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Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Wheeler from Montana and Joseph O'Mahoney from Wyoming? Or is it because they did come from inland states with no tidelands that they took this LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . Then under Kennedy you joined the Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy. CK: That's right. K: Till 1966, yes. The same one then went on under President Johnson. Then also you were on President Kennedy's Railroad Emergency Board. I want to skip
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Now you had, I'm sure, been to cabinet meetings before you became a member of the cabinet. O: I'd been to all of them. G: As the head of congressional relations. O: Yes. It was automatic on all cabinet agendas, [in] both [the] Kennedy and Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • and JFK [John F. Kennedy], except it's not very nice to say about--well, Lyndon was fond of Kefauver, but he thought he was a lightweight, and that is not nice to say. M: Well, sure, that--he is long gone; his wife is long gone. And anyway, when you see
  • Congress in 1957; Senator Ralph Yarborough; moving KTBC to the Driskill Hotel; Mary Margaret Wiley joining LBJ's staff; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Rebekah Johnson's visits to Washington, D.C., her interests and hobbies; LBJ teasing Glynn Stegall
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the U.S. Committee on the IGY was Joseph Kaplan, and Lloyd Berkner was one, and they were always having James Van Allen in. They relied heavily on Wernher Von Braun in order to evaluate the Soviet program and what the Soviets were doing. Von Braun said
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things kind of came together and had different meaning as a resul t of reading it. I thi nk it was a very important contri- buti,on. G: Did you ever talk to President Kennedy about the poverty program, or what should be done? LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , Politics and Mr. Sundquist is the Policy~ the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years, and as I understand, is to be the author of a forthcoming volume on the administration of some of the programs enacted during the Kennedy and Johnson years. lid like
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the President? JG: I never understood it. I don't to this day. I'm not sure I know anybody who does, other than Sarge, who is living today. There were a lot of people who suspected that there had to be some real problems there because of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did. We tried to get Frear, but he had made a commitment to the doctors and he kept it. We were doing anything to keep from Clements having to cast that one vote, but Frear wouldn't agree to it. Tape 1 of 2, Side 2 G: He [Joseph McCarthy
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon's fault--in other words, he did so many brilliant, wonderful things on his own. Nobody could have passed Medicare, nobody could have passed the civil rights bill, when Daddy was dead, and no one could have done that. Kennedy couldn't do
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • submitted my letter of resignation. I told him I was going to do it. Bob McNamara suggested we call up the reserves, put our nation on a full war footing. I told the President, in front of Bob, who's an old friend of mine from the Kennedy days, "You do
  • Goldberg, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1908-1990
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • F.] Kennedy and [Hubert] Humphrey were already declared at that period. If they weren't declared, it was certainly known that they were candidates. In response to a query from me, he went to unusual lengths to marshal the reasons why he had
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • of the original ones. We thought we had coordinated that more with the rest of the institutes, but when Benno Schmidt--I can't remember whose administration it was-was very active--I think it was in the Kennedy Administration, I'm not sure. No, it was in Nixon's
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vice President? The year President Kennedy beat Richard Nixon. HW: We must have been at the ranch. EW: What was that question? MG: In 1960, rernember, when he was elected Vice President, the night of the election, I was wondering if you were
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was through him that we first heard--I'll continue this when I get back-(Interruption) An interesting little sidelight is that it was through Senator John McClellan that somewhat later on, and I don't remember what year, we first heard of Robert Kennedy
  • Clinton Anderson, Harry Byrd, Tom Connally, Paul Douglas, James Eastland, Allen Ellender, Allen Frears, Walter George, Theodore Francis Green, Hubert Humphrey and others; Estes Kefauver; Bob Kerr; Russell Long; Joseph McCarthy; George Malone; Wayne Morse
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • -- 9 has done. So, consequently, we just couldn't sell Johnson. We couldn't sell him at all. H: How well--I mean--I remember where Johnson was--in the 1960s he ran and—Kennedy was the choice, and he came back with him. A: That's right. That's right
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org - -----­ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XIV -- 10 post, and (Charles] Halleck defeated [Joseph] Martin
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • through, I think, Wisconsin, up in that area, that certainly did fuel Speaker Rayburn's anger. He endorsed [Joseph] McCarthy, and said they were engaged in the same purpose, seeking to purge the subversives and the disloyal from the government, and he
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would say, at a given point in time, yes. He was easily diverted because his father was a doctor after whom Lister Hill--Lord Lister [Dr. Joseph Lister], who had taught the 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • couldn't carry the announcer. G: Just the pilot. N: Just the pilot, Joe [Joseph] Mashman and one passenger. I knew Joe. He was a great guy. G: Was it difficult to get the fuel to the helicopter? Were there ever occasions where you couldn't find-- N
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH LAITIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Laitin's residence in Bethesda, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 L: We never got into the [subject of the] Pope in New York. G: Okay. Do you want to take that up? L: Yes
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Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that there ought to be a study of the offices overseas. study. functio~ of cultural affairs The Brookings Institution was asked to perform this The State Department and I think the White House under the Kennedy Administration w"ere very interested
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had gone over­ seas . And the note that I have indicates that he was going to go to work either with Forrestal or with Dr . [Joseph] Barker in manpower training . B: Oh, yes, Dr . Barker . G: He was a civilian, wasn't he? B: Yes, and a non
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was appointed of course as the ambassador by then-President Kennedy. in his days as a reserve major general. What led to that? I had known him He was serving over in the Pentagon on the army general staff in a mobilization assignment and I was assigned
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the program was on the day that Kennedy was assassinated. So that it began in 1963. I was with the program from the time that it was enacted and funded, and left in September 1966. G: You were there through an awful lot of certainly the formative period
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • getting the amendments a little bit mixed up now. Anderson introduced the amendment to strike Title 3. duced the jury trial amendment, or was it set up by Johnson. 0 1 Mahone~ I think Kennedy intro­ Those things were I'd have to refresh my recollection
  • Reedy’s role as policy advisor while LBJ was Senator; airline machinists’ strike of 1966; influencing LBJ’s decisions; writing memos to LBJ; Richard Russell; Eugene Millikin; Sam Rayburn; what makes a good Senator; Millard Tyding’s loss to Joseph
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Johnson -- XXXVI -- 16 who had to deal with that, that is, first, [John] Kennedy, succeeded in multiplies by Lyndon Johnson, were not present, did not sign it. Lyndon was in Mayo having a kidney stone operation. That was something that plagued him much
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Budget Bureau it's not very innovative or imaginative, and normally is not designed to rock the boat. P: Who conceives this idea of going outside of government for these new ideas? G: It was done a little bit under President Kennedy when he established
  • Califano, Joseph A., Jr., 1931-
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Education Academic Facilities Act, put the federal government in the business of aiding education, and the 1956 act which was much more comprehensive. I think settled it. I think the importance of this would be hard to exaggerate. Mr. Kennedy had done what
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • bother him, do you think? J: To some extent, yes. I remember that his relations with [Senator Joseph] Clark were not close. I do not think it disturbed his relations with [Senator Albert] Gore. Of course, he did run the Senate with a pretty dictatorial
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • problem because he was running against the senator who had been appointed by Governor Umstead, who himself earlier had been in the Senate and had been defeated, you know, when he got around to--he was defeated by former Governor [Joseph] Broughton. But he
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had·,a telephone call in my office in Pittsburgh, and my secretary came in and said, "Mr. Joseph Califano wants to speak to you." said, "I think he's in Washington. I said, "Who is he?" And she It's a long distance call." I said, "Well, I guess I
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that we're determined to keep communism out of the Hestern Hemisphere." He never went along with [Joseph] McCarthy any further than he felt he had to at any given moment. G: He was not an admit'er of McCarthy. Let me ask you about the Atomic Energy Act
Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • to reinforce consent for the direction it was going in education, or--? M: I don't know. I really never visualized the presidency in the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, or Johnson years as having embraced a whole bunch of educational ideas as part of a political
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : During that period somewhere there was a long memo from George Ball that got leaked to Joseph Alsop as I recall, where he expressed grave reservations about the whole business. Was there a clear strategic dissent in the Department as early as that period
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • never had any contact with him in his private [life], in his senatorial days, or so on? C: No. M: What about during the 1962 steel price difficulties with President Kennedy? To your knowledge, did Mr. Johnson get involved in that at all? LBJ
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was on that occasion, with his strength, his presence, his ability, the soundness of his ideas--I thought it was a magnificent campaign speech. B: Was the speech on any particular topic or just ranging-- W: On why the Kennedy-Johnson ticket should be elected in 1960