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  • to now-with the effectiveness of foreign aid, and it was cut considerably during the late fifties. I know on one occasion Eisenhower threatened to call Congress back into session in 1959 because of an insufficient foreign aid bill, from his standpoint. Do
  • Foreign aid
  • temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
  • the press reported that the other way, I think, very widely. Me: Not true. Mil: You served on President Kennedy's--what do they call it, the Clay Committee on Foreign Aid? Me: Yes. Mil: And dissented from its report. Me: Yes. Mil: Did you ever
  • Foreign aid
  • Aid; 3/31 announcement; AFL-CIO would have supported LBJ for another term; LBJ’s legislative achievements; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.
  • one of the problems you h3.d consistently was the foreign military aid and of course the escalating expense of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
  • was not followed. B: Did you see anything of the members of Mr. Johnson's senatorial staff? C: Yes. Walter Jenkins? I came to know Walter Jenkins, I thought very well, although you never, of course, can be sure. B: lIve seen it said that Walter Jenkins
  • that they just felt that my background was such that it would be good for this particular job. G: Can you recall the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? R: I certainly can. I was in visiting the office, I believe talking to Mildred Stegall, Walter Jenkins
  • than the Republican members of the Senate in many instances. Foreign aid is a perfectly good example. I mean LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • Foreign aid
  • Staff officer of Eisenhower; treated as family by Ike; met LBJ in 1953; became LBJ’s close friend, politically and socially; Tidelands Bill; foreign aid; Ike got 83% of legislation through Congress; good political leader; knew intimately government
  • that with the Vice President of the United States. But I voted against them a couple of times. I became a friend of Walter Jenkins during the course of this time. I used to see Walter around town and worked with him on a couple of problems that we had
  • it was. M: I think they prolonged the war. Do you think that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has a role of policy initiation in foreign affairs, such as your Amendment, I believe, to the Foreign Aid Bill of 1962, limiting aid in certain cases where
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Case -- I -- 24 G: Anything else on the legislative issues that you recall: federal aid to schools, social security amendments? c: I remember on schools. Of course, live been interested myself in that for many years
  • have to say that admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states is, by far, the biggest thing that he did for this country. G: You mentioned, before we started the tape, about attaching this to an aid bill. B: Can you tell us your thinking here, your
  • top secret things, just kind of a right-hand man type to the General. At the end of 1960--1 didn't know anything about this till I read it in Newsweek--somebody touted Clifton as the military aide to the newly elected President Kennedy. He didn't deny
  • was not due to any hesitancy about the space program. It had to do with the other items that went in that message--foreign aid, a whole series of other things that they wanted to put together in a composite presentation--with the idea that space would be so
  • the most critical parts of the voyage, namely the rendezvous parts, done near the earth where you can perhaps rely more on aid from ground stations . Some of it is going to have to be done now on the moon and no one on earth can help at all in lunar orbit
  • , and aid would be granted if possible. And having all that information I put it in a weekly letter, and I said, "I urge every boy and girl who is qualified to innnediate ly get in touch with your office," and I had the offices listed in our district