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Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. ariywher~ As a result 225 of the 300 poorest counties were actually in the program that summer. Now this effort was greatly aided and abetted by a committee of Congressional wives who got together from both sides of the aisle, I might say, and who put

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

with a proposal for more Aep. live forgotten what the initials stand for--Aid to Conservation Practices. As I said in my book, a bureau would have to be singularly lacking in self-respect if it couldn't figure out some way that it could participate

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

just countless times when in the Senate we passed bill after bill that was to provide federal aid to education at all levels. They always went down to a crashing defeat in the House once they left the Senate. But here again in every single instance

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the embassy and the mission. G: Were you chiefly concerned with the internal operation of the mission? T: Well, the mission of course, at least at this point, included everything, including MAAG and their very big USOM or AID mission. I had purview

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

bit. H: You mean in August. G: Yes, sir. Well, beginning in August, right. Were there problems, dissensions between agencies ih Saigon that you know of? I'm thinking of nothing in particular, but I'm picking the CIA and AID, for example. LBJ

Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

always been considered a great liberal--because of my votes on many of those national issues, defense issues, foreign aid. And he and I, I think our records are pretty close all the way through. F: He was already back from his tour of naval duty when

Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not aware of that one. I didn't know about it. G: How about aiding veterans with service-connected disabilities? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/loh/oh Krim -- II -- 9 Did he talk about the Kennedy staff? K: Yes. G: The aides? K: Oh, he really disliked the Kennedy staff, because he felt that if Kennedy had a different kind of staff he would have been of more use to Kennedy during

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

. And the English call it "Toliver." That's "Taliaferro." At any rate, that's my background there. When I was six years old, measles settled in my ears, and I've never known what it was to hear normally. I wear a hearing aid now, and when I was little, of course

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

those and then let me take them out as h i s , that's what a White House aide ought to be doing. Now as a head of an agency, you have given responsibilities under the general tenets of the law that set you up, and I think that having that was something

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was to ask you about the role that the Americans played in helping Diem consolidate himself. B: Well, of course, we gave him--the simple fact that we were supporting him was in itself a big plus for him, and we were pouring in the aid. There were a lot

Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

force BG [brigadier general], was the acting chief. Anyhow, off we went. We went down here to Andrews on the night of the twenty-fifth of May, in a KC-135, he and I and his aide, a couple of Indians, and Ambassador [Robert] Komer. We loaded aboard about

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Phillips -- I -- 5 which we advocated during the campaign--like a minimum wage increase, housing, federal aid to education, social security

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a whole lo t more t an the y e ver liked c o admi t. no c l 'ke cne Presiden t 's tr ave l h abit , cons tanc p;. ~ :he• _omo Laineu -:'hev aid oo~c =~em .1ao cJnsicerao-Le _,vrnuac m· ::: r :::ome of che i.r com laincs. =t's ? r o aolv press cub fo

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is called the senior examiner on foreign aid and international economic programs and questions and issues. Clearly one of the major issues that President Kennedy wanted to deal with when he came in were issues of international relationships

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, the school systems, the welfare systems; the federal government had encouraged , t h r o u g h grants in aids and carrots and sticks, various kinds programs run by local agencies which for the most part they were able to define themselves. All they had to do

Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

, it wouldn't have made the difference for most of them, that student aid programs that were already enacted were underfunded

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to get on, and he was telling an aide to call so and so to see what they could do to help her out. Because again, I think he recognized her potential, and he wanted to make sure that she got in on it. F: Where does your circuit run? H: Our circuit

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to lieutenants and aides and friends and plan the next day's work and one thing and another. J: Yes. Saturdays, of course, were the big day. The courthouse square was the scene on Saturdays. Everybody came to town to "trade." He would have as many set up

Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that. G: Do you recall aides bringing changes of clothes so that he could have a fresh shirt at stops? C: I think they would do that at noon. They usually arranged that where he had a chance to change clothes or maybe even shower at noon, and have

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

officer from the Army was put in charge of it. Other aides were established. A new communications system was put in. So I might say, rather ruefully, in the event that there had been another serious one, we were five times better equipped after this first

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an increasing number of Republican votes in North Carolina, plus the fact--and that's been aided and abetted by the enormous number of people that have moved in from the North. As cotton mills moved south and other types of industry came down there, their people

Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

reestablished the central authority of the government throughout the country, with the help of the Americans by then, because the Americans brought along with the first economic aid to South Vietnam, [which] helped the Vietnamese government to resettle

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lee Brammer as an aide. He gave me some pills this morning. I took one of them and I've been cleaning out my desk and I've been running around all morning." It was like he was on speed all the time. He was just always really speedy. So he was strenuous

Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

if she'd been plaid? E: Right. That was his friend's wife, and he danced with her. F: Right. Did you get the feeling that part of this massive federal aid to education program was to get this school system integrated in the United States? E: I don't

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

LBJ's views on the food stamp program; the connection between civil rights and food programs; President Kennedy's involvement in food-related aid; funding and congressional support for the food stamp bill; Department of Agriculture involvement

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that Moynihan says this? You know that? G: This is the black family and the-- A: Yes, but Pat, in the Johnson Administration, is looking back on the parallelism between being unemployed and Aid to Dependent Children. G: This we went into in the first

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. M: Was this more in personal talks, or was it in relation to foreign aid or military appropriations? A: Both. I've talked to him privately about it. I have talked to him in small informal groups. He has reported time and again to the Democratic

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

administrative aide to Fleet 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bullion -- I -- 5 Admiral [Ernest] King. M: I have heard that during

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a high-born, well born rich eastern lady, and he's so defiant I was afraid he'd go out and just touch everybody. Well, he really stewed through the morning. (Tape 1 of 1, Side 2) B: Howard Burris was along on this trip as military aide, usefully

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

met in Ramsey Clark's office, and along with us there appeared Bayard Rustin, who was so instrumental in the 1963 march with Martin Luther King. He had as his chief aide and helper, a very beautiful Negress, whose name I cannot remember, but who

Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, the aiding of foreign visitors, in part at least seems to be a drive for greater efficiency as well as for balance of payments difficulties. There also apparently in this drive for greater efficiency in the Customs Service was a major reorganization-J

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

that wonderful story I think that you've probably heard, about the secretary during the Eisenhower Administration who talked to you and then sent his aide out to check your facts, and he ended up checking Mary Lasker's fact book because it was the one thing

Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the impression was sort of a tag-on. Wasn't Section 1 of the bill essentially manpower programs? G: There was an adult education provision. There was also something they called a land reform, an agricultural aid provision. S: Was Sundquist pushing that? G

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

what in effect it became was sort of a demonstration of how concentration, a new kind of local planning process backed by responsiveness at the federal level, aided by flexible money, what that kind of combination could do with respect to a variety