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  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This time the subjects I want to talk about--and for your time benefit I hope we can wind it up--are Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, particularly. Suppose we begin with Latin
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the Eighty-second Airborne Division, who followed Bob [Robert] York. He was sort of the acting commander of Bragg and the Eighty-second, what was left of it. sion was in Santo Domingo. At one time the whole divi- He was trying to run Fort Bragg, and I had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT D. LASKER) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's talk about the genesis of that commission, Mrs. Lasker. You were saying that there was a reason
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it on the front page of New York Times and the Post the next morning. But not a line. But the interesting thing was that the wire services did summarize it and send it out. So that the small papers throughout the country got the news that Senator Ernest
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in New York parks in doing outdoor living rooms for all ages, old people to sit in the sun, ' young people to have some instructible kind of playground equipment. And so once when she was in New York, she asked Mrs. Astor if she would take her
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the work on that was done by the Director, Bill Foster, and Sam DePalma and George Bunn up in New York. Sam DePalma is an assistant director of the agency [ACDA] and George Bunn is the general counsel. They would be assisting Mr. Foster while he
  • Adlai Stevenson fan in both of his campaigns. Looking onto the 1960 election, of course, I felt this was a great opportunity for the party. As late as early 1958 I think I was still a Stevenson man. In fact I wrote an article for the New Republic which I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 Then, of course, when he got back to New York, he got back on a Sunday. Newsweek was in the habit then of promoting, on the Sunday news, its lead Monday story. I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • York, and whatever we wanted to put on was usually paraphrased out of the newspaper, and we put on very little news of that kind. There was just no press as we know it today. one thing. So it was a one-on- My friend from the Houston Press, who was my
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • because of the growing difficulties we saw across the country in municipal public servicelabor relations, particularly in New York City. And although the federal government was in no way exercising any kind of guidance or restraint on labor relations
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and if thfogs went fine it was the press or the New York Times or my friends at ·· css ~ so·~ I went to Colonel Albright, who was head of the White House Signal . . . I keep calling it the Si gnal Corps. They .changed it to Communications Agency. "Wha t
  • Daily summaries of TV networks to LBJ; Bureau Chiefs set up TV control room at White House; Bill Moyers and Peter Benchley leaving the White House; Jack Valenti; monitored 11:00 to 1:00pm TV news shows for LBJ; LBJ believed Texans were resented
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • went to Florida, I was responsible for the state of Florida. I went to New York and saw people in New Jersey and was in Washington some. M: So I worked around all [inaudible]. That must have been difficult for you. As I recall, Johnson wanted
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • funny, because in California I am a Democrat, but in New York [Jacob] Javits, I think, is a fine, fine man, and I love Rockefeller. So I'm sort of in-between, sort of a liberal Republican in New York and as I go West, I get more and more Democratic. F
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Yesterday we were talking about President Kennedy and the southern members of Congress. Let me ask you
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: The two legislative stories left are the Revenue Act of 1968 and the Truth in Packaging bill. Take your choice as to which one
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • hereinafter set forth, I, Frank G. Wisner, of New York, New York, do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted with me on March 21
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Can we get the original maybe, at the [LBJ] Library? April 21, 1966, 8:30 p.m., Thursday. It's from me and Jack Valenti and it attaches the reading version of his statement. Because I don't think this was in it. B: The New York Times says he ad-libbed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Slocum, New York, at the time I was first approached by a member of Mr. Deegan's staff in New York City, Tom [Thomas] Deegan, and asked if I could come down to talk about an interview with Mr. Johnson, perhaps, after I had a chance to talk to him. I went
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in Connecticut, New York, and some other states. Because I waul d be asked occas iona lly, "How many Negro students do you have out there this year or this semester?" I'd say, "Honestly, we don't know. We guess \'Je've got three hundred, but we don't keep
  • to New York when you met with Time and then Newsweek--theater again. Y ou 10 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
  • gun control bill; LBJ's relationship with Dorsey Hardeman; John Foster Dulles; Mrs. Johnson's visit to FDR's home in Hyde Park, New York; Mrs. Johnson's interactions with Eleanor Roosevelt; the Johnsons' relationship with Ed Weisl and Warren Woodward
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ; it's clear we're not in the right world. What Nader's book, and perhaps even more important, the front-page cover the New York Times gave it, did in November was just say, "We"--the guys who were trying to do something--"were absolutely right." G
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE BALL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Ball's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're George Ball, and during the Johnson Administration you served as under secretary [of state
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was eight About three or four years later my brother and I went to private school in New York State, in the Catskill r"10untains. lady Bird would have been about four years of age at that time. And I did quite a little baby-sitting. M: Oh, you did? T
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • from the condemnation of the social set in New York. It was the people who had an impact on Washington politics that mattered to him. I think that's a common Texas problem, where the height of achievement is to send one's son to 12 LBJ Presidential
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . (Interruption) The press, I think I mentioned these other names; Marshall McNeil, Sarah McClendon, Les Carpenter, I guess Walter Hornaday, who was the correspondent of the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Post had someone here, Robert Johnson. I think
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . But the re was never any seri ous problem in commun ication on the Middle Eas t. And I could say tha t a good deal of the load was being .ca rrie d by A~bassador Goldberg in New York, where I spent a good deal of tim e with him, in tha t, what was being
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the world of Lyndon Johnson, because Johnson paid so much attention to him. Do you remember when the Pope came--? G: To New York? P: Ves, what year was that? G: Let's see. P: Some of the things that get triggered here--yes, it was the end of 1965, I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -range payoff. There's not going to be an immediate payoff in my judgment, because the traffic is too thin in most parts of it. The traffic is much less in some areas in the East Coast, say, from New York and Boston down to Florida then for some
  • of New York [James H. Scheuer, D-Bronx], which took on the title of New Careers. This was an adult work program that was really designed to assist individuals to move up the career ladder, bringing them in at the low LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to imply that we in Pittsburgh, or I as an individual, were in any way exclusive in what we were doing. There were good programs like this going on in New York City under Martin Deutsch, a great scholar, a great psychologist, working in early childhood
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the New York state delegation--who voted for him in Los Angeles on the first ballot. I remember giving a newspaper an interview at the time which said that we shouldn't discount the effectiveness of Lyndon Johnson on the ticket because he brought enormous
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . The Kennedy strategy in those days was to try to please everybody, so he would appoint a Thurgood Marshall in New York but also appoint a Cox in Mississippi. B: We might make it clear, that would be now Justice Marshall's appointment to the lower courts
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the Northeast, including New York City, and I said, "No." It was a surprise to me. He said he had asked Governor Ellington, that's Governor Ellington of Tennessee-G: Yes, Buford Ellington. S: --who was head of the emergency planning agency [U.S. Office
  • , new technology, and the reduction of rates; FPC chairman Jerome Kuykendall; members of the FPC; Swidler's voting role as swing man and duties as chairman of the FPC as opposed to a commissioner; Swidler's goals as chairman; the benefits of the FPC
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • would also be very difficult. D: It is a difficult thing, and-- M: For example, the New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroad merger, which got a lot of publicity. D: That's right. H: This would seem to be a difficult task. D: That's right
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • one wasn't at the White House, but I was invited to his signing of the bill on immigration at Bedloe's [Liberty?] Island in New York. It was a beautiful, beautiful show. I must say, while the President from the distance that I saw him did his usual
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • crisis was of course involved in that era. T: I might say that my first involvement with President Kennedy was as a result of the Bay of Pigs. I was in private life in New York at the time and was called down two days after the Cuban Brigade
  • thought were very newsworthy proj ects . One was the survey of the Niger River and others of similar importance. The next dav the New York Times gave us a part of a column on the twenty-eighth page. I said to a friend of mine: "You know, we don't want
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in New York City? G: I'm not sure. I think he's still with--what? Atlantic Richfield. He's either in New York or suburban Washington. But Anderson and Jerry Persons and Bryce Harlow and Bill Macomber, people like that. Did the Republicans in the Senate
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • president is generally like a Texas steer-he's lost his social standing in the society in which he resides. He's like a stuck pig in a screwing match. Kennedy talked Rayburn into it. He said, "Mr. Rayburn, we can carry New York, Massachusetts, New England
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)