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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • -- 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • . 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
  • associations with Governor Price Daniel and with President Johnson. In the spring of 1965 you joined the White House staff as Special Counsel to the President and served in that position until the spring of 1967. Could we begin by your telling me a little
  • Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election
  • and '67 crisis-- F: These were not newspaper bugaboos, then? K: Not at all. The Turks were getting on the ships. intelligence as to what they were doing. didn't need any intelligence. We had good As a matter of fact, we They told us they were
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 if you want to call it that, of CIA support of National Students Association and some publications. I presume this goes back to the period in which you were
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
  • a bit of work in this area and I do a lot of other work, but I-- F: You haven't confined yourself to that? H: No, I do not limit my activities to transportation. F: Did you have any association with Mr. Johnson beyond an occasional social gathering
  • in work of ICC; JFK assassination; President of National Trade Association for Inter-City Motor Bus Industry; return to government service in DOT; maritime industry; Urban Mass Transit; formation of DOT; Alan Boyd; party for Luci and Pat; LBJ established
  • interesting experience because, as I men- tioned in the earlier interview, one of Mr. Johnson's closest and long time associates was Irving Goldberg, who now serves as a judge on the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Goldberg agreed to become vice chairman of the Texas
  • how and whether it can be done. But basically of course they do have constituencies that are represented by public spirited organizations; they have foreign policy association, United Nation associations. And then they have some that go further, like
  • association in the Congress. We were never close and intimate. The Texans had their own fraternity which didn't require so much outside relationship, although I don't mean that they were isolationists or that they were exclusive. But still the Texans had
  • happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which
  • the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
  • by the President's attitude. Mu: So even those that might have been conservative otherwise turned out under his influence to be maybe more sympathetic than it had appeared? :(,1e: Yes. I would say that personally this association lasted right from the minute he