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Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was related to the fact that the space flight had just been completed in eight days. And incidentally, tJ1e two men on the plane--one was named Conrad and one was named Cooper. M: (Laughter) That's right. C: They usually mentioned that Cooper, Gordon
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Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LINCOLN GORDON INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Homewood House, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Tape 1 of 3 M: Let's do get an introductory statement for the transcriber. You're Lincoln Gordon, and your two positions
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  • Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by Lincoln Gordon and by Sol Linowitz. It's a very good document. The position of Johnson there was very much in favor of development of economic integration in Latin America. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Biographical information; served under Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ; major growth of bank under LBJ; Punta del Estes 1967; Lincoln Gordon and Sol Linowitz; Dominican problems; Peru balance of payment problems; Bank important element in Inter-American
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • City? W: Yes. Incidentally, they did not have the full cooperation of Lucia and Rebekah~ right away. In fact the big blowup, which I believe might have been hinted at maybe in Liz's book . . • • LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • actors in it, four principal chiefs, that is: Kermit Gordon, Budget Bureau; Walter Heller, council; Bill Wirtz, Labor; and Wilbur Cohen--or [Anthony] Celebrezze, but Wilbur Cohen, really--[HEW]. group. But then it was part of a larger
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and when they actually sent the bill up it had the two parts. Clyde Ellis was the general manager and executive vice president of the Rural Electric Cooperative Association. together for ten years, lobbying for it. Weld been working This and being born
  • Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association); Mississippi food situation; inter-agency departmental board; regional discrimination; cabinet officers; OEO programs and policies
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • meeting. from business on this matter. It was an effort to get cooperation My impression of the way the meeting was conducted was quite satisfactory. I don't know exactly how to interpret the word "taut" in your question, but, no, I would say it wasn't
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for about fifteen minutes when the news came through. This involved a number of people on the White House staff as well as Kermit Gordon, who was Budget Director, and myself, and members of our staff. There was Jerry Wiesner, who was the science advisor
  • ; campaign financing; the President’s reliance on Cabinet and staff, cooperation and coordination; a presidential transition 'institution.'
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of more jobs for more men. He made sure the newspapers got that word through his good friends Gordon Fulcher, Charlie Green, I guess Buck Hood probably, and Raymond Brooks. How many jobs there would be, how much the power bill would be reduced. 2 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and that vacancy occurred, there were about thirty active solicitors for the job: Ed [S.] Shattuck and Gordon Richmond and, oh, I don't know, a lot of pretty big men. Warren kept it right to his vest. He didn't say a damn thing. He didn't indicate who he was going
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did And one of the moments I remember about Lyndon Johnson was that when Gordon Cooper, the first American to orbit the earth, had a parade in Washington, he was in a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of conversation with Ted Sorensen. Now, also in some of these same discussions I recall Kermit Gordon playing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to deal directly with the President, and he did on the matters of expenditures. G: On this Vietnam trip, you went out with [John Sherman] Cooper and several congressmen. Let me ask you to describe that-- B: Stuart Symington was along on that trip too. I
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -- 7 Galbraith and Arthur Schlesinger and Kermit Gordon. Then also, by virtue of having been a teaching fellow at Harvard just before the war, I met a number of the others who were interested in this Kennedy circle, including Professor Paul Samuelson
  • Biographical information; Federal Reserve Bank; new economics; Treasury Department; Organization for Economic Cooperation; Organization for European Cooperation and Development; working parties; Group of Ten; ring of swaps; London Gold Pool; Robert
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • that he had. But he was the only one of them that I came across that was really unabashedly trying to make that kind of wheeling and dealing. For example, Wayne Morse, who was chairman of the subcommittee on education, I had very close and cooperative
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as conservative or more conservative than Wilbur Mills, yet he was much more cooperative, a friend of the President's. Whether it was the friendship to the President or just his loyalty to the party and administration I don't know, but George was always trying
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for Washington and in 1963 came back here to see what was going on and ran into Kermit Gordon, who was then director of the Bureau of the Budget, and Elmer Staats, who was then deputy director. Respectively, Kermit Gordon is now president of Brookings and Elmer
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , with [Clark] Clifford, David Ginsburg, Kermit Gordon, Charlie Schultze, Gardner Ackley, McNamara, and [Henry "Joe"] Fowler. I'm sure this subject was the topic of discussion, as well as the economy generally, and off of that meeting Saturday night I wired
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with it, I think Bill Capron had a lot to do with it. Norbert Schlei was finally probably the sign-off guy on it over in the Justice Department. these people had their hand in it. But Kermit Gordon, all of My theory was that it was intact, it was a good
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lufkin that were on the football team: and Elvin Read. Ardis Hopper, Clark Gordon The first week of training I was there in order to get acquainted with the coaches, and at a Mrs. Gates' house, where the training table was being maintained, I met
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Gordon [?], Ralph McGill, Maurice Templesman, and Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey--former Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey. He also puts on ex officio the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Secretary
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] Wirtz and myself, developed a most cooperative attitude and relationship with respect to developing this program. It may very well have been, and I don't recall the details at this time, that Mr. Macy would have felt that this would not be an appropriate
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • involvement in the selection of architects--I want the best regardless of pressures. G: Was this with regard to Gordon Bunshaft or any particular architect? K: No. This was earlier than the selection of Bunshaft for the Johnson Library design. I didn't
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for the New York Times article, which was a profile of Joe Califano, he also indicated that he was writing a book about the White House staff going all the way back to Roosevelt and maybe a little bit before that and asked whether or not we would cooperate
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • information. In the meantime, Mrs. Roberts was get- ting into the record on the circumstances and conditions in detail that we found, so that it was complete cooperation. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • by Kermit Gordon? S: Kermit Gordon, that's right. Now there are a lot of different people involved in this story, and they all felt different parts of the elephant. I found from talking to people that it is very difficult to piece the story together
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for revamping all foreign assistance. At that time it was known as ICA, the International Cooperation Administration. There was a huge amount of sophisticated work done to transform ICA into AID, the Agency for International Development. That transformation
  • of Labor Willard Wirtz’s job program ideas; comparing Community Action to the work of the Peace Corps; LBJ’s role in establishing the Peace Corps as an independent agency; the work of the International Cooperation Administration and later the Agency
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Amendment; poverty; racial inopportunity problems; critical evaluations; Bert Harding; CEA; hostility toward OEO; Adam Clayton Powell; Yarmolinsky; Job Corps; evaluation of Head Start; BOB; John Forrer; Kermit Gordon; Scultze; Zwick; Cannon; Cary; Senator
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 14th to ask other countries that were cooperating with us in the London gold pool to close the London gold market and undertake the discussions that led to the establishment of the two-tier system on the following weekend. That was a decision
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in Viet Nam are frequently called mercenaries because of our contributions to their troop support.Was that a necessary prerequisite to their cooperation--that we bear the cost--perhaps even beyond the actual cost of the troop use? R: That is a phrase
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . He supported our effort in helping international monetary cooperation- -and later on I think he developed a real interest in it when he had more time. But that came, I guess, after I'd left. He was interested, became interested after his reelection
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with getting Malone's cooperation in trade for, say, looking after Malone's interests in Nevada or something like that? M= It might well, yes. G= You don't have any particular knowledge of it? M: No, r don't have any. That would be something they would
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not read that. I mean to. Y: Well, you'll find it very clearly laid out in there. At any rate, the task force that President Kennedy had set up, which was in effect Walter Heller and Kermit Gordon and their staff, the Council of Economic Advisers' staff
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : That was probably my greatest continuing responsibility, yes, the HEW area. M: Did you start to work in the area of education in HEW from the very beginning, or did this slowly evolve? C: No, I remember in the summer of '64 Bill Moyers and Kermit Gordon
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • believed that the Germans could and should do their share to offset our costs in the Federal Republic, and the Germans generally did. That got sharper, and the Germans less cooperative, as the years went on. H: That was mostly after you left? B: After
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • good, you and me planting potted pansies on the Mall . this is the kind of thing men are going to I just don't think like ." But we did and_Mrs . Johnson made all of this seem good, and pretty soon everyone was planting pansies . The cooperation
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • process to get a public housing unit built, that unless you have everybody cooperating it just doesn't get done. As a matter of fact, they're even having a problem these days getting subsidy housing built, for a whole lot of reasons, not only financial
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • volunteers to Peru to work with the people in the Altiplano of Peru and help them to organize themselves, and to get their production going better and create communes or cooperatives, and then vote and stand up for what they believed in, you know, everybody