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Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was. This was a very great challenge for NASA, but one which we were well prepared to meet. The financial status of NASA at the time that I became Acting Administrator was very sound indeed. had been conservative throughout in our programs. The financing We had
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; 1964 support of LBJ; John Macy appointment as acting administrator; Geo. Mueller; Homer Newell; FY70 NASA budget; contacts and meeting with LBJ; Apollo 8 launch; LBJ’s reaction to the success
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape 1) March 25, 1969 B: Dr. Eugene Emme, the NASA historian, is sitting in. Dr. Paine, a very brief summary of your career. You were born in California in 1921, received a Bachelor of Engineering from Brown in 1942
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; 1964 support of LBJ; John Macy appointment as acting administrator; Geo. Mueller; Homer Newell; FY70 NASA budget; contacts and meeting with LBJ; Apollo 8 launch; LBJ’s reaction to the success
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • iaison--some kind of coordinating activity between the Defense Department and NASA. In the Senate bill. we took the position that there were other authorities in the law which allowed NASA to set up all kinds of coordinating committees with the agencies
  • LBJ's Senate office; Defense Preparedness Subcommittee; Senate Aeronautical and Space Science Committee; National Aeronautics and Space Council; NASA; development of space program
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . WEBB INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER DATE: April 29, 1969 Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with James E. Webb, who was Administrator of NASA from 1961 to 1968. Mr. Webb, to start way back earlier than that, you were a secretary to a congressman beginning
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NASA; Space Science Board; aeronautical industry; VP’s role in the space program; presidential advisory groups; Webb-McNamara agreement; lunar voyage; Axis Concept; Albert Thomas; “Space Age Management
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and that is that it says all of the space activities are for peaceful purposes, some to be handled by a civilian agency in the new administration called NASA and some for involving weapons systems and research and development in the weapons systems on national security
  • program; relationship between JFK and LBJ; selection of Houston for space center; NASA budget; supersonic transport planning; Post-Apollo planning; HHH as Chairman of Council; 1967 Apollo fire; visit with LBJ in retirement
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • .; So the scientists were the ones that came up with the ideas that got into the NASA act, that the policy of the United States should be that space should be for peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind. That act was passed in LBJ
  • Biographical information; LBJ; Sputnik; committee work; NASA; space legislation; U.N. and space; conferences; visiting the Ranch; space law; reports; foreign travel
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; Herbert Hill; examples of Hill's cases against non-compliant companies, including Southern Bell, General Motors, California Light and Power, Mississippi Light and Power; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; why Feild left the committee; NASA compliance issues; RFK's
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES LOVELL INT ERV IEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Captain Lovell's office at the Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: To start off with I'd like to know a little bit about your background. Where were you born
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you were trying to do? M: He had a grasp, a knowledge, a knowledge that was born of his own experiences, and his experience in both the House and the Senate, where he had headed the committee in the Senate to put up ·and establish NASA. John
  • Miller’s career history; choosing Cape Canaveral for space launches; work on space program with Vice President LBJ; space/aeronautics contracts to various businesses; thermal energy source; NASA and satellite communication; distance learning via
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • technically perfectly doable. But you see, the military in most cases doesn't worry much about that; they're after performance. And so the stuff that falls out from the military is then likely to be noisy. So we've been trying to get NASA and ourselves
  • ; high-speed train transportation between Washington, D.C., and New York City; the high-speed train system in Japan; research on short-takeoff and vertical-takeoff aircraft; NASA and FAA involvement in aircraft research; the Supersonic Transport program
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Bobby Kennedy picking on Jim Webb at NASA. But the interesting thing about the NASA thing is that it reflected itself most vividly in the internal employment structure of NASA as against their dealings with contractors. NASA was exceptionally complicated
  • Abe Fortas' role in the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; how LBJ's control of the Committee was undermined; John Macy; discrimination in White House hiring; NASA; federal workforce turnover; Feild's involvement
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • patent policy for the United States. P: This patent policy that you were questioned on had to do with the difference between NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Federal Aviation Agency. What was this difference
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXII -- 3 G: There were also charges that duplication existed between the NASA programs and the Defense Department programs
  • Ed Welsh and the adoption of a plan to land a man on the moon; early competition between military branches and their fear of releasing secrets to NASA; how U.S. dominance in air power during World War II led other countries to advance technology
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as Southerner/Westerner/Southwesterner; Space Act of 1957, 1958; the space program and setting up NASA.
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • tube arrived in the mail and it had a commission in it. I opened it up, "Hey, what is in here? A map of something or other?" I was always trying to get a NASA photo of Maryland so I could find my farm on it where I was living and I thought, "Well
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , NASA got to Houston because of that, -~ because of me. I was chairman of the appropriations for NASA and Lyndon created the committee. I G: I was on it until just a year ago. didn't want to be chairman of it. Was it Lyndon Johnson that did
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Atomic Energy Commission on this matter. I know that he took some actions which subsequently resulted in the creation of NASA, on the one hand, and a concentration of authority in Department of Defense, on the other. F: You had no personal relationship
  • Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ? There are a lot of independent scientific agencies around the government, NASA, AEC, and some others. W: Well, this question has been raised. In fact, it was recently raised in a letter from Congressman [Emilio Q.] Daddario [D-Conn.] to the President just
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the country and both coasts. And here obviously he asked me, one, to find out how much money was going into Texas from Defense and NASA [National Aeronautic and Space Administration] and from the National Institutes of Health, the Public Health Service
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • because it really did disturb people after Sputnik and Mutnik got up. By 1960 the thing had bogged down somewhat. We had set NASA up by that point, and we had a number of fizzles in our early efforts to get these satellites into space. I think people
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • by NASA . He took great pride in that program . Yet I'm convinced that it was confining to him . far broader range of things . He was interested in a Yet in national security matters, aside from space, he wasn't in them very much . President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • been late summer of last year. I went down and talked, and my main--the main question I had, which I vacillated on for a month or so was [that] simply, I didn't know anything about transportation. I more naturally fitted into the military, NASA
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • things in the published budget of such as the MOL--the Manned Orbiting Laboratory. That is an Air Force project. Now I do have some questions in my own mind as to whether there isn't some duplication of effort between NASA and the Air Force. bothered me
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • because he appeared and gave talks at these civil rights functions around town, even scientific functions too. Of course he was head of the--what was it, the space program, the NASA Council. That was another interesting thing with Johnson, although I
  • House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the NASA law--space law. And he had an assistant who later became an Assistant Professor at MIT. I forget his name for the moment. And I had an assistant who, between them, really wrote the basis of that law. And I would say that the present NASA
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was chaired by the Vice President and its members were the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, NASA, the AEC, CIA, et cetera. It is rather difficult to confront the President, who has not participated in the process, with decisions on space made
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • space program as vice president. he brings in, of course, NASA appropriations. Now that Did that bring you two back into some relationship? M: Well, Albert Thomas was serving during that time on the committee on what we call independent offices which
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Drew Pearson -- Interview I --19 F: Why do you think that the NASA installation went to Houston? Do you think that's some of Mr. Johnson's manipulations? P: I thought it was more Albert Thomas, who was Chairman of the Appropriations
  • ; holdover of JFK’s Cabinet; LBJ didn’t use party machinery; John Bailey; poverty program; Vietnam policy; felt LBJ captured by military; foreign policy; responsibility of Albert Thomas for NASA in Houston.
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , that this was going to S o , w e then moved into the area of authority-- M: Excuse me a minute, how about NASA? B: No, we talked about the aeronautical research functions of NASA, and concluded that that was logically in the department, but too tough a nut
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and they made it possible that they could purchase it-part of their area. M: As I recall Humble gave some land to Rice University and then Rice gave it to the NASA people-- T: That's right. M: --and then I suppose your husband was some place in this trying
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • like the President coming down to dedicate NASA or something? T: No. It wasn't anything like that. F: Were you privy at all to the establishment of the NASA headquarters down in Houston? T: No, I was not. You see, that decision was made, I believe
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/12/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • the NASA space program and the MDL [Manned Orbiting Laboratory] program are manned by military people. Through those two programs I think we will have an adequate opportunity to find out whether or not space offers opportunity to do the current military
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and the FAA. By that time I had become closely asso- ciated with General Quesada and had developed a high respect for him. I therefore chose FAA over NASA and became Quesada's Assistant Administrator for Management Services, as the position was then called
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; 1948 kidney stone attack; B52s, B70s, B36s; Senate Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; NASA; impressions of LBJ and his
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Vannevar Bush. who was it? I went up with--Eddie Weisl didn't come with me, It wasn't Cy Vance. Maybe it was Gerry Siegel. But a couple of us went up to see Vannevar Bush to be a witness on the, whatever it was, I guess the beginning of the NASA
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And unless you can have a strong economy, you can't do the very many things that you'd like to do that require money. If you don't have a strong economy, you can't have a strong defense program; you can't have a NASA program; you can't have the welfare
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from 1957 until he retired. I once asked him why he didn't get on [a legislative committee]. Well, for instance, when they set up NASA, and they had the Space Committee and all that that Johnson had gotten on, I wanted the old man to get
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the ... statute that was adopted creating NASA--that's the civilian body ~ LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http