Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb

Title:

Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb

Number of Pages:

43

Description:

Biographical information; BOB job; liquidation of war industries; use of BOB by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower; Major General Wilton Persons; Sherman Adams; Jack Martin; Bryce Harlow; McCarran-Walter Immigration Act; Hatch Act; problem of civil servant in changing administrations; housing acts under Eisenhower; Federal Highway Act of 1955; federal sharing of funds; Medicare; separation of foreign agricultural attaches from foreign service; Dixon-Yates; formal structure of Troika and Quadriad; eras of BOB; role of BOB in times of economic stress; LBJ's personal interest in management efficiency; LBJ as the most management minded President in Jones' experience; LBJ was the first President to personal participate in incentive award ceremonies; bureaucracy; Presidential succession

Contributor:

Jones, Roger W. (Roger Warren), 1908-1993

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Roger W. Jones

Subject:

Immigration

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details