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  • Congress. We had enacted a lot of good legislation in 1965, but there was still a lot of unfinished business to carryover into 1966. I had brought in a staff person to be my deputy early in 1964--John r~organ, who was an American Political Science
  • agency with our own monitoring team review . They share them with us, and we in turn compare them with our own monitoring reports, because our method is that the regional offices are expected to have an evaluation or monitoring inspection of each
  • and there were indications of monitoring my phone. My wife noted strange sounds on the telephone in our apartment in New York. On occasions when my wife and I would be at dinner in New York, I was advised by the maitre d', who we were known to, that a fellow
  • : How active was this section in terms of monitoring protection of the environment? S: I don't recall how much--at what point--you see, I left at the end of 1965, and I don't recall how much of their work was brought to fruition before I left. But one
  • . And as a result very few bank mergers got through. G: There was a major amendment to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act in 1964, apparently because of some of the bank failures. This was a device for increasing the monitoring capabilities over banks that were
  • it and have a continuity of contact. Well, this was ideal; this fitted in nicely. We sought them out and they obviously would respond in most every instance enthusiastically.We carefully monitored contested districts. We had all our statistics and information
  • that this was a delicate matter, because it was something that the President asked you to do that even the Director was uncomfortable about: In looking at the history and the actual data gathered, did this give you any insights on the forces that you were monitoring
  • murders that get the front page; it isn't that some community college is doing great things to educate a particular segment of the community. MG: How did you yourself monitor the Community Action Program? Did you have any way of observing the good
  • become mayor of Cincinnati. I'm not sure Shriver would make it there. G: Let me ask you about the Office of Inspection. How was it decided to have, first of all, internal monitoring on for the War on Poverty? H: I don't know how it was decided
  • Haddad as its chief as compared to his successor, Edgar May; the differences between successful CAPs and those that failed; why it was difficult to monitor and/or evaluate CAPs in the first two years; accusations of waste and fraud in CAPs; efforts
  • , which was the United States Operation Mission in Vietnam, and that was monitored through the embassy. In both cases, the President of Vietnam, President [Ngo Dinh] Diem, and his advisers, his cabinet, his parliament, recognized that this was true
  • to it that that is monitored and controlled by higher echelons; and that those things which do affect the interface between the military and other LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • to be desegregated. G: Now let's talk about moving into the White House. Was the specific presidential assistant assigned to sort of monitor the War on Poverty or did it-- C: No. I think until before I got there, I think [Bill] Moyers was probably the most
  • stamped approval of a job well done in presidential leadership and I don't recall any negatives. The civil rights survey was entirely different. G: How characteristic was that, though, in terms of your monitoring the constituents' reaction
  • . When I was drafting this bill I had these ideas but they were vaguer and less well formed. G: Well, let me ask you to'address the practical question of, let's say, the director of OEO being able to monitor a program that's being run by the Departmeot
  • were occurring during that so-called war of attrition. But it was extensive. We were monitoring, for example, the Soviet shipping through the Suez Canal, endeavoring to ascertain what exactly they were sending not only to Egypt but to Algeria
  • coronary care unit, so to speak. In other words, we could monitor him every inch of the way, every minute of the time; we had all the equipment that we had in the coronary care unit, and basically with the two of us there with all the equipment we needed
  • under a certain preoccupation. And I had to spend a great deal of time down on the Hill just testifying so that they wouldn't put a silly law through to put a federal monitor on campuses, which obviously were not federal institutions. They were 4 LBJ
  • what a country should do and then observe and monitor it and let them know that if they did not live up to that, it would have a serious effect on their request for an extension of that program. And he finally sat still
  • : Did you feel that that was an intentional thing--that we were perhaps getting a little too close in monitoring events of the crisis? N: No. The Israelis had surveilled our ship earlier in the day; they knew it was a U.S. ship; they had taken
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XVI -- 11 the world on a reasonably timely basis. That is the other side of the coin. G: Did you have some sort of built-in mechanism within the department for monitoring the time
  • methods; the decline of railroads and growth of trucking; encouraging government offices to use zip codes; overnight mail delivery; monitoring delivery times; increasing postal-window hours and six-day-a-week delivery service; opposition to legislation
  • was going to work, if it was going on the air on time and in good shape. G: Well, did you have a monitor up there that you could look at? J: Yes, we did. We had a very small building, and we had a set up there. It's my recollection that a bunch of us
  • with the outside world was simply contacts, you see, from monitoring the opposition. G: I am wondering if you knew George Carver at that time. D: No, I did not know George Carver at that time, but I remember that there was a group of young officers from
  • that the Liberty, monitoring Israeli military moves and intelligence, might spill the beans in some inadvertent way, so that the Syrians would know the Israelis were coming and that, according to Helms, the assumption was that they had to put this ship out
  • really better sitting in Washington and watching a television monitor, and contacting their sources here about what's really going on. But the mystique of the news profession is that you've got to be at the scene of the crime and so on, whether
  • their capability." And we figured we'd be risking too much even with that unless we greatly improved our monitoring and technical assistance capability. That then is creating a new kind of federal-local relationship that doesn't attempt to double check
  • of specific poverty-labeled programs, but that we were to be the spur and the monitor and the examiner, the critic, of the whole range of government affairs, to see that they become more poverty-conscious and do things that will contribute to the War
  • up with Califano and yourself and four others, is that right? L: Four people that worked with us. As I say, we divided the government up so that we would be able to monitor the major activities of each of the agencies, both in the development
  • Youth Corps and the Adult Work Program. M: Well, they were running them. But not only the delegated function, but also evidently the administrative and monitoring--for all practical purposes, they were doing that. The Neighborhood Youth Corps
  • home. I can't document how far we went in that regard, except within the headquarters through John Stewart's monitoring we were able to ensure we had a more normal party situation, whether it was press releases or statements that were issued
  • similar. The planters had pretty much all of the same life style, their homes and families. So Miss Lady attended St. Mary's College. I visited her there on one or two occasions. She and Helen Byrd were so glad to see me, because with a monitor or sponsor
  • questions, I suppose. R: In the Kennedy-Bundy period, and I only saw six months of it, but there was a far more detailed monitoring of Department of State business, down to really a very detailed level. We used to clear things with Mac Bundy and his people
  • , which I'm sure is available to you if you want to consult it. But I think that in the days of the majority leadership it was running somewhere in the area of a thousand a day. F: Who monitored it? J: It was monitored in sort of a system whereby