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  • was not in session. The minute Congress adjourned you started packing and went home. I used to say dark didn't catch us in Washington on the day that Congress adjourned. His goal was to visit every post office and almost every country store. That is, any community
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • even though he didn't have opposition. J: Oh, absolutely. Going to every post office was a lifelong, rather a twelve-year long, aim and reality, I think, in his twelve years in the House. G: One of his friends remembered that he, in a non-election
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . G: Was he trying to lure Morse away from the Republicans? J: I do not think so. Oh, no, he was too much of a prickly subject. (Laughter) On the national scene, an interesting development was that Mrs. Hobby's post, Federal Security, was finally
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • know, a lot of people who were, I guess mostly opposed to Kennedy, kept telling him not to do it, the leadership position in the Senate was a much more important post and so on. But that certainly wasn't universal.Most people that I talked to before I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . And then all the frustration of the Paris peace talks. Well, I'm jumping a little bit ahead of myself here because I'm getting into post-election and all the last minute negotiating that went on. In July he went off to meet with President [Nguyen Van] Thieu
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . (Interruption) The press, I think I mentioned these other names; Marshall McNeil, Sarah McClendon, Les Carpenter, I guess Walter Hornaday, who was the correspondent of the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Post had someone here, Robert Johnson. I think
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • contact with us because he knew that we were dependable, we have no selfish motives, and no political ambitions, none of us are candidates for any office, none of us wanted posts, but we were interested in the welfare of the community
  • 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-)
  • of 1942 and had post-operative thrombo-phlebitis, which rendered me 4-F. I went to law school when the enrollment at Texas one time was down to a low of about twenty-three students, in a summer session. When I graduated in the spring of 1944 there were
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of, it was never discussed with me by anyone. F: May I ask what cabinet posts? H: I mentioned HUD. The Secretary of Commerce was officially offered. The Presi- dent called me at home on a Sunday, and asked me to be the Secretary of HEW, and I had two
  • Illinois Central strike; National Independent Committee for Johnson-Humphrey; organizational task force for HUD; Robert Weaver; White House Civil Rights Conference; “Summit Conference” in Chicago; Cabinet posts offered; Demonstration Cities
  • 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-)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 S: I would say probably, certainly not at that time, but later. You never quite know whether you Ire seeing a Cabinet post dangled or not, especially if you are as totally disinterested as I always was in any Cabinet post. But I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for the American-Statesman. I started as a capitol correspondent for the Galveston N~s, and then the Trans-Radio Press; that was a news service. Then I picked up another paper--this was [as] capitol correspondent, [the] Wichita Falls Post, which is no longer
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • from an important post returning to Washington would be received by the President. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : Would frequently be handled by the different cabinet posts. B: 1.s that going to.be coordinated with the M: I wOuld think there would be a large degree of coordination but not in the initial stages. Senate~ too'? There has to be coordination
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to full strength when you left to take the new post? M: Yes. As we brought it up to full strength, then President Johnson proposed an increase in the department of a thousand new positions approximately. Congress approved that so we have brought it up
  • 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-)
  • ? That there was going to be an investigation, or that people were going to come in here? P: When they had posted these returns at 765 to 60. And I think it came out in the paper the next Thursday, this little old weekly paper, LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the Washington Post on the editorial page, I think it was the Washington Post, they had a list of quotations as long as your arm going back over the years, the so-called optimistic, over-optimistic statements and so on. from any member of the Joint Chiefs
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it must have come later. B: Later? Really? Of course, he was a strong Kennedy man, he was a strong Kennedy man. But on the other hand, in a way would that have been considered a comedown to go from a number-two cabinet post to a number-two OEO post? I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Shortly after Charles and I were married in Austin we went to live in South America, where he had been living when he graduated. And someone in South America brought to my attention the Saturday Evening Post, which did a whole series of things about George
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • his selection of John Gardner as HEW [Health Education and Welfare] secretary immediately following the conference. Did you or others at the conference have any inkling that Gardner was going to get this post? 18 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to Acapulco; LBJ's memoirs, The Vantage Point; LBJ's daily routine at the Ranch following the administration; LBJ's interest in golf; the Malecheks' home on the Ranch; Scott's work as LBJ's post-presidential secretary; Scott's experience talking to the press
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the effectiveness and the timing of cease-fires throughout the Middle East and elsewhere in this post-World War II period touches on this fundamental question that you've raised. You take, for example, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, in the first forty-eight hours when
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a little like the zone rates on parcel post. Within a certain number of miles you charge one rate and for a further distance of miles another rate, a bit higher, and so on to the end of the line. Naturally, there is always a lot of contention among
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and actively participated in negotiations with the publishers regarding the book. This book, which was entitled "Why We Can't Wait" was published in June, 1964. In the Summer of 1964, King began negotiations with "The Saturday Evening Post" concerning
  • . The University of Texas Board of Regents voted June 9 to accept funding by the Sid W. Richardson Found taon for the post Ms. Jordan will occupy at the school. Be­ ginning in January, the Foundation will prov1de an annu 1 salary of $38,000 for five years
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in San Marcos, Texas. He recalled how the famed "Johnson treat­ ment" moved him from his cabi­ net post as Postmaster General to another job: "[President John­ son] called me into his office and told me how important Eastern Europe
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • posted on the east wall of the LBJ Library building ... ... ,jl.'... ' . _..,. G.•5'•.__~~ ~ ' I •' - ____.L_--i/L.- • . ....:I ... and the Oags flew at half-mast. 10 Phorv.1by CharlesBogel Local High School Student "Casts a Shadow
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of Barrett's book: Professor Barrett has given us an engrossing account of the highly secret, oft n contentious relationship between Congress and its post-World War II creation, the Central Intelligence Agency. Thoroughly researched, rich in fascinating detail
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • commitm nt to educa­ tion began with his post high school education at Southwest Texa State Teachers College. During an internship in Cot­ ulla, Texas, he saw first-hand the hardships U1at lower-clas and immigrant children fa ed trying to get an education
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • are at Iquitos, and units are posted about in small popu­ lation centers of the area. An Army Recruit Training Center, one of five in Peru, annually trains several thousand conscripts drawn from the surrounding area. The Army conscript training includes literacy
  • because there was nothing written about it in the newspapers, nothing in the Post, nothing in the Times. Finally Arthur Sylvester, who was the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said, "You dumb ninnies,"--was a favorite expression of his
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . In case you missed it, I have attached the Post's account of Harriman' s appearance which apparently is a trIB account of wbat actually happenedo Sam Belk Atchmt - a/ s THE WASHINGTON POST -- February 21, 1964
  • in Washington which was if I recall corr.e~tly late December or early January, I think it was early January, no, we had no more contact. We went back to finish up· the post-flig ht reports, and that was our last contact that I can recall. M: Were you
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that was taking essentially a sub-cabinet post, and not .necessarily the most important sub-cabinet post. M: You're a career appointee and not a political appointee. S: That~s right~ a career appointee rather than otherwise. So that was really my first
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • region, and elimination of the post of deputy collector. 2/4 Mrs. Sam Johnson writes LBJ that she is glad Sam Houston is under hospital care, and that CTJ is helping Josefa. 2/4-2/5 Albert Jackson is visiting in Washington. 2/5 LBJ attends
  • legal director, MELVINGL. 20 ~CONFIBEN > -aHBIR-- IALCE 157-5490 ~ULFF intended to obtain a court order against a Post Office The Dapartment order banning "The Crusader" from the mails. order was issued by the Post Office D?partment after
  • --post facilities where United States Army arms and ammunition are secured. When thefts do occur, I consider it imperative that prompt notification be made to appropriate offices of the military police (State Adjutants General, in the case of the National