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  • and executive editor and then from '60 to '68 as editor of the Constitution. And in those years you won the Pulitzer , for editorial writing and you are now with the Washington Post, is that correct? P: Now I'm the managing editor of the Washington Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Manpower. I served in that post for two years, so that it wasn't until 1963 that I moved to OSD and took up the civil rights job which had not hitherto existed. That was one of the by-products of the Gesell
  • in the campaign where you could go eat, and close to the post office. G: Who actually headed the campaign? J: Well, again, it was the same one we had in 1941, what's his name? G: Claude Wild? J: Claude Wild in name, John Connally headed it in actuality. G
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a good eight-year period in history to have another study made; that may have been good for the country. It gave everybody an opportunity after the surge of the post-war era and so on to slow down and collect themselves. I think it was good. Whether
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a party and so they had a party. They couldn't have Lincoln. As a matter of fact, in Montgomery, Alabama, when they came out with the three-cent stamp--this goes back some years; we were in the Federal Building, the Old Post Office Building in Montgomery
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it is today in the sense of being able to keep accurate records and to assess health care in any structured fashion. That's one of the major changes between that time and now. G: Anything else on the post-presidential association between Lyndon Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of differences, and stirring the country to bring pressure to bear on the unions--public pressure through the media. There were many meetings with individuals associated with the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and others to explain
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and it was to his advantage, obviously, that Rhode Island be given the same as New York. But when they made their peace, there weren't any other major critiques. T: There also did not seem to be any lengthy consideration of making it a cabinet post. Was that just
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as the most adequate. F: Did you stay there or did you stay in town? B: Walt and I had our little command post in a motel that had been reserved for the U.S. delegation. F: In a case like that, do you send down U.S. technicians to set up the necessary
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • about it. President Kennedy was very firm about it being in that location. And I never heard any indication that Johnson had any other thoughts. The only group that seemed to be doubtful about it was the Washington Post. I always felt they were
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the press reports of my travels--not just the press reports but the post reports, were glowing reports of my travels. B: Of course, I ought to point out in this record that you're hardly an amateur at that. You had made a similar trip in '55, I think
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that ,,,as the thing that they were concerned about. Another thing, for instance Elgin, at least, was anxious to get a federal building. We didn't have one. were renting a building. We had a post office, and So they had already presented it to Mr. Buchanan
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the people involved were, that's a pretty ex post guess. G: Did the task force consider the issue of whether the poor should actually control the Community Action Agency? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and then had stayed on in California as the state industrial commissimler. So Mr. Henning had been named to the post. Unfortunately, he and Secretary Wirtz found it quite impossible to develop a good working relationship. The Secretary made his views known
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the Washington Post. M: Of course. R: I was asking Carroll and Pete Lisagor and a couple of other people if this was really true, if Johnson did have this notion LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the Dominican Republic, post crisis. That's really when I did get to know him. G: So then you left the government. M: I left the government and went over to Senator Kennedy's office in, I think it was either late April or May of 1966 and stayed there. LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Relations Committee? M: Well, yes, I did. The Foreign Relations Committee post opened up rather unexpectedly, to me at least. I had been kind of waiting in the wings for an opening on the committee for some time, since that was my primary area
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • downtown at a hotel, which was sort of a command post, and the only time I remember being involved was the night before the race when were down at headquarters . remember Jack there - exactly, I don't . but I remember a lot of commotion � � LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that it was the place, I would mark the site with streamers of yellow crepe paper here on a fence post or somewhere. Yellow is more visible from the air; that's why we used the yellow paper. And then the next thing we'd do, we'd go to the newspaper and we would place
  • that I worked \'lith in the Post Office .. PB: You didn't have any Inspector General investigating you during that time, did you? BP: No. - l' And I think they never connected me in any \'lay with that Army investigation. thing ab ou t i t anyr.:my
  • up to the first landing and I would tear out, flying down, and they wouldn't be on the first landing. By that time I was so shaken lid hop on the bannister and go scooting down the bannister. And the newel post had a curve like this and many times
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Now as far as Valenti's calling and calling on editors and asking them to drop our column, that, I'm sure, came from the President, because Valenti wouldn't ever do a thing like that on his own. The Houston Post was one, the Los Angeles Times
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ahead of us. I just want to keep you posted." He said, "You really think it's that serious?" I said, "Yes, I do, Mr. President; I wouldn't be wasting your time if I didn't think so." He said, "We'll talk about it." I don't know how well you knew Lyndon
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , in 1944, in Austin meeting with the mayor and the city council and other people on post war planning and discussing employment and conversion back to a civilian economy and housing, and things of this nature, to prepare the Tenth District
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a message that was etched onto a sterling silver plate--a rectangular piece of sterling silver. The message is in her own handwriting. The words Mrs. Mellon wrote allude to the dedication of the garden, the name of it, the datej this was posted on one
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of furious about that. He didn't want I found later that he knew there was a story coming out in the Washington Post about him as a possibility for the Presidency. He didn't want to knock it in the head at the same time; he didn't want to kill it right
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for Alaska and for Hawaii, giving all the reasons that both statehood advocates of Hawaii and Alaska gave. He really worked for it, too. M: He would have been more or less working on the R e p u b l i c ~ n s . B: Yes. M: And he was in a cabinet post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with that firm. John didn't go with that firm, as I recall it. I could be incorrect, but I think he came here and opened his own office. Now, whether he came here simply as a listening post for the Congressman, whether he ever intended seriously to practice law
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ought to be called back to their posts of duty. And it ought to be made plain when they called them back that they were not calling them back to get them out of positions of danger but that they were calling them back to what the President thought
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and sitting in on the meetings, but it's not right--at some point later, I started sitting in on the meetings, and I would send out notices of the meetings. Marjorie Merriweather Post was on the committee, and she was deaf, so didn’t usually attend. So every
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • helping in the course of the campaign. I think Sarge Shriver had made a commitment to the President about going ahead to France. F: This was, of course, at this particular point one of the more sensitive posts. It's always major-- K: That's right
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • keep saying he was at the Ranch. It was 1965 when he had that operation. I guess he hadn't been operated on at the time of steel; it was post-steel that the gall bladder was taken out. But he was at the Ranch at the time the decision was made to send
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the Post or the Times, get them over in my office--I have a dim recollection that it was Ed Dale--and tell them we were going to put out even more aluminum. And that clearly was enough to break the price. (Long pause) There is one other thing I should
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • one, wasn't it, in the [Washington] Post and the New York Times? C: The story was page one. Well, it's New Year's weekend. There isn't a hell of a lot of other news. G: What was the industry reaction? C: The industry was, well, the industry
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • recommendation should be accepted. "I've got reports that have been submitted to the President on what was happening. I've got reports from Defense and Commerce and the Post Office because of the impact of the strike on the mails. I would not conclude
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for the War Department School of Civilian Personnel Administration. With the post-war decline of the War Department and the passage of the unification legislation of 1947, I transferred to the Bureau of the Budget at the Bureau's request. There I became
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • by the wire services. About four or five days later, there was a little story on the front page of the Washington Post which said, "Five days ago Secretary Wirtz spoke in De troit, or Chicago (uhichever one it was), and expressed views against the Vietnam
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • agricultural economics at the University of California Is that from California? from '46 on, and were head of the department there from '57 on. You have an impressive list of advisory and consultant posts. M: I was also Director of the Giannini Foundation
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)