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- Service people weren't able to control them, and they particularly weren't able to control Mr. Johnson, and I had to get out and help them shove the people away from the car. M: Had there been any advance men before this trip? K: Yes. M: Had
- Biographical information; First meeting with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; establishment of National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities; effects of Vietnam War; not close to LBJ; controversy over Meredith Wilson; no connection with the White
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
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- over the nation. I so explained to the people here in Waco. He never would agree that that was true, but I know it's true and I recognize that anybody put in that position would have to do just what he did. I never did understand why he moved
- beneficial to Arizona; the Secretary had his own people up there monitoring me to be sure I didn't commit the Administration in advance of having clearance from the President and the Bureau of the Budget and everybody. F: But this of course is wnat you have
- Natural resources and national parks
- on the Medicare. I had previously become chairman of a special ad hoc committee in the National Democratic Party for advising the Platform Committee on the health program. This was quite a distinguished committee of lay and medical people. M: This was in 1964
- ' Administration; Medical Committee of the Hoover Commission; instrumental in the establishment of the National Library of Medicine; service with the Department Medical Advisory Council; involvement with many study section of the National Institutes of Health
- : THB : B: That's an impressive record . Are any of those advanced degrees? The latter two are advanced degrees, master's degrees, When did you enter government service? In 1959, after completing the master's degree at Maryland in economics . I came
- ; work with military; obstacle to rapid development of agriculture in underdeveloped nations; caliber of people he worked with in foreign countries; training program; encouragement of American investment in factories producing agricultural equipment
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- participated in any other oral history project. T: Yes, I participated in the recordings for the benefit of the Kennedy Library covering essentially the period of time during which I was associated with President Kennedy. As you have indicated, that was from
- [For interviews 1a and 1b] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; foreign policy problems of the 1960s; investigation of the Bay of Pigs; military representative to President; contacts with LBJ; role of Joint Chiefs; relationship
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
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- read other people's speeches." it was then absolutely true. I said, "Well, This was pre-United Nations, but So I saw a young Jim Reston and Doug Cater LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
- of statehood; Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City; White House influence on Convention; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; showboating at convention; 1964 ticket; LBJ’s options concerning poverty; opinions on black and women cabinet members
- Johnson to be his assistant. Now very few people know this. And the reason was that he, being a former schoolteacher, knew that Lyndon Johnson was the ablest man in our crew to be there, and two, because of his intellectual superiority plus LBJ
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to walk with me and this may be the first time the prime minister ever walked among his own people ." Another time he talked about the ceremonies, the sterileness of ceremonies in terms of saving a nation or being meaningful to a nation, that it's
- low key, at least to start with. People were just speaking their minds. It was almost an academic sort of seminar. Indeed it was interesting how many people there were Ph.D.s or were backed up by a scholar who was associated with the work. ple
- Initial involvement with the War on Poverty; work with the Council of Economic Advisers; income distribution; tax cut; 1964 campaign and poverty problem; meetings on poverty issue; differences in concept of poverty; key people involved; rejection
- conflict or tie-in between the clients of O'Brien Associates in New York and my political activities as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It then proceeded to list some of the clients. The list had been made public when I launched O'Brien
- Charles Colson; memos Richard Nixon's staff wrote and distributed attempting to hurt O'Brien's reputation, including one that suggested a conflict of interest between O'Brien as head of O'Brien Associates and Democratic National Committee (DNC
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh his tent, but not wanting to be associated with a Johnson Administration enterprise particularly, and busy
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- no choice in the matter. F: This is something you did without any guidelines. E: It was very distasteful, I may say. Then after 90 days--and I had moved 120,000 people in 90 days--I became Associate Director of War Information and stayed
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- it was very emotional. He did get into the story himself. But I think, for example, that in the 1963 period, when he was doing a lot of hi,s best reporting, although it was highly colored, it was conveying to the American people a better sense of the crisis
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- this mandate. The convention did not think too long or hard on this reform demand and it was accepted by the convention. Once the opportunity was there the McGovern people grasped it firmly and moved aggressively. The Democratic National Committee approved
- The possibility of Wilbur Mills' presidential candidacy; the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection, first led by George McGovern; changes in the delegate selection process to include more African-Americans, women, and young people
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger
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- for obvious reasons . (Laughter) The color of my star was- (Laughter) G: You were the wrong color star . B: I had the wrong color star . G: What can you add to the reputation that some people credit him with for exaggerating his role in things : what he
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- this--I have never sensed any great interest on his part in the welfare program or any other that is a basic subsidy kind of approach. He feels that if you let people start off on equal footing, don't discriminate against them because of their color
- National Youth administrator. I was a good friend of Congressman Dick Kleberg, and when Kleberg was a representative here in Austin from his district-F: He used to come up here? J: Yes, sir. I had a men's store on Congress Avenue, next
- to subject. As a normal rule where programatic guidelines are involved, the program people for instance in CAP will put together the first draft. And then we'll work with them to check them for legal sufficiency, clarity, accuracy and whatnot, and also
- discussion last time, Dr . Baker, one aspect of our two prior meetings has occurred to me that I thought I might make a matter of record . I have not undertaken any preparation for our discussions . I have not known in advance the subject matter that you
- : Then, after he became leader of the Senate--was elected to the Senate and eventually moved into the position of leadership--did he work closely with people like you, high up in the House leadership? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- numbers on paper, but votes. In the 1964 campaign DSG had worked very closely with the Democratic National Committee and with people involved in the Johnson campaign. We provided them with copies of all our legislative research materials, which at first
- on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 I was becoming Manpower Administrator. r must say that the people we had running the programs were people in the Department of Labor at the top who were my associates who
- . Kennedy read more than Johnson and had been in contact with students and with foreign leaders and so on perhaps more than Johnson. But Johnson had, I always thought, the towering intellect of that period over all the other people that he associated
- . There are those who call it the "department of dirty tricks." A: It started out, the basic precept of the Five O'Clock Club was that we would take stories that Johnson or people very close to Johnson wouldn't really want to be too closely associated with, dirty
- remember whether it was during my relatively brief time with Public Works or whether it was during my tenure as Under Secretary of the Interior, but in one of those capacities I did have an association with the LCRA. J: To get me straight, you followed
- 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
- Appointment as Deputy Mayor; LBJ's hopes for city government; work with D.C. Council; relationship with Congress; difficulties from serving unrepresented constituency; high percentage of disadvantaged people in D.C.; budget process; program budget
- of general political science type stuff. Branch. You're a man of Congress, of the Legislative Do people associated with the Legislative Branch ever get a kind of feeling of resentment that the administration does all the proposing, leaving Congress in what
- Halberstam wrote in Esquire called "The Coronary Culture." He argues that the fear of a heart attack in our society is so profound that there are many people who draw back from life because of that. But then he says this: "For others, such as Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby
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- it was murder, it was death, it was people. Now I kept this thing up, just initially with total Lasker Foundation support. We set up a committee. There was a National Association for Mental Health, which is the same 10 LBJ Presidential Library http
- health commission; writing the book Every Other Bed; Gorman's wife's work and his change to freelance writing; joining the National Committee Against Mental Illness under President Truman; finding support for national health insurance legislation
- of a vacation. There were large advance parties that came down--security people and that sort of thing--and I don't remember whether the Vice President would have been interested in that. That was sort of routine work anyway. F: Where did the Chamizal
- : the Cuban missile crisis of 1962; service as under secretary of state for economic affairs; LBJ as a practitioner of foreign policy; the Peace Corps in Latin America; the CIA and the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala; the Bay of Pigs; Chile nationalizes
- facilities for its people, or, in a more parochial way, whether it's auxiliary services for the business itself, like accountants and lawyers and technicians who aren't immediately associated with the plant. So that the idea of dotting plants around
- [For interviews 1 and 2] JFK campaign in West Virginia; decline of coal use after WWII; unemployment; national press on Appalachia; Mike Feldman; Ted Sorenson; Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; public law 89-4 in 1965; Highway System first authority vested
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to lower the budget and before Mr. Eisenhower came in the Trumans were--Mrs. [Bess] Truman is a great friend of mine and the President, of course. I knew all the people around him like Clark Clifford and everyone, so they finally raised the NIH [National
- and with the Vietnamese associates was so important that it was absolutely mandatory to try to make friends with those people and to gain their respect and to not do things that antagonized them nor caused them to be unwilling to cooperate with us. I have always felt
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 1 J: 1941 was a watershed sort of a year for us, just as it was for so many people. But it began in the way all
- of Washington, D.C., with Eleanor Roosevelt; friendships with intelligent, thought-provoking people; Mrs. Johnson's brother, Tony Taylor's divorce; a lunch at the home of James Forrestal; Senator Alvin Wirtz's appointment as undersecretary of the interior; Mr
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Press indicates that you'd received no advanced word from Bethlehem [Steel Corporation] regarding their five
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- That was after he was in Congress. Wait a minute, when did he go to Congress? He had returned here-I was very much involved in the marriage. Youth Association. Did you know anything regarding that appointment to the National Youth Association? H: I had
- want to get associated with it. B: Was one of the ideas of the train at its inception to kind of make people stand up and be counted? S: That was one way, I think, of bringing some of the, you might say reluctant, so-called Democratic leaders out
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- it's mostly local bargaining where maybe occasionally the spotlight is turned on, but usually it escapes national notice. Or, the other major category of cases would be unorganized workers where the employers just to get more people--say in laundries
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was where the impetus came to do something about it. Or a particular chapter of the National Association for Retarded Children, who happen to be a very strong organization, strong in the sense of aggressive in their lobbying, aggressive in their hanging