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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, 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, 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, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of President Kennedy? P: Not as a presidential appointee, as a so-called administrative appointee of Fowler Hamilton, the new administrator of AID. M: Then you were in this agency then during the course of the Kennedy Presidency, and have remained
  • Biographical information; AID operations; Far East; additionality; Congress; interagency relationships; Vietnam; diversion and control of AID supplies; intervention; other development programs
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • one of the people who have been he re long enough to see the development between the two presidencies, and that's one of the things I'd like to get into. How much can an individual who is President place an impact on an agency like AID? How much
  • Foreign aid
  • Biographical information; Presidential impact on AID; comparison of JFK and LBJ; Presidential approval of specific loans; BOB and Treasury Department involvement in policy decision; White House and State Department involvement; B/P loans; AID
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • discussed with all of his-aides . meeting? B: Oh, no . What was the conclusion of the Did they decide anything? This was just opening remarks on his part . He Was going around the table describing to each one of us how much we made . See­ "I've got
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter Jenkins; Bobby
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Jenkins' office was catty-cornered from mine, so I would see something of these people. I was also rather close to Dick Maguire, and Dick did a lot of the briefing of Johnson. In fact he was supposed to meet with Johnson and Walter, and Cliff, about
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • close and very friendly and cont i nues to be. Walter Jenkins is a great pal of mine. There was no friction going into the campaign and up until the election . M: Then to move irilo the administration--1 ' m very happy you did go into that sidetrack
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; assassination; 1964 Vice Presidential contest; HHH; LBJ's legislative ability; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam; O'Donnell's resignation; decision not to run again; 1968 Democratic convention; Czechoslovakia invasion; peace plank
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there, as you know, as Kleberg's aide, and he obviously had a real feel for parliamentary procedure and was a past master at it. w-ould say, very early on. He acquired that skill, 1 One hears more discussion about him as Majority Leader in the Senate
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • lights. He wanted to know why some civilians, both in the State Department and in the AID Agency, were beginning to look as though they were no longer supporting our policy in Vietnam, and what was their problem, what had happened. He was anxious
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • aid bill . And they came in to argue with him and I just so remember him saying to these men that, "We are going to pass some kind of bill, so you get busy and decide what is acceptable to you ." But he made it perfectly clear that he wasn't going
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it a point whenever there was interesting matter in my bailiwick that I thought would interest the Vice President, I sent him a copy of my memos, or would send them down to Walter Jenkins. Busby wasn't with him then of course. I sort of tried to keep him
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, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Southeast Asia and the Far East. The day before we left on the trip Davis broke a story saying that Vice President Johnson was taking to Saigon a commitment of a hundred million dollars--I believe that's the precise figure--in new and additional aid
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in which he could bring support to bear to help our efforts. The program was originally called Third Country Aid, and it was basically aid from other countries, other than the United States, to help the government of Vietnam. very open-ended. The more
  • Job duties for the Free World Assistance (FWA); LBJ’s support of the FWA; requesting the involvement of other countries in aid to Vietnam; 1965 Pleiku incident; public relations speaking engagements about Vietnam in the U.S. and Europe; the use
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on to India as head of the AID--brought in a clipping from McClean's column in the Daily News in Washington which said, "Waiters are reporting an enormous increase in tips since the tax cut." Lewis LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And [there was] the welfare director from Oklahoma, Lloyd Rader, Senator [George] Smathers, and some other senator and their aide. We were waiting on Clinton Anderson. We were going to study proposals. Kerr told us to research how much a half a per cent increase in Social
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the standpoint of export trade and from a standpoint of reducing defense costs. F: You always saw it more of an investment than you did in any sort of an aid sense, didn't you? H: I made a statement at one time, which appeared on a front cover of TIME Magazine
  • Foreign aid
  • First awareness of LBJ; administrator of Marshall Plan; UN Development Program; Joe McCarthy attack; free trade; representative to UN assembly; Bunche mission; civil liberties; campaign expenditures; foreign aid; International Peace Corps; advisory
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in pulling together a very fine visual presentation of how all of this would work and organization charts. Dim the lights and-- M: Training aids? T: We had all the training aids. God, we had George Meany, Henry Ford and Edgar Kaiser--you name them
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • on me as a helper. In other words, if the Vice President said, "Cross, I want you to go do something for me," I'd say "Yes, sir." I didn't have to be just a pilot, so I'd help him in any way that I could. M: Were you his military aide, too? C
  • Military biography; flights with LBJ when Majority Leader, VP, President and as permanent pilot; appointment in July 1965 as military aide to LBJ; military aides for White House social events; operations of presidential flights; communications
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- 21 Mrs. Kilgore, as women are wont to do, I don't think will .ever forgiv e Preside nt . Johnson. She felt that, through Walter Jenkins or whoever Joe had talked with in the White House--maybe the Presid ent-­ there was the understanding Joe was going
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -- II -- 2 I stayed there off and on for about two years. Then I left the government in 1959, went to work for my father in Airways Engineering. Then in 1962 I got a call from the director of AID, Far East, a guy named [Seymour] Janow, asking me
  • Phillips’ work in Laos; getting involved with the AID mission in Vietnam; reorganizing AID in relation to its rural efforts; a strategic hamlet program; organizational problems in the U.S. military approach in Vietnam; working with what
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the press, it doesn't do them much good and doesn't make them feel good and doesn't expand their ego. M: What about the issue of foreign aid? You've sometimes been an opponent of Mr. Johnson's activities in this general area. Has he put pressure on you
  • Foreign aid
  • to JFK regarding RFK and Senator Fulbright; supported foreign aid for 19 years; first one to propose selling wheat to Russia; LBJ’s accomplishments on domestic side will outweigh Vietnam War.
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 1966 when I came to the White House as a Marine Corps sergeant major to work as Jim Cross'--who was the Armed Forces Aide at that time--as his administrative assistant. He was in the process of reorganizing the Armed Forces Aides office at the White
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, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • years in research, I spent the next three years with the Secretary's office working on agricultural policy questions and serving as advisor to the Secretary on questions of foreign agriculture policy that is, agricultural development, food aid
  • Biographical information; not active in partisan politics; Indian food crisis; PL 480; self-help concept; differences with AID on emphasis of priority; operating under State Department's budget; improvement of Vietnamese agriculture; defoliants
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Dick got intrigued with him. And Dick, I'm sure, convinced Walter Jenkins that Johnson ought to have his own intellectual. So, you know--is it all right if my mind wanders a little here to talk about own intellectual? G: Sure. P: I remembered
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • for the aid, but the decision was made, obviously for political reasons, not to directly propose to the Congress grants. The administra- tion I believe proposed a fairly generous program of loans which all colleges would be eligible for. The histories
  • Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROVERE -- I -- 14 M: Right. R: And then he found himself at the end working--well, he had no protectors. M: Right. R: First, he had Walter Jenkins as a protector, and he
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • had a good relationship with the President, and of course I was the military aide to the President as well as the pilot, and so lots of times if he felt in the mood just to get up and walk around, well, he'd come up there and have a word or two
  • LBJ's trips to Vietnam in 1966 and 1967; LBJ's mood about Vietnam; LBJ's relationship with the military; LBJ and LeMay, McConnell, Wheeler, Moymer, Abrams, Westmoreland and Haig; aspects of the role of a military aide; LBJ and Humphrey; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on December 18, if I remember correctly. President N a s s e r told me and then later said publicly, that he was aiding the Congo rebels at a time when we were lifting our people out of there, causing great, great consternation here in the U n i t e d
  • on the Arts; Bill Fulbright; UAR ambassadorship; incident in Egypt; Dr. Ramsey Stino; US-Egypt relationship; US aid to Egypt; Congo; Greek coup; Yemen crisis; Arab-Israeli War; Tri-Partite Declaration; Johnson administration as pro-Israel; opening of Abu
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the foreign aid program, in overall charge of it, as Undersecretary of State and Undersecretary for Economic Affairs. I was sort of the ultimate re sponsibility in the State Department for its legislative progress of that bill every year, so I had to talk
  • Foreign aid
  • Appointment as Secretary; relationship with LBJ during Eisenhower administration; State Department Appropriation Bill and Foreign Aid Bill in 1959 and 1960; LBJ's role as VP; Cuban Missile Crisis; differences between LBJ and JFK; budget; balance
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • very carefully what I was going to say to him, to make sure that there couldn't be any interpretation that would suggest that we were playing games or being cute. But he'd help a lot on the big things. He saved the AID Bill in those days on several
  • Contacts with LBJ; success of Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy; personal contact between Secretary Dulles and LBJ; AID bill; estimation of LBJ; formidable experience of talking to LBJ; Macomber never brought good news
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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.
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, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • regarding any position on foreign affairs policy by the White House, for foreign aid bills? F: During the Kennedy Administration, I had an interesting experience, and I'll make it brief. When he was asking for a four-year extension LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • personnel, the establishment and operation of our aid to navigation program and search and rescue and so forth. I think that these are civil functions and traditionally and historically the United States has kept its civil functions divorced from
  • ; maintaining aids to navigation system; license all Merchant Marines Personnel; four programs of marine safety area; private recreational craft; Maritime Administration; investigating accidents; National Transportation Safety Board; LBJ’s personal interest
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh top of, highlight the significant proposals, outline differences of opinion for some fifty task forces ranging all the way from foreign aid to early childhood development
  • White House Aides: Bohen / Nimitz, Zwick / Deusenberry / Schultz; Educational Opportunity Act of 1968; Child Development Task Force; Urban development bank; LBJ's strongest interests; 1968 Housing Act; 1967 Air Pollution Control Act; 1967
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of this report was the first recognition of the American Medical Association that there was a shortage of physicians. M: Is it true that there had been some interest in federal aid to doctors and medical facilities on back into the early 1950's? S: That's