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  • there and went to the University of Texas in due time . B: We moved to Texas when I was five years old and I attended public school in Beaumont and completed my education, Joe, at Lamar College and the University of Texas . F: Then you got caught up
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 17, 1969 B: This is the interview with Bayard Rustin. Sir, to start pretty far back in time, did you have any knowledge of Mr. Johnson when he was in the Senate? R: Yes, I did. Of course, I suppose everybody heard
  • . He was born a freedman in Washington; thus the name Freeman was no coincidence. He looked around to find a dental school that would accept him in the l860-s, and there were about four or five dental schools in the country at that time. Harvard did
  • , I worked with Senator Humphrey from 1955 through the time he went into the vice presidency and then went over with him as his chief of staff in the vice presidency and held a somewhat ambiguous subtitle of assistant for national security. I had
  • at the time, but also it was my first venture into politics, the first time that I ran for the office of county clerk of El Paso County, Texas. And I was elected. F: So you have good reason to remember that. T: Yes, I have good reason to remember that. F
  • : ~- IV -- 2 I wasn't present to hear it, and all I would have heard would have been how many times--hearsay I don't know--but I know Lynda, and I knew that she could say harsh things. But at any rate, that apparently was the background of the early
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: We're in time now to 1967 when you became the presidential advisor on National Capital Affairs. I think I
  • to get him out of the country . And I was chargé at the time ; so it was very interesting . F: And then to Quito? B: Yes, then I went to Quito as Deputy Chief of the Mission . F: Did you anywhere--we'll move ahead--prior to 1960, ever run
  • Kennedy, known as Executive Order 10988, which set up for the first time a formal government policy with respect to the rights of federal empoyees to be in unions. There was never any question, there was never any deviation, there was 'never any compromise
  • : Majored in economics, M.A. in 1950, Ph.D. much later, ten years later at the University of f·iaryldlld, gotten part-time while vwrk-ing at the Council of Economic Advisers. M: And your Ph.D. also in economics? S: In economics, risht. I spent rt;ost
  • settled," or whatever, what I considered to be an absurd amount of time. But if Mac said it, you did it. And [I] ended up movi ng d o ~ m to Washington, I remember quite well on July 11 since that happens to be Adele's and my anniver- sary. F
  • 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
  • look at the upper level jobs, you had just a small, small smattering of blacks. F: Could you make an argument out of the outsize percentage of blacks that were in the service? A: Yes. Arguments were made, and actions were taken. At one time--I
  • , but at the time, there were there some people who were available for assignment to what at that time was something of a backwater, or at least a place that traditionally had been something of a backwater. G: Did you know Ambassador [Frederick] Nolting? F: Yes
  • . to Vietnam for the first time; Victor Krulak-Joseph Mendenhall visit; Jocko [John] Richardson and John Mecklin; Rufus Phillips; General Paul Harkins; Mike Dunn; Bill Trueheart; security for Ambassador Lodge; Lou Conein; coup of 1963 and meeting Diem an hour
  • of the John F. Kennedy Oral History Project, and I assume you have made a tape for it. 0: Yes, I have already. I did not particularly touch on President Johnson. B: Yes. We'll probably cover some of the same time from a different point of view
  • deal . I remember talking with LBJ on this subject one time and I said, "I'm not sure that you understand the aid program in India thoroughly, but I know your grandfather would ." He asked, "What do you mean by that?" I said, "Your grandfather
  • at that time was in the Treasury Department. So he invited me to join the Budget Bureau LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • impression of Mr. Johnson? M: Well, he made a very profound impression from the outset upon his colleagues, and of course at that time the leadership knew about him, and he made a very profound impression, favorable impression, and his interest in committee
  • . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
  • in the United States until 1961, when I returned to Vietnam and stayed until 1964. At that time, I switched over from the military, wearing a soldier suit, to staying in the military but actually working for the State Department. I went back again in 1965
  • 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
  • , but-T: By recollection is about three ,veeks. It could have been four, but roughly three '-lecks. F: So there's a lot of time to whittle and hone. T: That's right. And you'll recall that, at least the aftermath accounts indicate they uere r
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 26, 1968 B: This is the second interview with Mr. Vinson in the Criminal Division. We talked last time generally about the functions of the division. To get a little
  • did. I worked with a guy named Oudone Sananikone--O-U-D-O-N-E S-A-N-A-N-I-K-O-N-E--who was a lieutenant colonel in the army at the time, and who was a wonderful guy. some success with that program. politics and other problems. We had But that mired