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- became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I
- convention which first named Stevenson that you had that problem of the FEPC [Fair Employment Practices Commission] plank and your compromise on that, that the Labor Department would act by persuasion instead of compulsion in developing the FEPC. Did you ever
- [Department of Justice]. Let me outline here just very briefly your background, subject to additions and corrections. You were born in Chicago in 1928, bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, naval service in the early fifties, in 1956 a law degree from Yale
- /oh 2 nomination. With a number of Kansas people I did take part, to some extent, in the campaign--which I can elaborate on later. B: I'll ask you later. S: Then in February 1961, after Secretary Freeman had been named to head this Department, I
- to poverty programs and area development; inter-departmental activity; small family farms; Departments of Agriculture name change proposal; Trade Expansion Act of 1962
- . DOROTHY JACOBSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER April 23 ~ 1969 Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Mrs. Jacobson. MaIm, you mentioned very briefly in the previous tape that early in your career at the Agriculture department
- Food distribution; food stamp program; commodity support program; Billie Sol Estes; Charles Murphy; JFK assassination; LBJ and Freeman; appointment as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs
- great knowledge of political affairs and things generally in the country. And then I remember a situation developed after he and Lady Bird had gone on back. I watched her taking a few notes and listening most intently while he was talking freely
- Early relationship with LBJ; 1960 campaign; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; JFK leadership; Department of Commerce problems; JFK’s staff; LBJ and civil rights; LBJ and the Vice Presidency; JFK-LBJ friction; Business Advisory Council; relation
- of the Atomic Energy Commission on this matter. I know that he took some actions which subsequently resulted in the creation of NASA, on the one hand, and a concentration of authority in Department of Defense, on the other. F: You had no personal relationship
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton
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- entertained Adenauer. very colorful affair. It was a There were, I guess, about a hundred guests. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
- on it was quite apparent that Rayburn had developed a kind of fatherly affection for Johnson. So had Vinson--Carl Vinson is who we are speaking of, the chairman of what was then the Naval Affairs Committee, later the Armed Services Committee. And that to them
- , let's go up and have lunch." The other thing that made it a notable occasion was that we went and had lunch in the second floor family dining room. And Ralph Dungan said to me after the lunch--it was a very friendly affair. He was very close
- by what he saw in Paul Kattenburg, who was the country director for Vietnamese affairs, who's presently a professor at the University of South Carolina, after early retirement from the department. G: What was he disturbed about? F: It was sort of ad
- in the security because they don't have the high efficiency that they probably will develop now in the local police department, especially where there is any indication of demonstrations--it's a military thing. But abroad, it was Scotland Yard for example
- , or Populist, as he was called in the press by many . I think he was just a hard-working human being very much interested in the affairs of people, and knowing our system . And so very few men in public life--and a small percentage in private life--even know
Folder, "Garrison Investigation, New Orleans, 1967-1968," Papers of John B. Connally, Box 324
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- . John Mobley Executive Department Office of the Governor Austin, Texas 78711 ~~ Temple to the President RADIP REPORTS, -TV lNC. 41 EAST 42ND STREET, FOR NA1.f:tOHAL BROADCASTING COMPAN"f PROGRAM i'onight NEW YORK. STATION Show N. Y
- into that a little bit if you want to. While I was in Washington serving in the General Counsel's office, then-Congressman Johnson asked me if I would like to serve on a staff of a subcommittee investigating certain affairs of the navy [Special Investigating
- Biographical information; met LBJ in 1930s through Texas attorneys Harris Melasky and Martin Winfrey; 1943 subcommittee on naval affairs; 1948 Senate race and subsequent lawsuit; advice to LBJ regarding running for Senate Minority leader in 1952
- and clean working conditions for labor, adequate aid to and care for veterans . He opposes the federal lecting production tax on our natural government controlling and colresources ." I mentioned to this group that that was about what I said and wrote
- the responsibility of carrying it through, yes. r.,,: And you worked with the White House staff on thi s, or \'that? P: Well, ,yes, I worked with the White House staff, with primarily the people in the Department of Agriculture, but to whatever degree I needed
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb
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- , a part of the Secret Service. Narcotics is, or was at that time, a bureau of the It was one of the sister agencies of the Secret Treasury Department. Service--one of the Treasury law enforcement agencies. M: To clear up a public point in definition
- a month before that--and I had to get my affairs in order with my station in Ohio. I got everything I could get on Khrushchev and started to read about his life, his politics, his biography and all the current affairs I could put together. You have
- 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, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- 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)
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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