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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but you never know what's in the back of a man's mind--but from my observation of history at that time and listening to many folks talk and upon reflection of McNamara's background . . . You remember that when President Kennedy was killed in Dallas
Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and enthusiasm, he felt a certain sense of implied inferiority to President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy, who somehow or other had managed to steal the limelight, as it were, to act as the very embodiment of culture. And so he was delighted to think
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a number of times in Washington while he was a congressman. F: You were on the Civil Rights Commission. Of course that started under Eisenhower and continued under Kennedy, but Johnson as vice president had some concern with that. Did you work with him
  • the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • that the Michigan Demo- cratic party had control of the rooms for these people, and that what he was probably up against was the fact that Michigan had already gone on record for Kennedy and they probably didn't want those Southerners there. I said I didn't think
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . McCormack were working for President Kennedy at the time, and you and Mr. Rayburn, of course, with Senator Johnson. P: But not for vice president. You know, Mr. Rayburn almost blocked Johnson getting the vice presidency because he felt like it was kind
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • side of the street was totally wrecked, the other side wasn't touched. G: Anything on the Kennedy assassination? R: You mean Bobby? G: Yes. R: The main thing I remember, I'd gone to bed early that night and Sam Houston called me. He was watching
  • Reedy’s return to LBJ’s staff; preparations for 1968 campaign; March 31, 1968 speech, Washington riots; assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy; Reedy’s book on the presidency; maritime strike; Sam Houston; last year of LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , nineteen books by or about Robert Kennedy that were to be published in the fall and spring, before the elections of 1968. And that called to my attention [that] I hadn't seen anything about Johnson--particularly pro-Johnson; obviously there were books
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • school and college . . . president of the student council sort of activity . Later, I considered running for the United States Senate, but President Kennedy chose current Senator Tydings rather than me . I picked the weak spot to run against
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but I was going almost as an emissary for Dave Hackett, who in turn was acting as an emissary for Bobby Kennedy. That was where the sort of go power was, and that was perceived, even though small in terms of funds, as exercising enormous clout
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a bi t of trouble. There were huge crowds out, and he and Kennedy were in the parade; they were the main dignitaries. M: When did you see C: I can't be sure just when it was I saw him again. t1: Did you see him between that 1960 parade and the time
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't think most presidents do. I mean, I think that's one of the reasons--they may do it once or twice early on, but I can remember [John] Kennedy once literally walked--the only meeting I ever went to, when he was President, with him, was over a covert
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • brother's insistence that Kennedy had his eyes fixed on 1960 and already had started a 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, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you invited him before he became president, or had you invited President Kennedy and he inherited the job? G: No, we had not invited President Kennedy. The point was that the building wasn't ready, and we didn't know just when it was going
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and this again is something that is just a historical point, I've always thought that both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Eisenhower suffered a great serious loss in the first nine months of their first terms. When Senator Taft died the Republican Party control
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and styles of work and expression are different from ours. So this really was the reason that I didn't. But finally, I came in because Mr. Freeman and nr. Kennedy really wanted a major analysis of all of the structural attributes of the food distribution
  • Evaluation of LBJ; LBJ’s knowledge of, and interest in, the cattle business; government program to purchase surplus beef during the cattle crisis; transition from Kennedy to LBJ administration; shepherding bills through Congress and keeping LBJ
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Of course, that was primarily a Kennedy campaign. OM: That's true. F: Mr. Johnson was subordinate in this instance, except you did have . . . Vr'1: We had the tea F: You had the tea Vfvl: Yes. F: Tell me a little bit about them. VM: ~'Jell
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
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it to them, here it is. F: Right. Well it continued to be an issue though, and when Eisenhower goes out and the Kennedy Administration comes in, they still come back to you for help on that. I: That's right. F: What did they do on that? I: Gee
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Commission. He went back to Truman. He had been reappointed a couple of times and had been in the Eisenhower years I know and of course the Kennedy years, since John F. Kennedy was very fond of his son, or at least leaned on him. I would presume he was fond
Oral history transcript, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to overstay my welcome. B: No, go ahead. Go ahead G: In 1960 you were secretary for the Committee for Kennedy and Johnson in Houston, is that correct? 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • for Kennedy/Johnson in Houst 1960; 1964 Senate election against Ralph Yarborough; personal vs. political friend to LBJ; 1970 Senate election against Yarborough; advice from LBJ; LBJ's retirement
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . President Kennedy, I think, was equally clear that the assassination of Diem and [Ngo Dinh] Nhu was a terrible thing, but I believe had tended to side with those who felt that there was reason for putting pressure on Diem and hoping for change, without
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 16 and Robert Kennedy was then counsel. I'm not very clear what this was all aimed at--whether
  • Policy; Clarence Randall; Chad McClellan; Henry Thurton; Sherman Adams; Stanley Nehmar; Henry Kearns; President Kennedy; Census Bureau; Stanley Ruttenberg; Assistant Secretary Weaver; textile structure; meeting-labor textile advisory commission; White
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be in line and held give them the spoon and say okay, taste it. We thought, at least I thought, Senator Russell was a very good man and a good friend of the President. G: Now, Senator Robert Kennedy came out that fall, too, to go hunting. 0: Yes
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Kennedy Administration, Goodwin was an assistant to Assistant Secretary Martin, who was in charge of Latin America. First he was in the White House. He had run into a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of President Kennedy Of course, I never being assassinated, or dying, or any- thing like that, although those are always possibilities. basically, I thought that as ~lajority But Leader people knew him, but that LBJ Presidential Library http
  • ; Spears’ support for LBJ as Vice-President; the relationship between LBJ and John F. Kennedy; Spears’ appointment as a federal judge; Johnson’s relationship with Ralph Yarborough; removing himself from politics as a judge; asking LBJ for favors; Mrs
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Washington. In the contexts I've seen him in, this wouldn't be easy We've to~do. been in situations where he naturally would have to divide attention among a number of people who would be there. M: Did you have any connection with the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an issue from 1911, when the United States declared that they couldn't comply with the award, until 1963, when it was finally settled in the agreement between President Kennedy and President López Mateos. F: As vice president and as a man from
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was to provide for undergraduate scholarships. It got into a controversial teacher corps proposal, which was not in the initial presentation but was something Gaylord Nelson and Ted Kennedy had an interest in. That became the single most controversial aspect. G
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in October of ' 6 0 . The man he had named previously, who had formerly been District Commissioner, died before reaching Quito, and so I was the next one chosen. F: I don't want to pre-empt what people working on John F. Kennedy might ask you sometime
  • Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sure, also they'd had their prior battle with President Kennedy. We did want to avoid the sort of "sons of bitches" stuff that Kennedy had gotten into. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the SEC in the Johnson presidency as compared to earlier presidencies? C: No, I don't think so. First of all, I can't speak about relationships of earlier administrations--with the possible exception of the Kennedy Administration--and members
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Turkey." However, '~ow, doggone, Not the bases, but the Jupiter missiles, I think--Jupiter or Thor that we had in Turkey. Kennedy put real heat on on that, and they were moved out shortly thereafter. F: When you said the President, you meant
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that President Johnson continued the same general advisory team that President Kennedy had and that you've got the sort of continuity that you'd have with keeping on the same team. Another is that Johnson in effect has sabotaged the Kennedy approach to foreign
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Shriver's selection? Y: No. No, again, as I think I spelled out in that article of mine you've got ["The Beginnings of OEO"], I was aware of the fact that there was a task force under Kennedy. task forces. I guess there were several I was vaguely
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and he would be well placed to be there early. It may have been it had something to do with some military contractors, because we know that during the Kennedy years, when Johnson was vice president, that Houston was chosen to be the space center, and I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contact with the field. That operation was under the direction of Nancy Lyons, who had been extremely effective, she and the other women, in the Kennedy campaign.She was 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • presence as the sudden president of the United States after he had perhaps come to like Kennedy, or at least Jacqueline Kennedy. But Lyndon only regarded him because of his relation to his people, was my impression. And he used to just say, "Don't you do
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and finally when Kennedy accepted him as vice president, we all were very reluctant and very fearful that he was going to be one of the worst racists that we ever had up there. F: Right. E: I think rightfully so, because he had never done anything
  • Evers' friendship with LBJ as VP and President; LBJ as Chairman of Equal Employment Commission for JFK; LBJ and Louis Martin at meeting of black leaders; Voters' Rights Bill signed into law; Bobby Kennedy's run for presidency; Senator James Eastland