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Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. He said, "Why do that? Just go ahead and take your commission, and then you can come on my staff as my military aide." Which I did. I went to Fort Sill and did my officer's basic and came back to the Vice President's staff as his junior military
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Initiation of the Peace Corps with Bill Moyers and Sargent Shriver; LBJ’s attitude toward, and involvement with, the Peace Corps; work as LBJ’s junior military Aide while LBJ was Vice-president; LBJ’s relationship as vice-president to JFK

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. There's no question about that. McHugh, who was a brigadier general in the air force and was Kennedy's air force aide, went flitting up and down the aisle trying to get the pilot to get the plane off the ground, because his President was aboard and he
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

understanding--I did not know about any of this ahead of time and I can't say, for that matter, that the Vice President had personal knowledge of these, because I'm pretty sure that George Reedy and Walter Jenkins would probably have kept the knowledge
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
; problems of President’s Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity; enforcement of regulations; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; success of PCEEO; OEO; EEOC; civil rights organizations; MLK; Office of Federal Contract Compliance; Council of Equal Opportunity

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] met Dean Rusk before. -18- I talked to one or two of his aides, Moyers was up there, and, of course, Marvin Watson was up there. Bob Comer. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
in Vietnamese regime; Westmoreland; Abrams; personnel in Vietnam; Clark Clifford; LBJ’s acceptance of Locke’s race for Governor of Texas – no aid from LBJ; 3/31 announcement; estimation of LBJ; Texas political structure; Lady Bird; political nature of LBJ.

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

left; John had been doing some dealing with the press. Lodge took over press relations into his own office. Joe Lubin. He got himself a young aide named He became his own press officer and in theory at least, Mecklin no longer, up to the time he

Kennedy wanted to move in so many directions in the domestic front and as Vice President, Johnso~ who had been majority leader in the Senate, was personally familiar with the senators. That would be a great aid in passing legislation. M

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to read and write--using radio and television. Bosch was encouraging this very much, and AID was coming in, and everybody was flocking down there. Bosch. So I had a long talk with I was very much impressed by him. I don't think he could run

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--speaking nationally and internationally on American foreign policy; and so from my point of view this was the crusade to try to stand for international questions. Of course, aiding and abetting this was the fact that I had crisscrossed the state, every

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