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Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Kennedy election that I went on the Ways and Means Committee. M: Then you were a member of that committee until you retired. T: '66, that's right. M: And then after this--you are now, I suppose, a consultant? T: Well, at the moment, I'm director
Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and an organization going and so forth, Kennedy had the thing too well sewed up, and they always felt they started too late. thinking about it far enough in advance. stick his neck out? Was he Could he not bring himself to Was he too busy with government business
Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Whether it was for President Eisenhower, President Kennedy or President Johnson, they work late, and it's easier for them to get in and get a haircut by having somebody come in. If they went out to get a haircut it would take them an hour, an hour
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of things that you would have been testifying before . Did you take any role at all in the 1960 election campaign beyond just an ordinary citizen? B: The 1960 election campaign? F: That's the one between Nixon and Kennedy, with Johnson of course tagging
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • , although I had taught swimming, I didn't know how to swim myself. And this was about the time the Bobby Kennedy parties were having everybody tossed in the pool. So Tom Boggs said that he was going to toss me in the pool and watch me drown in front
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and we all know the history--Nixon decided for whatever arbitrary reasons he was not going to expend funds the Congress appropriated. And I was reflecting upon the fact that I can remember it was Senator Mondale, Senator Kennedy, Senator Javits and Pete
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -pity, just a shadow of what he had been, and a hell of a lot less interesting, I thought, impressing me less than he had been when he was majority leader. Particularly into 1962. M: Were the Kennedy men early on in the vice presidency making fun
  • Career history; Novak's private meetings with LBJ; economic advisor Paul Douglas; LBJ drunk; Sam Shaffer and Newsweek; press coverage of the senate vs. the presidency; LBJ's attitude during the vice-presidency; Kennedy staff's disregard for LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . A commitment that had been made by the Democratic Party and by us in the Kennedy-Johnson period had not been fulfilled. Go back to the five-vote margin to expand the Rules Committee. There was further change in procedure in subsequent years, but he moved from
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of "they're all sons of bitches" businessmen problem that President Kennedy had; we were sensitive about that. Nevertheless, we wanted to get some public signal out there because the press was saying, "Was there any response from the administration?" and what
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://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 Krim -- II -- 6 Bobby Kennedy, saying that people would think of him as snooping
  • Baker, Robert Kennedy and wiretapping; President Kennedy’s record; LBJ on civil rights and voting rights; Richard Russell; the LBJ Presidential Library; the appointment of Abe Feinberg’s brother to the Circuit Court; relations with Pakistan; first visit
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • : Janet Kerr-Tener PLACE: Mr. Saperstein's residence, Silver Spring, Maryland Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 K: I wanted to start out by asking you to recap your education and some of your career highlights prior to the Kennedy and Johnson years. I know
Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dealing with was going to be a long-term operation. You also have to remember, back in the sixties, that the Kennedy Administration followed the Eisenhower Administration, and there just weren't that many people either at the federal level or at the local
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Budget, was an old friend and neighbor. President Kennedy in April 1963 had asked the Council of Economic Advisors for a report on what ought to be done about poverty. [I heard Roger Wilkins say on the radio yesterday that Kennedy's request came out
  • Opportunity (OEO); Robert Kennedy's and the Justice Department's involvement in drafting bills for community action programs; the Bureau of the Budget's response to CAP; White House support for community action; the assumption that CAP would work within local
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . By this time, in '58, future President John F. Kennedy is getting geared up quite well. Of course Johnson is or isn't gearing up, and there's lots of debate. Did you get any insights on that jockeying that must have been going on at that time? H: One
  • Policy Committee: going to work for Senator William Proxmire in 1958 as a liaison between Proxmire and LBJ; Proxmire's and LBJ's different political styles; Senator John F. Kennedy gearing up for a national political role in 1958; Proxmire's committee
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be jury trials, or whether there would be judge trials, and whether or not contempt of court would be civil or criminal. We took the hard line, the liberals, namely the criminal contempt for violations and no jury trial. It was here where Jack Kennedy made
Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • about 1960? Did you go to the convention in Los Angeles as a Stevenson supporter still? H: No, I did not. M: You had become a, what, Kennedy [supporter] at that time, or Johnson? H: Frankly, in 1960 Senator Sparkman was up for re-election
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -- I -- 4 establishment of the National Library of Medicine, which is a direct outgrowth of this study. This was adopted by the Congress; Senators Hill and Kennedy joined together to put in a bill to establish the National Library of Medicine
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • [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
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President can have a very substantial influence on the program of an agency like this one. M· How does the impact that Mr. Johnson has compare to that of President Kennedy before him? G: Well, I would say there were no marked differences between them
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • he became President? Do you have any insights to the situation between Stevenson and President Johnson after that? S: Let me see. Did he die while President Johnson was in office, or while President Kennedy-M: He died in August of '65. S: Well
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 25 I serve in the Senate right now may well be very soon a candidate for the Presidency of the United States." As it turned out, it was a very nice-looking, youthful-looking Senator by the name of John F. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -17- F: That's the one where they chose Mrs. Randolph, right? L: That's right. F: What did you do in the 1960 campaign? L: I was active for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and I maintained that The Convention I'm thinking about is a different [one
  • ; “Viva Kennedy-Johnson Clubs;” LBJ’s effort to build up leaders of Mexican background; LBJ’s political sense; BRACERO problems; U.S.-Mexico relations; LBJ’s appeal to Mexican-Americans
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in your Kennedy interviews, yes, I think it does. The Taylor-Rostow mission, which came in the fall of 1961--and there has been much commentary about that particular thing--they recommended a number of steps, two of which seem to have aroused more
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 29, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Sheraton-Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start first with the Kennedy-Ives bill. We discussed that some last time but not in any
  • 1958; Kennedy-Ives bill; Texas labor; Arthur Goldberg's concern about Senate Republican Policy Committee charges; federal aid to education; National Defense Education Act; Mike Mansfield's leadership abilities; Supreme Court bills; death of Mrs
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . (Interruption) --anything that Bobby Kennedy did. The antagonism between those two men was one of the strongest I've ever seen in my life. It was just like two dogs coming into a room, when all of a sudden you hear a low growl. LBJ was determined that Bobby
  • between LBJ and Robert Kennedy; Robert McNamara's efforts to use common weapons across all arms of the military; Chuck Stone's interest in the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; LBJ's relationship with Bobby Baker; Reedy and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Clinton is a career civil servant who worked during the Kennedy Administration for Ralph Dungan. He's now the director of housing of the new Communities Program for the Department of Hous ing and Urban Development. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the whole plan . Did President Kennedy, who I guess came in at the same time that Congress started, play any specific role? Absolutely . I'm glad you mentioned that . One of the people who had most to do with getting the legislation passed and, let's say
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Kennedy campaign and worked out of the "Citizens for Kennedy" head­ quarters in Seattle there to help move that along . And then, after the election, I had become interested in government in a--my family and I have been Democrats for a long period of time
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Johnson Administration were, first, as ambassador to Brazil, a position which you continued in from the Kennedy years. Then in the beginning of 1966, you became assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs and United States coordinator
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Chiarodo -- III -- 5 Kennedy's limousine to rescue Mrs. Kennedy. So there was very strong persuasion, but he said, "I'm going to walk!" The law says they can do anything, but, while this is not popular to say about presidents
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that so much I guess I don't know whether I had the feeling, or it's just been drummed into me. F: You and George Romney, you've been brainwashed? K: No, I think for one thing a lot of them were big Kennedy fans, and they looked on Johnson as something
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Hoover, Eisenhower. First of all after Hoover, Roosevelt; and after Roosevelt, Truman; then Eisenhower; Kennedy; Johnson. six Presidents. topics. This is with five, Naturally all this time we had conversations on various I would not say the same
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of North Vietnam--going back to my visit in 1961 at the behest of President Kennedy, the report which I submitted upon my return to Washington included a reminder that the day might well come when it would be necessary to strike the source of aggression
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with me and made it clear he totally understood. Obviously, if this campaign was going anywhere the party regulars would have to be participants. Gary Hart was a student of the Kennedy era and the Kennedy campaign in 1960. He was well aware of the need
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or John Kennedy, or Robert Kennedy, if it's really a terrific speech, and he can write the best, you know that Goodwin wrote it before it's even delivered. And that's caused problems for him with everybody that he's worked for. But in any case, we
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Part of it was related to the fact that he believed, and I'm sure he went to his grave believing, that Bobby Kennedy wiretapped him. G: Wiretapped him? C: Wiretapped him, both in the year or so when his brother was running for president and Johnson
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Senate, the principal proponent of the bill was Senator [John F.] Kennedy, and the principal obstacle was the fact that Senator [John] McClellan had a bill of his own with very, very many amendments to the existing law. His, of course, was very
  • of a 1958 labor bill supported by Senator John F. Kennedy; how LBJ would gain votes for other senators' bills; LBJ's ability to get Republican senators to vote in support of Democratic plans; Senator Bill Langer's vote; how opposing senators would help each