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Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that? Where are you? I remember when Secretary [Charles] Wilson impounded the extra funds. G: When he did what? J: Impounded the extra funds> that triggered a memory. G: Okay. That's an awfully close vote> a one-vote margin. Do you recall how he
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

couldn't be. I No one had ever been since the Civil War except Woodrow Wilson, and he just happened to be born in Virginia, grew up in the South. G: You don't think then that he was preoccupied with publicity? J: He wanted publicity because he felt
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the appropriations, get approvals, things of that nature? J: Yes, I can1t remember. with PWA, WPA, Interior. There was a man named--he was always meeting I don't remember exactly what [Harold] Ickes had to do with it, but Ickes had something big to do
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that no southerner had since the Civil War, other than Wilson, who wasn't really from the South. He had been born in the South, but- F: Did Mr. Sam somewhat buttress that opinion? J: Yes, I think so. F: So that you were just geographically blocked. J: I
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was known much better in Washington than perhaps he was in Texas because of his friendship with Roosevelt and with the leading members of Roosevelt's Administration--Harold Ickes, Tom Corcoran, and so on. F: When did you begin to think that you just might
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Committee was considering the nomination of Charles Wilson, secretary of defense. The big issue over Wilson and one or two of his deputies was whether he should sell his GM stock. Do you remember that and Mr. Johnson's position on that issue? J: I
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

: What about Will Wilson? There was some suggestion that he was- J: Yes, I always thought he would. G: Really? J: He was not a good friend. G: Was he more to the right of LBJ, or did they have simply different bases? Wilson was from Dallas; he
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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