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  • to now-with the effectiveness of foreign aid, and it was cut considerably during the late fifties. I know on one occasion Eisenhower threatened to call Congress back into session in 1959 because of an insufficient foreign aid bill, from his standpoint. Do
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  • temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
  • the press reported that the other way, I think, very widely. Me: Not true. Mil: You served on President Kennedy's--what do they call it, the Clay Committee on Foreign Aid? Me: Yes. Mil: And dissented from its report. Me: Yes. Mil: Did you ever
  • Foreign aid
  • Aid; 3/31 announcement; AFL-CIO would have supported LBJ for another term; LBJ’s legislative achievements; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.
  • than the Republican members of the Senate in many instances. Foreign aid is a perfectly good example. I mean LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • Foreign aid
  • Staff officer of Eisenhower; treated as family by Ike; met LBJ in 1953; became LBJ’s close friend, politically and socially; Tidelands Bill; foreign aid; Ike got 83% of legislation through Congress; good political leader; knew intimately government
  • that with the Vice President of the United States. But I voted against them a couple of times. I became a friend of Walter Jenkins during the course of this time. I used to see Walter around town and worked with him on a couple of problems that we had
  • , and aid would be granted if possible. And having all that information I put it in a weekly letter, and I said, "I urge every boy and girl who is qualified to innnediate ly get in touch with your office," and I had the offices listed in our district