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Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at [the] State [Department]? RG: At the time that I was a student at the National War College, General Burchinal, Dave [David] Burchinal, who was at that time the deputy chief of staff for plans, programs, and operations of the air force, picked me to go
How Ginsburgh joined the Policy Planning Council at the State Department and his duties under the Policy Planning; Ginsburgh’s work on the Vietnam negotiating group; how Policy Plannine made their recommendations; Walt Rostow; bombing campaigns

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. John Doar was the director of civil rights within the Department of Justice. John and Bob Owens really came down to Mississippi and paid us a visit. We complained to them about the years of these kinds of visits we'd had, and most of us considered
Power; James Meredith march; Meredith shot inside Mississippi; MLK and Carmichael join march; SCLC 1968; MLK’s death; food stamps; Henry disagreed with Agriculture Department on distribution of food stamps; extension service; REA and FHA; outstanding

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

official position, as far as the Johnson Administration was concerned, was as deputy assistant secretary of state for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Prior to that, you had served in the State Department in the Community Affairs. L: Community Advisory

Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for appointment the next day--Lyndon was vice president then-he called me at the Justice Department. Ramsey Clark and I met him, and he took us over to his office. He had a file there that surprised me, because he had a file with every letter that I had ever

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in relation to what became known as the Pentagon Papers? LG: At that point I was deputy director of Policy Planning and Arms Control in the Bureau of International Security Affairs. G: Has that undergone a reorganization since then? LG: Yes. G: General

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or no at that point. I didn't know. Nobody knew. F: Did Interior and Insular Affairs Committee also call you up? C: They sure did, and Stewart Udall and George Hartzog and I were up there to testify one day on a bill that had been introduced to deny
with the Washington, D.C. Police Department and concerns that violence might erupt at the demonstration; stress among park police working at Resurrection City; June 20, 1968, incident where demonstrators were gassed; extending the original permit and the decision

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was as assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs which you held until of 1964. H: Is that correct? No, March 15th. I actually resigned earlier than that, but the President asked me to stay till March 15th while he got a replacement. M: And you had
Biographical information; departed government in 1964 over policy in Vietnam; JFK, Harriman, Forrestal and Hilsman were all for a political approach while LBJ was for a military approach; LBJ: “It’s the only war we’ve got;” Rostow and McNamara were

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, or Populist, as he was called in the press by many . I think he was just a hard-working human being very much interested in the affairs of people, and knowing our system . And so very few men in public life--and a small percentage in private life--even know

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, that you hold a law degree from the University of Cincinnati, that you have been involved in public affairs in government in Cincinnati . welfare investigator . From 1929 to 1932 you were the public From 1939 to 1942 you were the assistant prosecuting
Biographical information; work as a welfare department investigator; involvement in the War on Poverty and the Urban League, how Berry came to be the director of the Community Action program; early community-related programs; funding programs

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

did, and he did. As a matter of fact, President Johnson was the easiest candidate to work for, as far as a speech writer was concerned, that I ever had. Pr'!: In what way? M: He would say what you wrote. PM: And not depart from the script? M

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/oh 9 out of that one? R: That got to be a long-- Drawn out affair. I'd say he was much more on the other side than he was on our side, much more so. B: About the same time that that was getting started, the issue of Senator McCarthy--Joe

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

solved a murder up at Amarillo. The paper offered me a job and I quit school and went down there and took it. college education. I have no I went to work on a newspaper and grew up in ignorance. M: Just to depart briefly, what was this murder
Biographical information; Dockrey Murder case; Garner of Texas vs. Snell of New York; Miller’s appointment of LBJ; Edward Jamison; first impressions of LBJ; three famous Texas political figures; LBJ’s interest in military affairs; rating LBJ

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

3) INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN July 14, 1969 M: How many requests for offprints have you gotten for that famous article in Foreign Affairs that you were looking at there? C: I think I've probably sent out 600. My mail now must be--first
Article in FOREIGN AFFAIRS; Wisemen’s meetings; no military plan for victory in Vietnam; San Antonio formula; divided opinion regarding Vietnam among cabinet members; task force to study sending additional troops to Vietnam; RFK-Sorenson suggestion

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

19,1968 INTERVIEWEE: W. MARVIN WATSON INTERVIEWER: Dorothy Pierce PLACE: Postmaster General Watson's office, Post Office Department, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 P:. Continuing with our interview of November 22, when we left offwe had concluded

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this --and Mark Smith, the first occupied this room and then Cameron did. F: It has been the Arizona room. H: And I've been here ever since I came to the Senate. Then I got it. They asked me about my committees and I took Indian affairs and irrigation
Project Bill; Bureau of the Budget; J. Edgar Hoover; LBJ-Eisenhower relationship; 1956 campaign; VP nomination; Ernest McFarland; cloture rule; Federal Highway Department; Indian affairs; Goldwater family; Hayden's father

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the committee. In fact, the committee was abolished rather quickly, and the functions that the committee carried out with respect to contractors were transferred to an office within the Department of Labor, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance, OFCC

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Health?] and OMAT [Office of Manpower and Automatic Training?] in the Department of Labor, they were interested in experimental 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
nonprofit organizations eligible for CAP grants; Hayes' and Dick Boone's failed proposal to fund a research and demonstration program before the operating program; the attitudes of older cabinet departments toward the establishment of the Office of Economic

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. The other one was, of course, Part Three. M: That's the initiation of action by the Justice Department. H: The initiation of action by the Justice Department. My first job in connection with this, I don't remember the exact time, [was] Senator Johnson
Experiences working for LBJ during the late 1950s, especially in matters of legislation, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1957; Defense Department matters

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Englishman, who never did come to the United States. So in preparing that speech, and I think I consulted with Charles Frankel, who was the assistant secretary of state for cultural affairs, we came up with the idea of extending the concept of the Great

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

as deputy to Will Clayton, who was then assistant secretary of state for economic affairs. Somehow or other, Ed Mason maneuvered it so that I was detached from OSS and moved over to the State Department as his assistant. I think for about a year I

Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you were appointed to a task force to make sweeping proposals to reorganize all federal aid to cities. H: No. That was not until 1966. In late '65 I was appointed as a member of a task force to propose an organization of the Department of Housing

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the interview with Mrs. Ruby Martin, the Director of the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of HEW. Mrs. Martin, would you mind starting by summarizing your career up to the point you

Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of the Budget; you were with the United States Bureau of Prisons within the Department of Justice; and, I think, as late as 1963-1964 you were with the Bureau of InterAmerican Affairs in the United States' Department of State. It's my understanding that you
Job Corps Affairs; OEO; Daniel Moynihan; Church-State issue in Head Start; Green Amendment.

Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and the AID, but also in the agency [Central Intelligence Agency] and very largely among the so-called military intellectuals in the Pentagon, and particularly in the international security affairs branch of the DOD [Department of Defense]. So I think he

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--in the departments, the agencies, and on the White House staff. As 1967 unfolded, more and more the President was demanding involvement of people who heretofore had not had any role in the legislative program or any direct responsibility for it. And so many members
; getting departments to send information to Hardesty that he could use in creating these statements, inserts, and speeches; Jake Jacobsen's role in searching the Congressional Record for statements that indicated support or opposition to legislation so LBJ

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and more of the civil rights workers on the civil rights side, the educational experts to help tackle these problems so that it wasn't just a matter of Department of Justice people; it was a continuing very difficult problem. And inevitably the senior House
affairs.

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

from the Department of State, from the so-called CU, Cultural Affairs Division of State. Roughly speaking the program in international education, which on a chart looked as if it came under the Office of Education, in fact was probably 75 or 80 per

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, Governmental Affairs Institute. S: That's right. G: From 1961 to 1965 you were the Director of the Bureau of the Census in the Department of Commerce. In 1963 you were the chairman of the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation. S

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

there is a share by both of them--for instance, some of the Labor department programs or where the federal government appoints a state official as in the case of agriculture. But in each case I feel the states should have been involved. The second one was, I felt

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

matters by the Defense Department. I point out that, so often overlooked, is the fact that in drafting that legis lation we conceived of the idea that the Defense Department could engage in peaceful activities, too, if for nothing more than keeping

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that kind. F: You were with the Attorney General's Department. W: At that time I was with the Social Security Board, and all of us ran around, young fellows saving the world, and I met Lyndon at that time. As a matter of fact, I have a picture
to State Department; Sékou Touré; LBJ and African affairs; overview of the African situation; E. Korry; Jim Wilson; experiences as ambassador to the Philippines

Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Committee on the Library. Previous to your election to the Senate, you were active in Democratic party affairs both in your state and national. Also, in the late '40's and '50's .you have had government service in the State Department both in Washington

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

believe was a partly political and partly, let's say, institutional regard for President Eisenhower's, for any president's, prerogatives in the field of foreign affairs. He had really absorbed the lesson from somebody, perhaps from FDR and the FDR

Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of unfinished work. He became so involved, and understandably so, in both the international field and in the domestic field that I doubt if he had a great deal of time to devote to the affairs of the national committee. When I review or look back over

Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

successful in the affairs of Washington and were successful in our district. Judge Mansfield was very old, and his friends appreciated the fact that I had not attempted to be elected in the new district. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and the close relationship I had with him, I would say that it made him much more careful about his personal affairs in as close a privacy as possible. Now, one example would be the time that I had a call from a friend at the Washington Evening Star, and he told

Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Services--the Defense Department---wouldn't tell him a damned thing going on in the war. M: And you had been a friend of his in the Senate? A: Yes. And so I finally got somebody to go down there. They got General Carter Clark over there and finally

Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

good affair. But back to what you originally started to ask. I think you become progressively active, and then maybe the interest did fall off a little with the 1960 race. M: Yes. When you go about raising money, what do you do? Is this all done
techniques; contact with the Treasury Department; credit crunch of 1966; experience as a local director of the Federal Reserve System; reflections on the FDIC during the Johnson years; James Saxton; proliferation of national banks; consultations with LBJ

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