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Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ' matters, largely because nobody else is, and somebody has got to watch the store. In my period very happily we had in the House a remarkable man as head of the Veterans Affairs Committee--Tiger Teague from Texas. He was a war hero. It must have been
  • Great Society; OEO; HUD; Medicare; educational and veterans legislation; Brookings Institution
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • worldwide growth. Of course this long career in veterans' affairs sprung through your own service in the Army and the accident in which you lost your hands in 1944, and I believe that was on D Day. R: On D Day, that's right. P: Is this background
  • Rusk; communication efforts; travels; foreign programs; Dr. Soharso, Henry Kessler and Douglas Toffelmier; World’s Veteran Federation; appearances before the U.N.
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not important what was "right or wrong;" it was something politically that had to be done. I would almost say that the creation of the Department of Veterans' Affairs is not a bad analogy to the whole issue of establishing the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs
  • 1974 Budget Impoundment Act; how Cutler came to work for government; the importance of seniority on committees; Cutler's work on veterans' affairs; Wilbur Cohen and the creation of Medicare; Jacob Javits' national health care initiative; Javits
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • BENNETT Interviewer : Joe B . Frantz Washington, D . C . F: November 13, 1968 This is an interview with Mr . Robert Bennett, who is the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Department of the Interior in his office in Washington, D . C . , on November
  • Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; LBJ's message on Indian Affairs; Bennet's selection; Indian claims; Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction Act; Civil Rights Act; Pueblos; equal employment for Indians; legislation for Indians; health
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was on consumer affairs--really, I was in on it at various times, but basically in connection with the 1968 legislative program. The veterans task force was chaired by a Department of Defense assistant secretary. It included representatives of the Labor Department
  • The development of task forces such as the veterans task force composed of representatives from several government agencies; Wozencraft's proposal of a "one-stop shopping center" to inform veterans of programs, opportunities, and benefits available
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Defense Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under your predecessor, Arthur Sylvester. In February 1967 you were nominated and approved for your present position, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. You
  • Biographical information; reporting political, congressional and military affairs; 1960 and 1964 Democratic campaigns; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cy Vance; Robert McNamara; crises operations; defense directorates; public affairs
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • then. Your committee assignments are on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Veterans Affairs Committee. Before running for Congress, from 1933 to 1950, you were a practicing attorney and probate commissioner of Allen County, Indiana. your LLB from
Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to the center of decision making in the Department in the past two-and-a-half years. doing. That's not my The Secretary has given a great deal of attention to Farmer Cooperative Service, and he pulled it into the center of Department affairs. He and John
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this. Under Kennedy there had been concern over urban affairs and setting up a department of urban affairs. W: How does this fit in? Kennedy had proposed it and said he'd appoint the Secretary. shot down. whole thing. It had been There's a beautiful
  • Biographical information; meeting with LBJ in 1960; wrote speeches for JFK; Moyers’ operation; Task Force on Urban Affairs; urban crisis; concept of the Great Society; urban problems given greater dimension under LBJ; uniqueness of task forces
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 8, 1969 M: To identify this tape, this is an interview with Mr. Herbert N. Blackman. He is the administrator of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs in the Department of Labor
  • Biographical information; Treasury Department; IRS; War Production Board; Marshall Plan; Cold War; Joe McCarthy; Director of Export Policy staff; Chip Bohlen; Harold Stassen; Admiral Walter S. DeLany; Senator O'Connor; Senator McCarthy; O'Connor
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIHIEE: JOHN SPARKNAN INTERVI EL~ER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Sparkman's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's begin with your years in the House together. You were on the Military Affairs Committee and President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to helping veterans . Is this true? B: I think, essentially, that's correct . I think unquestionably the Veteran's Administration gets a5good a reception on Capitol Hill as any department or agency of the Federal Government and I think that it's due
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Act I think it was called. And I handled everything else. And there [were] subcommittees on health, on education, on veterans’ affairs, which was then part of the committee. We had one on the National Science Foundation, and that was my responsibility
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this department, this guy or me, not an issue of this guy in the White House saying, "Well, when you look at the training programs and Labor and OEO and the VA [Veteran's Administration] and the Defense Department and the Commerce Department, you really should
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it," or, "It wasn't worth it." We have to depend in many ways on other agencies for help in developing our data. The Veterans Administration and the Department of Labor both are involved in this follow-up procedure for us. It's going to be awhile before we can say
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: JACOB JAVITS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Javits' residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 J: It was a time when our House of Representatives went to the Republicans, because some eighty-odd veterans
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for the legislature and I did a very little amount of work, you know, hours rather than days. I voted for more than one Independent or Republican on the local slates. When I voted in 1960, I participated some in the Dallas County affairs but really very little. I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • heard any adverse comment regarding him in the White House. Ed [J. Edward] Day as postmaster general really did not have a political involvement. There wasn't a tendency in the White House to focus on the Post Office Department, unfortunately. So
  • John Gronouski's appointment as ambassador to Poland after being U.S. postmaster general; the beautification stamp; a Post Office Department recruiting plan for college graduates; Civil Service regulations and hiring practices; a training program
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The Russians didn't parti- cularly want too many assistant naval-air attaches at that time. As a substitute, I went into the newly formed research and intelligence organization in the State Department, working on the formation of the Central Intelligence group
  • Biographical information; Federal Aviation Act; FAA; contact with LBJ; SST program; formation of Department of Transportation; Halaby’s departure from FAA; Henry Gonzales; impressions of LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Johnston. Then from that point in '64 until '66 when I came to the White House I was with the Department of Commerce in the Office of Public Affairs. P: How did you happen to come to receive this appointment from the White House? S: While
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was a shotgun marriage which they hated . The professional staff was put on the committee and hired by the committee, and the Naval Affairs Committee members didn't want anything to do with them. They wanted to continue to work with the -Navy Department
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and also sent a very valuable man to the Department of Transportation, Robert J. Blackwell, in the Office of Facilitation in the Office of International Affairs. He was our number two man and a very brilliant able man. He went to the Department
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to assess, or to make a comparison perhaps, between the way Mr. Johnson has operated in the realm of foreign affairs vis-a-vis the State Department as compared to President Eisenhower and/or President Kennedy? Ma: Yes, I think so. It probably would have
  • ; comparison of Congressional relation to foreign policy; Vietnam; LBJ’s speech regarding Dulles’ illness; Majority Leader’s interest in foreign policy; comparison of Eisenhower, LBJ and JFK administrations in foreign affairs; JFK-LBJ transition beautiful
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the attorney general's department. But more and more I began to hear people out on the campus saying, "Say, I understand you're going to go to work for the federal government." And I said, "No, I don't know anything about it." They said, "We've been getting
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Department. 7 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 O'Brien -- Interview XV
  • when O'Brien became postmaster general; initiatives to change the postal service; whether or not patronage from postal employees would have an effect on congressional support for Post Office Department reform; O'Brien's meeting with Charles Schultze
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • executive lawmaking. One example of this is interagency action, where the various departments of the government work together to institute a new program. Very frequently this is inspired by the White House. I'm thinking in particular here of the Veterans
  • Department of Justice history and its role as legal advisor to the president through the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC); laws created in the executive branch, such as through executive order, presidential proclamations and executive agreements
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and 26, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK M. WOZENCRAFT INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Wozencraft's office, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 W: One of the most important and least solved areas of government lies
  • program before the White House released it; a Bureau of the Budget meeting in which several departments expressed their displeasure with HEW's proposed legislation; OLC's suggestion of regional councils to address the air pollution program; veto power
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and take the combination B.A./LL.B. This is really what I had had in mind. Upon transferring here I became engrossed with the government department, particularly [because] Dr. Redford and Dr. O. D. Weeks [?] were there at that time, and a young bright star
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • appointments for the first time. He would point to William Driver as Administrator of Veterans Affairs and make quite a point of the fact that Driver was the first career man to head that agency. Me I can see how it might be difficult to get a bureau ~o
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the [creation of the] Department of Transportation, and have a really good transportation bill. There was a terrific dispute in the government about whether or not we should put criminal provisions in the bill and when we do the auto safety we'll have to get
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 25, 1969 M: This is an interview with Stanley H. Ruttenberg. He is the former Assistant Secretary for ManpoweT and Manpower Administration of the Department of Labor. He is now in Ruttenberg Associates, which
  • Activities as Manpower Administrator; the Department of Labor; OEO; NAB; proposed reorganization of the Department of Labor in 1968
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • too much on brilliance. G: So first there was the question of the sequence of making manpower available, drafting, calling up older veterans rather than--was this primarily because of their experience that they--? R: Yes. We had to have something
  • the military during the Korean War; the opinion that the U.S. was ill-equipped to fight the Korean War; morale problems with Korean War soldiers who were also World War II veterans; comparing U.S. and Soviet manpower and firepower; criticism of the U.S
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Administration as an assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture . One thing that comes up immediately after the first year there in March 1962, the breaking of the Billie Sol Estes affair . Bi : Were you involved in that? I was, as most of the people were
  • Crusade; Larry O'Brien; Clement J. Zablocki; 3/31 announcement; Citizens for Humphrey; Humphrey's campaign; Kennedy people's rivalry and friction after assassination; Bill Moyers; LBJ's knowledge of the Department of Agriculture; Department
Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • father, before he died, he received--the Jewish War Veterans group in Cologne--received a letter from people who lived in Austin but came from Cologne a long time ago. And they had a curtain factory, and they sewed curtains, and they were pretty well
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , creating the senior executive corps and a lot of stuff to--he wanted to improve the lot of civil servants. He truly believed in career civil service. Reorganization. I had a deal to move the Bureau of Indian Affairs from Interior to HEW [Department
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • gave a real tribute to Charlie Horsky and Steve Pollak, who have been his advisers on national capital affairs. I saw Tom Airis, the Highway Department director, and he was all in a twit about the east leg of the Interloop. Halprin was working
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of that period of time, slightly under two years, at Ft. Sam Houston--Brooke General Hopsital in San Antonio, Texas. I left the Army about December 1947, and went to Minneapolis where I worked for the Veterans Administration for six months, and then I returned
  • Department and legislation; White House staff; meeting with LBJ regarding Medicare; infant mortality rate; National Health Insurance; future of PHS; international health; Vietnam; Honolulu Conference; World Health Assembly; U.S. role in international health.
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK M. WOZENCRAFT INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Wozencraft's office, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the fifth interview with Frank M. Wozencraft, and the subject matter is the UN
  • the White House or the State Department in conferences such as these; Wozencraft's influence in presenting issues to the State Department officials; the power of treaties in international law; how international law is carried out by custom if not by treaty
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • O'Brien left for the Post Office Department, because he was the overall legislative man. My title was not Administrative Assistant to O'Brien but Administrative Assistant to the President. did have to channel a lot of this stuff. Nevertheless you After
  • Character of House liaison in the JFK years; a memo on Medicare on the night of the JFK assassination; LBJ-JFK relationship; the Bobby Baker affair; agendas for the weekly leadership meetings; LBJ-JFK staff relationships; LBJ seldom called
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- III -- 10 Department and have a briefing from the undersecretary of state. I want to say