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Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that message will get to you, that type of thing. So Bobby was privy to information at times that was not available to Mr. Johnson because of fear, animosity, et cetera. (Interruption) H: When [Joseph] McCarthy was re-elected to the Senate it must have been
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that presidents are the spark plugs for the whole government. In the Kennedy Administration a lot of decisions made in the departments that were of a positive political nature would be systematically sent up to the White House so that the President could make
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of activities surrounding it, the programs surrounding it. The fact [is] that I got into the manpower business when I was working for the Senate, specifically Senator [Joseph] Clark, who was the first chairman of what was then the Subcommittee on Manpower
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gradually took a very benevolent view toward DSG. Of course, after the 1960 election when Jack Kennedy was elected president, the relationships became much more close. In fact, if there had not been a close working relationship between the Speaker
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Maxwell Taylor visited Vietnam in order to report to President Kennedy just a few months before you were assigned to Saigon. Did you have a chance to talk to him on his way back? H: Well, yes, we had him out to dinner, as a matter of fact, and he didn't
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have real friends around. was ever snubbed. But Johnson, I don't think Johnson I don't think anybody could have snubbed Johnson, because I just don't think he was snubbable. He once told me, for exam- ple, when De Gaulle came over when Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • lived that he probably could have been a great force for Johnson in his bid for the In 1960, as you will recall, Governor [John Joseph] Hickey presidency. was a Johnson delegate but chairman of the Wyoming delegation. But on the first ballot in Los
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • ," and that was true. That was one of the things that defeated him, and it was thirty-some-odd years later when Kennedy, a Catholic, was elected, the first Catholic. B: Did you know that Lyndon Johnson was at that convention? S: No. B: He was going to school
  • with Scott's family over the years and how he helped her children; Scott's correspondence with LBJ; LBJ's interest in Senator Joseph Bailey; LBJ teaching high school and coaching debate in Houston; LBJ's uncle, George; vaudeville acts in Houston, specifically
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Right. Well now, this is the period of China's deterioration and it is the period of the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy, which to some extent is helped along by what's happening in China. You have got the problem here of whether the State Department
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he laid off [Joseph] McCarthy, who was chairman of the Government [Operations] Investigating Committee, and that brought a lot of unfavorable comment from Drew Pearson as "Lying-down Lyndon." Because Pearson was urging Lyndon to attack McCarthy
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And the whole process began again at the beginning of President Kennedy's Administration. And the mills have ground exceedingly long and maybe too fine--I don't know. But the whole thing has been a tremendous LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Joske's, yes. There was a pastor there [who] was very kind to me, and I got accustomed to everything. I was there for three months, and then I was changed to New Braunfels to another church. San Antonio St. Joseph's used to be a German parish, that's why I
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , depending on the subject matter, or-- W: Usually, the special counsel has overall charge of the executive order picture, in this case, Harry McPherson. There were a good many orders, however, which went through [Joseph] Califano's shop. Larry Levinson
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you want it moved from one district to another? W: Well, as I recall, [Joseph J.] Mansfield's district was up for revision at the same time. Gonzales County was in Mansfield's dis- trict and I was taking it out and wanting to put it into Kleberg's
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • up my wife and children and drive them cross-country to bring them back to Washington. When we were going through the city of Rapid City, South Dakota, Thursday, the 24th of August, and we stopped at a signal on St. Joseph Street. M: You must have
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with really implementation of some of the Defense policies rather than Adam's early--in other words, you've got to remember, when [Robert] McNamara came in he made a lot of changes in Defense policies under the Kennedy Administration. He stepped on a lot
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , talking about he didn't know which party that the President represented. He said, "Does he represent the [William] Jenner party or the [John] Bricker party or the [Joseph] McCarthy party? Who does represent the Republican Party?" And there was a lot
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • campaign efforts . Prior to that, their original organizational meeting was set for the same day that Senator Kennedy was assassinated, so this caused another delay. F: You've had hard luck all the way round, haven't you? B: So they are, you might say
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , as the ranking Republican on this committee interested in drugs and these problems; we talked with [Abraham A.] Ribicoff, who had no problem at all. We sent word to Bob Kennedy's office as to the problems and volunteered to meet with him if he had time and if he
  • the Department of Justice; why the bureaus were separate; whose idea it was to merge the bureaus under Justice; HEW's, Treasury's, and Justice's response to the proposal; why the bureaus were not merged under the FBI; Joseph Califano's expectation of support
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , were you not, for the President? C: Well, in a sense I was. I was the military aide to the President. But the liaison with the Joint Chiefs, any president, I don't care who he is, whether it be Lyndon Johnson or John Kennedy, or whoever
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in America today, very intelligent and responsible people, who apparently have come to the conclusion that militancy and confrontation is a necessary weapon. After all, the late Robert Kennedy and Senator McGovern and a great number of highly respected
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • himself and this is what he said, I memorized it. It leaked out, just like this thing in the paper this morning. And it wasn't denied, nobody denied that he had said this, same as [Nikita] Khrushchev made his speech criticizing [Joseph] Stalin
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • himself and this is what he said, I memorized it. It leaked out, just like this thing in the paper this morning. And it wasn't denied, nobody denied that he had said this, same as [Nikita] Khrushchev made his speech criticizing [Joseph] Stalin
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Busby's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: I arrived in Washington on the afternoon of March 16 [1948] and met with the Congressman [Johnson] for the first time about seven o'clock that night. When I was at the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it was, offered to assist the French, and they kind of folded out from under us and we were left holding the bag there. [Joseph] McCarthy we had about that time, somewhere around Washington, who was creating a great stink about communism being bad regardless
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Did you see General [Joseph] Stillwell? Did he come down? L: Oh, yes, old Crazy Joe. He used to come down all the time. Joe liked it, because you'd get an operation and he liked to fly around in his helicopters and sit there with a gun and shoot
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- IV -- 6 ivliller was on the Rivers and Harbors [Committee], he worked for Congressman [Joseph
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to abolish the poll tax, and Maury Maverick was elected the chairlTIan of it. I was elected vice -chairlnan, and this Joseph Gelde rs, who had the radical connections, was elected secretary. We went back to Washington, a.nd the first thing we did was to try
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Kennedy, was up there, and the secretary of labor and HEW and agriculture; and in addition to being up there testifying directly, they made phone calls. And their staff, assistant secretaries, undersecretaries, congressional relations people, all
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Democratic National Convention when President Johnson and President Kennedy, at that time, were in the midst of having selection made F: This was 1960, you mean. C: 1960. I remember giving a speech at this local park in Tucson and President Johnson, who
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 1-- 2 than a full-time job if you were out of the university. So I worked for the International News Service, which is now UPI, under a fellow named Vann Kennedy, whom a lot of people in the LBJ family know. He now lives in Corpus Christi where
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then I was at a meeting in Paris and [was] called back from Paris and was interviewed on the twenty-sixth and seventh of April, first by [Joseph] Califano, who was then assistant to the secretary of defense and the deputy secretary of defense
  • of conversations; William Gulley’s Breaking Cover; recording in the Cabinet Room; Robert Kennedy interfering with recording; LBJ’s love of gadgetry; getting small tape recorders from Japan for LBJ; removing recording devices from the White House before Nixon came
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • turn the task of handling the assignments over to the Steering Committee, because if he had, he would never have been able to get freshmen senators such as Kennedy and the others some of the positions that he got for them on major committees. tion
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Majority Whip office, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Senator, last time we closed with a question of mine on whether the Attorney General seriously
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  • Robert Kennedy's offer to leave LBJ's cabinet following John F. Kennedy's assassination; the 1968 presidential campaign; Edward Kennedy's role in the selection of Massachusetts delegates to the 1968 Democratic National Convention; the 1968
  • Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz
  • Edward M. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the thirty-first speech. Now I want to shift to what we might call another chapter in my observations of LBJ and the presidency and that period of time and discuss what I and other folks have referred to as the Kennedy cult. Not the Kennedy clan. The Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1970 INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD M. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Majority Whip office, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: My first question then is going to be, any further elaboration on the relationship between
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  • The relationship between John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and LBJ; LBJ's legislative achievements and programs started by John F. Kennedy; LBJ's willingness to listen to various points of view; foreign aid under LBJ; Nicholas Katzenbach and Ramsey
  • Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz
  • Edward M. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: FRANK MANKIEWICZ INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Last time you referred to a briefing that you had had. I think it was your first contact with Senator Kennedy. M: Yes, that was at the end of, I guess
  • Briefing Senator Robert Kennedy before his 1965 trip to Latin America; Peace Corps and OEO staffs’ opposition to Vietnam War, 1966- ; original purpose of U.S. intervention in Dominican Republic; Mankiewicz leaving the Peace Corps to become