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Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in going with the Department of Defense because I had met McNamara, knew Cy, and was very impressed with the caliber of the people here and the nature of the problems. My specific interest was in the field of national security, and this struck me

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on, a measly-- (Interrupti on) Mr. Johnson and his initial staff that he selected immediately got wi th us, as they \'/ere starti ng from scratch. worked out, anything like that. They had no procedures I would imagine that the folks in their national office
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
National Youth Administration; WPA; personnel; Harry Drought; Alvin Wirtz

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, B: from from the NAACP and other national Negro organizations . in your talks with Mr . McGiffert and Mr . Murphy afterwards, were you concentrating mainly on the situation in the District of Columbia? C: No, we were concentrating nationally

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

domain and enlarge the national park system and enlarge the national wildlife refuge system. So being thoroughly aware of what other Presidents had done and Secretaries and wanting us to end on a high note, I first--as I recall it way back in July of 1968

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was on the Naval Affairs Committee and was in the naval reserve. He had come up to give Mr. Johnson a report, whatever he was allowed to say about the attack at Pearl Harbor. Of course, Mr. Johnson had gotten there before I did, just a little bit before I did
decision to enter active military duty following the attack on Pearl Harbor; how LBJ's office was run with Lady Bird Johnson's help during LBJ's deployment; life in Washington D.C. during World War II; LBJ's involvement in the Naval Affairs Committee

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

to the congressional committee on a proposed bill cannot include a line at the end that the Bureau of the Budget has advised that this is not in conflict with the administration's program, or that this furthers the administration's program, unless the Bureau

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I probably talked to everybody on the executive committee of the National Alliance for Businessmen to get them to call senators. Fortas was actually quite acceptable to the business community, at least that progressive part of it, Henry Ford and Paul

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

times earlier to join the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and turned them down the first two times, saying that I was not an expert in radiation and besides, I was a reassurer of parents, not an alarmer. Homer Jack, the director
Campaigning for LBJ in 1964; serving on National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; disagreement about Vietnam War; letters to LBJ about the war; RFK; HHH candidacy; White House Conference on International Cooperation; Spock trial; civil

Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it. I probably went as an observer. G: Did you go to any of the executive committee meetings? O: Not that I recall. G: That was where the case was argued. O: Well, then I probably [did] I was there when they are arguing it so I must have been
How Owens got involved in the 1948 Texas Democratic Senate primary investigation; what Owens learned in questioning people in Jim Wells County for the investigation; Owens' relationship with Coke Stevenson; Owens' relationship with the Johnson

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. In our own planning why I decided that we ought to start out from where we really wanted to be--to take a look at what NASA would regard as, first of all, an all-out budget. It would really put the nation into the pattern of moving ahead aggressively

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PERRIN -- II -- 4 problems. The director of OEO was named by the law to be the chair- man of the EOC~ so this put a non-Cabinet member supposedly chairing a Cabinet committee
Power of state Economic Opportunity director of governors; veto power and overrides; creation of the National Advisory Council; Perrin’s duties as deputy director of OEO; Senator Morse; involvement of BOB funding; political red tape; GAO

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

had the congressional committees on our side. Even the city organiza- tions like the National League of Cities and the Conference of Mayors, which some HUD people thought would oppose the plan, refused to opposed the transfer. I say a few hard

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

to the funding of the national defense and war efforts and in matters of organization, particularly of the production and price control management programs that the government had put in place. I came to work for what was known as the War Organization Section
Biographical information; how Carey came to work for the Bureau of the Budget; John Steelman; post-war work and staff of Bureau of the Budget; cooperation between government and universities in scientific research; National Science Foundation Act

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

be either legislative or constitutional. For instance, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, which is a constitutional capacity, he can issue executive orders involving national defense. He also issues a lot of orders under his power
or departmental regulations rather than by legislation; the impact of government contracting power and unions; penalties for violating the National Labor Relations Act; congressional concern that the executive branch would act beyond its proper authority

Oral history transcript, Eugene McDermott and Margaret Milam McDermott, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. for their home. But I think even so they always had a great love Fredericksburg and the Hill Country. They were always interested in what was happening there no matter how involved they were on a national scheme. EM: She was especially at that time. MM: I

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- II -- 5 "Is there a national interest in continuing our efforts?" That had been determined by the National Security Council the last time in May of 1961. My task was purely a matter of studying

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the other members of the committee, where you might have met them? E: Yes, it was at a luncheon or a dinner party. party. And they were all very, very nice. Maybe it was a dinner They were quite interested in what I had been doing, too, and several
[For interviews 1 and 2] Wartime service in the Red Cross; seeing LBJ during his visit to Paris on a mission; the mission committee; activities during visit; impressions of Eisenhower; flight back to Texas with LBJ; conditions in Europe; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and really "agency" isn't the correct word for them. They go by many other names--sometimes they're called commissions, sometimes panels, sometimes committees, and sometimes task forces. The term "task force" developed, I think, in either the late Kennedy
forces and commissions or councils; the Kerner Commission; Wozencraft's involvement in the President's National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot-Affected Areas; the composition of that panel and how insurees were represented; the concerns of the three

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

not upon your own national decisions to deploy all your resources, but how much the enemy, in effect, requires you to deploy particularly since the objective of the United States was not to destroy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Influence of Vietnam on Treasury policies; attitudes towards LBJ and Congress; national public service

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

of the questions that I might ask perhaps are covered in the correspondence. Nonetheless, I would like to ask some of this anyway. What was the very first word you heard about the National Wildflower Research Center? C: After the Johnsons left the White House
The creation of the LBJ Memorial Grove and the committee that oversaw its planning; finding stone in Texas to create a megalith for the memorial; the location of the memorial in Lady Bird Johnson Park and the creation of the Lady Bird Johnson Park

Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was with him. I would say, offhand, I'm sure that Lyndon was the state director of the National Youth Administration. I would think that maybe Jesse [was with him]; I know he came to later meetings with him. G: What was Lyndon Johnson like in those days
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
How he met LBJ; impressions of LBJ; Keating’s mediations between Texas’ head of WPA and LBJ as head of National Youth Administration, 1936; finding qualified youths for the Texas NYA project; LBJ’s management of Texas NYA.

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that were important to particular members of the Appropriations Committee. We had the chap from [Texas], Mahon. Is he Baylor, or which [college]? F: Yes. C: I think it was Baylor. The President was working very strong on Mahon. Well, this was at a later

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and it was really curious, because he and I think [Robert] Komer became deputy special assistants for national security affairs, and then when I left they didn't reappoint a special assistant for national security affairs. M: Deputies to a nonexistent job. B

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that assignment, do you recall the background? LG: I had been on a development program for the service in which I served in each of the major areas of the U.S. Public Health Service: National Institutes of Health, Bureau of State Services, and then Bureau

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

both with Senator Pastore and Senator Magnuson and the staff man, Nick Zappel. The Senate side was keenly interested in this area. I also worked with the chairman of the House committee and worked with Paul Rogers on the committee, who helped make

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

before NAHRO, The National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials in Minneapolis, in I think late September or early October. Then there was really the farewell speech before the directors of Model Cities programs from around the country. Mc

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

regard to race, color, religion, or national origin, but desegregation, and I quote now, "shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance." The guidelines issued for the 1966-1967 school year, which

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the burden to the rest of the world. One vehicle for that was the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which is composed of roughly twenty nations. under it a committee called the Economic Policy Committee. It has Part of the Economic

Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

information. I had appeared before the Judiciary Committee of the House, and then of the Senate, in support of this bill to indicate what we would do under the bill and answered a number of questions. B: May I interject, sir, this would have been while you

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

PLACE: Mr. Bullion's office, Republic National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born, when, and where did you get your education? B: I was born in Eden
Biographical information; Bullion's involvement with the House Naval Affairs Committee's personnel subcommittee, which was chaired by LBJ; Bullion's involvement with the Johnson's income taxes; LBJ's efforts to ensure that his taxes were done

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, announced, just a few weeks later, and also the terrifically well-known, very popular chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee, Martin Dies, and he was a national figure, far better known than we were. And a fine young man [also announced] who had

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Helms -- II -- 2 H: So I had been with OSSa Then I was with SSU. Then when SSU was folded i'nto CIA under the National Security Act of 1947, I became a member the first day. G: Would you describe

Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the Forest Service in charge of the northern region where we managed the National Forests for multiple uses--grazing, recreation, forest protection, insect and disease control, and cooperative programs with states, the management of the Forest Service

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was appointed the state director of the National 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/show/loh
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, the President was head of the [Senate Preparedness] Investigating [Sub] committee--I guess equivalent to the old Truman Committee. We got into a hassle over the recruiting at Lackland Air Force Base. What happened was that in that period in December, 1951
Biographical information; a problem with overcrowding at Lackland Air Force Base; Vice President LBJ, Bobby Troutman, and Programs for Progress; details of the TFX F-111/General Dynamics issue; Senator Scoop Jackson and the McClellan committee; JFK

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

took over almost immediately. The only testifying he did on that budget was before the Ways and Means Committee before it was publicly available. He outlined the totals, and again they said it was too high. So we were, from the time I took over
Impact of the Vietnam War on the budget; the surcharge issue; the Ways and Means Committee demands a budget cut; Congressman Tom Curtis; Wilbur Mills and George Mahon work out a compromise with LBJ, Fowler, and Zwick; Wilbur Mills evaluated; budget

Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the National Youth Administration in Texas. D: Yes. G: And you were appointed to the board of the advisory committee of the NYA. Do you have any insights as to why you were appointed, why he asked you to be on the board? D: No. No, I don't know other than
Professor H. M. Greene; LBJ's early teaching career; Doyle's involvement with National Youth Administration under LBJ; LBJ's 1941 Armistice Day speech in Port Arthur, Texas; Doyle's visit with LBJ in Paris during World War II; LBJ's 1948 Senate campaign

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. They long had a relationship with Carl Vinson, who was chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, and they liked having a Naval Affairs Committee on the Hill, instead of an Armed Services Committee; and they felt that it would degrade their standing and reduce
by Defense Department; Middle East tension; U.S.-limited partner in regional associations of nations; balance of power in South America; beginning of arms limitation talks; U.S.-U.S.S.R summit meeting; invasion of Czechoslovakia; role of National Security

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, '67 and '68. And they developed really an enlarging scheme of federal contribution to law enforcement and criminal justice. The '65 message started the Crime Commission--the National Crime Commission and the D.C. Crime Commission. The Crime Commission
Safe Streets Bill; use of electronic surveillance (telephone wire taps) for national security; federal aid to local law enforcement; assessment of LBJ

Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

our dramatics here. Theater of the Deaf today. There's a National We have a modern dance team here. They even went out to Chicago, were flown out there to dance at Mrs. Humphrey's tea on one of the first days of the convention out
and centennial celebration; National Association of the Deaf; Council on the Service to the Deaf; biographical information; Dr. Hall; future plans regarding Rotary Dollars for Overseas Deaf Scholars

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