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  • or relationship to narrator Accession Record Number HST;. GitiIL_Historv Proi ect AC74-170 General topic of interview : Discusses his knowledge of organized labor, and his association with Lyndon Johnson . Date March 4 . 19 69 Place Length 29 pages Tape
  • Committee. I have read in the newspapers that the Committee is considering an investigation into whether politics has influenced the activities and decisions of the Justice Department. In addition to being District Attorney of Orleans Parish, I happen
  • . They were industrial workers, union workers, hourly wage-earners who worked for private enterprise instead of for the state, and they did pretty well. So all these people were lined up. We were told we were not allowed to talk to Khrushchev. Of course, I
  • because I'd just got back from the army. The first thing I did was to start buying newspapers and doing things, and I wasn't very much involved with political party activity. I don't remember having gone [but] to maybe one or two meetings, if we had
  • road right in front of your house, with delivery service for newspapers and everything else. In addition to that, of course, one living there would have the benefit of the Waldorf-Astoria tenants because they would have a place to park and free air
  • would have wanted to have been a good one. If Mrs. Johnson had gotten into automobile manufacturing, he would want it to be successful. He, Mr. Johnson, is a competitor at heart. He likes to be associated with enterprises and people who are successful
  • the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. School records in Pasadena, California, describe the assailant, Sirhan Sirhan, as "friendly, cooperative, and well mannered". He has had little association with other members of his family, few male associates
  • entry into government service was not the result of my Yale law degree. but was more the result of my acquaintance with a fellow associate at Covington and Burling who went into the Solicitor General's Office in 1958 or 1959--Wayne Barnett. When
  • of the Congress with whom he was associated, and, of course, we had both Republicans and Democrats. We got into some heated arguments. At that time, also, there was an organization here known as the Little Congress, made up of the personnel of the various
  • in the Secretary's office . all concerned with it . We were Our particular concern was that, as we saw the case despite the fact of the way it appeared in the newspapers, that really Billie Sol Estes had primarily taken--if you can put it that way--some private
  • of books and a number of articles in public finance and social security and other associated areas. During this whole period, since I've joined Brookings, I've always been interested in public service, and largely through my friendship with Walter Heller
  • you have the idea you were W: Not at the time, I didn't give it much thought--in that area, an~~ay. F: How long did this association continue? W: It continued to the present time. F: So that any time he was in New York he was likely
  • he became vice president, in the senatorial years? A: Only an occasional opportunity to see him very briefly. I would not say that it was a real friendship or was in anyway an intimate association. B: Had you, in those days, classified him
  • in the Southern Police Academy. I've been active in the IACP for several years, not qui te so acti ve now as I was \l/hen I was chi ef, but I am still a member.' I'm also active in the Texas Police Association and the Texas Police Chiefs Association, which
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD HELMS INTERVIEWER: ' TED GITTINGER PLACE: Ambassador Helms' office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Ambassador, if it's all right, we'll start. H: Okay. G: How far back does your association with the CIA go? H
  • in the newspaper business, magazine business, World War II service in the Air Corps, and, after the war, your own public relations firm. When in this process did you first meet Mr. Johnson? M: I saw him when he was running for the Senate in 1948. I did
  • the airplane, waving to the television cameras and so forth. G: Did you have any association with LBJ while you were at the Peace Corps? P: None. In fact, the first time I was ever in the White House was on November 22, 1963. I was working at the Peace
  • -- I -- 2 being there about a year or a year and a half, I became associated in the practice of law with Martin B. Winfrey. I was with him until I went into the navy in 1943. I went to boot camp and received a commission and was assigned to Washington
  • was called to the service right after I got out of Hardin-Simmons; well, I say right after. I spent a year in Amarillo working for the newspaper. F: Did you know the Hardin-Simmons journalism man that got killed in San Angelo? S: I didn't know
  • and Mr. Johnson as Vice President. So Mr. Wilkins said to his associates, "Suppose we go over on the Hill." He did not spell out to them just what he had in mind. over there, they go to the office of the Vice President. very late in the afternoon
  • in the military who would accept appointment as police officers. The first emphasis was put on Washington, although some other cities benefited from the program too. B: I've been confused by stories in the newspapers recently. Was the police department up
  • beginning to take the view that as long as they're white there's no difference. B: That bloomed a little later. It's associated publicly with the Meredith March in '66. was really asking was how early first signs of it began. R: Oh, there were signs
  • , Hollis Frazier, a few other fellows, give them some competition. We got most of the class officers and the charge of the college newspaper and of the college annual, things like that, and the student council for a year or two or three. F: Was young
  • that an employee of the National Archive• ha.., adviaed that newspaper correapondenta have inquired cODc:ermna information about Ferri• developed by the FBI_iA 1963. With hi• memorandum, tbe Director encloaecl 55 page• o1 lnvo•t11f J1_v•material which have been
  • here. C: Well, I was born in Oklahoma and was educated at the Unitersity of Tulsa. I received first a degree there in economics and later another degree in journalism, both of these being bachelor of arts degrees. Then I worked for newspapers
  • , their presence on the floor of the House, the speeches that they make, the effectiveness of their speech, logical, sound, their contributions, their associations with their fellow colleagues, their personality. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • Association about ten days ago, and I had lost that card, so I went out to the back of my office where my father's trunk is . in his trunk . I felt I'd find another one of these cards What I wanted to emphasize to the Northeast Texas Bar Association
  • Presidential years. K: Well, of course, some of that is tactics on Johnson's part. He was wise enough and clever enough to know, once he became President, that the more he could associate Eisenhower in his own actions, the better likelihood there would
  • . live often wished that lid come from something a little more unique, you know, than just a proper name. But, as that may be, how did you get to Washington, briefly? H: l~ell, I worked on a number of newspapers in North Carolina, the largest
  • implying. B: That's what I had reference to. S: I was not associated in those lawsuits. B: Can you now, over a distance of time, make any judgment on the validity of the various charges on all sides of fraud etc., in that election? S: Of course, I
  • to write a speech about this, and I agreed to do it . I heard that he wanted to give it at the Associated Press dinner in April, I think, '66 or '67, but I got through with it too late and missed my chance . It could have been a good speech though
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 6 of people, somewhat of a recluse. That is not true at all. delighted in the association with a small group. He And I thought it interesting, too, that he always went to every
  • hard to find. F: But he didn't invent that either. He's been accused, in the eastern press at least, of chewing out newspaper men. K: He was usually a pretty good I can't recall. Did you ever see any evidence of it re re in Austin? As I say, he
  • First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
  • . forgotten a coupl e of others that were therec I have I think Arthur Schl es inger \'Ias in there and a coupl e of others. B: It was generally assumed at the time in the newspapers that you '.'Jere there as kind of a representative of the New South. S
  • have an opportunity to sit down with you and understand why you felt the way you do about certain things, well, I might get a completely different idea than I would from reading something in the newspapers about what you'd done or what you thought, you
  • with the White House and with Mr. Truman in the 1948 campaign. Ba: This is when you were associate director of public relations for the National Committee? Bi: That's correct. That was the title which basically hid the fact that there were a group of us
  • members, supervi~ion in ·this any made, said are herewith Commissioners,, . their .Court assistants, and employees Co~nty Medical Criminal . . Officials case, investigators and control, .. Police of the Court as follows: associates
  • business, and now is back in the business of publishing newspapers. His contacts had been broader. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library