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Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Aiken -- 2 A: Yes, it was close. I don't think there was the cooperation between the leadership that there has been in more recent years. Of course
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the White House such as the Secret Service and so on. Gu: Is coordination pretty good? Cooperation, maybe, is a better word than coordination. is very good. Clint Hill. Cooperation I don't know if you have met Bob Taylor or not, or These gentlemen
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Administration, President Johnson has continued his interest in and support of resources development programs. I think I should also mention that as a Texas rancher, Lyndon Johnson has for many years been a cooperator with his local soil conservation district
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • retaliation, or the bombing at the time of Pleiku, or the troop buildup in 1965,would you normally be brought in? T: I would say only by kibitzing. I would kibitz on these later deci- siQns via what Chester Cooper would show· me from the take. And he
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • where can you scrape some money together?" once or twice at the most. Once, Usually that was done by Conway or somebody at OEO, and we'd work cooperatively to do it. In this case there was someone from HEW, and I was there and someone from OEO
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and one of information and one of cooperation. Of working for example with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare which of course does most of the rehabilitation work as far as the federal government is concerned; working with the Department
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out. would just not cooperate in things that you'd like to do. 11 He All things being equal, it just wasn't a good idea, or there was some reason why it couldn't be done at that moment. After a while you would get the idea that unless you wanted
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • grant program--but I've been away from there for a number of years, but I still read the papers and I know of no federal grant program that's ever done that since. G: To what extent did Lyndon Johnson and the Democrats in the Senate cooperate
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • narrated in your book, there were some areas of cooperation during those Senate years. Perhaps you would I ike to mention several of t-hose--I think on the McCarthy censure-- D: I'll be very glad to. Johnson was splendid on McCarthy. He got every single
  • Open conflicts between LBJ and Douglas; McCarthy censure; LBJ’s legislative skill; drafting the 1957 Civil Rights Bill; the influence HHH and LBJ had on each other; areas of cooperation between LBJ and Douglas; LBJ’s economic polices; truth
Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He cooperated at times When he was away I wou ld operate the fu n committee at the request of Larry O'Brien. We didn't have any prob- 1ems at all. G: Did Powell have his own interests in a program? Did he have certain elements that he wanted
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had pretty much worked cut our own agreement between us. The federal government, being responsible, came into the picture and called us down, and they were worki ng towards the same objecti yes and were very cooperative. I think that had we not done
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the personnel people of the various companies, where the employment service was cooperating in there. G: Did LBJ have pretty good contacts with the college presidents? Z: Yes, he had good contact with them. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 Philosophically, at least in the direction we gave it, it didn't always happen that way. The push was cooperation so that things would happen, not confrontation. Mc: Did you get much objection from small cities in the lack
  • participation; communication between citizens and city people; helping cities of all sizes in all regions; funding Washington D.C.; the Eccho Neighborhood Cooperation Model in Columbus. OH; Model Cities Supplementary money; transition to Nixon Administration
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • G: I guess that in the records somewhere there is an indication that one of the first things he did when he came to Austin was to meet with Governor [James V.] Allred about the NYA and state agencies' cooperation. Do you have any recollection
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • There was Governor Harriman, Bill Bundy, Ben Read. M: Chet Cooper. S: Chet Cooper and myself, and one or two other s I'm sure, I can't recal l them now. What we tried to do, under the guidance of Ambassador Harriman, was to follow up these various quiet e~dea
  • ; the U Thant initiative; the Harriman group; the Chester Cooper mission to London
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • House, they have a parcel check bin where the tourists enter, and if they have anything of that type, they are asked to check it. People usually are generally cooperative; quite often, they're happy to be able to get rid of it for a while. M
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dining room to feed him and then take him up to my office and go rub his nose in that chart. G: Let me ask you to recount your experience with SVlAFCA [Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association]? i i i I II , ~ LBJ Presidential
  • Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association); Mississippi food situation; inter-agency departmental board; regional discrimination; cabinet officers; OEO programs and policies
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and concepts in that speech that we could build on. Among those ideas and concepts, of course, was this idea of trying to build on regional development and encouraging cooperation and cooperative arrangements among African states. This was not the only thrust
  • His visit with LBJ regarding challenges in Africa and the development of related aid programs; regional development and interstate cooperation; Kennedy’s and LBJ’s attitudes toward African problems; Organization of African Unity’s role in border
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • generally cooperative? J: Yes. My observations were rather interesting here. Aid recipients never like strings to aid because it makes them feel less sovereign. to decide for themselves. They want When we passed the self-help provisions and made them
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -new in the Senate at that time, but he did have his cooperation at that time. Of course, Mr. Johnson was also always interested in all kinds of convervations projects and so was I. In fact, he went further than I would on some of those
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • States. M: Much earlier than you might have gotten it otherwise. H: I wouldn't have had it for two or three terms--I couldn't have without this. So he cooperated with me. I'm sure he's long since forgotten it. M: I don't know. He remembers things
Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , [who] was at that time a lieutenant colonel, had spent four years in Vietnam; Chuck Cooper, an economist from the RAND Corporation. G: Was it Chuck Cooper? R: Yes. G: Not Chet Cooper. R: Not Chet. Charles Cooper, Charles N. from the RAND
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • maybe they were--1 don't know what motivated. them--jealousy, fear that this could make him Presid~nt, that they didn't want him to be, or whatever it was. They simply would not cooperate. B: Was there any just plain snobbishness in there, too? s
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • what we had observed and then returned and made a full report to the President with a list of objectives, many of which were subsequently carried out. B: How cooperative did you find the Vietnamese government? F: Well, I found the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Carl Albert -- Interview II -- 5 cooperation with President Kennedy and tried to help him on every program. Now, he did lose his Medicare fight again because that was a close vote in the Senate. Bob
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boggs -- Interview II -- 2 Bo: Both parties, and I think each person there pledged his cooperation. B: How soon was it before you began having--Well, if the word is proper, more
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • stand in the shadows when two feet forward would give you some sharpness and clarity and so forth. this sort of matter. W: But so many people, I think, are unthinking in I wondered whether he had-- No, I think he was always cooperative. I really
Oral history transcript, J. Graham Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1968, by Monna Clark (Item)
  • , particularly the Cooperative Research Act--(I said, particularly the Cooperative Research Act, but I probably mean the Cooperative Research Act is the first such piece of legislation followed . by Title III of the ESEA, the new vocational education
Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the PEC building? Was LBJ interested in that? The Pedernales Electric Co-op building. J: Oh, yes. That was one of the first buildings we had. He had us build that Pedernales Electric Cooperative. He was very much interested in this, and I think
  • in the Woods in Denton and San Antonio's La Villita; Jaeggli's work with Maury Maverick; the Inks Dam and Pedernales Electric Cooperative NYA projects; supporting LBJ's congressional campaign in 1937; the relationship between the NYA and the Works Projects
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; he was very cooperative; he worked with us very carefully and very cooperatively and very precisely, making sure that they violated no park regulations of any kind, that the exercise 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it, he was. back. Of course twenty-two years is a long time As I recall, he was at that time I guess more of a candidate in the term that he was looking for help--he wanted to cooperate--than he got to be later on. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • grand juries or have grand juries impaneled, and these supervisory people from the various agencies in turn would work with their agency in place in that city. B: Has the interagency cooperation worked well? V: Yes, I think so. I think so. I think
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • practically chain-smoking cigarette smokers. All of them were eminent in their fields and as you can imagine, very strong-willed individuals, and yet they cooperated--they fought tremendously over some of the issues, but they cooperated beautifully
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to them that they thought enough of you to put your name on the list. And it made you want to cooperate--not that you didn't cooperate with the other administration. It just made it a little bit easier to do. There was a social friendship
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • recruitment, and especially the recruitment of qualified Negro candidates. As a result of that effort, the local recruitment program has changed considerably. In addition there was a military recruitment program going on with the cooperation of the Armed
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the cooperation of many people, many sectors of the economy, and large financial resources which the Congress will have to appropriate. But the subdivision or division of the Department of Housing and Urban Development that had been largely involved in the low
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this in a systematic way and ensure that your friends in the Congress are cooperating. They are being provided with the tools, and the tools would be the material. You couldn't expect a friend on the Hill to be doing his own research to come up with a statement
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • resumption and Harriman opposing resumption and Chester Cooper opposing resumption; and they have Rostow favoring resumption and I believe they have William Bundy favoring, but not as strongly as-- R: I couldn't begin to reconstruct it at this distance
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , was this meaningful." The answer was that the change was intended but was not important. In my view it was important. M: But you were on the phone at this end with [Chester] Cooper. And he understood it one way, differently than it was understood here--is that right