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  • the airplane, waving to the television cameras and so forth. G: Did you have any association with LBJ while you were at the Peace Corps? P: None. In fact, the first time I was ever in the White House was on November 22, 1963. I was working at the Peace
  • not give too fair an interpretation of what went on. Interesting thing--the Stars and Stripes --got copies from Viet Nam and all over the world--did as good a job about printing what we said and what went on than almost any newspaper, because Associated
  • of the Texas Association of Broadcasters and went as first secretary and then as third president. So I knew practically all of the broadcasters in Texas. Most of them were my friends. So I thoroughly enjoyed it and [I] served on a good many committees
  • caught between declining sales revenues and heavy burdens of debt service. Indeed, most of the re.cent business failures have resulted from overextended credit positions, a prominent charncteristic of Japan's postwar business enterprises whose financ­ ing
  • depended on the radio, newspapers and direct view t6 acquaint ourselves with appearances. And it happened that I had not seen Mr. Johnson until I came to Congress. Mc: What was Mr. Johnson's relationship with members of the Texas delegation? F
  • of Transportation, were you opposed to this or favorable? S: I think that for, partly perhaps for sentimental reasons and the fact that the association with the Treasury had been such a long one and such a happy one that generally in the Coast Guard the first
  • , graduated from North Dallas High School, then took a B.A. degree from the University of Texas and an LL.B. degree from Yale Law School. M: From what I've read in the newspaper clippings, you made some friends at the Yale Law School that later had some
  • -Idaho] who has since passed away of Idaho, Senator Schoeppel [Andrew F. Schoeppel], who has since passed away, of Kansas, Senator Cotton [Norris Cotton] of New Hampshire, and his then associate, Senator [Styles] Bridges of New Hampshire. I believe
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT W. INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Murphey's office, Nacogdoches, Texas f~URPHEY Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, Mr. Murphey, would you begin by telling us what your association was with Governor Coke Stevenson? M: I
  • you take up that story where you became associated with it? P: Yes, Mr. Baker. February. The starting point is really in middle or later President Johnson established the Task Force on the War on Poverty--I think that was its official name--early
  • replied. Ever since I learned on February 7 of the earlier theft of certain papers from the personal files of my associate, Robert Low, we have been expecting a coordinated attack. Two staff members· here who admitted involvement were discharged the next
  • -- I -- 2 being there about a year or a year and a half, I became associated in the practice of law with Martin B. Winfrey. I was with him until I went into the navy in 1943. I went to boot camp and received a commission and was assigned to Washington
  • with a small group of inside people--people that he had been associated with for some period of time largely, and people who were of his particular bent, very imaginative, very humorous, very light and gay. I didn't fit into that particular category, so
  • complex economic and financial problems today, particularly the part of the world that I am closely associated with, the one hundred developing nations. The result is that I haven't had the time, I haven't had the resources, and I don't have the memory
  • in agreeing·with associated with the recent let in alone to exceed present the _next five years, assistance A.I.D. investors for the construc­ has recog­ (in the exchange of letters $50 million it ( n for·most now~ The Government of India nized
  • ~ ~\ ~ . l'f\~(l,~ \ Y"I~ of middle-aged white womefilAhad generated ari/\atmospt-ie re of fear in the city. ),,;~ -Alt'.J:1:0ngh tl:le newspapers Wei:'e gene.raJ J y restrained ~~ •~ - known that the tentative identification of the "Cincinnati Strangler
  • to remember the helicopter over the years and associate it with him. J: Yes, it became a kind of a trademark. He called it the Johnson City Windmill. G: There have been stories told about him pitching his hat to the crowd from the helicopter when
  • and other newspaper men; effort to avoid alienating Senate candidate George Peddy and his supporters; support for LBJ among African-Americans; waiting for election results at the Driskill Hotel in Austin; LBJ's loss and the prospect of a runoff against
  • : In this early association with the President, did you have any awareness of his temper? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • was called to the service right after I got out of Hardin-Simmons; well, I say right after. I spent a year in Amarillo working for the newspaper. F: Did you know the Hardin-Simmons journalism man that got killed in San Angelo? S: I didn't know
  • the position you still hold? P: Right. M: Did you ever have, in your career prior to joining the AID agency, any relation with Mr. Johnson back in your newspaper days? M.I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
  • been working as a newspaper reporter for a medium-sized daily in Pennsylvania and felt that I wanted to go abroad. I wanted to go abroad as a correspondent. At the time, among other subjects and people, I was covering Congressman Francis E. Walter, who
  • working as a newspaper reporter for a medium-sized daily in Pennsylvania and felt that I wanted to go abroad. I wanted to go abroad as a correspondent. At the time, among other subjects and people, I was covering Congressman Francis E. Walter, who was from
  • on a rising scale and with every encouragement to those willing to and techniques experiment with new Rartnerships in public-interested enterprise. Our basic are are: 1. to create a system of metrooolitan-wide incentives to governments, individuals
  • , the control of sulfur emissions associated with the burning of coal and oil, and the need for new Federal research and development facilities to carry out the expanded programs au­ thorized under the Olean Air Act. Testimony was received from Federal officials
  • Conference which is sponsoring the Poor People's Campaign and has been identified as a secret Community Party member as late as 19630 The June 16, 1968, issue of "The Worker," an east coast communist newspaper, contained an article which indicated
  • it personally. Since this question will obviously arise in your mind I will go onto another episode. When the problem of the National Student Association arose in February of 1967, I happened to be out in Albuquerque. I was doing something in conjunction
  • ; not involved in policy making; Fulbright letter and the ruckus McCarthy made; February 1967, the National Student Association problem; Pueblo Mission; Tuesday lunches in 1967; halt of bombing in Vietnam; 3/31 speech; Six Day War; Kosygin on hot line; LBJ’s
  • , and he beat Mr. [Robert] McNamara in, which I believe was what his objective was! (Laughter). And therein began our association--mine with the Vice President, later the President. And I must say that it was a wonderful, exciting experience for me
  • with the President and other staff members to Hyannis Port [Massachusetts]. Was that your first trip there? J: Yes. My first trip to any kind of what might have been an intimate association with 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • about? Bo: Yes, the commission idea itself was mine, and it came about in this fashion. The day that President Kennedy's body was here in the Capitol in the Rotunda, a newspaper friend of mine in whom I have great confidence--his name is Edmond
  • s were also aboar d . The President went t o the press poo l aboard th e plane t o rea d the m article s fro m newspapers tha t Senato r Dirksen had had printed --on his succes s a s Presidentia l nomine e - John Baile y als o talke d t o the press
  • think, one of the first lawyers in Texas who made a particular study of the water laws of Texas. At that time there never had been much water law practiced in Texas, and he had been associated with the development of a small dam on the Guadalupe River
  • to court-martial him, but they didn't probably because of his association with a man who later became vice president, a man by the name of [Nguyen Ngoc] Tho, T-H-O. I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • you to Mr. Johnson when he was majority leader? N: I became the Senate correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in September of 1958. Previous to that, I had been with the Associated Press, and I had not been close to Johnson at all with the AP
  • completed, and we will have sent it to all of the judges and all other interested parties for their comment . But we are seeking a year's extension . F: Governor, let's talk politics today . In your association with Mr . Johnson personally, when did you
  • saying, "It's going to be Thursday; it's going to be Friday; there'll be a press conference," and so on. Finally there were some of them who had Monday newspapers. He, even at one point, with my permission, passed out copies of the press release, White
  • is to be misunderstood. And when we say we stand or snmc things wc must never be seen to have done che opposite. And people associated with !hat have to leave. It doesn't matter which party. As an ambassador you use back-channel communications occasionally to get
  • sold Sherman Birdwell before he left on gOing to work for the NYA. G: So far as the operation of the NYA is concerned, would you characterize what you men working there, the President and his associates, felt to be the most important project you were
  • conservative. S: Frankie had a way with those kind of people that her family had been associated with. She was enormously respected all through the East Texas lumber industry as a person. And rightfully so. She was a very LBJ Presidential Library http