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  • , the most talented people that they had to help set that up were my battalion people out there on temporary duty working for then-Brigadier General McChristian, who had been assigned out there to be [William] Westmoreland's new intelligence chief. During
  • . I was of the opinion that he was a very effective leader in Congress ; that he was substantially more liberal than at least the average Minnesotan thinks a Southern leader is ; that he was a supporter of the New Deal and so on . I had enough
  • have, and then I didn't see anything of the Johnsons for a long time thereafter, didn't meet him until much later. F: ~Jhen you were with the Raleigh News and Observer, did you ever get any feeling about how the Daniels felt about Johnson, or had he
  • , the Texas Election Bureau on Sunday morning declared Johnson the new United States senator from Texas. I think he was ahead by some five thousand some odd votes I believe. (Interruption) G: The 1941 [campaign]. S: Right. My job was to tabulate
  • and made some little noise in the bed, and my uncle across from the other bed said, "Joe, did you ever charge that pill to that nigger?" He said, "No, I haven't yet, but I will." He said, "Well, do it the first thing in the morning." So in charging
  • ?" That wasn't the real story. The story was your failures, as it always is. Walking to the office this morning I saw a sign on a bus: "New York's Detective Force, The Greatest in the World," with the union's name. I thought they spend money to promote themselves
  • for new employees; seasonal temporary post office jobs; the Post Office equal employment opportunity task force; Ronnie Lee and the White House Fellows Program; curb versus door mail delivery and new mail pickup ideas; the problem of developing new mail
  • of that-B: Let me ask you, who's the author of record of that? H. A guy name.d Bruce Lee, who was a correspondent for News"eek at the time. Follo\dng that I split up ,.,rith my partner--"we didn't really LBJ Presidential Library http
  • five hundred people rise to their feet spontaneously to cheer a speaker. I believe Carlos Fuentes left the next morning a very proud man. I'm very grateful to him. M: As one who was privileged to be there last night, and indeed through most of the 3
  • ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
  • deeply into it we found they had procedural problems and they were very grave. G: Could you describe the problems? P: Yes. The procedural problems--nothing was recorded. They would bring someone in new, and they didn't know a great deal about
  • . Emergency Relief Mission and came back and briefly resumed the special assistant post while I broke in a new man when Joe Califano went to the White House. in John Cushman. I broke Then I became principal deputy assistant secre- tary of defense
  • , This was Saturday morning. And, of course, I was absolutely dumbfounded because I hadn't any idea of going so soon, and it was just a week before Thanksgiving. And my family was coming to New York to spend Thanksgiving with us and I was thinking
  • was always left sort of vague. Now this matter was studied and until quite late in the game, until some time in 1966, the U.S. drafts all had so-called European clauses in them, designed to make it possible for there to be a new state, a new non-state
  • it loose and built a new one and established a new one around the turn of the century, I think, in Johnson City. Anyhow, a very old but still moldering feud. But Lyndon managed to get the votes from both communities because, as he laughingly and very
  • of the in-house decisions although he was Vice President. M: As far as a new Senator coming in was concerned, he was not applying the famous "Johnson treatment" on a regular basis? B: I didn't get the famous Johnson treatment on a regular basis even when he
  • cities like Philadelphia and New York and Chicago. The first indication we had that they planned to hold a Solidarity Day exercise came from the press. Progressively, as we had visits with their leaders about matters relating to Resurrection City
  • , a businessman in New York, myself, Bob Nathan-we were all for Humphrey 100%. practical. We were I guess more idealistic than It was unlikely that Humphrey could get it, but we thought he could get it and it was a fun thing to try and do. I was in fact
  • exchange . I'm sure that Lyndon Johnson must have been very exciting to Sam Rayburn . After all, he was younger, and he understood so instantly the legislative process, which was unusual for a new young man . G: Did it seem that Lyndon Johnson
  • 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
  • a couple of hours. I guess they got the phone call at five o'clock in the morning. And he was truly concerned. He kept talking about the tragedy of the family and he put phone calls out to I think Senator Ted Kennedy and Stephen Smith and offered all sorts
  • with President Johnson. We have something very unusual here in the department insofar as big departments of government are concerned. We have a staff meeting every morning, and this is attended by the top officials close to the secretary. LBJ Presidential
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (Mrs. Albert D. Lasker) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Mrs. Lasker, let's start by talking a little bit about how you first became interested in health
  • National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
  • of those things. You were supposed to be teaching some of the new methods of something else. He also had prayer and the pledge of allegiance. We did that every day. The children all went outside when they put up.the flag. Instead ofputting it up, the Texas
  • connection for something he said I did which was not really accurate. At the end of that day he called me because I hadn't called him. He said, "Did you see my column this morning?" I said, "Yes, I saw your column. I appreciate it, but it really didn't LBJ
  • to New York, I seem to recollect it had something to do with NATO. But the President called me in the afternoon, about two or three in the afternoon, and he said, would it be possible to do this." My attitude in working with President Johnson was always
  • . As such, in a federal agency, particularly a temporary federal agency like the WPA was, a New Deal agency, I was pretty much on my own with no supervision. I was told what they expected, then I did it. The boss, the state administrator, was Harry P. Drought, a ranking
  • and his discussion with you as he was leaving the presidency. Do you want to recount what you can of that conversation? F: I may have mentioned when we talked before, that the day after the [Richard] Nixon election in 1968, when we were in New York
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Long -- I -- 11 ones that didn't send them in. And so anyway, Monday morning. or Sunday afternoon, I ran into Governor Ferguson. He was sitting there in the lobby. and talked
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh of developing a legislative program--the academics, tapping these bright young people, as you called them? G: Well, the whole system is new. The process historically of program development
  • at dinner; and Aaron Schaffer was a man that I would normally consider a very kindly and gentle person, but an unreconstructed liberal out of the New Republic school. And after dinner, we got around to coffee. He turned to Miss Grace and he said, "After
  • the Depa rtmen ts of Labo r and Commerce into the Depa rtmen t of Econo mic Affa irs 11-12 Labo r was 95 perce nt again st the new depa rtme nt 14 Labor -Man agem ent Advi sory Conn nittee studi ed merge ! and propo sed that it not be done LBJ
  • commentary on the difficulty of governmental coordination, and it's the kind of thing that has me just sitting here tapping my fingers and smiling, watching the new administration set up their Council on Environmental Quality. Because they're going to run
  • probably more than two hours . We We were having a regularly scheduled news conference that morning, and when it was time for the news conference the unanimous opinion was that I should go ahead and send the telegram and announce it . So I did
  • INTERVIEWEES: ARTHUR E. GOLDSCHMIDT and ELIZABETH WICKENDEN (Mrs. Goldschmidt) INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: The Goldschmidts' home, 544 East 86th~ New York City Tape 1 of 2 M: You don't have to talk into it [the recorder] or anything. pick you
  • in geriatrics, would call in new freshmen congressmen and tell them some of the realities of life and say, lIyou have to be here at least six years, then they know who you are." And there's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • on and what was being attempted. The military kept very closely in touch with the political and other developments.The State Department kept very closely in touch with military developments. The first thing I did every morning when I got into the office
  • , either via the boats in Haiphong harbor--and Haiphong harbor happened to be another one of those things. Mining Haiphong harbor was not a new plan; it had been there since day one, whenever they started actual activities against North Vietnam. G: Right
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh with Edward Kennedy, as a matter of fact, on one of his campaign rounds through the state of Massachusetts, and spent a whole day and an evening until we landed in New Bedford about five o'clock
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 O: Watergate has been part of our discussions throughout this oral history. At this point, it might be helpful