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- , the defense of those islands and the Chinese Communist threat to the islands. Let me ask you to analyze that issue and-- J: Well, the Communists were convinced step by step that they could take over all of China and they took it all over except those islands
- to Ambassador Goldberg that he might perhaps feel more comfortable with someone that he had worked with more closely, but ,l\rnbassador Goldberg's reaction was tremendously understanding and positive. He J' LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
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- Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
- Joseph J. Sisco
- the, you might say, organizational and administrative roles in medicine. Then I served on the Medical Committee of the Hoover Commission, and this gave me further opportunity to study the organizational and administrative matters that relate
- ' Administration; Medical Committee of the Hoover Commission; instrumental in the establishment of the National Library of Medicine; service with the Department Medical Advisory Council; involvement with many study section of the National Institutes of Health
- with, I suspect, a certain feeling about King.He had been terribly disappointed in King for good reasons or not. King had become increasingly anti-Administration, particularly on the war. Hoover had supplied the President with a vast amount of scurrilous
- Clark; pardons and paroles; LBJ’s relationship with Hoover; Omnibus Crime Act of 1968; Model Cities; Robert Weaver; Bob Wood; tariffs; press relations; overseas airline decision; 1968 LBJ campaign and decision not to run; political activities after the 3
- , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JUDD INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Judd home, Mitchellville, MD Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 J: --went up and worked on trying to get a piece of legislation through to clarify those witches, their names. Their names
- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org I~TERVIE\.JEE ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] : JAMES J. ROWLEY I~TERVIEWER: PAIGE E. DATE: January 22, 1969 M: More on LBJ Library oral
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- Rowley, James J. (James Joseph), 1908-1992
- Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
- James J. Rowley
- 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
- percent, forty percent of the total acreage in national park system would have been done under his Administration, as well as about forty new areas, you see. And I pointed out, because Herbert Hoover, a one-term President, had in the last days put in Death
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- ? That good turned to that bad requires no real explanation, do you think? W: The Hoover situation was an absolute parallel. Hoover had the best press of any president up to his time. M: Right, right. W: And he left with the worst press a president ever
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- Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
- J. Russell Wiggins
- \.J e:-:cept, as you and I been there. waving, I Bill Hopkins has been the fellow who has kept the White House think he C2,lnC over under Hoover. F: Hf.: 's about as apo Ii ti l',-:1 as T: E:.:actly, lcJ"J' th-inE;s both know, th!:! people
- . 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
- , just as Hoover was leaving office. And the column was beginning to get going when Roosevelt came in in March of 1933. F: When did you first become aware of Congressman Johnson, or do we have to come down forward of that? P: I don't remember exactly
- the street from Edgar Hoover, or almost across the street. So we went over there quite often, and they came around to our place some. Then when I moved, about '45, late '45, I moved down to 2101 Connecticut, I would 11 LBJ Presidential Library http
- . It was And Dr. W. J. Moyes, Mrs. Ball, Verner Benton. (Interruption) G: How about this banking course that he would teach? He, in the evenings I understand, would teach some group of bankers, some night school. Do you know anything about that? LBJ
- -Round column was conceived. Mr. Hoover, who was then President, sent word to the Monitor that I was personna non grata around the White House. Of course, nowadays that would be occasion for a raise--during Mr. Johnsonls time. book. The Monitor asked
- : 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
- can borrow. This is just sheer nonsense. This game is played much more effectively when you have Democratic President. Democrats don't get all upset about raising the debt limit. Southern Democrats do, but the m a j o r i t y of them don't get too
- Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell
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- , I think, in his mind that "neutrality!' wasn't going to work. Then, I think, the firing of Secretary McNamara was a profoundly important thing to hiJ!}. a, sense~ And that worked out very badly. RFK really kept that secret, in :r: 1:.'eme)J}ber
- Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dean -- I -- 8 Hoover Commission recommendations, instead of proceeding with a department, they decided, in effect, to convert Commerce
- 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 get a job with one of the real estate firms there . Then I went in with a group of lawyers . We organized the firm of Conger, Low, and Spears, with Judge A . W . Conger and George Conger . M: Is that C-0-N-G-E-R? L: C 0 N G E R. lawyers . And J
- activities in Chile with Board of Economic Warfare; LBJ’s 1948 campaign for the Senate; the Taft-Hartley Act and LBJ’s relationship with labor forces; LBJ’s enemies in the 1940’s and 1950’s; Coke Stevenson; Clint Small; Wright Morrow; Dan Moody’ J. Evetts
- , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: J ERRE WI LLI AMS INTERVIEI4ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Professor ~'/illiams' office, Law Building, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 W: All right, you·ve asked me about when I first got to know the President. l
- have been re-elected on a Chinese laundry ticket, and I think he knew it, too. J LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
- did you work with, J. P. Boyd? $: Boyd and a fellow by the name of Gartland. They called him Judge Gartland. marily. He was on his staff also. But I worked with both pri- Boyd, of course, was in Washington. Gartland actually went out
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- [are examples]. Ray Roberts, I think he sized up people like Ed Clark, John Connally, Cecil Burney down in Corpus Christi, John Singleton who is a Federal j udge down in Houston, Joe Kilgore, John Peace over in San Antonio, many many people that you could
- [?] and other Forest Service-Job Corps and I think [Mike] Mansfield got in on L W J X \ V developed an agreement. Mansfield got it out of Sarge someway, or one of Sarge's successors, that selected input. word. We weren't going to take the worst ones
- had a world of contacts there in helping select these witnesses. So we had very knowledgeable people in and really compiled a good record. F: How do you explain Senator Johnson's sponsorship of J. William Fulbright for the Foreign Relations
- . 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
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- at the Teamsters union, but there were quite a few others, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which had been run by Willie Bioff and people like that. The laborers union, run by Willie Mereshi [?J, again what you had there, there is one
- was, it was open to old mining laws and could they stake out mining claims and take it away. Well, that started back in the 20's. President Herbert Hoover closed all the oil shale country to mining locations. I think this was a very provident step and the question
- the first six weeks I served as J-2 adviser to the I ARVN Corps. Then there was a greater need for a J-2 adviser to the III ARVN Corps so I was transferred there in the same capacity. I served under--I don't remember his actual name, but we called him
- Hormachea [?J. His daddy was called Joe the tailor and he had a taxi as well as a tailor shop there. He was of Spanish descent, and he and Lyndon were very, very close friends. Antonio. He died soon after graduation I think in San But he and Lyndon
- of James J. Saxon, who was the comptroller of the currency, and Jesse Wolcott. Our bylaws stated that in the absence of a chairman, the acting chairman is the ex-officio member, the comptroller of the currency. This is an acknowledgment, I presume
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- together for social occasions were relatively less than they would be, say, in the 1964 to 1969 period with the Johnsons. G: Mrs. Johnson noted in her Diary that Mrs. Kennedy told her the two people she could always depend on were J. B. West and you. K