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Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEHEE: KERMIT GORDON INTERVIEHER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: We can start at the top of the list here and take up where we left off the last time. I'd like to know
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  • Gordon, Kermit, 1916-1976
  • Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Kermit Gordon
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was related to the fact that the space flight had just been completed in eight days. And incidentally, tJ1e two men on the plane--one was named Conrad and one was named Cooper. M: (Laughter) That's right. C: They usually mentioned that Cooper, Gordon
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  • Cooper, R. Conrad
  • Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • R. Conrad Cooper
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LINCOLN GORDON INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Homewood House, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Tape 1 of 3 M: Let's do get an introductory statement for the transcriber. You're Lincoln Gordon, and your two positions
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  • Gordon, Lincoln, 1913-2009
  • Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Lincoln Gordon
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of international cooperation and understanding; two, the whole foreign aid effort-- the effort to aid the developing countries; and three, education. I had spent a great deal of my time with the Board of Trustees of Cornell, of University of Rochester
  • for the Performing Arts; relationship with the Kennedys; Bill Moyers; Tommy Thompson; Lincoln Gordon; the Dominican Republic crisis; Castro and Cuba; Free Trade Association meets in Montevideo; Central America foreign ministers meet in San José; Fernando Eleta
Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by Lincoln Gordon and by Sol Linowitz. It's a very good document. The position of Johnson there was very much in favor of development of economic integration in Latin America. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Biographical information; served under Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ; major growth of bank under LBJ; Punta del Estes 1967; Lincoln Gordon and Sol Linowitz; Dominican problems; Peru balance of payment problems; Bank important element in Inter-American
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • City? W: Yes. Incidentally, they did not have the full cooperation of Lucia and Rebekah~ right away. In fact the big blowup, which I believe might have been hinted at maybe in Liz's book . . • • LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • actors in it, four principal chiefs, that is: Kermit Gordon, Budget Bureau; Walter Heller, council; Bill Wirtz, Labor; and Wilbur Cohen--or [Anthony] Celebrezze, but Wilbur Cohen, really--[HEW]. group. But then it was part of a larger
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and when they actually sent the bill up it had the two parts. Clyde Ellis was the general manager and executive vice president of the Rural Electric Cooperative Association. together for ten years, lobbying for it. Weld been working This and being born
  • Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association); Mississippi food situation; inter-agency departmental board; regional discrimination; cabinet officers; OEO programs and policies
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://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 INTERVIEW WITH GORDON FULCHER PB
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  • Fulcher, George Gordon, 1909-1973
  • Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton
  • Gordon Fulcher
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by Kennedy to Pat. Well, Pat kidded me a little bit, said in effect, "Don't knock it. If that's what they want to have you do, don't be coy." Well, I was going on to New York to see my brother Gordon. I guess this was after the 1st of January when I
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • meeting. from business on this matter. It was an effort to get cooperation My impression of the way the meeting was conducted was quite satisfactory. I don't know exactly how to interpret the word "taut" in your question, but, no, I would say it wasn't
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for about fifteen minutes when the news came through. This involved a number of people on the White House staff as well as Kermit Gordon, who was Budget Director, and myself, and members of our staff. There was Jerry Wiesner, who was the science advisor
  • ; campaign financing; the President’s reliance on Cabinet and staff, cooperation and coordination; a presidential transition 'institution.'
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of more jobs for more men. He made sure the newspapers got that word through his good friends Gordon Fulcher, Charlie Green, I guess Buck Hood probably, and Raymond Brooks. How many jobs there would be, how much the power bill would be reduced. 2 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and that vacancy occurred, there were about thirty active solicitors for the job: Ed [S.] Shattuck and Gordon Richmond and, oh, I don't know, a lot of pretty big men. Warren kept it right to his vest. He didn't say a damn thing. He didn't indicate who he was going
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did And one of the moments I remember about Lyndon Johnson was that when Gordon Cooper, the first American to orbit the earth, had a parade in Washington, he was in a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of conversation with Ted Sorensen. Now, also in some of these same discussions I recall Kermit Gordon playing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to deal directly with the President, and he did on the matters of expenditures. G: On this Vietnam trip, you went out with [John Sherman] Cooper and several congressmen. Let me ask you to describe that-- B: Stuart Symington was along on that trip too. I
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -- 7 Galbraith and Arthur Schlesinger and Kermit Gordon. Then also, by virtue of having been a teaching fellow at Harvard just before the war, I met a number of the others who were interested in this Kennedy circle, including Professor Paul Samuelson
  • Biographical information; Federal Reserve Bank; new economics; Treasury Department; Organization for Economic Cooperation; Organization for European Cooperation and Development; working parties; Group of Ten; ring of swaps; London Gold Pool; Robert
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in conjunction with what the President himself was after and that the very few times that they ended up on opposite sides of the fence were ones which I think would naturally be expected. On domestic matters I can't believe there was any real cooperation
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • that he had. But he was the only one of them that I came across that was really unabashedly trying to make that kind of wheeling and dealing. For example, Wayne Morse, who was chairman of the subcommittee on education, I had very close and cooperative
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as conservative or more conservative than Wilbur Mills, yet he was much more cooperative, a friend of the President's. Whether it was the friendship to the President or just his loyalty to the party and administration I don't know, but George was always trying
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this different impression, and we didn't cooperate with anyone really the first three or four years. That has all changed, and I pushed the change to the point where we now cooperate fully with AID, with United Nations, with the private and other organizations
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for Washington and in 1963 came back here to see what was going on and ran into Kermit Gordon, who was then director of the Bureau of the Budget, and Elmer Staats, who was then deputy director. Respectively, Kermit Gordon is now president of Brookings and Elmer
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , with [Clark] Clifford, David Ginsburg, Kermit Gordon, Charlie Schultze, Gardner Ackley, McNamara, and [Henry "Joe"] Fowler. I'm sure this subject was the topic of discussion, as well as the economy generally, and off of that meeting Saturday night I wired
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Presidents Kennedy and Johnson with a series of economists as budget directors - -and economists with an operational instinct which was true of all of us: myself, Kermit Gordon, Charlie Schultz and C h a r l i e Zwick- -again the bureau was typically
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with it, I think Bill Capron had a lot to do with it. Norbert Schlei was finally probably the sign-off guy on it over in the Justice Department. these people had their hand in it. But Kermit Gordon, all of My theory was that it was intact, it was a good
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lufkin that were on the football team: and Elvin Read. Ardis Hopper, Clark Gordon The first week of training I was there in order to get acquainted with the coaches, and at a Mrs. Gates' house, where the training table was being maintained, I met
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the election . And several months before we knew that President Johnson had made the decision not to run again I then went back to the University. In the meantime Mr . Eisenhower had retired and the new President was Dr . Lincoln Gordon, a former assistant
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Gordon [?], Ralph McGill, Maurice Templesman, and Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey--former Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey. He also puts on ex officio the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Secretary
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a program in the economic area was confined to the three western zones and cooperation between the U.S., the United Kingdom, and France. So the division of Germany, from a political standpoint, into what is know as Federal Republic today and the Soviet
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] Wirtz and myself, developed a most cooperative attitude and relationship with respect to developing this program. It may very well have been, and I don't recall the details at this time, that Mr. Macy would have felt that this would not be an appropriate
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • involvement in the selection of architects--I want the best regardless of pressures. G: Was this with regard to Gordon Bunshaft or any particular architect? K: No. This was earlier than the selection of Bunshaft for the Johnson Library design. I didn't
Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • observation that unless one obtains the cooperation of the representatives of other agencies through friendly interest and real personal confidence, and very close mutual information, that there is always the possibility that the lines of coordination begin
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for the New York Times article, which was a profile of Joe Califano, he also indicated that he was writing a book about the White House staff going all the way back to Roosevelt and maybe a little bit before that and asked whether or not we would cooperate
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • information. In the meantime, Mrs. Roberts was get- ting into the record on the circumstances and conditions in detail that we found, so that it was complete cooperation. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • by Kermit Gordon? S: Kermit Gordon, that's right. Now there are a lot of different people involved in this story, and they all felt different parts of the elephant. I found from talking to people that it is very difficult to piece the story together
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for revamping all foreign assistance. At that time it was known as ICA, the International Cooperation Administration. There was a huge amount of sophisticated work done to transform ICA into AID, the Agency for International Development. That transformation
  • of Labor Willard Wirtz’s job program ideas; comparing Community Action to the work of the Peace Corps; LBJ’s role in establishing the Peace Corps as an independent agency; the work of the International Cooperation Administration and later the Agency
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Amendment; poverty; racial inopportunity problems; critical evaluations; Bert Harding; CEA; hostility toward OEO; Adam Clayton Powell; Yarmolinsky; Job Corps; evaluation of Head Start; BOB; John Forrer; Kermit Gordon; Scultze; Zwick; Cannon; Cary; Senator