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Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • experiences. He realized that if something bad happened to him or someone close to him, it was happening to tens of millions of other people, and he wanted to do something to help them. G: When you first told President Johnson that President Kennedy before
  • in the commission’s work; the Kennedy Center; Samuel Rosenman; a national health insurance program and President Truman; getting LBJ’s approval for the commission after President Kennedy’s death; desalinization of water; Senator Lister Hill; health and research
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Spivak on press and Orville Freeman on issues; Al Barkan, labor; Bill Connell, a close associate of Humphrey; Fritz Mondale, extremely active; Terry Sanford, the head of the citizens committee; Geri Joseph, the woman's division. The make-up of that policy
  • efforts; Wallace's plan to pull votes away from Humphrey and Nixon; the possibility that McCarthy's name would be on New York ballots; Joseph Alioto's work on the Humphrey campaign; plans to seek LBJ's help with the campaign; Humphrey's plan in the event
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Fairfax, Virginia, was the political activist in the family. B: Are you a registered Democrat? R: I am. B: Then you have not been involved in campaigning as such with either Mr. Kennedy or Mr. Johnson? R: No, that's correct. B: To get to your
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • close cooperation. F: You felt the lance of Senator Joseph McCarthy several times. Again we don't want to get too deeply into that on you, but you were accused of being a part of a dangerous palace guard for the left and so on and your relationships
  • Biographical information; FDR; LBJ's relationship with Eisenhower; invitation to LBJ to speak at Johns Hopkins; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Chamizal dispute; LBJ as civil rights leader; Latin American affairs; 1960 election; Dominican Crisis; Panama
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to remain senator and majority leader. Where then are you, Mr. Joseph Patrick Kennedy!" And I was right. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , between his office and ••• T: You mean the magnolia tree, there. F: Yes, and when Joseph Kennedy called and what a friendly conversation they had--this was when Joseph Kennedy was leading the isolationists, you know. T: That must have been in 1940. F
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, I think that it basically stemmed from a mid-1960 visit that then-Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania and Robert Kennedy--trips that they made to Mississippi. G: In April 1967? D: I think it would be about that, yes. Those two senators were
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Meredith who is federal judge now, a Symington manager, flew down and talked to me and gave me advice. They knew that in 1956 and in 1960 that Symington and Johnson would be conflicting, first favorite sons and then conflicting. Joseph P. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH SWIDLER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Chairman Swidler's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to begin today, Chairman Swidler, by talking about the role of the commission in achieving electric
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  • Swidler, Joseph C.
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Joseph C. Swidler
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Let's talk a little bit about the crisis that erupted in the fall of 1968 over the Department of Labor reorganization plan
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  • Califano, Joseph A., 1931-
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Joseph A. Califano
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: You were talking about the atmosphere of the-- C: Yes. I remember going over to the [Capitol
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  • Califano, Joseph A., 1931-
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Joseph A. Califano
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW IV DATE: June 10, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH W. BARR INTERVIEWER: Michael L
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  • Barr, Joseph Walker, 1918-1996
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Joseph W. Barr
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was proposed by Senator [Joseph C.] O'r~ahoney. He proposed it in several forms prior to settling upon the final form for the amendment. When he settl ed upon the fi na 1 form it \'1as one that I coul d support. I called him and told him that I agreed
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • years until he was defeated when he ran for re-election. Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming was the senior senator from that state, and offered me the opportunity to go to work for him, which I did. I was with Senator O'Mahoney for many years
  • Biographical information; nomination of JFK and LBJ in 1960; Manatos’ work as Senate liaison in Kennedy and Johnson administrations; House’s receptivity to administration’s bills before and after the 1964 Congressional elections; head counting
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH LAITIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Laitin's residence in Bethesda, Maryland Tape 1 of 1 G: Do you want to start with the advance work, as long as we've got that at the top, or is there any place else
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  • Laitin, Joseph
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Joseph Laitin
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH J. SISCO INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Dr. Sisco's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Can we begin, Dr. Sisco? What in general would you say have been the significant trends in the United Nations during your
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  • in Vietnam may have affected its standing within the UN: policy changes in regard to China and Taiwan; UN reaction to the Tet Offensive in 1968; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; obstacles to negotiation in times of war, such as in Vietnam in the 1960s
  • Sisco, Joseph J.
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger
  • Joseph J. Sisco
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and inflation, hut ~orked more generally in areas of forecasting overall economic outlook, concentl'ating ;leavily on prices, inflation, this of proi.:;:, ::1. SOy't fl,1: v~a.ges, Compared to the Kennedy-Johnson Administration; can you give me some
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that President Kennedy supported. He was very anxious about getting a food stamp program started because he'd been out campaigning in a lot of the mine heads and places around the country and he had witnessed firsthand something he didn't even dream existed
  • LBJ's views on the food stamp program; the connection between civil rights and food programs; President Kennedy's involvement in food-related aid; funding and congressional support for the food stamp bill; Department of Agriculture involvement
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been secretary of defense, he'd been in and out of the government his entire lifetime. And Jack Kennedy said he didn't even know him. So he wasn't all that well plugged in, either. But Lyndon thought he was. G: During the [Joseph] McCarthy era, was LBJ
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the President came out and said all the Catholics were to get on the helicopter. So I grabbed my mantilla and white gloves and got on the helicopter. That also was an interesting ordination because in the pictures there is the President and there's Mrs. Kennedy
  • ; LBJ's relationship with Nelson Rockefeller; LBJ's relationship with the Kennedys; a proposal to draft LBJ to run for re-election and LBJ's morale following the 3/31/1968 speech; LBJ's reflective nature; LBJ's relationship with Hubert Humphrey; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let me ask you first to just sketch the background of the steel negotiations, August 1965. C: You
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  • Califano, Joseph A., 1931-
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Joseph A. Califano
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Education. Therefore when Kennedy started the Peace Corps it wasn't surprising--to me-that he would ask somebody like me to take an interest in it. G: Sure. The material about you also mentions your working with juvenile delinquency, largely through your
  • The origin of Shriver’s interest in poverty-related issues; Shriver’s involvement with trade unionism, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the board of education in Chicago; Shriver’s work in the 1940s with Eunice Kennedy on the Continuing Committee
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- I -- 14 commission. We used to have little snack lunches up there on the Hoover Commission, and Joseph Kennedy and I enjoyed talking with one another. One day we got to talking about finances. Papa Kennedy said that a long time ago as his
  • the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on some of those trips. I know I did not make any of those trips with him. I had one curious experience with him as Vice President which was not limited to foreign affairs. After Kennedy had been President a year everybody was writing pieces about
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anything I could say. G: I wasn't in any control group, the planning group. You were also one of the first members of Congress to take on Senator Joseph McCarthy. Did you ever get a feel for Lyndon Johnson's position here? M: I don't know what
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • for the legislation but may have wound up voting for it. I don't recall. G: A good deal has been written about the Johnson treatment etc. A: That does corne to mind when he was Senate leader around late 1959 and early 1960 when the race between him and Kennedy
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • of LBJ and JFK; LBJ and columnists; LBJ's press secretaries; LBJ and the press; Gene McCarthy; Bobby Kennedy; 1968 campaign; personal observations on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Do you remember anything of his visit during that time right after the convention? They nominated Stevenson and Kennedy for vice president. Okay. Also in that month Price Daniel ran against Yarborough for the Senate, and it was a very close race. I
  • LBJ's feelings about Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954; LBJ as a medical patient; a 1955 highway construction bill; LBJ's cousin, Margaret, and her family; LBJ's smoking habits after his 1955 heart attack; going on walks with LBJ; the LBJ Ranch
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that is a discussion you had with Joe Kennedy in the Oval Office about the New Frontier programs. O: Actually, it was a brief discussion, and it was en route from the living quarters over to the Oval Office. Joe Kennedy expressed some concern about his son Jack's
  • O'Brien's discussion with Joseph Kennedy about the New Frontier program; leadership in the House of Representatives before and after Sam Rayburn's death; the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; a private-sector public-relations operation led by Howard
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and an internship in Omaha, Nebraska. G: That's right. M: How did you happen to go to Nebraska? G: Well, when I was getting my Doctor's degree at Galveston, of course, we met some people over there who recommended Saint Joseph's Hospital which is the teaching
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • nominated for the vice presidency in 1960? H: Well, no. I was not extremely jubilant. But I was so pro-John Fitzgerald that what he wanted was all right with me. B: Why were you so much in favor of Mr. Kennedy in 1960? H: John Fitzgerald's record
  • white leaders in Civil Rights: Hodding Carter III, Bill Reedy, Claude Ramsey, Father Phillips McCloone and Father William Morrissey; SCLC base in Alabama; opinion of Kennedy men; LBJ’s administration involved in voting rights, public accommodation
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Krim -- III -- 4 Committee, that I had had some contacts, considerable contacts actually during the Kennedy years, and I felt that it was important for him
  • exaggeration and last minute decisions, stubbornness and secrecy. Addendum: 3/29/1968 call from LBJ about polling to determine where LBJ stood against Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy; early hints that LBJ would not run in 1968; reasons LBJ had
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connell -- I -- 2 research for the State Department. [He] left Humphrey in about 1958 to go with Chet Bowles over to India, came back and I think became director of intelligence and research under Kennedy. He's now
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and we all know the history--Nixon decided for whatever arbitrary reasons he was not going to expend funds the Congress appropriated. And I was reflecting upon the fact that I can remember it was Senator Mondale, Senator Kennedy, Senator Javits and Pete
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the guys who covered the Congress were very much interested in technical virtuosity. This used to infuriate the liberal reformists, used to drive them out of their minds. [Senator Joseph] Joe Clark wanted the press to be interested in issues and things like
  • Career history; Novak's private meetings with LBJ; economic advisor Paul Douglas; LBJ drunk; Sam Shaffer and Newsweek; press coverage of the senate vs. the presidency; LBJ's attitude during the vice-presidency; Kennedy staff's disregard for LBJ
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the forum for the debate on the depressed areas bill, which passed twice and was vetoed twice during the fifties. Eventually it became public law in 1961 when it was S 1, the top of the Kennedy agenda on domestic legislation. It had passed the Senate before
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIB~EE: Joseph Palmer INTERVIEWER: Paige f'lulhollan PU\CE ~Ir. Palmer's office, Department of State, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 I'l: Let's begin, Mr. Palmer, by just identifying you briefly. You are Assistant Secretary of State for African
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  • Palmer, Joseph, II
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Joseph Palmer II
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wilbur Cohen -- I -- 23 recommended standards; President Kennedy recommended standards; President Johnson
  • [For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ
  • Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /loh/oh Huitt -- I -- 13 [William] Proxmire, as you recall, won the election to the unfilled term of Senator [Joseph] McCarthy. So he had one year, but at the end of that year he had to run again. So Proxmire went to Washington just before the session
  • spoke for greater periods of time; LBJ's interest in the Joseph McCarthy issue; George Reedy's understanding of Huitt's desire to work under LBJ; the difference between being a politician and observing politics; LBJ's relationship with the Democratic
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • GOSSETT -- I -- 5 chairmanships than any other delegation. Mr. Hatton Sumners was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee; Mr. Fritz Lanham was chairman of the House Commiittee on Public Buildings and Grounds; Mr. [Joseph] Mansfield was chairman
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the introduction was a way to get the visit started. Now, your records may show I'm wrong, but it seems to me that shortly after I started, I was down there, and Bobby Kennedy was coming. Of course, you had the schedule and you knew who was coming. They called you
  • the Kennedy family; Adam Clayton Powell; a party LBJ hosted for congressional aides; staying at the LBJ Ranch; the telephone system used by LBJ and staff; radio communication at the Ranch; having picketers near the Ranch arrested and later invited to the Ranch