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Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- sort of a leg man between the Department of State and the Vice President's office. I saw him during that period from time to time; I saw him in several periods when there were key issues on international affairs before us; he came to numerous meetings
- Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee
- officials in the Interior Department, in the Agriculture Department-F: How did you happen to get HUh the Inter-American Affairs Bureau? D: Well, I came into Washington with the Department of Agriculture and worked as a field agent in the Western States
- , Chairman Macy and his secretary. tic desk officer, we called him. We had a domes- The domestic desk officer was the man who handled all the domestic agencies, so all the departments which dealt with domestic affairs were his responsibility including all
- ; problems in accepting appointments; the Robert Weaver appointment; problem of women appointees; leaking appointments; loans of personnel from departments from the White House; impressions of LBJ as an executive; the Great Society
- for a period of two years." F: It has been a long two years. H: Yes. And so I became special assistant to the Attorney General in the Department of Justice--the Attorney General at that time being Homer Cunnnings. F: Where had you become acquainted
- Early personal history in Texas; Justice Department experience; Texas Legislature service; Mine Workers International Union background; LBJ and John L. Lewis; first contacts with LBJ; recollection of Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s job with Kleburg and NYA
- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE #3) Nov. 14, 1968 P: Mrs, Anderson, why have not more women gone into foreign relations or foreign affairs, and why weren't there any sooner than your appointment in 1949? A: I suppose one