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  • in the United States, and I predict that one of these days it will be the greatest bulwark of strength that the United States government will have in financial institutions. F: Of course it has gone beyond that. I've seen it in Latin America where in some
  • LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate
  • of th ederal.p;Jperty and Adminis(44 U~~~97? ~nd regulations _. hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and conve to the United States of America for eventual deposit i~ the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
  • : You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
  • sat down with a map and explained to the American people just what the hell was going on over there, why it was of interest to the United States--I've said that I think he would still be president. Because the American people would not have been
  • : When I was a young lawyer, I was appointed law clerk to the Chief Justice of the United States, Fred Vinson, in 1951 and 1952. Then I \"ent to work for Governor Adlai Stevenson as his administrative assistant in Springfield [and] was with him during
  • on the consequences of the testing, indicating that he had a divergence of opinion between the AEC, on the one hand, and the State Department on the other as to the course of action that the United States should take. preparing such a report. I spent about two weeks
  • 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
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 7, 1969 M: This interview is with Lt. Gen. John J. Davis, United States Army. Today is Friday, March 7, 1969, and it is 2: 15 in the afternoon. in General Davis' offices in the State Department. We
  • should be able to endure dilemmas and work ourselves out of them without necessarily taking it all out on the President of the United States, who inherited much of this problem after all. And hindsight is so easy to utilize. Where was this criticism
  • as a President; Secretary Udall; Lady Bird’s effort to make America conservation conscious; assessment of history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency; LBJ’s interest in the space program.
  • thing I find curious and I've had to make this correction speaking to people around the world as a matter of fact, when we get into conversations about the Presidents of the United States. That there is an enormously strong myth that President Kennedy
  • , in these days of nuclear weaponry the fears that a president of the United States has, or any leader of a super power, is that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • , 1971 INTERVIHJEE: EL~lER INTERVIHJER: 1. H. BAKER PLACE: Washington, D.C. B. STAATS Tape 1 of 2 B: This is the interview with Elmer B. Staats, who is the comptroller general of the United States. If I may give a little bit of your background