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  • ." The quote is: "The day is And it was then that he announced his intent to appoint the fifty additional women to government posts. And a quote that I like especially is the following, when he announced the names of the first additional women
  • ] by the administration. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -10- But there was a lack of understanding that I think was because the situation had not arisen before in the post-war era, and because people in Washington--so
  • be excel- lent and advanced in some post graduate areas. G: Also in 1965 you had the health and research facilities bill which called for a three-year extension, and that was slowed down because of an amendment by Senator [Russell] Long on patents. Do
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • conducted a number of field tests throughout the United States, from 1963 on through 1967, at various Army posts and various air bases throughout the country. We've also participated in some major field exercises that the military have conducted and have
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the elements in the Office of Secretary, but no matter how good the organizational statements, we could not eliminate all of the misunderstandings. Unfortunately, there were personalities in key posts who evinced an undesirable degree of preoccupation
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • nervous that we didn't seem to be doing anything about the balance of payments deficit. M: The cause of this excessive spending is what? D: There are several causes. We had maintained a very substantial trade surplus in the war and immediate post-war
  • to Laos as ambassador when you went out there. Ho~ did you get on that list? How did your name come up for that post? S: Well, it was a fairly natural thing. the Laos business in 1961-62. had sort of been Mr. Laos. lid been so much involved
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and then of course has grown in stature from originally being elected to the minority leadership post to the United States Senate to the majority leader post of the United States Senate. Each of these steps allowed him to learn more. Each ofthese steps allowed him
  • , being one of the most astute and powerful men in the Senate. Other senators were talked about, as well as different groupings. Senat e vlhip. ]V[y At that time Senator Johnson was serving as the Of course, he did go on to '
  • about it from the conversations that had taken place. I do not recall any mention by anybody at that post- morten that night of the possibility of Johnson being the nominee. B: Before you go any further, had Mr. Rayburn ever said anything about who
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • being considered for the Cabinet post? H: No, not at all. discussed. No, it never had been discussed. Nothing had been We did all we thought we could for the party. When I went to South America with a bunch of governors--twenty-five or thirty
  • experience in India, here, and in Africa and in nonviolent tactics might be useful to him. Well, as an indication of how little Dr. King had really thought out, I went down and I took with me Bill Worthy, who was a writer and did some things for the Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , was he your candidate for that post? 5: Oh, yes, and would not have gotten it had we not turned in some green stamps for him. You know, we clearly got that job for Hodges. It was to the benefit of the state; I said facetiously, although there's some
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . photoplane could. They couldn't see any more than an aerial And of course we had post-strike assessment recon recce photographs. It's just jungle. Made holes in the jungle. G: The aerial photos didn't improve as time went on then? S: The place just
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Kennedy's period. President Johnson carried through on that, and that was a very major furtherance of our post-World War II liberal trade policy. But LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • 1958, when I was asked to come back to the Budget Bureau. B: As deputy director? S: Initially as assistant director, then three months later as deputy director. But the deputy post was planned in my coming back. I stayed on in this job after
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • this period of time [we had] the help of the White House and their backing, and of course with the very strong support of Herb Waters and Nelson Post, who worked with him, who of course had been brought back in as a result of Vice President Humphrey's efforts
  • and women who guarded the little hamlet at night against attacks of the Communists. On another occasion I visited an American army post about twenty-five miles outside of Saigon. The commanding officer was cordial, and the men in his post seemed
  • , for launching the program. I remained in that position until April 1, 1968, at which time Secretary Gardner asked me ts become the first administrator of the Health Services and t1ental Health Administration. I took on that post the first of April and remained
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • working in the newsroom that night. Now, of course, how many days di d it take to get the vote in, the fi na 1 result? I really have forgotten. G: Did you cover any of the post-election proceedings? W: Oh, yes. G: Why don't you give me your
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of thing on the basis that you can expect them to keep it quiet? M: In those days only the chairman of the committee was aware of it. G: I see. M: They never told the members of the committee. Now they just print it in the Washington Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Quang Duc. Tri Quang was-- for six weeks there I was not at my post. I had speeches to make about Vietnam at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and elsewhere, which were already laid on. I have to do with it? thing about it. So your
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • candidate . Just a barefoot sharecropper's son!" the [vice] presidential candidate . So they selected Sparkman for That's how most of the vice presidential candidates back in those days were selected . not considered a very important post . It was What
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with Orville Freeman and John Schnitker and others at the Department and became the listening post back and forth on farm programs. There was always a good deal of disagreement between the Department and Budget Bureau and the Council of Economic Advisors on our
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was given a posting choice of Seoul, Korea; Vientiane, Laos; or Saigon, [South] Vietnam; those were the three [choices]. G: What year was this? P: This was 1959. I chose Saigon, got there in 1960. year the National Liberation Front was formed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • delegated with enough power in Shriver really to deal with the policy questions, but OEO came to have its hands full with the Community Action Program and with other undertakings. And the human beings to populate the administrative posts
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -- 22 for rescuing me from this predicament, but more to the British dietician. F: Did he consult with you prior to his taking the Senate minority post? P: No. F: Neither he nor Richard Russell? P. No, I never- F: Did he talk to you at all
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with the Johnsons s and Johnson asked me to be the swing man on getting Texas reporters to travel with him on the vice presidential campaign. So I got vari- ous newspapers--Star Telegram, Houston Post, let's see, who else, the Harte-Hanks papers--to agree to send
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Proxmire -- I -- 4 you got on the Agriculture Committee?" I wasn't on the Appropriations Committee at that time; I was on the Banking and Agriculture Committees and the Post Office Committee. you that." Neuberger said, liThe leadership got And I said
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)