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  • /loh/oh Ziegler -- I -- 2 of the National Youth Administration for Texas, and LBJ told me later that after he got his appointment he went down to the dining room there in the house and C . N . Avery tapped him on the shoulder and said, "I've got
  • of feeling that much more in some of these civil rights areas could be accomplished, and to utilize this program--the Medicare Program-I think extremely well, to achieve this broad national purpose. think, a very great difference. It has made, I
  • Electric Association] lines for the Pedernales Electric Co-op out of Johnson City and the building of the co-op building itself. He got an architect whom he had known in NYA [National Youth Administration] days to design it and NYA labor participated
  • was as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs from the fall of 1967 until when? When did you leave the White House? F: Shortly after January 20. M: So you did stay on until the end of the Administration as far as Johnson was concerned? F: Yes. M
  • ; involvement with Miller Committee; keeping the President informed of policy matters; SDR negotiation; U.S. balance of payments program; British devaluation of the pound; Deming group; Fowler group; General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs; characterization
  • in the late 1940s for the State Department, I believe . That's right . And were then a Foreign Service officer between 1950 and 1955 when you moved over as a professional staff member of the Senate Commerce Committee where you stayed until 1961 . B: That's
  • ; LBJ's personal encouragement; Americans at Home program; Mrs. Johnson; Secretary Hodges; immigration requirements; cooperation from private American travel companies; Travel Advisory Committee; CAB; Charlie Murphy ; Joe McCarthy; Charlie Thayer; Senator
  • an organization? V: Or meld several organizations. Yes. It's very interesting work though. It takes you a while to establish relationships before you can actually get to work. B: You were also on the Inaugural Committee for Mr. Kennedy's inauguration, were
  • Father’s friendship with LBJ; first meeting LBJ; “Lawyers for Lyndon;” 1960 campaign; Inaugural Committee; Criminal Division; Bail Reform Act; President’s Crime Commission; law enforcement
  • know he did other things. He said, "Suggested reorganization. The President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity Committee would be terminated and its functions transferred by executive order." I guess we did most of those things. "Equal
  • . I mean, all I remember was that they really had a lock on the committees. They did not want the billboards taken down because they didn't want to lose the revenue. It wasn't the advertisers on the billboards; it was the people that owned
  • of graduate work and professional education for the United States Office of Education, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. K: So you were--the logical choice for that M: So in this way--the things work out. K
  • ; the conference participants, their association with educational reform and reputation for being liberal; the issue of federal support for higher education; the relationship between the National Education Association and the U.S. Office of Education; the caliber
  • of Economic Opportunity, building on his background he put together this interdisciplinary advisory committee to make suggestions as to what could be done to enhance the development of children growing up in poverty. This advisory committee was chaired by Dr
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
  • get there late that afternoon and get to see the picture. But this happened at a very dramatic moment. He were having that same December the second national conference on air pollution. Literally the next morning, the Surgeon General in opening
  • have a hunch that there will be a great deal of attention paid by the Congress this year to it. The Senate Interior Committee, for exa::lple, is undertaking a very extensive study. The administration has set up sor;ie task forces to .study what many
  • of the argument, pro and con, has been concluded, and the agency is bound by the national determination as made by the President in sUbmitting the proposed legislation to Congress. Personally, I feel that, eventually "maritime and all transportation areas must
  • /loh/oh 3 P: I first met Mr. Johnson when he was a senator. I appeared before the Armed Services Committee in a hearing at which he was presiding, and to be perfectly frank, I don't recall the subject matter. It had something to do
  • Administration, the President, under the Capitol dome with the area there filled with the nation's leadership including what was then a highly, comparatively unified civil rights movement containing all of the big six--the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
  • of West Virginia. Of course, Randolph is chairman of the Senate Public Works Committee, and Byrd has gained more and more of a role over there in the Senate. in some dam. I've forgotten the name of it. They were interested I'd been identified to them
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
  • different names; at that time I think it was called the 303 Committee, and they changed the number sometimes, but it was representatives of the secretary of defense, and the adviser to the president on national security affairs, and a member I think from
  • in Cologne, the only group getting some recognition from the Nazis-veterans, Nazis, nationalism--but they dropped completely from sight. Harold Eichenbaum met me at the bus station in Austin, and I arrived, via bus, from New York, carrying a suitcase and all
  • family home in Cologne, Germany; photography methods and a photograph of LBJ in Austin with the Jewish Brotherhood; the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in New York and Amsterdam; LBJ's involvement
  • was at a National Security Council meeting in the White House shortly after that. I can't remember what the subject was, but I remember meeting him on that occasion. I did meet him then subsequently, socially I think, at Averell Harriman's house and saw him from
  • administrator this agency has ever had. W: That's right. M: You began with it. Is that correct? Prior to that, you were the chief of the National Weather Bureau. W: United States Weather Bureau. M: United States Weather Bureau--from what time, sir? W
  • better. The main issues were, how involved we would get with federal troops or with federalizing the National Guard or with even sending anybody out there; 2) great concern about the judgment of the lieutenant governor, [Glenn M.] Anderson; 3) Pat Brown
  • , we had one litmus test. I mean, we wanted qualified people, but we wanted people who would stand with us on civil rights. And in that connection we thought the ABA, American Bar Association, committee was by and large so tilted toward what you'd I
  • , if I may inject this fact, I was in Corpus Christi on a brief vacation and received a wire from the President which said he had been named state director of the National Youth Administration and: me and with me in that organization? days." "Would you
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • : There was no fight. M: It was a matter of simple passage? C: It was something that was worked out with the industry, and there was no fight. So that it was just a question of finding sufficient legislative time to consider the bill in the respective committees
  • 1968, I would say. He appointed Russ Wiggins, James Russell Wiggins, who was editor of the Post, ambassador to the United Nations, I think in the fall of 1968, wasn't it? G: I believe that's correct. K: And Wiggins had been really a tower
  • in particular about the roles that any of them played. Norbert Schlei, for example, has been identified as a member of the drafting committee. H: Yes. Some of these people were much more actively involved than others as I perceived it. The big names here
  • events casting their shadow before, and that is a minimum wage bill was proposed. Texas was a conservative state. Lyndon voted to report the minimum wage out of committee. Minimum wage, incidentally, was twenty-five cents an hour at that time. There were
  • Washington, D.C. friendships with people such as Grace Tully, Tom Corcoran, Jim Rowe and Abe and Carol Fortas; arguments for building the dams on the lower Colorado River; LBJ's admiration for FDR; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee
  • of State--which was twice in '59 and '60 on the State Department Appropriation Bill. He was the chairman of the subcommittee of the Senate's Appropriation Committee, that handled that particular bill. that, as well as the Foreign Aid Bill. Those two
  • , and we couldn't get through to get into Maryland because the National Guard had been called out and everything, every circle, every entrance was barricaded and blocked off. I finally showed them identification and said I worked up in the Senate and we
  • : No, it doesn't. P: Is it spelled the way it sounds? F: Yes, it is. I can supply you with some background informatio n on that if you wish. In fact, there is a fair amount of it in the standard testimonies before the various committees. P: How would you
  • -- 2 T: I knew President Johnson when he was on the staff of Congressman Dick Kleberg of Corpus Christi. At the time I represented the national cotton council and endeavored to activate beneficial legislation for the cotton interests of Texas
  • of the National Youth Administration for Texas, and LBJ told me later that after he got hi s appointment he went down to the dining room there in the house and C. N. Avery tapped him on the shoulder and said, "I've got a friend by the name of Tony Ziegler
  • than we moved it in the House. We finally had it out of committee and maybe even out of the Senate at the time King was assassinated. We couldn't get it out of the Judiciary Committee. Manny Celler was the chairman of that committee. He had a district
  • in either time or place, and was it within the sphere of our national interests? R: I think we significantly underestimated the difficulty of what we were trying to do. We significantly underestimated the difficulty that arises from the fact
  • thought as a manner of planning--to assist in planning--the faculty committees and the administration, location of buildings, maximum usage of the land--At that time we had the Brooks, Barr, Graeber, and White firm who were doing that. Both Mr. Brooks
  • was concerned, lasted from the time he became president, when you were national security adviser, until you resigned in December of 1965 and left in what, February of 1966? B: The end of February, 1966. M: The end of February. One of the most frequent
  • giving LBJ advice that he did not like; Bundy's growing job fatigue by 1965; the work of national security advisers for JFK vs. LBJ; LBJ's diplomacy toward Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Charles de Gaulle; the importance of cabinet members vs. White House staff
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins ---vII -- 3 foreign relations matters. He was not on that committee
  • in a lot of these difficulties we receive the assist~~ce pria~ions of the ?olice. This is in that testimony of one of the appro- hearings by one of the secretaries of the Dillon Committee, in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • or--I'd have to look at some of my records outside. But it was between 1948 and 1950, why, I had become interested in unionism and finally got to be a negotiator on the union's national bargaining committee that helped write the contract for Western