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  • LBJ ASKS PAUL DOUGLAS' ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT SCHUMAN TO TELL DOUGLAS THAT PLANS WILL PROCEED FOR NEW VA FACILITIES FOR HINES, ILLINOIS TO BE OPERATED IN CONJUNCTION WITH LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL; LBJ PRAISES DOUGLAS' WORK ON VETERANS
  • of Prince Souvanna. I would follow the policy outlined in outg·o lng cabl No. 1a61 (Tab C) . McG. B . (page 2 of 2 pages) 7 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 25, 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: An appeal from Prime Minister Douglas-Home on our
  • quickly." When I got to Bragg, Johnny Bowen didn't know anything about this. He said, "Who the hell are you and what are you doing on my post?" I said, "Sir, I have orders to take anything I want." (Laughter) About that time the phone rang
  • will rn'"a terially affect the balance out there? . . :;.... 1.Vheel.::=: Yes, Sir. We should decrease by every pound we can to stop rnove:nent of supplies. In interdiction, you start at the beginning and go all the way thl"ough to finally stopping
  • called to report the following. about the 1. He ls seeing Gen. Eisenhower who ls ''enthusiastic" Douglas committee. Cabot believes that Gen. Eisenhower's strong backing for this u:middle position" will not only give your posltlon strength but make
  • them with him to compare them, and he said everything was aboveboard. On his way home though, he said he stopped at a beer joint and he left the poll and tally lists in the glove compartment of his car. Those were two sets. The only remain- ing
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 13, 1969 B: This is an interview with Patrick V. Murphy., former Director of Public Safety of the District of Columbia, and later Director of the Law Enforcement and Assistance Administration. Sir, to start with your
  • always supported the efforts to have better farm programs. Rural electrification-- he was an early advocate and always a strong supporter of rural electrification, rural telephone program; the various credit programs of the Farmers Home Administration
  • , "I don't know just what you mean, sir ." And he said, � � � � 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
  • and involved a nuclear war between the United States and the Russians and/or Chinese, I don't know. But I do know that I am convinced that had we followed [Douglas] MacArthur's thrust--and I don't fault Harry Truman for firing MacArthur--but had we followed
  • anything next Monday at lunch? Juanita Yes sir - lunch at the '-Ahite House with the President LBJ For the President of Ecuador? Juanita Yes sir with Mrs. Johnson too. LBJ Have lunch with the President and the President of Ecuador. RY Well we
  • was a I had had little previous administrative experience. r had been director of the NRA in Virginia briefly. But I was predominantly a newspaper writer in those days, an assistant to the distinguished editor of Richmond's afternoon newspaper, Douglas
  • ,Edward c., Bur. of Outdoor Recreation BERRY,E.Y., Congress BIBLE, Alan, Senate CRAMER,William c., Congress BLACK, David S., Interior DAVIS, Joseph H., Citizens Adv. Coom BLAKE, Peter J., Archi tectu.ral Forum DIAMOND,Henry, NYC Magazine DOUGLAS,Paul H
  • to the "Douglas Commission" after Commission Chairperson, former senator Paul H. Douglas), including correspondence regarding appointments to the Commission, material related to administrative matters such as Commission staffing, meeting times, meeting locations
  • bring home to American officials .. ~- It is not a losing proposition. ;\ Dick Helms: If you relieve a seige of a bastion, you get headlines. a. The President: He has worsf. problem with press than we do. General Westmoreland: .Khesanh. Clark
  • in the South is concerned. I liked Symington. I liked him. I liked Paul Douglas, And I perhaps liked somebody else--I can't remember any other candidates at the moment of that time. F: Stevenson was still around. S: I had about done all I could do
  • : All right, sir. Is it accurate to say that your first involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam was when you were at USARPAC? D: Yes. That's true. You don't watch it with the single focus that the J-2 MACV watches it, because that's the whole
  • , and it was a nonpartisan type of political involvement. But I elected to run for city council back in the home city of Sioux City, which was a city of roughly a hundred thousand. And I went through a very, very tough campaign for city hall and won that campaign by a very
  • in the United States did not have any strategic reserve at home for contingencies elsewhere. And if the Soviets had wanted to heat things up in Europe, for example, or Berlin or something, we'd have been sort of hurting. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
  • life into your new? C: I never did. My mother still at this moment has some things at home that she packed up from the sorority house that day. I guess the only thing that I did as far as going to check in at that life again was to take off one day
  • landscape. F: There is a third generation now of landscape architects in the family, isn't there? W: Yes, sir. t'ly older son, Theodore J. Wirth, has his own business at Billings, Montana, and played a part in the design of the LBJ Park. LBJ
  • want her home used for utilitarian purposes, so therefore we continued cutting hair in the West Wing. But I would go to their offices, and most of the time I used General [Howard M.] Snyder's, Dr. Snyder's office to give all these people a haircut
  • INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD JOSEPH INTERVIE~JER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: t~r. Joseph's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 F: We'll make this informal, Eddie. Are you an Austin boy? J: Yes, sir, I was born and raised in Austin. F: That's what I thought. J
  • was still teaching in San Antonio most of the time and going to law school at night, and he was working up there. But when he would come home--the Congress then stayed in session fewer months than it does now; and they would come home usually in July
  • Wheeler: Yes sir, they remain under the operational control of their government. Secretary Mc:,Jamara: I am under the very clear impression that they have been told by their home governments to do everything possible to hold down their own casualties. Our
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Richard Neustadt INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you. More
  • it with these reserves (referring to the 200, 000 requested.) General Wheeler: Yes, I believe so unless the enemy ups the ante. The President: Are we adeguately prepared for Khesanh? General Wheeler: Yes, sir. The President: Do you think that it will be there (Khesanh
  • was practicing law, simply on some sort of business or other, and my mother and father were invited to the home of the Johnsons for a quite large party which they gave for three new congressmen from Texas. B: That would have been to the Ranch? W
  • already begun under the Eisenhower Administration with the creation of the Inter-American Bank and with the Act of Bogotá [Bogotá Agreement], which had been agreed to with Douglas Dillon, who was the American representative that summer of 1960. The term
  • General and Sra. Marcelino Garcia Barragan - Secy. of National Defense Senator and Mrs Paul Douglas Cong. and Mrs. Henry B. Gonzalez Mr. Arthur Borg - State Dept. Cong. Alejandro Carrillo Table B - 1 April 14, 1966 Mexico City, D. F. Table B - 1 Lic
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
  • of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
  • . Presidents CEMENT MASONS ELECTRICAL WORKERS ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTOII GLAZIERS HOISTING ENGINEERS HOME INSULATORS IRON WORKERS • The following resolution was adopted at our last .regular meeting held on Tuesday, April 21s·t, 1964. The resolution is self­
  • in Los Angeles, I decided to go back to Dallas to pick up my business again and just assumed that Senator Johnson, being the vice-presidential candidate, wouldn't need me, that the Kennedy people would run the car.npaign anyway . Well, I was home about
  • ~ ~ ~( ,-,/ C;~A "f\ ) {!!,) JV' i1/ ,j") ~ ~o~Oo~ Attached are: (a) a list of the candidates for the the Cities which Paul Douglas would chair a~ (b) a short statement r> ~p-7 ...... ,.,...' announci g the form~tion of the Commission.x~ ()7t,_, :Zhur
  • to the "Douglas Commission" after Commission Chairperson, former senator Paul H. Douglas), including correspondence regarding appointments to the Commission, material related to administrative matters such as Commission staffing, meeting times, meeting locations
  • moved out in their [areas] back home, they would swing delegates. didn't ,happen It just that way. M: It didn't work that way. S: No. M: Did you go to Los Angeles? s: Oh, yes, I went to Los Angeles. M: Were you a member of the Texas
  • . M: And how long have you been in that pOSition, sir? W: I've been here since the first of January 1968. M: For the last year of the Johnson Administration, then. At the beginning of the Johnson Administration, you were commanding in the I
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 24, 1969 B: This is the interview with Luther Holcomb. Sir, to begin in the beginning, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? H: Yes, I can reconstruct. It was during the campaign of--the one when W. Lee
  • INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER April 1, 1969 B: This is the interview with Roy Wilkins. Sir, when were you first acquainted with Mr. Johnson, either directly or indirectly? W: I can't remember the exact date or even the exact year, but it was long before Mr
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Walter, let's go back. You came out of North Texas, right? J: Yes, sir, my home is Wichita Falls. F: How did you happen to get