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  • of the reciprocal trade (tariff-lowering) and foreign aid programs. 1/10 News report: Senate Labor Subcommittee chairman, John Kennedy--often considered too right-wing by many Democrats--will strike a deft coup by unveiling his own labor program for the Senate
  • that he wasn't the one that got it started. It goes back to John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower, and then to Jack Kennedy and Cardinal Spellman. I think Johnson really felt deeply that it was our obligation to give freedom. a chance, democracy a chance
  • to the United States Information Agency Advisory Commission; LBJ’s decision to not run in 1968; Vietnam propagandist and censor Barry Zorthian; Hoyt’s trip to Vietnam; John Vann; LBJ’s “credibility gap”; LBJ’s press secretaries; LBJ’s personality
  • consequence that I know of that I might have been exposed to and was not. me. Dick Helms never mentioned it to I learned later that he didn't mention it to John McCone for a long time, too, so I guess I shouldn't have my feelings hurt, and lim sure he
  • of 1966, fostering and promoting the adoption and observance of uniform time within and through­ out the various time zones. The Department works in close cooperation with all the States in an effort to resolve the problems that arise relative to new
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Johnson -- XXXII -- 20 figure above it all. In fact, McCarthy kept on interposing himself into the State Department. [John Foster] Dulles was firm
  • policies were fairly well followed. Eisenhower's main lightning rod I always thought was John Foster Dulles. That was one of the master strokes of the whole Eisenhower Administration. always walking up to the brink. You know, Dulles was I think
  • and straighten it out. Well, Rostow, Gene Rostow, is very well intentioned but, in this instance, was impractical. He tried to organize, as [John Foster] Dulles did during the Suez crisis, an international force to force passage through the Straits of Tiran. TG
  • ! But this was the United States policy embodied in the Domino Theory by John Foster Dulles. That was policy, and at that time if you just said, "Communism," that was enough to justify it. And it would still be, in retrospect, the statement of many military people
  • wanted to stay out of "honest" civil wars, but felt we could not do so when one side or the other was allied with international communism. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles. put it this way, in early 1953: We must hold the present out­
  • : Now, that surrmer he and other senators were scheduled to go to Korea with [John Foster] Dulles, and the trip was cancelled because Eisenhower needed to have them stay and consider raising the debt limitation. The entry [from the 1953 chronology] I
  • , at the same time wanting to take advantage of [John Foster] Dulles' leaning against Israel, wanting to take political advantage of that, but at the same time not wanting to go too far and embarrass Eisenhower or to disturb Eisenhower. Johnson had what I
  • say that it dispelled all the anxieties. The problem is that it is a lot easier to operate than it is to be effective in a staff capacity. Winston Churchill once described staff work as "dull brooding over the deeds of others." truth
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HAYS -- I -- 3 bestow the honor. This was right after Preston Smith had gone off against John Connally and the price freeze business, you may have been aware
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s philosophy on leaks; Sam Rayburn; John Rankin insulting to all; Eisenhower appointed Hays to TVA in 1959; Fair Employment Practices Commission; Fulbright; Faubus and Arkansas Central High School fiasco; "Southern
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: JOHN A. BAKER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Baker, l e t ' s start today on the War on Poverty task force. Let me just ask you how you got
  • See all online interviews with John A. Baker
  • Baker, John A. (John Austin), 1914-1982
  • Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
  • John A. Baker
  • with a personally picture, I will be indeed grateful. OfFICERS JOHN MORLEY, President DR. DIXE STURGIS, Vice President DR. WENDELL L MILLER, Vice President 9~:esident States W. M. NEIGHBORS, Secretary C. E. JONES, TreHurer DR. ROBERT GALEN CHANEY, Scribe
  • , Lyndon B. Johnson Doctor lohn W. Beltoo. 235 Eaat Blldebrai'ld Avenue Saa. AGtouio. 12. Texaa {1 of 2] JOHN DIPLOMATE : AMERICAN BOARD OF ORAL •UltGEltY W. HELTON. D. D.S. PRACTICE LIMITED TO ORAL SURGERY TAYLOR 4-4901 23!5 EAST HILDEBRAND
  • was that Secretary of State [John Foster] Dulles was in favor of our giving financial and military assistance to the French. And I believe it was the unanimous opinion of Johnson and Rayburn and Russell and Senator George, that in view of the Korean debacle that we
  • in the lead. A non-aligned set of individual Arab states, in sharp contrast to the John Foster Dulles period of alignments and bilateral pacts and Baghdad pacts, because you've got to look at this in broad terms. That period where we had a number
  • in Vietnam may have affected its standing within the UN: policy changes in regard to China and Taiwan; UN reaction to the Tet Offensive in 1968; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; obstacles to negotiation in times of war, such as in Vietnam in the 1960s
  • and tell him to turn off a11their aid." We came back in two hours and it was frigid .... " John Gronouski, professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, spoke at the annual birthday cele­ bration at Southwest Texas State University, LBJ's alma mater
  • born in Abilene, Kansas, until, oh, at least bring it down to when you came to Johns Hopkins. E: Very briefly, I got my bachelor's degree from Kansas State University. During my senior year there, I took the Foreign Service examinations, partly
  • Biographical information; FDR; LBJ's relationship with Eisenhower; invitation to LBJ to speak at Johns Hopkins; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Chamizal dispute; LBJ as civil rights leader; Latin American affairs; 1960 election; Dominican Crisis; Panama
  • in the primaries in 1960. I should also say that in the sixties, the 1956-1960 period when Eisenhower was in, when we were having confrontations with the Chinese over Quemoy and Matsu, he was very skeptical about the [policy], and open. This was the [John Foster
  • Rev. Colman J. Barry, O.5.B. Prof. Daniel Bell Dr. John C. Bennett Francis Biddle Jacob Blaustein Rt. Rev. John H. Burt Prof. Hodding Carter Senator Clifford P. Case Dr. William B. Cate John Cogley Rev. John F. Cronin, S.S. Samuel Dalsimer Oscar A. de
  • it was his idea at all. as far as I know. I think it was a surprise, It may have been [John Foster] Dulles, because Dulles was the one who said this should happen on behalf of the President. They were going to send down a plane and Lyndon Johnson
  • . Urbanovsky tells the audience it is her birthday and presents her with a gift. JOHN BEN SHEPPERD of Odessa, former Texas Attorney General, and advocate of beautifying Texas, compliREAGANHOUSTON,Tom Taylor, Mrs. Lady Bird ~ohnso~ an~ Rep. James Nugent
  • . Urbanovsky tells the audience it is her birthday and presents her with a gift. JOHN BEN SHEPPERD of Odessa, former Texas Attorney General, and advocate of beautifying Texas, compliREAGANHOUSTON,Tom Taylor, Mrs. Lady Bird ~ohnso~ an~ Rep. James Nugent
  • on Foreign Relations. He said the reason he wanted us over there--he was going to put Mansfield and myself--he said he wanted some new, young blood on the committee. Secondly, he said that he was worried about John Foster Dulles becoming Secretary of State
  • approach and direction of foreign policy? A: President Eisenhower was a man that relied very heavily upon his advisers, especially John Foster Dulles. He was likely to take their opinions and say, "W e l l , if this is the view of most of you, we'll
  • luck he happened to have pricked me on the one issue where I felt very, very strongly that John Foster Dulles had made a big policy mistake back in the middle '50's when we put our money on Pakistan instead of India. F: To a certain extent
  • down and I told Abe Rosenthal, who just happened to be in town--he had come over from New Delhi . The man who was normally in Saigon had gone away to the Bandung Conference in Indonesia, and Abe had moved in there to fill in . He and John Roderick
  • troop commm ders neglected to destroy - that every man, woman and child in Israel in the areas which the Jordanian troops conquered were to be put to the sword. On March 26, 1957, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had stated that an arbitrary request
  • to watch the Senator work with either Secretary Dulles or Herter? C: Senator Johnson you're speaking of1 F: Yes. G: No, I have noth ing direct on that that I could offer. r: As far as the press was concerned, Senator Johnson did not show his hand
  • Meeting with LBJ; General Parsons; Bryce Harlow; comparison of Presidents; Arthur Larson; Sputnik, briefing during Eisenhower's illness; U-2 and Geneva Summit; missile gap; Dulles; Nixon's TR to South America; LBJ's TR to Berlin Wall as VP; JFK
  • Secretary of Defense 'l.i.nder Presidents Johnson and Kennedy and is now a New York attorney. Other members of the Committee are: Mr. Arthur the General H. Dean, formerly Chairman, Disarmament Confe1 ..ence. Mr. Allen W. Dulles, formerly U. S. Delegation
  • things where Bill was wobbly and so was the Secretary. gone. You see, [John Foster] Dull es, by thi s time, was You're talking about Chris Herter, I guess. G: I think this was when Dulles was sick. H: Yes. But anyway, that prompts another
  • was a rather warm, simpatico man, unlike his brother. He did not have that aloofness and that hard-shell aspect to him that John Foster did. So he and Allen got along pretty well. G: Okay. The next day you flew with him to Hyannis Port to meet with Kennedy
  • Allen Dulles' 1960 visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's visit with JFK in Hyannis Port following the 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's attempts to identify with farmers on the campaign trail; Congress' inability to make progress in the session
  • for Eisenhower in 1952 and had previously worked for Dewey on three of his campaigns, and also as research assistant for John Foster Dulles. pretty solidly Republican background. many years. So it was a However, it did go back a good I've retained my
  • . I was active in four state conventions prior to that and I was active in the 1960 presidential campaign prior to being a delegate to the convention. M: And did you support John F. Kennedy? P: I supported John F. Kennedy in the West Virginia
  • States has suggested a date no later than July 27, 1965 for this resumption. Mr. William C. Foster now is in the process of inquiring whether this date is agreeable to the other 16 members of the Disarmament Committee. At the conclusion of the Geneva
  • and carrying the big stick, but the words should not be bellicose. And if you recall, they had campaigned in part on that theory, that [John Foster] Dulles' words had been too bellicose and that we'd-- F: Nixon's kitchen confrontation-- LBJ Presidential
  • of the Dallas Morning News, who had come to the White House and made that remark about Caroline and told Kennedy he had to get some backbone. The President resented that and wanted to go over Dealey's head. He had an appointment with [John] Connally. Bobby liked
  • ., Washington, D.C. 2301 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 232-6020 Interests: Enjoys literature, the theater, music , but is particularly devoted to fostering US-UAR cooperation, an effort that takes most of his time and energy. ---CeJM'll" lDE N1 I AL