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  • : Did he ever seek advice from you or aid from you in these early years other than just to try to get the CIa to come out against him? R: No, After he was in the White House, he asked me to put together LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; Walter Jenkins; Bobby Baker; Mrs. Johnson’s and Rowe’s work on the Beautification Committee; taking Mrs. Johnson on a tour of Washington D.C. public housing; Mrs. Johnson’s personality and role as wife; visiting LBJ at the Ranch.
  • , the state aid areas which were out in the country--none of these could really be disassociated from natural beauty. And she gave, in her quiet way, great support to our program and to the work we did. Of course, I have no way of knowing the influence
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 Development Act of 1965; the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1966, which for the first time provided for effective liaison between the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Agriculture with respect
  • ; AID and international program activities; pollution; legislation drafting process; Vietnam; personnel recruitment; racially integrated staff
  • And we developed with, their cooperation, a grant-in-aid program modeled on the BOR grant-in-aid program which would allow the States and cities to accept grants and work on a matching basis with these utilities to retroactively underground power lines
  • , had advised him over the years. I remember going to dinner in which either Jim Rowe, or Tommy Corcoran, or Abe Fortas were the guests. Or quite often it was the staff--Walter Jenkins, or whoever were the secretaries at the time. dinner. He just
  • just countless times when in the Senate we passed bill after bill that was to provide federal aid to education at all levels. They always went down to a crashing defeat in the House once they left the Senate. But here again in every single instance
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 16 AID projects . And it just seemed to me that a common administration could be beneficial and efficient . Also
  • for the safety of the--involving the manufacture of motor vehicles, and in addition what we refer to as the state/ community safety program--the program of grants and aids to states and communities for the conducting and carrying out of safety programs . M: Has
  • budget at least, relatively minor supplemental appropriation requests, primarily I think for military assistance to the South Vietnamese and some economic aid. thing less than a billion dollars. I think the total came to someThat was the first, if I
  • ://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 Lasker -- II -- 6 the powerful aid of Senator Hill. As they furthered