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  • Bundy operated to consider options. F: Oh, yes. M: You and Chester Cooper and some others. How far-ranging was that reconsideration? Was it simply a consideration of tactics, or did you all pursue the option of perhaps reversing the commitment? F
  • system, state and local and federal governments, to work together. We knew long before Model Cities got into trouble that it wasn't going to work. Even the federal government, with the President directing the departments to cooperate, couldn't deliver
  • the program work? LG: I think there was a concern that health resources generally--by that I mean doctors and hospitals--in some areas might not cooperate and thus deny care at government expense. This did not prove so. At any rate, in the health area
  • according to the Secretary at that time. M: But you did cooperate? S: At that time I was in the Secretary's office, so I was working both with the Food and Drug Administration and the Social Security Administration on Medicare, and with the Public Health
  • sorts of niceties that come in handy on things like that. F: Are you competitive in a situation like that with the commercial news services, or are they pretty cooperative? S: I never considered myself competitive because they knew what I
  • of cuts down their novelty. S: We tried to get the school s to let out and bring the kids down in buses to stand with little flags. do it. Maybe they're smart. Well, the schools wouldn't So we couldn't get any cooperation from the schools
  • portfolio which dealt with the problems of European-U.S. cooperation on mutual urban problems such as pollution and so forth. And this has been developing and loosely handled in my relationships, which have been fairly personal, with the people handling
  • tribunal--visiting North Vietnam. They were from the communist countries, and he toured the country with them but in his tapes or his statements he would say, "I'm not a member of the tribunal." But he was with them; his statements cooperated with them
  • to that would be that I, without being able to point to any particular thing, could say that he did everything within his power to cooperate with the President of the United States in getting through the progressive legislation that he had recollllllended. B
  • Wyoming," And was always very straightforward that way and I appreciated that fact and was always cooperative where I could be. On the other hand, where it was a matter that could have no deep and abiding concern to Wyoming, he was most persuasive as he
  • volume. But it's an expensive, painstaking process to pull these things together from everywhere. The Grant family had some and they were very cooper- ative, but there are things all over. this. It's a good thing we're doing Grant happened
  • : Oh, tremendous cooperation, there was-- F: No party lines drawn or anything like that? P: Oh, no, none at all. Jim Corman, congressman from California, and Fred Harris, senator from Oklahoma, Democrats, were political members of the Commission
  • , was divorced from OEO and made an independent advisory group. So that today while we cooperate with it in terms of supplying information and attending meetings and generally have good relationships, we have nothing to do with the direction the council takes
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DePuy -- I -- 23 means something like "cooperation." Now the idea was sort of an amalgam of all the old theories of oil spots and so on, but if you visualize the city of Saigon itself, proper
  • up the details of it. It's all in that thing. I can find it and get it to you, because it was clear to me from there, right there, that they were down there. They were out on the end of the rope, and so they wanted to have cooperation. There's
  • even for the task of raising the funds to pay off these debts. He'd have to agree to appearances and so forth. And on that front he was totally cooperative with me. He said, "You lay it out. You tell me what I should do. If that's what's needed to clear
  • kilometers in one direction and fifteen in another. And they didn't cooperate with him. They came in with the attitude, "Okay, you screwed it up now all this time. Here we are, the big saviors, we're going to help you and bail you out and save your district
  • ; but because such proceedings were labeled criminal contempt, the assurance of a jury trial in that case was quite sufficient to secure not the cooperation of these Southerners, but at least-­ B: Acquiescence? R: Well, you can't even quite say
  • accomplishments of the commission were through voluntary action, through cooperative action, but they were rather sizeable accomplishments. B: Did you have much trouble in those days with Negro leaders who wanted you to go a good deal faster? R
  • for their cooperation on the civil rights bill, and he singled out [Frank] Church, who although a very junior member of the Senate was appointed a member of the delegation to the Pan American Economic Conference in Buenos Aires, and Senators [Andrew F.] Schoeppel from
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XII ~- 26 R: I don't remember that one at all. G: This was one that Eisenhower vetoed, but Johnson did achieve a measure of cooperation from the Republicans in the Senate, as well
  • Celebrezze, and John Gardner, and their budgetary frustrations; government's failure to follow through with a plan to fund and improve medical research and education; obstacles to analysis, comparison, and cooperation of NIH programs; disenchantment
  • generous with her time, exceedingly attentive to the press. I never, never saw her do anything except cooperate in every way with the press people. It's no wonder to me, Joe, that the news hens loved her so. Not only the news hens, but the men. I can
  • , and I've had a lot of committees. But I will always appreciate President Truman's supporting me in that fight. I told the President, "Mr. President, this oil thing is hard enough to handle with all the cooperation I can possibly get from
  • . A: It probably did. In any case that situation was worsening, and we started finding the State Department was getting a hell of a lot less cooperative. The word was coming back that the coexistence was not the most popular order of the day, and Hubert