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Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that President Johnson called on President Truman very much for support. If he did, I would think that President Truman would be ready at any time. As you know, President Johnson did call on President Eisenhower for support. President Eisenhower just stood
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But in that point in time--I think up to this period you're talking about when civil rights really heated up in like 1956 under Eisenhower; they didn't really heat up then, but the public psychology was that they had heated up. So actually the 1957 Civil Rights Act
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Eisenhower had vetoed it, I was really secretly glad, my little liberal jerk-leg self at that time. However I don't think it really made all that much difference. G: What was LBJ's reaction to the veto? E: I can't remember. I can't remember. G: Now
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to view Vietnam as a military problem rather than a civil problem? RG: No, no. I think at that juncture we were all pretty agnostic because during the briefings that the President got during the transition between the Eisenhower Administration and his
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abell -- I -- 5 incredible series of circumstances. Eisenhower had carried the state of Kentucky by over a hundred thousand votes, and my father-in-law had lost by a mere two or three thousand votes. If any one of a number
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Fleming. I did not know him very well. I had met him in Atlanta, I believe, when he was on the staff of the Civil Rights Commission holding hearings in the Eisenhower Administration. I believe he was there setting up hearings in Atlanta. I had a high
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and they wanted to stay with him. F: Did you get the feeling there in the 1950s that he was presidential material? H: 1950s? F: All during H: Well, I don't know about being presidential material. t~2 Eisenhower period. I guess every member of the Senate
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rather quiet days during the Eisenhower Administration. making speeches throughout the COtmtry. He hadn't been out too much His campaign for the nomination LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , reflects some of your own work on which you-- T: Well, that's very true. The answer is that we need both. of judgment just where the right balance lies. It's a question I certainly felt that under the Eisenhower Administration the emphasis on nuclear
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it. This was a great psychological defeat for him besides being a great military defeat. Also, on that trip to the West Coast with President Johnson, I had an opportunity to go with him to see President Eisenhower. President Eisenhower on the Vietnam situation as I
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • it. I think the President was abused some by the press, but I think this is the expectation. I think any- one who will sit in that office can expect to be abused. You look at history; they always have been. Eisenhower is the only one that I know
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Goodfellow. In the wind-up, Douglas wanted to do something for the Majority Leader of the Senate who had done a lot of things for him in the Eisenhower Administration. Thet'lajority Leader told him, III want a mission put on that field that will grow
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the President, has beginning with President Eisenhower--had done most of the clearing 'of the personal items of President Kennedy for the family. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . While I have voted against a lot of civil rights legislation, I certainly have not held to any theory that we shouldn't have fairness for all of our people. F: Going back to 1952, Eisenhower carried Texas, as you know, and [Adlai] Stevenson lost
Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Eisenhower victory. of his own that year. }1: Senator Johnson did not have a campaign Did he help you any in your campaign? I He came out here,' and he made a speech down at Yuma, but that was a year that couldn't anyone help you very much. F: Just got
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had been the president and he wasn't very popular. Eisenhower had great appeal in Utah. G: Now you ran successfully for the Senate in 1958. M: Yes. G: At what time did he learn about your candidacy? M: Oh, I think he learned early because
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I don't think to me privately but to small groups of us, that one of the first things that he did was call in General Eisenhower and had a very detailed discussion with him of General Eisenhower's judgment LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --it was Eisenhower, wasn't it, that had his heart attack when LBJ had his heart attack? Anyway, this majority leader--I'll think of his name as soon as you leave here--he wanted to move Fort Hood from Texas to Louisiana because those farmers--well, whoever
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . John recommended Jim Gaither, whose father incidentally was the author of the Gaither Report of the Eisenhower years, the report dealing with national security. Jim was added to our staff in August of 1966, I believe, dealing primarily in the poverty
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into politics? B : Yes . In '56 I ran for a four-year term on the commission--statewide--and was elected . I stayed there till November of '59 when I was appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board by President Eisenhower . ably know ,is a The CAB, as you
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that it was very important in 1960 to elect a Democratic president. I was deeply opposed to Nixon and to what had seemed at that time to me to be a do-nothing Eisenhower Administration. I wanted to do anything and everything possible to bring the Democrats
Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and certainly made it more valuable and brought out things in the White House that had been somewhat passed over. M: I have read that Mrs. Eisenhower did not particularly show off the White House to members of Congress, whereas Mrs. Kennedy did. Is this true
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the West on one slogan, that he was going to end the no new starts policy. Well, the no new starts meant no new dams. That wasn't exactly the Eisenhower Administration's policy. They were for slowing it down. F: That Colorado series, like Turaconti
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , the fact that you have two fairly common na..-,es like Kennedy and Johnson? W: I don 1 t think there 1 s any significance whatsoever. F: I mean, obviously if I use the name Eisenhower in something, we know this, but so many people are named Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember now who they were. But he went up there and he tried to relax, and he'd walk up and down the roads and take some of us with him walking. He'd sit and look out the window at the Eisenhower golf course at Camp David. I could tell he was greatly
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to that, to innovate. F: Mr. Eisenhower, as President, tried to put through an aid-to-education bill without success. Mr. Kennedy tried, too. Why do you think that it finally came through then under Mr. Johnson? D: Well, you see that fear that I alluded
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Sharon Francis -- Interview IV -- 9 Mamie Eisenhower, clearly express their own personality, their own preferences for how they spent their time. While that is the dominant determinant of what a first lady is, Mrs. Johnson, in addition
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • alliance began with Laurance's involvement with the 1965 White House Conference on Natural Beauty. When Eisenhower was president he appointed the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission, and appointed 11 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • supported Eisenhower in 1952 that Lyndon and Price weren't very close, you see. So he [Gooch] told him he came up to get information, mainly on me at the time, but just that something was wrong. here. It seems to be that Johnson knows what we're going
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh and I always followed the President's instructions. I resigned as director of the women's division after the Eisenhower election --well, I didn't resign until
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • would in effect be a supplemental to normal eligibility. We won that thing twice in the course of the Eisenhower years over the vigorous opposition of the President and the vigorous opposition of his party in the Senate and a number of southern
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ while working for Senator Patrick McNamara; impressions of LBJ; LBJ’s techniques for garnering votes; “Johnson Treatment;” LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; total liberal; LBJ lacked tremendous
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in 1956, Texas supported Eisenhower, and you had this split between Texas loyalists and Texas regulars. On How much did you get involved in this? the one hand, you came from the district that houses the State Capitol where Governor Shivers is strong
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Although I will say that President Eisenhower was a reasonably, I think, liberal President, and did in many respects carry on some of the measures that had been passed before he became president. M: You say that your wife and you knew Mrs. Johnson. Has
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the presidential plane. MG: Was he pretty successful in dealing with senators and congressmen? RG: No question about it. His success in that regard is legendary. served now with six presidents, beginning with Eisenhower. I've They all had their various
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • guess it was session before last of Congress, I believe some $800,000 was appropriated to acquire additional land around the Eisenhower home in Gettysburg; you know, he has given this to the federal government, that they will get upon his death. Well
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Bodo, and he was talking to two or three of us there, reminiscing about his days as Majority Leader during the Eisenhower years, when he was first elected Majority Leader. He said that one Senator changed his vote--the way this came up, he was talking
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • U.S. Presidents with whom you had relationships, or did it pretty much follow the same line regardless of whether it was the Republican Eisenhower, or the Democrat--? M: You're quite right. To me, I wasn't conscious of any difference. don't profess