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- stunt that nobody ever
tried with him apparently .
I called
him direct on the phone .
I don't think anybody had ever
called
up J . Edgar Hoover direct .
before, And got him, not
even a
secretary in between .
Fs
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Fs
Os
You can't do that, I've tried
- historic sites; Willard Hotel; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Building; Lady Bird’s time and attention; Federal Highway Commission; National Plaza; Owings close to the Nixon Administration; Nixon’s interest in the National Plaza; LBJ Library; Skidmore-Owings
- the "Chicken in Every Pot,"
"Two Automobiles in the Garage."
An that baloney was sho\'/ing
up so fast on Hoover that it was pitiful.
Yet a lot of people
believed it and listened to it.
Now I enjoyed my relationship with Johnson.
I helped him in
every way
- to January 20.
That was to avoid the lame duck
session we always had in between there.
A lot of politics was
carried on during that time.
F:
Well, we nearly wrecked the country there, you know, in 1932, before
Hoover could get out and Roosevelt could get
- , it was completely unworkable .
poor compromise .
Like so many compromises, it was a
That office was set up in 1950 as a result of, I guess
the key item was the task force report to the Hoover Commission on
transportation, which as I recall, I'm not sure about
- this idea of program budget come from?
Did you bring this with you?
F:
Well, no, the whole concept of program budgeting goes back many years.
the Hoover Commission started it back in the late '40s.
agencies picked it up.
Actually
A number of the federal