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  • was the Depression days? C: It started about 1929 and then it got really bad… F: He made a number of trips back to our county --Wilson County, and he'd have those farmers and ranchers meet him at the Court House and give him their troubles. He’d take them in his
  • , I was always invited by the President to attend, although the official member was Mr . Wilson . All during this period not only Senator Johnson, but the other members of the Senate and House Armed Services [Committee], particularly the chairman
  • with the committees that he was on, the standing committees in the Senate, the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee? You mentioned that you went around and met the staffs. T: Well, Glen Wilson, for instance, was with a subcommittee on preparedness. I didn't meet all
  • , the one that ultimately involved the British--the Wilson-Kosygin talks--and the channel that we had in Moscow? V: Again, I was just generally familiar with what was going on but not involved in the day-to-day operations of that exploration. M: You left
  • dean at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. I first talked to him and asked him if he would come down and be the staff director of a task force on government organization, which has probably done the best piece of work on government organization
  • letters. First of all, I wouldn't know how. Second of all, I just wouldn't do it. So she had to assign first of all various typists, and then it came to be really one person, Cynthia Wilson, to work on the beautification correspondence with me. I spoke
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Frantz -- I -- 4 Now Jim Wilson, a local attorney [who] had been an assistant to Senator Johnson, an administrative aide of some sort
  • , Mike Manatos and Henry Hall Wilson. I never was in the White House, never had a briefing from Bryce Harlow. My assistant, a good, long-time associate, Phyllis Maddock, went over and met with Harlow. In retrospect I wondered how Harlow reacted
  • it was now; it was not Dave. have been Henry [Hall] Wilson. It could We were discussing the strategy, when would be the best time to bring the bill up, and what the nose count looked like. This was one of our primary roles at DSG. much of that anymore
  • porcelain from previous administrations in the 1890s. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt did a fair amount. The second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was extremely active in this regard. The Coolidges went so far as to form a committee, which the Hoovers also used. It kind
  • that is a monument to Uncle Sam. He got the first six-mile contract that we ever had for this county. He said, "We've got all kinds of good material. Why not have good roads?" Major Wells [?] and, as Mr. Hobbs [?] told you, his father and Ollie Wilson [?], Ed Ferrell
  • didn't Mrs. Johnson have a new England visit or trip, I think through the New England area? Did you participate in that? F: No, I didn't participate in that trip at all. Cynthia Wilson from the beautification office did go on it. M: All right. F
  • weren't in the mid-sixties all that far from those days. Thomas R. Marshall, Wilson's vice president, once said that the vice president had two jobs: one was to preside over the Senate and the other is to call the president every morning and ask how he
  • Hall Wilson and myself were just touring that building day after day and never quite getting to that point where we could say to the Speaker, 'Yes, we've got the votes.' It just wasn't there. But we were still urging him, however, that we thought
  • you have any sort of formal liaison wHh the people who were working the lower House? M: Oh, yes. Henry Wilson was then--and I assume you'll be talking with Henry--the House congressional liaison head. three people working with him. all that time
  • he came in. I don't think George Reedy was a very good press secretary. George may well have been the most important intellectual that ever had an office in the West Wing since Woodrow Wilson, but as LBJ said to me once, "This George, he knows more