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  • had been good. But this was the first time that Lyndon Johnson as President saw how the Council of Economic Advisers could perform. From that very moment on, he would expect to be kept up-to-date--to get these daily memos. This is the way the New
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
  • Daily News, Keyes Beech, who had heard of the thing and wanted to go. In the meantime I think there was also a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • , but if you're a member of a field office, you don't participate necessarily on a daily basis on protective work. investigations-- M: Only when he moves then? You have the other LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org Y: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 12, 1969 This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May 12, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon B. Johnson, that is you
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
  • U.S. Attorney. Through his recommendation I was After that I was recommended for reappointment in the Republican administration by the judges of the United States District Court in Chicago. F: What prompted your move to New York? W: I was asked
  • Truman Democrat and I am an Orval Faubus Democrat." F: And never the twain shall meet! H: That experience~ of course, is beside the point, except that it brings us together in this matter of geography. F: I think New York City is beginning to get
  • index : Page or estimated time on tape Subiect(s) covered 1 Biographical 2,3 Organized labor's view of Senator Johnson 4,5 Trying to put across a new labor view in Texas 6 Communication Workers of America 7 Local union 8 Union
  • Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
  • [Department of Justice]. Let me outline here just very briefly your background, subject to additions and corrections. You were born in Chicago in 1928, bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, naval service in the early fifties, in 1956 a law degree from Yale
  • happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which
  • in the South didn't have the financial base in the early days to support it. So I got Reverend Kilgore involved, who was up at the Friendship Baptist Church in New York; Gardiner Taylor in Brooklyn; and others, so that this thing had some financial base
  • for a short time. B: Of course, the surpluses diminished, too. J: Yes, the surpluses diminished, only in part, however, because of the food shipments, but also because of the acreage restrictions--the philosophy had changed under the new administration
  • so well, a 1924 model new Ford, Model T, that did not have a battery ; we always cranked it . He wasn't privileged to campaign very much because my mother was ill and because he was making a crop, as well as teaching school . went with him, I'd say
  • conversations with Walter Jenkins. I did go to Chicago. So we go on through that. I would imagine that Irving Goldberg served kind of like a doorkeeper for the suite. was not a big staff around. In those days there There was not a lot of space. However
  • and Hale Boggs, that Charlie Davis had. Boggs'. It might have been at the Charlie Davis, you know, was the chief clerk of the Ways and Means Committee. been earlier. I believe he still was at that time, or he had That's right, he \vas in a Chicago law
  • /loh/oh 2 K: Because he was new and Douglas knew that I didn't know him and he thought perhaps, I imagine he thought, that I could be of use to Johnson in his career and that Johnson would eventually be a man of influence that I should know because
  • a job that I thought would be constructive . Government Operations fitted that category . be done . It was available, it could They were putting some new members on it . The Republicans controlled the Congress, you understand, in January of '53
  • . B: Did you see or [lear any signs of presidential ambition, say, in 1956? S: I didn't. I was not that close to him. I was not in Chicago in 1956 \vhen Jack Kennedy almost got the nomination for vice president, so I really \vas not that close
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldberg -- I -- 17 me copies of the briefs that were submitted to New Orleans and to New York. F
  • willing to assign that man. R: Well, yes, certainly, because there's a rapport there, and when a new man comes in it's an advantage because there's an understanding there and and it makes it much easier for us to present our problems to the extent
  • daily? N: Not daily, 0:: Cape Cod at the time of the second primary? but I telephoned. I bought the New York Times. Boston pa?ers didn't report anything. The The New York Times would have very confusing information, and I remember I called
  • background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
  • with the 1941 campaign was four or five days after the election and when the Texas Election Bureau made another late return. F: It looked as if he had won, didn't it? K: It looked that way long enough that, as I remember, the Dallas [Morning] News
  • going through the Mansion. Mrs. Kennedy did not know anyone else was with him, and just called out: "Jack, guess what I've found! I've found a new piece of the Lincoln china." So the way Mr. Wilkins related it to me, she was in a very excited mood
  • and wondered if the Senator would object to his offering me a job as his secretary over in the House. Shortly after that Mr. Connally announced his candidacy for the Senate, and was elected. So I returned to the Senate with the new Senator from Texas. F
  • me to New York to work at the United Nations and all those kinds of things. But that is how I got to know John Connally, whom Senator Connally wanted to run his re-election campaign. John Connally refused him. There was really very little doubt
  • to the United States in 1959. D: Well, it was quite fascinating because I had been in Washington for only two days. I had been working in Ohio as a television reporter and news director at a television and radio station, and had applied for a job
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 H: Yes, the legislature adopted a new legislation code or a revision of the Texas election laws in 1951, I guess it was. And one of my duties as executive assistant attorney general was to handle
  • ; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America
  • yourself in a position to have a job in the new Administration? S: Yes. As 1960 moved on and I was chairman of this wheat task force--and wheat was in a kind of crisis situation with nearly a billion-and-a-half bushels stored up--a real surplus crisis
  • , and Lyndon Johnson heard about it, was in town, and personally came over to welcome me in my new job. Secondly, we had several meetings very early, just the two of us, and then with others around his responsibilities heading the President's Commission. I
  • , then I got there about the tenth of December. I got there about two weeks after the assassination. G: Okay. F: When I got back to Saigon I obviously had a lot of catching up to do because I was out of touch, you might say, with the members of the new
  • these faucets on and off. But first of all, the extent to which you can do this is sharply limited. I ."ouldn I t want to pull a figure out of the air. But we've got now a new budget concept which is approaching 200 billion dollars. Only a very, very tiny
  • , but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new
  • door yelling that the President had been shot. So we all rushed into the kitchen of the ranch house and watched Walter Cronkite report the news on the television set in the kitchen, Secret Service men included. Some of them were back
  • officials. Now, just to give you an illustration of what I'm talking about, at one point the U.S. Customs and Immigrations had constructed a new office building at the border--a new U.S. Customs and Immigrations building there-F: This is at the bridge? T
  • because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
  • was advancing a trip that very day, in fact, for then-Vice President Johnson to New York. I was in New York with Secret Service agents for the big B'nai B'rith meeting at Madison LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
  • deal. Of course, the FBI was here, and they We examined various items and questioned where certain things happened and all that sort of thing. I'll get to Warren now. He had a very brilliant lawyer from New York that he was fond of, and he made him