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Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

virtually all of it was in NASA, plus some in the Defense Department, but mostly what was labelled the "space program" was in NASA. The OEO, the poverty programs, was another area, of course, that we spent a lot of time on. gotten who labelled the program

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

~ Know- landis AA [administrative assistant] in those days was a fellow named Jim Gleason who later went on to be the first assistant administrator for legislative affairs at NASA. had to do something with him. County now. After Knowland got defeated

Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of some of the other people that might do the job. They were interested, for instance, in a man who had a great deal to do with NASA. That's Mr. [James] Webb. They thought he could do a good job, and I think he could have, but Mr. Johnson made

Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Safety Foundation, and various others were on this commission. As a result of digging into the substance of the problem, we came out for a reorganization plan for the CAA to give it independent status such as the NASA had acquired, independent

Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

you find free and easy cooperation among the several departments? M: Yes. I think this has been improved over the last several years because mechanisms are there to do it. For example, in the remote sensing area we work very closely with NASA

Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but 1--1 was just wondering what in the hell I had here. G: Does that ring a bell? Must have been in that folder or something. There was one meeting in particular in which Kennedy homed in on deficiencies of the space program, NASA, in hiring blacks

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The great NASA establishment went up there, and of course the Kennedys were very frank about it--they just said, "We can do more for Massachusetts." And of course Houston got the space flight center and the big 111 contracts, so I felt that he favored

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were run with [the] full glare of publicity. He had Gerry Siegel and some others drafting the NASA act, and he learned that statute well enough to put it through, to handle it on the floor. I don't know if he ever knew the specific technological details

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for himself. Bill Lloyd became head of public affairs at NASA, but again, Bill got that pretty much for himself. G: Moyers was [Sargent] Shriver's deputy in the Peace Corps. R: Oh, Moyers just about walked out on Johnson to get that one. G: Anything else

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the impression he was showing any favoritism to Texas. As a matter of fact, sometimes I think he bent over a little bit too far backward. F: Did you have the feeling that he was responsible back there for getting the NASA installation down in Houston

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

there. In '58 I was made chairman of the department. My next connection with Washington was in '58, after Sputnik. I went on to the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Science to consider our own space program. NASA was just being formed

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://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 Rather -- I -- 20 Houston once to tour the NASA facility there. me for weeks. He

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And Dirksen's word was good. Regardless of what you say about him, his word was good. I used to love to hear him make a speech. He was a past master at that. But that happened. Also one time some people from Chicago were in trying to get some help on a NASA
and the Medicare bill; Kerr's involvement in hiring an assistant for Jim Webb of NASA; the Bricker Amendment; Harry Byrd's work on the Finance Committee; Kerr's meeting with the head of DuPont, Crawford Greenewalt; Kerr's opinions on Social Security and Medicare

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, in which there were discussions about [space]. But this was after Kennedy was in the White House, and Lyndon at that time was chairing a [space] committee, and he had Senator Bob Kerr there, I believe, and a couple of White House people, somebody from NASA

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in very sensitive and extremely important major legislative actions. G: Who would you add as a third to this? O: I want to look through this. I think NASA falls a little bit in that category, too. You're talking about some basics legislatively affecting

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that, that's when NASA was created, and I think that was a wise decision. F: Why did you do it? S: Well the possibility of intercontinental ballistic missiles was looming then and the parallel wasthe Atomic Energy Commission. The same question had arisen

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

with bureaucracy--whether it's the bureaucracy of the University of Texas or whether it's the bureaucracy of NASA in Washington. Bureaucracies are carrying out tasks set down in policy, and they are also usually searching for answers to problems in the areas

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

looked at by the source evaluation board, this was the best technical judgment of some two hundred and eighty highly qualified technical people throughout the government which included the Air Force, the Navy, NASA, and the FAA

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

eyes and ears the Senate ever had. G: He must have been. That's fascinating, it really is. I want to ask you a little bit about the NASA program, the space program. I know that you recently chaired the-- Iv!: Aeronautics and Space [Sciences

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

House and Jim Webb regarding NASA contracts and facilities; the extension of the Civil Rights Commission; Jim Landis' evaluation of the regulatory agencies' omnibus proposal for change; Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow and the private

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; NASA; 49th and 50th states settled under Ike; JFK-LBJ ticket; JFK’s death; LBJ as President; Vietnam.

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a cookie cutter. Potomac did studies for the army, for the navy, DOD itself. Later on we did some studies for NASA and what have you. In any event, we just proliferated the number of specialized people across the whole structure of the government

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

talked to me--"if you don't go to NASA or the army. John is going to come in and stay a year and then run for governor of Texas and then he'll go for the Senate and then he'll make his pitch for the presidency. Because I'm dead. So you go with John." Well

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the legislation that we'd been interested in before, and he wouldn't make any efforts about legislation in any area that I was interested in. I don't know what he did in other areas. must have done a lot about NASA. But he wasn't interested in health legis

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

rode in the parade out to the project where he dedicated a building. I think that rel ated to NASA. Mc: The medical center? F: Medical center, that's right. And then I was back at the airport when he took off for Houston. But I had private

Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

built electronic parts. They are in NASA space efforts; Columbian Bronze, a part of their empire, builds propellers--there is, at least, that relationship to the ships. ~I: But now what they're interested in is not the Merchant Marine

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

house, he was head of NASA then. Lady Bird came in and she just let me have it. M: About the same piece? R: About the same piece. Mr. Roberts? Finally she said, "What would you have us do, How should the Vice President conduct himself? You

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCONNELL -- I -- 5 McS: Anything through NASA or anything? McC: No. McS: Could you tell me a little about your

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you have a President living in your state, there are complications. On the other hand, I know that the President has been able to be helpful to Texas and has in a big way. I know the NASA Project has come to Texas-F: Did President Johnson tend

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in NASA, working on the discrimination here. Did this happen? You're nodding your head as if it did. L: Yes, I think so. G: Was it part of this meeting or was this another meeting? I thought maybe Jim Webb might have been confronted, as well. L

Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

) HS: That's what my new name is, archivist. I'm not a packrat; I am an archivist. EL: But he saved these. I mean, and this went in the thing with his work from NASA. 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: That is correct. S: To try for the moon in this decade. C: Yes. B: And you were offered, and rejected, the Administrator position at NASA? C: Well, the Vice President asked me to allow my name to be submitted to the President. It was never offered to me

Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

Kennedy to visit the NASA installations. Then we went to Washington. It was during his stay in Washington that the mishap took place where the three astronauts were burnt in the capsule. G: The President, Costa e Silva, was in Washington at the time? L

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