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  • of water. He supported this atmospheric water resources research, evaporative suppressants on reservoirs, the desalinization program, with vigor, including the cooperation with Mexico and Saudi Arabia and Israel on desalting experiments. in these things
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I think history has recorded the fact that there was extraordinarily good cooperation between the two
  • a bit longer, just textually, than the ultimate Tonkin Gulf Resolution. M: About this same time, the contact arranged through the Canadian, J. Blair Seaborn, took place, and I believe you and Chester Cooper were the briefing officers for that mission
  • you've just described, he did help as best he could, and that was right much. He was always very cooperative. The only thing where he ever got fouled up was on the hospital deal that you just mentioned. But as a member of the Senate, he
  • cooperation on legislative matters; protective coastal construction after Hurricane Carla; LBJ’s loss on contact with old friends in 1968; assessment of Walter Jenkins; role of Lady Bird; support of LBJ during 1960 campaign; JFK’s trip to Texas; 1968
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wallace -- I -- 22 interested in was the maintenance of law and order, and certainly we wanted to cooperate with all the officials who were there to preserve law and order
  • hired for a job in that town outside of custodial duties. And we worked with the Negro leadership and our people in the South were entirely cooperative. I carried this memo to the field myself. B: I was going to ask if you went to the scene and--I
  • cooperation of the labor union leaders to pressure their men to take jobs on ships >"hich are really not the nicest in the world to sail on. You're talking now about making men serve on ships that are twenty, twentyfive years old. M: World War II vintage. G
  • added up to the fact that unless you had--you just had to develop your own network because you couldn't count on that much help through routine channels. F: Were there certain people within the Cabinet who were consistently less cooperative than others
  • a number of countries in Asia. Did I leave again from Washington? (Mark) Yes. H: I remember Senator John Cooper was along. We made a number of stops. I've forgotten who else. The President asked me to make sure that the leader understood his policies
  • to the states in health emergencies, planning cooperation between the Public Health Service and community facilities and licensing of clinical laboratories-K: I wanted to ask you to focus on that [?]. S: --and authorization to accept volunteer services
  • ]. I don't know of any great omissions or failures to cooperate with us. G: Drought was sort of a protégé of John Nance Garner I understand, or at least a supporter of Garner. S: I don't know that much about him. G: Do you recall any attempt
  • to become director of health services in the Office of Technical Cooperation and Research in the Agency for International Development. M: How was that offered to you? L: That was offered to me by Dr. Leona Baumgartner who had been the commissioner
  • it to conference and see what we can do." from my Republican friends. I couldn't get the same cooperation And he did, and went to conference, and finally we got the amendment in the final bill. So my first contact, or association, with President Johnson
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pollak -- III -- 18 cooperated quite well in working out contracts. All of this done was on very short deadlines. B: Your phrase about the trailers is very gentle, "vulnerable
  • to have such legislation, Congress never did get around to that legislation at that juncture. M: Was Mr. Johnson cooperative as far as you know? W: He was. He was very interested in the whole idea. I think that it was from that time that his
  • still have to interpret what they really mean. But they were obviously after concessions revolving around sovereignty and perpetuity. F: Have they shown any greater desire to cooperate because of the threat of a second canal through some other area
  • Service agent from Paris comes in and says, "Listen, this is putting me in a very awkward spot. I depend on the Ambassador here in the Embassy for cooperation. We have a very important relationship here. If he finds out later that I knew you were here
  • to cooperate, because some of the worst practices were in the labor unions. One of the techniques of Vice President Johnson was to involve people, to bring 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • John Sherman Cooper was the one that introduced that amendment. R: Was that a cut in the authorization or in the appropriation? G: It was in the authorization, yes. R: No. Do you know why? That's one of those things I've forgotten. I've really
  • -- 11 C: Now what was the legislation under which that program became possible? S: Well, it was essentially the Public Health Service mandate for state cooperation. That there were funds available for grants to the states for specific projects under
  • cooperative with me during the whole period I was Governor . This may be a little bit ahead of your story, but in '66 the President � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • as far as I was concerned. President Kennedy and President ~ohnso~ were always very cooperative with me on legislative matters. M: What about the medicare thing, that one took longer and perhaps is more important than many--did that come out of your
  • departments and agencies? C: Yes, there was. G: The files do reflect some tension here. C: Yes, there was. My recollection, just off the top of my head, is that there were a number of departments that were not eager to cooperate at all. In fact
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cook -- II -- 20 the admirals that he thought ought to be done. Of course, to the extent that we believed in the position of the Secretary, we cooperated with him very, very
  • , with this American citizen at all? A: In this particular situation, I had very good cooperation from the CIA man, who happened also to be the Consular Officer who was most directly concerned with this whole case. He, as I mentioned, was not present that day when
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 This means that the tribe, in cooperation with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has to come up with a program which is presented to the Congress, and Congress then authorizes the use of funds usually for whatever program purposes
  • of dealings with Governor Shivers. It was the PEC [Pedernales Electric Cooperative] up here and the Lower Colorado River Authority had been fighting each other for years and still are. There's a battle going on all the time. And when Shivers was elected
  • ; Winters' opinion of unions and a 1961 incident in Beaumont, Texas, related to unions; Winters joining the LCRA Board at the request of Allan Shivers; friction between the LCRA and the Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC); LBJ's civil rights stance
  • that their educational and research activities were being somewhat hampered by their also assuming the role of cop. The way the plan developed, they would continue their own research program on drugs in cooperation with what would then be the Bureau of Narcotics
  • holiday when we did go down. But we [the NPS] are able to cooperate with states in planning their parks, and actually there has been very little project, because most of our transportation, cost involved in our even, was on planes that were flying
  • to convalesce at Brooke. At that point I was president of the American Heart Association, and because of that and because I was involved in the care of President Johnson I was asked to be on "Meet the Press," along with Ted Cooper, who was then in charge
  • and California authorities cooperative? C: Well, they were very anxious. On the way out I went by Sacramento and talked with Governor Brown. He designated several people that came down to Los Angeles with me and with whom we worked very closely. The very first
  • it was the only one that had these sort of national routes. DG: That's correct. MG: Was anything done to encourage American Airlines to cooperate in this important interval? DG: There was a secretary of commerce then who had earlier ties to American Airlines
  • , They had to have cooperation I probably wouldn't word the problem just like that. I think here what he had reference to when he said there was a shortage of eligible youths was rather that it was a problem of finding youths who qualified, getting the word
  • . They And this is where cooperative planning and development of something like that--there even can be a sharing of costs--even though you get in this community of X size, [and] all that is needed to cover everybody's need is one, and you decide where it's going