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  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh B: I might add for the record, that was before Bishop Pike became Bishop Pike. G: That was before he became Bishop, right. And then Office of Alien Property in the Department of Justice; then setting up the War Claims Commission
  • Department thinking in those days, as a stump we've got to p10w around or something. C: No, he really wasn't. He didn't impose as much of his personality into the State Department affairs as a Rooney did. I guess, in a sense, you would call him more
  • Contacts with LBJ as Senator in 1958 while a budget officer for the State Department; LBJ's reactions to State Department's "guidance" for his foreign country visits as VP; LBJ's concern for good impressions by his party in foreign countries; LBJ's
  • in the State Department hierarchy, being in 1961 as, first, Policy Planning Council chief, and then later as Undersecretary for Political Affairs under Mr. Kennedy. Did Mr. Johnson take, that you could see, a very large role in foreign affairs as Vice
  • Biographical information; Lady Bird’s Congressional role while LBJ was overseas; first acquaintance with LBJ was social; LBJ’s interest in foreign affairs as VP; changes in Germany; JFK’s visit to Germany; LBJ should have visited Germany while
  • work did you do at the Department of Interior? W: Well, I started out as Adviser in Negro Affairs and also became a consultant to the Housing Division of PWA, which was the first part of government to get into low-rent public housing. In 1937 when
  • Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 14, 1969 M: You are Dixon Donne11ey, and you are currently Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, a position that you have held since 1966. Is that correct? D: That's correct. M: And prior
  • entertained Adenauer. very colorful affair. It was a There were, I guess, about a hundred guests. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • , a part of the Secret Service. Narcotics is, or was at that time, a bureau of the It was one of the sister agencies of the Secret Treasury Department. Service--one of the Treasury law enforcement agencies. M: To clear up a public point in definition
  • or something like that. Or maybe they'd have somebody from the execu- tive department to explain a particular project in which Texas was interested. It.was the closed door sessions of the Texas group where the decisions [were madeJ--where they really got
  • occasion. exactly remember. I don't But, of course, the unveiling of the big portrait of FDR was quite a big affair. So that was very, very glamorous, and there must have been at least two hundred people. Well, after I started the portrait
  • not think that the girls stayed over at the house that evening, so they were not there for breakfast. It was a much more intimate affair, and there was more rapport. F: In the family dining room there? B: Yes~ F: What did you eat, just plain old