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  • replied yes. Rusk reported on the Non proliferation Treaty. He said Russia has come back with an Article III redraft. The NATO Council would discuss this tomorrow. McNamara left the room to take a call from Walter Reuther. He returned and reported
  • for the very stability we have developed so painfully for the dollar and international markets. The President: Danang 1 s being shelled. Thieu says he can 1t move further. The DMZ is not being closely watched. I saw Walter Reuther and Clark Kerr tonight
  • Reuther had been in to see either Califano or the President somewhere in that summer, picking up an intimation of what was then known as Demonstration Cities. M: What was Walter Reuther's interest in this? W: Walter, in a general social concern, had
  • Alex Rose, who ;s a friend of mine, and he mentions Walter Reuther, with whom I was very close. name. So I said, "They're crazy! IIGo out and convince your friends." I make the first call. Then he mentions another important It's a winning ticket." I
  • he came in he dominated the meeting--Walter Reuther, who was a member of the group, turned to Henry Ford, and Walter said to Henry, loud enough for everybody around the table to hear, "You know, never in American history has anyone been so well
  • over at his apartment . It'd be Walter and sometimes Cliff, and George Reedy, me, and Liz Carpenter . Frequently, while we were eating fruit or canteloupe or something, he'd say, "I just don't know . remember one incident . . . ." I They had
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter Jenkins; Bobby
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER HELLER INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Dr. Heller's office, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Tape 1 of 3 M: To start off with sort of a problem about the mechanics of government. Were you
  • See all online interviews with Walter W. Heller
  • Heller, Walter W. (Walter Wolfgang), 1915-1987
  • Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb
  • Walter W. Heller
  • just wonder. Maybe he just came directly from the labor movement. His labor job was as the number-two man to Walter Reuther. Walter Reuther was a very strong proponent of the program and of all legislation of this kind. Shriver liked him very much
  • horn. For instance, I was responsible for the employment of Walter McLeod by Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, and the development of a project to get money from industry for the operation of the NAACP. Now in some three or four years this amounts to over
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; problems of President’s Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity; enforcement of regulations; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; success of PCEEO; OEO; EEOC; civil rights organizations; MLK; Office of Federal Contract Compliance; Council of Equal Opportunity
  • abor had been i nterested i n, and Walter Reuther and George Meany had gone to ,Johnson for seven years and received no t hi ng, but showed the door. So f knew what our problems Nere, particularly with let 's say the left wfog of the labor movement
  • 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
  • Democratic party was handled? H: No, I had nothing to do with that. Joe Rauh handled that entirely. S: And Walter Reuther I think was called in. H: And Walter Reuther was in on that too. But very frankly, except for Stokeley Carmichael, I did
  • -makers--people like George Meany and Walter Reuther and George Harrison, and the industry side, Henry Ford and Edgar Kaiser. I think that the President did have hopes that if you could get the consent and active participation of some of the people who
  • consulted by the Kennedy Administration on this and their activities or not? E: I was not consulted until after the disaster of the Bay of Pigs. Then I was personally called by President Kennedy to join with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Walter Reuther
  • want?" "Here's what we can .... " "All right, go ahead." And that was it. Where [with] Reuther, you had to have thirty-six lawyers and paper around to do it. F: Did you get an opportunity to observe the Jack Kennedy-Lyndon Johnson relationship during
  • more disciplined and organized. M: You can get a handle on-- T: Bill Wirtz really made two or three phone calls and he could speak for labor. George Meany, primarily, Walter Reuther for a little variety, and Lane Kirkland, who is really the senior
  • : Again, this is pure speculation on your part, but I had this question constructed before I asked you how intimately you knew either Kennedy or Johnson. Both Kennedy and Johnson voted to override Truman's veto on the McCarren-Walter Act in '52; yet
  • of it. across the street from the con- hall, for three days and three nights, something like that, and tried to work out a compromise. Humphrey was very deeply involved in working out that compromise; he'd sit with us, counsel with us. Reuther came