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Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

' matters, largely because nobody else is, and somebody has got to watch the store. In my period very happily we had in the House a remarkable man as head of the Veterans Affairs Committee--Tiger Teague from Texas. He was a war hero. It must have been
Great Society; OEO; HUD; Medicare; educational and veterans legislation; Brookings Institution

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

this. Under Kennedy there had been concern over urban affairs and setting up a department of urban affairs. W: How does this fit in? Kennedy had proposed it and said he'd appoint the Secretary. shot down. whole thing. It had been There's a beautiful
Biographical information; meeting with LBJ in 1960; wrote speeches for JFK; Moyers’ operation; Task Force on Urban Affairs; urban crisis; concept of the Great Society; urban problems given greater dimension under LBJ; uniqueness of task forces

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a moment on one thing. Veteran newsmen have seen it all and presumably don't stampede easily. Was there a feeling among the White House press corps, widely expressed, that this may be the beginning of some sort of coup d'état or an attempted nationwide
Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ

section with the President for a press conference in which he was planning to cover some Defense Department stuff, and I was there along with I suppose the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. He kept interrupting the briefing session

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for international security affairs--a mouth-filling title--from September, 1965 to September 1, 1966 when I left to come here to Harvard. M: Right. That brings you up to date. Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior to the time you entered government in 1961

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on it was quite apparent that Rayburn had developed a kind of fatherly affection for Johnson. So had Vinson--Carl Vinson is who we are speaking of, the chairman of what was then the Naval Affairs Committee, later the Armed Services Committee. And that to them

areas, the famous interagency youth committee, which was to circumvent the State Department and USIA, or at least the stodgy parts of it. But no, I don't remember specifically. G: Anything on a cabinet-level committee? Did he advocate that to your

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Housing and Home Finance. In any event, the President in January after his election, January of 1965, had a $pecial address to the nation on-urban and domestic affairs [and] recommended the creation of the department and some things like that, if I'm

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1976 INTERVIEHEE: J. R. PARTEN INTERV I HJER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Madisonville, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Well, we were up to the 1960 affair. ask you a couple of questions. Before we go ahead, I want to Did you ever get involved in the Joe

in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

there is a share by both of them--for instance, some of the Labor department programs or where the federal government appoints a state official as in the case of agriculture. But in each case I feel the states should have been involved. The second one was, I felt

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, Chairman Macy and his secretary. tic desk officer, we called him. We had a domes- The domestic desk officer was the man who handled all the domestic agencies, so all the departments which dealt with domestic affairs were his responsibility including all
; problems in accepting appointments; the Robert Weaver appointment; problem of women appointees; leaking appointments; loans of personnel from departments from the White House; impressions of LBJ as an executive; the Great Society

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the request by telephone. But And of course, bolstered it, came through with the telegraph request, too. And it was all done and I had no problems. As I say, thare were no blocks in the way any place. F: Did the Justice Department send someone out here

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

remember on any number of occasions we used to mutually deplore what we felt was the lack of coordination of all of the efforts, first just within the federal government--how each department had its own poverty operation. Labor was doing something

Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was on the Census Committee, and Elections Committee, and Irrigation and Reclamation, and Insular Affairs and Territories. committees all Those later were merged with major committees. When the congressional reorganization occurred, I was put on the Judiciary

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