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Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barrow -- I -- 6 there until he should release them, and he never did release them until the final--as you know, when they made it unanimous on Kennedy . F: Oklahoma under Senator Kerr, and the one thing
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and Kennedy was running for President. F: You weren't involved in either of those 1956 or 1958 convention fights? H: No, I wasn't. I never have gone to conventions because there are two factions in Texas, as you well know, and I always wanted the votes

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and retired I believe early in President Kennedy's time went back to the Wilson Administration. So there is a great deal of continuity. B: Do your duties involve anything pertaining to the mansion itself, the LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

presidential race between Senator Kennedy and Kefauver when he threw Texas l votes to Kennedy rather to Kefauver, although Kefauver went on to win. Any idea whey he went for Kennedy? S: I couldn't say. That happened so quickly, that I don't remember being

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

anybody have to be worried about what are the political consequences of making that first big move because it has already been made. ?=esident Kennedy kind of foreshadowed that by I think one of his rare emotional outbursts when his own proposal to create

Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: Right. You've served here at the bank through all of President Kennedy's administration, and then all of President Johnson's. H: The last part of Eisenhower's administration, Kennedy and Johnson, yes. M: Was there any change in the United States

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that was going to bring about some violence. I think I heard him express it about King, but I know I've heard him express it about Bobby Kennedy. The way he was going into the crowds and all, he was really just asking to get shot and what have you. As far as his
Kennedy; LBJ’s meetings with potential 1968 candidates; the 1969 transition; LBJ/Nixon relationship; LBJ’s relationship with governors, including Connally; what happened to the LBJ staff after LBJ left office; George Reedy; RFK’s death; LBJ’s opinion

Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

feel that he believes that we entered into a program which was initiated actually under President Kennedy when we sent fighting troors :Ln there. That we had entered into a program and conunitted ourselves to supporting the political independence

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

general, I think he was never able to realize or feel that he had 100 per cent of Nick. He always had that lingering concern because Nick had been the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel for Bobby Kennedy and then became deputy

Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Presidential nomination under Jack Kennedy? F: No. I was startled when he did. J: Where were you? How'd you hear it? F: I think just-- J: Did you go to Los Angeles? F: No, I didn't. I think just public-- J: Just like anybody else who's interested

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

after Johnson and Rayburn 8 The transition from Kennedy to Johnson as President LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Oral History Collection Tape Index

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the difficult periods that made it possible--even if Mr. Kennedy talked about going to the moon--for us to actually get to the moon. I particularly remember that night because the one who accompanied us on the walk was Mary Margaret [Wiley Valenti]. Somewhere

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Services. It was my program; a program I invented. M: And that was dating from the Kennedy Administration, correct? L: I'm sorry, I don't remember the dates. M: Oh, they're easily checked. I'll have to find them out. But President Kennedy did put

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, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and practice and the nature of the appropriations process--it's difficult to manage expenditures. M: Did you have anything to do with the budget cut that came shortly after the Kennedy assassination? Johnson came in and the budget was going to be over one

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

it, but that's part of the game. M: Then did you support Johnson in 1960? K: Yes, I did. In 1960? No, I supported Kennedy, and Kennedy selected Johnson. I supported the ticket. M: Had you forgiven Johnson by that time? K: No, I hadn't. I was opposed

Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the White House, that could I come and see the President--this was President Kennedy-- the next week, or whatever it was. So upon getting there, he said that he wanted to change the complexity of the American Ambassador in Switzerland. He wanted first

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

which would prove to our ultimate disadvantage. Now my position was public, was well known. When President Kennedy sent an emissary to me to ask that I remain on as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, I could immediately see that having me

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and '64 into '68 I was middle level, and then became a top Troika man in '68-'69 . The Troika was really a Kennedy Administration innovation . I think it was a very important innovation because it put things on a regular review basis, which had never

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

: Good. Yes, I had no problems with him. U: Yes. JFK [John F. Kennedy] made you the director of the Food for Peace program-- M: Yes. U: --upon his election as president in 1960. Can you describe that experience? M: JFK knew that in the House I had
; the G.I. Bill; McGovern's first impressions of LBJ; utilizing farm surpluses to reduce hunger in the U.S.; John F. Kennedy's visit to South Dakota to announce Food for Peace; JFK as president; the day JFK was assassinated; McGovern's relationship with JFK

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

- -there were some votes for Adlai Stevenson, and the rest were for John F. Kennedy. So as the convention went on, as you know, Kennedy for President on the first ballot. we nominated John F. The next morning we were having a breakfast of all our

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

attitude. C: And maybe some contrasts. During the--at least my experience on the receiving end in the Pentagon during the Kennedy administration was that they were--they pressed hard to be deeply involved in awarding contracts and who they went to. Indeed

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you can see how they would have that added feeling of poignant grief, that their own state had to be embarrassed about it. So this is something that those of us in the Kennedy and the Johnson officia l family would like to seal off. Did you come

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, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Mills -- II -- 3 which was a pretty strong endorsement of it, I thought. I thought the time had come to pass it. I don't think we could have passed it in 1961. I told Kennedy that, and he agreed, I guess. He never did really press me about it. G: Did

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the first Democratic governor to endorse John Kennedy, which was a later very fortunate political benefit to the state, and Phil Hart loaned me, physically loaned me, to work in the Kennedy campaign, which I did for a period following and even up to, prior

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: I don't believe so. W: --went to Houston and made the tapes, and to Beaumont and to New York to meet with presidential nominee Kennedy and to appear on nationwide TV and then back to the Valley and on up to Corpus Christi and then into Austin
with Kennedy with LBJ as Vice President

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

serving in this position since 1961. Is that correct? "\1: Since July 1961. M: You were an appointee, then, of President Kennedy and served through the entire Johnson Administration. W: Yes. ~II: For many years you were associated IVi th various
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/show/loh/oh 2 inception in 1957, so that means you served through now four presidents. H: That's right, all four. M: Did Mr. Johnson use the Civil Rights Commission any differently from either President Eisenhower or Kennedy, or for that matter

Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the United States senator. And Ed Johnson, of course, w a s pushed out of position almost immediately with the state convention at Durango when Kennedy came in and took over the delegates under the leadership of Byron White, nO\\l the Supreme Court justice
Impressions of LBJ's early Senate years; Alaskan Statehood Bill; Kennedy-Johnson campaign; Wilderness Bill; Redwood National Park; Department of the Interior land control; University of Colorado honorary degree; LBJ's reaction to upscale black

Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

are of the opinion today that Holleman was named as assistant secretary of labor primarily because of Lyndon Johnson . F: That's something I wanted to ask you . Whether in effect this was President Kennedy trying to make good to the Texas liberal wing or whether

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the President wanted to see me. And when I went in to see the President he had gone into that little-bitty office that had once been a bathroom, but President Kennedy converted into a very small relaxation room. As Jack and I went down the corridor toward

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

trusted him. Marianne Means, I never did figure out how she made the transition from Kennedy to Johnson, except she is pretty and she is very quick-witted. He appreciated that in women and she became one of the favorites. I think he figured he had enough

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that are significant in how the new president handled the grief that came in the wake of Kennedy's assassination? C: I remember the assassination well, and the body lying in state in the rotunda. I think if I had to comment as you're asking here, the transition
The transition from John F. Kennedy to LBJ and comparing the two men; the 1964 civil rights bill; moral versus legal arguments regarding civil rights; Alabama's opposition to civil rights legislation; the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955; George

Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that he didn't have a civil rights record at all, although Senator Kennedy didn't have a great civil rights record either. As a matter of fact my feeling about the two of them at that time was that it didn't make very much difference who was the nominee

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

you, Miss Miller. [Presume it was for coffee] Sir, before we get back into the chronology, you were just telling me an anecdote about Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and President Kennedy and thenVice President Johnson. H: This was very interesting. Mr

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the President through a letter or ask to go and see him? Because if he was that impressed by having our backing, then he'll be impressed by our dismay." I was kind of discouraged that Wiesner--he had been Kennedy's science adviser--said, "Oh, no. I think
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

policy? W: Well, of course it has. If you would put that question in terms of how does it differ from the Kennedy Administration or the Eisenhower Administration, then you can say something about it. B: Why not do it that way? W: As compared

Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and we did discuss that several times. F: As you know, there was some uncertainty in some of the Texas delegation about President Kennedy. Did Johnson sort of accept this as a fact of life and tell you how to encircle it? W: We had the mutual problem

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the President was in the campaign of 1960. But in 1960 I traveled mainly with Nixon and with Kennedy, so that the answer to your question is that I really had hardly set eyes on the man until early in 1965 when NBC assigned me to the White House as its White
Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio

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