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Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was not that favorable that he was considered in 1960, for instance. candidate for President. He was not considered by our people as the ideal You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy. When he was selected
  • First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • project? P: Yes, I was interviewed in connection ~vith the John F. Kennedy Oral History Project and also, as a matter of interest, my father, who was a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . B: You mean a quality of forcefulness and decision? C: Yes. More than anything else, I think- -that's what he was. A quality of foot-westerness, you might say. I don't say that Jack Kennedy wasn't a courageous man, a brave man, or that he
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • independence; wife's opinion of Lady Bird; strong Kennedy supporter; supper with RFK the night before his assassination; incident on plane after RFK's death; relationship between RFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it. It was a terrific thing because there were so many people that were trying to influence President Kennedy. And, of course, President Kennedy had a terrific decision to make even against his own state, because MIT wanted it, you see, and California, where they had
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • disagreed on that. There was considerable debate on leaving out Part III. There was a split between the then-senators from Massachusetts, Senator John F. Kennedy and Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a Republican. There was heated debate and sharp difference
Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)
  • , and we're now about a forty-five man law firm. I'm politically a Democrat, and I have worked as an advisor on the edges of government and in various political campaigns, in the course of which I've come to know the president and also President Kennedy. live
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • official capacity during the Johnson Administration was as ambassador to the uominican Republic for his first few months in office, after President Kennedy's assassination. Then you came back as special presidential troubleshooter at the time the Dominican
  • ; Adlai Stevenson’s briefing on Dominican Republic; relationship between LBJ and Robert Kennedy; 1968 presidential campaign; LBJ’s control of 1968 Democratic convention; Hubert H. Humphrey’s campaign.
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • be the point I would want to make. I think that I think he knew in politics you do not always know just what is going to happen. As I recall, it was in that next convention where he did place in nomination I believe the name of Senator Kennedy for Vice
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? P: The only time I really ever campaigned for him was in the 1960 election. I was in law school in 1948. And so, yes, in the 1960 campaign as he and Mr. Kennedy were running, I did do some rather modest [campaigning], and all in Texas, nothing
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Washington-newcomer Purcell to many people; Bobby Kennedy; the JFK assassination; Luci Johnson babysitting for the Purcells; the hard-working staff of the White House; the JFK to LBJ transition; Meat Inspection Act; LBJ communication problems with mass media
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was a long, drawn-out very tricky battle, very tricky. G: Now, the Kennedy bill when it was first introduced was really sort of a mild labor-management reporting and anticorruption type bill. It 11 ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Dubinsky in reforms of the Taft-Hartley Act; Arthur Goldberg as chief counsel AFL-CIO; the Kennedy bill; McClellan bill of rights; secondary boycott provision; picketing; the conference committee; the Landrum-Griffin bill; barbecue at the Ranch for Lopez
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abel--I--5 was hardly ever mentioned. There was one incident mentioned to me by a member of the Kennedy family after
  • LBJ’s personal style and diplomacy in interviews and in informal public appearances; reactions of reporters to LBJ’s unpredictable schedules; Cuban Missile Crisis involvement; role as VP; personal enmity with Robert Kennedy; relations with press
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • House, now the ,Lwalt wJ Rostow operation? There was some trouble with this, I think, allegedly at least, during the Kennedy Administration. Has that continued? K: I think it has. resolve. I think it's a very difficult problem to really I think
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • H: Actually John Connally was the chairman of the delegation, but he was, of course, Lyndon's right-hand man. M: Isn't it true then that Johnson supported Kennedy in 1956? H: For the vice presidency? M: Yes. H: He ran against him for vice
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : He told me that he felt he had a commitment. And he gave me the memorandum for the record that Robert Kennedy had written on September 3, 1964, reflecting his conversation with Saunders on August 1, 1964, in which Kennedy said that while the Justice
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there with the Democratic National Convention of that year of which the potential contenders were John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and there was even a movement for Adlai Stevenson continuing in that year. Could we begin by your telling me what your activities were about
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • understood it was [John] Kennedy; he understood it perfectly. Johnson never really understood how the party worked. He didn't like the bosses; he thought they were crooked, the big New York bosses or the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • ; 1968 convention; Anna Chennault and Nixon; LBJ and the Kennedy people
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • jotted down a statement for him to say in this meeting with President Kennedy and other advisers. Well, you know, I was bowled over. One, I'm not that smart, but I strained every bit of gray matter that I could to produce. I don't know whether
  • . Shriver and Ethel Kennedy to Texas; LBJ’s ability to recall names; 1960 election night; began working for LBJ when VP.
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • him to take this vice presidency. were actually doing a great deal of work for Kennedy. They I think that the position that was taken then caused President Johnson to lose a great deal of not only support, but a great deal of confidence, and to say
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that time in which you're beginning to think about, 1960, and it shows John F. Kennedy with the controversial issue of labor, and Stuart Symington with the controversial issue of certain armed forces propositions, and Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Before he had his heart attack there was a lot of speculation that he might run for president in 1956. Did you have any insight into this? S: No. Was that the year that [Stuart] Symington ran? I think it was 1956. Yes, because in 1960 Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , I had no call to be of any personal assistance to President Eisenhower . THB : Then, sir, after the election of John F . Kennedy as President, what was your status? B: The election of John F . Kennedy was general news and information to all of us
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in 1960 you know. F: Did you have any opportunity to observe his relationship with Jack Kennedy? B: Yes, very friendly, until the White House days, until Kennedy got in the White House; then things changed, but their relationship was very good
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • insights as to the depth of the Texas political problem that brought Mr. Kennedy there, or did you think this was just another fund raising swing? R: No. We were all aware before we left Washington that the President and Vice President :hought they were
  • Reasons for JFK’s 11/63 trip to Texas; detailed description of the day of the assassination, the motorcade, assassination, hospital, swearing-in; and flight back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s and Kennedy staff’s behavior following the assassination
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Yesterday we were talking about President Kennedy and the southern members of Congress. Let me ask you
  • The John F. Kennedy (JFK) administration's relationship with Carl Vinson and other southern Democrats; funding for an aircraft project and Vinson's argument with a staff member over his decision to support JFK; the knowledge and influence
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • think of, except I had some ideas, and I generally used to get called down when there was trouble. I had breakfast, at his request, with John Kennedy that morning. He knew I was in town and did not want to question me about the Middle East. He wanted
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • been director of the I & R [Intelligence and Research] from the beginning of the Kennedy Administration until 1963? H: Right. M: So you served about a year in the Far East post. H: Just a little over. M: Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • It spelled out what it was to do. But during the Eisenhower Administration it didn't do it. So in December 1960--1 believe it was December 20, 1960--a press conference was held down at Palm Beach by President-elect Kennedy, and Vice President-elect Johnson
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that policy, as indeed I had under President Kennedy, too. I would sometimes write a column--my wife and I saw them, him and Mrs. Johnson, very often at the White House, probably during those years, almost once a week at least in a very private way
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Johnson Administration. You just didn't have the number of occasions. Because I was very junior on the staff, I think, is certainly one of the biggest reasons, and also the types of occasions at the White House that brought the Johnsons and the Kennedys
  • impressions of Eartha Kitt; Mrs. Johnson and porcelain Dorothy Doughty birds given to her as gifts; automobile privileges; Mrs. Kennedy taking a presidential desk; establishment of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House and Office of the White
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • started calling occasionally from the Majority Leader's office to my office. On one occasion, he called me and indicated that he was backing someone to get a job in the Kennedy Administration. The Kennedy people were against it. He thought this was a very
  • and its effect on LBJ; White House telephone line in DeLoach’s bedroom; how LBJ related to his aides. LBJ and the Kennedys, especially Bobby Kennedy; the relationship between the FBI and the Attorney General’s Office; surveillance of and interaction
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • he first really started coming on the horizon. But that convention was the time that I fell in love with John Kennedy. I was there and we had this very exciting race, and we were voting. Wright Patman even got up and said, "We can't vote
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh Cronin -- VIII -- 8 Senator did not, and wisely not, because at his age then he--being a senator from Alabama, he was a target. G: Later in June you had the assassination of Robert Kennedy out in Los Angeles. Do you remember that? C: I do. I
  • involving Vietnam; the riots in Washington, D.C., following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death; Robert F. Kennedy's death and his personality; Abe Fortas' nomination as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the 1968 presidential election; George Wallace's
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • are the author of books on both the Kennedy Administration and President Johnson, as well as a weekly column for Life on the presidency since 1966, May 1966 about. S: Yes. M: You mentioned in numerous of your writings your original contact with Mr. Johnson
  • and Presidential work; Sidey’s coverage of 1960 Presidential election; Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the vice-presidency; how LBJ was treated by Kennedy staff and family; LBJ’s interaction with Sidey and other press during the presidency; LBJ’s difficulty
Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • until I was working for the Kennedy Administration as a consultant, adviser to Rusk on multilateral force negotiations. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org M: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • force issue; MLF negotiations failure; lack of organization in the White House from the Kennedy years through 1964; relation between MLF’s demise and nonproliferation treaty negotiations; what happened to Smith’s colleagues following the MLF issue
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • were the author of--which was passed shortly after that. Did that involve any particular consultations with Mr. Johnson as Majority Leader? C: They involved consultations at the White House with president Kennedy-- LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and there was excitement about Senator Kennedy as the nominee. And it would have been very unlike him to have expressed any disappointment. If he felt that way, I think he managed to conceal it from everybody. G: What were the advantages of becoming vice president over
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 8, 1969 B: This is a continuation, the second interview with Rev. Holcomb. Sir, we left this after about 1961 or so. The next thing would be in '62 when you were appointed by President Kennedy as chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • leaders were in his office at the time, and we were discussing this question with him. The next time I met him was in a conference with President Kennedy. A number of the civil rights leaders were involved in a conference with President Kennedy and Vice
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , the later one? F: No, I attended the national convention in Chicago in 1960 when Kennedy was nominated. That's the only one I ever attended. I never LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this whole thing up they began to open their eyes. It led from one thing to another and Mr. Johnson was very anxious, as was Mr. Kennedy at that time too, in what was going on. Mr. Rayburn of course was keeping up almost daily with the thing. So