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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • agency with our own monitoring team review . They share them with us, and we in turn compare them with our own monitoring reports, because our method is that the regional offices are expected to have an evaluation or monitoring inspection of each
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and there were indications of monitoring my phone. My wife noted strange sounds on the telephone in our apartment in New York. On occasions when my wife and I would be at dinner in New York, I was advised by the maitre d', who we were known to, that a fellow
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : How active was this section in terms of monitoring protection of the environment? S: I don't recall how much--at what point--you see, I left at the end of 1965, and I don't recall how much of their work was brought to fruition before I left. But one
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And as a result very few bank mergers got through. G: There was a major amendment to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act in 1964, apparently because of some of the bank failures. This was a device for increasing the monitoring capabilities over banks that were
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it and have a continuity of contact. Well, this was ideal; this fitted in nicely. We sought them out and they obviously would respond in most every instance enthusiastically.We carefully monitored contested districts. We had all our statistics and information
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that this was a delicate matter, because it was something that the President asked you to do that even the Director was uncomfortable about: In looking at the history and the actual data gathered, did this give you any insights on the forces that you were monitoring
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • murders that get the front page; it isn't that some community college is doing great things to educate a particular segment of the community. MG: How did you yourself monitor the Community Action Program? Did you have any way of observing the good
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • become mayor of Cincinnati. I'm not sure Shriver would make it there. G: Let me ask you about the Office of Inspection. How was it decided to have, first of all, internal monitoring on for the War on Poverty? H: I don't know how it was decided
  • Haddad as its chief as compared to his successor, Edgar May; the differences between successful CAPs and those that failed; why it was difficult to monitor and/or evaluate CAPs in the first two years; accusations of waste and fraud in CAPs; efforts
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , which was the United States Operation Mission in Vietnam, and that was monitored through the embassy. In both cases, the President of Vietnam, President [Ngo Dinh] Diem, and his advisers, his cabinet, his parliament, recognized that this was true
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to it that that is monitored and controlled by higher echelons; and that those things which do affect the interface between the military and other LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be desegregated. G: Now let's talk about moving into the White House. Was the specific presidential assistant assigned to sort of monitor the War on Poverty or did it-- C: No. I think until before I got there, I think [Bill] Moyers was probably the most
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • stamped approval of a job well done in presidential leadership and I don't recall any negatives. The civil rights survey was entirely different. G: How characteristic was that, though, in terms of your monitoring the constituents' reaction
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . When I was drafting this bill I had these ideas but they were vaguer and less well formed. G: Well, let me ask you to'address the practical question of, let's say, the director of OEO being able to monitor a program that's being run by the Departmeot
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • were occurring during that so-called war of attrition. But it was extensive. We were monitoring, for example, the Soviet shipping through the Suez Canal, endeavoring to ascertain what exactly they were sending not only to Egypt but to Algeria
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • coronary care unit, so to speak. In other words, we could monitor him every inch of the way, every minute of the time; we had all the equipment that we had in the coronary care unit, and basically with the two of us there with all the equipment we needed
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • under a certain preoccupation. And I had to spend a great deal of time down on the Hill just testifying so that they wouldn't put a silly law through to put a federal monitor on campuses, which obviously were not federal institutions. They were 4 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • what a country should do and then observe and monitor it and let them know that if they did not live up to that, it would have a serious effect on their request for an extension of that program. And he finally sat still
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Did you feel that that was an intentional thing--that we were perhaps getting a little too close in monitoring events of the crisis? N: No. The Israelis had surveilled our ship earlier in the day; they knew it was a U.S. ship; they had taken
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XVI -- 11 the world on a reasonably timely basis. That is the other side of the coin. G: Did you have some sort of built-in mechanism within the department for monitoring the time
  • methods; the decline of railroads and growth of trucking; encouraging government offices to use zip codes; overnight mail delivery; monitoring delivery times; increasing postal-window hours and six-day-a-week delivery service; opposition to legislation
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was going to work, if it was going on the air on time and in good shape. G: Well, did you have a monitor up there that you could look at? J: Yes, we did. We had a very small building, and we had a set up there. It's my recollection that a bunch of us
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with the outside world was simply contacts, you see, from monitoring the opposition. G: I am wondering if you knew George Carver at that time. D: No, I did not know George Carver at that time, but I remember that there was a group of young officers from
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • really better sitting in Washington and watching a television monitor, and contacting their sources here about what's really going on. But the mystique of the news profession is that you've got to be at the scene of the crime and so on, whether
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • their capability." And we figured we'd be risking too much even with that unless we greatly improved our monitoring and technical assistance capability. That then is creating a new kind of federal-local relationship that doesn't attempt to double check
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of specific poverty-labeled programs, but that we were to be the spur and the monitor and the examiner, the critic, of the whole range of government affairs, to see that they become more poverty-conscious and do things that will contribute to the War
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • up with Califano and yourself and four others, is that right? L: Four people that worked with us. As I say, we divided the government up so that we would be able to monitor the major activities of each of the agencies, both in the development
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Youth Corps and the Adult Work Program. M: Well, they were running them. But not only the delegated function, but also evidently the administrative and monitoring--for all practical purposes, they were doing that. The Neighborhood Youth Corps
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • home. I can't document how far we went in that regard, except within the headquarters through John Stewart's monitoring we were able to ensure we had a more normal party situation, whether it was press releases or statements that were issued
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • similar. The planters had pretty much all of the same life style, their homes and families. So Miss Lady attended St. Mary's College. I visited her there on one or two occasions. She and Helen Byrd were so glad to see me, because with a monitor or sponsor
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • questions, I suppose. R: In the Kennedy-Bundy period, and I only saw six months of it, but there was a far more detailed monitoring of Department of State business, down to really a very detailed level. We used to clear things with Mac Bundy and his people
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , which I'm sure is available to you if you want to consult it. But I think that in the days of the majority leadership it was running somewhere in the area of a thousand a day. F: Who monitored it? J: It was monitored in sort of a system whereby
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an adequate job of monitoring the delegated programs like Neighborhood Youth Corps, [those] run by other agencies? 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • beneficial to Arizona; the Secretary had his own people up there monitoring me to be sure I didn't commit the Administration in advance of having clearance from the President and the Bureau of the Budget and everybody. F: But this of course is wnat you have
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • were formed within the White House and without to constantly be monitoring the issues to see what could be done, whether ridicule was the answer, what the issues were, whether or not we should really play up the anti-Social Security stand
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)