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Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was then president of NBC and who later became a Johnson aide--he was the man to whom the displeasure was made evident, and he never to this day has mentioned it to me. This is where I think the President sometimes mi sea lcul atedo M: Do you think the President

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

particular areas directly? Do you communicate with his staff at the White House, with his various aides who are interested in particular--? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with commercial loan operations, but this is too much like foreign aid--like giving it away. II That was the difficulty we ran into. Now with the Inter-American Bank, the Latins had felt for many, many years that they needed a bank of their own. They said

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

a technique by which Community Actions could be welded? B: Yes . Frequently it was stated that the concepts--the involvement of parents, the involvement of teachers, the use of teachers' aides, the medical, the dental, health, all of the elements of Head

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

evidence so that we really knew what the effect was of increasing public awareness. Essentially the campaign that we waged was to help make the fight that the scientists and conservationists were making, to aid that cause of increasing the awareness

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

said he could not enact it himself; he was the President of the United States; he would give it his blessing; he would aid it in any way in which he could lawfully under the constitution; but that he could not lobby for the bill; and nobody expected him

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Well, the foreign aid people were there; [Federal Reserve System Board of Governors chair] William McChesney Martin [Jr.] was there. It was quite a large group around the Cabinet Room table. And the President got the views of everybody there in one form

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it, except that one or two nations offered to vote with us only if they were given what, in effect, would have been commitments tantamount to a bribe in terms of aid or something like that, and Foster Dulles refused to consider that, so we lost their votes

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

be present. It was about, as I recall, two o'clock in the afternoon, somewhere along in there, and he came with one or two aides, joined in the group, shook hands with all the little girls, and we visited a few minutes. Mr. Keating, who was the director

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

health strongly in the international arena as something for which we could get money. It was so hard to get money for AID [Agency for International Development]. It's remarkable when you think about [it]. Here, wipe out smallpox from the face of the earth

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and that is what I've come to ask for tonight." He starts out you know, push forward education, prosecute the war on poverty, more foreign aid, trade. "I recommend to you a program to rebuild completely on a scale never before attempted entire central and slum

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was concerned about that on two levels. One, since he knew Mansfield did not agree with him on the war, he was worried that this might be--and he was always looking for the ninth meaning behind the first aid he'd found or motive, and he was worried

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

terms--but the idea that a top priority for federal aid to education should be to go to disadvantaged students--school children--this provided the possibility of developing the Title I formula which managed to survive the political tugs and hauls. M

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of parochial aid of various sorts. Again, I doubt that there's much I can add to that. I think that Mr. Johnson· was capable of building on the foundations that had been 1. ~id, and I think, and this is certainly to his great credit, that he saw

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that the reputation he had of being a Texas wheeler-dealer is something he did not want history to confirm that that reputation ever existed while he was president. And I would imagine that he was personally hurt by things like Bobby Baker and Walter Jenkins. He just

Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

. There've been his wife, Lady Bird, and John Connally, about both of whom I will have more to say later on in this interview. But to name a few of my contemporaries--Jesse Kellam, Willard Deason, Jake Pickle, Mary Rather, Walter Jenkins, Ray Lee

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

they were away. She called me that night to tell me that she had moved in and just kind of talked to me about it. story. girlfriend~ She had had a friend, Beth Jenkins~ She told me a funny stay with her and they had lit the fire in her bedroom

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in, but the race was going on. F: And so you really didn't have to do any clearing with Blakley? Yarborough was--? S: That's right. When I came ,up, I talked to the Vice-President and to Walter [Jenkins] . F: You came up to talk--? S: Yes, I did. F: Did

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. his office at that time. G: Walter Jenkins I guess was probably running They would do that type of work. Did that sort of success influence how much support he got, say, in Harris County or wherever? S: I'm sure it did. G: Did it make your job

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, immediate family and assistants that came to my office in the spring of 1948, and said, "Well, the Congressman's decided to run . He and Walter Jenkins and somebody else and I were sitting down, and we discussed it and he has decided to run ." he was going

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. waited so long. But I never did understand why he I was afraid he had waited too long. B: Did he ask the rest of the Texas House delegation for campaigning help? W: Yes, I'm sure he did. I know Walter Jenkins--well, I've forgotten whether Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be rewritten real quick. Mainly, when we made our noon stop and our night stop, there would be phone calls from the headquarters in Austin either from John or Mr. Wild, mostly John, or Walter [Jenkins]. I can't remember what they were, but I would get the phone

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

acquaintanceship with Mr. Johnson. I got to know his office staff quite well--Warren Woodward and Walter Jenkins; and there were a number of social events out at the Senator's house which I and my wife attended. B: There are a lot of stories told about the way

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and Reedy and Valenti, maybe Busby or Jenkins, while he was there, would have gotten together. But I did not detect any kind of a basic method of operation. I think more often they were used--if Marvin Watson, for exnmple, wanted to crack down

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wilbur Cohen -- III -- 14 And I struggled with that and struggled with that and I was giving though[t?] to general population. And with a number of other people I thought up bills for giving emergency aid and so on. Finally, during

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

who believed in doing everything in channels. F: He never got out of the Embassy? C: Never, but we had a very able head of an AID mission there named Jack Vaughan who ended up being head of the Peace Corps. F: was that where he first came to Mr

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

cited difficulty in working with other forms of transportation, et cetera. very strong appeal. Halaby made a Copies of this letter were furnished Alan Boyd. Subsequently, Alan Boyd's principal policy aide, Cecil Mackey, who was once an FAA official

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

o'clock, called He was sending a special foreign aid message to Congress the next day, wanted us to brief the leadership, the key committees involved, bipartisan. downstairs. Prepare the list, prepare the list. I think this was January, because

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] Trueheart? F: Yes, subsequently Ambassador Truehart; then Minister-Counselor Trueheart. And the political counselor. The head of AID [Agency for International Development] was there, and General Harkins. going from the residence at ten o'clock

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

are, and we proved that you can take a fighter aircraft and cut off all its radio assistance, all of its navigation aids through radio, and just go time and distance. And we developed this to such a fine art that we could navigate over sixteen hundred miles

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to President Johnson. I was there; so was Mr. Raul Ornelas from LULAC, Mr. Augustine Flores from the American GI Forum, Mr. Luis Tellez from the American GI Forum (Mr. Vicente Ximenes at that time was in South America with the Panama AID), and there were

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

top secret things, just kind of a right-hand man type to the General. At the end of 1960--1 didn't know anything about this till I read it in Newsweek--somebody touted Clifton as the military aide to the newly elected President Kennedy. He didn't deny

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

work around here that way, and we got a backfire created there. And so we solved Chairman Dixon's problem that way. This is a day-by-day sort of a Miss Fixit--sort of an Eloise operation with a few Band-Aids, that's what this is. LBJ Presidential