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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW WITH GORDON FULCHER PB
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  • Fulcher, George Gordon, 1909-1973
  • Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton
  • Gordon Fulcher
  • 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
  • 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
  • with the personnel people of the various companies, where the employment service was cooperating in there. G: Did LBJ have pretty good contacts with the college presidents? Z: Yes, he had good contact with them. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • G: I guess that in the records somewhere there is an indication that one of the first things he did when he came to Austin was to meet with Governor [James V.] Allred about the NYA and state agencies' cooperation. Do you have any recollection
  • on the question of vocational training because that came under Studebaker . attack vocational training at all . with it . I said, "We're not going to We're going to try to cooperate We've got to use short-term plans . We don't have state grants and subsidies
  • and that race and so forth. Once Lyndon knew I was aware of what was going on, his interest was to keep me from writing anything. I was very willing to cooperate because I was eager to help in any way I could. And his efforts paid off. forty seats or more
  • to come to us from the national NYA headquarters: Aubrey Williams. One of them was we would get copies of his directive to the WPA telling them to cooperate with us in every way. We would get directives that were addressed directly to us, telling us
  • ; delay in appointing Secretary; rent supplements; role in formation of Model Cities Program; staffing; Dwight Ink; favored decentralization; informal meetings of all Presidential appointees; housing for HUD; cooperation with other departments; Philip
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 And the utilities in my section of the country like TP&L, were very cooperative with rural electrification. Mr. Carpenter and Bill Lynch were the ones who were running
  • ]. I don't know of any great omissions or failures to cooperate with us. G: Drought was sort of a protégé of John Nance Garner I understand, or at least a supporter of Garner. S: I don't know that much about him. G: Do you recall any attempt
  • , They had to have cooperation I probably wouldn't word the problem just like that. I think here what he had reference to when he said there was a shortage of eligible youths was rather that it was a problem of finding youths who qualified, getting the word
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kellam -- I -- 11 G: Reference has been made to some cooperative living arrangements that were set up for college students. They could maintain their own
  • it and work out an understanding and cooperation. G: I'm wondering if there was much contact between LBJ and other NYA directors of other states. L: Would they get together at conferences? I suppose once a year or occasionally a few of them would gather
  • . In the case of Wirtz and later of Johnson, that got translated into the big power companies. This is all on my husbandls tape. So they were strong advocates of public power and the REA-type of cooperative, and very mistrustful of the big power empires. MG
  • , very difficult and restrictive . To go back to some of the problems vie had, [one i,,asl getting the cooperation we needed out of the WPA, because they of course had the basic records . agencies . Now, we worked through the relief The FERA was still
  • for the WPA . Mr . Harry Drought was the WPA Administrator . To work out a cooperative program with the WPA, he spent a lot of time in San Antonio with Mr . Drought . Of course, he had to make many trips to Washington to training seminars and program