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Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He said, "Why do that? Just go ahead and take your commission, and then you can come on my staff as my military aide." Which I did. I went to Fort Sill and did my officer's basic and came back to the Vice President's staff as his junior military
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Initiation of the Peace Corps with Bill Moyers and Sargent Shriver; LBJ’s attitude toward, and involvement with, the Peace Corps; work as LBJ’s junior military Aide while LBJ was Vice-president; LBJ’s relationship as vice-president to JFK
Telephone conversation # 11113, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 12/5/1966, 10:46AM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • PRESS STORY ON STATE DEPT; LBJ'S ADVICE ON PREPARING FOR WILLIAM FULBRIGHT'S HEARINGS; PURCHASES FOR UK AND TRILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS; NEED FOR MULTILATERAL FOOD AID FOR INDIA; U THANT AND VIETNAM PEACE EFFORTS; WILLIAM MANCHESTER BOOK ON JFK
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • close and very friendly and cont i nues to be. Walter Jenkins is a great pal of mine. There was no friction going into the campaign and up until the election . M: Then to move irilo the administration--1 ' m very happy you did go into that sidetrack
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; assassination; 1964 Vice Presidential contest; HHH; LBJ's legislative ability; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam; O'Donnell's resignation; decision not to run again; 1968 Democratic convention; Czechoslovakia invasion; peace plank
Telephone conversation # 334, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 12/7/1963, 12:55PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • aid bill . And they came in to argue with him and I just so remember him saying to these men that, "We are going to pass some kind of bill, so you get busy and decide what is acceptable to you ." But he made it perfectly clear that he wasn't going
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . There's no question about that. McHugh, who was a brigadier general in the air force and was Kennedy's air force aide, went flitting up and down the aisle trying to get the pilot to get the plane off the ground, because his President was aboard and he
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -- II -- 2 I stayed there off and on for about two years. Then I left the government in 1959, went to work for my father in Airways Engineering. Then in 1962 I got a call from the director of AID, Far East, a guy named [Seymour] Janow, asking me
  • Phillips’ work in Laos; getting involved with the AID mission in Vietnam; reorganizing AID in relation to its rural efforts; a strategic hamlet program; organizational problems in the U.S. military approach in Vietnam; working with what
Folder, "[June 11, 1968 - Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • of the Secret Service Advisory Commission. The President went over the lists of legislation on which action is needed and emphasized particularly Foreign Aid and Housing. I provided the Leadership with copies of these lists. The meeting broke up about
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Dick got intrigued with him. And Dick, I'm sure, convinced Walter Jenkins that Johnson ought to have his own intellectual. So, you know--is it all right if my mind wanders a little here to talk about own intellectual? G: Sure. P: I remembered
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the press reported that the other way, I think, very widely. Me: Not true. Mil: You served on President Kennedy's--what do they call it, the Clay Committee on Foreign Aid? Me: Yes. Mil: And dissented from its report. Me: Yes. Mil: Did you ever
  • Foreign aid
  • Aid; 3/31 announcement; AFL-CIO would have supported LBJ for another term; LBJ’s legislative achievements; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ing pressure through the Alliance for Progress aid to get goodies for our American business community . time . We were leveraging all the This wasn't because the Administration wanted to do it . There was pressure from Congress ; there were some
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and style, assigned me as an aide to Lodge for that visit, knowing of our past relationship. I was sort of running Lodge's temporary office and running his message center and facilitating his mission on his visit there, which had many facets. This is all
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for International Development, which is a part of the State Department. So I was observing the MACV thing from quite another angle, really, and was not ever anything important at all in the military aspects of MACV. G: What was AID doing in Vietnam in those days
  • McGarr, Charles Timmes and Paul Harkins as commanders of Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) and later Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV); Jacobson's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam; the 1963 coup in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and with Lodge, with AID Director Bell, Bundy, Rostow, all present. What was the gist of that? K: I don't recall what the gist of that particular meeting was. Let me say--you know, you asked me whether I had many meetings with the President as a prospective
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there as fast as you can go." said, "I'll take off in five minutes." I I did, going by helicopter. I took my aide de camp, Lieutenant by the name of George McBride, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . In effect, Larry from the White House handled domestic, and I handled foreign. no votes on the foreign stuff. Well, there were really For example, I had the annual foreign aid bill, and that's like trying to sell leprosy on the Hill, and various other
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it and supported it; and third, because he encouraged our task force throughout its deliberations. M: Was part of your consideration here federal aid to cities; that is, the sharing in the sense that cities would benefit? P: The consideration
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • got in trouble with the chief of staff over there, Walter-G: Walter Jenkins, yes. C: --Jenkins. [Marvin Watson?] And he had a Jewish attorney over there that was left over from Kennedy's period that he was--Mike. name? What the hell was his
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : When he told you that did he have reference particularly to the staff in the sense of the White House aides? S: I think it was a general statement, and I think he told it to me in reference to one of the reasons why he wanted to set up this school
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Trueheart? F: Yes, subsequently Ambassador Truehart; then Minister-Counselor Trueheart. And the political counselor. The head of AID [Agency for International Development] was there, and General Harkins. going from the residence at ten o'clock
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/9/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • e g a n to ta k e th e m dow n w ith s o m e g e n tle m e n so o n co m in g to m y aid . M W e h a d b e e n jo in e d by L e s t e r P r u i t t , one of th e la n d s c a p e m e n w ith th e H ighw ay D e p a r tm e n t an d h e to o k th e
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and aid would be granted if possible. And having all that information I put it in a weekly letter, and I said, "I urge every boy and girl who is qualified to innnediate ly get in touch with your office," and I had the offices listed in our district