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  • known then-Senator Johnson, he called upon me from time to time to advise him with respect to matters, frequently dealing with civil rights, which was not a particular expertise of mine except that I had worked on the restrictive covenant case which had
  • ; LBJ as President; Vietnam War; LBJ and credibility; Nixon Administration; civil rights leaders and the Vietnam War; LBJ and education; various Presidents’ support of civil rights; LBJ’s early position on civil rights; LBJ’s 1965 State of the Union
  • time talking to the then-Director of the Bureau of the Budget, Charlie Schultze, to find out a little bit about what I would be required to do. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • of the Budget; the privilege of working hard for a president; keeping ideas fresh and balanced over time; LBJ's strengths, especially in communication and helping people.
  • the following statement. ·r arrived in Corpus Christi, Texas on Friday~ January 1949 at 4: 25 p . m. at which time I immediately went to see Mr. Peter Dunne of the Dunne Funeral Home who is a director in the Texas Funeral Association. During the course of our
  • will stretch the time. Thanks for giving us the whole picture. I am .· not sure the American people are as aware of the security pacts the North Koreans have with the Soviet Union and with the Chinese as I am. Congressman Boggs: I agree with what
  • ://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 Palmer -- II -- 3 And so, on that ground, they were very sound, but the timing
  • &ad tlae oezt time I ••• .Qa,rlie. -.:ac....... , l 11dll pre·•••· ,ldm for lai• l'•e·Jobuler. Slac•rely, Joaepla A. C&Ufaao, Jr. Special Aaa.lataat to t,l:le Pre,aideat J ,I' • ) TheBrookingsInstitution 1.775 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE.N.W
  • now become Pre•ident, and I remember that Congr•••m&n Thoma• •aid: "We are ready to carry out any order• you have, Mr. Pre•ident." Thh wa• the fir.t time I had heard him addre••ed a.• "Mr. Pre•ident." It ••emed to me that there wa• a change in th
  • . m. Mr. Pre•lcleat: Sec. R•■k ■aw !:baa till ■ aftenu,oa. Eban levelln, for tile flrat time, with reapect to tlae laraell-Joz.laalaa prwate eacllaas••• Sec. Ra.It aaW tbat lie felt lt to IHt aa "lloaeat •-~•••· " On the •••twe, •• talke4 &boat
  • Members on Commerce of the Federal of Transportation. of Congress have offered bills to create ' the Department. Private same recommendation citizens, experts in the field, havo mado tho to me. Now it is time to act on these recommendations
  • station, and he just delayed and delayed and delayed because of his perception that entry into this business at that time--and this is at a much later date than when we went into KTBC--was still fraught with so much peril that he would move his tower
  • llf him A scnil1r offo:ial of the .Johnson adrrnn1,tration someone in h1 White Haus~. satd tu me rec ntly that by the time John.on c..ime lll office his predecessors had created such a myt or inv1m:1blc communism that Johnson and his adviser-. could
  • to better terms with the S0"1-et Union. But there is a feeling that somehow we were going ahead on ou~ own without them. I think an extra investment in time and effort toward the Germans is well worthwhile. If it is made, I am sure that this nation a.n.d her
  • in the legislature of Texas, owned my people in slavery time. I understand that he came from Attica, New York into Texas be- fore the Civil War. able to say. Where my people came from I don't know, I'm not But I do know that my grandfather Mr. Shoemaker
  • to the peninsular campaign in Napoleon's time down through Ireland down through Philippines, Malaya, et cetera. We also had Lucian Pye, who had gone out and interviewed a number of the guerrillas captured in Malaya and wrote an extraordinarily perceptive book based
  • be useful to record it. But it would be just as useful to record how you felt about it if you were aware of it at the time. J: Well, yes, didn't take it seriously, didn't encourage it. I personally think he was scared to death of such a prospect
  • The prospect in 1955 of LBJ being a candidate for the presidency; Amon Carter and LBJ's relationship with Carter; John Henry Faulk; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; humorous story regarding suits a tailor was making for LBJ at the time of his heart attack
  • more serious, it occupied more of the personal time of higher officials of the Executive Branch and the President; so I would not characterize the support by any President as different in quality. I simply think that, as the problems became more
  • of a nighttime basis. I'd go to work on the poverty task force stuff when I left the Pentagon at seven or eight o'clock at night, and then after a bit of that I shifted to full-time as Shriver's deputy. G: In his phone conversation with you did Shriver
  • be m S.,tomber 1967 and. e,c:,~11:>l•HI ·w ltb the Clmminl ~ fer c.eremoay-. TJ10 time framework y«. nie.ntl.,_4 1• the .Amistacl Dam C0-1'J.V41!B&ti~ . ,. March er Ap.-11196'1 ~- :ould ·a ot be c:ea,re-al•llt I.or the added reason that tb:e Summit
  • American exporters _show their wares, arrangements will exist for export credit at the time an order is plac i d· 2. There was again discussion of the Korean steel mill project involving ~oppers Co. This'is the project which Secretary Smith disucussed
  • and flag vessels and air­ craft were not permitted to enter the Trust Territory without the per­ mission of the Navy. At that time, the President directed that only applications for entry of aliens and foreign flag ships and aircraft may be vetoed
  • a couple of weeks leave to come back to the States really to see what I was going to do when I got out of the army. I was thinking of teaching at the Harvard Law School at the time, but I had another errand to do. One of my fellow technical advisers
  • . You'll recall that one of the things that committee staff worked very hard on, and I spent a gre~t deal of · time on, was the investigation that was conducted jointly by the Senate Armed Services Corrmittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • grade at Tandy School in Fort Worth, Texas, and I must also confess that in the fifth grade I wasn't ready for all of it, but it made me very early in life aware of the Daniels. And so from the time you emerged, then--I suppose I'm a small generation
  • on this problem wi ll be presented in a paper for circulation to the Council. ...... The President: On our recent Europ ean trip we spent a great deal of time on this problem and we wi ll continue to do so. However , it is doubtful that acceptable solutions
  • to the next. Reedy had previously written a memo saying that without some concessions, Senate rules would probably be drastically rewritten at the beginning to the next session of Congress. 1/10 Eisenhower delivers the State of the Union Message to a joint
  • ·:.._·:~--~· :/ . .-· ~.... , · · ~.-,< -:·,:· .,:...\;':-,.-,,_, :•,.·~.~- ·:. _·_ . .. _.i:- -·•. ·.!_ · · ..: · . · . • ,:_·.- · -· ) ''.\, .?,/\ •,./ •·. :·__ . ~-. .:H -~,,_-i ~. ~-\·: : :- ._._ · -.'.- ~-\··~;: . • THE '· ACTION WHICH WE HAVE .i IN MIND :WOl.'1.D FOLLOV 'A TIME . TABLE ,· __,· ,i STARTING At .7AM B.s.T
  • year? d What enemy units have been identified in the attacks on the cities? What uncommitted units are available for a second cycle? e What grounds are there for the allegation of an "intelligence failure" at the time of the first wave of attacks
  • gone through channels? M: No, the complaint had not gone through channels, as I remember it. The complaint was one from a union newspaper, and we had been subjected to this sort of charges many times before. P: General McKee, since the first
  • on the Foreign Relations Com- I went to Paris where he was there as the leader of our delegation to the NATO Parliamentarians, and sought to secure his support for this appointment at that time. me. He was exceedingly receptive and cordial to I remember, I
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 that in Montana . He talked me into extending my leave of absence another six months and going to work on one of these bridges, which I did . When my leave was up by that time I
  • , say, something like organized labor, was there any powerful interest group in Texas that was a perennial opponent of Allan Shivers? S: Well, what we called the extreme liberal Democrats, of which there were a number ofthem. They were not the union
  • attache General Walters (who are very close to Castelo Branco) are following up on this and although it is clear that Castelo faces a bigger and harder political problem than Harriman and I thought possible, Gordon and Walters think that in time a Branco
  • targets for years from Franklin Delano Roosevelt on through to Johnson's time--substantial numbers of these were passed. Slum clearance, housing, the poverty programs, the interstate highway systems, airline and airport legislation, and the development
  • back with him . personnel, so he brought me So I was in sort of an aiding position at that time . I was [an] aide and that was it, so I didn't have any particular chores . What am I saying? I didn't have a particular job, I could sort of be on my
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: LESLIE CARPENTER INTERVIEW'Eji: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Press Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: Mr. Carpenter, tell us briefly about your own career, how you happen to be where you are at this time. I know you
  • NEW DELHI FLASH Deliver Info, Radhakrishnan. ss G PR p Will be released Johnson to President Washington 11:00 a.m. Washington daylight saving time. QUO?E Dear President USIA NSC Radhakrishnan: Once again we come together beloved man
  • this week and to be here over the weekend of 28-30 August. I can decide about Labor Day when the time comes. 4. Unless you object, therefore, I will plan to get out of here tomorrow morning and then be here through the last weekend of August. This involves
  • to be able to prevent the other side-in this case, the Soviet Union-from ever thinking about using their nuclear weapons. To maintain deterrence, you have to keep modernizing .. You have to simultaneously seek anns reduction. But in order to do that you have
  • ' approval of the negotlatlona eo that no time-la& can intervene in the rhythm of our support lor l'rel •• proaram. ... Chile baa made outstanding achievements ln the social and political flelda under the Alliance for Progreea •· and Frei le currently
  • for the increased North Korean activity was a hope by the Communists that they could at some time in the proximate future get the U. N. General Assembly to repudiate the United Nations Com~and in Korea. Since the matter was of such great importance and so complex