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  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh NOVEMBER 18, 1968 M: Let's begin by identifying briefly you in time and position. Did you join the government service prior to the time Mr. Johnson became President in 1963, or was it after he became President? S
  • timing was deliberate? W: An imperative part of it, really. We learned later that there were a good many people that had been expecting the President to do something like this in his State of the Union Message, and they were quite surprised to have
  • in the Pentagon to make sure everything was okay before I sent him over to, I think it was, Jack Valenti who ultimately interviewed him to give him the final okay. G: Let me ask you about the violence that summer. You talked about Watts last time but racial
  • of us who worked for the Park Service had keys to the gates of Arlington Cemetery, because many times we would work overtime and work a nighttime 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • and his secretary of defense, his various secretaries of state and so forth. And I thought that they would come out of it, that they would come out of it in time. G: I think, in fact, you said in a letter to Senator [Mike] Mansfield that you thought
  • . (Interruption) Then there was Carl Hayden of Arizona, who was a landmark in the Senate, already at that time quite elderly, but still with years ahead of him. He had been representing the state of Arizona since it entered the Union, which was about 1912. He
  • Churchill; LBJ's opinion on the timing of trying to pass difficult legislation; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Lynda's fifth birthday.
  • called a meeting in Washington of what we termed at that time our National Advisory Council of the Small Business Administration. This council was made up of representatives from every state in the Union, and we usually met once a year in Washington. I
  • , "All right, now get that on one piece of paper for me in the morning." I was rather disconcerted because at the time, while we were discussing this, there was a little bathroom off the side of the Oval Room and he was relieving himself in there while
  • , and Johnson called Nixon in New York and he knew we were flying down to Key Biscayne, the key advisers and Nixon, for a quick vacation, and he urged him to come by the White House. And we did, and at that time they more or less agreed on Johnson's behest
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: In the time of the riots in Washington for [Martin Luther] King [Jr
  • in on November 11, 1966. I came from Rochester, New York, where I had been for some time previous connected with the Xerox Corporation and a practicing lawyer. I was chairman of the Board of Xerox and had been General Counsel and Chairman of the Executive
  • -- Interview I, Tape 1 -- 3 At any rate we made the connection and I went down and was interviewed. About the same time the word went from Senator Johnson through Dean Page Keeton, the University of Texas Law School, that he was looking for someone and two
  • was concerned, lasted from the time he became president, when you were national security adviser, until you resigned in December of 1965 and left in what, February of 1966? B: The end of February, 1966. M: The end of February. One of the most frequent
  • to go to school at George Washington University in 1951. school with time out for the Army. It was almost night I spent almost ten years at George Washington in English literature and working on my master's. F: Why did you pick George Washington? H
  • , taken in order perhaps. Any of the party politics type activities? L: Our responsibility was largely in the area of substantive preparation of the program. From time to time, we engaged in trying to educate people in Congress about the various
  • Commission. I don't want you to go into your background; I want to save that for a subsequent session. C: For some other time, yes. Well, I was at the White House with Brooks Hays, who had been a very dear friend of Berl Bernhard, and we were even really
  • such impact. I recall that he had some input into some problem--whether it was an oil problem or a steel price problem, I'm not sure; but I was not personally involved, and I was not aware of his involvement in other economic problems up to that time. F
  • to this place in 1954 then? TW: Right. G: I see. And, of course, the Johnsons had just had their place for about two or three years then, I guess, at that time? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Union, without having to send in spies or make those U-2 overflights or anything like that. That story has bounced back enough times that I have a feeling that it may be true. The rest of the trip was pure good will, nothing else, which is rather
  • "lciatit"ln with all of them. They each had the right tf"l terminate my (appointment). one was designated. I presented my offer to move on each time a new As a Foreign Service Reserve Officer, one l s appointment is theoretically good only for as long
  • November. If 1949 was a period that for us, and in retrospect it seems to me for the country, was a sort of happy time, in 1950, particularly as the year wore on, there were rising clouds and frustration. The war was continuing in Korea and getting more
  • , going too far, staying too short a time, rush, rush, rush. I was not happily in tune. However, early in April I did have a little taste of [how] maybe I could get in tune. I went to what was billed as a "celebrity breakfast," in quotes, given by Theta
  • from the Capitol basement; the Congressional Club; Sam Rayburn's social status; the downing of a U-2 spy plane in the Soviet Union; the May 1960 primary election; Dorsey Hardeman and a bill passed in the Texas legislature to allow a person's name
  • some advice. So he introduced me to then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson. From that time until 1965, when I left the practice, I was counsel to the radio station KTBC AM, FM, and TV and other interests which the Johnson family acquired. F: Well, as you
  • me five times. right, I'll do it. Finally I said, 'Well, all Somehow I'll make it up to my staff.' hqdn't written q word. All the time II This was in the very eqrl iest days of the Eisenhower years .. It's ah/ays been an amusing tal e
  • , and invited her for dinner to our house. And at the same time invited a man who is now dead named Aaron Schaffer, who was head of the French Department, or maybe the Romance Language Department, at the University of Texas. He and his wife Dorothy were
  • the Congressional records. But just to begin with, you were elected to the 76th Congress in 1939 as a Democrat from Oklahoma, and you were succeSSively reelected to the House through 1951. At that time you were elected as Senator and served in the Senate until
  • every aspect of that statement. I don't think that the Arab world is yet in the Soviet camp. Soviet influence in the area has been increasing for quite a long time, but not allover the area. The Soviet influence is primarily in Algeria
  • of the Council--and my memory is not sharp enough on the exact timing and just who said what to whom at this point--was already, I know, in June talking about the need to think ahead to the legislative program that President Kennedy might introduce in 1964
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barr -- V -- 2 B: No. That customs thing it--you know, a lot of these things--life was going so fast at that time, and I had so many balls
  • of a high school. I did some work at the University of Cincinnati during that time. M: You were teacher of history in 1940 to 1941 at Darrow School in New York. H: In New Lebanon, New York. M: And then shortly after that you must have gone
  • Coleman -- I -- 2 it a pretty good organization while he was president? F: ~las C: Well, he had been speaker of it before I got to Capitol Hill but evidently, it must have been, because after his term as speaker for a long time his leadership generally
  • time I met President Johnson was in the 1960 campaign. I was the advance man for President Kennedy's first trip into Texas, into Houston. At least I advanced the Houston stop, and the Houston stop took on some rather critical importance because
  • the time I was about three months old until I left there in December of 1942, when I was fourteen. G: You began in the Senate as a page, I understand. B: Yes. I was appointed as a page boy by the late Burnett Maybank, whom Franklin Roosevelt, our late
  • , sulphur companies . I represented Union Sulphur Company at one time, and various others, in working with Mexican notaries in getting charters and denouncements and leases, concessions from the government . My practice in San Antonio was rather varied
  • . The ambassa­ dor there at that time was a man named Horace Smith, and he had a station chief named Henry Heckscher [?], and they disagreed very strongly . They both were very strong-minded men . I hope I have the details here right, but memory--I would
  • red me. . Then we'd work late every night . I 4le was working on the student aid part df it then, so a lot'of times we'd be there at eleven . or twelve o'clock at night . LBJ would come by or be there and sign the payro! 1 s and . send them on i n
  • . We was working on the student aid part of it then, so a lot of times we'd be there at eleven or twelve o'clock at night. LBJ would come by or be there and sign the payrolls and send them on in to the WPA at Austin, who processed them and sent them
  • to call him. Morse by that time, I think, had declared against the war and part of it was Johnson demonstrating dramatically that even somebody that was against the war thought this was a terrible thing. Once you're in it, you protected your boys and you
  • for lunch in his offices in the Department of Justice Building. As we were about to sit down, a gentleman whom I didn't know at the time came in to just say hello to Tom Clark, and it happened to be Lyndon Johnson. He stayed for lunch and we had a visit