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  • the investigator statement. had editorials in Life every majo~ newspaper or magazine in the country, and praising _Now, I was in charge of the investigation found that serious And that coffee had just it the subcommittee had never been used
  • there fighting--and I would say that for the people that I knew, and I knew most of them. I'd either served with them at one time or another or been associated with them, and we met frequently. In fact, we met formally once a month up in Nha Trang. And I believe
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • attorney in the state of Texas principally and have been since my graduation in 1933. In addition to being an attorney and representing for many years the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, which is the association of members who
  • Biographical information; how Tocker came to know LBJ; the billboard bonus law of 1958; Tocker’s work for the Outdoor Advertising Association of America; passing an amendment to the billboard bonus law; LBJ’s stance in regard to the billboard bonus
  • , Mr. Joseph Dodge, whom I had known at the Pentagon through his assistance to the Army in connection with the Japanese and Korean financial matters. As a result of that, we had been professionally associated. He called me, asked me to come over
  • 1) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ March 21, 1969 F: This is an interview with Senator Everett Dirksen in his office in the Capitol. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz; March 21, 1969. Senator Dirksen, you've had a long career associated with Mr. Johnson
  • Discussion of issues associated with LBJ's political service; federal aid to public schools; Supreme Court appointments
  • Electric Cooperative Association, which was always very close to the Cooperative League which I served as executive director, the many, many times when NRECA would call upon Johnson to come and make the principal address. He'd always come, even on a few
  • Kleberg's daughter, Mary Etta, and it was through her that I really became acquainted with Lyndon Johnson at that time. Kleberg quite well. My I knew Congressman association, however, with Lyndon Johnson at that time was only to see him at the office
  • : professionally, politically, and certainly personally. B: In the times you've been associated with government, generally, have you found Mr. Johnson to be knowledgeable on agricultural affairs? M: Yes, he is. B: Even down into the technicalities? M: Yes
  • sorry. I hopped back--I mean at JPL. Stayed at JPL until 1954, where I ended up head of electronics research, and had done various other things in the intervening period. I stayed at Ramel-Wooldridge until 1958, ending up there as associate director
  • and stayed at the same place he stayed, the Dodge Hotel. And within a week after I had come to Washington I met the then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson and have been in some manner associated with him or counsel to him since this time in July of 1942 [1940?] up
  • and the Rockefellers, particularly Laurance Rockefeller. They would appear to be out of totally different backgrounds, totally different political faiths, and yet there was an undeniably close association and relationship. Is that something that you have thought about
  • on it. G: Tell me, while you're talking about it, did he have much of an association with Webb through the years? J: Not as much as I would have liked, although Webb's second wife was a good friend of mine and someone I just loved and laughed with. She
  • envisage anything in particular. It was just obviously an exciting place to be and I was willing to go and do whatever I could to help, participate, be involved, be associated. G: Who in particular were you working with or working under? H: At the task
  • important? M: Well, I haven't, of course, been closely associated with any of the department's activities with the exception of the research. I would stay from the research standpoint the so-called long-range study in which I've been directly involved
  • to be chairman of the Inter-Agency Research Committee on Social and Economic Problems associated with Rural-Urban Balance and with that committee developed the agenda which led to a meeting last December sponsored by six agencies of government; that is, the six
  • for the Kansas Association as its first employee; my title was assistant And I was also editor of l"iidwest r'junicipa1 Ut"ilities, the six-times-a-year publication. Then I worked also for a brief period of time, less than two years, for the U.S. Department
  • with the Lawrence Radiation Lab in Livermore, California, serving on the staff, and as associate director, and as director. Also, in the late fifties you served on several science advisory boards and panels for the Defense Department. Is this background information
  • , education and prevention of alcoholism. Do you recall his efforts there? M: Yes, I do. One of the people we were associated with or who was interested in that--the interest was manifested after the bill was introduced--was Kemper of the Kemper Life
  • Municipal Association--now the National League of Cities-I was called by officials of the Great Northern Railroad, advising that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • was, and it was part of his greatness. Added to that, of course, was the association of Sam Rayburn--one of the truly greats, I think, of my thirty years in Congress. Sam always had an instinct of trying to feel out people that he felt would be interested in liberal
  • Biographical information; association with LBJ; Rayburn; Board of Education meetings; impression of LBJ; political reputation and closest associates; relationships of LBJ with FDR, Eisenhower and Truman; NYA; wartime price control legislation
  • . During the time Mr . Johnson was president, you were frequently described in the news media as a longtime Texas associate . I wonder if you could perhaps begin by just describing how that early acquaintanceship came about and just how close
  • she have any association with Senator [George?] McGovern? D: She was a close friend. Pete Edelman was an aide to Senator Kennedy and Marion Wright was a native Mississippian and she was a good friend of Senator McGovern, I think, as the years went
  • participated in any other oral history project. T: Yes, I participated in the recordings for the benefit of the Kennedy Library covering essentially the period of time during which I was associated with President Kennedy. As you have indicated, that was from
  • [For interviews 1a and 1b] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; foreign policy problems of the 1960s; investigation of the Bay of Pigs; military representative to President; contacts with LBJ; role of Joint Chiefs; relationship
  • recall the first time you met Lyndon Johnson, or your first association? C: Really, I can't. It was just through the school. Now, I don't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • use that term. These professors hadn't even read that part of the bill. The bill had been drafted by a member of their association from one of the southern states. Well, I was able to have a lot of fun and tell a bunch of college professors they should
  • immediately after the authorizing legislation was passed; the role of the minority party and lobbyists; the increase in lobbying and associations in Washington D.C.; political debates based on politicians' home state rather than political party; Millenson's
  • were a judge of the Hustings Court in Roanoke; '46 to '48 in the U. S. House of Representatives. Then, until '57 Attorney General of Virginia; governor from '58 to '62, and since in 1962 your position here is Associate Judge in the U. S. Court
  • well? B: The program has just now been enacted, and all of their national associations and counties, the League of Cities, and other of their representative associations and organizations worked with the President all the way in getting
  • to this by two Salt Lake City bankers, one a very distinguished man in the history of American banking by the name of Orville Adams. Orville Adams was president of the American Bankers Association about 1937. [The second was] his son, Lane Adams, who now
  • ? B: I never talked to President Johnson on that issue in 1964. A lot of people thought I had, but I did not. I did know from some of his associates that he preferred that I not run, but there were never any threats to me or any pressure exerted
  • Wirtz' early association with Sam Ealy Johnson and with LBJ as a boy; LBJ a protége of Wirtz; LBJ calls Wirtz almost daily from Washington for advice; the 1937 campaign; the 1948 campaign; Wirtz and the 1948 election; early association with CTJ
  • --because I knew utilization was going to be a major problem, I tried to get John Knowles, who was then the CEO of Massachusetts General [Hospital], as my assistant secretary for health. The AMA [American Medical Association] got very obdurate about
  • . Mary Margaret had given me her telephone book and the credit card number, and so I got Senator So-and-so on the phone. Then he said, "Who can I ask about you? Who knows you at the university?" I said, "Well, I worked for the associate dean at the School
  • National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
  • Contact with LBJ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; 1963 Philadelphia speech; Green funeral; 1963 meeting of American Municipal Association in Houston; city program; HHH; urban disorder; 3/31 announcement; 1968 campaign
  • all the time. But at any rate, we were involved in all sorts of things including the politics. We didn't go out to campaign. One of the fellows in my office who is now working for the American Hospital Association as head of their Washington office
  • was eventually passed; a Part B provision to the Medicare bill; an earlier version of the bill that was supported by John Byrnes; American Medical Association's concerns about the proposed legislation; defining the guidelines for Medicare participation
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- VII -- 3 maybe in this year, in this particular year--of going to the White House. We had our Administrative Assistants' Association and I had taken over as president of that during those
  • spontaneous then, but back in the 40's the first sit-ins are associated with CORE. F: That is right. We were sitting-in in 1942, '43, and throughout the early and middle 40's. and through the 50's. But without publicity. There were no televisions
  • of getting a moment alone with him in order to explain the importance of such an acquisition. I felt that for reasons of personal pride, quite aside from everything else, President Johnson would be delighted to be associated with a project of this sort
  • that I can recall. M: Would a candidate have done the same thing in Ohio in 1966 when you ran for your current seat; that is, try to capitalize on an association with Johnson, or had things changed by then? T: Oh, I think things had changed a good
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT P. GRIFFIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Griffin's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 MG: Senator, let's start with a survey of your association with Lyndon Johnson. RG: Did you know him before you came