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  • B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Komer's office, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Bob, let's talk about what we were talking about at the end last time. We were talking a bit about Libya, and I wanted to get Libya sort
  • million funny things. Bob Waldron, you know, was his secre- tary, borrowed from Congressman Homer Thornberry. Another secretary was Mary Margaret Valenti. Bob Waldron was then always impec- cably dressed, even as he is now. I'll never forget the day
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
  • summer. B: I hate to keep interrupting you, but I think a question is appropriate here, and I hope it doesn't sound rude or disrespectful. So far as the public sees, you and Mr. Randolph worked together in an awful lot of things like
  • to me-- I'd known him a long time--and said, "Bob, where can we eat privately?" My wife and son had died not long before, and at that time I had an apartment in a high-rise apartment. cook. So I said, "That's easy. I have a It's a small apartment
  • was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
  • . several times. As a matter of fact Kintner was very helpful I'd just put through a call to Bob if I was in search of some information. He was always very helpful and if he didn't have the answer he could certainly tell me where to get it. F: Kintner
  • wrapped up what you wanted to do? G: We were charting and talking about what we thought the legal relationships were, what we hoped they would be, what we could do and couldn't. F: Did you leave feeling sort of confident? G: I thought, as far
  • was of There was some hope that, if it wasn't going 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
  • that campaign was going you know, although he hoped for the best. spoken out innnediately and forthrightly. But no, I think he should have I would have said, "Regardless of the truth or lack of truth of these charges, this man is my long-time friend and still
  • with companies--potential advertisers. F: He was seeking national advertisers? W: Both local and national. Most national advertisers have local interests in the Texas area. F: And so he was hoping to work through the horne office to induce local people
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 vice-president. But I had already announced through the state that I was going to be for Johnson and hoped the delegation would be for him. Actually, we got more than thirty out of forty votes
  • the two main factors. After the presentation he said something to this effect--that he hoped all the Cabinet members and their Deputies would stay and see it through. He also knew that some for personal or other reasons might have to make other
  • administrations; agricultural legislation; Freeman’s “report and review” sessions; 1965 Food and Agriculture Act; BOB; price support program; Farm Bureau; Food for Peace Program (PL480); India; self-help feature; aid to Latin America; AID mission; relationship
  • was there as a debate coach . I worked hard in the state legislature . be on the appropriations committee . I was very fortunate to The present Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Bob Calvert, Justice Calvert, came through Gilmer in about the month of August running
  • might be able to do it today. You've got Bob Eckhardt and Henry Gonzalez, who by the way, is also about to fallout with the liberals too, who can pretty well represent a state like Texas and be friendly with the liberals. Now, to get back to your
  • . 10017, 697•5100 WNBC-TV and NBC Network DATE January 31. \968 - 11:30 CITY PM New York INTERVIEWWITH JIM GARRISON JOHNNYCARSON: Mz-. Garrison, accepting the invitation. I thlmk youAfor coming and And I hope I did not misstate a morn-antago
  • thirty books. I hope that they have been influential. Two years later, I was elevated to the post of Director of Economic Studies, which I still hold. At Brookings I have been not only director, but also a senior researcher and have published a couple
  • something of that comp-lex too--that it's out of phase with the remainder of New York and the nation et cetera, and I think that feeling maybe it ought to fonn its own state and go its own way is real. H: There's no question about it, and yet I'm hoping
  • ? J: Oh, yes. The acL-ninistration drafts all went in without them, and the committee put them in immediately. B: Was that just a foregone conclusion, just politically impossible? J: Oh, hope springs eternal, you know. But I guess those of us
  • of others for the help, and I hope I can count on you," to which you would give the normal response, first, of being very proud of � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • prosecutions by the Justice Department. I am sending you the enclosed material because I believe you would be concerned about the resort to tyranny by a part of our government. I hope that if you agree that my recitation of the facts describes deplorable
  • --they went in on a mountain peak; then they were naturally excited about that moment, that type of conversation. So they go across and stand in Lafayette Park and began talking that they had such high hopes after the election, with Mr. Kennedy as President
  • with the Secret Service that additional personnel and new equipment couldn't correct. But I'm hopeful that we are strong today and progressive in the area of sophisticated equipment and that we would be able to withstand any proposals of that kind. Unless you
  • largely restricted to buttonholing. D: Yes, meetings at night and over the weekends and times like that. F: There is a story that I like and hope it's true that you offered him your savings account at that time to help underwrite a campaign
  • , of course, listened to their comments and their comments were positive on what he said he hoped to enact. F: Did he find them fairly useful in legislative liaison? s: Yes, I think . . . F: I mean, could they touch a certai n group that maybe he wasn't
  • of Saigon, isn't it? G: Yes. F: I went down there once, and that for a while seemed to be a more hopeful place, if I'm not mistaken. Or at least we hoped it would get better, but it was just par for the course, and I don't remember the details. G: Okay
  • felt like he was a breath of fresh air, and I had hoped that it would probably work out where he \'JOuld become the nominee. But I was bound by the unit rule in my delegation, and of course Vie cast our ballots for Lyndon Johnson on the first ballot
  • paid teenagers in our neighborhood: "Well, we only pay them fifty cents." Luci's response was, "I would hope that's what you'd say, because that's what my friends get. II But not knm·ting how many hours had been involved, we gave her five dollars
  • had much duplication and many people who were not being served. We talked about how could such a position be established. I think he really had hoped that the OEO director would be able to do it, but this was a little unrealistic. He didn't have
  • but opportunity for improvement is everywhere, such as saving of lives on the highway. We're experiencing fifty-odd thousand casualties each year on the highway. Many people, and I hope they're right, think this is something that can be abated and the trend
  • for the publication, said that I hoped he hadn't been sued by this other station; that we planned no suit, but that I did want to bring it LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • and a profound respect. I would like to include in my informal statement here one of my hopes that somewhere along in history that Walter Jenkins, the stigma that has been attached to him will somehow be removed, because I think that I'm a realist. I'm
  • the table and hope that it goes by. at the time. I was inclined to speak out myself. I thought it was wrong The whole thing, you know, was developed by these two fellows that ran this Rampart Magazine up here who were inclined to produce the sensational
  • the nepotism that was going on. The kind of thing you would do if you were to make, were making what you hoped was a satirical speech. And then I went into a little about Johnson's restlessness and unhappiness in his job, and the endless effort to find
  • interview with Ramsey Clark, March 2, 1967. Question: General Clark, you said two days ago after your nomination was announced that you·would hope that District Attorney Garrison would turn over any information he has from his New Orleans probe. Has he