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Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: JUANITA ROBERTS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Roberts' home, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Okay, Mrs. Roberts, I want you to start with the March 31, [1968J speech. were. R: Yes. Just tell what you remember about
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Roberts, Juanita, 1913-1983
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Juanita Roberts

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

his way, was the Attorney General, Mr. Robert Kennedy, who came really racing through, neither looking to the right nor to the left to get to the back of the plane. The only thing that I noticed was that I remember that he passed President Johnson
back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s first night as President; the combined LBJ/JFK staff; Ted Sorenson; LBJ’s State of the Union address and concern over the budget; Senator Harry Byrd; getting the budget under $100 billion; task forces; Negro voting rights

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Of course, he was annoyed very much by Senator [Joseph] Clark of Pennsylvania. He also greatly admired Senator [Harry] Byrd [Sr.] of Virginia despite the fact that Byrd and he were often on opposite sides. Clark and Gore-- what he called the liberals
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
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as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Baskin, Robert E.
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Robert E. Baskin

th e l ate 1950s with the Racket s Committee invest i gating staff, with , l ater, Senator Robert Kennedy . 0: No . Did you get to know Mr . Johnson at all du r i ng t hat time? I had seen him , but I ' d never met [h im) . The fi r st time I
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of Wisconsin seeing everybody he could see . Because [Robert M .] LaFollette [Jr .], who was his opponent, had not come home--had sort of moved to Washington and forgotten he was a Senator from Wisconsin--the people voted for the person they saw

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, it was deliberately used against him. ·There's no question of that. In a state like Texas, most of the midwestern states. I remember Robert Kennedy, who was the campaign manager, telling me that he thought that the Catholic issue hurt worse in the Midwest than

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to get it through was to come in with a tight budget. Now at what stage you've got to come in under a hundred was explicitly formulated by Harry Byrd and some of the other people, I don't know. But it soon became clear to the President that he couldn't

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

that it was driven through by giving Harry Byrd what he wanted, namely, a budget that didn't exceed a hundred billion dollars. You know, this totally artificial administrative budget figure was just a will-o-the-wisp, but he was convinced that if he gave Byrd

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