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  • . I S MEETING PRESIDENT WITH JAPANESE FRIMEMINISTERIKEDA 1. Jkeda•s Liberal pro-American -- has just While not quite as great 1960, the Party's margin Democratic Party -- conservative and won a general election on November 21. as in the last general
  • 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Austin, Texas January 13, 1975
  • did not discover all t his yourself. in the formula. Two. There is nothing original It is taught in t he American Universities, generally in Psychology It has been popularized in a chapter by Dale Carnegie, who has made over a million dolkrs
  • to remember the names of the very few whom we did know in Austin. I think one had a Johnson City background, a furniture man named Brown, and a hardware man named Davis. Oh, gee. G: Here's a list of contributors, if you can read that messy handwriting. J
  • was Charlie Marsh? GB : Well, he was a publisher, had a chain of newspapers ; he owned The Austin Statesman and numerous other papers in Texas and through the South ; he was a genius in his way . He was a man of a lot of vision, a man of strong personal
  • . It was a notable contrast to the arrival of the American battle group in West Berlin only 2 hours earlier with tens of thousands watching and cheering. Too, it was a morale .booster for our troops. They know now somebody at home cares that they are here and knows
  • : the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Aus­ tin American-Statesman. Moderator Cater: "Whereas it costs approximately less than $1,500 a y ar to put kids in most public schools-elementary level certainly-it cmts $20,000 a year a!-.an average to keep him
  • of that new, rapidly growing medium and what an impact it was going to have and how it would become the single most important vehicle in American politics. It sure has. Of course, it's gone the whole spectrum now; I think there's a certain amount of cynicism
  • greatly ippreciated our two countries which unites • your counsel and your understanding~ forward to workin closely ' you carry with you the highest ~egard· and warmest· good wishes of the American peopleo joins I look with you in the months
  • the difference. It was a very productive session of Congress, it impacted on the vast majority of American people. Medicare was pre-eminent in that regard. Of course you had voting rights, you had higher education, you had the whole field of medical research
  • with Powers, O'Donnell, and O'Brien and their career plans after leaving the White House; opposition to Medicare, especially from the American Medical Association (AMA); how the public mindset has changed regarding Social Security and Medicare; the Bob Kerr
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALT ROSTOW INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Rostow's office, Federal Building, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 3 R: I think it might be useful if I were briefly to start with the first impressions-- M: Let me move this microphone so
  • or less what it's going to look like. F: At the stamp ceremony, did you stay at the Ranch? S: No, it was in Austin. F: You stayed in town? S: We stayed in town. F: So you haven't been back to the Ranch since he's gone. S: No. F: I'm sure
  • suitable for a backyard farmer than a great statesman and President. and even bad judgment. I don't think the man ever learned how to deal with the press _and became his own worst .enemy in his relationship with the press. He . never learned how to.deal
  • > ., VASHINGTON·•CO!MUNIST CHINA HAS DETONATED HERFinH ·NUCLEAR TEST EXPLOSION II THI ATMOSPHEREOVER SINKIANG PROVINCE, U. S. OFFICIALS SAID TODAT• . , • , UNITED STATES.DETECTED A TEST AT THE CHINESE LOP NOR PROVINa DEC. 27 ON AMERICAN CALENDARS. THE YIELD
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  • ahead of Senator Connally's office create any difficulties with Senator Connally? B: Not with Senator Connally personally, I'm sure, because Senator Connally was a senior statesman . He wasn't interested in competing with anybody, and he didn't have
  • for Agriculture as for Labor. And, when I have advocated loans to otrer countries and help to those coun­ tries in getting so they could buy again, I have been thinking not about charity but a good business investment for American business and agriculture
  • Secretary ot Mexico concerning pending legislation which would establiah the American section ot the U.S. -Mexico Comldssion tor Border Development and Priend- abip. That bill is presently under. consideration by tbe appropriate aubcomittee ot the House
  • that he would be the candidate for vice president with Kennedy in 1964. He had the meeting of the National League of Cities, then know as the American Municipal Association, and he addressed us at a meeting at about eleven o'clock in the morning
  • Contact with LBJ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; 1963 Philadelphia speech; Green funeral; 1963 meeting of American Municipal Association in Houston; city program; HHH; urban disorder; 3/31 announcement; 1968 campaign
  • that it was as a spokesman then for the disarmament movement that Lyndon Johnson's campaign committee asked me to participate on radio and television in the 1964 campaign. And I said, "I certainly will," because Lyndon Johnson said, "I will not send American boys to fight
  • appointed and had begun its work. in either 1961 or 1962; maybe 1962. That occurred I guess That started under the Kennedy Administration and the major impact to begin that came from the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and what
  • that people have told you about how sore his hands got from the campaign. Oh yes, it was almost like adrenaline; it was like a B-12 shot. G: Where were you the night of the election? Were you in Austin? C: We were at the Ranch, and then we went to Austin
  • ,,,.,.,. (1\r I J 'A)r \ A, B & C. COPYLBJ LIBRARY •• ,A'tllSFERREO TO HAHDWAITING rlL.i Limited Official Proposed Joint SUBJECT: 1. Use State/AID Message to American Matters raised by Prime on October 13, 1967 As reported earlier, Embassy
  • in the world right today is that the Congress, they're saying what you [should] do in El Salvador or what you [should] do in Nicaragua. I mean, if the President is pursuing a policy that the American people don't like, they can vote a new Congress in two
  • departure Vice Presidento Leading stressed Johnson warmly received by Vietnamese people because of mode t attitudeo -Saigon Maia said this outstanding, modest statesman has won.hearts Vietnamese peopleo Johnson's many contacts with commonpeople widely
  • which ori:glnated the document. (CJ CIOS«t In ec:cordanc:a with restrictions contillned In the donor's deed of gift. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS AD MIN ISTR A TI O N NA FORM 1'1 2 9 (8 - 8 6 ) Austin, Texas 78705 January 23, 1995 Processing note
  • age. M: Over the years, since you first met Lyndon Johnson, has he changed much? R: His drive and personality? I'd say right much. He's matured, he has the as surance of established power, and he's a statesman who is well-grounded
  • ; General Douglas MacArthur; Harry Byrd; conservation; Civil Rights Acts; major changes in U.S. government in 35 years; accomplishments of the American people
  • at doing, as history has already recorded. I believe President Eisenhower made the statement that without Lyndon he never would have gotten any of his program through. The President was a statesman as well as a partisan, but he appealed to the members
  • her that her difficulty has been that she was not only married to a statesman but also had the blood of one. G: This was right after he came back from Europe I think and that trip that he took with Edward Hebert and the committee. L: That is very
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McGovern -- I -- 6 more than any other Americans to promote peace in the world if we remember that food is health, food is strength, food is hope, food is peace
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- II -- 2 the outstanding war hero which Eisenhower was labeled, that in fact he was not quite the statesman that he may have
  • to the polio vaccine; 1962 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; opposition to health legislation from the American Medical Association (AMA); the defeat of the Capeheart Amendment; raising minimum wage to one dollar an hour in 1955; Hill's attitude
  • will be an entirely American demonstrated display. Several tb:>usand u. s. food items will be displayed, and sold in an American style self-service market. Among the other fea­ tures will be a "Food in Space" exhibit arranged by NASA; a specially produced motion
  • We stopped in Austin to see the relief administration people; they're the people who were involved with the various organizations that were headed by Harry Hopkins. I'd rather like to have her tell thi s story because she was the one who wanted
  • Biographical information; met LBJ in Austin while NYA Administrator; social and political contacts with LBJ beginning in the late 1930s; LBJ
  • recommends that to the American Embassy in Kingston mission. the enclosed telegram be approved for trans-.·· m Benjamin Executive Enclosures: Tab A - Letter from President Tab B - Statistics. Tab C Suggested Telegram. H. Read Secretary to Prime Minister
  • the Worlds troubled times he has vanished At the height of his zenith hath fled, Snatched from our midst by the unconquered .foe. The t-~n and the statesman lies dead But the work he did and the truth he meant The Counsel he gave and the pains he spent
  • with George Mahon, who was the elder statesman at the time in the crowd, and [said], "George, you're with me, aren't you?" "Oh, yes, Mr. President." Went all around the list; everyone was with him. He said, "Now, you see? All your colleagues are with me