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Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. In the meantime-B: Why was Mr. Katzenbach in--? G: Well, because there's a strong foreign policy aspect to all of this. It affects the AID program, the classification of countries, our whole economic relations are involved. And one of the things he wanted

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

budget at least, relatively minor supplemental appropriation requests, primarily I think for military assistance to the South Vietnamese and some economic aid. thing less than a billion dollars. I think the total came to someThat was the first, if I

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to work at it. And our institution was drawn into it. He had people from this institution all over the world, as Ambassadors or others in AID or in this or in that. thing. It didn't bother him to put them on commissions or any- People like Hobart

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this was the first time that the government of the United States ever faced a church-state issue and did something of education aid to the schools all over the country. The President knew that you could not go up there and put in something which would give money

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this is the worst scandal he had ever come across, that White House aides were getting free vacations down in some lush tropical resort. Only, the way he could build it up. Just wanted to-- F: Wrong place at the wrong time. 20 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, even if after the fact, and tha. t 1 s an important point in the management of \'7riters and writing operations because sometimes you simply cannot afford the time or the trouble of affixing band-aids to egos. You can sympathize, you can try

Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: What was his name? M: Ho Trung Hau. He had one time been the aide, military aide, of President [Ngo Dinh] Diem. In 1965, the year before I joined him, he was the most highly decorated officer in the Vietnamese army. A very courageous man

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

the state government was spending total in those days, but federal aid was almost non-existent. There was always money the state had, and the state raised itself and mostly on property taxes, and they were beginning to tax oil and some business things

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and had the position of chairman of the Democratic Party, there'd be hundreds filing through that reception room each day, and Farley would be taking notes, or an aide of his would, and he could place people into postal jobs all over the country. Sometimes

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

through. Of course that's no longer the case today. We have government contributions of millions of dollars to each party to aid them in conducting conventions. Then you had nothing but whatever you could produce to conduct that convention. G: One

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

many appearances before committees because we had charge of the export control apparatus and all sorts of miscellaneous undertakings . Afterwards, I was sent to France as Chief of the American Delegation on the Marshall Plan's aid to France . Ba : B

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Motor Company. So in the 1930s, when Couzens was still in the Senate, it is thought by many--and I am one of those--that Senator Couzens was instrumental [in] blocking federal aid from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the First National Bank

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to read and write--using radio and television. Bosch was encouraging this very much, and AID was coming in, and everybody was flocking down there. Bosch. So I had a long talk with I was very much impressed by him. I don't think he could run

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to boost his own role. was impossible. O'Donnell said it I remember that Ted Clifton, who was the military aide, heard about it and felt this was not the way that John Kennedy would really want it, so he made the arrangements for Lyndon Johnson to visit

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Johnson seemed to like the fact that I had had a student aid job and that I was interested in carrying forward the program . job . I might say when I was in school I never did have an easy I hopped a lot of tables, used to clean off the lawn

Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PICKLE -- I -- 7 F: I mean the NYA program, though. P: Well, they had two programs. You remember NYA had the student program, student aid, and as such the state NYA organization didn't have anything really to do

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, "You owe it to your government, because lives are going to be lost and your security is involved, to tell your cabinet that the President's statement means a joint resolution of Congress before coming to your aid, and the President can't get

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

is that done? When an incumbent president runs a campaign like this, does he solicit the political aid of this cabinet people directly, or do you just decide you want to do this and set it up through the DNC or what? G: Well, it varies I suppose

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

kind of military aid was going into Cuba? 10 LBJ 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

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of aid such as Medicare and Medicaid. I did not think Medicare and Medicaid was the end of it all and that one could solve a mammoth problem by one simple stroke of a pen. But we were on the same wave length regarding the need for more medical research

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

important. He should have known about it. G: You were normally the aide that came with him to Texas. J: Always. G: Why was that, rather than Valenti? J: Because he liked me, enjoyed having me around. G: I assume that he liked Valenti, too? J: Yes

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

-- 14 positive, inescapable obligation under the SEATO agreement to come to the aid of any signatory to the SEATO agreement or any protocol nation. South Viet Nam had not been a signatory but it was a protocol, and I never quite could get myself to go

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

would call me through aides, but they were always significant occasions. One time when I appeared on the "Today" Show in a debate on the Viet Nam situation based upon a chapter I'd written in a book, and debated with a man who was opposing the American

Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)

at that point the President and his aides felt that they had a gracious plenty already, they didn't need any more. G: Aside from the security consideration, did you assume that the President wouldn't come and address the conference? F: Yes, I think

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

, after all, he was running a long-time big project. M: Were these people selected at all for their possible aid in getting funds? F: I don't guess, really, any of them was. I never used them for that. None of them sat on any give-away foundations

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

price; LBJ and agriculture legislation; 1965 farm program bill; Food for Peace; failings of AID; LBJ’s interest in India; FAO Convention in Rome; Madame Ghandi’s visit to the White House; Honolulu Conference; surpluses; European over-production

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

been taken as that kind of encouragement. In fact, we had already started putting the squeeze on by withholding aid, so that I think we had established the causal relation, one way or another. I think this was only one of a number of things, and to put

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

so the CIA gave it to them. But it was not necessarily for intelligence gathering purposes, is that right? C: That's right. And there was some hope perhaps AID could take over and USIA, to a certain extent, could take over. But when you started

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

the idea of going out to NIH and evaluating the progress they were making toward applying research to useful things-- L: Exactly. C: --she gave that to him as he was--it may have been at lunch or seeing him--she gave it as a formal little aide-memoir