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Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

and argued that case. Now, I should make it clear that there were other attorneys involved too; I was lead counsel in this case as I was in the other case. Ed Clark from Austin was in the case with me; and then Will Wilson, who was then Attorney General

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

fellows they wouldn't speak to them. In fact, I can recall negotiating a private meeting between Mr. Logan Wilson (a Texan, by the way, a former president ['Of the University of Texas] representing the higher education interests, and William Carr, who

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 25 G: One of the stories live heard about his experiences in San Bernardino is that he went to a Wilson Democratic Club meeting. Do you recall that? K: I have a sort of faint recollection that he did, but I don't remember any of the details

Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

between Johnson and Connally? K: Well, yes, indeed. I of course remember when John first came up to go with Congressman Johnson. I did not know John too well at that time even though he was born in Wilson County, and I was born in the adjoining

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

rapidly what all you did up to the time that you came to Washington and the Interstate Commerce Commission. D: I was born in Stockdale, Texas, in Wilson County just east of San Antonio; lived on a farm until I was eighteen or twenty years old. I became

Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

at that time I was working full-time on the price side. We had in at least part of that period, people like Charlie Wilson--from General Electric, not General Motors--and Lucius Clay in the Office of Defense Mobilization. There was a great deal of conflict

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

job. That's an example of a great executive director drawn from within the government; we had other ones drawn from outside the government such as Fred Bohen who came down from the Woodrow Wilson School; he was executive director for a task force

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was this? V: Wilson McCarthy. F: Did Walter stay in the White House and do the kind of staff running? V: Walter was running the White House, he was literally overall everything. He became really the President's alter ego in handling the administration

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Humphrey; Charles Wilson; Neil McElroy; acceleration of ballistic missile program; Missile Gap controversy; operating procedure of Senate Subcommittee on Preparedness; Eisenhower as a President; importance of LBJ as Majority Leader; role of Weisl in 1960

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

inspector was involved. F: This was under a Republican administration? W: Well, I was appointed originally at the tail end of the Wilson Administration and then reappointed in the Republican administration. F: I don't want to pry in your personal life

Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, is that right? H: That's right. Yale. I went to Lehigh University first, transferred to Went to the public schools and the secondary schools all through from kindergarten to graduation at Woodrow Wilson High School here in town. M: I understand that before

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, there was a historical precedent for it. Like everything In 1917 when Wilson was trying to arm the Merchantmen, there was a filibuster against that-M: "A little group of willful men." R: That's right. There was then no filibuster rule at all. the two-thirds rule

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

throughout the year of 1957 prior to Russia's Sputnik, and I couldn't understand why Secretary [Charles] Wilson was just barely keeping the von Braun unit alive out of his contingency funds, why they couldn't let him go. Well, of course, things changed

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was known as a liberal. Most of them just But when I was in the (Virginia) State Senate I supported all the liberal things and was an active supporter of Woodrow Wilson and all of his programs when Champ Clark and a lot of others said he was going

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

rounds of it--with Wilson, and with Truman, and the '30's, and now this round about Vietnam. I think by and large the majority of the country accepts our foreign policy with common sense, not very happily, but accepts it as inevitable. I think

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

going. I know there And of course I know, as everybody does, about the Kosygin business and the Wilson business in London, which I thought fitted the whole pattern of this thing. Actually, Baggs and Ashmore had much the same kind of information as I

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--they would have the wings, they would have the engines, but they would never be able to put them together and there would be a spread of maybe six months before they could get them as a unit. Now I think that was the one thing that Mr. Wilson, when he

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

right. One of the most significant things that happened in the campaign was a statement by General A. S. Burleson, who was Postmaster General when Woodrow Wilson was President. B: Was he an Austin man? L: A famous Austin man who lived down on West

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

secretary for legislation, has pointed out to me that there've only been three periods in this century when there were creative periods legislatively. One was under Woodrow Wilson and the early days of his administration; the second was under FDR

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they, do you remember? L: Yes; the most important ones were: Bob Wilson, the orig- inator and one of the owners of LaGloria, the great oil and gas company; Eddie Singer, a very successful young man who still lives in Corpus Christi; and who is now

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Many people successful in industry without government experience had difficulty in making that adjustment. Of course, Charlie Wilson of the Eisenhower era is always the prime example of the problem that a successful businessman faces. Then he looked

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

have the highest respect, and he's a lifelong friend. Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky--Wilson Wyatt. He was then He had been the first pres- ident of the ADA and very active and a leader in the Democratic party nationally--not only in Kentucky

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on the part of the press spokesman who simply picked up a phrase that had been used in a staff conversation--the phrase came from Woodrow Wilson. And he used it publicly without really giving it enough thought. I tried myself to correct that phrase during

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Senator did, directly, in ways that I don't even know about. . Hell.'.. Solis Horwitz and Jim Wilson. and Harry McPherson were three of the lawyers who worked on the Policy Committee staff and had varying.relations of .proximity. They were all .. good