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Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • outclassed, in fact, because the facilities were not equal. I was Attorney General, I went to the Governor and with the aid of the school authorities in Prince Edward County, persuaded him to make an appropriation available, so that I could say
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that it was really the secretary of labor who should do this, not the secretary of commerce, not the Council of Economic Advisors and not the President and certainly not a White House aide. G: Did you feel awkward because of dealing with these cabinet officials? C
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it in a partisan way. I think he did it with respect to people he could help. I mean she was important. I think what she got--I'd have to go back and it's probably worth checking. She had an aide on her staff-- G: General [William C.] Lewis. C: General Lewis
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there to the Johnson suite, and I talked to Walter Jenkins and Bobby Baker. And I said, "I don't
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; LBJ’s post-pres. plans to see Walter Jenkins.
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with the President or close to the President, but I have known him over a long period of time. In the early days, I worked closest and on a fairly frequent basis with Walter Jenkins on the kinds of things that congressmen and senators are so interested
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And then some time later in the afternoon, some of the Kennedy staffers in the White House"-I'm not sure who--called Walter Jenkins and asked him to come down to the White House; then Walter called me and asked me to come down to the White House. And we were
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , would contact Deke Deloach. G: So he was not a Johnson loyalist at all? R: No. No, he was--Walter Jenkins had a link with Deke Deloach, I had a link with Deke Deloach, everybody that was anybody could talk to Deke. He was a very shrewd operator. G
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • got in trouble with the chief of staff over there, Walter-G: Walter Jenkins, yes. C: --Jenkins. [Marvin Watson?] And he had a Jewish attorney over there that was left over from Kennedy's period that he was--Mike. name? What the hell was his
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anything that was-- G: Okay. How about the new station building, the new KTBC building in Austin. Did he seek your advice on that, what it should-- S: No. G: What was the role of Walter Jenkins in the business side of Lyndon Johnson's operations? S
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and then by Mr. [Marvin] Watson, and then by General [Chester V.] Clifton, who was a military aide to the President at that time. At the last then I was taken in, introduced to the President. The President asked me where I was from. I told him I was from
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of, no. The opposition to Kuchel in California was pretty well picked out here. You had Sam Yorty and Richard Richards. He certainly did not go out of his way to encourage them at all. And let's see, neither Lyndon nor John Kennedy gave any aid and 6 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Huitt -- III -- 9 so he could get it down. He was so emaciated and so tiny that when he wanted to go someplace, a male aide and his female secretary
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • : You had a fund raiser or something in Houston and there's a picture of you and Lyndon Johnson embracing. I think he said if you ever need him to come to your aid, he would come. J: That is true. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • change. Schools, aid stations, provincial hospitals, things of that nature, industrialization, a change of some of the agricultural patterns, this is what Diem thought was the basis for the modernization of Vietnam.So there was a dichotomy between the two
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • remember George Marshall made that speech some twenty-three years ago, stating, in effect, that Europe was going to collapse unless we had a foreign aid program. Well, I parted company with it on occasions, not because of the principle that was involved
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that President Johnson was trying to aid Humphrey through the bombing halt in October? F: Some on the plane felt that way. But they would talk intermittently during the campaign, and at one point I was asked to make a statement about a certain aspect
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • some of the people who were testifying and talk with them directly, or he would have one of his aides do it. B: Was there any direct connection between Mr. Johnson and Billie Sol Estes? F: No, I don't think there was any at all. As a matter of fact
  • price; LBJ and agriculture legislation; 1965 farm program bill; Food for Peace; failings of AID; LBJ’s interest in India; FAO Convention in Rome; Madame Ghandi’s visit to the White House; Honolulu Conference; surpluses; European over-production
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • platform. I recall matters pertaining to Rule 22, the filibuster rule, and getting civil rights legislation going over there. I got quite impatient. I recall sending some rather abrasive letters to the gentleman, and I had Some of his aides call up
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
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the President's aides advising me of what had happened. And like I said, it was very difficult to believe and I felt at the time that somebody was pulling a very bad joke. And of course when the news was known in Costa Rica, it was almost as though he had been
  • with the Mexican Commission on the Economic and Social Development of the Border Area; Mrs. Johnson; LBJ’s understanding of Latin Americans; LBJ’s aid in the Costa Rican eruption of Volcano Irazu; evaluation of Coast Rica’s stability; U.S. Ambassador’s house
Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)
  • . If we repeat a little Perhaps we'll add some new subjects as we go. You mentioned first that you first met Mr. Johnson in 1931, I believe you said. V: That's correct. D: When he was an aide to Congressman Kleberg. this at age 23 for Mr. Johnson. Mr
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • time I ever saw those transparent visual aids that he used. He was wearing contact lenses at the time. His speech text was visible to him as he stood at the podium, but through the use of mirrors it was not visible to the audience on TV
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • walked up, too. called that night. I don't think the President I had so many problems that I couldn't remember, but if the record says he did, he did. F: Well, is this R: It \'/as typi cal of him. F: Was this something where you could use the aid
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and I would check it off. I'll bring that another time. F: On this extension of the Aid to Education Act--the enlargement of it--by now have you generally found the principle of federal aid to education had been accepted? S: Has there been any attempt
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • station. Rarely did they want another f' 12 0 classroom or school. always force · We were always forcing schools on them; the AID missions schools on people •. ';';he ia~t is~in tbos~ societies they resent . the scbOois because they are places
Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and Admiral Dick Byrd, who had been his aide when he was Vice President. Also, that was immediately prior to the Israeli-U.A.R. confrontation, and, as a matter of fact, Prime Minister Wilson was in the White House at the time, LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the NYA experience in his life? P: I think it meant a great deal to him to be in position and be successful, to really give the help, aid and assistance that these young people needed. tion. It was not just a matter of personal satisfac- A lot
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • activities in the activities in the transition process? P: I had contacts with a number of the Nixon aides on sort of a friendly basis. I knew Bryce Harlow very well. We were both Oklahomans, and Bryce had been helpful during our Administration
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in preserving the weak ones and the Oriental has--our future depends on the strong ones. G: I wanted to ask you next about the Free China Fund that you set up for aiding refugees. J: Yes. We set it up. It was really called Committee for a Million. We got
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ] hospital, that he called the hospital ship. But I finally had to tell Gallup, "Just forget I'm the MACV surgeon and just figure that I'm the senior aide to COMUSMACV, and I'm calling to get information for COMUSMACV. I'm not calling as a functioning surgeon
Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or eradicate venereal diseases. They're into the AIDS program now. The legislation that was enacted would be introduced by Javits and co-sponsored by Pell. The reason for that--and this is very unique, to have a Republican in a Democratic-controlled senate
Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it was. It was out on the lawn. There were about eight people who would be seated at a table. When we got there one of the aides came along and said that we were supposed to sit at the President's table, which was rather flattering, I thought. We were very surprised
Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • you know Bill Connell, one of his aides? R: I met him. That's all. [Inaudible] G: I'm not sure that you have mentioned this. Would you stick by the judgments that you made in this book? What would you do differently if you were writing the book
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as opposed to a very expensive job program as the centerpiece of the War on Poverty. They were not op- posing Community Action, except that Wirtz at one point called it a band-aid program. that concept. I notice you seem to say that Gordon supported
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. Then there was a very nice thing he did. We had a foreign aid bill up and he was on the Appropriations Committee. He had charge of it. The man who had been placed in charge of foreign aid by President Eisenhower had made some very foolish remarks in a speech. Held