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Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for playing his cards very close indeed to his chest, but you'd get an idea of what was going on. Ideas would flow out of him like water out of a stream. M: That's the kind of easy camaraderie that's associated with the Kennedy years. Did Johnson lose

Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1972 INTERVIEWEE: ROGER L. STEVENS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Stevens office in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DoCo I Tape 1 of 1 F: I think to start, when did you first meet Lyndon Johnson? S: I met Lyndon
in getting the arts bill to a vote; Steverns' work in relation to the arts; Arthur Schlesinger's re-appointment to the Kennedy Center board; Neil Sheehan's book A Bright Shining Lie; Steven's view of General William Westmoreland; how the war in Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

President Eisenhower. Presi- dent Kennedy recalled you to active duty in 1961, and you served as the military representative to the President. From '62 to '64, you were Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; from 1964 to 1965, Ambassador to Vietnam

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and timetables," the standard reporting forms were very well delineated, construction was involved, utilities were involved, everybody was involved at that point. G: How did the problem of Bobby Troutman generate friction between Johnson and Robert Kennedy? F

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

thinking about him then as a candidate? H: I hadn't thought of him as a President at that time. had not developed. The main interest He had been through the '56 convention with rJohn F.] Kennedy and he was there--Mr. Johnson was there--with Dick
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, but apparently he was appointed--the President had been looking for a job for Re for a long time. He had wanted to make him a judge, but Bob Kennedy had always prevented that when he was a Senator from New York. For some reason he and Re were at odds.So

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that practically all matters that worked up to him went through Sherman Adams. I thought it was a poor way to run the White House. President Johnson certainly thought it was a poor way. President Kennedy had not adopted that way at all, that wasn't at all
Kennedy family attitude toward LBJ; Kennedy staff; discussions of staffing pattern for the White House; 1964 campaign; Republican National Convention, 1964; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam issue in the campaign; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ’s inheriting

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

strong for one thing. And looking back on it we do indeed now know that Kennedy could have been in some trouble if Wyoming hadn't switched its votes at the last minute. meant a second ballot. That would have We do know that Symington would have picked
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, however, when you became postmaster general for the Kennedy Administration. Is that correct? G: I became postmaster general effective September 30, 1963 under Jack Kennedy, President Kennedy, and of course served under him until his death a month
treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

right. G: Let me ask you first about the John Glenn space flight. Anything on that from your perspective that you recall? O: Not from any direct involvement, but I was intrigued with the reaction of the President, Jack Kennedy. The pride
O'Brien's and John F. Kennedy's (JFK) relationship with John Glenn; how Glenn's space success helped NASA; the role of a vice president and how well Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) fit it; JFK's staff members' opinion of LBJ after JFK was assassinated; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

pitch to and convince them to vote for Johnson. Two of the delegates were black dele- gates, and they were irretrievably committed to John Kennedy. Then I talked to two other men, both of whom I found out later were hack politicians out of New York
in the 1960 campaign; dating Mary Margaret Wiley (Valenti) and their marriage; LBJ’s possible frustration as vice-president; events leading up to the assassination of President Kennedy.

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was no longer with us, there was a possibility that the field was open. Of the choices, there was Jack Kennedy, who was my seatmate in the Senate, and Lyndon Johnson, who was my very dear friend. I like them both very much LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

there officially until 1962? G: Until 1962, that's right. M: Now, someplace in here you must have come into contact with John F. Kennedy. G: Oddly enough, I had very little contact with John F. Kennedy . . I met him, LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. To bring this interview up to date even further now, there has been so very much talk about Lyndon Johnson's relationship with the Kennedys. Do you think there was friction between their staffs while Johnson was Vice-President? L: I think there are some
with the Kennedys; press relations; criticism of LBJ; news media contributed to LBJ’s loss of popularity; previous Presidents’ handling of the press; Supreme Court Packing Bill; JFK’s formal format; impact of television on politics, campaigning and government

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of President Kennedy. And you talked about the formation of the budget at that point in time and how you worked with Lyndon Johnson. According to the books written about this event, there is the idea that Lyndon Johnson worked very hard to keep this budget

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, how it came into being. c: It's very appropriate that we should talk about the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden today, Joe, it being almost the first day of spring. The development of the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, which had always been
Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; Mrs. Paul Mellon; Lady Bird Johnson Park

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Carolina during his campaign for the PreSidency after he succeeded President Kennedy. Now I had been in his company a number of times with the North Carolina delegation, I think. We had conferred with him in con- nection with some matters affecting

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

strikes against him." I also remember--[and this was] certainly in 1959, I remember this because it was before John Kennedy announced--a group of us had dinner with him. And I must say, at that time-- F: With Johnson? K: No, with Kennedy. F: Oh
East; Bobby Kennedy; how the press handled record information; press secretaries; McGeorge Bundy; Bill Moyers; James Hagerty; LBJ’s presidential staffs.

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

York, and two things happened while I was sick: one, I read James MacGregor Burns' book on Kennedy [John Kennedy: A Political Profile], and secondly, I sat in on a couple of meetings that my wife had at our apartment. And I got interested

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to the Democratic Convention went on a chartered car by train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. F: I was on that car. I rather gather that the attorney generals had a feeling that Kennedy was not their candidate, or at least was not likely to be a winning

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. B: Did you see or [lear any signs of presidential ambition, say, in 1956? S: I didn't. I was not that close to him. I was not in Chicago in 1956 \vhen Jack Kennedy almost got the nomination for vice president, so I really \vas not that close
; LBJ’s efforts in Vietnam; Martin Luther King’s assassination; working on the Commission for Federal-State Relations; LBJ inheriting JFK’s staff; being offered a federal appointment; LBJ deciding not to run in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with Robert Kennedy

Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

by the people from Texas. Of course, he was selected by John Kennedy to be his running mate, and then I think he was pretty well taken seriously. B: Did you have anything to do with the pre-convention campaign? Did any- one from Mr. Johnson's camp try

Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

by the press at least as one of his supporters in the State of Ohio. I think it was intimated at least that you might have even changed from Kennedy to Johnson. Were there any details of that episode? H: Actually, I was a committed Kennedy delegate. I
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

his suite in the Biltmore. Oscar Chapman and May Oliver (?), I believe it was, we all were using this room, but mainly Chapman and I were using it. F: Did you have the feeling that you had started late? Y: Yes. And the Kennedy operation was so well

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

involved, really. So that was the extent of the campaign. Now, to the approach of 1968. To what degree there was a recognition at that point of a Gene McCarthy or Bobby Kennedy candidacy, I don't specifically recall.The President's concern and sensitivity
they affected the Post Office Department; political problems with Sam Yorty and Jesse Unruh; O'Brien's loyalty in working for LBJ until LBJ announced that he would not seek re-election; LBJ's relationship with Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy; November 1967

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

these to these other matters in that way. B: Did you know Mr. Kennedy prior to his election? W: Only casually. I had met him once or twice, more or less on social occasions or occasions where I might have been with Senators and Congressmen, but I had no close

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

believe that President Johnson went through Alabama on a train. believe that he did in 1960. I don't think President Kennedy came to Alabama, but I do believe that President Johnson came through the state on what they called a Lyndon B. Johnson Special
How Wallace classified LBJ’s political stances from the Senate through Presidential periods; the 1960 Presidential campaign; the Birmingham demonstrations and Wallace’s discussion with Robert F. Kennedy regarding them; Wallace’s high regard for John

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: T.H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Hardeman's residence, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last we time had gone to the 1960 election, which brings us to John Kennedy's years as president. One of the questions that comes up

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

work for the Kennedy project. H: Yes I did. There were a couple of things. First, the members of the council during the Kennedy Administration, not all of them, but a group of us got together with Paul Samuelson and Joe Pechman. M:. Was Kermit

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: Yes, I was. B: Did you all assemble and go out there together? Bo: I went out to the airport with Senator McCormack to meet President Johnson and also, of course, to see Mrs. Kennedy and the other people who came back with President Kennedy's
Rights Bill; LBJ’s acceptance as VP; issues of Kennedy’s Catholicism; LBJ during VP years; death of Rayburn; Kennedy legislative program; JFK’s trip to Texas; William Manchester’s book; leadership meetings; Wheat Sales Bill; Warren Commission; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: that with at that time President chairmanship of the Committee on and had a new Executive the Vice-President Kennedy order drafted and with Abe Fortas on this. and with Moyers-- M: Through his connection K: Yes, which he was going him and to make

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

conventions, and Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson were nominated for president and vice president, they did come over to the office two or three times to see Mr. McCormack when he was majority leader. I, of course, met both of them when they came in. didn't have

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was involved directly or indirectly in any of the things you were going through here in the South? Y: No, I don't think so. Not to my knowledge. Actually, largely our work was through President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Burke Marshall, John Doar and others. B

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

joining in the political activities first of Senator Kennedy and then Senator Humphrey that thereafter there was reluctance of the White House to push this measure through? O: I don't think it was due to my political involvement. This from the beginning
of O'Brien's proposed campaign task force; O'Brien's and Rowe's political experience; LBJ's request that O'Brien evaluate of the Massachusetts primary; O'Brien and Ted Kennedy and possible stand-ins for LBJ in Massachusetts; Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK) interest

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the hottest years of the Kennedy 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- I -- 2 Administration. I'm not saying that he
government work; Bundy's DePauw University speech; LBJ's view of the Kennedys, specifically Bobby; Bundy's relationship to the Kennedys; the Washington D.C. cocktail circuit and its effect on public opinion; LBJ's accessibility; how the staff went about

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh April 30, 1969 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You are Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, and at least during the last two administrations your positions have been first as director of President Kennedy's Food

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Library oral histories: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kennedy, and having succeeded Kennedy under the circumstances that he did, he implied to me both

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

well. But I would not want to suggest that because you were with motherhood and apple pie supposedly in a proposal of this nature that it was that simple. G: Had Jack Kennedy had a similar interest in this sort of legislation? O: Yes, but I don't
with the Kennedys and qualification for a judicial appointment.

Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the purpose of again becoming a candidate for Congress, which I did in 1958, and I was elected again to the 86th Congress. Come 1960, of course, I had a different handicap. This time it wasn't Ike and his farm; this time it was John F. Kennedy and his religion
Act; Quigley's work on civil rights; LBJ's growth and sincerity regarding civil rights; civil rights in the Kennedy Administration; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and HEW's submission of ideas for the Act; 1963 events in Birmingham as a turning point

Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, " meaning John Kennedy, "wins West Virginia, the show's over anyway ; then it's not going to make any difference . If he wins West Virginia, he'll take the convention and the nomination." I'll always rernelnber that, because he did take West Virginia

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