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- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH BARR (Tape #2) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
- See all online interviews with Joseph W. Barr
- 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
- Barr, Joseph Walker, 1918-1996
- Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
- Joseph W. Barr
- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH BARR (Ta f'e ... I) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
- See all online interviews with Joseph W. Barr
- 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
- Barr, Joseph Walker, 1918-1996
- Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
- Joseph W. Barr
- 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
- on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Mahon -- I -- 4 governor of Texas, Governor [Joseph] Sayers, and then Buchanan. I myself became a chairman when Clarence Cannon of Hissouri died in office at age eighty plus
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org / / ./ ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW I ? DATE: July 30, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH L. RAUH, JR. INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN
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- Rauh, Joseph L. (Joseph Louis), 1911-1992
- Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
- Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
- nomination of the party in 1960 that he went about it the wrong way. [They said that] he waited too late to firmly announce, that he put too much reliance on endorsement by his colleagues in the Senate, that the other path, the path that John Kennedy chose
- to remain senator and majority leader. Where then are you, Mr. Joseph Patrick Kennedy!" And I was right. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
- no jurisdiction to issue the-F: You thought you had a real legal point here? P: Oh, indeed, right. Then Al Wirtz went to the Fifth Circuit and Judge [Joseph C. Jr.] Hutcheson was the chief judge then, and he said that a single judge--and I think erroneously
- Interaction with LBJ, Sam Rayburn, and other politicians; LBJ’s senate race and maneuver to get on Texas ballot; conflict with oil industry because LBJ did not support mandatory oil increase; supporting Kennedy; Nixon’s Supreme Court argument; LBJ’s
- was supported by every And in 1959 I was John Kennedy's chairman in [Oregon]. K: I did want to ask about that because-- G: He was the author of a highly controversial labor bill. There were five of us who were swing votes on the Education and Labor
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- was Joseph W . Bailey, who, by the way, President Johnson was very interested in and President Johnson's father was very interested in, if I have heard it related correctly . I remember in 1'920 when Joseph W . Bailey ran for governor after having left
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- had gone over seas . And the note that I have indicates that he was going to go to work either with Forrestal or with Dr . [Joseph] Barker in manpower training . B: Oh, yes, Dr . Barker . G: He was a civilian, wasn't he? B: Yes, and a non
- quite a They had first the Kennedy-Ives Bill; Jack Kennedy and Irving Ives of New York had this bill which was a rather moderate effort to correct some of the abuses in labor. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEt~ I DATE: November, 1968 I NTERV I E~IEE : VANN M. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: PAUL BOLTON PLACE: Corpus
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- Kennedy, Vann
- Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton
- Vann Kennedy
- http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 attempt to stop Jack Kennedy, who was the early front runner
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- /31 announcement; draft movement for Edward Kennedy; Chicago convention; LBJ
- Carolina during his campaign for the PreSidency after he succeeded President Kennedy. Now I had been in his company a number of times with the North Carolina delegation, I think. We had conferred with him in con- nection with some matters affecting
- conventions, and Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson were nominated for president and vice president, they did come over to the office two or three times to see Mr. McCormack when he was majority leader. I, of course, met both of them when they came in. didn't have
- in 1960 you know. F: Did you have any opportunity to observe his relationship with Jack Kennedy? B: Yes, very friendly, until the White House days, until Kennedy got in the White House; then things changed, but their relationship was very good
- 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
- are the author of books on both the Kennedy Administration and President Johnson, as well as a weekly column for Life on the presidency since 1966, May 1966 about. S: Yes. M: You mentioned in numerous of your writings your original contact with Mr. Johnson
- and Presidential work; Sidey’s coverage of 1960 Presidential election; Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the vice-presidency; how LBJ was treated by Kennedy staff and family; LBJ’s interaction with Sidey and other press during the presidency; LBJ’s difficulty
- this whole thing up they began to open their eyes. It led from one thing to another and Mr. Johnson was very anxious, as was Mr. Kennedy at that time too, in what was going on. Mr. Rayburn of course was keeping up almost daily with the thing. So
- -presidential nomination in 1956? S: I don't think so. We voted for [ John F . ] Kennedy. The Texas delegation in our caucus at that convention voted to support Kennedy instead of IEste!!1 Kefauver, I believe. B: Was anybody thinking at that time
- . D; Yes, very happily, they did. I remember the next week Life magazine had a centerfold and they had pictures of everybody laughing. They had all the senators, Humphrey, Kennedy, Johnson, Symington, all of them---l sti 11 have that copy of Li
- ? You know there was all that uncertainty about whether he was going to run in 1960 and when he finally offered himself, Kennedy already had the nomination sewed up. P: Oh, yes. I, of course, was supporting Johnson for the presidency and I thought
- , "Lyndon, that's not true at all." He had that feeling. He worked on it. He thought the New Dealer, the young New Dealers, who were an arrogant bunch-I used to say about the Kennedy crowd, "I've seen nobody as arrogant in Washington since we grew up
- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barrow -- I -- 6 there until he should release them, and he never did release them until the final--as you know, when they made it unanimous on Kennedy . F: Oklahoma under Senator Kerr, and the one thing
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course
- ; contact with LBJ and White House staff; Vietnam; Johnson Administration legislative briefings; the Pueblo incident; reflections on LBJ in various situations; comparison and evaluation of the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations
- to be for Johnson rather than for Kennedy it was inescapable conclusion that Kennedy had the thing . And that night, I know Mr . Johnson stayed in his hotel room and had on his house slippers and a sports shirt, and they hadn't gotten very far down the list when he
- . B: That was the case with Texas at that time. I've heard it said that the Texas delegation and Johnson himself were active in trying to get the vice presidential nomination for John Kennedy in 1956. E: I think that is correct. B
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- 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
- 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
- with usually in the Senate? B : No, but on occasion it would happen. a very important point . My wife raises a point that is It's not unimportant that she was born in Fort Worth and lived in Dallas until she came up here with the Kennedy Administration
- is sue on its own ITlerits? R: On the merits. The same way when Lyndon Johnson was President he adopted the Kennedy platform of 1960 and went beyond it; and he sent up some rather extreme public housing and urban renewal proposals to our Banking
- : In 1956 you had that horse race between young John Kennedy and Estes Kefauver for the vice presidency, and Johnson shook a lot of people by taking Texas for Kennedy instead of for Kefauver. Were you privy at all to his thinking or strategy in this, or do
- with good grace just as Richard Nixon did in 1960 when he probably had some grounds to make a loud cry--I suspect that Nixon wouldn't be president today if he had made a fuss about the Kennedy election in 1960. Politically, you've got to learn to be a good
- 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
- relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb
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- [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Mrs. Fore--I--14 with John Kennedy. He said, "Just fine. Now Robert's (Kennedy) another thing; I don't give him anything at all." M: Yes. But he got
- : Of course, that was primarily a Kennedy campaign. OM: That's true. F: Mr. Johnson was subordinate in this instance, except you did have . . . Vr'1: We had the tea F: You had the tea Vfvl: Yes. F: Tell me a little bit about them. VM: ~'Jell