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Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • And we developed with, their cooperation, a grant-in-aid program modeled on the BOR grant-in-aid program which would allow the States and cities to accept grants and work on a matching basis with these utilities to retroactively underground power lines
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • , and aid for the cost of compensation for professional and technical staff of mental retardation facilities. Then my memo raised questions about this and about the overlap with Hill-Burton on some things. Then there was a separate draft bill on improving
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : The Johnson aides in describing this are inclined to link the Lawrence nomination with the [Abe] Fortas nomination. M: Yes. That was the other judgeship. G: First of all, was there a connection here? Did Senator Russell oppose the Fortas nomination
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , treaties, or foreign aid bill, or something of that kind. F: What kind of contact did you have on the Consular Treaty? M: It looked like it was dead, and I criticized and needled the Administration so that they--they had put it aside--they did bring
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to Washington, not because I had any feeling of jealousy with respect to an ambassador's position but because I could see only trouble. In every joint meeting you had of the military and State Department and AID and CIA and so forth, all of us, the question
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Johnson said,] "Tip, You know better than this . I am just telling you that the young fellow is going to die on the vine . I am asking you to give me your second choice along the line, give me some help, some aid-and support in New England after
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • tenure for job protection. If he's mistreated in one place, he doesn't have any trouble moving to another one. And unquestionably, the security of tenure is a considerable aid to academic freedom. But we shouldn't ignore the fact that high price
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the separation of church and state. There was some element of concern on the part of any aid that might directly or indirectly go to private schools. She didn't want those barriers. It was clear that you have to maintain the separation. In that context we were
Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • . A: Anyway, and the rest of this is all correspondence back and forth with your sister. R: How did you find [this]? A: This is in Johnson's files. We have the finding aid in a computer file, and I just searched the computer file for the name
  • family home in Cologne, Germany; photography methods and a photograph of LBJ in Austin with the Jewish Brotherhood; the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in New York and Amsterdam; LBJ's involvement
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • to be and then there would be two people in the Congress that you would have to talk to. You'd have to talk to Jim Menger, who was the legislative aide to Staggers or at least to that committee, and then you'd have to talk to Bob Barkley, who was the legislative aide
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ." It was only partially reconstructed. At that time there were three military aides and each was a source of intelligence and information, although one was supposed to be in charge. For some months for this and other reasons there was a sizeable amount
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of combat forces was fleshed out . honcho of that policy for Secretary McNamara ; that is, all the things that were supplied under it, the additional-military aid, the equipment for the strategic hamlet program, were all funneled through my office so that I
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • type. So that's when I took that year, as I mentioned to you, a position over at AID. sorted some other things out. I went over to AID for a year while I And Peter Libassi became the deputy staff director under Taylor. Lewis, the fellow who
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of providing aid for hurricanes--that kind of damage, the natural disaster fund that the President had, which was kind of a step child in the Office of Emegency Planning . We planned for the most part for emergencies which weren't very likely to happen
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could ever get as much federal money spent in Oklahoma as Harry gets spent in Virginia then I'll be the protector of the budget." (Laughter) He was quite a guy. G: That's great. Anything on the creation of AID [U.S. Agency for International Development
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of a sudden, bang!, they went the other way. ~~: This was I think a body blm'l. What about the Kennedy aides who stayed on through that first year when you were watching it still from the outside? Did they actively serve him badly so far as you could tell
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a marvelous time with the guests during cocktails; then the guests would go in to dinner and the girls would join the military social aides and me and go over and have dinner in the Navy Mess and then make a beeline back and then greet some of the guests who
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • meetings with him during this? B: Oh, yes. We met, and I recall particularly joint meetings we had with him, Westmoreland, Komer, our political counselor, our AID people, and with him and Ky and some of his own people, to lay out plans
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and he put in a call for me that afternoon he made his decision. I called back, and by that time I got one of his aides, and it was all over, I guess, I didn't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • about Africa where some 10 per cent of our population originated. M: And a great deal of what is known ain't so. Have you been particularly pressed for many more grants and aids in this area since this has grown up? K: Well, we've actually tried
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . aid of me and Wilton Woods ~nd So he enlisted the Slats Frazer and a few other fellows around there who were his friends. So in a small way we were "active LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . In effect, Larry from the White House handled domestic, and I handled foreign. no votes on the foreign stuff. Well, there were really For example, I had the annual foreign aid bill, and that's like trying to sell leprosy on the Hill, and various other
Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • from the federal government that early? E: Being chartered by Congress, we've always had this financial connection. We are a private corporation, financially aided by the government. We and Howard University have the same status, and we're the only
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • objectivity either. For example, do you get pressures on this kind of case? V: Oh, sure. There's a great deal of pressure from Congress, I think, to prosecute these aiding and abetting cases; and we, however, have developed certain standards that we apply
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But since it was felt to be very desirable to get David Bell over to AID just as soon as possible, I actually took over the directorship late in December which was right at the last stage of the process of putting together the 1964 budget. In effect
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 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 considerable federal aid in these programs and as such, he
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did, and all of our territory up there did, with the NYA program. G: I gather that the student aid program was a major component of NYA. H: It badn't started at that time. G: Is that right? H: No. G: t~hose H: The student aid program
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and the beginning of the war in Europe. I believe Johnson very strongly supported Roosevelt in our aid to belligerent nations--in trying to aid what would become our ultimate allies. H: I remember that very well. P: Did Johnson seek any counsel from people back
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • really carne to bear or aided the career of Lyndon Johnson? L: No, I can't answer that. P: Among Mr. Johnson's peers, or his friends, did he establish any close ties that you know of? This would be in the House. I was thinking of such associations
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • one of the first things that I did, and I felt was able to do on the merits, was to appoint the first Negro inspector in the police department. I made him my aide. It was Inspector Huff, and he happened to be one of only two college graduates among
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it and supported it; and third, because he encouraged our task force throughout its deliberations. M: Was part of your consideration here federal aid to cities; that is, the sharing in the sense that cities would benefit? P: The consideration
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but in terms of program improvement. G: I think it was the New Republ ic that reported that Harry McPherson had formed the group, or another White House aide perhaps. Do you recall that? P: I remember a couple of nasty articles about us in New Republic
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • applying for my job. A lot of them were from schools that had heard this would be a school aid program, among other things, and they wanted to get into the program and get certain jobs started for their people. G: You and L. E. Jones were there, and you
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • service program. These were aids who were going to advise people about what they were instituted about that time. But the march was about food, I guess, social programs generally. I don't think Freeman ever talked to any of those folks because it scared
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because the WPA welfare people had to certify these cases as being in need, except for student aid . But on the work projects, and quite often we felt that they took a very, very adverse attitude, uncompromising, when here were these kids living next
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • contributed to the vote . Lyndon had legal aid from a prominent lawyer from West Texas, a prominent lawyer from South Texas and myself to handle the action in the federal court at Fort Worth to vacate the restraining order and authorize his certification
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Case -- I -- 24 G: Anything else on the legislative issues that you recall: federal aid to schools, social security amendments? c: I remember on schools. Of course, live been interested myself in that for many years