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Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

this. This year marks the twenty-fourth observance of the National Employ the PhySically Handicapped Week in October? R: Yes. P: So it does make it all the way back to '48, and you have served on the committee for the entire time. R: Yes, I have. I've seen
Biographical information; first association with LBJ; present relationship with LBJ; interest and work with handicap people; summary of advances in field of the handicapped; role of advisory committee and its effectiveness; assistance from Senator

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't know. Unquestionably it was seen as one to at least boost his influence in the Senate, to have an important committee like that. For a freshman senator, it's quite a coup. I don't know if he was thinking in terms of national visibility. It's very
of producing a unanimous committee report; problems in the New England watch-making industry; Reedy's concern that committee staff were taking on investigations without appropriate jurisdiction or resources; problems with government bureaucracy; trying

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

were after. I suppose the committee's conception of this thing was somewhere between these two extremes. When I say broad-based, I mean it is not merely to be training for the national service; it's not merely to be training in a specific social science
; Benjamin Wright; Harry Ransom choosing Livingston to chair the committee to plan the institute; deciding that the school would be broad-based and interdisciplinary; appointing planning committee members; architectural firms chosen to design the school

Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and evaluation of the physical, biological, and social sciences, as well as the economic and forest research activities of the department, the maintenance and servicing of the Research Advisory Committee system of which the department had three national research
Biographical information; political involvement of career men; branches of Department of Agriculture; National Science Foundation; foundations; coordination among departments of government; financing of research activity; effect of President

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: RUSSELL B. LONG INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Long's office, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me ask you first of all about your appointment to the Finance Committee. Do you know why you were
Service on Senate Finance Committee; Civil Rights bill; Bobby Baker; Joe McCarthy

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

more knowledge of the physical planning of the city than I would have had from any other place. G· It led to things that followed, I suppose. R: That's right. G: Now what about the National Capital Planning Committee. I learned. He put you
The Washington D.C. Auditorium Committee/Commission; being asked to fill a Washington D.C. commissionership; Rowe’s work on the Beautification Committee

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

-Mass . ) I believe he has probably been the most vocal one on the Foreign Affairs Committee . M: It's been Democrats in the Senate more frequently . B: Well, that is true, but on the House side the opposition to the President's policy in Vietnam has

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

met him. He was talking I was impressed with his drive and his good looks. Now when you were in the Truman Cabinet he was on the Naval Affairs Committee in the Congress; did he take any active role in either pushing for or holding back from
Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; 1948 kidney stone attack; B52s, B70s, B36s; Senate Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; NASA; impressions of LBJ and his

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Surgeon General's report on smoking and health. When was that? EG: 1964. G: And your role in that whole initiative; how did you get involved, first of all? EG: My beginning in it occurred after the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee had been
1964 cigarette warning label legislation; Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee; publication of report; Office of Smoking and Health; National Interagency Council of Smoking and Health; publicity; tobacco industry opposition; AMA and Medicare; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to breaking up the even split which existed insofar as some committee appointments were concerned. M: Well, you might relate that. T: I don't recall the entire detail of it. may have that. It may be that Jim Patterson That may be the memorandum that I
Biographical information; no personal knowledge of his father's relationship with LBJ; LBJ working with Taft Sr, on committee appointments; difference between JFK and LBJ's Administrations; 1964 Ohio race; 1968 election; Foreign Affairs Committee

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Johnson, and as a result of that he appointed a committee headed by Secretary McNamara to decide to do what to do about the building of the super sonic plane . I served on that committee for several years . We had frequent meetings and finally decided

Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and all of the Rocky Mountain area. F: Well, to a great extent, a national congressman. A: There is a great deal of the jurisdiction of the committee which is national in scope. There is a lot of work in the eastern part of the United States for our
Natural resources and national parks
Impressions of LBJ's early Senate years; Alaskan Statehood Bill; Kennedy-Johnson campaign; Wilderness Bill; Redwood National Park; Department of the Interior land control; University of Colorado honorary degree; LBJ's reaction to upscale black

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Taft-Hartley. As I remember--and again, you would have check [inaudible]--but as I remember it we probably voted to maintain the right-to-work law as is, being a right-to-work state. But as national chairman of the committee, which goes beyond the state
The origin of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA); education legislation and separation of church and state; student loan forgiveness for public and private school teachers; Senator Lister Hill's interest in education; working with Congressman

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this question some time ago by a legislative committee in the House as to what I foresaw as the dimension of the National Park System. As we have looked at the situation, it seems to us that you have about now identified all of the superlative scenic
Natural resources and national parks
Biographical information; National Park System; Robert C. Horn; National Capital Planning Commission; Preservation Commission; Grand Teton National Park; recreation; 1968 Land & Water Conservation Fund Act; Yellowstone National Park; tradition

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

members of the committees would encourage each other to rise and take on some particular project. Of course Mrs. Lasker ended up by giving us a fountain which still doesn't work, but I'm sure that it will! The National Park Service of course did
Role and activities of the Citizens Committee on Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission; LBJ and Lady Bird's role in beautification; Mr. Henry Diamond was present and spoke during the interview

Oral history transcript, Judge R.E. Thomason, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

was able to put in a good word for her at the time of the organization of the WACs, of which she became the director and she made a distinguished record as such. (I was then a member of the Military Affairs Committee in Congress). Oveta is a very fine

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

to Washington in the family plane. As we were approaching National Airport, with Laurance, Brooke, and I engaged in a three-way conversation, Laurance said to me, "Nash, it's time to start thinking about a memorial to President Johnson." I said, "Well, Laurance
Efforts to establish a historic site at Lady Bird Johnson's childhood home in Karnack, Texas; early planning for the National Wildflower Research Center; the first board of directors for the Center; Carlton Lees' assistance in writing the charter

Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

Committee on Recreational and Natural Beauty, which is a national advisory council appointed by the President, of which Mr. Laurence Rockefeller of New York is the chairman, and moving light in it. I also serve as chairman of the Citizens Committee
Natural resources and national parks
Activities in Texas politics; Chamber of Commerce LBJ State Park Project; Citizens Advisory Committee on Recreational and Natural Beauty; Citizens Committee for the Guadalupe Mountains National Park; response to charges in Texas Overseer article

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a good many organizations in the country that had begun to flower into influence, as it were. There was the Parent and Teacher's Association, there's a National Education Association, and others, and they undertook to pitch rather vigorously for what

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

dealings with Lyndon Johnson because basically the Treasury activity was more with the Ways and Means Committee and the Banking and Currency Committee than it was with Naval Affairs Committee, which is the one I believe that Lyndon was connected
Meeting LBJ; public power; Renegotiation Act; Temporary National Economic Committee; tax policy; O’Connell’s resignation; being offered the chairmanship of the Civil Aeronautics Board; the temporarily certificate of Trans-Texas Airline; aviation

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

say, for the White House Historical Association also donated $10,000 toward the project. The cost wasn't very much above that, maybe another three or four thousand dollars at most, and this we paid for out of our National Park Service appropriated

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Service to give equal consideration to the various resources of the national forests, recreation being one of them, water, timber, grazing, wildlife being the others, and to administer all of those on a sustained yield basis. The people who were interested

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

counsel. I participated actively in the work for the TVA involved in the congressional investigation of TVA by a special joint investigating committee. I did other litigation work in some of the condemnation proceedings and various miscellaneous work

Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Works Committee on the Federal Aid Highway Bill. This was the time when the Interstate System was being proposed. Senator Gore was one of the principal. F: This was during the Eisenhower Administration. C: When President Johnson was the Majority
Meetings with LBJ; trips with Lady Bird; trip with Lynda Johnson; assessment of Lady Bird; Wilderness Act; pollution; recreation; East of the Mississippi; acreage use; Redwoods; Job Corps; wilderness areas; National Wild and Scenic Rivers Bill

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

, "Education lies at the heart of every nation's hopes and purposes. of our international relations." It must be at the heart This was a phrase that I think beautifully summarized the role of education, not only in domestic advancement, but also
and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961; Board of Foreign Scholarship; Fulbright-Haynes Act; Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Budgetary Stringency; War Claims; Russian cultural agreement; American effort in international education and cultural activities; World

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

announced that he would not se election, and several men ran, but Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson were in the runoff, and ran "neck and neck" to finish, with Johnson winning by a majority of only 87 votes. After the State Democratic Executive Committee

Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the creation of the new Museum of History and Technology, which had Cost about thirty-seven million dollars and which had been presided over in its construction by a joint congressional committee assisting the Regents of the Institution, and, as a Vice
Connections with LBJ; dedication of Museum of History and Technology; Court of Claims Buildling; Corcoran Gallery of Arts; Joseph Hirshorn Collection; National Collection of Fine Arts; LBJ’s taste in art; Peter Hurd; Jimilu Mason; National Portrait

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. B: Were you, incidentally, active politically before 1961? M: No. B: I know you were with a Washington, D. C., law firm about ten years before then, but neither you individually nor the firm had any

Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, for a number of years, I have served as a consultant to various agencies in government in several specific capacities to the National Institutes of Health, also as a consultant to the secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, particularly to Secretary John

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: And the man, rather than national issues? T: Yes. And of course we had not gotten into this deep depression at that time. Everyone was having a hard time, but it was after that we went--the first year, because when we first started out in politics I
Biographical information about Albert Thomas; Thomas’ race for Congress in 1936; appointment to House Appropriations Committee; Thomas’ contributions to Houston and Harris County; First acquaintance with LBJ; role of a politician’s wife; Lady

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was the executive committee, and we went up to see Mrs . Roosevelt at Val-Kill . I remember when the state directors, after they had been to the White House, the meeting that we had with the President and Mrs . Roosevelt and our national advisory committee, at which
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
National Youth Administration; Aubrey Williams; LBJ

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)

committee under Ambassador Lodge? W: I was the one who proposed to Nes that a committee be set up to concentrate on pacification and suggested that Nes chair it. Nes, who was deputy chief of mission, accepted this, and the committee with me, [Barry
General Harkins and his relationship with Taylor and Lodge; David Nes and pacification; assessment of ambassadors; National Libertarian Front; weaknesses of South Vietnamese forces; Westmoreland’s command arrangements; strong points of the U.S

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in Washington now--somewhat dates back to the emphasis that was put in this meeting. It was also an effort to get the media of communications involved. If you could visualize a meeting nationally of the Community Relations Committee, as President Johnson would
[For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees

Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

the Secretary decided to do a survey using the President's Committee on Manpower as a leader in twenty of the large cities in the nation. And we did a survey using the United States Employment Service people of the high intensity slumghetto areas whether

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boggs -- I -- 5 I remember in January of 1960, Hale was away in the Far East. He was chairman of the Joint Economic Committee Foreign Economic Policy

Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

usually, and are quite familiar with the activities that each of us has under way related to national security. In this case, of course, it involves all of my activities, but in the case of Dr. Hornig it's only a portion of the kinds of things he worries

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 47 (XLVII), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in a place where it would get passed year after year. John Gardner and the people that wanted it in HEW said that the HEW committees--I don't know what they were called then. G: Education and Labor in the House. C: Education and Labor, and Labor and Human

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with a draft of about seventy-five articles which had been referred to a conference called by the United Nations. And this conference was to be in two sessions, both to be held in Vienna, the first in April and May of 1968 and the second in April and May
Wozencraft's work on a study group related to the revision of international treaty laws; the 1968 United Nations (UN) Conference on the Law of Treaties negotiations over how treaties should be invalidated and terminated; concern that proposed

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was then chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, but I frankly don't remember the details of the meeting. I know there was such a meeting, but that's about all I could tell you. G: Can you shed any other light on the relationship between Lyndon Johnson

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

House level then? T: Generally so, yes. The National Export Expansion Council recommendations did . go to the President; he received them. Jack Connor and I and Joe Fowler in 1966 took these Action Committee reports and the three chairmen
Balance of payments issue; Balance of Payments Advisory Committee; a visit to LBJ at the Ranch; the Office of Foreign Direct Investments; Trowbridge's retirement and C. R. Smith; Charles E. Fiero; staffing problems; LBJ's free-trade views; textile

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