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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the troops. G: Did it have any enduring impact on the way the national committee worked or was set up? O: I don't think so, particularly. I think that we continued to follow the same course from Kennedy through Johnson, which I guess, with the exception
job until the end of the congressional session; LBJ's support for O'Brien's work and finding the best people to do congressional relations work; Robert Kennedy's support for O'Brien staying at his job at the White House.

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There were no political overtones or anything else. It's just what it appears to be. And it wound up with some memos from Ed [Edward C. Welsh], which were done in such a form that Johnson could present them to Kennedy. But that's cut and dried
in other military tactics, such as rocket power and supersonic speeds; Robert Kennedy's presidential aspirations in 1963; LBJ's reaction to criticism in the press; assumptions in 1963 about President Kennedy's political future; Barry Goldwater's chances

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 'the relationship between Senator Johnson and Senator Kennedy, also a leading contender for the nomination? S: Yes, it got a· little stickier as the year wore on, and I know I remember one incident. I was back only on leave, and my family was still living
; Phil Graham; relationship between Robert Kennedy and LBJ; leaving the LBJ staff in 1960; going to work for Mr. Graham at the Washington Post; interaction with LBJ in VP years; LBJ and the press; press involvement in government work; turning down LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Kennedy organization was conducting its preliminary probes. B: As early as '59? C: Oh, yes. In fact, President Kennedy and his wife made a rather extensive tour of the State in the fall of '59. They spent, I guess, a couple of days in the western

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Mr. Komer, I know you've done this for the Kennedy people [John F. Kennedy Oral History Project] but very briefly I'd like you to get us up to 1963, how you came from birth to the attention of the President. K: Well, very

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, to a good friend of mine, the nephew of ~y godfather, a boy named John Husted; that was before she met Jack Kennedy and cancelled those plans. In 1952 Dad decided to leave government. I think he was going to go back into business, but he was, by a few
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
to food and China; the problem of being under a committee system; East-West trade and U.S. trade policies; Nixon’s proposal to open international trade; the Department of Agriculture; how Symington became assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-presidential nomination in 1956? S: I don't think so. We voted for [ John F . ] Kennedy. The Texas delegation in our caucus at that convention voted to support Kennedy instead of IEste!!1 Kefauver, I believe. B: Was anybody thinking at that time

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the nomination? M: In 1956? B: Yes, sir. That's when Mr. Stevenson threw the convention open, and Mr. Johnson was in the running. M: I thought the contest then was between the late President John F. Kennedy and ex-Senator (Estes) Kefauver. LBJ
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Angeles. Well, as it turned out, of course, they didn't and we didn't. I think that people always had the feeling that Kennedy would come back to them, that he couldn't possibly get nominated, and the momentum of that steamroller was pretty badly

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a rather warm, simpatico man, unlike his brother. He did not have that aloofness and that hard-shell aspect to him that John Foster did. So he and Allen got along pretty well. G: Okay. The next day you flew with him to Hyannis Port to meet with Kennedy
Cabot Lodge campaign; Kennedy's speech to the Houston Ministerial Alliance; JFK/LBJ campaigning in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson speaking at campaign stops; Mrs. Johnson's influence on LBJ; how dates and places get confused while campaigning; campaign fatigue

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kennedy and Robert Kennedy right after President Eisenhower's State of the Union address in January. Do you recall any of the significance to that meeting? R: No. I don't remember it at all, and I doubt if there was any unusual significance

Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as a secretary to Ralph Dungan. He was a special assistant to President Kennedy. His main job was to--he was a talent scout for President Kennedy with the ambassadors and cabinet officers. Latin America was on his wing [?] and we were pretty busy. And President
How Whittington came to work for LBJ following President Kennedy's assassination; Whittington's duties; LBJ's secretaries' rotating schedules; traveling with LBJ to the Ranch and Austin; Whittington as the first African American to integrate

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1970 INTERV IB~EE: JAMES J. REYNOLDS INTERVIEHER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Reynolds' office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: r.lr. Secretary, let's tell how you first come to be an assistant secretary under President Kennedy and get you up

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Johnson's effectiveness as Vice President 15,16 Days immediately following Kennedy assassination 17,19,20,21,22 Sec . Willard Wirtz 18,19 Mr . Meany 22 OEO 23,24 Everett Dirksen 25,26 President Johnson's major accomplishments 27 Nixon

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 26, 1971 M: You are Judge Anthony Celebrezze, and your connection with the Johnson Administration was as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, which you had actually undertaken in 1962 under President Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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/oh 8 wi th John F. Kennedy, and so it wasn't a matter

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

contact after this? R: Here was a great change for me. For one thing, like many others, I had been much taken by Mr. Kennedy's personality and capacity to put things in verbal forms. It was inspiring. I think my wife even more so; she had been so

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

through that file. And I was astounded with that record. And luckily I did, because when the announcement on the vice presidential thing was made and I walked out of then-presidential nominee Jack Kennedy's hotel room where he had informed me

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the people that were connected with him who had connections with you. You mentioned [Ted] Sorensen as I recall, and connections through Kennedy which also brought you into contact with Lyndon Johnson. C: Well, my actual relationship with Lyndon 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

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

being nominated. I think he was. During that year, actually, or during those two years, we had gotten to know Senator Kennedy. We were not close to him, but phil admired him too. But nevertheless he was for Johnson, and he went to him and he gave him

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or intimate, as far as I know. Their voting records were quite similar, particularly after Mr. Johnson became vice president and president. Yarborough s voting 1 record was almost a hundred per cent with both the Kennedy and the Johnson Administration

Oral history transcript, Willy Brandt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

office at the Social Democrat [sic]. Were you in Berlin when Mr. Johnson came there as vice president? B: Yes, of course. He came the weekend after the Wall was erected. I had sent a letter to President Kennedy Tuesday or Wednesday after that Sunday
F. Kennedy; LBJ at Chancellor Adenauer's funeral; the Kennedy Round; Dean Rusk.

Oral history transcript, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You are Richard E. Neustadt, and you are currently director of the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard. N: I'm Associate Dean of the School and Director of the Institute

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the rather competitive and sometimes heated dialogue with John Kennedy, and the fact that I thought that Lyndon Johnson, himself, would feel that he had a more powerful and persuasive role to play as the Senate leader, and that this in fact would probably

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, if you will, the issues in that campaign as you saw them. O: We had anticipated--we, the Kennedy people--that 1964 would be a relatively pleasant experience. We were anticipating an easy time of it. Just before the trip to Dallas we had an informal
John F. Kennedy's (JFK) plans for the 1964 presidential campaign before his death; Barry Goldwater's visit to Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) after the 1964 Republican National Convention; O'Brien's involvement in LBJ's 1964 presidential campaign; October 1964

Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

agreements to do that. One way or the other, it never did take place. So they felt like in order for President Kennedy to have any chance of getting legislation that he knew that he was going to propose considered by the House, we had to get some way to get
Kennedy's opposition to LBJ's vice presidential nomination; LBJ as a campaigner; Rayburn's death; the father-son relationship between LBJ and Rayburn.

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and for wage-and-hour standards and for the whole surveillance of the manpower world--the position of executive director was created. That's how I got into the ball game, and I was a Kennedy appointee shoved down Lyndon Johnson's throat. So they tried

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Richard Nixon, and the candidates, the three that I recall, who were in contention early in the year were all senatorial candidates. One was John F. Kennedy, the other LBJ, and the third of course was Hubert Humphrey. Now later, as we all know

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to make responsible decisions. 1I And like everybody else I supported him very actively. And so the end of the first period of our relationship was rather funny. As you probably know, Phil Graham and I had gone to President Kennedy at the critical

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, was for Eisenhower in those days. I never saw him; he was running around. G: Do you have any convention stories? W: Yes, I was going to tell you. One of the fascinating things to me was taking a phone call from Ambassador Kennedy for Mr. Johnson. didn't listen
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

him. I came out of the Kennedy background. It's kind of ironic, as a matter of fact, because I was one of the first so-called Kennedy intellectuals in the fifties, in 1956. work for John Kennedy when he was here i n ~1assachusetts I went
Roche’s career advancements in politics; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys, McNamara, Bundy, Valenti, Moyers, Rostow and others; his involvement in Vietnam-related issues; personal evaluation of may official personnel and the effectiveness

Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I was going down to the Johnson suite about eight-thirty in the morning, and then it got to be eight and then seven-thirty and then seven. And I believe the morning that Kennedy called after his nomination I was LBJ Presidential Library http
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

pretty highly of John Kennedy? E: Well, I don't think he thought very highly of him as a politician, you know, as a vote getter or anything like that, but men change their views depending on the circumstances in which they're confronted with people. I

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in that way. Johnson seemed Generally with politicians the public and the private, you know, what you'd see on television and what you'd see face to face is more or less the same. I mean, Kennedy, Eisenhower and the rest that I've known were what you

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was on the board of the bank . My relationships with President Johnson really started in the early part of his administration as President, and it came about in this way . Several months before President Kennedy was killed he asked me to LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Gillette PLACE: Ms. Bonanno's office, Washington, D.C. Tape1 of 1 G: Let me ask you to talk first about the assassination of Robert Kennedy. B: I came into the White House at about seven o'clock on June 5 [1968]. The President had already been up
The assassination of Robert Kennedy; LBJ's interest in gun control; Secret Service protection for presidential candidates; LBJ's opinion of Robert Kennedy; security measures following Robert Kennedy's assassination; activities the day Robert Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

during the Johnson Administration, as indeed during the Kennedy Administration as well, was as executive secretary of the National Security Council from 1961 to 1969. S: That's correct. M: You had been a career Foreign Service officer in various

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a letter. M: Did you know Moyers? C: I didn't know him at that time. I didn't know him personally until after the campaign there was over, and the Kennedy campaign was beginning. And, as you'll recall, they had a great dinner here in Austin for Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, the first personal association with President Johnson was in New Mexico. He came out to speak. Now I've forgotten the year, but this was when the President [Lyndon Johnson] and John Kennedy were both working for the nomination. He came to speak
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

contact with John F. Kennedy in that period? H: Yes. Together with Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, then Lt. Bulkeley-- I selected John F. Kennedy for PT boats, made him an instructor at the training school after he finished the course of instruction

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