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- . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
- Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ
- had been good. But this was the first time that Lyndon Johnson as President saw how the Council of Economic Advisers could perform. From that very moment on, he would expect to be kept up-to-date--to get these daily memos. This is the way the New
- Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
- Daily News, Keyes Beech, who had heard of the thing and wanted to go. In the meantime I think there was also a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
- Relations Committee] which Humphrey chaired from about 1958, I believe, on until he left the Senate. So she was involved in foreign policy to that degree. handled that subcommittee. She She is now living in New York and keeps running for office up
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 12, 1969 This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May 12, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon B. Johnson, that is you
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
- U.S. Attorney. Through his recommendation I was After that I was recommended for reappointment in the Republican administration by the judges of the United States District Court in Chicago. F: What prompted your move to New York? W: I was asked
- happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which
- one, was quite conservative. paper~ I Jim Free of Birmingham, I think, as southerners go, is quite liberal; certainly more so than the . Birmingham paper. I was. Bruce Jolly, of the Greensboro Daily News, at that time, was I thought more liberal
- . B: Did you see or [lear any signs of presidential ambition, say, in 1956? S: I didn't. I was not that close to him. I was not in Chicago in 1956 \vhen Jack Kennedy almost got the nomination for vice president, so I really \vas not that close
- either late, late the night of the speech or early the next morning to go tv Chicago on the morning of April 1. F: This was a sudden decision--the overt part of it was sudd0n? T: Well, it was something he'd sort of been holding in abeyance
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
- and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
- for the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who has just started this new thing called the Peace Corps." had read about it. do." He said, "Do you want a job?" I said I I said, "I think I So he wrote on a piece of paper in his notebook the name "Bill
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- the country, testing the water. I had never been with him in a campaign for office in Texas. I had never campaigned with him. so it was a new experience to see how much he enjoyed it. He just had to reach the people, you know. The Secret Service had one
- hustled newS on their own, a few but not many. F: They took it off the ticker. R: Took it off the ticker. They were really more announcers than they were reporters, and I never was a very good announcer. I aspired to be a reporter. At any rate
- : Oh, yes, considering that I was new and green. I was the main political guy for Brown, so there was some value from their viewpoint. B: But it was pretty heady stuff. What was your impression then of Mr. Johnson's chance for the nomination? 0
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- to have a meal with him or to have a talk with him. F: You didn't know him particularly well though before he became President? M: No. F: Relate the circumstances surrounding your receipt of the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. Where
- , and Lyndon Johnson heard about it, was in town, and personally came over to welcome me in my new job. Secondly, we had several meetings very early, just the two of us, and then with others around his responsibilities heading the President's Commission. I
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , then I got there about the tenth of December. I got there about two weeks after the assassination. G: Okay. F: When I got back to Saigon I obviously had a lot of catching up to do because I was out of touch, you might say, with the members of the new
- , but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new
- the . F: No, I mean after the assassination and the coming of a new President . B: It was a smooth transition . State . . . Yes, we had the same Secretary of There was really little change in terms of operating procedures, and in terms of what we
- the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
- out and seeing what was actually happening in the countryside. And my report recommended a very radical overhaul of AID, with the creation of a new rural affairs division, but at the level of assistant to the director so that it took its authority
- every accommodation that you could get at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. You could have a radio, you could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway, a good
- , although his early record in the Congress would indicate that as a young congressman he was quite liberal and supported all of President Roosevelt's programs, all the New Deal legislation. But by the time he came back to the Senate, I would say that he
- . I started out, I guess you'd have to say, in something called the Chieu Hoi program, which had to do with getting defectors over on the government side. I did a study on that as my first move in this new role that I was playing, and then from
- ty and we Ire goi ng to hang him and we mi ght as well get thi s trial over as quick as \'/e can. II So we got it over as qui ckly as vie could and we sentenced the man to death. The news got out. and people started calling Terrible nickname. me
- impressions that a new member makes upon not only the leadership but his colleagues. B: Did Mr. Johnson move into any of the groupings in the House? Could you as s ociate him with the Southerner s ? M: Oh, I would say he had friends everywhere. Even