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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, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . At that time, as I recall, a man named Clifford Carter was active on his staff and I believe that Mr. Walter Jenkins had more or less assigned this area to Cliff Carter because I remember whenever we were filling a vacancy on the advisory committee why I
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Well, what do you mean? M: Do you recall about the federal aid to elementary and secondary schools? T: Well, you mean, did I vote for that because of Lyndon Johnson? M: Yes. T: No, I didn't, and I don't remember that he ever put the slightest
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Homer] Thornberry, then Congressman Thornberry from Austin, asked me to come to Washington as his administrative assistant in June of 1955. of 1955 as his aide. Fortunately, I accepted the offer and came in June And then, like so many Texans, I am still
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that work when I could be doing something else that might be of aid in the war effort. So I went in in June '42, received a commission as a captain in the Judge Advocate General's department; and from there on had a rather interesting and active career. M
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a Roman Catholic, bringing it to your attention!" B: Do you recall who that was? H: Yes, that was Walter Jenkins, which I will later develop. senator read the letter and told Mr. Jenkins that, '~aybe So the you'd better check the writer
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not actually meet him, as I recall, until the latter part of 1952. In 1951 his Administrative Assistant, Walter Jenkins, left the Senator and came down to run for Congress in a special election. Through a mutual friend in Dallas, Mr. Jenkins was put
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Strauss -- I -- 11 a little unique I might add to this story. We met Walter Jenkins and his wife and John Connally and his wife in Las Vegas three or four nights later. I'd gone
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://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 8 Woodward, I guess was in the crowd then, and Walter Jenkins. I remember over
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and my campaign aides decided that I needed treatment, and they had me sent out to the Naval Hospital. The doctors put me on my back, gave me a pad and pencil, and told me not to say a word. If I wanted anything or anybody asked me a question, [he
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and teacher and so forth--instructor and leader. worked out a great many pieces of legislation. Together they I took an increasing interest in matters relating to foreign affairs, and especially such bills as the Foreign Aid Bill. I recall on more than one
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • getting a call from Walter Jenkins asking me if I would get on the plane and go down to the Ranch the next morning. M: That was when you were appointed? P: That was the day, but I had had no conversation before that except with Walter Heller
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • problems there were there, stayed to their knitting pretty much, and the other people were working just on the problems of the Senate. I can't think of anybody who floated back and forth between the two staffs. I would guess probably Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . So I sponsored the first bill two years after Eisenhower. When the Republicans lost the Congress, I became chairman, you see, of the Aviation Subcommittee, and I got the Federal Aid to Airports Bill through. Later on I continued my interest
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the average member of Congress. usually. If you called the White House, you got a call back You'd explain it to the President, and maybe he would turn it over to one of his trusted aides--and he did have very good aides--to either document it or to amplify
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • to JFK assassination; LBJ-RFK friction; LBJ’s difficulty in delegating; B/P; foreign aid; business and government; resignation as Secretary; LBJ’s loss of public support.
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to do a great deal of talking, you have to have intelligence sources, you've got to know who is irritated today, who is vexed, who may be waxing expansive, when is the time to make your move to enlist the aid of certain people. magic formulas or magic
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Atlanta had a very outstand- ing mayor--a mayor who had a conscience in this particular realm. B: This must be Ivan Allan. H: No, this was William Hartsfield at that time. Chief of Police was Mr. Jenkins. Then I believe the name of the He likewise
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson? B: I think that we were the only ones that were there. I was taken there by that young lad that later got into trouble. F: Walter Jenkins? B: No. F Bobby Baker. B: Bobby Baker. I can't remember whether Fred
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 inside and say, "I'm backing you up but don't do it that way again!" But he had this for Walter [Jenkins], and I
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Johnson said,] "Tip, You know better than this . I am just telling you that the young fellow is going to die on the vine . I am asking you to give me your second choice along the line, give me some help, some aid-and support in New England after
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and he put in a call for me that afternoon he made his decision. I called back, and by that time I got one of his aides, and it was all over, I guess, I didn't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • contributed to the vote . Lyndon had legal aid from a prominent lawyer from West Texas, a prominent lawyer from South Texas and myself to handle the action in the federal court at Fort Worth to vacate the restraining order and authorize his certification
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , had advised him over the years. I remember going to dinner in which either Jim Rowe, or Tommy Corcoran, or Abe Fortas were the guests. Or quite often it was the staff--Walter Jenkins, or whoever were the secretaries at the time. dinner. He just
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the local Tulsa situation . [Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Editor of The Tulsa Tribune Jenk Jones is one of the hardest-headed newspaper editors in the nation . B: That's one description you can put on him, among others . F: Are there any attempts
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the barbeque and then came up here on August 1 of '61 . Doing what? I didn't know until I got here, but I found out that I was a generalist and was sitting in for Walter Jenkins when he was out of the office, and I was sitting in for Cliff Carter when he
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it ought to be done, how we would select them, the aid that we would have of the merit scholarship organization under Stallnecker and so on. So it wasn't something that he just put his name to that someone else developed. F: Now, as an educator
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thought we should touch that base, so we did. I told Harris that I would see him and Bobby and they flew down in a private plane, and I took Hugh Cannon, who was then an aide in the campaign, later my director of administration, now my law partner
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the names of the President and Cabinet Members and close aides at sort of a surprise party when I moved to my new house in Georgetown . I think Bobby and Ethel organized that . The President came to that, completely by surprise . He just went out of his
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • briefly your reactions that day? P: Well, my military aide still helps me here in Dallas--Colonel Lewis Stephens--we had a table that had been assigned to uS that was just above where the speakers table was to be. Of course, the Mayor was going to meet
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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 8 B : Pretty much what he finally--kind of an aid
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to President Johnson. I was there; so was Mr. Raul Ornelas from LULAC, Mr. Augustine Flores from the American GI Forum, Mr. Luis Tellez from the American GI Forum (Mr. Vicente Ximenes at that time was in South America with the Panama AID), and there were
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • many appearances before committees because we had charge of the export control apparatus and all sorts of miscellaneous undertakings . Afterwards, I was sent to France as Chief of the American Delegation on the Marshall Plan's aid to France . Ba : B
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the steam right out of us. In that particular campaign, why, we worked all night long getting our committee plans ready. The next morning we'd read the Los Angeles paper, which was being put out with the aid of Mr. Kennedy out there, wherever he sat his
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it, would aid the process for integration. there with both groups opposed to my idea. So I was caught But nevertheless, I felt the idea had very substantial merit to meet the needs of the country at that time [and] that this is the way we could best go