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  • don't know if this is on the record. One morning Price Daniel--he was governor then--invited me over there to a breakfast for Jack Kennedy. He was running for president you know. I wasn't going to go. I said, "Oh hell, that's just a lot of politicians
  • , four presidents. F: Right. R: Eisenhower, Kennedy F: Johnson and Nixon. R: And he was tremendous. F: live heard John Connally say in Texas that at the governors Four presidents. conferences, you were always the best prepared governor
  • times he'd express his dissatisfaction with the ineptitudes of the people that Kennedy had on the Hill and Bobby's continual sniping at him . Can you give me an example of this sniping? An occasion where, let's say, Bobby Kennedy-­ B: We'd get
  • that and particularly when he had a meeting not long after this announcement, first with Senator Bob Kennedy and then with Vice President Humphrey. At both of those meetings the President under- took to tell them something about his reasons for deciding not to run
  • . Kennedy, Mr . Nixon, and Mr . Albert all in one little huddle . They were the only � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • the parents were in Texas at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. Lynda was in Austin at the University, but Luci was--I was out at the Elms with Luci. And that afternoon I went by the school to pick her up to take her home. That is one of my
  • . Byron People like Cecil Burney and Vann Kennedy--was that his name?--in Corpus Christi. G: Vann Kennedy, yes. B: The guy whose name I tried to remember a while ago; he's from Hillsboro, by the way. And generally when they discussed it with him
  • : Well, I guess you might say so. I was strong for Stevenson, and strong for Kennedy. Mc: Did you do any campaigning for Stevenson in Texas during--? M: I don't recall that I did, no, sir. Mc: I remember Allan Shivers was opposed to Stevenson. M
  • took a vice presidential position in 1960? H: Well, r really wasn't surprised because I felt that Jack Kennedy was a pretty smart politician, and he wanted LBJ over the willing candidates for a very particular reason. That was because LBJ
  • your wedding. II They were living· at the Kennedy-Warren. [A D. C. apartment house] So they asked us to make up a list of whom we wanted. Philip had been here a year and a half, and the list got so big that the wedding had to be moved from
  • say that he can identify himself with Jack Kennedy and with President Eisenhower and Mr. Truman and Mr. Roosevelt and he identifies with Andrew Jackson, but he cannot identify with Woodrow Wilson. He has tried but he has no feeling of association. He
  • . But it was a surprise and it was, frankly, at that time, a disappointment. was then. M: But maybe I'm not as callow now as I I hope not. Did you go on to support the Democratic ticket of Kennedy and Johnson in 1960? E: Yes. Went on and supported the Kennedy
  • of Hayden and Cannon came along and they couldn't agree on the appropriations bill, or where they were going to meet to discuss it--and finally, he never did say anything, but finally the President asked him--Kennedy asked him to see if he could get
  • /loh/oh "Well," he said, "we need you to go to some of the more liberal state delegations, for instance, North Carolina." I said, "Zack, Terry Sanford is running that show and he's a Kennedy man like horseradish." "Yes, but we don't have anybody
  • I think the Small Business Administration was under the sameinstructions from President Kennedy, to liberalize credit in this country. "Let's get more money out; let's get it working; let's put the money out." And we did, in my opinion, quite
  • ; David Kennedy; George Champion; George Moore; bank holding company; Patman's Push to have GAO audit Office of Comptroller
  • husband kept that commitment with Humphrey, didn't he? R: Yes. And then of course Humphrey was defeated in the primaries oyt [John] Kennedy. And then you know the story of Jim [Rowe) and Johnson and Phil Graham and all the people at Los Angeles. I
  • nominee. But at any rate we worked pretty hard on that, lined up delegations to question ....• Vann Kennedy who was the Secretary of the State Committee and had his office in the Capitol Press Room where you and I both had worked PB: Where we
  • and other things where a lot of people thought, and certainly it was my observation, that he was trying to do all he could to show himself in a conservative vein. Jumping way ahead, after John Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon went to the White House
  • . be aboard until May 1. But he won't He is, you know, Jim Allen, Chief State School Officer of New York, who, incidentally, I understand, was offered the Commissionership under President Kennedy and again under President Johnson and has just now accepted