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  • Leinsdorf--tor Da.11as Gordon Fulcher-tir4s at discount when reach Austin 2-8156 or 8-6881 Roy Miller (Bishop and Corpus) McNeils Only oil and gasoline broker of size in Houston. He is a good man and perfectly reliable. Frost does not Janow him. He · sold
  • that he issued at the inauguration of Cooperative Month--which has been October for many years, so proclaimed by the governors of most states; this is when he was president--on the place of cooperatives in American life and their value as a means
  • a communist. The business side of our life was pretty much left up to me in those days. We were about to move out of our apartment in Austin, and I was trying to get it either rented if I could, or the furniture put in storage. It's interesting to read back
  • "Decca" Mitford Romilly; settling Lady Bird Johnson's Uncle Claud Pattillo's estate; Lady Bird Johnson attending business school; plans for a military installation in Austin, which later became Bergstrom Field, and competition over which city would get
  • troops is another. There was another reason, to be very honest about it. I'm a first generation American. My father came from Russia. Although he was an educated man, as an immigrant he made his living, since he didn't know the language, driving a blind
  • --it's an old trite saying that you hear very often now--that was where the action was in politics. So I began to work for Leslie Carpenter, who still is a correspondent in Washington for several newspapers. F: Including the Austin American-Statesman. S
  • and Russians have become so efficient at fishing off our three-mile coastline that they've sort of made lobsters, which are a great American delicacy, almost extinct. If they continue to fish the way they've been doing for the past ten years for the next ten
  • a certain phrase or something. Between the three of us we put this thing together. He called the managing editor of the Austin American-Statesman and said, "If we air-mail this down or wire it down--I forget which, we may have even telegraphed it--will you
  • , but was on a bipartisan basis. I know that on various occasions I would propose resolutions of support for his policies, because I believed in them. I thought he was a great statesman and a great American patriot. F: You had something that Lyndon Johnson had
  • touches us more profoundly, nothing is more freighted with meaning for our own destiny, than the revo­ lution of the Negro American. In far too many ways American Negroes have been an­ other nation: deprived of freedom, crippled by hatred, the doors
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE SANDLIN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Sandlin's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1of1, Side 1 G: --by sketching briefly your background, Mr. Sandlin, and explain how you became associated with Governor Allan Shivers. S
  • \Val" ! I am not saying that my young country school teacher understood the scope and depth of the disaster American farm- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • in the Washington Star or the Washington Post or the New York Times, or in those days the New York Herald Tribune, the story hadn't been published with LBJ. I should add one other paper, the Austin-Statesman, or, you know, the Dallas News or the Dallas Times-Herald
  • Friday _ iaavax:J i~:ln~, 1967 Mr. P1tesid,e nt: Before proceeding further in our planning !01· your South American tour. I would like to r...a.ve your reaction to the itinerary described in the n1ap and schedule at '"l'ab A. The 13-day trip
  • . I S MEETING PRESIDENT WITH JAPANESE FRIMEMINISTERIKEDA 1. Jkeda•s Liberal pro-American -- has just While not quite as great 1960, the Party's margin Democratic Party -- conservative and won a general election on November 21. as in the last general
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://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 Austin, Texas January 13, 1975
  • did not discover all t his yourself. in the formula. Two. There is nothing original It is taught in t he American Universities, generally in Psychology It has been popularized in a chapter by Dale Carnegie, who has made over a million dolkrs
  • to remember the names of the very few whom we did know in Austin. I think one had a Johnson City background, a furniture man named Brown, and a hardware man named Davis. Oh, gee. G: Here's a list of contributors, if you can read that messy handwriting. J
  • was Charlie Marsh? GB : Well, he was a publisher, had a chain of newspapers ; he owned The Austin Statesman and numerous other papers in Texas and through the South ; he was a genius in his way . He was a man of a lot of vision, a man of strong personal
  • . It was a notable contrast to the arrival of the American battle group in West Berlin only 2 hours earlier with tens of thousands watching and cheering. Too, it was a morale .booster for our troops. They know now somebody at home cares that they are here and knows
  • : the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Aus­ tin American-Statesman. Moderator Cater: "Whereas it costs approximately less than $1,500 a y ar to put kids in most public schools-elementary level certainly-it cmts $20,000 a year a!-.an average to keep him
  • of that new, rapidly growing medium and what an impact it was going to have and how it would become the single most important vehicle in American politics. It sure has. Of course, it's gone the whole spectrum now; I think there's a certain amount of cynicism
  • greatly ippreciated our two countries which unites • your counsel and your understanding~ forward to workin closely ' you carry with you the highest ~egard· and warmest· good wishes of the American peopleo joins I look with you in the months
  • the difference. It was a very productive session of Congress, it impacted on the vast majority of American people. Medicare was pre-eminent in that regard. Of course you had voting rights, you had higher education, you had the whole field of medical research
  • with Powers, O'Donnell, and O'Brien and their career plans after leaving the White House; opposition to Medicare, especially from the American Medical Association (AMA); how the public mindset has changed regarding Social Security and Medicare; the Bob Kerr
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALT ROSTOW INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Rostow's office, Federal Building, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 3 R: I think it might be useful if I were briefly to start with the first impressions-- M: Let me move this microphone so
  • or less what it's going to look like. F: At the stamp ceremony, did you stay at the Ranch? S: No, it was in Austin. F: You stayed in town? S: We stayed in town. F: So you haven't been back to the Ranch since he's gone. S: No. F: I'm sure
  • suitable for a backyard farmer than a great statesman and President. and even bad judgment. I don't think the man ever learned how to deal with the press _and became his own worst .enemy in his relationship with the press. He . never learned how to.deal
  • > ., VASHINGTON·•CO!MUNIST CHINA HAS DETONATED HERFinH ·NUCLEAR TEST EXPLOSION II THI ATMOSPHEREOVER SINKIANG PROVINCE, U. S. OFFICIALS SAID TODAT• . , • , UNITED STATES.DETECTED A TEST AT THE CHINESE LOP NOR PROVINa DEC. 27 ON AMERICAN CALENDARS. THE YIELD
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  • ahead of Senator Connally's office create any difficulties with Senator Connally? B: Not with Senator Connally personally, I'm sure, because Senator Connally was a senior statesman . He wasn't interested in competing with anybody, and he didn't have
  • for Agriculture as for Labor. And, when I have advocated loans to otrer countries and help to those coun­ tries in getting so they could buy again, I have been thinking not about charity but a good business investment for American business and agriculture
  • Secretary ot Mexico concerning pending legislation which would establiah the American section ot the U.S. -Mexico Comldssion tor Border Development and Priend- abip. That bill is presently under. consideration by tbe appropriate aubcomittee ot the House
  • that he would be the candidate for vice president with Kennedy in 1964. He had the meeting of the National League of Cities, then know as the American Municipal Association, and he addressed us at a meeting at about eleven o'clock in the morning
  • Contact with LBJ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; 1963 Philadelphia speech; Green funeral; 1963 meeting of American Municipal Association in Houston; city program; HHH; urban disorder; 3/31 announcement; 1968 campaign
  • that it was as a spokesman then for the disarmament movement that Lyndon Johnson's campaign committee asked me to participate on radio and television in the 1964 campaign. And I said, "I certainly will," because Lyndon Johnson said, "I will not send American boys to fight
  • appointed and had begun its work. in either 1961 or 1962; maybe 1962. That occurred I guess That started under the Kennedy Administration and the major impact to begin that came from the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and what
  • that people have told you about how sore his hands got from the campaign. Oh yes, it was almost like adrenaline; it was like a B-12 shot. G: Where were you the night of the election? Were you in Austin? C: We were at the Ranch, and then we went to Austin
  • ,,,.,.,. (1\r I J 'A)r \ A, B & C. COPYLBJ LIBRARY •• ,A'tllSFERREO TO HAHDWAITING rlL.i Limited Official Proposed Joint SUBJECT: 1. Use State/AID Message to American Matters raised by Prime on October 13, 1967 As reported earlier, Embassy