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

this proposed use of park lands in future. This took place during the time that the encampment was in progress. The first hearing, as I recall, was conducted by Ken Gray, a Democrat from Illinois who is chairman of the House Public Works Subcommittee on Public

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Authority. At that time, that's where I first got to at least know who Alvin Wirtz was, because I saw him in action and got to know him as a reporter, to contact, through source relationship. I got to know Fritz Engelhard of Eagle Lake, who was a member

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be President Johnson himself. I think that most campaigns are an amalgam of the leader's desires and the peculiarities of the situation. The Democratic National Committee played practically no role at all in the campaign. The way the campaign structure

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- 30 M: While we're on this subject. Lyndon Johnson has the reputation of being earthy in language as in action. H: Oh, sure. M: Or as some people would put it, downright crude. is this really true? H: Now is he earthy, In his language, does he

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

between Johnson and Kleberg. L: I don't know, and I do not recall discussing it with Lyndon. However, I do know that he was glad that I was elected. G: Now in 1944 there was another fight between the conservative wing of the Democratic Party

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was then at the [Democratic] National Committee. The two of us worked, always, very closely together. greater than mine, and through him we made others. His contacts were But there was an attempt to encourage the thought of creating new ideas for developing contact

Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, if not the letter, of the civil rights act . The one group that has some real basic problems with it, of course, is the Pueblos of New Mexico . F: How does that happen? B: This happens because they do not have a democratic form of government ; their form

Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

specifically for a party, although I carefully voted consistently. Only after I joined this administration did I take on a label, which I still have. I would now regard myself as a Democrat with a little bit of independence. I have kept that position now

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Really nobody. Did you just go on leave from your job? I would just get a call and they would say, "Just do the job." Then I would do it. at the Democratic headquarters. It all depends on who was at the desk Bobby Baker was one of the fellows that I

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. could K: Well, whatever immediately, wrong, the Department and Democratic defended should M: After President General for it suggests of Justice cases has, lawyers instance, it's a very bad with any of substantial-do, whether they're

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 6 bus, somebody had taken a shot at the President, but we had no reason to believe he had been hit. F: They had just an evasive action in a sense. R: For all we knew

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Well, the Regents' action in July of 1967 was to thank and discharge the committee. Now the question was to create a new committee to do whatever else was necessary. (Interruption) At the July meeting, the Regents accepted the report and accepted

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ERIC TOLMACH INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL PLACE: Mr. Tolmach's office, OEO, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Last time when the tape ran out we were talking about Community Action in the task force period, and I think that the last question

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, so I put the application in through him. I was hired as the assistant general counsel for the Community Action Program. I had interviewed Don Baker at some point before the appropriation went through. So it was all pretty well settled, as I recall

Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was offered a job in the State Department. This was in January of 1950. F: How did you happen to be born in Argentina? B: My parents were missionaries down there. While at the Fletcher School I was offered this job in the Latin America area, and I
; Dean Rusk; Bowdler’s involvement in LBJ’s trip to Central America; LBJ’s interaction with Latin American presidents and people; how Bowdler became ambassador to El Salvador; a pilot project in El Salvador involving instructional television programming

Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to [William] Capron and Heller. And they bought it. It had the germ of the Community Action Program, but it had more than that. Around this germ and some other ideas, you could get a coherent program. Really what the memorandum did was while it specified
Kennedy Task Force; comprehensive community action program; Sargent Shriver; Shriver Task Force; legislation; VISTA; drafting the bill; resident participation; planning and operation problems; regional planning; political power; Moynihan; Job Corps

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

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Trejos -- I -- 5 Latin America. Last year several countries already reached the goals

Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from that that were applicable in the Community Action Program as it was planned? H: Well, I think the insights that we gained were several. One [was] that the federal government itself--the programs that the federal government was running--were
for responding to local-level plans; working with the Bureau of the Budget; federal programs that were ineffective, such as vocational education and Employment Service; the problem that community action was never well-defined and local government leaders did

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

days of the New Deal and the National Youth Administration; that he was very cool, if not opposed, to some of the more way-out activities that had characterized OEO. G: Would this have been in Community Action? H: Primarily, yes. G: Let me just
First acquaintance with LBJ; appointment as Deputy Director to Shriver; reasons Boutin left; management survey; meeting with President; Community Action; criticism of 1967 bill; Shriver’s perception of role of OEO; opposition to Dominick amendment

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

of that a corporation was established and then we moved to formulate some proposals . In December of that year, 1964, I came to Washington with a briefcase full of proposals and presented them to the then-incipient Community Action division of OEO . I had no idea
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, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you about some of the experts who came into this. H: Oh, I see, because that's interesting stuff I think. G: Well, Harrington had already written actively on the subject. H: Yes. Oh, his book [The Other America], everybody had to read
; conflict over community action; work of drafting committee for the bill; education aspects; Congressman Phil Landrum; Sargent Shriver

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that there was legal authority to do this. And Bob Weaver, who was not yet the secretary of housing and urban development--he was the head of the Federal Housing Administration, but black--favored this course of action, I know he did, before he came into the government

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

what happened. I went directly to Peru with the Peace Corps, and I stayed there until May of _1 964. 'lben I became the Latin America regional director of the Peace Corps until around April of . '66. But in February of 1964, . . . I think
Educational and professional background; work with the 1964 Task Force on Poverty under leadership of Sargent Shriver; concept of community action; Shriver’s management style in Peace Corps, task force and OEO; funding of Community Action Agency

Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, say, community action? H: I really don't recall the nature of those discussions. I remember that Moynihan, Eric Tolmach, who was around all the time, Wirtz, who was around only occasionally, were kind of the Labor Department's [representatives
Biographical information; War on Poverty Task Force; membership; Christopher Weeks; Adam Yarmolinsky; Sargent Shriver; structure and activities of task force Community Action; Job Corps; legislative submission

Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of varying specificity as to what our proposals were to be in that area. We had arrived at the point I think where the core concept was to be the community action plan, which I think turned out to be Title II of the bill. Then there were all the other
Biographical information; War on Poverty Task Force; members of the drafting group; Job Corps; role of the Labor Department; Willard Wirtz; women in the Job Corps; legislative input; delegation of authority; Sargent Shriver; Community Action Program

Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

affect the program operations of, say, Community Action? L: Again, the day-to-day operation is not involved. The policy type of operation, what shall the CAP policy be toward--most of that sort of thing--the most important of those things requires
Biographical information; Joe Kresahw; Leon Gilgoff; Sargent Shriver; RPP&E program; OEO budgetary process; 5 Years Plans; Congressional understanding of the OEO; budget allocations recommendations; Community Action Program; Jobs; Moynihan; Green

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with [Chung Hee] Park. M: Just to calm Park down, or to try and get some--? V: Primarily to do two things. First, to prevent any precipitate action in terms of a move to the North by Park and the Republic of Korea's army; and secondly, to talk with Park

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And Johnson okays my recommendation, Wirtz starting to brief the Senate Democrats. We stayed away from the House because of problems in the House. G: [Harley] Staggers? C: Staggers was one of the problems. He just was not. . . . Then in March the railroad

Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

unintegrated. They were little bits and pieces that didn't really hang together, and there didn't seem to be--what we'd struggled for through November of 1963 was an organizing theme. To the extent we got one, I guess I would say it was the Community Action
in the summer of 1963; Robert Lampman's study of income distribution; the establishment of a task force to suggest poverty-related programs; Walter Heller's first meeting with LBJ to discuss what would become the Community Action Program (CAP); the early

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-ons by congressional action or because of the war in Vietnam. Secondly, we scrapped an idea that [Henry "Joe"] Fowler had, to get a congressional resolution for--in effect directing the President to reduce expenditures, and instead just went

Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: To what extent was there a bipartisan equity in the committee? The Democrats controlled the committee, but-- P: I think what occurred was--I'm trying to remember. It must have been in 1964 when the--or was it 1966--I'm trying to remember when

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

have tended to debase the coinage, but I think the function of blowing off steam is still a useful function because there are many instances where the realities of concrete action are much more serious than rhetorical expressions. Take the current
and 1970s and Lebanon and Central America in the 1980s; the dangers of coalition governments; Palestine and a pan-Arab nationalism; Middle Eastern policy as influenced by Congress and the so-called Jewish lobby; Sisco's opinion of US involvement

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

opinion; and [I felt] that--although I am not positive of this and can't document it so to speak--frequently his basic horse sense told him that the best course of action was perhaps not that reco~nended by the majority of his advisors. Mc

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

overseas ought to portray America in proper perspective. By that I mean specifically that it seems eminently [un] fair to refer and to mention only things that [are] really short-comings and failures and mention nothing at all of our successes

Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and [Barry] Goldwater and Margaret Chase Smith all got along well, and there weren't any petty rivalries or feuds, and the committee almost always was unanimous in its action on bills, and its stature in the Senate was such then that the Senate didn't spend

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, this is a subject that's been hashed over endlessly and has raised an awful lot of smoke and that concerns the effectiveness of a number of methods used in pacification. There were Provincial Reconnaissance Units--or PRUs--People's Action Teams. The Marine Corps had
Coup of 1960; ambassadors and the CIA; pacification programs; CIA leadership; covert action; Phoenix; Thien

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

things happened within a month or two after the Commission report was out. It is quite significant for action to follow so quickly. But this is a reflection of the stature of the Commission. happened was that the bureau was established. One thing

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

An illustration might be the advice to the President with respect to selective service matters--the validity of regulations or actions of the Selective Service System. Our principal line responsibility is the supervision of all federal criminal prosecutions

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

does he give it his stamp? G: That depends on how interested he is in doing that. I think he can make a very real impression on the agency if he wants. decide, He can for example, the priorities between Latin America, Asia, LBJ Presidential

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