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  • throughout the convention and cooperating with each other and maintaining the common front. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • and Senator Johnson quite a few times when I observed the very best of friendship and cooperation. Of course, there would be times when the Democrats decided they could not go along with a certain measure in which they just ran over Bill Knowland by getting
  • totally wrong, was not born out at all by the FAA man when he came out and went over all facts and heard all tapes. The Egyptians finally, as is so often the case, were cooperative after it was too late to be cooperative, and helpful. M: After
  • cooperated and, more importantly so did the Soviets. Most of my negotiations about 242 were with Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov, an old Bolshevik and skilled diplomat. We got on very well, although for Soviet interests and ours. In general I was treated
  • of cooperation between them, but I think the difference in the personalities and capabilities clouded it somewhat. In the main, they got along very well. I remember something though, which probably is not in the histories anywhere, unless you've talked to some
  • and cooperate. He was very gracious about it and said that while he certainly, you know, was interested in Walter as he should have been quite properly because Walter had been with him. Anyway, we went on--this was really the beginning of what became a very
  • . Meanwhile, the session in Washington was winding on to a close-- Tape 2 of 3 J: The next day would be Honey Grove and Cooper and Commerce and Wolfe City and the 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Johnson -- XXIX -- 12 was very forthright and cooperative. He didn't get mad; he tried to be open and helpful and up with the committee. But I must say
  • he had caused us a lifetime of grief. But it should have been repaired. M: As I recall, he was quite wounded by a book that Sam Houston wrote about that time, which-- J: Yes. Somehow some author who wanted to write a book in cooperation with--you
  • were the same on every single guest list, and it was up to my office to try and weed those out and not invite Senator John Sherman Cooper to eight dinners in a row. B: Then the guest lists also went beyond that into just private citizens, entertainers
  • their physician. This was my role. M: Was the recovery from the heart attack satisfactory? C: Oh yes, extremely satisfactory. Very good. M: And did the then Senator cooperate with you? C: Very well, very well. Actually, I think most of this was directed
  • expanded because he was trying to win support, friendship, cooperation, from all the members of the Senate. That also means having the understanding of their wives. It meant some entertaining. I think that she fell in love with the Senate and became
  • the cooperation of some of the nurseries around town, who by now had begun to feel the economic aid that her program had brought all of them, we planted that school and had a ceremony. Walter Washington was then head of Housing, but that was also one
  • a problem. I didn't. In fact, I welcomed cooperation because it left me free to do other things that I wanted to do around the White House. M: Was Califano an able staff man? C: I think he was very able, yes. He was particularly skilled in keeping
  • in those days that he didn't get through without the help of Lyndon Johnson. M: How about Mr. Johnson and the administration during this period? To your knowledge was he in close contact~ in close cooperation wi th Presi dent Ei senhower or Secretary
  • would be much more touchy, much more sensitive. I: Very touchy. It was on that trip that we first began discussing the possible cooperation with the peaceful uses of nuclear explosives. M: Is that a possibility--nuclear sharing for peaceful uses? I
  • , although they may prove to be through interagency cooperation. It's true that we in the Labor Department, in enforcing the Equal Pay Act, coordinate our work very closely with determinations with relation to equal pay as far as EEOC is concerned. I
  • departments and permit new people to put aside the old animosities and get down to business on the problem of trying to integrate transportation development as a whole with urban development as a whole. M: So there will be cooperation? L: Yes. And I think
  • , and then there were French officers there as well as. Americans in it. G: Were there problems in cooperation hetween the two? L: Yes, there were. The French primarily staffed it with their intelli- gence people to keep track of me. I'd sit in there and they'd
  • , 1964, when he met with business and labor leaders urging cooperation and support for Medicare and civil rights. about his effort then? Do you remember that? Did he talk to you LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • did not gener- ate the same amount of antagonism, he didn't contribute very much to the spirit of real cooperation on behalf of the Secretary. My view of the assistant secretaries and the general counsel and the deputy under secretary
  • of the FBI. So the first thing that they did was to try to destroy the spirit of trust and cooperation and patience and human sensitivity, without which no movement can grapple with difficult problems or build a different kind of spirit. But the second thing
  • for the benefit of the people, but Congress has got to cooperate. F: That's exactly right. Congress has got to understand that what the people of the District want is to be able to make their own decisions as it relates to their local problems. Now we all
  • implications of outer space. The other evidence was that when this bill was first sent up to the Hill, they included in the declaration of policy and purpose that we should cooperate with other nations and groups of nations in these space efforts
  • not require the county cooperation? T: ,,' Only this year has been the first time. I offered a food stamp bill myself in the Senate this time, with the proviso for free food stamps • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • over the damn. But the whole posture from the early fifties was still one of support of and cooperation with the regime. The economics recovery and strength of that island and that government was just beginning to unfold, and it's been, of course
  • : On the other hand, one difference is that Mr. Johnson had the Democratic majority, and Mr. Eisenhower did not have a Republican majority, so that Senator Johnson was-- T: We cooperated very well with President Eisenhower, of course, I know that. And he
  • well. I knew And English seemed to have most to do with it; I think he'd been Kennedy's closest leader in the state and then after the assassination, he was very cooperative with Johnson. And he asked me to be campaign director, which I did. F
  • Committee of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. B: A varied background. Do you want to add for the record here your authorship? You've written a legal textbook, haven't you? G: I've written two books. One is Foundation Press' textbook