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Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- to the Russians or any other country as a matter of fact, and I think it laid the basis for the legislation that later set up the regular Committee on Space. M: Do you recall that Mr. Johnson, as Chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council while Vice
- LBJ as Senator; Atomic Energy Control Bill; LBJ and space program; LBJ and foreign policy during 1950s; LBJ and Foreign Relations Committee; LBJ’s foreign policy; Atomic Energy Policy; Test Ban Treaty; Lewis Strauss; LBJ and JFK people; Dominican
- . The man who was really involved in it vIas Gerry Siegel, and Gerry was counsel at the Democratic Po1 icy Committee at the time. really the main honcho on this thing. Gerry \'Jas He was the guy that gathered the staff together; he was the guy that came
- LBJ's Senate office; Defense Preparedness Subcommittee; Senate Aeronautical and Space Science Committee; National Aeronautics and Space Council; NASA; development of space program
- Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Knowland -- I -- 2 attorney general of California. I served in the national committee from then until the time I went into the army in 1945. I
- Knowland’s career before entering the Senate in the 1940’s, his Senate career in relation to that of LBJ, his relationship with Senator Tom Connally, the relationship between Democrats and Republicans, Eisenhower’s election and his view
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , it happened that Senator [stuart] Symington, who was a member of the committee, does not like boards. So we changed the name to council, that's how it got to be the National Aeronautics and Space Council in the NASA Act. I don't know what Symington's bitter
- Biographical information; LBJ; Sputnik; committee work; NASA; space legislation; U.N. and space; conferences; visiting the Ranch; space law; reports; foreign travel
- had good manners. But getting to Bobby Kennedy, what did happen around one o'clock was Bobby came in and wanted to know if Johnson would be the chairman of the Democratic National Committee instead of vice president. And old man Rayburn said, "Shit
- Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
- and the Democrats quite well and faithfully--everyone from Truman forward as President. I wonder how you first came into contact with Lyndon Johnson. M: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in 1950 or 1951 when I was Under Secretary of the Air Force during
- ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
- as whip in the early 1950's? A: I hope so. I don't know for sure, but I was the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1950. And for a short time the Democratic party nationwide was sort of leaderless because the then chairman
- adoption of the House rules. Normally that's a routine matter but this time John Rankin had indicated that he was going to use that occasion to add, by a new rule, a special committee to investigate un-American activities, make it a permanent committee. I
- - tance with him before then? C: No, that was the first time that I had met him. B: What were the circumstances of your accepting that job, sir? That was as Special Counsel to the Special Investigating Subcommittee of the House Committee on Naval
- Biographical information; investigating subcommittee work; Carl Vinson; LBJ's view of the military; 1948 Senate election; Preparedness Subcommittee; Richard Russell; 1952 Democratic convention; 1957 civil rights legislation; space program
- was a member of the Rules Committee then and on a subcommittee regarding contests of elections, so it seemed that that election in Texas might be contested, so I looked into the procedures and the law, too, in reference to such matters, but it never did
- to get unanimous agreement from the committee on every issue, from both Republicans and Democrats; and we succeeded in getting that. As a matter of fact, the Republicans accepted me as their adviser; I think that is one of the few times that a Democrat
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections
- in Texas, and became very friendly with Johnson. Although I've always been active in Democratic politics, when Johnson became a Senator we helped him as much as we could. We worked on his Preparedness Committee at one point, and in his campaign
- Natural resources and national parks
- of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force
- . Johnson in the United States Senate and talk a little about the inception of the missile and satellite programs, how this got kicked off and how you became involved. W: The missile and satellite program investigation by the Johnson committee
- Natural resources and national parks
- of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force
- and Astronautics Committee was set up, Overton Brooks became its first chairman. Did you know Brooks? F: No. M: Well, Brooks was from Louisiana. [Overton] Brooks was the ranking Democrat under Vinson on the committee on Armed Services. fellow who did
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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- friendship . As Vice President, he was placed in charge of National Emergency Committee or Commission, or something else . So I nominated and fought for the election of Stanley Mosk as Democratic National Committeeman over Paul Ziffren, who had previously
- that the Democratic Advisory Committee was not favored by either Johnson or Rayburn. M: That's right. They thought that the place for the Democratic Party to set policy was in the Congress, and that the ~est politics was to go along with Eisenhower wherever
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
- of what he would or wouldn't do. He has there the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council, plus the senators and congressmen who have the Foreign Relations Committees. I just can't say what I think Johnson thought. I hope he has written
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 18, 1969 This is the interview with Dr. Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council from '61 to '69. Sir, to start back before you joined the Space Council, back when you were
- are talking about. But after he was nominated in 1952 we were out in Denver, and the politicos came out, the Republican National Committee, campaign managers and everything. In the first meeting they had with Mr. Eisenhower, when they were arranging
- commitment all the way through, no question about it. But Mr. Garner didn't like me because I ran against Black. You see, when I came here Black was on the Banking and Currency Committee. And traditionally if a Democrat beats a Democrat or a Republican
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- rights issue; Nixon’s inflation of economy; LBJ’s sound ideas regarding national economy; interest rates; history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency.
- . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BASKIN -- I -- 4 B: The t1a.y one when they overthrew the Shivers-dominated State Democratic Executive Committee
- First contacts with LBJ in 1953 in Texas campaigning; Johnson's role in Texas state politics in 1956; Sam Rayburn's selection of LBJ as favorite son in 1956; DOT (Democrats of Texas); contacts with LBJ in Senate; LBJ-Ralph Yarborough as senators
- to get it through. I recall, we went in to see President Kennedy one day with a set of our unnegotiable demands on civil rights, things we thought absolutely had to be done; one of them had to do with integrating the National Guard, which doesn't seem
- House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican
- campaign, particularly the convention in Los Never said a thing. Angeles? H: Oh yes, yes. F: Did you have any opinion about him about by then, either as a national news source or as a possible Presidential candidate? H: Yes, he was running seriously
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
- in that fight. They were our unions. I testified before a Senate committee in which this thing was being handled. I was deep in the middle of that with President Johnson, too. MU: That's the first time that he used this technique of calling some
- met him. He was talking I was impressed with his drive and his good looks. Now when you were in the Truman Cabinet he was on the Naval Affairs Committee in the Congress; did he take any active role in either pushing for or holding back from
- Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; 1948 kidney stone attack; B52s, B70s, B36s; Senate Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; NASA; impressions of LBJ and his
- 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, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- 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
- . 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
- 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
- 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
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , and had a great interest of the problems of national security . Consequently, it's not surprising that a number of them should have come to Washington in positions of one kind or another . Of course, after the first one arrives he kind of invites