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- an appointment through Liz, or whatever method that you can, with the Vice President." He wrote back and said that, then, Walter Jenkins would be available and would love to talk to me. So I took a three-day pass from Fort Stewart, Georgia; came to Washington
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
- ; the transition; the 1964 campaign; Walter Jenkins and the effect of his leaving the staff; LBJ’s staff and JFK’s staff relations; Bill Moyers; staff loyalty to LBJ and how it affected Sinclair’s family life; Lloyd Hand; relationship between airlines and politics
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . He said, "Why do that? Just go ahead and take your commission, and then you can come on my staff as my military aide." Which I did. I went to Fort Sill and did my officer's basic and came back to the Vice President's staff as his junior military
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
- Initiation of the Peace Corps with Bill Moyers and Sargent Shriver; LBJ’s attitude toward, and involvement with, the Peace Corps; work as LBJ’s junior military Aide while LBJ was Vice-president; LBJ’s relationship as vice-president to JFK
- . At that time, as I recall, a man named Clifford Carter was active on his staff and I believe that Mr. Walter Jenkins had more or less assigned this area to Cliff Carter because I remember whenever we were filling a vacancy on the advisory committee why I
- to hold a fund-raiser in Texas. But as I understand it, President Kennedy and some of his staff aides were of the opinion that they ought to go to Texas to mend fences and to raise some money. Some time previous to the trip John Connally came to Wash
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- close and very friendly and cont i nues to be. Walter Jenkins is a great pal of mine. There was no friction going into the campaign and up until the election . M: Then to move irilo the administration--1 ' m very happy you did go into that sidetrack
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
- ; assassination; 1964 Vice Presidential contest; HHH; LBJ's legislative ability; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam; O'Donnell's resignation; decision not to run again; 1968 Democratic convention; Czechoslovakia invasion; peace plank
- mainly by White House staff people. P: Yes, sir. H: I suppose people like Larry O'Brien, Barefoot Sanders, and others. P: Of course by Larry O'Brien early. Oh, everyone, Walter Jenkins, Cliff Carter, Barefoot Sanders a great deal because I've
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- aid bill . And they came in to argue with him and I just so remember him saying to these men that, "We are going to pass some kind of bill, so you get busy and decide what is acceptable to you ." But he made it perfectly clear that he wasn't going
- different but not measurab ly different. .Jenkins ,vas ther2--1 had knmm and dealt Hith For example, '-lhen Halter ~·raltGr Jenkins quite a bit and ,·;hE::1 :';,,It(2;:'' Has there, if ,ve had some little something that ve needed so~c hcl~ on--cuvhe
- . There's no question about that. McHugh, who was a brigadier general in the air force and was Kennedy's air force aide, went flitting up and down the aisle trying to get the pilot to get the plane off the ground, because his President was aboard and he
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
- had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
- a Roman Catholic, bringing it to your attention!" B: Do you recall who that was? H: Yes, that was Walter Jenkins, which I will later develop. senator read the letter and told Mr. Jenkins that, '~aybe So the you'd better check the writer
- not actually meet him, as I recall, until the latter part of 1952. In 1951 his Administrative Assistant, Walter Jenkins, left the Senator and came down to run for Congress in a special election. Through a mutual friend in Dallas, Mr. Jenkins was put
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
- Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
- Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Strauss -- I -- 11 a little unique I might add to this story. We met Walter Jenkins and his wife and John Connally and his wife in Las Vegas three or four nights later. I'd gone
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 Woodward, I guess was in the crowd then, and Walter Jenkins. I remember over
- of the National Rural Electric Co-Op Association ; James Rowe- Jim Rowe, who was head by that time of the overall Citizens for John son-Humphrey ; Herb Waters, who was assistant to the Administrator of AID and a close friend of Humphrey's ; and some others whose
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
- [For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization
- never heard about it until after the convention was over. F: It's a good thing you didn't hear the introduction. D: r would have collapsed. Absolutely! I took the LBJ statement that came from one of his aides that he himself was supposed to read
- are in effect telling them to get to work and discipline themselves. J: I would say insofar as AID was the agency of State in these dealings, and it was supposed to be, they were in pretty general agreement with the position of Agriculture when we began
- -- II -- 2 I stayed there off and on for about two years. Then I left the government in 1959, went to work for my father in Airways Engineering. Then in 1962 I got a call from the director of AID, Far East, a guy named [Seymour] Janow, asking me
- Phillips’ work in Laos; getting involved with the AID mission in Vietnam; reorganizing AID in relation to its rural efforts; a strategic hamlet program; organizational problems in the U.S. military approach in Vietnam; working with what
- to know what to call you, Mr . Secretary, Mr . Ambassador, Mr . Governor--you've had too many careers . Let's talk a bit about what you were telling me just a moment ago, and that is Mr . Johnson and Indian aid . B: You've started with a big subject
- U.S. aid to India; reasons for US aid; purpose of AID; Food for Peace Program to India; U.S. wheat shipments to India; LBJ
- ] Dick got intrigued with him. And Dick, I'm sure, convinced Walter Jenkins that Johnson ought to have his own intellectual. So, you know--is it all right if my mind wanders a little here to talk about own intellectual? G: Sure. P: I remembered
- much of anything. at times. I would see him. He would call me up I would call him up when I would go to Washington. I became very friendly with Walter Jenkins. close friends and our families [were]. He and I were very When we lived in Washington
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
- ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; Walter Jenkins; Goldberg suggesting that LBJ take the oath of office in Dallas from Judge Sarah Hughes after the JFK assassination; appointment to Court of Appeals; Court of Appeals procedures from 1966-1969
- the press reported that the other way, I think, very widely. Me: Not true. Mil: You served on President Kennedy's--what do they call it, the Clay Committee on Foreign Aid? Me: Yes. Mil: And dissented from its report. Me: Yes. Mil: Did you ever
- Foreign aid
- Aid; 3/31 announcement; AFL-CIO would have supported LBJ for another term; LBJ’s legislative achievements; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.
- their reactions were. That was a customary practice which the legislative aides of the President asked each of us to do in any event--to report daily on whom we'd seen on the Hill. B: Incidentally, were you working within Mr. Califano's general operation
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
- as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
- ing pressure through the Alliance for Progress aid to get goodies for our American business community . time . We were leveraging all the This wasn't because the Administration wanted to do it . There was pressure from Congress ; there were some
- daily contact with Mr . Johnson or his office--you know, not always with him, with Walter Jenkins, George Reedy, etc .--the guys that were in his office, John Connally, etc . But at that point, beginning in 1953, I began to have nearly daily contact
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
- [For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization
- a police department. Atlanta had been exceptionally well trained in attitudes towards Negro people. Chief Jenkins is liberal by nature, has a distinguished record and has been through the whole civil rights movement and is highly regarded
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and style, assigned me as an aide to Lodge for that visit, knowing of our past relationship. I was sort of running Lodge's temporary office and running his message center and facilitating his mission on his visit there, which had many facets. This is all
- for International Development, which is a part of the State Department. So I was observing the MACV thing from quite another angle, really, and was not ever anything important at all in the military aspects of MACV. G: What was AID doing in Vietnam in those days
- McGarr, Charles Timmes and Paul Harkins as commanders of Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) and later Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV); Jacobson's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam; the 1963 coup in Vietnam
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
- the assassination hurt Dallas’ reputation; Walter Jenkins; the effect of LBJ’s position on their friendship; Dale’s work as chairman of LBJ’s inauguration; the inaugural balls; money made from the inaugural events; accompanying Lady Bird to parties; LBJ and parties
- and with Lodge, with AID Director Bell, Bundy, Rostow, all present. What was the gist of that? K: I don't recall what the gist of that particular meeting was. Let me say--you know, you asked me whether I had many meetings with the President as a prospective
- to do a great deal of talking, you have to have intelligence sources, you've got to know who is irritated today, who is vexed, who may be waxing expansive, when is the time to make your move to enlist the aid of certain people. magic formulas or magic
- Atlanta had a very outstand- ing mayor--a mayor who had a conscience in this particular realm. B: This must be Ivan Allan. H: No, this was William Hartsfield at that time. Chief of Police was Mr. Jenkins. Then I believe the name of the He likewise
- during the fifties, it started before then, that it was misnamed "Federal Aid to Education." I know you offered a compromise bill on federal funding of school buildings. H: Yes, I thought that was the way to get it done. have been for any kind of aid
- there as fast as you can go." said, "I'll take off in five minutes." I I did, going by helicopter. I took my aide de camp, Lieutenant by the name of George McBride, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- the people's surprised remarks that saw him in the wheelchair. They couldn't believe it because his image was standing, although holding on to the arm of an aide. M: I have to admit I lived my first fifteen or sixteen years under Roosevelt and I was a grown
- the campaign. That was almost proof positive there wasn't going to be any ducking out. There was a meeting--Jim Rowe was present I think-- up in what had been Walter's [Jenkins] office, the big room up front. There were meetings all over the place. I came
- . In effect, Larry from the White House handled domestic, and I handled foreign. no votes on the foreign stuff. Well, there were really For example, I had the annual foreign aid bill, and that's like trying to sell leprosy on the Hill, and various other
- one of the first things that I did, and I felt was able to do on the merits, was to appoint the first Negro inspector in the police department. I made him my aide. It was Inspector Huff, and he happened to be one of only two college graduates among