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Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course
  • ; contact with LBJ and White House staff; Vietnam; Johnson Administration legislative briefings; the Pueblo incident; reflections on LBJ in various situations; comparison and evaluation of the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --I'll talk to you specifically. During the Kennedy Administration we had had a system--Kennedy had started a system in which all major procurement announcements were sent to the White House to Larry O'Brien's office (inaudible) and they gave
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Kennedys and an underlying concern that any political organizations that were coming out of the Community Action Program would be Kennedy political organizations. G: Did the President see OEO [Office of Economic Opportunity] as sort of a bastion of Bobby
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • or he'd never-- G: Why did he wait so long before he announced in 1960? B: Well, it wasn't an accident. It was planned timing, in my judgment. Now . . . M: Did he wait until after the primary, was that the deal? G: Well, he waited until Kennedy had
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • .] Kennedy in the spring, headed by Eleanor Roosevelt as the chairman, and Esther Peterson as vice chairman. I worked at the Commission until it finished its report, and I do not, quite frankly, remember the date. It was somewhere in the fall of 1963, because
  • Prokop's career history; LBJ's vice presidential staff and Prokop's duties; LBJ's dissatisfaction with his vice presidency; how President Kennedy's staff viewed LBJ and his staff; Kennedy staff's lack of appreciation for LBJ's talents; why Prokop
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Lyndon Johnson. A: I first became acquainted with him only after the Kennedy assassination. I had seen him around the White House occasionally, and I guess we nodded, though I doubt that he was sure who I was. F: But you never had any real
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the differences between Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, both of whom you had ample opportunity to observe. Talk particularly, first of all about the difference in approach in Cabinet meetings. U: There were differences. They were not too great, however
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, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • is that he is a member of the National Security Council--that was an innovation of Harry Truman. Second, he is the chairman of the Space Council--that was an innovation of President Kennedy, who requested Congress to amend the Space Act very early during
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Short -- I -- 2 S: Right, right. But I knew him personally from the time that he was the majority leader of the Senate. Kennedy was by this time--no, I'm sorry, Kennedy was not yet president; Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • situation for you then because there were other contenders for the nomination. Were there other contenders that you--? H: Jack Kennedy was serving on my committee. committeeman. And he made a good He always supported me on that committee. LBJ
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • beginning in respect to John Kennedy not long before he died. Actually, this one didn't go, of course, so far nor did the issue become so divisive. I think one could speculate that had he lived, had he not tragically died, that Kennedy would have faced
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • really until President Kennedy came along, when he of course was vice president. I used to see him during those days; because one of my duties was to brief the Vice President on the situation in the Far East. M: That's one of the questions I wanted
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : One of the themes that seems to run through the late fifties is politics looking on toward 1960, and the candidates lining up and frustrating each others' efforts in terms of legislation. I was wondering, in par- ticular with regard to Jack Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on, of course, Robert Kennedy picked him to head up the whole Mongoose Operation. My experience with him was that he was useful; you didn't have to accept all his judgments or ideas. And I was, I suppose, instrumental in getting him his generalship. I
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for advice. He gave them the answers. F: I see, and the questions too, probably. Were you involved in the inaugural festivities at the time that President Kennedy was inaugurated? M: No, we were invited, but I made it a point of policy never to go
  • Simpson; weddings of Lynda and Luci; International Ladies Garment Union; fashion taste of Lady Bird and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy; the Committee for the Acquisition of American Art for the White House; White House social functions; privilege of serving
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • I've maintained close contact with the Kennedy-Johnson administrations. M: You might make a statement about Brookings Institution in general and its purpose. P: Brookings Institution is a nonprofit research organization that is privately LBJ
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, '~ell, getting ready to go to the airport now. as a matter of fact, I'm I'll be in there tonight." ''Well, he'll see you tomorrow." So I went by and went over to see him, and he said that he wanted me to take the chairmanship of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • although he overdid it of keeping all the Kennedy people on that he possibly could. The--I know that Bill White was one of the first to pound that home to him, Bill White of The New York Times--but he-- G: That he overdid it? R: Yes. Johnson definitely
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • John Kennedy's. And as I studied it, it occurred to me that perhaps the addendum that was needed to the amendment was one that would put an end to the practice of allwhite [inaudible] juries which had developed in the federal procedure. So I
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of necessity and convenience. Everybody knew what Johnson's talents were and everybody understood he knew the Senate unlike any majority leader [or] minority leader had ever known it. I'm sure that's one of the reasons why [John F.] Kennedy was 7 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • was stopped on the highway, and there is just something peculiarly poignant in that. Here was a man running for vice president and trying very hard to help the man he was serving, President Kennedy, in becoming president. And stopped in a funeral procession
  • . Johnson's appreciation for the variety in lifestyles around the United States; voting and election day 1960; the Johnsons' activities in the days following the election, including John F. Kennedy's visit to the LBJ Ranch; the apartment on the fifth floor
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 14 I noticed something about Bobby Kennedy and it reminds me of something. We came back to Washington. I guess we set it up the day before, and the first order of business is a meeting on the airline strike at eight-thirty in the morning. And I notice
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • something else here. I campaigned for Kennedy and Johnson. However, Lyndon Johnson was the only politician that I ever knew who would openly go with Stevenson and campaign for him. After all, I was Stevenson's manager for south Texas, because no one else
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Ted Kennedy had made--a good talk on Vietnam. I had talked with--who was it? MG: [Theodore] Sorensen? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • flexible; Humphrey's personality and how it changed during the convention: Humphrey's loyalty to LBJ and frustration over the situation; why John F. Kennedy beat Humphrey in West Virginia in 1960; 1960 opposition from Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., and meetings
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, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasker -- I -- 7 against Kennedy, who was working so hard, he'd have to do an awful lot of work. But Johnson was afraid of neglecting his job
  • ; approaching LBJ for support in health care funding; desalination of water; talking to Mrs. Roosevelt about LBJ’s views on civil rights; LBJ in the Vice-Presidential period; how she joined the Equal Opportunity Employment Committee; the Kennedy Center
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Kennedy Administration. So that the missile gap fortunately never occurred; we tried to make it clear it was only potential even at the time. F: This is an unprovable question and your answer will be equally unprovable for the time being, but from your
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . that visited. I went down with--one of the first high-level people I went down with President Kennedy. And we went LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • effort, of course, was in '60 when Johnson had some aspirations to be president, and John Kennedy was nominated for President and Johnson for Vice president. I might point out that once again that this campaign started in the early part of the year
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • nomination of the party in 1960 that he went about it the wrong way. [They said that] he waited too late to firmly announce, that he put too much reliance on endorsement by his colleagues in the Senate, that the other path, the path that John Kennedy chose
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, but was infinitesimal in comparison, occurred the night that Bobby Kennedy lost the Oregon primary. It's not very pleasant to move through a losing election night, because at the presidential level, I've always considered election night somewhat comparable to the final
  • opinion of Citizen Hughes author Michael Drosnin and falsehoods in the book; Hughes' $25,000 donation through O'Brien to Robert Kennedy's campaign; O'Brien's trip to Ireland after the 1968 election.
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh They frequently say that President Kennedy was going to Dallas to help patch up Texas factionalism
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be for Johnson rather than for Kennedy it was inescapable conclusion that Kennedy had the thing . And that night, I know Mr . Johnson stayed in his hotel room and had on his house slippers and a sports shirt, and they hadn't gotten very far down the list when he
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . B: That was the case with Texas at that time. I've heard it said that the Texas delegation and Johnson himself were active in trying to get the vice presidential nomination for John Kennedy in 1956. E: I think that is correct. B
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • after that, although he kept in contact with what was going on in Washington until, oh, right up almost to the time of his death in July. M: Yes. You were in the Congress at the time I guess Mr. Kennedy was assassinated and served through
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • right after President Kennedy's assassination in December 1963, President Johnson addressed a group of business leaders, and I think you were there and had some recollections of that meeting, his effectiveness in dealing with the business community. Do
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
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, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • convention, the one that picked Adlai Stevenson for the second time and nominated Estes Kefauver? M: Yes, I was there. F: Do you have any light to throw on why Texas abandoned Kefauver and went for Kennedy? M: I was not really in on a lot