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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

early because of the Strauss Lewis Strauss had been on the Atomic Energy Commission and was being nominated now by President Eisenhower in 1959 for the post of Secretary of Commerce. And I was on the Commerce Committee also at this time, and that's

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

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and as often and as efficiently as it had, for instance, during the Eisenhower Administration, because it was pre-empted to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, of McNamara, George Ball, even of Dean Acheson a little bit--and that famous exchange, "Now take Dean here, the man who got us into the Korean War, couldn't get us out, and had to call in Dwight Eisenhower to do it for him!" M: N: There are a small number

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of thing more than Eisenhower did, and that if we were going to do it we ought to go a step beyond and it should be at least a dollar. G: I gather that most senator~ or a lot of them, did not feel that he could win that vote, and there was a bit

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Adams--I--16 A: I didn't know what to say with that. As I started to say before the press photographers, I had sung for Eisenhower and for Kennedy, and I never was asked by Johnson. they said, "Well, he didn't attend

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No--you're talking about when President Eisenhower sent troops? G: Yes. V: I don't know if it did. Luster off in what way? Do you mean that--? G: Well, it looked like this transformation would not be as smooth as perhaps they had originally thought. V

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

groups during President Eisenhower's Administration. I served as president of Frontiers of Science Foundation of Oklahoma. And so all of this was in a framework where quite independent of Senator Kerr's activities, I was performing a function

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, "the President's man." That's the title of a book, or almost [The President's Men: White House Assistants of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson by Patrick Anderson]. How do those books get written

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

use he came from the Hi 11. it's Senator Knowland. He sa i d, "We 11 , He has decided that we're giving too much to the U.N." He said, "I've talked to him; Dulles has talked to him; Eisenhower has talked to him." So I said, "Well, Fran, what

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

nominees. There shouldn't be any hocus pocus about putting Eisenhower on there as the Democratic nominee and putting them on as some kind of independents or something. M: Did Mr. Johnson's activity in the Leland Olds case as he was reappointed

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

before making that decision?" (Laughter) So Tom Mattingly, who was one of Eisenhower's physicians, and I went to Nicaragua. They picked us up--picked me up; Mattingly, I think, was in Washington at the time. But they picked me up the next morning

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Eleanor Roosevelt than some of the other first ladies, like Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Truman, who just kind [of] were in back. He always was pressing Mrs. Johnson to get into some thing that she would enjoy and take leadership in. Of course, she did select

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

House; [Dwight] Eisenhower was in his final year. The old judge died, a very famous judge, a court of appeals judge which operates, in our district, out of St. Louis, and the Republicans sent up a number of names which the two senators turned down

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

Eisenhower after his heart attack, and he was very sensitive about things like cholesterol, he never smoked again, he watched the fat in his diet. Did President Johnson ever give any indication that he was paying attention to a regimen of that sort

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration when the Republicans had charge of the Congress during the 83rd, I believe. I don't recall my first personal contact with the PreSident, that is, person to person conversations with him, unless it was when he was going into North

Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 Kennedy or President Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

certainly since the Eisenhower Administration- -it was reaffirmed by President Kennedy- -that the ambassador speaks for the President in a foreign country, that all of the other members of the country team, our people, the C. 1. A. people, the U. S. 1. S

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thei s -- I -- 11 were not happy about some of the leftover commitments from the QuemoyMatsu days, the Eisenhower years. It was one of those things that has continued up until--and still

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. It was there that Governor Shivers, having bolted the Democratic Party in behalf of President Eisenhower in 1952, some of us felt that that same posture would be taken in 1956. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, extend to the White House? W: Hhy, yes, of course it was of concern. F: Did you have any opportunity to observe Mr. Eisenhower's hand in the committee or not? Or did he seem to leave it alone? W: As far as I know, he left it alone. F: They had

Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)