schools and don't tell ther:! what to do \·ri th it, u to ·
persuade hi.i:i that it would be wise public policy to giYe special funds
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Louann Temple
PLACE:
Unknown
Tape 1 of 1, Side 1
T:
. . . Mr. Biddle, one of the things I am curious about is that in the memos that I have read in
1964 when President Johnson first went into office, the aides and people outside of the
office
- in, and then there was the calligrapher's office. That's what we called the social office,
which handled all the calligraphy and all the invitation lists, and all that stuff. And there
was also a Secret Service office, and the office of the military aides was also on the floor
- between a president and his senior people in that kind of setting.
Next we come to the role of you and the Department of Defense in certain
domestic matters--wage-price guideposts, aluminum, steel, et cetera. President Johnson
often enlisted your aid
- public behavior, once he got to Washington
much less to Congress, showed that he was cowed by what he might sense as inferior
beginnings. He, as a congressional aide, was already running for leadership.
LC:
That's right. He was enthusiastic; he was up
- . And these are the recordings he
made of telephone conversation.s. We don't know why but we do know that he was a
man uniquely of the telephone. This president who did not compose memorandum or
write letters, or compose letters used the telephone, as one of his aides once said
- together, and there was as
much dissensio:-i as there was, between I[arkin,i and the CIA, and the
AID people and the Ambassador, aml othe,rs. And I thonght that we made
a mistake in removing our Amba.ssa.