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Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , "Education lies at the heart of every nation's hopes and purposes. of our international relations." It must be at the heart This was a phrase that I think beautifully summarized the role of education, not only in domestic advancement, but also
  • and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961; Board of Foreign Scholarship; Fulbright-Haynes Act; Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Budgetary Stringency; War Claims; Russian cultural agreement; American effort in international education and cultural activities; World
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • announced that he would not se election, and several men ran, but Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson were in the runoff, and ran "neck and neck" to finish, with Johnson winning by a majority of only 87 votes. After the State Democratic Executive Committee
Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the creation of the new Museum of History and Technology, which had Cost about thirty-seven million dollars and which had been presided over in its construction by a joint congressional committee assisting the Regents of the Institution, and, as a Vice
  • Connections with LBJ; dedication of Museum of History and Technology; Court of Claims Buildling; Corcoran Gallery of Arts; Joseph Hirshorn Collection; National Collection of Fine Arts; LBJ’s taste in art; Peter Hurd; Jimilu Mason; National Portrait
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. B: Were you, incidentally, active politically before 1961? M: No. B: I know you were with a Washington, D. C., law firm about ten years before then, but neither you individually nor the firm had any
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , for a number of years, I have served as a consultant to various agencies in government in several specific capacities to the National Institutes of Health, also as a consultant to the secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, particularly to Secretary John
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : And the man, rather than national issues? T: Yes. And of course we had not gotten into this deep depression at that time. Everyone was having a hard time, but it was after that we went--the first year, because when we first started out in politics I
  • Biographical information about Albert Thomas; Thomas’ race for Congress in 1936; appointment to House Appropriations Committee; Thomas’ contributions to Houston and Harris County; First acquaintance with LBJ; role of a politician’s wife; Lady
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was the executive committee, and we went up to see Mrs . Roosevelt at Val-Kill . I remember when the state directors, after they had been to the White House, the meeting that we had with the President and Mrs . Roosevelt and our national advisory committee, at which
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • National Youth Administration; Aubrey Williams; LBJ
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)
  • committee under Ambassador Lodge? W: I was the one who proposed to Nes that a committee be set up to concentrate on pacification and suggested that Nes chair it. Nes, who was deputy chief of mission, accepted this, and the committee with me, [Barry
  • General Harkins and his relationship with Taylor and Lodge; David Nes and pacification; assessment of ambassadors; National Libertarian Front; weaknesses of South Vietnamese forces; Westmoreland’s command arrangements; strong points of the U.S
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Washington now--somewhat dates back to the emphasis that was put in this meeting. It was also an effort to get the media of communications involved. If you could visualize a meeting nationally of the Community Relations Committee, as President Johnson would
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees
Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Secretary decided to do a survey using the President's Committee on Manpower as a leader in twenty of the large cities in the nation. And we did a survey using the United States Employment Service people of the high intensity slumghetto areas whether
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boggs -- I -- 5 I remember in January of 1960, Hale was away in the Far East. He was chairman of the Joint Economic Committee Foreign Economic Policy
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • usually, and are quite familiar with the activities that each of us has under way related to national security. In this case, of course, it involves all of my activities, but in the case of Dr. Hornig it's only a portion of the kinds of things he worries
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 47 (XLVII), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in a place where it would get passed year after year. John Gardner and the people that wanted it in HEW said that the HEW committees--I don't know what they were called then. G: Education and Labor in the House. C: Education and Labor, and Labor and Human
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with a draft of about seventy-five articles which had been referred to a conference called by the United Nations. And this conference was to be in two sessions, both to be held in Vienna, the first in April and May of 1968 and the second in April and May
  • Wozencraft's work on a study group related to the revision of international treaty laws; the 1968 United Nations (UN) Conference on the Law of Treaties negotiations over how treaties should be invalidated and terminated; concern that proposed
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was then chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, but I frankly don't remember the details of the meeting. I know there was such a meeting, but that's about all I could tell you. G: Can you shed any other light on the relationship between Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • House level then? T: Generally so, yes. The National Export Expansion Council recommendations did . go to the President; he received them. Jack Connor and I and Joe Fowler in 1966 took these Action Committee reports and the three chairmen
  • Balance of payments issue; Balance of Payments Advisory Committee; a visit to LBJ at the Ranch; the Office of Foreign Direct Investments; Trowbridge's retirement and C. R. Smith; Charles E. Fiero; staffing problems; LBJ's free-trade views; textile
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to the National Urban League in 1957 and 1959 . much as I have on your biographical B: information . That's about as If there's any­ thing you'd like to fill in, please feel free . Well, thanks very much . It is true I was born in Maysville, Kentucky
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES A. SHANNON INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Dr. Shannon's Office, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 2 G: This is an interview with Dr. James A. Shannon, presently the special adviser to the president
  • programs; the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study; working with the Bureau of the Budget to obtain funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH); Surgeon General Leonard Scheele's assessment of NIH's work and agreement to increase
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Government. We do not exist on public funds. Our operation is financed by assessments against the national banks, so that no appropriations feature comes into the picture. So politics has largely been out of it. M: Now, you are appointed for a set term
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • up a committee of public spirited people--I was then the Executive Director of the National Consumers League--to try to get them to lend their support to the passage of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. We were seeking to get that bill through
  • Comments by LBJ; LBJ’s concern for full utilization of human resources; FSEE; War on Poverty; YWCA; 1964 Civil Rights Act; comparison of non-white/white men earnings; women in household employment; National Commission on Household Employment
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • and stated that I had impressed the persons who were at the meeting, including the President, more than some of the persons who were familiar figures in the civil rights movement. Now, when you see that kind of an indication in a national column, you know
  • for Congress; visit to LBJ Ranch; accessibility of LBJ; Lady Bird; goals in Congress; contrasting the Texas Senate and U.S. Congress; Texas delegation; influence of grandfather; Texas Southern and Boston Universities; the Judicial Committee
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of employees, naval people, who were working at the Navy Department. I think the same was true at the War Department. The Naval Affairs Committee got the idea that too many people were on duty in Washington at desk jobs instead of being at sea or in foreign
  • personnel; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Carl Vinson, the Naval Affairs Committee Chair; the Big Inch pipeline; how Lady Bird Johnson got the money to buy the KTBC radio station; Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ's early talk of buying a small
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson, I never knew him at all before that. I may have met him at a Washington affair with a thousand handshakes. Then when President Kennedy was assassinated, Senator Eastland at that time was head of the Judiciary Committee, and all of the appointments
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was the agency's man in the National Training Center. So many of the cadre who worked for Major Le Xuyen Mai opposed this decision very strongly, because, as I told you, Le Xuyen Mai was in fact very popular and very competent. So they formed a struggle committee
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the general counsel of the Commerce Department where this bill was being pigeonholed. In conversations with Califano and myself and with Pertschuk and with Cohen, we worked out a program for trying to get that bill through the Senate Commerce Committee
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://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 9 to go through what we call the Development Loan Committee. II m the chairman
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the Democratic nominee for the vice presidency, along with a telephone lineman and myself in a helicopter for two people, whereby that we had to get out and go through the cockleburs to hitchhike a ride over to my classmate, who presently is the lieutenant
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • known his family a long time, had not known Bill well at all. But when I enrolled at the University of Texas, Bill helped me get an NYA [National Youth Administration] job. I had also a job down at the State Capitol through the patronage of Senator
Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID L. HACKETT INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Hackett's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Hackett, let's start with your experience with the Juvenile Delinquency Committee. What insights did you gain
  • Insights gained from Hackett's work with the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime; giving grants to nineteen cities that wanted to develop a plan for addressing delinquency; pressure to speed up the planning process
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a separate committee because all of the white members would resign if the committee were integrated . national office finally went along with this . In Washington the Do you recall that issue? B: No . G: Do you remember Juanita Sadler coming to Texas
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that--and those agreements, with the exception of criminal penalties, which we lost in the Senate Commerce Committee, is the bill that passed both houses of Congress. It's the kind of thing-(Interruption) And after that meeting I went over the agreements we'd
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEL~EE : DR. ROBERT QUARLES INTERVIEWER: f.1ARSTOi~ STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: His office, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, r~aryland Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Dr. Robert Q. Marston, presently the director of the National
  • Biographical and professional information; appointment as Associate Director of National Institute of Health and director of Division of Regional Medical Programs; problems of regional medical cooperation; 1967 decision to move Regional Medical
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the word "nation" could not mean two different things in the same sentence. B: By legislative history, do you mean the record of the debates and the committee hearings? W: Yes. B: An attempt to elucidate exactly how the word was used in formation
  • and agencies; resolving conflict between government departments and agencies; Congressman Paul Findley's amendment to Public Law 480 regarding US aid to nations that had provided aid to North Vietnam; OLC's work to help the attorney general and the White House
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Roosevelt was talking about--I don't remember exactly, but probably it was lend-lease. At any rate, he was nibbling at the edges of help to Britain. We were not scared as a nation and we were not sold on it. He was trying to take us as far as we would go, I
  • to be on the Appropriations Committee; the many visitors and long hours of work LBJ enjoyed; socializing in Washington, D.C., at the 75th Club, the Congressional Club, theater and parties; Lady Bird Johnson's movie camera; Lady Bird Johnson's walk through the slums
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the afternoon. We're in your offices. It is around quarter- I'd like to ask you about your views regarding our national security and international security affairs relating to the Nonproliferation Treaty. W: Well, obviously, the Nonproliferation Treaty
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Senator's subcommittee of the House Naval Affairs Committee, I was in the public utilities division of the Securities and Exchange Commission. prior to that know the President. I did not However, I was known to a suc- cession of chairmen of the commission
  • Biographical information; naval affairs subcommittee; Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve; shipyards; trip to Europe, 1945; Carl Vinson; committee work; reports
Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to have to be done there to help us implement some of the work we have in mind . We did establish a national marketing advisory committee for the department in June of 1966 . And the purpose of this committee was to further some of these objectives
Oral history transcript, Wayne O. Reed, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1968, by Broudy (Item)
  • with this task force, 11 : i l. i serving as a link not only to the Office but als9 to the committees of i.i . I associations education national various the to and Congress . . :I I know something about all this because Mr. : Keppel's house and q mine
Oral history transcript, W. Sterling Cole, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , armament t h a t was s c a t t e r e d around in v a r i o u s s p o t s in t h e w o r ld , what to do with i t . Chairman [ C a r l ] Vinson was ve ry a b l e , e x t r e m e l y a b l e ; he was t h e boss o f t h e Naval A f f a i r s Committee and we
  • May 1945 Special Committee to study naval properties in the British Isles; Europe and North Africa; meeting with Eisenhower at "Little Red Schoolhouse;" Marshall Plan; North Africa; Munich; Dachau and Berchesgaden; relationship with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ? H: There are two. There's the National Advisory Councilor committee, and there's the Economic Opportunity Council. The National Advisory Council are external people that meet and go over OEO programs and presumably advise the President
  • House; OEO support for a job creation program; National Advisory Council; Economic Opportunity Council; attendance at cabinet meeting; relationship between OEO and White House; Kerner Commission Report; war on poverty conservative in outlook; personal