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Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was. This was a very great challenge for NASA, but one which we were well prepared to meet. The financial status of NASA at the time that I became Acting Administrator was very sound indeed. had been conservative throughout in our programs. The financing We had
[For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; 1964 support of LBJ; John Macy appointment as acting administrator; Geo. Mueller; Homer Newell; FY70 NASA budget; contacts and meeting with LBJ; Apollo 8 launch; LBJ’s reaction to the success

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape 1) March 25, 1969 B: Dr. Eugene Emme, the NASA historian, is sitting in. Dr. Paine, a very brief summary of your career. You were born in California in 1921, received a Bachelor of Engineering from Brown in 1942
[For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; 1964 support of LBJ; John Macy appointment as acting administrator; Geo. Mueller; Homer Newell; FY70 NASA budget; contacts and meeting with LBJ; Apollo 8 launch; LBJ’s reaction to the success

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

iaison--some kind of coordinating activity between the Defense Department and NASA. In the Senate bill. we took the position that there were other authorities in the law which allowed NASA to set up all kinds of coordinating committees with the agencies
LBJ's Senate office; Defense Preparedness Subcommittee; Senate Aeronautical and Space Science Committee; National Aeronautics and Space Council; NASA; development of space program

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and that is that it says all of the space activities are for peaceful purposes, some to be handled by a civilian agency in the new administration called NASA and some for involving weapons systems and research and development in the weapons systems on national security
program; relationship between JFK and LBJ; selection of Houston for space center; NASA budget; supersonic transport planning; Post-Apollo planning; HHH as Chairman of Council; 1967 Apollo fire; visit with LBJ in retirement

.; So the scientists were the ones that came up with the ideas that got into the NASA act, that the policy of the United States should be that space should be for peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind. That act was passed in LBJ
Biographical information; LBJ; Sputnik; committee work; NASA; space legislation; U.N. and space; conferences; visiting the Ranch; space law; reports; foreign travel

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you were trying to do? M: He had a grasp, a knowledge, a knowledge that was born of his own experiences, and his experience in both the House and the Senate, where he had headed the committee in the Senate to put up ·and establish NASA. John
Miller’s career history; choosing Cape Canaveral for space launches; work on space program with Vice President LBJ; space/aeronautics contracts to various businesses; thermal energy source; NASA and satellite communication; distance learning via

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Atomic Energy Commission on this matter. I know that he took some actions which subsequently resulted in the creation of NASA, on the one hand, and a concentration of authority in Department of Defense, on the other. F: You had no personal relationship
Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections

by NASA . He took great pride in that program . Yet I'm convinced that it was confining to him . far broader range of things . He was interested in a Yet in national security matters, aside from space, he wasn't in them very much . President Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

because he appeared and gave talks at these civil rights functions around town, even scientific functions too. Of course he was head of the--what was it, the space program, the NASA Council. That was another interesting thing with Johnson, although I
House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; 1948 kidney stone attack; B52s, B70s, B36s; Senate Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; NASA; impressions of LBJ and his

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the ... statute that was adopted creating NASA--that's the civilian body ~ 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

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

virtually all of it was in NASA, plus some in the Defense Department, but mostly what was labelled the "space program" was in NASA. The OEO, the poverty programs, was another area, of course, that we spent a lot of time on. gotten who labelled the program

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that, that's when NASA was created, and I think that was a wise decision. F: Why did you do it? S: Well the possibility of intercontinental ballistic missiles was looming then and the parallel wasthe Atomic Energy Commission. The same question had arisen

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; NASA; 49th and 50th states settled under Ike; JFK-LBJ ticket; JFK’s death; LBJ as President; Vietnam.

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: That is correct. S: To try for the moon in this decade. C: Yes. B: And you were offered, and rejected, the Administrator position at NASA? C: Well, the Vice President asked me to allow my name to be submitted to the President. It was never offered to me

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into the details, but this is chronologically. It brings me up to the next step. Space business then got civilianized, after a few other events took place. NASA. Medaris was retired from the service; Von Braun went to My job at the Cape was [over when] RCA came

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