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Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the request by telephone. But And of course, bolstered it, came through with the telegraph request, too. And it was all done and I had no problems. As I say, thare were no blocks in the way any place. F: Did the Justice Department send someone out here
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • remember on any number of occasions we used to mutually deplore what we felt was the lack of coordination of all of the efforts, first just within the federal government--how each department had its own poverty operation. Labor was doing something
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the United States until 1961, when I returned to Vietnam and stayed until 1964. At that time, I switched over from the military, wearing a soldier suit, to staying in the military but actually working for the State Department. I went back again in 1965
  • Lodge got Jacobson a position in the State Department as mission coordinator; Jacobson's opinion of Graham Martin, Maxwell Taylor, Ellsworth Bunker, Creighton Abrams, and Frederick Weyand; Ed Lansdale's 1965 trip to Vietnam and the work of a group under
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can't settle for neutralism when your military affairs are going downhill. Lodge mentioned many times, "If the French had had a conference on neutralism with the Germans, who were occupying France in 1943, it wouldn't have been so good
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to go a step further with respect to tidelands, when Daniel got to Washington, his big issue had been tidelands and Johnson was completely responsible for him being made a member of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee which was the committee
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it." Mr. Johnson was there the next morning, and, as I recall, the Senator had a little conversation with him and then sent him down to someone in the department. The outcome of it was, with other help that may have been registered, Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • into Oxford and a number of other things. And the Justice Department was active in Mississippi during that period. Were you ever contacted by any representatives of the Justice Department about the events in Mississippi and their work? c: Oh, yes
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was due for relief. Mike had already retired once, he was on retired status then, and he had been out there for a couple of years and Department of the Army thought there should be a change. I said there was no particular reason I shouldn't go, except
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • down a little. B: Brought down there by whom? M: An employee of the Department of Agriculture. B: With the knm.,rledge of the Administration? M: Oh, yes. B: That's an interesting point. M: It's interesting. B: You recall the names of those
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • good system of roadside parks which NYA helped the highway department build. It was done with highway department funds for material, NYA funds for labor. And some two or three hundred parks were built in the period of six or seven years. La Villita
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or something like that. Or maybe they'd have somebody from the execu- tive department to explain a particular project in which Texas was interested. It.was the closed door sessions of the Texas group where the decisions [were madeJ--where they really got
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] President could understand what he was saying. the Labor Department. -- 1 -- 1.:5 More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --it was a seesaw affair up until the last minute. P: Were you in doubt: of Mr. Johnson winning that election? How did you feel about it before the actual voting day? T: There were only two elections I have ever bet on in my life--both of those were that summer
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thornberry--I--4 the Department of Agriculture; at that time we had a public ~battoir. I remember that, but I don't remember any others. F:When it comes down to 1948, were you waiting to see what he
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- I -- 2 occupy, and that must have been 1946 or 1947. By the time I was in college and began to get really interested in public affairs, like a lot of other people, it certainly wasn't
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Mrs. Shriver came down and Mrs. Robert Kennedy came down. I remember that was the first time that the Kennedy women were involved in this, and we set up a big affair at the Shamrock. I was the emcee and introduced them. We had a couple or three
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson felt like his vote won for him also. B; Had any of the ca:mpaign bitterness lingered over into that co:m:mittee :meeting? S: Oh, yes. place. It was a heated affair and bitterness was very evident all over the Everybody was working feverishly
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • affairs. I also took a rather active So one day a Jewish mother comes to see me and indicates that her son is being discriminated against at a military installation. I at first thought, well, it was just a mother's concern, but I did a little checking
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was part the romance, but also the great interest I had in foreign affairs. F: As an undergraduate, had you been interested in political science? D; Marginally. I was a Spanish and Portuguese major. South America and set the world on fire. I wanted
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . We didn't spend a lot of money; we didn't do a lot of things we would normally have done. Then I don't remember if it was before or after, I guess it was after the campaign, we had a very large and successful fundraising affair here to pay off
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Mahon--I--ll M: The dominant force there was Vinson. some of the areas. But Johnson was rather active in But there wasn't much chance for a man on the Naval Affairs Committee to distinguish himself~ as I see it. I'm
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • were a word-for-word my memo on that affair. account~ without quotes, from That distressed me very much, but there wasn't anything I could do about it. M: Was Lyndon Johnson informed about the tax cut prior to his presidency? H: Did he know what
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have to come back right in a hucry ." So when Mr . McCormack got out of shot, he says, "Fish, that's a sweet affair, I'm sure . we ain't tied down that close?" But aren't you glad that You know, Joe, for forty years, more than forty years now