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  • --Auxiliary it was to be then--started, and my father was quite interested in it. It was he who wanted me to go, and judging by the news reports I wasn't too keen on it. I never got excited about it. Finally Papa went to the post office and got the papers
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • all the power, including raising money, away from the national committee. Then the Eisenhower people took the post offices out of politics in that period, so whatever was left over for Democrats to collect there would have been gone, too. Under
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • quickly." When I got to Bragg, Johnny Bowen didn't know anything about this. He said, "Who the hell are you and what are you doing on my post?" I said, "Sir, I have orders to take anything I want." (Laughter) About that time the phone rang
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in higher education. I remember talking with John Gardner, whom I have known a long time, just after he was named to the cabinet. I said, ItJohn, just be frank with me. Hhy would you leave a foundation post where you would be pretty much master of your
  • in the Washington Star or the Washington Post or the New York Times, or in those days the New York Herald Tribune, the story hadn't been published with LBJ. I should add one other paper, the Austin-Statesman, or, you know, the Dallas News or the Dallas Times-Herald
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lehan -- II -- 29 something that's going down the pike pretty fast; a decision is going to have to be reached. We have a post-1980 air traffic
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to the effect that the Democratic National Committee had received the proceeds. That was done because I saw a brief paragraph in probably theWashington Post a couple days later. I received a letter not long after from Senator John Stennis, a distinguished
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . That was when I went off with Marvin Watson to the Post Office Department. 10 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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • price policy; union democracy; stockpiling; Direct Investment Program; balance of payments; transition; cabinet committee work on post-planning for economic consequences of the end of Vietnam War
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a grain. Late in the summer of 166-M: '65? C: '65--Jim Thompson and I had had some talks with Ambassador Louis Jones who had been Ambassador for many years to Djakarta. Jones was taking up the post as Chancellor or president of the East-West Center
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • constructive thing to do. From the standpoint of Civil Service Commission personnel policy, however, it was a very bad thing to do. They had entered into a commitment to the Post Office and Civil Service Commissions that additional super grades would
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and executive editor and then from '60 to '68 as editor of the Constitution. And in those years you won the Pulitzer , for editorial writing and you are now with the Washington Post, is that correct? P: Now I'm the managing editor of the Washington Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Manpower. I served in that post for two years, so that it wasn't until 1963 that I moved to OSD and took up the civil rights job which had not hitherto existed. That was one of the by-products of the Gesell
  • the particular arguments that Lyndon Johnson used in that? H: No. No. I wasn't in on any of that. G: Sometime before the committee selection, Ed Johnson had given a telephone interview to Robert Lucas, I think with the Denver Post, and it said something
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the campaign where you could go eat, and close to the post office. G: Who actually headed the campaign? J: Well, again, it was the same one we had in 1941, what's his name? G: Claude Wild? J: Claude Wild in name, John Connally headed it in actuality. G
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a good eight-year period in history to have another study made; that may have been good for the country. It gave everybody an opportunity after the surge of the post-war era and so on to slow down and collect themselves. I think it was good. Whether
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a party and so they had a party. They couldn't have Lincoln. As a matter of fact, in Montgomery, Alabama, when they came out with the three-cent stamp--this goes back some years; we were in the Federal Building, the Old Post Office Building in Montgomery
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it is today in the sense of being able to keep accurate records and to assess health care in any structured fashion. That's one of the major changes between that time and now. G: Anything else on the post-presidential association between Lyndon Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of differences, and stirring the country to bring pressure to bear on the unions--public pressure through the media. There were many meetings with individuals associated with the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and others to explain
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as the most adequate. F: Did you stay there or did you stay in town? B: Walt and I had our little command post in a motel that had been reserved for the U.S. delegation. F: In a case like that, do you send down U.S. technicians to set up the necessary
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • about it. President Kennedy was very firm about it being in that location. And I never heard any indication that Johnson had any other thoughts. The only group that seemed to be doubtful about it was the Washington Post. I always felt they were
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the press reports of my travels--not just the press reports but the post reports, were glowing reports of my travels. B: Of course, I ought to point out in this record that you're hardly an amateur at that. You had made a similar trip in '55, I think
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that ,,,as the thing that they were concerned about. Another thing, for instance Elgin, at least, was anxious to get a federal building. We didn't have one. were renting a building. We had a post office, and So they had already presented it to Mr. Buchanan
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the people involved were, that's a pretty ex post guess. G: Did the task force consider the issue of whether the poor should actually control the Community Action Agency? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and then had stayed on in California as the state industrial commissimler. So Mr. Henning had been named to the post. Unfortunately, he and Secretary Wirtz found it quite impossible to develop a good working relationship. The Secretary made his views known
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the Washington Post. M: Of course. R: I was asking Carroll and Pete Lisagor and a couple of other people if this was really true, if Johnson did have this notion LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the Dominican Republic, post crisis. That's really when I did get to know him. G: So then you left the government. M: I left the government and went over to Senator Kennedy's office in, I think it was either late April or May of 1966 and stayed there. LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Relations Committee? M: Well, yes, I did. The Foreign Relations Committee post opened up rather unexpectedly, to me at least. I had been kind of waiting in the wings for an opening on the committee for some time, since that was my primary area
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • downtown at a hotel, which was sort of a command post, and the only time I remember being involved was the night before the race when were down at headquarters . remember Jack there - exactly, I don't . but I remember a lot of commotion � � LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)