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  • ; comparing executive agreements, treaties, and executive orders; the influence of OLC's and the attorney general's issued opinions; the attorney's general's rules for issuing opinions; opinions involving Federal National Mortgage Association obligations
  • . It did not enter into my own decision. TG: When was this proposal made? I associate it with Adlai Stevenson. AG: No, it was made before, and then typical of Lyndon--now I can call him Lyndon, he's dead; I always called him Mr. President although I
  • , but primarily because of his association with a very controversial labor case. The Chicago Tribune was very adamant against his appointment, and had used all the influence possible--sent investigators in and everything else to Wisconsin. And this was affecting
  • of his associates dug up the fact that one year-­ just one year--I had paid my poll tax in Travis County, here. other years I had paid in Wichita County. All the He had, I don't know, five hundred photostats made of my poll tax receipt, came down here
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wilbur Cohen -- II -- 11 during my secretaryship. One was Jules Sugarman who was head of the Head Start program, who I made associate chief
  • there numbered about six or seven people at that time. The New York Times was there, AP [Associated Press], a few others, a couple of British; two or three people in Beirut came over regularly. The press was handled by the USIA [United States Information Agency
  • : That's correct. I basically was a newspaperman. I was labor reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle, and in the late fifties had been given an American Political Science Association congressional fellowship for a year in Washington. During that time I
  • : Senator, of course Mr. Humphrey didn't win the election. To what do you most attribute this defeat and, also could Mr. Johnson have helped him more, or could he have hurt him more because of his support and association? I: Considering the time
  • made. In a Northern state they just would have no reason to go for Johnson. They'd just have to go for Jack Kennedy." At that time Johnson did not have the reputation of being liberal. He was associated with conservative causes and conservative
  • to be the deputy mayor. I want a city manager for that job." Horace Busby then called Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers Association; and Mr
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sulliva~ M: How did you get on that team? S: Yes, from a number of years of association with r1ax Taylor. -- I -- 17 Do you know? sound pretty cliquish if you get all of it. may It Nax Taylor
  • and said, "Mrs. r'~orenols arriving and I'm sure you'll do everything in your power for her," and I'm sure they did. The Grim Reaper overtook the lady about three days later. So I think that perhaps any association I may have had with the presidency
  • , in individual activity, you let your wishes be known to your neighbors, your associates, actually your supporters, because you do have people supporting you in a job like I have now. I had to have some political support in order for me to get this job. you let
  • in conservation. R: Over 50 years. I was a member of the old American Game Association, and I was on the Advisory Committee of the Biological Survey. I was on the Commis sion to buy refuges - -the National Migratory Bird Commission to buy refuges and pass
  • beauty. His associates added a great deal to this heritage; Horace Albright was his principal adviser starting back in the early '20's. F: I might add for future reference that Horace Albright also used to be a director of the National Park Service. R
  • , wasn't it! F: Yes. S: I had gone back to the hotel for lunch, I believe, and was in my room at the hotel. A business associate of mine here in Austin called me on the telephone to tell me about it. have to be kidding!" I didn't believe it. I said
  • , you can look at that two ways. has been politically best? L: What has worked best or what In tying the area to him? Well, actually, I'm not sure that they associate the programs with him. In other words, I don't think the OEO or Poverty Program
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: EUGENE McCARTHY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator McCarthy's residence, Washington, D. C. ~ape G: 1 of 1 Senator, let's start with your earliest association with Lyndon Johnson when you first came to Congress
  • them, they consider you're always against them. Me Senator, I know you've had a close association and interest in aviation problems and the SST--the Supersonic Transport. Did this come up during the Vice Presidential years? M: I rode the airplanes
  • it was? W: There wasn't much to talk about, because you had to plow new furrows because there hadn't been any cultivation to speak of to that point. Mr. Johnson's primary conversation had to do with the fact that if I were going to be so closely associated
  • not really sure. MG: I was wondering, was there one point in your early association with him where he more or less convi.nced you that he was advancing ci vil rights? HW: No, the only time that I think I was really aware or him really advancing civil
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh certain protocol associated with it. M: Then was there vertical communication between you and, say, the director? Z: Yes. M: So
  • thought a Secretary would have to be . 17 I think the Farmers Union, Grain Terminal Association, had quite some influence at that time on selections, especially its then and long-time and only upto-then head, M . W . Thatcher . He announced a few days
  • . And we think, on most subjects, reasonably close to alike. And I think, just very frankly, NASA was--I felt that NASA was not very interested in VTOL and STOL [Short Takeoff/Landing] aircraft. When I came back from some previous experience in association
  • the American advisor rated his counterparts. M: Right. G: Well, aren't there problems associated with that? M: Well, there are certainly problems in that if the person knows he's going to be rated, he may be unfriendly to the advisor, you know, distant
  • in, say, farm equipment or farm organizations, very often farmer associations of various kinds including commodity groups, farm cooperatives, and such. We attempt to use the entire array of resources available in this country--public, private, academic
  • was a cover for something else--as I remember was a specialist on Mongolian problems. And that was as close as any of the people in Kosygin's entourage came to having any association with Asia. So it was quite clear, or seemed quite clear to Wilson
  • --and may still believe--that Swiss law requires him to buy gold whenever it's offered at his buying price by anybody, or at least by any Swiss resident private or public. So he couldn't associate himself with the communique that made him obligated
  • to decide. But I believe that if--we11, I believe that they should have a much closer association with the United States, and I believe that they really want to, particularly if we act fairly soon. Whether they should be a territory like Guam or whether