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  • , 1969 INTERVIEHEE: KERMIT GORDON INTERVIEHER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: We can start at the top of the list here and take up where we left off the last time. I'd like to know
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  • Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb
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  • for about fifteen minutes when the news came through. This involved a number of people on the White House staff as well as Kermit Gordon, who was Budget Director, and myself, and members of our staff. There was Jerry Wiesner, who was the science advisor
  • ; campaign financing; the President’s reliance on Cabinet and staff, cooperation and coordination; a presidential transition 'institution.'
  • did And one of the moments I remember about Lyndon Johnson was that when Gordon Cooper, the first American to orbit the earth, had a parade in Washington, he was in a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • out doing intelligence work in cooperation with the local police the ~~d other federal agencies in the area so as to determine what cli=~te accor~i~~:y, is. So when you have specific information, then you prepare and in preparing accordingly
  • 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
  • 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
  • the four cooperating nations who were prosecuting to send two psychiatrists, top 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
  • to see whether their facilities were available for minority groups. We even had a meeting in the Texas valley with the emphasis on the MexicanAmerican. I received maximum cooperation from Archbishop Lucey. He designated one of his priests to devote any
  • him around to the various senators who would be involved in his confirmation. We got that lined up so it went through without any trouble. F: Now, yours and President Johnson's relationships were always cooperative and harmonious I gather--as much
  • no trouble getting the White House pool to work for you? S: No, sir. In fact, well, as you know, they have a correspondence section at the White House, and Mr. Hopkins, who's still at the White House, was the single most cooperative, helpful LBJ
  • anybody else. Therefore he's both an advantage and a disadvantage. But since Dr. King never sought to hide any of his strategy and tactics, it didn't matter. B: Was there any active cooperation between the Justice Department, or more exactly
  • in the White House discussing the many problems that he was facing. Of course he was very anxious to have the full cooperation of the AFL-CIO, and I would say that he got that cooperation. I would say that at that point when he had the responsibility thrust
  • it was a little bit unusual for a Baptist pastor to show any interest in cooperation. In those days the word ecumenicity was a new word. Like I remember the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church said that if I would assume the responsibility, that it would
  • to cooperate particularly with government agencies and other tax-exempt institutions in promoting public welfare. In that capacity, most of us do assist government agencies to the extent that we can. We have an unwritten rule that any agency can calIon
  • judgment, went from a very slow moving, almost sullen body toward Mr. Kennedy, to quite a cooperative, aggressive, or at least progressive entity under Mr. Johnson's leadership. I think there are rationalizations that do belong there, but not all [can