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Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connell -- I -- 2 research for the State Department. [He] left Humphrey in about 1958 to go with Chet Bowles over to India, came back and I think became director of intelligence and research under Kennedy. He's now
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with LBJ; doing LBJ’s makeup; LBJ giving to a poor family and the Catholic church in Stonewall; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys and Hubert Humphrey; LBJ’s interest in the media (TV, ticker tape, newspapers) and sensitivity to the media; diversity
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • presidency? Did you have any intimations of this? E: He sent for me and sent for John Stennis and told us that he had not made up his mind, that he'd been offered the vice presidency. Now as I recall, that was the morning after Kennedy was nominated. I
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or late fifties? T: He became more liberal in the late fifties in the Senate. I remember in 1960, when he ran for president, I supported him over Kennedy at the convention. I made a speech at the Democratic Convention to the South Carolina caucus
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • something about your appointment to the Bureau of the Budget. G: I was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. President Kennedy in January 1961. I came in with I had planned to serve for two years as a member of the Council and to return to my
Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , if I recall. We had a lot of candidates I'm just taking this off the top of my head. The campaign was Senator Symington, Humphrey, Johnson, and Kennedy. They had the four people. B: As I recall, there was a good deal of activity in the Kansas
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 in 1959. We began to make a serious attack on it in 1961. We had a little gold crisis as Jack Kennedy
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy was assassinated. G: It shows a sense of timing. Was there an effort during this period, though, to keep the civil rights groups on board as much as possible, to keep them, for example, from getting involved in the Vietnam issue as Martin Luther
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • said, when I spoke about [John F.] Kennedy's support in the Senate--I said I thought a number of Senators wanted to support Kennedy and he said, "Yes, but the trouble is he's got all of the minnows and none of the whales." The whales generally sat
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Senator McCarthy--McCarthy hated Warren Burger, because he had run a campaign against McCarthy when he was in the House of Representatives; he had been the manager for a man by the name of Kennedy, and they had called McCarthy, among other things
  • in Minnesota; Humphrey's career and support from the DFL; protestant versus Catholic political issues and support; John F. Kennedy's assassination and Keith's subsequent support for LBJ; the 1964 Democratic National Convention; LBJ campaigning in Minnesota
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, to West Virginia and Kentucky. Do you remember--? W: No, I didn't go with him on that trip. (Interruption) G: Let's see. You were saying you went to New York with him one time. W: Yes. We stayed at the—where did the Kennedys stay? We stayed
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HORWITZ -- I -- 20 Landrum Bill came over to the Senate. that. Let me go back a minute before I may say in 1958 we had worked a great deal with Senator Kennedy. M: I was going to ask about that. H
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • affect Texas, and it was felt at that time that the political attitude in Texas would be unfriendly to the solution that I had proposed. Later President Kennedy proposed a specific solution which was almost word for word what I had-F: Did he confer
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that would support the Johnson candidacy. Did you find in tallying your candidates that the Kennedy people had beaten you to a lot of states that would have fallen within the support of Lyndon Johnson? W: Of course I could not say that these states would
  • Puerto Ricans fired gun shots in the House of Representatives; LBJ's first heart attack; Election 1960; Involvement during early sixties in Texas politics; Reaction to Kennedy's assassination; Running for State Chairman; Election of 1964; Convention
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • made to the governors just two or three days after the assassination-they were in town for the Kennedy funeral, and I don't know why they never put the statement out, it was just beautiful; he was obviously ad-libbing it and he was talking about what
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
  • Biographical information; what his jobs were for LBJ; how the staff decided which invitations LBJ would accept; Senator Dodd; advance work; Bobby Baker; working with the Kennedy staff; the JFK assassination and Sinclair’s work in the following days
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : In the days when I was assistant secretary of defense, then the National Security Council and the executive committee thereof dealt with all the important policy issues, and I was always present at those; so in those days I used to--in Mr. Kennedy's day--I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a staunch supporter of the President. He supported President Kennedy fully and he supported President Johnson fully, and we could never have any quarrel with Mansfield's support of the program. In the area of Vietnam, he had a tendency to refrain from
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • through it. It had some negative references, probably to all the Kennedys, Bobby Kennedy. I didn't read it in detail. There was no need to because I had never seen that memo before. It was not the memo Bob Maheu had shown me so I simply stated, "I've never
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 2 C: President of the New York Central. To urge Johnson to support the merger. Saunders also went to Robert Kennedy, who was the attorney general, in July of 1964 as well, talking to him about the merger. At some point in 1964 Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by the name of Karl E. Mundt. He lost that election; it was a close election. He lost by about fifteen thousand votes. The incoming president, Kennedy made--he was a congressman at that time and was defeated for the Senate. President Kennedy made him
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . calling me to get me in. G: I think he was an old man. He kept He was out of the O'Daniel organization. Did you ever consider an alliance with, say, the Kennedy and Symington forces here. D: The Symington people came down to see me in 1954. Jimmy
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of them, like Congressman Frank Smith, and others were wanting us to support Senator Kennedy for the vice presidential nomination. After the first roll call, it was obvious to me and to many others that if we were going to stop Kefauver, Kennedy
  • First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the debate was on in earnest. M: The reason I asked, one of the events that took place sort of coincidentally here was the Robert Kennedy-Theodore Sorensen suggestion for a peace commission of some kind that they asked you to relay to the President. Can you
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • rnaybe--help control the nomination. But it was soon pretty evident that the convention was going to nominate Stevenson again. Regardless of what anybody did, they were going to nominate him again. M: And in '60? T: In '60, of course, I think Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on some of those trips. I know I did not make any of those trips with him. I had one curious experience with him as Vice President which was not limited to foreign affairs. After Kennedy had been President a year everybody was writing pieces about
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what set the stage to break the filibuster and pass the Civil Rights Act, although that didn't happen until 1964. But the potential was there, and it was just a question of when they made the fight and Kennedy hadn't decided to do it, as you know. G
Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • convention. Now I was a JFK man; I was for John Kennedy. I made a friendly wager, which of course has never been collected--and I didn't expect it to be collected--with Speaker Rayburn, that John F. Kennedy would be the nominee and LBJ would be his running
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • for the legislation but may have wound up voting for it. I don't recall. G: A good deal has been written about the Johnson treatment etc. A: That does corne to mind when he was Senate leader around late 1959 and early 1960 when the race between him and Kennedy
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • of LBJ and JFK; LBJ and columnists; LBJ's press secretaries; LBJ and the press; Gene McCarthy; Bobby Kennedy; 1968 campaign; personal observations on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • started in the Johnson Administration, and you had agreed to remain as an assistant special counsel :for the new president. We've talked about the problems of getting a Kennedy staff reoriented into a Johnson staff and meshed with 2. Johnson staff
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Do you remember anything of his visit during that time right after the convention? They nominated Stevenson and Kennedy for vice president. Okay. Also in that month Price Daniel ran against Yarborough for the Senate, and it was a very close race. I
  • Roosevelt; LBJ's first plane; the Lucy B crash in 1961; an October 1959 flood near the Ranch; LBJ's decision to accept the vice-presidential nomination in 1960; August Busch and his gift of exotic animals; Tommy Taylor's death; Robert Kennedy getting hurt
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that President Kennedy supported. He was very anxious about getting a food stamp program started because he'd been out campaigning in a lot of the mine heads and places around the country and he had witnessed firsthand something he didn't even dream existed
  • LBJ's views on the food stamp program; the connection between civil rights and food programs; President Kennedy's involvement in food-related aid; funding and congressional support for the food stamp bill; Department of Agriculture involvement
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the UN. A: Oh, yes. This was when Kennedy was in office. I was serving in the Subcommission for the Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities of the United Nations, and I was hearing so much static about what a terrible country we
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but it had an appropriation. The Leamon piece says that Bobby [Kennedy] rode to the Hill with this young sociologist who finally enabled him to understand his point about delinquency when Bobby said, "Oh, I see. If I'd been born here this might have happened
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, though, I was back in Texas and he called and he was really pleased this time, because the President himself had spoken to him and you know that meant, "You stay out of the way, Busby. My friend John Kennedy wants me to do this." They wanted him to go
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the fields of social welfare. My impression is that President Johnson was looking for a tag to describe his major legislative accomplishments, purposes, to correspond to Kennedy's New Frontier. My re~ollection is that the phrase Great Society came out
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • everybody with every other person that was ever out here, but these things that were accomplished after Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon became President, I don't think they'd have gone anywhere but for Lyndon Johnson's big push as a President. And I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , of course, there were ongoing negotiations involving the liberal wing of the party, the [Robert] Kennedy supporters and the McCarthy supporters, to see if they couldn't mount a unified effort on their part to stop Humphrey. As I indicated earlier
  • Support for Hubert Humphrey's nomination from George McGovern and Edward Kennedy, but not Eugene McCarthy; McCarthy's complaint that the Democratic National Convention had not been fair; O'Brien's August 27, 1968, memo discussing the campaign
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of 1936 on, either as an associate delegate or a full delegate. B: At the 1960 convention, were you active in the fight between Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson for the nomination? A: No, I was not present at the 1960 convention. B: Then, sir, during
  • Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America
Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • presented Senator Kennedy's farm program to an audience in downstate Illinois at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. B: During the campaign of that year? A: During the campaign of 1960, yes. B: Had you up to September of '66 ever met or had
  • Biographical data; rural American support of Johnson-Humphrey campaign and Kennedy-Johnson administration policies; White House contacts while Administrator of Farmer Cooperative Service; role in drafting legislation for bills pertaining to FCS