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  • . I don't remember much else--except for Pittsburgh, Pennsylva- I don't know how much you want to get into, but Pittsburgh was kind of home country to him because he went to a foundry, the Mesta Machine Tool Company of Pittsburgh. It's amazing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • is an extreme eastern edge of-F: Kind of an off-shoot of Pittsburgh, in a way. B: Yes, it is, yes, just across the border. We got up there--I covered this event--and they had Johnson for president signs all over the walls and a lot of Johnson presidential
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was a member, first, of the President's Air Policy Commission, and then served as a special assistant to Secretary Forrestal before the National Defense Act of 1947 provided for a Deputy Secretary of Defense. I occupied that post as Secretary Forrestal's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • before the coup; an offer to move Diem out of the country to safety; visiting the Presidential palace the day after the coup; flying with the Nhu children to Rome; JFK assassination; post-Diem conditions in Saigon; Georges Perruche; an explosion
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was doing this. was not in the room and quite properly not. I He wanted to have it a meeting among equals or peers, but I was going in and out of the office, and I was sitting at a little desk right outside his office doing my command post function
  • Van Kim; Ton That Dinh; Mai Huu Xuan; David Nes and Mike Dunn; management of the American Embassy in Vietnam; Lodge leaving his post as Ambassador and his political involvement; Flott duties under Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson; Max Taylor; comparing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • got along fine. B: Do you believe that his choice of personnel was good in cabinet posts and sub-cabinet positions? S: I can't fault him with anybody that I know. his administration were good. competent~ So far as I I think the people that he had
  • ; LBJ’s reputation in the South; LBJ’s strengths and weaknesses; LBJ’s post-presidential activities.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , who is a tax man, and have kept my interest in taxation throughout my professional career. I remained in the Treasury until mid-1953. As I said, the highest post I had was as Assistant Director of the Office of Tax Analysis. I then went
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? H: I was on North Capitol Street just at the main Post Office Building. F: What did you do--hear it by radio or word of mouth? H: Well, I stopped for a traffic signal and someone drove up to my side
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . D: It was days before-- F: ~fuere this? did you set up your office; where was your listening post for all of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • for only VHF channel in Austin; JFK assassination; ICC Commissioner; change in LBJ after his heart attack; post-Presidential visit to Ranch; LBJ as a very sentimental man
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • being considered for the Cabinet post? H: No, not at all. discussed. No, it never had been discussed. Nothing had been We did all we thought we could for the party. When I went to South America with a bunch of governors--twenty-five or thirty
  • experience in India, here, and in Africa and in nonviolent tactics might be useful to him. Well, as an indication of how little Dr. King had really thought out, I went down and I took with me Bill Worthy, who was a writer and did some things for the Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • 1958, when I was asked to come back to the Budget Bureau. B: As deputy director? S: Initially as assistant director, then three months later as deputy director. But the deputy post was planned in my coming back. I stayed on in this job after
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • when he was up in the Majority Leadership post, for they were attacking him quite frequently in Texas in the press and in resolutions at labor meetings . Some of the boys from the Communications Workers had aligned themselves with the DOT's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -311) on their face indicate he is a aomewhat diareputable character and diacloae his very strong dislike of Ferrie and the far-fetched nature of his theory. It waa hia idea that Ferrie "may have hypnotized Lee Oswald and planted a post-hypnotic au11
  • teaching post, which was at Williams College, early in 1963. In the late fall of 1962, the directorship of the Agency for International Development became vacant. President Kennedy, after surveying the problems, decided that the right man to put
  • match his pre-election ideology with his post-election performance, if you had any sort of computer arrangement, you would get very little correlation. well enough. F: I don't have to tell you that, Joe. You know that And I really believe that. Yes
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • So we sold our business of '53. B: You've mentioned your partner several times. M: Gerald Cullinan. Who was he, sir? I believe hers assistant to the President of the National Letter Carriers Association here now. He was in the Post Office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)