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Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with periods of doubt as any normal person would have--to accomplish the goal of total rehabilitation. I remember when Eisenhower came to visit him. Johnson's attack was only a few days before Eisenhower's. As I recall it, Johnson was still in the hospital when
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • them, as did [General Dwight] Eisenhower. I don't know whether it 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • role in that position; 1951 congressional issues, including initiating a military draft; attempts to persuade Dwight Eisenhower to run for the presidency; Major J. R. Parten; Washington, D.C. social events, especially involving Texans; Zephyr Wright's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the underground city of Berchtesgaden, and oh, just a whole lot around over Europe, saw the devastated cities. I think it strengthened forever his determination that nothing like that was going to happen to us. G: He met with General Eisenhower, and that could
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . So I knew Joe, and then he--he was a great guy. He was the one bad appointment that Roosevelt made. He was a genius at selecting, picking out Ike [Dwight D. Eisenhower] to put him in charge of that. He didn't know whether Ike was a good soldier
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of him clearly and in great depth. I found him extraordinarily well-informed about foreign affairs. I think his experience as Majority Leader during the Eisenhower Administration brought him into daily contact with the principal issues of foreign affairs
Oral history transcript, W. Sterling Cole, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • y in f r o n t o f me and— G: Would you [ l i k e to see t h i s ] ? C: No, no. G: W e l l, in P a r i s I s e e t h a t you met w ith General Eisenhower and My eyes a r e ba d, [ i n a u d i b l e ] . [ L i e u t e n a n t G e n e r a l
  • May 1945 Special Committee to study naval properties in the British Isles; Europe and North Africa; meeting with Eisenhower at "Little Red Schoolhouse;" Marshall Plan; North Africa; Munich; Dachau and Berchesgaden; relationship with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • served in that position during the years of 1951 and 1952. They were the Majority Leader and the Majority Whip. In 1952 in an election with Eisenhower and Stevenson, we became the minority by two votes, 49 to 47, and Ernest McFarland served those two
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the army and didn't get into politics, and I voted for Truman and I voted for Eisenhower. But in the army I wasn't--but Lyndon never asked me, so I laughingly say that I'm the only registered Republican that ever ran the Democratic Policy Committee. But we
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was convenient. H: The payroll was just where he could manipulate, best use his funds. M: How did your association, your fairly close association, with him get started? H: Well, after the Eisenhower Administration came on and they announced their intention
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in space was fairly accurate; that what had happened was, I think, largely budgetary considerations--the Eisenhower Administration had--well, not exactly suppressed--certainly had not given a great deal of emphasis-- F: Had preferred to disbelieve-- W
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with them, they thought they owned you; and if you disagreed with them, they thought you were sour-graping them. So that policy has stood, except for 1952 when we came out for Eisenhower. The paper and the publisher have remained inactive, but Phil
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • him as a possibility. He was leader of the party during the Eisenhower years for eight years, I suppose, since we, the democrats, were not in power in the executive branch of the government, as the democratic leader and the Majority Leader
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • operation between the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations grew and became more closely looked at and handled more discriminately shall we say, I believe. I can't say directly from personal knowledge of the operation under President Eisenhower. I know
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • control of that Convention pretty well until they let Doss Hardin get hold of the loud speaker. I'm just not sure which Convention that was. No, this Convention I'm thinking about didn't go for Eisenhower. The Amarillo Convention went for Eisenhower. F
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 27 within the next few weeks that maybe that will be done. F: Let's go back a little bit. In the 1950s, the credit for the success of Mr. Eisenhower's domestic program is tended
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that had been created. B: Was there any temptation at that time on the part of anyone in the Senate to indulge in a little recrimination against the Eisenhower Administration for political advantage? W: Yes, there was, but not by Mr. Johnson. Mr
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it with a lot of people. The man who's really the most responsible for that is Mr. Killian--James R. Killian--who was , President Eisenhower's science adviser. He had appointed Killian, I think, back in November as his response, you see, to the Sputnik
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And in '59, he was expecting even greater things, but Eisenhower learned the formula, so to speak, and started this budget-busting thing. Everything that the Democrats would propose, well, the Republicans would not oppose them on the merits; they would
Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ; and President Eisenhower, President Kennedy, and President Johnson each have LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to tell you that himself? M: Yes, once. Once when Eisenhower was visiting the White House and I was--I believe it was the only time I was invited to the White House while Lyndon Johnson was president. It was a luncheon ceremony--no, I may be mistaken
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as the announcement was made of the suspension of hostilities, work went forward on setting this up, and the first meeting we had was in France with General Eisenhower and General Clay in what was called the Little Red Schoolhouse where this document was signed, and I
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • everything. Lyndon as floor leader in the Senate, nothing stands out particularly. He and Sam Rayburn dominated the scene legislatively. They were not obstructive as far as the Eisenhower Administration went. On the initial civil rights measures
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • cannot believe that it could be taken as anything major in that regard. I doubt it. M: Is the Eisenhower Doctrine taken seriously? B: Well, the Eisenhower Doctrine really was a momentary, short-termed thing without really any long--there was no time
  • Simbel; Cyprus issue; CENTO; Eisenhower Doctrine; Vietnam; India-Pakistan War; LBJ's speech for advice on foreign policy matters and his diplomatic performances; Richard Rovere; John Leocacos; The Establishment; personal and private papers
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? Bi : He started immediately to put them into shape . There were a lot of them who felt that the Democrats ought to oppose everything the Repub­ licans do . They ought to spend all of their time trying to cut up Presi dent Eisenhower, etc
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • new Administration. 2QH of the things was that the Kennedy Administration was differently organized than its predecessor, President Eisenhower. But let me state here that during Eisenhower's Administrations, I was abroad almost the Z K R O H time
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they do not. Eisenhower never--now, I say to the Supreme Court. F: Yes. W: I don't know, he might have to individuals on the Court, but not to me. Eisenhower never, never-- F: Not to Chief Justice Warren. W: No. President Kennedy did ask me my
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it. It worked out well. Of course, he didn't do as much for the program; Eisenhower was the best man we ever had in there for the interstate work. Eisenhower did a wonderful job. Of course, Eisenhower used this theory: get roads into these cities where you can
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • he wouldn't have, but I-- F: I would appreciate it if you would. H: Well, one of them was Joe Estes, who was a so-called Eisenhower Democrat and was appointed by Eisenhower, and the other one was T. Whitfield Davidson, who had enjoined
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, 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, 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, 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