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Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1960, particularly one particular evening I remember when the Johnson forces were being pretty overwhelmed by the Kennedy blitz. I happened to be strongly for Kennedy at that time, but I found myself at a big party given by Jules Stein of the MCA
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the Johnson-Rayburn group, but I have never been heavily involved with the party political machine in Texas. F: \fuen you come down to 1960, it is evi.dent that Johnson is probably going to run against Kennedy and whoever else, Stuart Symington and other
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to dictate memoranda of conversations between myself and President Kennedy or President Johnson. I did not keep an office diary like a Harold Ickes or a James Forrestal. My view was that a President was entitled to have a completely private conversation
  • Detailed recollections of LBJ as President; reflections on his role as Majority Leader and VP; LBJ and Rusk’s personal and professional relationship; LBJ, RFK and certain Kennedy staff members; LBJ and foreign leaders; the Tuesday Lunch; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Sharon Francis -- Interview IV -- 3 clearly was heated. I might say, going back into some history, he had set his heart on it long, long ago. Because I remember doing a research paper for him when Kennedy was alive on all the times that the Antiquities
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and I wanted to talk a little bit about that. V: As I recall, that came to the President, I think it was October 4 or 5. I know that on that day he was scheduled to visit Mrs. Kennedy in her New York apartment. F: We're talking about Jacqueline
  • The Walter Jenkins incident; Senator Barry Goldwater; LBJ choosing a running mate; Robert Kennedy; Marvin Watson; the 1964 convention.
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, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • or seconded Stevenson or not. Mc: Do you remember the fight for the Vice Presidency between John F. Kennedy and Kefauver? M: Oh yes, I did. And Pennsylvania went--at least the majority of us-- went for Kefauver, yes. Mc: Do you remember the Texas
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . I was active in four state conventions prior to that and I was active in the 1960 presidential campaign prior to being a delegate to the convention. M: And did you support John F. Kennedy? P: I supported John F. Kennedy in the West Virginia
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Peabody’s views of the JFK/LBJ ticket and his part in the campaign; casual meetings with LBJ and the Kennedys, their differences of opinion on various matters; description of differences in JFK, RFK, and LBJ campaign techniques; Lawrence O’Brien’s
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • liberal viewpoints . I'm trying to think who the other contenders were . F: There were primarily Stuart Symington and John F . Kennedy, and some believed that Adlai Stevenson might come back for kind of a run on it, and Hubert Humphrey . B: I don't
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : July. At least, I left at the end of July. Previous to that you had been director of the Bureau of the Budget under the Kennedy administration, and that had been your only government service since the time of the Truman administration. Is that correct
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • trouble getting John to accept it. G: What was the objection? W: I don't know. John just wasn't ready for it. But he did accept it. G: Yes. Did they have trouble getting the Kennedys to accept that idea? W: Yes, they sure did. G: They did
  • John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; the 1961 Lucy B Convair crash near the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's restlessness as vice president; LBJ's relationship with Robert and John Kennedy; the Johnsons' Tennessee walking horse; Konrad Adenauer's
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . D; Yes, very happily, they did. I remember the next week Life magazine had a centerfold and they had pictures of everybody laughing. They had all the senators, Humphrey, Kennedy, Johnson, Symington, all of them---l sti 11 have that copy of Li
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • working on the pieces of legislation that you were? P: I didn't have day-to-day [contact]. I knew him and I knew of him. I suppose I became acquainted with him most when I worked in the political campaign of 1958. M: The Kennedy campaign? P
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It was, interestingly, at that convention that a then-young Senator named John F. Kennedy received his first nationwide attention. known him earlier, not really known him, but had met him. I had I had read his book, Profiles in Courage, and thought it magnificent. I
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Sam, you're too old." Sam never forgot it. Then we decided we were going to take on Kefauver. Lyndon went out to back Jack Kennedy for vice president and almost overnight with all of us working together, we almost did it. I remember Lyndon sent me out
  • with the Kennedy family; Joe Kennedy's proposal to make LBJ run for president in 1960 with JFK as his running mate.
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , you know. It just appeared one day and you were under way. Did you have fairly high hopes of success? C: Yes. Maybe we were starry-eyed. Maybe we were foolish. But we did have high hopes of success. For some reason I felt that Senator [John] Kennedy
  • office; preparations for the 1960 state and national Democratic conventions; Crooker's work with Woodrow Seals; setting up the Kennedy-Johnson campaign headquarters in Houston and staffing it; Texans' response to LBJ accepting the vice presidential
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Jack, I suppose we may as well be informal on this. Let's talk a little bit about that Texas trip which saw Jack Kennedy assassinated. Did Vice President Johnson ever discuss with you the reasons for making the trip; did he
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • by focusing on your experiences from 1961 to 1965, serving both under President Johnson and President Kennedy. You were appointed the Director of the Bureau of the Census in 1961. S: Yes. G: This is a political appointment? S: Yes
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • convention, his possibi lities as a preside ntial or a vice · preside ntial nominee were remote -and not very practic al. I was not involved in that 1956 campaign. F: You anticipa ted that this was going to be a Kefauver versus Kennedy fight? P: I'm
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and practiced John Kennedy appointed me Federal Aviation administrator on January 19, 1961. I met Lyndon Johnson only once before the inauguration when I was in the Pentagon and had to deal with him in his office on some minor defense matter back in 1949
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and that he would stand by these principles that he hoo practiced and expoused (sic) for so many years. B: Did you participate in the 1960 presidential campaign, sir? M: Yes, sir, I did. B: Did you campaign for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket? M: No, sir, I
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? You know there was all that uncertainty about whether he was going to run in 1960 and when he finally offered himself, Kennedy already had the nomination sewed up. P: Oh, yes. I, of course, was supporting Johnson for the presidency and I thought
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • perceived to be some foot-dragging. I think one member of the original cabinet of President Kennedy that had difficulty with it was the Postmaster General, Ed Day. Ed talked to me on a number of occasions and to others in the White House and he felt
  • goals, namely, John F. Kennedy's (JFK) New Frontier program; the requirement that cabinet members yield to White House recommendations; Ed Day as U.S. postmaster general; how JFK envisioned his relations with Congress, his legislative program
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- IV -- 6 Kennedy for the presidency in 1960 and overhearing some of the conversations with Governor Stevenson. Johnson's reaction, to me, I think Johnson felt
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the party as head of the delegatio n to the national conventio n. And then in 1960 I helped him at the time he was nominated for Vice President when President Kennedy was rtmning. F: Well, now in 1956, Governor Stevenson had not made it clear whether he
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wouldn't go speak, I found a young fellow in the Senate that would speak. His name was John F. Kennedy. I felt a great kindness to these people when they had struggled and struggled on small amounts of money in their state, but they elected their candidates
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the originator, or were you in on the beginning of the socalled Troika and the Quadriad? H: Yes. Let me tell you a little about that. Again, I may not have the exact dates, but these can be checked out from the memos in the Kennedy period. We, fairly early
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • trader. I think it was the Populist bias against restrictions on the free flow of goods. He believed very strongly in free trade and had a magnificent record in the area. The Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in it. 14: In the 1960 convention the Democratic Party of Nichigan had committed itself to two goals. First of all, we had a candidate, John Kennedy, whom we'd settled on after I decided that I was not going to be a favorite son candidate. form. Our
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • never gotten published) but which if the library wants, it can have. critical points in decision-making. It was my last effort to think out these new Following that, the Kennedy brain trust emerged and those details, I think I have set down on record
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 to the President, and I went with him to that office. And then the Eisenhowers came along, and then when the Eisenhowers left and the Kennedys came in, I clamored to get back
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a strong women's division, and they really did wonderful work, but if I may be perfectly frank, I will say that the entire committee fell to pieces when Jack Kennedy became President, and I'm afraid that my dearly beloved Lyndon Johnson continued
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • witnessed that fight between Kennedy and Kefauver for the vice presidency? T: Oh, yes. F: How much did Senator Johnson show his preference to the Texas delegation in I was very much in that. that. T: Let's see if I can remember it. You know at one
  • presidential campaigns; Senators Kefauver and Kennedy for the vice-president; LBJ’s first heart attack and recovery; Senator Ralph Yarborough; LBJ to running for vice-presidency; JFK; opportunities for Thornberry to become a federal judge; limitations
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • campaign director for the Kennedy-Johnson campaign; and in 1961 I was appointed United States LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -election and retired at the end of his term. It was about that time that Larry O'Brien was setting up his congressional relations staff after President John F. Kennedy had been elected, and I was given the opportunity to go to the White House as Senate
  • 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, 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, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in his office drinking bourbon. He made some kind of a remark like this, "I'll never trade my vote for a gavel." I was asking him about his becoming a vice-presidential candidate under Kennedy. He said he'd never do that; he didn't want to be the vice
  • temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "Lyndon, that's not true at all." He had that feeling. He worked on it. He thought the New Dealer, the young New Dealers, who were an arrogant bunch-I used to say about the Kennedy crowd, "I've seen nobody as arrogant in Washington since we grew up
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • say when I was in college in Ann Arbor I literally fell in love with Roosevelt. I considered Roosevelt more or less my ideal from a political point of view. So I started off in the Democratic Party. Mc: How did you make connection with the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , denied my charges, but that's about what it amounted to . As I remember, the national administration--President Kennedy was in California on two or three occasions during '62 on allegedly non-political trips . F: Which the President can make very well
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968