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  • a part of our history and becomes vitally concerned, as does his staff in the office of the president. We talked many times about what happened when Wilson became sick, and where for eighteen or nineteen months Mrs. Wilson and Admiral Grayson tried to run
  • INTERVID~EE : GLEN P. vJILSON INTERVIEWER: T. HARRI BAKER PLACE: Dr. Wilson's office, Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, let me introduce you here briefly. You were born in Waco, have a bachelors
  • See all online interviews with Glen P. Wilson
  • Wilson, Glen Parten, Jr., 1922-2005
  • Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • Glen P. Wilson
  • the morning [Washington] Post and there was an article saying that Glen Wilson and Eilene Galloway have been appointed by Lyndon Johnson to new space jobs. I was appointed a special consult- ant, and Glen was appointed a coordinator of information
  • then--I think it was Mac McElroy and Wilson--that this would happen. And they were shrugged off and ignored, and no one realized what a traumatic event the launching of that Sputnik was. Of course, it turned out that most of these decisions were made
  • Humphrey; Charles Wilson; Neil McElroy; acceleration of ballistic missile program; Missile Gap controversy; operating procedure of Senate Subcommittee on Preparedness; Eisenhower as a President; importance of LBJ as Majority Leader; role of Weisl in 1960
  • said, "Governor, there are a few criteria that you must conform to and the first thing is, I've been in Washington since Woodrow Wilson and every president has disliked his vice president. So the first thing you want to do is, whoever you wanted
  • are we picking all our Presidential candidates nowadays from the Senate? do that until--well, up through Franklin Roosevelt. Coolidge, Wilson and the other Roosevelt, Taft. We didn't use to Roosevelt, Hoover, They all came out of either governorships
  • Humphrey; Charles Wilson; Neil McElroy; acceleration of ballistic missile program; Missile Gap controversy; operating procedure of Senate Subcommittee on Preparedness; Eisenhower as a President; importance of LBJ as Majority Leader; role of Weisl in 1960
  • inspector was involved. F: This was under a Republican administration? W: Well, I was appointed originally at the tail end of the Wilson Administration and then reappointed in the Republican administration. F: I don't want to pry in your personal life