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  • INTERVIEWEE: FRANK MANKIE'"wICZ INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: I think last time we were talking about 1967 and the last topic we discussed was your urging Senator Kennedy in 1967 to run in 1968. M: Well, I think
  • his suite in the Biltmore. Oscar Chapman and May Oliver (?), I believe it was, we all were using this room, but mainly Chapman and I were using it. F: Did you have the feeling that you had started late? Y: Yes. And the Kennedy operation was so well
  • 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
  • Kennedy's choice of Johnson for his running mate, I was pretty much assured that Stu Symington was going to be the Vice Presidential candidate. Since I was a preconvention supporter of Symington, I felt pretty good about that. When the announcement
  • , to a certain extent? C: I think the election of President Kennedy in 1960 set the kind of climate which would allow in 1961 a young man like me, relatively LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Robert E. Jordan III Subject(s) covered 18,19 Events in Dallas 19,20,21 Warren Commission Report 21,22 Autopsy on Senator Kennedy 23,24 23,24 James Rowley Rufus Youngblood 24
  • 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
  • to be developed between governors and the president. Naturally, I saw him quite frequently when he was president. M: Did he perform any task for President Kennedy in regard to the governors? K: I don't know whether he was given any task, but occasionally when
  • of Interior? But somebody, as I understand it, was asked, 'Where do you think I can make the greatest contribution?" thought for her, they say. don't know. And somebody came up with that It may have been from her own mind, I But Jackie Kennedy, President
  • : No question about that, yes. B: What would be the atmosphere of this one? V: It has been very good under difficult circumstances, because the preceding administration--President Kennedy with his brother as Attorney General--the Attorney General
  • said later we were just not going to do it, and he said, "That's a good idea." F: Were you involved in the death of Robert Kennedy? S: No. F: That, you know, broke out pretty late 'Ivashington time. S: Oh, yes, I remember, and I was called about
  • to overstate my national I began \vorking in national campaigns, as I recall, in 1956, involvement. being head of the Speakers' Bureau in Southern California for Adlai Stevenson. I had a role in John Kennedy's campaign in 1960, and a minor role
  • to go on this trip, I need to get a real barrage into the Kennedy brothers. Lyndon Johnson is supporting me and Sam Rayburn is supporting someone else." And so we made our plans, and I sent, on that Friday night in the middle of October of 1961
  • 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
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 and in Mr. Kennedy's Administration--has the force expanded too much and are we returning to smaller deployment of special forces groups? R: I don't think there has been a significant change
  • wanted to ask you about was the issue of the overcrowding at Arlington Cemetery. I believe specifically since John F. Kennedy's burial there, this has grown as a controversy and the debate has been whether to expand or confine Arlington Cemetery. whom
  • members within a year, and so on October 22, 1963, President Kennedy reappointed me to the Commission. term under the new statute. tenure. We thereby acquired a three-year The prior statute gave the commissioners no We held office at the President's
  • for the District." Kennedy. Charlie Horsky had been created for that job under President Steve Pollak was there for Johnson. Steve Pollak did leave very quickly after we were nominated and appointed. M: What's the significance of that? F: The significance
  • 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