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Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • [The Negro Family: The Case for National Action] at just the time the conference was being anticipated, somewhere between the time Johnson made his Howard University speech and, what he must have regretted more than once, rashly promised this conference
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan's involvement in the White House "To Fulfill These Rights" conference; Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action;" deciding who would be invited to speak at the conference; Fleming's career and how
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . explained that by we worked through Dean Moore at the university. I He had I'm sure a committee to help him, but they decided, under certain ground rules which NYA laid down, who was eligible to receive parttime jobs. univ~rsity University students, we'll
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • HURD -- I -- 5 for my wife and me and for the John Walkers. The director of the National Gallery of Art, the great Mellon Collection. He and his wife, who was a British noblewoman, my wife and I, and Mrs. Longworth were at the lunch
Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , for example. Copper is a good one. S: Right. M: You would get involved right in the middle of that. S: Right. You see, there he would make his comment to the special assistant who is handling this and it would not normally be somebody on the National
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • regular schedule on it. I'm sort of attempting to explore how the decision-making process was with Mr. Johnson, of course relating this to the military decisions. And I'm thinking in terms of the National Security Council as an instrument in advising
  • Meeting LBJ; McConnell’s appointment as vice chief, and then chief, of staff of Air Force; Joint Chiefs of Staff budget conferences with LBJ; making recommendations to the President through JCS; National Security Council and Tuesday Luncheons; U.S
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thought there might be any problem on. I'd prefer a chain of command idea on this so that you don't at least create another impression. M: How does the problem of administering the State Department relate to the national security advisers in the White
  • [Description is for all three Katzenbach interviews] LBJ's focus on military waste while on Preparedness Subcommittee; LBJ's concern with constitutional authority for his powers as vice president; LBJ and the PCEEO; Space Committee; JFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • asked to serve on any committees or task forces outside of Defense? E: Well, not directly that I can recall. I'm always afraid with a question like that I'll be missing some or forgetting some obvious example, but offhand I don't recall. Mr
  • Meetings with LBJ; role of McNamara; Cabinet Committee on Residual Oil; import quotas; maritime policy; application of economic analysis and systems analysis in Defense Department; Office of Research and Engineering; future of systems analysis
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the Vice President was chairing on the other hand? S: I don't remember any overlapping on that. F: When President Kennedy was killed, you were named to a state committee to look into the assassination. S: Yes. What happened was that as soon
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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 Judiciary Committee], Joe Fowler
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • figure as vice president than he had been as majority leader. V: In what way do you mean that? G: Well, even though he had been majority leader, he was one of one hundred senators, whereas being vice president, elected nationally along
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Califano -- IX -- 6 C: I mean we didn't want them going back and checking with Roger Blough and checking with [I. W.] Abel or the union executive committee, whoever was not there. It was also to give them just a sense that there was nothing else they were
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or those days, so we went up to the living quarters and they showed me some things there. They quite frankly told me they approved this, and they already had personally given me my clearance. I remember we got a White House car and went to the National
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a southern committee chairman--and they're almost all southern--to get one of his pieces of legislation pushed through, he would be reminded that his men in HEW were "persecuting" the South on the school desegregation question. And in effect those southern
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it, it was a persistent theme in national security circles ' thinking about Cuba that we ought to be able to overthrow Castro, or get rid of Castro as people tended loosely to say, in other ways than by invading his island, as we sort of did in the Bay of Pigs, or trying
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was there and because we were doing the Benelux [nations]. And then, let's see. I guess we went from there to the Netherlands and then back to Brussels, was the last stop. But we actually flew from Amsterdam to Brussels, if you can believe that, on Air Force Two. MG
  • LBJ’s November 1963 trip to Luxembourg and other Benelux nations; William R. Rivkin; LBJ’s loyalty to JFK; LBJ’s complex personality; LBJ’s daily schedule while on trips; LBJ’s preference for hotels; Crockett and Dwight Porter; John Rooney; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Carey would influence [James J.] Delaney and Delaney was on the Rules Committee? Carey had an opponent in the primary, I suppose, who was making a big thing of the fact that the government was going to close the Brooklyn Navy Yard and who had
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • intervention and during the Vietnam escalation in 1965. J: As a background, the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate was always the depositing ground for dissenters and unpopular senators. That was not a good appointment. Foreign Relations back
  • The Senate Foreign Relations Committee; William Fulbright and his relationship with LBJ; writer William S. White's relationship with LBJ; Fulbright's opinion of minorities; LBJ's opinion of Head Start and Job Corps; the relationship between LBJ
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • committee composed of the province chief, the AID representative, and the military advisory group representative. They would be given a budget, including some contingency funds, for a variety of activities, which included everything ranging from hamlet
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was Weaver--as secretary--the bill was defeated. It either never got out of committee or it was defeated on the floor of the House and Senate. President Johnson was very conscious of that. As we got nearer to the date, I think he didn't know and I certainly
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • programs that had been established, HARYOU-Act, the President's [Committee on Juvenile Delinquency]? H: Yes. Yes, let's see, who would be some of the--a name that I don't recall seeing in any of your lists was David Hackett. in your list. Or maybe it's
  • ; conflict over community action; work of drafting committee for the bill; education aspects; Congressman Phil Landrum; Sargent Shriver
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had become National Youth administrator and had gone to Austin--I joined him in Austin. I started my second year of law school at The University of Texas, and I lived with Mr. Johnson in the home of Dr. Robert Montgomery in Austin, Texas. Montgomery
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Biographical information; how Jones met LBJ; LBJ getting Jones a job on the staff of Congressman Kleberg; LBJ as taskmaster; LBJ’s relationship with Kleberg; LBJ’s inability to relax; LBJ’s work as Texas director of the National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon a letter. I had seen in the paper where he had just aome back down to Austin to crank up a new federal agency, the National Youth Administration, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
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Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with the space committee and the space activitie s from the political side. Did you have any occasion to meet him in that early period? L: No, I didn't. In the early stages of the space program my sphere of influence wasn't too great. I never did reach
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • influenced Johnson in his view of general national economics? A: 11m sure that must have had an important role, particularly growing up where he did. F: Well, it would have hit just about the time he came onto the job market. A: Oh yes, and obvi ously he
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • positions were locked. Eventually the senior members of the executive branch determined that this split viewpoint could not continue. Not only did it impair national level decision-making, but more important, there were tremendous political implications
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • months after he was out of the presidency. But I spent many nights there. I was in Washington on many occasions for different purposes. Occasionally it was because he had gotten me involved in some health committee. For example, he placed me on the Heart
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that it wouldn't be an action that benefit somebody who was continuing in office. The timing of this legislative machinery was intentionally timing that would provide the recommendations at a time when there had been a national election and there might
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I was asked during my Senate confirmation hearing whether I would be willing, whether I was capable of being fair in contests between private and public power interests. And I assured the Senate Committee 8 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES M. MAGUIRE INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE HcSWEENY PLACE: The National Archives Conference Room, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 3 Mc: Mr. Maguire, to continue with our third session this morning, Tuesday, August 19
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • , from time to time, when he was out on Armed Services Committee business, obviously it was in the interest of the government and the interest of the United States Air Force to carry the Senator wherever he needed to go. I had heard of the Senator
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the experience .of the Presiden~'s . . Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, which in turn came out of · the Peace Corps. Dave Hackett and others worked early in, what, 1962, maybe, on a task force for a domestic Peace Corps. G: Oh, yes, the National Service
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , seven. And then, of course, he went back to Washington and I guess with the reorganization plan of combining the Naval Affairs and the Military Affairs Committee that that created a situation where a number of others would outrank him on the com­
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • regarding the Far East at that time, Korea and Japan. I got to know him then and saw him almost daily. certainly was a very impressive and personable man. He I think his relationship with the top people at the United Nations when he
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as a White House aide on the national security side of McGeorge Bundy's shop and then later with Mr. Harriman throughout the period 1966-67; then you came to the Institute for Defense analyses during 1967 where you still are. C: Right. M: Did you know Mr
  • Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • fairly obvious, when crowds sack the USIS library that doesn't get you very good press with the Foreign Relations Committee. N: Absolutely. G: Was it possible to explain this to the Egyptians in any way that would make any difference? N: I think
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • worrying about your own stomach to worry about the nation's business, eating with those reporters." And I would say most of those meetings, dinners or lunches if you will, were 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • knew him, and I imagine that Diem very likely mentioned his name occasionally to me. I remember one time a year or so later when some Americans were going to come out, a committee was going to come out to Vietnam and the Vietnamese were in conference
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson. That would have been in the 1930's, about 1935 or so, would it not? GF: That would be correct. He came to Austin as National Youth Administrator in the early part of the Roosevelt administration and that's when I first became
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Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not established contacts with the outside world or been interested in that aspect of America's national interest as much as maybe Mr. Kennedy had. In any case, certainly in a country like Japan and most others he did not have a great image the way Mr. Kennedy