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  • post." I wrote President Johnson a letter, that's in the files, saying that I would stay so long as he wanted me to unless I felt that my contribution outside government would be greater than inside--but basically saying, "You can count on me." My next
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • projects, something like this? N: Yes. Well, there was of course the classic case of Margery Michelmore who dropped the post card in Nigeria which created pandemonium. I was in charge of the decompression of Margery when she got back to the United
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it was a Saturday morning that the Washington Post had reported that Jackie's French chef had been let go. The reaction seemed to be, "Here's this guy that eats steak and mashed potatoes, and what does he know about good food?" That offended him greatly, and I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • from the Post Office Department--the Post Office Department, though I wound up there ultimately, was not an exciting department in terms of our overall picture and I guess that was traditional with the department. It generally had to do with the unions
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . W: Yes, though President Kennedy had rather deliberately tried to bring i.n a new group that was post-New Deal. G: We kind of felt estranged from the Kennedy group. W: To some extent, though I happened to serve on a Kennedy task force and 1 had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Russian with them in class and around the campus and so on in the post. And I would say that by the end of the third year with this saturation program that we were not only fairly fluent in the Russian language, but we had been lectured to on history
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of LBJ; LBJ’s post-presidential activities; Mrs. Johnson.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that periodically, but-(Interruption) G: That's the last item on the list from the presidency. Do you have any other recollections from the presidency that you want to add before we move into the post-presidency era? Did you see him before he went--? H: I ought
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the theater; socializing with staff, including the Clark Cliffords; the health of LBJ's family in 1950; LBJ's work on a natural gas bill; LBJ's interest in post-World War II rubber and tin industries; North Korea invading South Korea; Frank Stanton; childhood
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://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 Clements -- I -- 5 would travel. Some of us would try to keep him posted, keep him
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Presumably the President was backing it at this point. But on Christmas Day-- M: This would be 1965? F: '65, Christmas Day, there was a leak. A story appeared in the Washington Post, front page, "Government to Give Millions to Farmer on Literacy Plan"--I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • beside him. A junior senator interrupts Stennis and offers an amendment. Now, if you offer an amendment without clearing it with the chairman of the committee, in those days it was just--it was worse than violating all the rules of Emily Post. You were
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • back to his post. You can get differences of opinion on how far it was the embassy and how far it was 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . This has been written about, like in the Saturday Evening Post story. There was a bank of five or six pay telephones in that airport and I went over to try--we handled airline reservations and all differently then than you do now. I was over making sure we
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • reviewing appointments, even to comparatively minor posts. 19 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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Neff, as you may recall, was a former governor of Texas but at that time was on the State Railroad Commission, I think as its chairman. EG: Wasn't it Neff who appointed the President's father to a railroad post~ WH: and if it was, do you know what
  • in peo- ple and things change. M: And might in this particular case as well, I suppose. have no diplomatic relations with Congo-Brazzaville. We currently I believe that there are several small diplomatic posts that are vacant for one reason or another
  • to be given civil service status, and he [Johnson] went to one of the civil service commissioners and got him reinstated? J: I don't remember that. G: He had a friend, I guess, who worked with Jim Farley in the Post Office Department, Bill Bray or Bob Bray
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . actually it was a summary that was not the final summary. indicate that. But he did go ahead and he did But I want to release it, which upset all of us. M: What paper was this? K: It was the Washington Post. M: They're usually more responsible
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ." The quote is: "The day is And it was then that he announced his intent to appoint the fifty additional women to government posts. And a quote that I like especially is the following, when he announced the names of the first additional women
  • ] by the administration. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -10- But there was a lack of understanding that I think was because the situation had not arisen before in the post-war era, and because people in Washington--so
  • be excel- lent and advanced in some post graduate areas. G: Also in 1965 you had the health and research facilities bill which called for a three-year extension, and that was slowed down because of an amendment by Senator [Russell] Long on patents. Do
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • conducted a number of field tests throughout the United States, from 1963 on through 1967, at various Army posts and various air bases throughout the country. We've also participated in some major field exercises that the military have conducted and have
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the elements in the Office of Secretary, but no matter how good the organizational statements, we could not eliminate all of the misunderstandings. Unfortunately, there were personalities in key posts who evinced an undesirable degree of preoccupation
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • nervous that we didn't seem to be doing anything about the balance of payments deficit. M: The cause of this excessive spending is what? D: There are several causes. We had maintained a very substantial trade surplus in the war and immediate post-war
  • to the University of Missouri, and being from Texas back in 1928, why, not too many were from Texas. They hadn't heard of anybody's initials much, so it was a lot easier to call me Tex. So that's where I picked up that. Then I worked on the Denver Post for five
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)