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Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • stockpile, and President Kennedy had asked the Senate to have an investigation, specifically he had asked Symington who was chairman of the Stockpile Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Symington asked Kennedy to send someone up
  • for LBJ; comparison of the White House social life of the Kennedys and the Johnsons; Kappel Commission and reorganization of the Post Office; defection of top level appointees regarding Vietnam policy; Larry O’Brien’s opposition to Vietnam policy
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Tucson and had to resign that pOSition. After the nomination of Mr. Stevenson and when the Convention was thrown open for selection, Jack Kennedy was nominated for Vice President, and I led the opposition to President Kennedy on the Arizona delegation
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • NTERV I EWEE: MYLTON L. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Kennedy's residence, Denver, Colorado Tape of 1 G: Let's start with your first acquaintance with Lyndon Johnson. You indicated earlier that you arrived on the campus
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  • Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • quite a They had first the Kennedy-Ives Bill; Jack Kennedy and Irving Ives of New York had this bill which was a rather moderate effort to correct some of the abuses in labor. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • President [John F.] Kennedy. But he was not necessarily--well, he was the not the sort of member of that team who would just be prepared to happily and whole-heartedly espouse every piece of legislation. That's my feeling. And I know it's not the general
  • to Hyannis Port to visit the Kennedys; Mrs. Johnson's impressions of the Kennedy family, including Robert Kennedy; campaigning in Texas with John F. Kennedy's sisters and mother; JFK's meeting with Protestant ministers in Houston; incident with anti-Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAN FENN INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan PLACE: Cambridge, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 M: You are Dan Fenn, currently director of the Kennedy Library and lecturer at Harvard Business School. Your government association during the Johnson years
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] to summarize Kennedy and then we'll go to LBJ's style. The Kennedy I first knew was a fellow who had decided to run for statewide office in Massachusetts. As he traveled the state to become acquainted beyond his congressional district, he had a set speech
  • John F. Kennedy's (JFK) effort as a young politician to become a better communicator; how Lyndon Johnson's (LBJ) legislative power shifted when he became vice president and then president; JFK's and LBJ's different styles in dealing with members
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Davis -- I -- 11 G: Did your coverage at the White House change after Kennedy became president? D: Yes. My feeling was that during the Kennedy years, a lot of the people who covered the White House, who covered Kennedy at the White House, were
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because of Joe Kennedy's record in the past, if they felt like he shouldn't be on the ticket with Joe Kennedy's son. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • Reactions of Johnson supporters to LBJ’s acceptance of Vice Presidential nomination, meeting of Johnson organization with Kennedy organization at Hyannis Port, campaign train trip in the South with LBJ in 1960, 1964 campaign trip with Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of his delegation. I had all Kennedy, you know, was running and he wasn't a delegate, so he didn't come. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Biographical information; envoy to Luxembourg; 1960 campaign; Eleanor Roosevelt; selling her house to LBJ when he was VP; Democratic Women for Nixon in 1960; Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy; Democratic factions
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy in California two years previously in the campaign for the presidency . [I] then succumbed to the motion picture actor Ronald Reagan, myself, when I sought a third term . Since that time, I have been in the private practice of law . been
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • across the continent from each other. C: And I probably saw more of Jack Kennedy, if everyone will hereafter forgive me for referring to him as Jack, because he was close to my age, he was a little older than I was, but we were such good friends
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Kentucky, who was one of his unofficial campaign managers, that he had to get out, but he stayed around here. My stepson was very active in his campaign and they were all hoping that there might be a deadlock between Stevenson and Kennedy in which Lyndon
  • relationship with LBJ in the early 1950s; Joseph McCarthy attack; investigation of McCarthy’s finances; reconciliations with LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Act; supported LBJ for President in 1960; JFK’s selection of LBJ excellent; Kennedy brothers adept at managing
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Robert Kennedy was the one that decided. I didn't know him, so I've often been asked why he chose me, and I really don't know the answer to that. It was probably on Byron White's recommendation, I suppose. B: I was wondering how a Yale man got mixed up
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • mother might have believed it!" Well, needless to say, when he ran for the presidency, I saw him in the Senate and he asked me who I was for and I told him I was for Johnson, Kennedy, and Symington, but in that order. And this is before he became
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • around the 1960 Decratic nomination and campaign. When did you first begin to see Mr., Johnson as a potential Presidential candidate? A: Well, I think it was ve ry apparent - - it ce rtain1y was to me - - that when Senator Kennedy was campaigning
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee with him were an absolutely outstanding group of senators. It was because of their prestige and their power and their impression with the news media that we were able to start a space. program. Jack Kennedy never did understand what space
  • Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not sure that I did that I was interested in coming with the government. After the election I came to Washington and I talked with Bob Kennedy and Byron White I would say right around Christmas time, as I recall, and then again in January. We talked about
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • have chosen until they saw how well Kennedy did in West Virginia. Maybe looking back on it, we should all say that Johnson was right in not going into any 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ
  • ; overestimating the likelihood of LBJ being chosen as a presidential nominee in 1960; Senator Hubert Humphrey saying that he did not want to be vice president; opinions of the Kennedy/Johnson ticket in 1960; conflict among the Kennedys over LBJ's nomination
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEt~ I DATE: November, 1968 I NTERV I E~IEE : VANN M. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: PAUL BOLTON PLACE: Corpus
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  • Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton
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Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was on inaugural day when the assignment of those in the seminar was to listen to the Kennedy Inaugural, and then write me a paper on what it augured for the future stature and style of the presidency. By that time I had already moved down here in response
  • The role of Civil Service Comission in loyalty and security program; his work as president of Wesleyan College; becoming Chairman of the Civil Service Commission in the Kennedy administration, 1961; working with Vice-President Johnson on equal
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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 7 attempt to stop Jack Kennedy, who was the early front runner
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • /31 announcement; draft movement for Edward Kennedy; Chicago convention; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • met him? K: Yes, I do. It all started with a meeting in April of 1962 when he was vice president. I was visiting President Kennedy in order to plan for a birthday salute to President Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in May. I was accompanied by Anna
  • Meeting Vice President LBJ; Ed Weisl; birthday event for President Kennedy in 1962; occasions where Krim saw LBJ before he became President; Krim’s work producing films for President Kennedy and LBJ; New York fundraising for LBJ; history
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Singleton -- II -- 7 G: Do, please. S: In 1960--I ' ve told this story publicly. got the promissory note. Somewhere around live still In 1960 in the fall, as you will recall, as everyone will recall, the Kennedy-Johnson
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the election of 1960, when all four of us went into the government. F: Yes. M: So I became involved in politics really through Governor Stevenson, and then to the Kennedys. F: How far back does you acquaintance with--I don't know which title to give him
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Government Official b. Philadelphia, Pa., April 22, 1923. B.S., St. Josaph's College. Philadelphi ~ 1950; M.S·. in Pub. Affairs, ·Princeton, 1952; With iriternat. cliv. U.S. Bureau Budget, 1951-56; legislative asst. to Senator John F. Kennedy, 1956-57; staff
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of time working on Morse. It seems to me it never did him any good. But, oh, yes, he worked on everybody. F: Was he looking over his shoulder after 1956 at young Senator Kennedy? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org R: ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was so close to Mr . Johnson? J: No . B: Were those in Minnesota who objected? J: No . B: They seem to have made a very effective team in those Senate years . J: Yes . B: Before the convention, I understand that the : Kennedy people were very
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the 1960 campaign. Tell me about the presidential campaign from an Alabama perspective. C: 1960 was the [John F.] Kennedy campaign, and from an Alabama perspective, Alabama was not yet ready for a Catholic president. This was reflected of course
  • 1960 Democratic National Convention; Alabama citizens' opinion of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; the Kennedy/Nixon debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1960 campaign trip through Alabama; LBJ's ambition; LBJ as vice
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Kennedy Administration as well. In the Eisenhower Administration you served as Ambas sador to France for a number of years and then as Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and as Undersecretary of State in the late 1950 1 s. During the period
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Kennedy campaign for the 1960 Presidential 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
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • ; contact with LBJ; Lady Bird; access to the President; Kennedy Round; comparison of LBJ and JFK staffs; support of RFK after 3/31 announcement; LBJ request not to actively support a candidate; difference in general agricultural policy between LBJ and JFK
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be approximately ten days after he had announced his non-candidacy. I quickly took a trip to Indiana to survey the scene, met with the Kennedy supporters and returned to Washington. The farewell in the Post Office Department and with the President at the White
  • Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK) approach to his 1968 presidential campaign through primaries; seeking support for RFK before the Indiana primary; utilizing Matt Reese, block captains, and student volunteers in Indiana; receptions to thank local personnel
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • briefly how much contact you had with Lyndon Johnsony or how much opportunity you had to observe him during the years that you were a legislative assistant to Senator Kennedy and an administrative assistant to Senator Cooper. W: I certainly had plenty
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • occurred in Lyndon Johnson's home state cause a certain amount of bitterness toward Lyndon Johnson among the Kennedy people? O: I don't think so. I don't think that was an element in the attitudes that developed in the aftermath. There were those, as we
  • How John F. Kennedy's (JFK) assassination affected the reputation of Dallas and Texas; the emotional toll of JFK's and Robert Kennedy's (RFK) deaths on O'Brien; being asked to identify the missal that was used when Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) took his oath
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was conscious of some lessening of the friendly relationship that we had had. F: While we're talking about Senator Symington, I have rather gathered from my researches that the Senator had a strong feeling that John F. Kennedy would name him to be his vice
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XVIII -- 5 R: It shifted too much to be labeled that way, and by that time the press had reached a stage where it was changing assignments deliberately. In other words, somebody covering Kennedy would be sent over
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Indiana. We were frankly taken aback by it. We had the same state campaign director we'd had in 1960 with Jack Kennedy, Edith Green, a congresswoman who was highly regarded in the state. We felt that under her direction we had as effective a group as we
  • Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/McCarthy
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was covering Congress. As it turned out, the Congress came back, you remember, in 1960, for the "Rump Session," so-called. As the rookie in the office, I was the only one around and I that entire cov~r~d session, Kennedy and Nixon and Johnson
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--5 The bill passed the House, and President Kennedy signed it into law. ceremony. I was privileged to be invited
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Bridwell -- I -- 7 Johnson nor anyone that I could assume to be reasonably close to him or close enough that I could get what I would regard as a dependable story . I was close to Bob Kennedy at the time, so I do know Bob's views