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  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 3, 1968 THB : This is the interview with Dr . George Burkley . begin here by just outlining your career . Dr . Burkley, let me Your medical training is at the University of Pittsburgh
  • -Fort Worth with JFK; travel arrangements with LBJ; press relations
  • , and I got a job working for Esther Tufty. F: Who's she? C: Well, she's a newspaperwoman. F: How do you spell Tufty? C: T-u-f-t-y. Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, known as the Duchess. I'd beaten the paths around the National Press Building, really
  • in Oklahoma. I was with United Press International for four years. B: Was that in Oklahoma, too? C: That was in Oklahoma, Texas and in Kansas City. I was in Texas, incidentally, during the assassination of President Kennedy in '63, and was working
  • . Were there any unusual circumstances connected with your own appointment? W: No. M: No business about keeping it from the press, this type of thing? W: No. M: Did he give you any special instructions at that time as to what he expected ESSA
  • ; hiring; coordination of ESSA with private research; international characteristics; activities of ESSA; LBJ's interest in weather function of ESSA; environment the most pressing problem in the future