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Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the 1950s, General [Dwight D.] Eisenhower sent to Congress some legislative proposals, one including some economic aid for Middle Eastern countries, and there was considerable controversy about the economic aid and reluctance to grant it. And Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /oh 6 F: What did the Majority Leader do to get the bill on the floor? E: The first bill was passed during the Eisenhower Administration by the Nixon subterfuge which he held that a bill coming over from the House, didn't have to go to a committee
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't seem to know this, I talked to the fellows that I know--it was just a rule of thumb that we got a dollar's worth of defense for every two dollars we spent, and that's still the case. This used to drive Johnson crazy. Johnson told me that Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • present at the Amarillo State Convention in 1952? That went for Eisenhower? H: No, I was not involved in that. F: Was Senator Johnson influential in your receiving the appointment as U. S. District Attorney? H: Yes, it was his recommendation
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Defense Fund. B: Because the directorate was--? M: No, no. They then got reasons afterwards. But as soon as the Eisenhower Administration took over, they came after us. I think they're still under investigation. We've been under investigation all
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stanton -- III -- 7 G: I have one question that goes back to 1956, and there was television coverage of a speech that he gave regarding Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill. Do you remember that? Apparently, he had some
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . W. Murchiso n talked to me about running the campaig n--and a number of other people- -for Eisenhow er. But I didn't do either because I was associat ed with Mr. Murchis on, who was very much for Eisenhow er, and I had been a Democra t all my life
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • form, if it hadn't been for Senator Yarborough and his ardent work in its behalf. You know, the Eisenhower years, as I look back on them with the dates before me, seem to have been more relaxed years, for all the knife-edge [inaudible] number
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , that it was entirely possible that the vice presidency would be more important under a man like Senator Kennedy, an activist, instead of President Eisenhower, who did not make very much out of the job. I might say that there was no real thought being given
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that it was in the public interest to do it, and they went along. After that the Department of Defense progressed some as years went on. It would depend pretty much on the identity of the specific Secretary. In about '53 the Eisenhower Administration put through another
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • recall who kept the reports. He had someone on his staff who was active in the campaign for him who did it. F: Then you became a commissioner for the Interstate Commerce commission in 1955 under President Eisenhower? H: Yes, I was appointed
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and South; and that the effort to take over the country and to bring it under the control of the government in Hanoi should not succeed. the basic objective has ever.changed since~ I don't think indeed, since Eisenhower. You know, Eisenhower made some
Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a small business agency under President Truman. When President Eisenhower came in he established, in 1953, the first independent small business agency, called the Small Business Administration. agency also as a lawyer. I was with that I spent
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Wartime service in the Red Cross; seeing LBJ during his visit to Paris on a mission; the mission committee; activities during visit; impressions of Eisenhower; flight back to Texas with LBJ; conditions in Europe; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Jim Abercrombie was one of them that he was very, very fond of and J. R. Parten certainly he was very fond of. At one time the Eisenhower Administration was toying with the idea of the Treasury revoking the tax exemption of the funds for the Republic
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing that I do remember--I don't know whether you've interviewed Charlie Herring or not. G: He's on my list. H: Charlie was U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas when Eisenhower was elected. It is customary when a new administration
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • during this period of the fifties about, one, his strategy toward the Eisenhower Administration and his unwillingness to--? P: Not in great depth or detail. I think that in our infrequent, casual, social meetings, he would discuss the issues because
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that no politics is maybe the When they changed the Administration to the Eisenhower Administration, I had a lot of Republicans--One Republican called me up and said, "I want you to come by here and get this check for $2,000. I see where they might try to remove
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Amarillo did when it chose to certify a ballot that would list Eisenhower and Nixon as the nominees of the, I think they called it, the Texas Democrats. That, I thought, was a subterfuge and the mis- leading thing to do. I opposed it, unsuccessfully
Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • president should. He did not. His interests were mostly domestic. M: Did he generally go along with President Eisenhower pretty well? Z: I think, yes, on most issues--and for that reason, I believe that when President Johnson, then-Senate leader
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Eisenhower Administration. M: Had they made a strong effort in the Eisenhower Administration? B: Yes, they had. They had made a strong effort with the Administration; they had never been up on the Hill. I think they would have gotten--I've always felt
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • children. A: I noticed a memo in the file one time that described Johnson directing that an Eisenhower letter be sent to his mother for safekeeping, and then later we did in fact find an Eisenhower letter in her papers. Do you know if Johnson did things
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; and I think it's probably one of the more significant innovations in terms of governmental organization of the Johnson years. Now if it existed in this kind of degree before that, I hadn't heard about it. I'm sure there had been some in the Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a fine old lady. G: Anything else on his recovery that you recall that's significant, his recuperation? J: I don't think so. He had his ups and downs. G: Now, Eisenhower had a heart attack that fall, a serious one. Do you recall LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • President Eisenhower. Presi- dent Kennedy recalled you to active duty in 1961, and you served as the military representative to the President. From '62 to '64, you were Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; from 1964 to 1965, Ambassador to Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in that way. Johnson seemed Generally with politicians the public and the private, you know, what you'd see on television and what you'd see face to face is more or less the same. I mean, Kennedy, Eisenhower and the rest that I've known were what you
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • envisioned it and it turned out I didn't. I never did fail to get a rule that I asked for, even the first time I went up. Judge [Howard] Smith accused me of endorsing the British dole system, you know. Eisenhower had asked for a federal 13 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 17 up this committee to make it independent of the president but still a committee which would feed advice into the president and have some influence on him. And Eisenhower decided he did not want that committee to be under anybody else
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was ever very critical of Eisenhower, even though there had been some bad blood between them. And I don't recall that Eisenhower was ever publicly very critical of either Kennedy or Johnson. F: I've always had the feeling probably too that Goldwater
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • II -- 9 J: Yes, and I think successfully. F: Did this bring him criticism, particularly in the political realm, for maybe being too close to the Eisenhower line? J: Yes, he received some criticism from the extremes on both sides, but it didn't
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Eisenhower, I openly supported him and did what I could for him. But there wasn't any chance for anyone to defeat General Eisenhower, then. He was a world war hero and his name-- JBF: And altogether too pleasant a person, really. F: That's right. I'll
  • Biographical information; 1928 convention; repeal of the 18th Amendment; Henry Wallace; Harry S. Truman; BEHIND THE BALLOTS and THE JIM FARLEY STORY; first meeting with LBJ; 1941 Johnson vs. O’Daniel campaign; Eisenhower; Kennedy-Kefauver fight
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • couldn't turn his people down. M: Mr. Germany, in 1952 Shivers was governor of Texas and, of course, Eisenhower and Stevenson were the candidates for the presidential office. Was there any move afoot or suggestion of Mr. Johnson to be a vice
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , although I had met him as a United States Senator. But as the Vice President of the United States and then serving as the head of Equal Employment Committee as a designee of President Kennedy--I had served on this under President Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • states . But the national AF of L-CIO wasn't pursuing it as hard as I thought they should, their argument being the pendulum had swung with Eisenhower's election, as they say, politically to the right and it was not timely . the votes . By that, I
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • administration. There was, of course, the involvement with Vietnam to a degree under the Eisenhower Administration. interesting one. Humphrey's basic background in foreign policy was an He was greatly interested in trying to relieve tension in the world. He
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . Her's death occurred in her puppyhood. Him lived on for a long time. M: In January the name Lewis Strauss comes up, because President [Dwight] Eisenhower 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B