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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
  • : 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 22 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 - 1 and uni vers it i es alike 'i ~ I 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! i 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
  • ...... . 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
  • 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 : -· . 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
  • : 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.