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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, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to hold a fund-raiser in Texas. But as I understand it, President Kennedy and some of his staff aides were of the opinion that they ought to go to Texas to mend fences and to raise some money. Some time previous to the trip John Connally came to Wash
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . There's no question about that. McHugh, who was a brigadier general in the air force and was Kennedy's air force aide, went flitting up and down the aisle trying to get the pilot to get the plane off the ground, because his President was aboard and he
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
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, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Walter Jenkins thing happened we expected them to try to get other scandal s--we didn't know what they were, but we felt like the other shoe would drop. We knew that the other side was getting increasingly desperate, and when an opponent is desperate
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh as he did you. ~1: He knew us all. He communicated with us Walter Jenkins. He asked us all to stay. either directly or through that was in a personal conversation
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • understanding--I did not know about any of this ahead of time and I can't say, for that matter, that the Vice President had personal knowledge of these, because I'm pretty sure that George Reedy and Walter Jenkins would probably have kept the knowledge
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; problems of President’s Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity; enforcement of regulations; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; success of PCEEO; OEO; EEOC; civil rights organizations; MLK; Office of Federal Contract Compliance; Council of Equal Opportunity
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, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F: You were seeing the world? N: Seeing the world! F: Did you have any kind of a New Year 1 s Eve on the train? N: No. F: It was a quiet trip? N: Yes. John Connally took Walter [Jenkins] and me the next night
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] met Dean Rusk before. -18- I talked to one or two of his aides, Moyers was up there, and, of course, Marvin Watson was up there. Bob Comer. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
  • in Vietnamese regime; Westmoreland; Abrams; personnel in Vietnam; Clark Clifford; LBJ’s acceptance of Locke’s race for Governor of Texas – no aid from LBJ; 3/31 announcement; estimation of LBJ; Texas political structure; Lady Bird; political nature of LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • left; John had been doing some dealing with the press. Lodge took over press relations into his own office. Joe Lubin. He got himself a young aide named He became his own press officer and in theory at least, Mecklin no longer, up to the time he
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Kennedy wanted to move in so many directions in the domestic front and as Vice President, Johnso~ who had been majority leader in the Senate, was personally familiar with the senators. That would be a great aid in passing legislation. M
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the election, and he started to m3nd _ his fences immediately. M: So you were called in as a political aide? K: That's right. M: Were you willing to help him? K: Sure. Sure, I traveled the country for him and with him. I flew with him for two or three
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • committee assignments. My third year in the Senate I went on the Finance Committee, I'm sure primarily at his behest, and also the aid of Senator Russell, who at that time was the dominant force in the Steering Committee. But the Majority Leader
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
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, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • with a proposal for more Aep. live forgotten what the initials stand for--Aid to Conservation Practices. As I said in my book, a bureau would have to be singularly lacking in self-respect if it couldn't figure out some way that it could participate
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and during that time I spent some time in Washington and I knew Dick Kleberg of King Ranch reasonably well. And that's where I first met Lyndon Johnson. F: He was his administrative aide or secretary at that time? P: That's right. I think he had
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to read and write--using radio and television. Bosch was encouraging this very much, and AID was coming in, and everybody was flocking down there. Bosch. So I had a long talk with I was very much impressed by him. I don't think he could run
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --speaking nationally and internationally on American foreign policy; and so from my point of view this was the crusade to try to stand for international questions. Of course, aiding and abetting this was the fact that I had crisscrossed the state, every