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Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

, except--it's interesting when I look back on it in that time, and that was the summer of 1964, there was a lot of activity on the national scene, of course, on the civil rights front. It was very clear to me, as a Yankee, that many of the people
; how Wilson began to work on beautification-related correspondence; members of Mrs. Johnson’s beautification committee; Nash Castro.

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Committee, who dominated the committee I think in a way that Senator Long, his successor, has never dominated the committee. He was implacably opposed to the tax cut in 1963 in the budgetary and general economic environment then prevailing. When Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that the old NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] activities, which were federally-sponsored research, and the military activities, along with many other things, have led to our leadership in the aviation area; and it is an important leadership
Communication issues between scientists, engineers, politicians, and social activists; Lehan's role as liaison between the scientific and political communities; citizens' advisory committee on transportation quality; dual mode transportation systems

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, not necessarily to help him but to listen to the arguments before the committees. One of his greatest delights was to hear the debate in the house and the senate over legislative programs. PB: This boarding house, or rooming house where you stayed, can you tell

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but in March of 1964 signed an executive order which finally gave teeth to what the Kennedys had started with the legislation in 1961, namely a permanent group, a permanent White House Committee. The office of the curator really never existed except
impressions of Eartha Kitt; Mrs. Johnson and porcelain Dorothy Doughty birds given to her as gifts; automobile privileges; Mrs. Kennedy taking a presidential desk; establishment of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House and Office of the White

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Ball, interview 1 (I), 11/5/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Biographical information; beginning years of the Social Security Administration; Democratic and Republican approaches to the program; social security and the cost of living; amendments through the years; 1956 disability amendment and the opposition

Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of Foreign Intelligence in the Department of the Army in the Pentagon, from about 1957 to about 1961. Then I was transferred to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, where I was the Director of Production from 1961 to 1965; and then back

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

leadership, collecting statistics, issuing executive orders, revamping all the advisory committees. I have [also included] a large vehicle inspection programs, upgrade the quality of driver education, develop modern police and traffic control techniques, have

Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

such as the National Association of Governors. I didn't know Mr. Johnson personally or well, however. B: Another area that really is somewhat touchy because it's largely personal and subjective, there was some indication that, after Mr. Johnson became President

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the task force that wrote the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act and steered it through the Congress. It was a busy year. M: To say the 1east. 0: I was then asked to go with both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
contributions to establishment of DOT; task force headed by Zwick; Dean's role in organization of DOT; National Transportation Safety Board; power of DOT

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 the National Heart Institute, I decided to stay in the Public Health Service and moved then to Bethesda to become part of the Grants Branch
Biographical information; Bane Committee membership; Health Professions Act; AMA limits number of doctors; Surgeon General’s Report on Nursing; Health Professionals Education Assistance Act; NDEA; passing legislation; Krebiozin; Medicare hearings

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

got here. C: Okay, Joe. The route wasn't very circuitous. I should say that I am a native of Arizona. First of all, I teamed up with the National Park Service in 1939 at Grand Canyon National Park and, except for four years I spent flying
Natural resources and national parks
Biographical information; National Park Service

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Milwaukee Public Schools through junior high school and part way through high school. Then I received a scholarship to Milwaukee Country Day School, where I did my last two years of study. I subsequently received a national scholarship to Harvard and took my
; to Princeton, 1957; became chairman of department, 1958; 1959 appointed by President Eisenhower to Science Advisory Committee; 1960 on JFK’s task force for a space policy; met LBJ in 1961; served under three presidents: Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ

Oral history transcript, J. Graham Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1968, by Monna Clark (Item)

thatis named a National assessmen t or a National sampling. In my State, for example, when we talked about statewide t esting, we had the same attitudes opposing statewide testing. Presently we have the oppositio n of chief State school officers to any

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

no question about that. I noticed that in your [outline]. That Rules [Committee] fight was the first one where he decided he was going to take them on. He [Kennedy] did take on Judge [Howard] Smith and he got Rayburn sort of behind him. Rayburn gave him a hand

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to be the deputy mayor. I want a city manager for that job." Horace Busby then called Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers Association; and Mr

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

assistance in Ethiopia is basically the payment of rental for an intelligence installation. Latin America is basically not directed toward an American security interest in the sense of our fearing that the security of these nations is endangered by external
Military Assistance Program; American foreign policy; Vietnam; national security; disarmament; ABM; defense policies

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

.] was chairman, I guess, of the President's Committee on Traffic Safety, and the Hearst papers had made a big issue of traffic safety over the years. G: Did it favor a more voluntary approach? C: Well, they favored a more voluntary approach, but nobody had

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to catch him was somewhere around five-thirty or six o'clock at night. That was about the time they would break from the floor, and he would come back to his office to go through his constituent problems and/or other committee problems. Being the Senate

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in going with the Department of Defense because I had met McNamara, knew Cy, and was very impressed with the caliber of the people here and the nature of the problems. My specific interest was in the field of national security, and this struck me

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on, a measly-- (Interrupti on) Mr. Johnson and his initial staff that he selected immediately got wi th us, as they \'/ere starti ng from scratch. worked out, anything like that. They had no procedures I would imagine that the folks in their national office
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
National Youth Administration; WPA; personnel; Harry Drought; Alvin Wirtz

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, B: from from the NAACP and other national Negro organizations . in your talks with Mr . McGiffert and Mr . Murphy afterwards, were you concentrating mainly on the situation in the District of Columbia? C: No, we were concentrating nationally

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

domain and enlarge the national park system and enlarge the national wildlife refuge system. So being thoroughly aware of what other Presidents had done and Secretaries and wanting us to end on a high note, I first--as I recall it way back in July of 1968

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was on the Naval Affairs Committee and was in the naval reserve. He had come up to give Mr. Johnson a report, whatever he was allowed to say about the attack at Pearl Harbor. Of course, Mr. Johnson had gotten there before I did, just a little bit before I did
decision to enter active military duty following the attack on Pearl Harbor; how LBJ's office was run with Lady Bird Johnson's help during LBJ's deployment; life in Washington D.C. during World War II; LBJ's involvement in the Naval Affairs Committee

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to the congressional committee on a proposed bill cannot include a line at the end that the Bureau of the Budget has advised that this is not in conflict with the administration's program, or that this furthers the administration's program, unless the Bureau

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I probably talked to everybody on the executive committee of the National Alliance for Businessmen to get them to call senators. Fortas was actually quite acceptable to the business community, at least that progressive part of it, Henry Ford and Paul

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

times earlier to join the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and turned them down the first two times, saying that I was not an expert in radiation and besides, I was a reassurer of parents, not an alarmer. Homer Jack, the director
Campaigning for LBJ in 1964; serving on National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; disagreement about Vietnam War; letters to LBJ about the war; RFK; HHH candidacy; White House Conference on International Cooperation; Spock trial; civil

Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it. I probably went as an observer. G: Did you go to any of the executive committee meetings? O: Not that I recall. G: That was where the case was argued. O: Well, then I probably [did] I was there when they are arguing it so I must have been
How Owens got involved in the 1948 Texas Democratic Senate primary investigation; what Owens learned in questioning people in Jim Wells County for the investigation; Owens' relationship with Coke Stevenson; Owens' relationship with the Johnson

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. In our own planning why I decided that we ought to start out from where we really wanted to be--to take a look at what NASA would regard as, first of all, an all-out budget. It would really put the nation into the pattern of moving ahead aggressively

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PERRIN -- II -- 4 problems. The director of OEO was named by the law to be the chair- man of the EOC~ so this put a non-Cabinet member supposedly chairing a Cabinet committee
Power of state Economic Opportunity director of governors; veto power and overrides; creation of the National Advisory Council; Perrin’s duties as deputy director of OEO; Senator Morse; involvement of BOB funding; political red tape; GAO

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

had the congressional committees on our side. Even the city organiza- tions like the National League of Cities and the Conference of Mayors, which some HUD people thought would oppose the plan, refused to opposed the transfer. I say a few hard

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

to the funding of the national defense and war efforts and in matters of organization, particularly of the production and price control management programs that the government had put in place. I came to work for what was known as the War Organization Section
Biographical information; how Carey came to work for the Bureau of the Budget; John Steelman; post-war work and staff of Bureau of the Budget; cooperation between government and universities in scientific research; National Science Foundation Act

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

be either legislative or constitutional. For instance, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, which is a constitutional capacity, he can issue executive orders involving national defense. He also issues a lot of orders under his power
or departmental regulations rather than by legislation; the impact of government contracting power and unions; penalties for violating the National Labor Relations Act; congressional concern that the executive branch would act beyond its proper authority

Oral history transcript, Eugene McDermott and Margaret Milam McDermott, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. for their home. But I think even so they always had a great love Fredericksburg and the Hill Country. They were always interested in what was happening there no matter how involved they were on a national scheme. EM: She was especially at that time. MM: I

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- II -- 5 "Is there a national interest in continuing our efforts?" That had been determined by the National Security Council the last time in May of 1961. My task was purely a matter of studying

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the other members of the committee, where you might have met them? E: Yes, it was at a luncheon or a dinner party. party. And they were all very, very nice. Maybe it was a dinner They were quite interested in what I had been doing, too, and several
[For interviews 1 and 2] Wartime service in the Red Cross; seeing LBJ during his visit to Paris on a mission; the mission committee; activities during visit; impressions of Eisenhower; flight back to Texas with LBJ; conditions in Europe; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and really "agency" isn't the correct word for them. They go by many other names--sometimes they're called commissions, sometimes panels, sometimes committees, and sometimes task forces. The term "task force" developed, I think, in either the late Kennedy
forces and commissions or councils; the Kerner Commission; Wozencraft's involvement in the President's National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot-Affected Areas; the composition of that panel and how insurees were represented; the concerns of the three

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

not upon your own national decisions to deploy all your resources, but how much the enemy, in effect, requires you to deploy particularly since the objective of the United States was not to destroy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Influence of Vietnam on Treasury policies; attitudes towards LBJ and Congress; national public service

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

of the questions that I might ask perhaps are covered in the correspondence. Nonetheless, I would like to ask some of this anyway. What was the very first word you heard about the National Wildflower Research Center? C: After the Johnsons left the White House
The creation of the LBJ Memorial Grove and the committee that oversaw its planning; finding stone in Texas to create a megalith for the memorial; the location of the memorial in Lady Bird Johnson Park and the creation of the Lady Bird Johnson Park

Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was with him. I would say, offhand, I'm sure that Lyndon was the state director of the National Youth Administration. I would think that maybe Jesse [was with him]; I know he came to later meetings with him. G: What was Lyndon Johnson like in those days
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
How he met LBJ; impressions of LBJ; Keating’s mediations between Texas’ head of WPA and LBJ as head of National Youth Administration, 1936; finding qualified youths for the Texas NYA project; LBJ’s management of Texas NYA.

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