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- well here is J. Edgar Hoover. I met him first when he was a clerk down in the Department of Justice and got to talking to him and he said there ought to be a fingerprint bureau. A murder was committed in Phoenix and I heard the man had been
- Project Bill; Bureau of the Budget; J. Edgar Hoover; LBJ-Eisenhower relationship; 1956 campaign; VP nomination; Ernest McFarland; cloture rule; Federal Highway Department; Indian affairs; Goldwater family; Hayden's father
- . Edgar Hoover and Robert Kennedy was surfaced, the Department under Nick Katzenbach attempted to find a middle ground; one that would not embarrass, or unduly embarrass, Robert Kennedy, and one that was nonetheless candid and honest as to the prior
- people on the faculty of Ole Miss; Governor [J. P.] Coleman [former governor of Mississippi] was very helpful. I'm sure he'd hate even now for anybody to know how helpful he was, but he was very helpful with advice at least and names, you know. You could
- Counsel and then Acting Special Assistant for Civil Functions; General Counsel and Special Assistant for Civil Functions. Interviewer ~--±D~o~r~o~t~h~y,,__P...__i~e~r~c~e.__~~__.'--~~~--Position or relationship to narrator __ __ H_i_s_t_o_ry..a.-_P_r_o~J
- games and the Mayor of Selma; J. Edgar Hoover and the Yarmouth Castle case; Secret Service-FBI merger issue; anecdote of LBJ's political acumen; Jim Wright an issue of constitutionality; dealing with civil disturbances; the M-16 rifle investigation
- there, because he would always include you in the dinners that he had in his home and other things. I remember J. Edgar Hoover lived not too far away. And he would often come down to eat or maybe for a drink with the Congress- LBJ Presidential Library http
- and getting ready for this very formal dinner and they had made the arrest . Mr . J . Edgar Hoover called the President ; they had a talk ; the President then called Governor Sanders of Georgia and reported to him. called Senator Russell . He also
- , I give you pernlission to fill his nanle in. And I called up the FBI and got hold of J. Edgar Hoover, I think it was, or the man next to him. So I talked them out of protection. Of course, they told nle they had to protect me under the law. Well, I
- pretty common knowledge that Mr. Hoover and the FBI can on occasions be jealous of their independence and their prerogatives. Has the FBI worked well in cooperation with the other agencies? V: They work very well now. That was not always the case
- . wouldn't class as a liberal to the extent that Dr. Greene was. he was a liberal, yes. He But There's no question about that. G: Coolidge and Hoover were presidents then. K: Yes, Greene G: Did he lambast K: He was outspoken. He was rather
- in the vision of the Congress . . . . . actually some of it even started b~~k in the Hoover administration, as you remember . . . . . but certainly the impetus that President Roosevelt gave these prograws really got them off the ground and provided actu al
- to President Hoover. JBF: Roosevelt ran well ahead of the national ticket-- F: He ran well ahead of the national ticket. Well, then, I remained as Secretary of the Democratic State Committee during those following two years and a convention that was held
- at the Georgetown Club asking me to dictate the memo over the phone. And that became rather impossible, but I got the memo done that evening; and it showed that until Roosevelt's time no President had ever gone to the convention. And then Hoover had done his
- e r Sam Rayburn; and sometimes S t e w a r t Symington would be there and sometimes Herbert Hoover, but there would generally be no more than six or eight of us. Kerr was there quite often. Bob I don't know why we wound up over there so regularly
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- nne that he could ever reITlember sufficiently t,.., qunte, was "Get busy and expand nur exports in order to balance our payments." The new Administration caITle in with a firm c,..,nvicti,..,n that this was a j,..,b f,..,r C,..,mITlerce t,.., d
- : By misuse, sir, specifically, do you mean by previous Secretaries? H: Oh, I mean that nobody had taken the department seriously, almost since Hoover's time, certainly during the Roosevelt time. B: When Hoover was Secretary of Commerce, or when he
- . Hoover testified before the Commission on Disorders to the effect that to date--at that time--we had no such evidence, and I think it's safe to say we still have no such evidence. I think you need to distinguish between conspiracies to foment disorders
- , Mr . Thornberry and Mr . Young both had served on the Post Office and Civil Service Committee while I was Chief Counsel . And I said, "With respect to the ability to do the job," you know that there was a conflict between Mr . 1961-63) and Bill (J
- recollections from the President or from other people of his feelings about the policies of Mr. Hoover? R: No, I don’t. I don’t remember. He has made some statements in speeches that I would personally have been happier had they not been said. For example, I
- impressions of Hoover; LBJ’s attitude toward public service
- really know. I guess, as I recall the Populist attitudes, he was more of a Populist. He believed that the United States should take a leading part in the world ... I: In domestic affairs, did he make fun of Coolidge and Hoover as too con servative
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- with the 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 10 Mr. Hoover simply didn't strike
- ~ power revenues, and then you could put it through the Hoover, Parker, and Davis turbines and get some more of it back; and it's interesting to note that you'd pump it ,.,rith lm..rer cost energy than you'd get for the energy you made on the other might
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- have-- Taft, Wilson, Hoover, Coolidge-- L: Well, Woodrow Wilson, as I said in this piece, he was the first man who really had a press conference as of today. P: In other words, a press conference in calling the people in-- the news media in? L
- /exhibits/show/loh/oh Levinson -- I -- 7 You recall that the Department of Transportation was seriously proposed back in the thirties and received added impetus through the Hoover Commission and by President Eisenhower. It wasn't until 1965 that, many years
- , 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
- Smith and Herbert Hoover, and as I recall now, it was in 1927. was only seven then. I But somehow it was important to us or maybe some of our people talked about it so much because we were always raised under the Catholic faith. And I would say
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- quite honestly that they didn't think they could vote for Kennedy. As young men at the age of thirty in 1928, they had voted for Hoover instead of Al Smith, and as older men at the age of sixty or thereabouts, they weren't able to bring themselves
- to happen like what happened under the Hoover Administration. Mr. Johnson has been, he's just been very interested in banking, and he's insistent on good examinations. That's what he wants. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY