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Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the subjects that were going to come up for questioning. You could never be sure how the line of questioning would develop, but if there was a story that morning that there was diversion of U.S. aid equipment in Pakistan, then almost surely you would be asked

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

be notified by the military aides' office and tell us what trip was coming up and who was going on the trip so they could make up the manifest. G: Was there any one trip to the Ranch that was more or less typical, or were the arrangements always somewhat

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and just before it. would settle, he'd open the door of the helicopter and throw his Stetson hat out to the audience!· Here was the big·Texas Stetson cow boy hat being thrown to the crowd from the helicopter. Of course we . aides always had instructions

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to establish that. But through the history of these was when Hornaday would have people out, he'd get them feeling pretty--they would get feeling pretty good. He might have aided and abetted it, but at the right moment, he would get them to sign it. So

Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

call that? There’s a scholarship or fellowship or--I don’t know if it’s called--it’s financial aid, anyway, to study public affairs. But he was our first black football player to play, to actually play. G: LBJ played a role in getting him

Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't you identify who they are? Find out what programs exist that are already helping them, such as housing, food, social security, aid to dependent children. And then just as an exercise say, 'Okay, these all come into one agency. Now what more can we

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on, one of the questions I was intending to ask is was it a breakdown of staff work, or were there aides that fall in--? B: Partly that, but the real breakdown is nothing that the President could do anything about . The real sad truth, and I'm not sure

Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the most critical parts of the voyage, namely the rendezvous parts, done near the earth where you can perhaps rely more on aid from ground stations . Some of it is going to have to be done now on the moon and no one on earth can help at all in lunar orbit

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. President Johnson governed the country by what I would call a centralized general management approach. He liked to have all important matters come to him and be decided by him with the help of some White House aides, many of whom were economists and many

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Highway and Road Aid Act of 1964 had any impact on the Indian's life? B: It has had some impact, but not as much as we would like . The impact of a good highway system, I think, is quite evident by what happened on the Navajo reservation . Under

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

and counseling, health, vocational rehabili tation, housing and home management, consumer information education, legal aid . We were identifying areas of service which later developed into national emphasis programs . But it covered a rather broad spectrum

Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in on any of these meetings as an aide? The one like, for instance, where you're discussing the tax programs? Yes . B: M: B: Yes, generally any time they would have congressmen or senators in for meetings like that, or every Congress they have a reception

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and when the Naval aide asked us who we were, we said, "Mr. and Mrs. Lew Wasserman from Johnson City, Texas." F: I see, the old, original Texans. W: The original Texans. Anyway, we went to the usual state dinner. We were fortunate in spending some

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in quite as much there. Our basic concern there was that as federal aid to state programs continues, that it became more and more difficult to determine what state employees were doing what with federal funds or who was subject to what rules, and we just

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

going to come up for questioning. You could never be sure how the line of questioning would develop, but if there was a story that morning that there was diversion of U.S. aid equipment in Pakistan, then almost surely you would be asked about

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

distressed at an aide putting something to him in those terms, and authorized the food and something like three planes. I forget; it was just some odd figure. [He] told me to clear it with McNamara before I did it. I did clear it with Bob. Bob told me there's

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to say--you know, ''Let's get more out of the private sector. The government has done all that it can." Within the private sector there was a real feeling that the biggest part of the problem was U.SG official spending abroad, defense and foreign aid

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

within the Defense Department or within the military establishment? Where was the impetus? J: I gather that the initial impetus came from the Defense Department and from McNamara, maybe from some of his aides. But McNamara, as I gathered, presented

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or a day, I became aware of what was transpiring. G: How did you first--? O: It must have been in general conversation in the Oval Office. When the military aide to 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and there were reports of traveling back and forth in November, December, January, We had built up by February Ist, let us say, a pretty clear picture that the Soviets were by way of negotiating a resumption, in effect, of arms aid ; we didn't, I think

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to a conversation that I had had with him in which he was telling me that the Regents were going to consider it at that meeting. So I was providing a kind of aide-mémoire to Harry about 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

because there was the possibility of having to go to the aid of cho Vice President in acne way. F: You wll 1 probably l1ave the same answer to the en largemeot of F'ldet Castro's activities in Cuba--as far as the reaction of the White House and lts

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, not as if they were doing something for him, but they were doing something for themselves when they went to his assistance and went to his aid on whatever the problem might be. This is not to say that he was not a demanding fellow, because he was. It's not to say

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

broached? C. Oh, I think these were people with very genuine motives. I think they honestly wanted to know what John Kennedy thought about aid to parochial schools, using tax dollars to spend in parochial schools and private schools of any kind, and so

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to talk into any podium or anything, presidential podium. There's not going to be any presidential seal. You're just going to get up and talk to the troops, Mr. President." Well, he said okay. He sort of accepted it, but some of the other aides

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

under the Aid for the Families of Dependent Children would in response to questionnaires be asked, and indeed it was discovered that their parents had also been in poverty. Trying to break the cycle of poverty became one of the themes that some of us