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- was afraid that the Court might go off in a direction that would keep us from having an exception. And on the day that the California tidelands case was argued, I went up for the National Association of Attorneys General and made a short friend
- could get him to reconsider this decision, and the proclamation was just being signed and ready to be released. He was in the Cabinet Room with his key civil rights advisers--that's probably where McPherson was--and the members of the press
- ; comparing executive agreements, treaties, and executive orders; the influence of OLC's and the attorney general's issued opinions; the attorney's general's rules for issuing opinions; opinions involving Federal National Mortgage Association obligations
- . It did not enter into my own decision. TG: When was this proposal made? I associate it with Adlai Stevenson. AG: No, it was made before, and then typical of Lyndon--now I can call him Lyndon, he's dead; I always called him Mr. President although I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wilbur Cohen -- II -- 11 during my secretaryship. One was Jules Sugarman who was head of the Head Start program, who I made associate chief
- . Then I guess the third phase of my association began in the spring of 1939. F: You were president of the student body what year? C: I was president of the student body in 1938-39. I was elected in the spring of 1938, took office then and served until
- ; LBJ's congressional work style; LBJ trying to get on the Appropriations Committee; LBJ's use of charm; LBJ forcing staff members to stretch their abilities; FDR's third term campaign; Connally's wedding; LBJ's 1940's senatorial campaign; press relations
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- were in HEW at the time and how you were drawn into the task force. H: Well, I was associate general counsel of HEW, working only in part on matters related to what eventually came about in the Economic Opportunity Act. Mankiewicz. I think I got
- and Senator Hayden were the closest kind of associates and personal friends of long standing, and I'm sure this had influence on the President's desire to get this behind him and give Carl Hayden some help in his declining years. And the President did. He
- that they can make a profit out of that operation, what specific things does your agency do for the businessman then? F: Well, we work with not only the individual firms but with the trade associations and other groups to acquaint them with our judgment
- in conservation. R: Over 50 years. I was a member of the old American Game Association, and I was on the Advisory Committee of the Biological Survey. I was on the Commis sion to buy refuges - -the National Migratory Bird Commission to buy refuges and pass
- was gone, MACV publicized--they had also been very secretive up to this time. The day I was up north they probably thought I was going to go find the press and tell them all about it. thing from my mind. Farthest The worst thing that could have happened
- to it ; and if you don't I'll just tear this little piece of paper up ." He said, "Oh, no, don't do that ." I said, "Ail right, then let's have a press release on it to seal our agreement .'" � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
- oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whiteside he was always trying to do something for Dr. Evans. buttons to press, all I .:..:. 21 He knew which right~ G: What did he do for Dr. Evans? W: I don't know that he ever did
- not really sure. MG: I was wondering, was there one point in your early association with him where he more or less convi.nced you that he was advancing ci vil rights? HW: No, the only time that I think I was really aware or him really advancing civil
- or eleven o'clock maybe, between eleven and twelve, and I went by Lyndon's hotel suite. Of course the press was all outside and they had a bunch of guards LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh his tent, but not wanting to be associated with a Johnson Administration enterprise particularly, and busy
- talk to who could understand you. I mean, I'd been associated with him in a law suit in Mississippi in 1960 so that I had a professional kind of acquaintance with him. But that was tough and Alabama was tough, but we always found some people. There were
- Marine guards or some sort of uniformed people standing along the aisle keeping the people back. But the people wanted to press forward and we had to move very swiftly to get through and into the other ballroom and back again. As I recall then we danced
- . let you know in the morning." 14y son had associated with his children. So the next morning he said, "Sherry and I'd like to go." called Rex up, and he said, "That's fine." I That's the way that he went down in the latter part of 1961. Within two
- on to the heights that he did, I know McFarland was extremely proud of the association, and when we went to Washington at the occasion of the Kennedy funeral, McFarland wanted very much to tell Lyndon personally � � LBJ Presidential Library http
- Cohen and had gotten one from Wilbur Cohen saying that this was a good thing, did vote with us at the full committee level. He was the only Republican who did. Congressman Edwards and Congressman Erlenborn nevertheless proceeded to press to a floor fight
- , at that particular time in 1947 we had the same situation facing us that we have today as far as school financing. What happened was that the doggone schoolteachers did me in on that thing. Charlie Tennison [?] represented the Texas State Teacher's Association. F
- . [inaudible] When did you become involved, let's say, in politics to the point where it led to being associated with people like LBJ? A: It started really with Dr. Everett Givens back in about the 1940s, the early 1940s. Dr. Givens was a very personal
- to get involved in political organizations; financial stability of UPO; negative press for LBJ; Anderson's visits to the Ranch; LBJ agreeing to be JFK's vice presidential running mate; LBJ's civil rights speeches; Mack Hatter's political work in Texas
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- -- II -- 19a *My memory failed me here. The Ludlow Amendment was rejected in 1937 before I went to Washington. Herbert Henderson, my roommate and constant associate, evidently described the events related to the matter so graphically that I thought I
- into the offices of journalists, fellows sitting in green visors, and to the boys working the press, and talking quietly with people in small lunch groups. He was not as good as some of the other gentlemen standing at a podium talking to a thousand people
- that require exposure to the press, exposure to the people. A lot of foreign service work is not public work and doesn't necessarily produce people that do such work well. I think that they cross their fingers, no matter who gets that job, in hopes
- /oh 2 T: I graduated in January of '59 from law school and went to Washington in June of '59; served up there for just the one year, which is the tenure of the clerkship; returned to Austin in July of '60; and became an associate with a law firm
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb
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- simply drive Hanoi into the arms of Peking.I think this may be one of those points where the Russo-Chinese rivalry led to a frustration of the Geneva accords on Laos, and led to the inability or unwillingness of the Russians to try to press Hanoi
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cannon -- I -- 12 G: I think it was January 31 or February 1; the press conference was the first. C: It was a Saturday
- unethical. People didn't know that because this press group, particularly the television crowd, would keep playing that up by just a word or two here and there, and just kept dropping coconuts on the heads they stopped, you see. ever~vhere And actually
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- in this society as they ought to to read the black press when the Kerner Commission Report came out. It was said that the President ignored the Kerner Commission, didn't like it, didn't like what it was dOing. What he didn't like was certain ways
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- with a But they're human beings too so those frictions sometimes came up. F: Did you press for cease-and-desist power? A: Oh, yes. years. And so did Johnson. And we didn't get it. It just didn't come through. A couple of Then as I left-- F: Was this a kind
- of the Department of Justice. I And that's all I wanted to do--go back to my job--and in fact I did. F: You didn't know who they were going to move your life around, did you? T: No, I didn't, but they certainly did. to press me on the matter. My father
- moved my office to Houston . M: Did you join a law firm here? L: No, I practiced by myself . I had associated with different law firms, just shared offices, but I had an individual practice . M: Why did you move, incidentally, from San Antonio
- be in the tub, and he would talk to you and two or three secretaries would come in and take letters . He never stopped . At night, the conversation would go on during supper and right up to bedtime . I would say that the press that followed him from all
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb
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Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Johnson was wrong, but they considered that there was an emergency in terms of the number of poor people who were not getting adequate attention, and that something of an emergency nature had to be done to remedy that situation. G: Now Congress pressed