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Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

decision in those first months of 1968 as I think I was [in an] earlier period. Secondly, my own memory would be along the following lines, that we would have closed down the smaller, less efficient--costwise--camps run by the Department of Agriculture
; bypassing local government to fund War on Poverty programs federally; Shriver’s reluctance to turn Head Start over from OEO to another government department; the work-study program; how Head Start became a year-round program that involved parents; attacks

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

then that it was not my job to settle the strike ; it was my job to preserve peace, law and order . I would do everything that I could to see to it that there were not violence either way, but the settlement of the strike was not my affair . That's the course that I

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to go to that and got time off to go down. It was strictly a women's affair, I think. G: Did he talk about President Roosevelt? K: No, I don't recall him talking about him. He was strictly a sup- porter of the New Deal at that time, which many
; relationship between Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Maury Maverick; minimum wage; LBJ’s friendship with FDR; securing appropriations; airline franchise; Naval Affairs Committee; Erich Leinsdorf; Huey Long; Dick Kleberg; war in Europe; other Washington experiences.

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wanted to go through the State Department or the Pentagon. The big issue in January of 1968 was whether we should deliver a fleet of Phantoms and some additional Skyhawks to the Israelis. This was considered by the Israelis to be, frankly
; Larry O’Brien; Krim resigning as Democratic National Committee finance chairman to be involved with the LBJ Presidential Library and School of Public Affairs; being asked to join LBJ’s cabinet and the United Nations; Arthur Goldberg; the LBJ Foundation

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, which is the committee he was on, and who called him in for conferences innumerable 5 ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)

: In the Eisenhower Administration--during that time when he was leader on one side and you were leader on the other side--it has been commented many times--as you know, since Lyndon Johnson has been President--on foreign affairs President Eisenhower had been very

Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

had greater interest in Latin American affairs than he 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

Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't place her. G: She was Mrs. Taylor's sister, Mrs. Johnson's aunt from Alabama. 9 Goodness, he had sixty-five thousand acres at one time. We never got into church affairs in our discussions. not going to say a number of years, but he did

Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

seemed to continue to have a close relationship with him, particularly for a member of the opposite party. I gather that perhaps due to your strong contacts in the Department of Agriculture that you would sometimes get information before your Democratic

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

remember on any number of occasions we used to mutually deplore what we felt was the lack of coordination of all of the efforts, first just within the federal government--how each department had its own poverty operation. Labor was doing something

Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

not sure those lists are in there. I'm not sure I copied them; maybe I should have done that. It must have been twentyfive, fifty people got copies, and some of them replied at length. One of my colleagues in the history department who was for Eugene

Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

committee of the United Nations . Mr . Johnson appointed me to an advisory committee of A .I .D . M: What was the purpose of this advisory committee? B: It was an advisory committee to Mr . Gaud, and before him Mr . Bell, for Housing and Urban affairs

Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, each American agency had been represented in the provinces of Vietnam with independent reporting lines to Saigon, to either the AID headquarters or MACV's [Military Assistance Command, Vietnam] headquarters, or the JUSPAO [Joint U.S. Public Affairs

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- F: Did you work with President Johnson on the control of firearms? K: Only really again with the Justice Department, the Attorney General. F: Ramsey Clark? K: Ramsey Clark. The Immigration Bill as well. F: Same thing with housing

Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of time ? G: Yes, starting clear back in 1947, after the war, I began doing a lot of consulting for government--the Department of Defense, AID, Office of Education, White House, State Department. M: These all on educational matters? G: Well
Department of Housing, Education, and Welfare

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was born in Shelbyville, Tennessee, November 18, 1912, and four years later moved to Savannah, Georgia, where I attended the parochial schools, Catholic schools. Subsequently I went to high school in Nashville; Fisk University had a high school department

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

go, and the last time I went he had Abe [Abraham] Sofaer, is it?--that's the general counsel at the State Department, which is a highly prestigious position. He 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

would be on the right of the President and the King would be on the right of Mrs. Johnson. And the next ranking person would usually be the minister of foreign affairs and then the Secretary of State or at times the Vice President if he happened

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

going to--well, the State Department reception for the foreign dignitaries was later. F: That was on the R: That was on Monday after the funeral. I~onday after the funeral. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

did Mr. Johnson ask of you? L: With the encouragement, I suppose perhaps the guidance of his White House staff, not with the State Department in this case, I think, at Manila I believe it was--a conference in Manila--with then Chief of State

Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and Senator Hayden used to combine on various water projects, and Senator Johnson, of course, came from a state that had "later problems. Did you ever work with him directly on any? 'H: Yes, I did. The Canadian River Project. Insular Affairs Committee. I

Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to come out to listen to my talk on it. B: Sir, in that preliminary planning did you also meet with, say, the Department of Justice group--Robert Kennedy and his Justice Department? R: No, we didn't, not separately, but Robert Kennedy was in this other

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

small office with a glass partition that went up about five feet and was a little bank screen affair. And one afternoon shortly after lunch, a head appeared above that screen and looked over and said was I Dr. Stanton. I said yes. In this Texas accent I

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the 70-Group And he had supported Secretary Symington in getting the ap propriations. Johnson was a leading member of the Armed Services Committee, and prior to that the old Naval Affairs Committee. He had always been interested in preparedness

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in agreement on public affairs, my father having been the son of a Democratic judge in Baltimore and my grandfather being Republican. During my school days, until I was out of high school, my father was in business. In 1945, the year I graduated from
to food and China; the problem of being under a committee system; East-West trade and U.S. trade policies; Nixon’s proposal to open international trade; the Department of Agriculture; how Symington became assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy

Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

children because I stayed at home with them while they were little. Tribune asked me to come back, and I did. The And then I was divorced from the father of my children and eventually married Herbert Edwards who was with the State Department. in 1942

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the United States until 1961, when I returned to Vietnam and stayed until 1964. At that time, I switched over from the military, wearing a soldier suit, to staying in the military but actually working for the State Department. I went back again in 1965
Lodge got Jacobson a position in the State Department as mission coordinator; Jacobson's opinion of Graham Martin, Maxwell Taylor, Ellsworth Bunker, Creighton Abrams, and Frederick Weyand; Ed Lansdale's 1965 trip to Vietnam and the work of a group under

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ginsburg -- II -- 2 DG: No, not yet, I did that in Chicago. Before Chicago, I had begun speaking with Bill, who edited Foreign Affairs afterwards, the magazine published

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

George Ball and quite a lot of implicit reservation from places like the Intelligence Division of the Department of State, and one or two of my younger staff--James Thomson--and caution at least in some parts of the Pentagon, and a willingness

Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

confidence in, advisers that are not trying to feather their own nests or something. This is a real problem. I obviously was very interested in medical affairs and had been right along over the years. Every month or so, or every two or three months

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

year, but on the objection . of John Saylor, a Republican congressman who is the . minority head of the Department of Interior and Insular Affairs Committee of the House, it was dropped . . . Fs And no one ever overrode Saylor on this? Os No one

Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 Depart from it . Yes . The guidelines were possibly of some use for a period when they were first put in effect until, late-1965 or '66 . But I would point out that the situation in the country was at a point of economic activity

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Some. I saw him a great deal more after 1963. I was back in Washington several times during 1961 and 1962 having to do with some President Club activity with Arthur Krim on the West Coast and some meetings and some affairs at the White House. We saw him

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: It had been the policy of the Eisenhower Administration and their Interior Department to try to get the government out of the dam-building business. The Eisenhower Administration used all the political muscle they had to keep this Echo Park Dam from

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in a very solemn and businesslike way, and really not a great deal of business done in a meeting of this sort except an assurance of his interest in us remaining a part of the team. M: You hadn't been in the Post Office Department long enough under

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with three other people from the White House. One of them was married to that fellow at the State Department that's just gotten a divorce, John something or other. I forget her name; you probably [remember her,] Angela--it really isn't important to the story

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXII -- 3 G: There were also charges that duplication existed between the NASA programs and the Defense Department programs

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it does. B: I was wondering if perhaps people in this agency or in the Agriculture Department, generally, ever got the feeling of being kind of left out with all the emphasis on urban affairs. c: I'm sure this is true; not just a case of being left out

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in for a meeting when we had our plans sufficiently developed so that we could have a three-day session--as I recall. in the Department of Labor building--to go over all our plans. and met each of them individually. Then r saw the whole group Each came to talk

Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Was the Puerto Rican situation part of your concern? A: Yes. F: Now, did the President show any particular interest in that? A: Not especially as far as I was concerned. As I recollect, at this time he was listening more to the State Department
Impressions of LBJ's early Senate years; Alaskan Statehood Bill; Kennedy-Johnson campaign; Wilderness Bill; Redwood National Park; Department of the Interior land control; University of Colorado honorary degree; LBJ's reaction to upscale black

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