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Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Rayburn to go to Dr. Janet Travell, Kennedy's back physician, down at the White House. He finally convinced the Speaker that he ought to let Dr. Travell examine him and see what she could do for him. in the back. So she started giving him shots He
  • LBJ and the NYA in 1935; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; political philosophies; Griffin-Landrum Bill; Ralph Yarborough; Allan Shivers; LBJ & JFK; Rayburn and the Kennedys
Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • or seconded Stevenson or not. Mc: Do you remember the fight for the Vice Presidency between John F. Kennedy and Kefauver? M: Oh yes, I did. And Pennsylvania went--at least the majority of us-- went for Kefauver, yes. Mc: Do you remember the Texas
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • witnessed that fight between Kennedy and Kefauver for the vice presidency? T: Oh, yes. F: How much did Senator Johnson show his preference to the Texas delegation in I was very much in that. that. T: Let's see if I can remember it. You know at one
  • presidential campaigns; Senators Kefauver and Kennedy for the vice-president; LBJ’s first heart attack and recovery; Senator Ralph Yarborough; LBJ to running for vice-presidency; JFK; opportunities for Thornberry to become a federal judge; limitations
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, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . W: Yes, though President Kennedy had rather deliberately tried to bring i.n a new group that was post-New Deal. G: We kind of felt estranged from the Kennedy group. W: To some extent, though I happened to serve on a Kennedy task force and 1 had
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remembe r. Oh, he talked a little bit about the differences between Kennedy and himself. He was very sensitive about the Kennedy's silver spoon background and very uneasy, I think, about his own simpler origins. Though actually I think he exaggerated
  • ; Medicare; Helen Taussig; Advisory Council on Public Welfare Task Force on Income Maintenance (Heineman Commission); Advisory Commission on Status of Women; Esther Peterson; LBJ fixed associations between Wicky/Cohen/Social Security; Medicare; Mrs. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Shriver's selection? Y: No. No, again, as I think I spelled out in that article of mine you've got ["The Beginnings of OEO"], I was aware of the fact that there was a task force under Kennedy. task forces. I guess there were several I was vaguely
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and promoting Mr. Johnson wherever they could. Sort of advance men, as we called them. F: When did you first learn that he had been offered and had accepted the vice presidential nomination by Mr. Kennedy? P: It was, of course, speculated in the newspapers
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as the Defense Department representative and I used to do a lot of the telephone business with the then-Vice President. M: He did take an active interest in that? Y: Yes. M: It wasn't just a title that [John F.] Kennedy assigned him? Y: Oh, no. No, he
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : You mentioned that you were known as Lyndon Johnson's man in the Interior Department, and he had other people who were closely identified with him in other departments and agencies. How did this work? B: Well, he kept the Kennedy cabinet
  • LBJ's tour in Australia; kangaroos for the ranch; LBJ's decision to retain Kennedy cabinet; press leaks; opinions of Stuart Udall; appointment to the Department of the Interior; Rebekah Johnson's relationship with LBJ; Boatner's father's death
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the national level? W: No. I was covered by the Hatch Act. F: How did you happen to come to the attention of John F. Kennedy? W: I haven't the slightest idea. I have been told by no less than twenty people that they had seen President-elect Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Well, fortunately that was before the Smith-Connally Act and it was before Taft-Hartley and there were no inhibitions as against appropriate contributions. So I suggested that he ought to talk to then-Secretary-Treasurer, a man named Tom Kennedy, now
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • certainly had great compassion, but Mr. Roosevelt's personal circumstances had never been such that he gripped this thing head to head nor hand to hand, and that was certainly true of John Kennedy. I think that President Johnson, it is obviously true
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Do you have any insight into the reasons why Kennedy and Johnson came to Texas in 1963 that ended in the assassination of Kennedy? Ma: Well, yes, sir, I'll give you my part of that. about that, to be honest with you. up, I hadn't thought about. I
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , his accepting it? D: No, I really wasn't. Tell you what I did. After Kennedy was nominated on the first ballot--of course, I was disappointed--I got on the plane and carne on horne. F: But not surprised? D: Not surprised, no. I got there a day
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lawrence Westbrook. Lawrence Westbrook was an assistant administrator of WPA, and he, Hopkins and Williams were all rather close. They used to play poker at the Kennedy-Warren apartment house where Westbrook had an apartment. Johnson speaks
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • with a shaggy hairdo. He was Visibly amused. shall never forget. grandchildren. It was Senator John F. Kennedy. And thaUs an experience that I I wished I could record it for my It was a great experience for us. PB: Did you have other contacts
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ? Q: He just liked it and got enjoyment out of it. He did that all along right up to this last election. He was doing it during the Kennedy election. He was down here for this Gonzales election. G: You mentioned that during the NYA period he came
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • what he had to do. And he proved that later on when he had a great part in seeing that the civil rights acts were passed after Kennedy was assassinated. I think President Johnson can be credited with passing more liberal legislation than anybody
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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