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Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1976 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JErtKINS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Jenkins• office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Do you recall the circumstances of his [LBJ's] election as Democratic leader in the Senate in 1953? J: Yes. I
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape G: of 1 Toward the end of 1946, Mrs. Johnson's aunt, Aunt Effie [Pattillo], who had raised her, was terminally ill and she died
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape l of 1 G: I think we covered most of my questions there, but let me just ask you one or two others. First of all, I neglected to ask you who
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  • Recollections of campaigns and people involved, 1941-1946; Claud Wilde; John Connally; Charles Herring; Everett Looney; Jenkins’ contacts with LBJ during WWII army service; KVET and KTBC
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape G: of 1 Let's start with 1953. We worked a little bit on that last time. I notice in the first of March, LBJ began a series
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jenkins I -- 4 J: Yes, in 1948. Of course, there had been discussions over a period · of years, way back as far as 1933 or 1934. I was detailed as an aide to the Mayor, who .at that time
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  • Jenkins, Herbert
  • Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • Herbert Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Jack, we were discussing the last time the campaign of '64 and we shut off on the campaign swing through New England. Now then, as you know, along about that time when the President was up in New York we had the unfortunate episode of Walter Jenkins
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • The Walter Jenkins incident; Senator Barry Goldwater; LBJ choosing a running mate; Robert Kennedy; Marvin Watson; the 1964 convention.
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • leave it up to you, but see if you can't work it out." That was quite a job. I called Mr. Johnson and went up to see him. He agreed to handle the leadership of the matter on the Democratic side and suggested that I see Walter Jenkins, his 2 LBJ
  • Commission; the 1964 Democratic National Convention; allegations of microphone on Nixon’s plane; calls made from Spiro Agnew’s plane; Anna Chennault. DeLoach’s relationship with Walter Jenkins, Marvin Watson. Jenkins’ departure from the White House staff
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was something done intentionally to correct deficiencies in his aides, or do you think it was just a release? W: I just think it was his way. politician. I think it was because he was a total In my judgment, that ' s all he really thought about. As LBJ
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Convention, Dallas, 1956; development of Sabine River; 1960 Presidential campaign and convention; John Connally; RFK; Johnson treatment; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; presidential criticism; LBJ in retirement
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you recall an example of this kind of--? R: Well, the best example was landing in an air field in Boise, Idaho, after the Walter Jenkins case had broken. And in talking to the press he made some remark about President Eisenhower having had
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an appointment through Liz, or whatever method that you can, with the Vice President." He wrote back and said that, then, Walter Jenkins would be available and would love to talk to me. So I took a three-day pass from Fort Stewart, Georgia; came to Washington
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; the transition; the 1964 campaign; Walter Jenkins and the effect of his leaving the staff; LBJ’s staff and JFK’s staff relations; Bill Moyers; staff loyalty to LBJ and how it affected Sinclair’s family life; Lloyd Hand; relationship between airlines and politics
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He said, "Why do that? Just go ahead and take your commission, and then you can come on my staff as my military aide." Which I did. I went to Fort Sill and did my officer's basic and came back to the Vice President's staff as his junior military
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Initiation of the Peace Corps with Bill Moyers and Sargent Shriver; LBJ’s attitude toward, and involvement with, the Peace Corps; work as LBJ’s junior military Aide while LBJ was Vice-president; LBJ’s relationship as vice-president to JFK
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Chiarodo -- III -- 10 considerably bothered by this loss of a former aide? I know that he wasn't as close as he had been. C: I'm going to tell you, Mike that I can't answer that well. I remember my
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that every time he saw a doctor, the doctor was looking frantically for somebody with AIDS that he could cure, if he had known about AIDS in those days. Every time he saw a historian, the historian was looking to write a speech or something like
  • Duties of the press secretary; LBJ’s misunderstanding of the press; LBJ’s secrecy as president; press pool; travelling with LBJ; LBJ’s friendliness toward the press; Eric Goldman; resignation of Walter Jenkins.
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Territo -- I -- 7 unless it was marked very personal. Walter Jenkins was Senator Johnson's administrative assistant. Walter ran the Texas office, but Walter was really in charge of all offices. Lyndon Johnson, as I understood it, talked
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and from Walter Jenkins. I had only a few contacts from the 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
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • 1960 Democratic National Convention; circumstances of working with JFK; duties; appointment and LBJ; impressions of Walter Jenkins; relations between JFK and LBJ's staffs; work with Tariff Commission during the LBJ Administration; LBJ's early
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that trip. G: Did he usually have a military aide carry the black box? W: I don't know. I think he did [inaudible] and Commander Shepard [?]. G: [Inaudible]. W: Yes. I think he was promoted to captain. G: He went to Appalachia after
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: --just discussing the general nature of your notes for 1955, and your observation was that your activities
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I never will forget--talking on this sUbject--that Frank Ikard, who had defeated Walter Jenkins for the congressional seat from Wichita Falls, first thing Mr. Rayburn did was make certain that they made a friend out of Frank and they secured one
  • Foreign aid
  • Steve Mitchell; the oil business; drought relief; President Eisenhower; foreign aid; Chiang Kai-Shek; Bricker Amendment; Senator Walter George; Allan Shivers; the 1954 Senate election; Dixon-Yates controversy; Taft-Hartley amendments; Pat McCarran
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape of 1 G: Now, early in the year Warren Woodward and Horace Busby joined the staff, in February. J: That's correct. G: Let
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • O'Donnell 13 -Walter . Jenkins--the Rock of Gibraltar · 14-15 The amount of loyalty 16 Recruitment of staff people; the departure of Kennedy people 18 John Macy; Liz Carpenter 19 Af.1pointr.:ant of more women -and 'minority . group p·e ople 20
  • Biographical information; Landrum Griffin bill; relations between Senate staffs of JFK and LBJ; JFK LBJ relationship; labor and the 1960 campaign; Walter Jenkins; Vice President LBJ involved in Texas politics; 1963 trip to Texas; JFK assassination
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This covered a span of about eighteen years. The first contact that I had with the Johnson office was in early March, 1958, and that was through a telephone call from Mrs. Juanita Roberts, his personal aide and secretary. She asked that I make time
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Gillette Tape 1 of 1 G: 1955, Grace Tully joined the staff that year. Let me ask you to describe the circumstances of her joining the Senate staff. J
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be doing. Mr. Johnson had asked me if I knew office work, and I told him I had done a little office work at the league. When I got there, I saw not only John Connally, whom I had known previously, but Walter Jenkins, and I am inclined to think
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Did he ever seek advice from you or aid from you in these early years other than just to try to get the CIa to come out against him? R: No, After he was in the White House, he asked me to put together LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; Walter Jenkins; Bobby Baker; Mrs. Johnson’s and Rowe’s work on the Beautification Committee; taking Mrs. Johnson on a tour of Washington D.C. public housing; Mrs. Johnson’s personality and role as wife; visiting LBJ at the Ranch.
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the attention of the senator to the benefits to the community. In other words, personal background on each community that was involved would be more helpful than the abstract theory of aiding education. Senator Magnuson introduced the bill, and hearings were
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: I want to ask you to start discussing in 1952 a little more about the LBJ Ranch. The first entry in this outline [1952 Chronology
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • brought him to my office. I was occupying a little small office next to Walter Jenkins' office. Bill Moyers brought him in and said, "Here's a fellow I think you ought to talk to, and you might get him to do some writing for the President." During
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Richard Goodwin; Great Society speech; initiation of Great Society programs; major legislative acts; Everett Dirksen; Bill Moyers and his use of power; Horace Busby; Walter Jenkins; Valenti’s 'I sleep better because Lyndon Johnson is in the White
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to be the Warren Commission--to investigate causes of the assassi­ nation. And one evening Walter Jenkins call.ed me to say, 11 For heavens · I ' sakes, this is something that the press ought not be pushing for. 11 And .very 11 shortly~ Mr. Johnson, himself
  • job offers; Siegel’s relationship with numerous staff members, including Walter Jenkins, George Reedy, Don Cook, Abe Fortas, Harry McPherson, Bill Moyers, Pauline Moore and Bobby Baker; what it’s like to work for LBJ; evaluation of LBJ as man
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , almost trivial. There was poor old Walter Jenkins' affair; there was that one, with a-- F: Forged Ph.D. C: --forged Ph.D., but none of the dirty stuff. F: None of them likely to subvert the government. C: Well, anyway, this committee served
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: There's one question that I didn't ask last time that I should have asked. You talked about the aftermath of the 1948
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • happened when Walter Jenkins left, in terms of aides struggling for position. I wish you'd do that again, because it gives us a better perspective. L: Now this is my observation. See, I was over at the Budget Bureau then; when I came onto the scene
  • the staff hierarchy changed when Walter Jenkins left; Dick Nelson; how the press treated George Reedy; Moyers becoming Press Secretary and keeping Laitin on his staff; Hal Pachios; Horace Busby; Jack Valenti’s interest in being press secretary and Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . George is a close friend of mine. George was another one wholly devoted to the President. The person who went to work for the President in 1939 and got the President's complete trust, just so totally, was Walter Jenkins. If Walter could have remained
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It was 1948, wasn't it? That's one reason why those three things were so important. Walter Jenkins was his AA at that time and Walter and I were close friends, and as far as I am concerned, still are . . 1 haven't seen him of course for years. So Lyndon runs
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Gillette Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start today with a few items in 1952 that we didn't cover last time. One, in late March, March 29, President
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWE Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: We started 1941 the last time-- J: 1948. G: Excuse me, 1948 the last time I was here. I wanted to begin today
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the others existed? P: Well, I don't recall any friction that ever arose between us. Everybody knew that he or she was there to do a job and it was all for the aid and the help of the Senator. He kept in close touch with all of us, and had a remarkable
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Senator Sheppard; Tom Connally; Depression years; Huey Long; Little Congress; LBJ as NYA Director in Texas; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; JFK assassination; reaction in Italy; LBJ's relationship with his staff; reaction of the staff after heart
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a physician on board for multiple reasons. Walter Jenkins called me, as I recall, and said that they'd like for me to go to Senegal with them. It was an anniversary of the birth of that country, and they wanted to send an American representative
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: What I thought we would start out by doing is there are one or two items on 1949. First of all, John Connally left the staff. J: Yes
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  • Reminiscences from 1950-1952; LBJ’s Texas trips; Eisenhower; the gas bill; Donald Cook; Korea; the Preparedness Committee; election as Democratic whip; the Douglas MacArthur firing; Jenkins’ campaign for Congress; death of Alvin Wirtz; acquiring
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ? B: Yes, that's right. 1961 and '62. To be precise about i t , I was budget director in President Kennedy named me as administrator of AID in late December of '62. M: Let's go back to your first government service - - or the early years
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the staff . He made me feel good with what I think all of his aides--at that time there was Gerry Siegel, Booth Mooney, George Reedy, Walter Jenkins, Arthur Perry, Jack Hight and myself ; I don't think I'm leaving anybody out--we were all at the same