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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- to Laos as ambassador when you went out there. Ho~ did you get on that list? How did your name come up for that post? S: Well, it was a fairly natural thing. the Laos business in 1961-62. had sort of been Mr. Laos. lid been so much involved
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , and then of course has grown in stature from originally being elected to the minority leadership post to the United States Senate to the majority leader post of the United States Senate. Each of these steps allowed him to learn more. Each ofthese steps allowed him
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , being one of the most astute and powerful men in the Senate. Other senators were talked about, as well as different groupings. Senat e vlhip. ]V[y At that time Senator Johnson was serving as the Of course, he did go on to '
- about it from the conversations that had taken place. I do not recall any mention by anybody at that post- morten that night of the possibility of Johnson being the nominee. B: Before you go any further, had Mr. Rayburn ever said anything about who
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- being considered for the Cabinet post? H: No, not at all. discussed. No, it never had been discussed. Nothing had been We did all we thought we could for the party. When I went to South America with a bunch of governors--twenty-five or thirty
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- experience in India, here, and in Africa and in nonviolent tactics might be useful to him. Well, as an indication of how little Dr. King had really thought out, I went down and I took with me Bill Worthy, who was a writer and did some things for the Post
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , was he your candidate for that post? 5: Oh, yes, and would not have gotten it had we not turned in some green stamps for him. You know, we clearly got that job for Hodges. It was to the benefit of the state; I said facetiously, although there's some
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . photoplane could. They couldn't see any more than an aerial And of course we had post-strike assessment recon recce photographs. It's just jungle. Made holes in the jungle. G: The aerial photos didn't improve as time went on then? S: The place just
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Kennedy's period. President Johnson carried through on that, and that was a very major furtherance of our post-World War II liberal trade policy. But LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- 1958, when I was asked to come back to the Budget Bureau. B: As deputy director? S: Initially as assistant director, then three months later as deputy director. But the deputy post was planned in my coming back. I stayed on in this job after
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- this period of time [we had] the help of the White House and their backing, and of course with the very strong support of Herb Waters and Nelson Post, who worked with him, who of course had been brought back in as a result of Vice President Humphrey's efforts
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- and women who guarded the little hamlet at night against attacks of the Communists. On another occasion I visited an American army post about twenty-five miles outside of Saigon. The commanding officer was cordial, and the men in his post seemed
- , for launching the program. I remained in that position until April 1, 1968, at which time Secretary Gardner asked me ts become the first administrator of the Health Services and t1ental Health Administration. I took on that post the first of April and remained
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- working in the newsroom that night. Now, of course, how many days di d it take to get the vote in, the fi na 1 result? I really have forgotten. G: Did you cover any of the post-election proceedings? W: Oh, yes. G: Why don't you give me your
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb
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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger
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- of thing on the basis that you can expect them to keep it quiet? M: In those days only the chairman of the committee was aware of it. G: I see. M: They never told the members of the committee. Now they just print it in the Washington Post
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Quang Duc. Tri Quang was-- for six weeks there I was not at my post. I had speeches to make about Vietnam at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and elsewhere, which were already laid on. I have to do with it? thing about it. So your
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- candidate . Just a barefoot sharecropper's son!" the [vice] presidential candidate . So they selected Sparkman for That's how most of the vice presidential candidates back in those days were selected . not considered a very important post . It was What
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- with Orville Freeman and John Schnitker and others at the Department and became the listening post back and forth on farm programs. There was always a good deal of disagreement between the Department and Budget Bureau and the Council of Economic Advisors on our
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- was given a posting choice of Seoul, Korea; Vientiane, Laos; or Saigon, [South] Vietnam; those were the three [choices]. G: What year was this? P: This was 1959. I chose Saigon, got there in 1960. year the National Liberation Front was formed
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- delegated with enough power in Shriver really to deal with the policy questions, but OEO came to have its hands full with the Community Action Program and with other undertakings. And the human beings to populate the administrative posts
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- -- 22 for rescuing me from this predicament, but more to the British dietician. F: Did he consult with you prior to his taking the Senate minority post? P: No. F: Neither he nor Richard Russell? P. No, I never- F: Did he talk to you at all
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- with the Johnsons s and Johnson asked me to be the swing man on getting Texas reporters to travel with him on the vice presidential campaign. So I got vari- ous newspapers--Star Telegram, Houston Post, let's see, who else, the Harte-Hanks papers--to agree to send
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Proxmire -- I -- 4 you got on the Agriculture Committee?" I wasn't on the Appropriations Committee at that time; I was on the Banking and Agriculture Committees and the Post Office Committee. you that." Neuberger said, liThe leadership got And I said
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . Maybe this \'1as for one person. Of course, I realize that the mail on Monday was going to be heavier than it was on other days. W: The mail on Monday in Viashington was not as heavy. G: Oh, it wasn't? W: No, the backup at the post office didn't
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- --and this is Kerr-related informa- tion--that Bobby Baker had locked Senator Kerr up in the men's john. Harry McPherson has another version of this, but Pearson says it, and it's got to be in the Washington Post Drew Pearson column for that peri od: 1ate August
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to the Washington Post. escapes me. His name for the moment He's business manager of the Post now. But anyway, I had met him on this occasion in 1960 when the President was beginning to campaign. I had no difficulty at that time--Carl Friedrich at Harvard
- when he was up in the Majority Leadership post, for they were attacking him quite frequently in Texas in the press and in resolutions at labor meetings . Some of the boys from the Communications Workers had aligned themselves with the DOT's
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , to which post he had succeeded after being appointed receiver of an Insull company that had a half finished dam on the Colorado River. I was very impressed by Wirtz, as well as by Johnson, and I always later in my life considered Wirtz to be probably
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to something else, and Roosevelt, according to the story, appointed him to the other post but 1eft him with hi s previous one a swell . J: Oh, really? G: Giving him even more power. J: Never heard it. G: What was his relaHonship with Jesse Jones? J
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- in Vietnam until I'm president." Exactly what Hubert could have said. Now, the post-mortems on the election have been preponderantly on the side that Hubert lost because he was considered the President's puppet, and he hadn't spoken up sharply enough
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , not in the commission itself, but I'm sure he knew. And I don't see that he ever made any serious effort to change the pattern. The Department of Agriculture had a good record of employing numbers of people and so did the Post Office, but not in any supervisory
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)