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  • of the administrative and programming problems, planning problems, that a new organization would obviously face--particularly one where these young people would not have had this kind of experience before. B: Did you have any kind of continuing contact with individuals
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . As one secretary said, "It's very nice to have the administrators announce the bad news and let me announce the good news." a decentralized system. You can do this beautifully under Yesterday we announced that the Secretary had given final approval
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for appointments, positions, being heard. And here he was, and he just drew a little circle around it and just worked away, beautiful work. I do want to talk about the new building at KTBC. Does that come along later? M: Yes it does. Here on the twenty-fourth
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • participating, virtually all of them had been around here for the last couple of years; they knew each other, they knew I guess who was a real grabber of turf and who was a team player and all. But to me everybody was new, and it's remarkable how, looking down
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • had a combination of all three of the liberal, moderate, conservative. Now you can't keep all these people, but itls a new ball game in Texas. This is something that's hard for people to realize. Most of Lyndon Johnson's supporters are too old
  • Vietnam policy; post-presidency contacts and work with LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ State Park; Hubert Humphrey's 1968 Texas campaign; LBJ's role in politics in post-presidency period
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that I had a call from Santa Fe, New Mexico from Kistiakowsky, and Kistiakowsky said, "What the hell is going on down there? Everyone's mad that you said no. You are the first person that has said no." So I explained to him that his call had helped me
  • fortunate things that happened to us, comparatively, during the war. And I remember Mrs. Johnson came down to San Antonio when the new federal building was built. It's not the new federal building now [in Austin?]. It's on Eighth Street, I believe. 2 LBJ
  • the Johnson Administration; Ingram's son's criticism of LBJ; LBJ's mood in post-presidential years; LBJ's health; Lady Bird Johnson's work after LBJ's death.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • did want me to arrive as soon as Lodge left, which was quite unusual for a new ambassador to arrive the day his predecessor left. Lodge left in the morning and I arrived in the afternoon. Usually there's a gap of some weeks or even months
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • be no new entity that had control of nuclear weapons. If the countries of Western Europe were to merge, if they were to create a unified Europe which had control of foreign and military policy, then that Europe would be nuclear by direct succession
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of payments problem. This was something brand new to the United States, we'd never really ever encountered it. And we finally ran up against the place, and began to realize that as a nation we were spending more internationally than we were earning
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a lieutenant Although he served for only five months, he was awarded the Silver Star Medal for distinguished service while serving in New Guinea. He left active duty only because President Roosevelt ordered all members of Congress serving in the Armed Forces
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , but we did change the one thing that could block legislation and had been blocking legislation since the New Deal days. M: Was this seen at that time as sort of a preparatory move to take on some of this legislation 3 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HENRIETTE WYETH HURD INTERVIEWER: ELIZABETH KADERLI PLACE: Sentinel Ranch, San Patricio, New Mexico Tape 1 of 1 K: I am at Sentinel Ranch with Mrs. Hurd, who is gOing to tell me some more about the incident itself as she was with Hr. Hurd
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to have a meal with him or to have a talk with him. F: You didn't know him particularly well though before he became President? M: No. F: Relate the circumstances surrounding your receipt of the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. Where
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT L. PHINNEY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Phinney's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: That's really germane. P: They were brand new. You say initially when the NYA moved in-They had nothing to start
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the relations were not So when--and I think I've discussed this to some extent earlier--when Ted had corne in we had talked a little about 1968. Ted and John Criswell and I had a lunch discussing the forthcoming New Hampshire primary, and Ted was suggesting
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ] McNamara for having no new weapons system--I told you the story about the Polaris [mentioned in Interview XX] and how we got the new name? [Bill] Moyers called me and said the President wanted to announce new weapons systems the next day. They were going
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • countries with the United States would furnish additional credit to the U.K. in order for them to support this new rate, this was put together very quickly. And over the weekend of the British devaluation, there was a command post operation out
  • to each other for two or three years and then we moved to another house further away. WF: The TF: We moved just a few blocks aVlay from the old house. WF: But Lyndon had lived out on the farm until he moved in at five years Fawcett~ built a new home
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • when I was there, and that's right down the big hallway in Old Main Building. Then you came to a side hallway to the right that went by the student exchange, and there was a little office just beyond that--or post exchange, you know
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • back home and it was a small town and everybody had a post office box. Daddy went and checked his post office box before he took my mother and my brother home, and my brother had received orders from the 8th Naval District in New Orleans to report
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ( \ .. ,._. .. ~ - 7 ­ .. world. :~ I never asked for anythini except French-speaking posts, because I had. studied French four years in in college. h~gh school and four years While I always
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ) Then on New Year's Eve, the Johnsons arrived in Washington and we all met over at Scooter and Dale Miller's house--wait a minute, I beg your pardon; it was the Thornberrys' house, it was Homer and Eloise's house-for a New Year's Eve party. Scooter and Dale
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . As such, in a federal agency, particularly a temporary federal agency like the WPA was, a New Deal agency, I was pretty much on my own with no supervision. I was told what they expected, then I did it. The boss, the state administrator, was Harry P. Drought, a ranking
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the new LBJ Presidential Library http://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 Pollak -- I -- 2 Solicitor
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Field, I had a total of fourteen hours in fighter aircraft, four of which were in a P-36, and none of them in the new P-40 E. But we did get them assembled, more or less, with the aid of some Aussies and the tutelage of a few sergeants that were destined
  • McMahon met LBJ; air combat in Papua New Guinea; McMahon meeting LBJ again after LBJ had become a U.S. senator.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to one new wildlife refuge, two major additions, both of them happening to be in Alaska, and a recommendation that the President add over seven 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • expert in that field. And that ultimately led to the passage of the Mental Retardation Act, which gave us roughly seven million dollars of new money to support--I think my recollection of the funds is correct--a variety of activities around the country
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the catastrophic consequences of a withdrawal from Vietnam. Joe Alsop had a good column in the Post this morning. You may have seen it. And I'm afraid he's right. n If we scuttle from Vietnam, Heaven knows where the rot is going to stop! M: What I was driving
  • 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-)
  • /oh Mayhew -- I -- 12 expansionist times, and there were a lot of people moving into positions of leadership where those positions hadn't been available ten years before. K: Yes. So that a new wave or new generation coming into power? M: Yes. A new
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Paine. I think Dr. Paine was alrea dy there . M: That could very well be . L: I'm just tryin g to remember. M: That was late 1968? L: Yes, that was close to the new admi nistr ation . I'm not too sure. I'm not certa in on that. Because
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • sophisticated and complicated a weapon as the M-16 rifle.We only had one producer of that rifle. They were producing only something like--I don't know--thirty thousand a month or something--this is a figure that can be checked. It was not until 1967-68 that new
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • DATE: January 9-10, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The winter and spring of 1950 began a new thing in my life and that is carpooling. Lynda, at six
  • the theater; socializing with staff, including the Clark Cliffords; the health of LBJ's family in 1950; LBJ's work on a natural gas bill; LBJ's interest in post-World War II rubber and tin industries; North Korea invading South Korea; Frank Stanton; childhood
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to always be rather surprised in a state such as Rhode Island that I would have led the ticket rather than vice versa. M: As a member of the New Frontier, as it was called, of those people entering during this election, did this help in committee
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • at Grady Memorial Hospital which is one of Emory University's teaching hospitals . In 1952, having completed my post-graduate training, I accepted an appointment as assistant professor of medicine at Yale University in New Haven. After two years
  • boards in Florida are elected on the basis of political affiliation, and the Broward school board changed its complexion. Three new Republicans were elected to the school board. F: This was after you had been sort of stockpiled for Broward? B: Right
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh of developing a legislative program--the academics, tapping these bright young people, as you called them? G: Well, the whole system is new. The process historically of program development
  • contest of his primary election in Texas? R: No. Actually, like most of the other young New Dealers around town, I met then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson in the early '40's, but it's not a clear recollection for me. I guess I remember him mostly as sort
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)