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  • in that we been very countries Nam, really doesn't to be-- this you now are post-Viet but we ought in behind stable we've Now, when I talk of commitments, have commitments, their have done--- independence. now. probably the war we had
  • post-strike photography of the two targets, and then pick up the bridge just north of Hanoi as an ancillary target. We were on our way into Thai Nguyen, and we'd just picked up speed, and what I mean by that is that we'd just dropped off the tanks
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • advisory committee in '59. I joined it in January of 1960. M: And at the same time you were doing your work at Princeton? H: Oh, yes. I had a big and active research group at Princeton. I had four or five post-doctoral people and four or five graduate
  • of volunteer labor that you had, you look at it now and you're just amazed. I remember one little boy looked at his mother and said rather plaintively, "Mama, when are we going to have something to eat besides Post Toasties?" (Laughter) Because she would work
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -called restoration program, in which donors were being misrepresented. Maxine Cheshire of the Washington Post, for example, had done a particularly difficult to understand series in the summer of 1962, and just lots of humor seemed to be the way
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . representative. I remember it because I was the U.S. representative. The fourth part of this five-point program that the President put was the system of observation posts to prevent surprise attack. Now, people have gotten sort of cynical about that, but you know
  • anything. finance companies. He went to jail for defrauding some private So as often happens, after I was plllored from pillar to post for months, by a press that was just like a pack of wolves because they thought I was bleeding and they were going
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • on education, we would make an effort to invite the number one education writers--and many women are in this specialized field of journalism--education writers-­ somebody from the St. Louis Post Dispatch or somebody with the NEA Journal. 19 LBJ Presidential
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of these guys . The Po st Dispat ch was high l y c rit i cal of the President, a n d I n e ve r me t a r e po r ter f ro m the Post Dis patch that di dn' t share his pa p e r' s ed i torial p o licy when it came to President Johns on. Well , t his made them
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . In my own notebook I have about three pages of your biographical highlights alone. Maybe start briefly with your education and your academic posts. CK: Yes, right. In terms of my education, I started out in what has now almost disappeared, one-room
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Kluttz was the federal columnist for the Washington Post for many years, one of the most well-liked and highly regarded of all of them. He knew the ins and outs of the federal government pretty well, what was going on, and championed the cause
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • after the war in February '47. F: Well, the reason I asked, I did a post-doctorate at Harvard Business School. I was [there] in '48-'49. K: Oh, did you really. Quite a place, isn't it? F: It certainly is. K: I left--I was one of the classes
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that they might not want to do, such as in accepting a government post. F: You're talking to a fine example right here. M: Let me ask you then, how did you become Secretary of the Treasury? F: When I resigned as Undersecretary, I naturally talked
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as their personal staff, who they are paying directly, etc., that there is a different relationship than those whom you have obviously recruited on a different basis to the post that they hold. And I sure never heard it done to anybody that could be regarded
  • ; LBJ’s post-pres. plans to see Walter Jenkins.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was where we were. Eut there isn't anything about that trip that I can-- F: Did yeu get the feeling from your observer's post that the troops did appre=:: 2. t·:; and were sort of glad that the President had come> or if they felt, T: No, t:>
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh me from the Post, and he wanted to know all about it; and so I very deliberately said, oh, this was ridiculous, it was going to be $10--the other couldn't be justified, and so forth. And it was ascribed to a White House
  • was comparing people on the staff, and the man who really had control of the bills and seemed to me the sparkplug of the Senate staff was Gerry Siegel, now general counsel at the Washington Post. Johnson said to me one day, "You really have a much higher
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it must have been September of 1966 the President nominated me to be Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division. And I served in that post until May of 1967, when the President asked me to come over here and be the legislative counsel. The title I
  • post? S: Primarily what they turned out to be--namely, managing the Bureau of the Census. It's a big organization, some 4500 or 5000 employees. Its primary task is managerial, and the relation of the Bureau to other work in the Department
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Then, of course, we had Mr. Eastland, who succeeded Kilgore on Judiciary, and I think still holds that post. There was Lister LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Baskin of the Dallas News and Vernon Louviere of the Houston Chronicle and--I can't think at the moment--oh, I guess Felton West of the Houston Post. We thought we'd get down there and get a lot of hot poop, you know. He'd talk to us all weekend, and we
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to show you how he operated. I was on a trip around the world, on leave, when he appointed me to this post as ambassador to the United Nations, and I was in Rome when Stevenson died, and I was Ambassador. in Beirut when Goldberg was made the Then when I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • thought about this, or did he ever use you as a sounding post for what people were thinking? W: No, he didn't. G: You know, some people have expressed the view that he was isolated from what Americans were thinking. How would you respond to that? LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • would have thought we were going to destroy the Capitol and desecrate the flag. You tried to point out to them, "Hell, boys, if we hadn't changed things as we go along, we would still have had the hitching post out in front here and gas lights." Oh
  • ; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; LBJ and Kerr's dealings with Senator Joseph McCarthy; Reynolds' post-presidential visit to the LBJ Ranch with Bill Kerr; Eisenhower's responsibility for U.S. involvement in Vietnam; LBJ as vice president.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • between the Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas. K: Yes. Over the weekend--I don't know whether it was during this all-night session or not--he did speak of the fact that he had in mind the post-presidency and the important part
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that was in LBJ's mind. And it is true that he elevated Larry to a higher post than Larry had had under the Kennedy Administration. So Larry went with Bobby and later went with Hubert Humphrey. G: He made the rounds in that one. K: He did. G: Now
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)