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Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that after Korea we had the cry, "Never another Korea," and that was in '53. In 1954 President Eisenhower signed a letter to Presi- dent Diem offering him aid in South Vietnam. In other words, even while the cry was still in the air, "no more Koreas," we

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on these matters. He will then go around the table asking Secre- tary Nitze for his ideas, Paul Warnke and myself for ours, and then George Elsey and Bob Pursley for theirs. discussion as a decision-making Clark uses this roundtable aid in his pwn mind. his

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there? Because a friendly nation asked us to help them repel aggression and three presidents have made that pledge." wasn't true. No. Three presidents hadn't made it. Well, it Eisenhower never promised anything but economic aid, and Kennedy never made any

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

high Treasury officials, Office of Education officials, usually catalyzed by Douglass Cater, and consisting of the people I've mentioned plus representatives of the American Bankers Association, United Student Aid Fund, various state loan guarantee

Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

them that he felt that they should--according to Drew Pearson and I believe this to be true--that they should accept this regulation because they were getting tremendous construction subsidy, operating subsidy, government cargo and many other aids from

Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you were appointed to a task force to make sweeping proposals to reorganize all federal aid to cities. H: No. That was not until 1966. In late '65 I was appointed as a member of a task force to propose an organization of the Department of Housing

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the other man is doing, and what he does that he should no longer do. For example, what could the Bureau do to carryon where, for example, AID has phased out. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: When he told you that did he have reference particularly to the staff in the sense of the White House aides? S: I think it was a general statement, and I think he told it to me in reference to one of the reasons why he wanted to set up this school

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

take it that I was asked, at least indirectly, by aides of his on three different occasions, so I would say probably, though who knows. did ask me in 168 if r would replace Orvil~ He Freeman as Secretary of Agriculture when Orville left to manage

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

San Marcos Teachers College and would probably have been able to get the job without any interference on my part or any attempt to aid. G: Well, did you know that Lyndon Johnson was in the market for a teaching job? LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the Court was balking on the use of Pt1A funds to compl ete these types of hydroel ectri c dams, and r 'm just wonderi ng if Wi rtz saltl th is as a way to aid tha t development of the lower Colorado that he was so interested in. l: Well, that's

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

I continued as a consultant to various agencies I joined the mission for the AID agency to Spain in 1960. I served as a consultant to the Veterans Admin~ tration in 1959. I worked with the Fund for Adult Education as a consultant on a program

Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

teacher aides to work in what came later under OEO to be called the Head Start program. We called it the pre-primary program. I think that two things may have been noteworthy in this initiative. One, the fact that we were using paraprofessionals, which

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the maximum degree of flexibility possible under the Department of Transportation. P: Then you came, at the direction of the President, to support and aid this transition of the FAA into the Department of Transportation. Were you called on to testify before

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, travel vouchers, and that type of work. Actually, I never was assigned to any educational phase of NYA. The only thing that I later got involved in perhaps was in the certification of payrolls for student aid programs. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, yes. G: It seems that the Republicans tried, and the Senate tried to turn that into an anti-Democratic resolution. tvl: They did. Is that when Johnson enlisted the aid of Senator [vJalter] George of Georgia to help him out on it on the floor

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, on that trip doing anything more than out of the ordinary to aid Democratic politics in Utah? M: Well, I don't know whether you'd say out of the ordinary. attempting, of course, to help us in Utah. He was Walter Granger had run for the Senate just two

Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

understand all of the imperatives of having a wardrobe for-- P: Particularly under those circumstances. marvelous assistant in Bess Abell. But she had a marvelous, Of all the first ladies' aides that I've known, Bess Abell was probably the most competent

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and during that time I spent some time in Washington and I knew Dick Kleberg of King Ranch reasonably well. And that's where I first met Lyndon Johnson. F: He was his administrative aide or secretary at that time? P: That's right. I think he had

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

briefly your reactions that day? P: Well, my military aide still helps me here in Dallas--Colonel Lewis Stephens--we had a table that had been assigned to uS that was just above where the speakers table was to be. Of course, the Mayor was going to meet

Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about the people around him, his aides . You mentioned earlier that he had a good deal of confidence in his White House [staff] . W: He always spoke of them with confidence, yes, and appreciation, tremendous appreciation . [He] seemed to believe

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

sick or have to go for an operation in their retirement made it possible. ESEA provided federal aid to education for schools and districts that reached significant numbers of poor students. Rent supplements and a whole lot of special housing programs

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, what don't I understand about this? I mean, what's this guy going for that I don't understand?" She volunteered, she said, "You know, we knew what you were doing, taking these warty growths off the President. We would see the band-aids, and we just

Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for a dam near Corpus Christi and repercussions of the selection; LBJ's advice that George Parr seek the aid of Abe Fortas; George Parr's suicide; inaccurate stories related to George Parr; how Parr spent his time in 1984.

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

hearsay at the time. The one incident I do remember very well because of its amusing aspects, is that the President kept saying to the Pope, "I want you to know that I am planning to send my trusted aide Jack Valenti to Rome as the ambassador

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that there had to be some changes made in order to bring it back to where it originally was. How Shriver selected Kelly, I'm not familiar with. G: There's some indication that perhaps Bert Harding opposed Kelly and Shriver enlisted Bill Moyers' aid-- M: I'm

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

and I get." It was a very dramatic thing. Humphrey was very good with that sort of thing. U: It seems that there was a spirit of civility-- M: Absolutely. U: --that aided in senators with very different points of views coming to compromise

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was in the Senate--although perforce as being on the committees that he had been on, the Armed Services, as I recall it, and serving on the Space Committee, he had had many, many dealings with foreign aid bills and the legislative work of the foreign affairs field

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of a pluralistic democracy, as is evidenced by the fact that we provided aid to the Sandinista-led Nicaraguans in this first year. But what happened in this coalition--and I'm using the word coalition in the loosest sense in this instance, because it really

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

right now, but it was something that we noted at the time. G: Well, let me ask you how he helped you, how he came to your [aid] when you had a personal problem. B: Well, that's when my daughter [Beverly] was operated [on] here in Austin for what

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 16 AID projects . And it just seemed to me that a common administration could be beneficial and efficient . Also

Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the safety of the--involving the manufacture of motor vehicles, and in addition what we refer to as the state/ community safety program--the program of grants and aids to states and communities for the conducting and carrying out of safety programs . M: Has

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

estate that he had, other interests, to the Foundation, and that Foundation today is giving away between three and four million dollars a year of which practically all of it is going to some form of aid in education and excellence in education . PB

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 B : Pretty much what he finally--kind of an aid

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

called him the secretary at the time, I mean that was sort of the designation ; it later became administrative aide--being in the Congressman's office had made him conscious of the need to have a knowledge of the law, and he had become aware that you

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the President. and aides. They make copies for speech writers When we got to the LBJ School (I speak very poor Spanish, mostly what I picked up along the Texas-Mexican border, which isn't too good, probably not too clean, but we went around and we met

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

assistance in South Vietnam to advisors, even though Kennedy had increased the number of these advisors from the few hundred to some twenty thousand by the time of his assassination. But the role was that of aiding, instructing, equipping the South

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as a White House aide on the national security side of McGeorge Bundy's shop and then later with Mr. Harriman throughout the period 1966-67; then you came to the Institute for Defense analyses during 1967 where you still are. C: Right. M: Did you know Mr