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  • ; delay in appointing Secretary; rent supplements; role in formation of Model Cities Program; staffing; Dwight Ink; favored decentralization; informal meetings of all Presidential appointees; housing for HUD; cooperation with other departments; Philip
  • and Senator Russell came in--this was during the Eisenhower days--and asked him, "Bob, how are you going to vote on this Don Paarlberg going to be assistant secretary of agriculture?" The Senator said, "I guess I'm going to vote for him, Dick. Why?" Well, he
  • ; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; LBJ and Kerr's dealings with Senator Joseph McCarthy; Reynolds' post-presidential visit to the LBJ Ranch with Bill Kerr; Eisenhower's responsibility for U.S. involvement in Vietnam; LBJ as vice president.
  • to the Washington field office in 1952 and you did some work. Y: Correct. M: And then you went to the White House detail in February of 1953. Is that correct? Y: That's correct. M: And then what happened to you? Y: That was during the Eisenhower
  • with family and friends while election coverage is on television; Republicans gain seats in the House; LBJ's working relationship with President Eisenhower
  • that no politics is maybe the When they changed the Administration to the Eisenhower Administration, I had a lot of Republicans--One Republican called me up and said, "I want you to come by here and get this check for $2,000. I see where they might try to remove
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
  • Lady Bird to hair salon in Austin; Lynda Johnson to Dallas shopping; Lady Bird and Jessie Hunter to Denison to Eisenhower birthplace; lunch at Holiday Inn; to Fort Worth for tour by Ruth Carter Johnson of Museum of the Southwest; view Museum
  • , there was one guy down there named Bob Hill who was the ambassador to Mexico. Now Bob Hill was the ambassador because Lyndon Johnson put him there! F: He was Eisenhower's appointee, wasn't he? C: Yes, but he was a congressional liaison man to the Hill. He
  • Upcoming Howard K. Smith show; LBJ & Lady Bird to Walter Reed Army Hospital to visit President Eisenhower; Johnsons, staff & friends to LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird & guests tour Danz, Scharnhorst & Lewis Ranches; dinner at LBJ Ranch; LBJ & guests watch
  • through the state, and in a city, I believe it was Dallas, we held a rally, and Senator Johnson read a letter from General Eisenhower, then President, to a prominent Texas Republican, and after the rally was over, I walked up to Senator Johnson and I said
  • was involved, he really VJas involved, in those early days; it vJas during the last days of the Eisenhower Administration. And I found him supportive of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library