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Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to that I've often laughed about since. I told him that not too long before, in 1960, President Eisenhower had come through on a very similar visit; this was his trip which was supposed to take him to Japan when he was cancelled out by the peace

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

emphasized over and over, not only in 1963 and 1964 but back prior to that when Eisenhower came up with his civil rights bill back in 1957 or 1958, along in there--we always made the legal argument along with the moral. But the main emphasis was on the legal

Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in a fit of fury and rage. And by no means all the press was in love with Jack Kennedy; there were some reporters who were, but he had his share of criticism too. And the credibility gap has always existed too. In the Eisenhower days, for example, the "Top

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President Johnson, I'd say the more important variable from the standpoint of the Policy Planning Council is the Secretary of State . Now insofar as the President's personality comes to bear on it's work, I'd

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, there was almost a fixation of lying to the press. A very small thing in the Senate: Tom Gates was up for secretary of Defense the last year of the Eisenhower Administration, and Russell Long was holding it up. And we asked Johnson at the daily press conference

Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)

guess, forty-three when he was elected. He was my age. Most of his principal advisors and assistants were approximately of his age or younger, rather than of the age of Eisenhower advisors, or of the Democratic contemporaries of President Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

patterns inside the federal government, in spite of the fact that Eisenhower had taken a bold step: he'd created an executive order, created a president's committee on government employment policy, a position, by the way, for which I was hired at one point
with Eisenhower's President's Committee on Government Employment Policy; discrimination in federal hiring nationwide; in-house vs. contract work discrimination; Potomac Institute report for the Department of Defense; Robert McNamara's work to hire more black

Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

delegation. I agreed, and as you know finally Kefauver was nominated. It was shortly after the election of President Eisenhower that Jack Kennedy was speaking at a Sunday evening forum in Tucson, and I got a call that he wanted to see me before his

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration show much interest in the McCarthy hearings--I know they were interested--but did they demonstrate it from the White House level? S: Well, they never did to me, but I know in a way-- F: You were left alone to look at the evidence

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall there was a vote that came up about the Marines and I voted with the Eisenhower Administration on the question--I was a Democrat then. I thought the Eisenhower Administration was right on it, whatever the question was. After the vote, Lyndon

Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But she was just totally shocked by the idea of Allan Shivers taking over the structure of the Democratic Party in Texas and converting it into a campaign organization for Ike Eisenhower. To her it was not only contrary to her political beliefs

Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in criticism of him, and I don't know whether his long range strategy--Eisenhower kind of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

went to Washington to advise President Eisenhower that we should be aggressive about meeting the challenge of Sputnik rather than LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

was Eisenhower's Commissioner of Education. Now most, if not all, of these people served on subsequent Great Society task forces, and most of the people I have named in particular served on education task forces. Would you say that the participation of these people

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an Eisenhower administration proposal in 1965 that was introduced for the health professions educational assistance to encourage-- M: Eisenhower in 1965? G: Well, Eisenhower--it was something that had been proposed earlier during the Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] permanent, $8 billion temporary, passed it easily, just the difference in 357 and 365. G: Let me ask you how the White House's legislative liaison program changed over the years from, say, the late fifties and early sixties, when Eisenhower was president

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shannon -- I -- 7 two years during the beginning of the Eisenhower Administration, from the later forties right through
funding; Marion Folsom and Arthur Fleming as secretaries of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW); changes in NIH under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy; HEW Secretaries Oveta Culp Hobby, Marion Folsom, Abraham Ribicoff, Anthony

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that he believed that it was inadvisable for Congress to take up Alaska statehood legislation without considering Hawaii statehood alsoo He said that the two bills were discussed at the meeting of Republican legislative leaders with President Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. For example, during the campaign much was made of his remark to General Eisenhower that "You could have ended housing discrimination with the stroke of the pen." And he lived to regret that flip phrase, you see. What he meant was that Eisenhower could have

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

candidate for death. Eisenhower's name began to show up on those early primaries that began to happen in New Hampshire and New Jersey and places like that. He finally came out with a statement that he would run on the Republican ticket if he heard the clear
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee work trying to control spending and corruption; Luci's early interest in religion; the tidelands issue; the possibility of Dwight Eisenhower running for president; returning to visit San Marcos with LBJ; growing media

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

movement of many friends in Louisiana who felt there should be a twoparty system. They went to the Republican Convention and, of course, were successful in getting [Dwight] Eisenhower to run instead of [Robert] Taft. So many of the people who had supported

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

[of War Robert] Patterson and General Eisenhower, then chief of staff of the Army. In the separate Air Force concept, all three would be under the Secretary of Defense. The Navy position was one of coordination as against administration. In effect

Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, Minority Leader at the time that your father died. T: Yes, that's correct. During the first three months or so, three or four months of the Eisenhower Administration, there was a connection between them in \'/hich they worked together. As a matter

Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: Right. You've served here at the bank through all of President Kennedy's administration, and then all of President Johnson's. H: The last part of Eisenhower's administration, Kennedy and Johnson, yes. M: Was there any change in the United States
Biographical information; served under Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ; major growth of bank under LBJ; Punta del Estes 1967; Lincoln Gordon and Sol Linowitz; Dominican problems; Peru balance of payment problems; Bank important element in Inter-American

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

went back home to Texas. Immediately he announced that he was going to support General Eisenhower, the Republican candidate. In furtherance of that decision, he caused the state convention that met in Amarillo in September of 1952 to take an action

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

to LBJ; J.E. McDonald; 1952 Democratic Conventions – state and national; Governor Shivers for Eisenhower against Democrat Adlai Stevenson; 1972 Democratic National Convention; 1960 Democratic National Convention; contacts with LBJ while President.

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

is typical of the Johnson pattern ever since the Eisenhower years. Mc: How do you mean? P: He made ever effort to be cooperative with Eisenhower. It's the con- sensus business, and I think he honestly felt--there is a great streak of fundamental

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

President Eisenhower? M: No, you see-- B: Oh, recommendations from the previous administration? M: Right. President Truman had convened a committee of distinguished citizens who presented to him a series of things which they thought would be helpful

Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Short -- I -- 2 S: Right, right. But I knew him personally from the time that he was the majority leader of the Senate. Kennedy was by this time--no, I'm sorry, Kennedy was not yet president; Eisenhower
in the 1964 campaign; Humphrey's loyalty to LBJ; LBJ's popularity in Minnesota; JFK's assassination and the fear that more tragedy would follow; the likelihood that LBJ would run for re-election in 1968; LBJ's admiration of Dwight Eisenhower's life

Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the national security was in jeopardy, impose a quota system. So this was enacted and President Eisenhower then appointed a group that made findings relative to the importance of oil and gas to national security and then based on that he imposed quotas which

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

fly down? J: I remember we stopped off in Maxwel 1 Field on the way back and picked up--Symington said we got a hitchhiker, and the hitchhiker was Dwight Eisenhower. G: Really? J: Yes. Is that right? It was the first time I had ever met him
Reminiscences from 1950-1952; LBJ’s Texas trips; Eisenhower; the gas bill; Donald Cook; Korea; the Preparedness Committee; election as Democratic whip; the Douglas MacArthur firing; Jenkins’ campaign for Congress; death of Alvin Wirtz; acquiring

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the fading hours of the Eisenhower Administration, late 1959, early 1960. Eisenhower was facing his last year in office and there were these stories about news management, that Eisenhower was managing the news; Jim Hagerty, his press secretary, was managing

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

abrupt way of doing things. G: There were a number of former presidents [there]. Let's see, President Truman was there at the funeral and President Eisenhower. B: Eisenhower, yes. G: Of course, President Kennedy came. B: Yes. G: Anything else

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at that time, Eisenhower, .and that the worst thing that could happen for the Democrats was to get bloodied 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org f More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Eisenhower came in, of course the Republicans then were less suspicious because it would be the Republicans who were doing it. And it was converted into a department. K: What kind of functional difference did it make to no longer be an agency but a cabinet
Conversion of Federal Security Agency to HEW; observations on Eisenhower; biographical information; early recollections of FSA; the Hill Burton Act; reflections on working on legislation over the years; memories of working on Medicare

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on a private, social basis, no. But certainly on a political basis, Governor Shivers was Democrats-for-Eisenhower, he was a states l rights person, he was a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on donations; 1969 tax law; physical move of material to Austin; typical appraisal workday; comparison of working conditions on LBJ and Nixon papers; controversial Nixon deed of gift; President Eisenhower memorandum; personal association with LBJ; Pentagon

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kennedy and Robert Kennedy right after President Eisenhower's State of the Union address in January. Do you recall any of the significance to that meeting? R: No. I don't remember it at all, and I doubt if there was any unusual significance

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

office played a big part in our lives. I just really cannot overemphasize how much Lyndon loved the Senate and being majority leader. And I know he could see in the changing situation--[Dwight] Eisenhower going out of office--who would the next president

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Canyon Dam affair in those years? C: Well, yes and no. The major controversy, particularly as styled Hell's Canyon was in the late fifties and was a part of the Eisenhower era. However, in our time came High Mountain Sheep case which was an incredibly

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