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- TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 discussions around the world I've bailed out his reputation in the way that came almost as complete news
- the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
- every accommodation that you could get at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. You could have a radio, you could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway, a good
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 12, 1969 This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May 12, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon B. Johnson, that is you
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
- a liking to Johnson as a young Congressman and wanted to make sure that he got broader acquaintanceship with people throughout the country, and he asked Hopkins to put him in touch with someone in New York who could introduce him around, and Hopkins picked
- and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems
- in the establishment of a new executive department. 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
- in legislation; urban mass transit situation; problems of highway beautification program; rapid rail transit to New York; the SST program; employee transportation; miscellaneous organization problems; Nixon transition
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
- in space, utilizing the facilities that we built over the last decade but not plunging into new facilities. What would be the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
- Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
- losing the initiative in space to the Soviets. On September 16th, he went over to the White House to discuss with the President how best to handle the problem of continuity at NASA after the election and a new administration had taken over
- Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
- 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
- in geriatrics, would call in new freshmen congressmen and tell them some of the realities of life and say, lIyou have to be here at least six years, then they know who you are." And there's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
- of the witnesses were forced to espouse the Administration's position when they really didn't want to. F: To move ahead, you were quite active in New York politics, most particularly in city politics in New York, in the early 1960 ' s. Did Mr. Johnson as either
- and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems
- as quite a good one. Also you must admit that one of my major arguments with the news media people, with other people, is that I don't see how you can compare presidents without comparing the decades of which they were president. The fifties bear
- there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab." to stay. So I
- not? A: Yes, he was. B: Did you immediately become acquainted with him? A: I had met him earlier than that. In 1935 I was National Youth Administrator for New Mexico and he for Texas, and we got acquainted at that time; so that I knew him already
- of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
- commentary on the office operation, on the day we walked in--incidentally, we had to leave on very short notice, and we drove over the long New Year's Day weekend in a driving rain to get up here. The day we arrived here was the day the Congress began
- Committee with him were an absolutely outstanding group of senators. It was because of their prestige and their power and their impression with the news media that we were able to start a space. program. Jack Kennedy never did understand what space
- acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans
- to it and others contributed, of course, but he is entitled to a lot of credit. F: When you were holding those hearings, was there a great deal of controversy or were you mainly just trying to figure out--you're into something new here. S: That's right, a new
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- then Congressman Sterling Cole and I authored, he in the House and I in the Senate, took a little different tack on this Atomic Energy situation. We rewrote, in fact, we wrote a new bill, that's exactly what it amounted to, and we opened the gate for cooperation
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- a committee. He was a little reluctant about it, but finally they set up the two committees. But to get started with right away, [there was] this sense of urgency in the Congress which was really Lyndon Johnson spearheading leadership in this new venture
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to be because the development of today is, or will be, the weapons system of five to ten years from now . The Air Force, I think, is particularly dependent upon the state of technology and the development of new weapons systems � � LBJ Presidential Library
- believer in air power, solid. In those days, before the nuclear submarines, air power was by far the important weapon. He and The missile picture was just beginning to develop. r, for example, were very strong for the B-70, the new bomber proposed
- on at the time. B: Where did the ideas come from or can you pin it down? W: The idea for legislation. B: No, the ideas in the bill. For example, one of the major things you set up was a brand new civilian agency taking over the old NACA. Was there LBJ
- , in which we sometimes get a historical coincidence. time in both parties. It happened about the same First of all, when I came to the Senate in 1945, the elections of 1946 made quite a turnover in the Senate on the Republican side. We had a lot of new
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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- of fact . F: By the time we get down to the end of the year--December of '63--Kennedy has been assassinated, and you have a new ball game in the sense that Johnson is President . And Unruh is on record as having backed you for the Vice Presidential
- INTERVIEl~EE: DONALD C. COOK INTERVIEVJER: THOMAS PLACE: Mr. Cook's Office, 2 Broadway, New York. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, if "Ie may begin at the beginning, I know that you first went to work for tk. Johnson in 1943. Did you have any acquain
- adoption of the House rules. Normally that's a routine matter but this time John Rankin had indicated that he was going to use that occasion to add, by a new rule, a special committee to investigate un-American activities, make it a permanent committee. I
- the necessary information we have needed to go on with the development of new nuclear weapons. MIRV warheads. That includes the development of the ABM and the So I do not think that the limited test ban has had any deleterious effect upon the U.S. 's ability
- for this, "but not Barry Goldwater. II There were about six things and all of them, "but not Barry Goldwater." And it ended by saying this ye3f we're going to elect a new president, "but not Barry Goldwater." So I sent it to Bill Moyers. the Democratic Convention
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and expenditures were made throughout New Mexico during his tenure on that particular committee. I think it's similar to Senator Kerr's capabilities within the committees which he headed up, wherein they established dams and lakes throughout Oklahoma
- , although his early record in the Congress would indicate that as a young congressman he was quite liberal and supported all of President Roosevelt's programs, all the New Deal legislation. But by the time he came back to the Senate, I would say that he
- the apologies were addressed? G: One would have been Senator [Arthur] Watkins of Utah, and the other--the name slips [from] me--was from New Jersey; it was a long name, I can't remember. He called Watkins a "handmaiden of communism," and the other one was just