Discover Our Collections


  • Tag > Digital item (remove)
  • Collection > LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > Beautification (remove)
  • Type > Text (remove)

12 results

  • Vietnam War impact on the economy and you really can't break these things apart. By that I mean the period from late 1965 all the way through 1968 and even beyond, but I mean particularly through 1968, when the surcharge was finally passed
  • Vietnam
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 world, including helping in Vietnam through the past several years with some of the pacification activities that have been taking place there. I believe, Dr. Baker
  • Vietnam
  • ; AID and international program activities; pollution; legislation drafting process; Vietnam; personnel recruitment; racially integrated staff
  • Vietnam
  • ; Committee for the Preservation of the White House; the White House crèche; highway beautification bill; Mike Mansfield; the death of President Holt of Austalia; traveling from Australia to Vietnam and Rome with LBJ; visiting the Vatican; LBJ’s decision
  • ://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 7 his public image as a result of the Vietnam War, and this has made it impossible
  • Vietnam
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
  • are friends of mine. G: You also conferred with him on occasions when he had Vietnam very much on his mind. L: Oh, yes. Do you recall his--? But my attitude about Vietnam was that I didn't have the essential facts in hand and that he did, he had access
  • Vietnam
  • facilities bill; Lasker’s and Mrs. Johnson’s involvement with beautification; Highway Beautification Bill; the East-West Center in Hawaii; John J. Roone; Lasker’s support of LBJ on Vietnam; John Gardner; getting funding for medical research; George Mahon
  • for Vietnam . I'm sure they appreciate that we understand what their problems are, and we've fought their battles just tooth and toenail . M: And those are the reasons why they're happy . Does the advent of the Coast Guard taking over ice-breaking
  • Vietnam
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
  • , relatively, for me to raise hell about it, because what the hell! Dean was deeply involved with Vietnam, an Arab-Israeli war, and with Pueblo , and things like that, and why should I take up his time with things which, in the long run, were not truly
  • Vietnam
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
  • wanted to appoint John Hays, the head of our television station, as Ambassador to switzerland, and the other one--As a part of that, I think he asked me to bring Russ Wiggins with him and he thanked Russ for his editorial support on Vietnam
  • Vietnam
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
  • of support of Vietnam, or a problem of an icebreaker not being allowed by the Russians to go somewhere. M: Well, now, what about this urban mass transit situation? 0: This is again a long story. Most of us who worked on the DOT act felt that the urban