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  • , of the Khe Sanh area, on about a one to ten thousand or five thousand [scale], greatly blown up, which is about the same thing, you could see this. had it on the wall and we used to post things on it. And we I saw one of those in the President's office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , this mid-forties post World War II [period], when the political base of Texas was shifting from agriculture to oil and gas and industry and resulting in a politically conservative trend. How was this affecting the various Democratic leaders in the state
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that in the book. F: I bought the [Washington] Post the next morning to see if my picture LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • excellent servants. I've never had a pleasanter arrival at a new post in a phys i ca 1 sense than there. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • match his pre-election ideology with his post-election performance, if you had any sort of computer arrangement, you would get very little correlation. well enough. F: I don't have to tell you that, Joe. You know that And I really believe that. Yes
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • wanted to ask you about that because, as I recall, there was a Washington Post and New York Times article about the role of Clark Clifford when he became secretary of defense. Was it Bobby's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • emissaries from Rayburn to Stevenson to suggest Lyndon Johnson as vice president. Is that correct? H: I never heard that. I haven't read the Krock memoirs, I read the Saturday Evening Post abridgement, but I have not read the book. B: Was there any
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , they'd immediately leave their post and bring them all the way into Saigon and present him to Mr. Diem. That's the way they did their intelligence, without talking to them and asking them where they came from and how big the outfit was and things like
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of pieces he didn't like, and he expressed himself about it. to the effect, if not directly, "~Jhat He said words you're doing is you're up here, you read The New York Times and The Washington Post, and all of a sudden you think that's the fad. yourself
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • at Uvalde. John Garner's son, you know. Multi-mil- lionaire who could pitch in $50,000 or whatever he wanted to. couldn't. Roth So that was pretty typical of the things that he did. And then did I tell you the story about Wilton and the post office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Richmond -- I -- 21 is all of what I used to see when I was teaching school down there in South Texas." So he clearly was very touched by it, and Mrs. Johnson used to keep him posted on the program, so he knew a lot about
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • opportunities to learn sort of a post-graduate degree. In 1958 I came into government and was quite a-political. In 1961, when I became Assistant to the Commissioner, I became privy to many of the policy and political problems of the day. I wasn't
  • observation post, did the President really feel keenly about open housing, or did he feel that the time had come that we at least ought to get the thing out in the open and people declare themselves? In other words, was this a kind of do-or-die situation
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , was ultimately responsible for taking OEO's post case, whether it be for justification of a program, expansion of its authorization, or what have you, to the Congress. But did your office or did anybody in your office ever go to the Hill for that sort of thing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • So we sold our business of '53. B: You've mentioned your partner several times. M: Gerald Cullinan. Who was he, sir? I believe hers assistant to the President of the National Letter Carriers Association here now. He was in the Post Office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • on there, to be very frank. were all kinds of rumors, and I was kept in the dark. There I was at Fort Bragg at the time and commanding the XVIII Airborne Corps in that post, but I was alerted something like six or seven times to go to Vietnam. say alerted; I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with the Albert schoolhouse? Was that post office at Hye always more or less in that sort of a pattern, or was that done to take advantage of the fact that we've got a president in our midst? W: No. I remember that building long before I ever heard
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a call from Jack McKenzie of the Washington Post who sa.id, "I'm Jack McKenzie and you don't know me, but I understand you're to be the new chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States and I just wanted to LBJ Presidential Library
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it myself, but in many instances, Lyndon was very thoughtful. John Connally would call the affected Congressman and say, "Well, so-and-so department has just anno1.ID.ced a new post office or a new reclamation project, It something like that. He'd say
  • services. Then we get to the post-award phase, the third phase, and this was the trouble phase, when in December, 1962, I guess with the prodding of Senator [Henry] Jackson, the McClellan Committee got into this thing. At least partly because of some
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • chiefs of staff Richard Stilwell and William Rosson; working with Allied troops from Korea and Australia; DePuy's work with the First Division; DePuy's reputation for removing incompetent commanders from their posts; DePuy's view of press coverage
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was there, I remember, and the new UN delegate, the fellow from the Washington Post was there. I remember that because the staff was also called into this. When I used to go to the cabinet meetings as an observer or to take notes or to follow on, I used to bolt
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ; they may have. G: I'll check that. M: I wish you would. I've just forgotten. But we had had hearings on it before, [that] was the reason we went right into it. G: The Senate version of the bill provided for longer hospitalization and post-hospital
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)