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- in that.
Yes.
What was your role in that?
Johnson.
I am very fond of Lady Bird
In the first place, I think she is a person of great charm,
and [she has] an exquisite sense of words and the best judgment about
human affairs that I can think of.
judge.
She
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INTERVIEWEE:
ALAN L. DEAN
INTERVIEWER:
David G. McComb
PLACE:
Mr. Dean's office, Department of Transportation,
Washington, D.C.
Tape 1 of 1
M:
Now, last time we were talking about the task force under Mr. Zwick in
which you worked to set up the initial
- of Transportation and dismembering both Commerce and Labor and making a new
Department of Economic Affairs, which would take out most of the other
functions of the Department of Commerce and many of the functions of the
Department of Labor, putting them
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http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
December 18, 1968
M:
To identify this particular tape, this is the second session with Secretary
Boyd of the Department of Transportation .
The date is December 18, and
the time is 11 :15 .
To take up
- of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
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with Mr . Alan Boyd, former Secretary of the Department of Transportation .
I am in his new offices at the Illinois Central
The date is May 15, 1969 .
Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, and my name is David McComb .
There's one question I might throw
- of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
- department and so on.
And I think particularly within the last year we've developed
a pretty good system of operation.
The inaugural affair this year, I think
was the proof that we were able to take care of a very dangerous situation.
M:
You mean
- the White House Staff?
C:
Because we had a better way going through Senator Jackson.
The first thing
the White House staff would do would be check with the Bureau of the Budget,
and check with the Department of Commerce, and that would be the end
- --?
My academic background is in business administration, but I've
always had a great love affair with the out-of-doors, having been
born and raised in Arizona.
LBJ Presidential Library
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B
- year, but on the objection
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of John Saylor, a Republican
congressman who is the . minority
head of the Department of Interior
and Insular Affairs Committee
of the House, it was dropped . . .
Fs
And no one ever overrode
Saylor on this?
Os
No one
- conversation, or telling stories.
G:
These parties were often New Deal parties, weren't they?
R:
Oh, yes.
G:
People in the Interior Department or RFC?
R:
Well, all varieties, I mean from all parts of the government.
G:
Would you say he was closer
- that Eisenhower was
supplying no new ideas at all in the conduct of American affairs, either
domestically or from a foreign relations point of view.
F:
Sort of characterized by his Interior policy which had the slogan "No new
starts."
L:
That's right--no new
- microfilm cameras; then we need something to
look at our film on; and then we need readers.
I understand that the
Kodak Company is involved in this and has a big research department
doing nothing but this."
This interested him a lot, and he said, "Would