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Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wire services and the networks has been a foregone conclusion, was during President Kennedy's news conferences, and for that matter during President Eisenhower's. There was sort of a list that they run down to make sure they recognize a representative

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

times he'd seen the press counting up the numbers as against the times that Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower had seen the press and how it really had not been as different numerically as had been indicated i,n the papers. But [he said] that he

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

when Nr . Eisenhower came in . He had to be minority leader over there . But it's one of those things that the only thing I can tell the difference is, when you're in the minority, as far as the office of doorkeeper is concerned, you have everything

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

another. I believe I agreed sometime late in January, after I had gone back to Dallas to come up. My partner had worked in the Eisenhower campaign, and he wanted to come up and join the Eisenhower Administration. and I came up here very early in February

Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be pretty conservative and Roosevelt was not . . . F: That's a dozen years ago, but do you recall whether he made any comment on President Eisenhower? W: I don't believe he did, specifically. President Eisenhower at all. He was not attacking I forget

Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

years based on increases in labor, materials and additional areas added to the Park System. So things began humming and the morale of the organization went up. I was even called in to present the programs to President Eisenhower and the Cabinet, which

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

swallow that. The Republicans were in great glee. That was socialized Homer Capehart prepared an amendment to reduce the six-hundred thousand housing units to thirty thousand, which had been recommended by Eisenhower. assumed that Johnson was going

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

measures under Eisenhower; relationship with LBJ; 1944 Democratic National Convention; Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower; LBJ's leadership; McCarthy period; Johnson for President Committee, 1960; ethics; Johnson

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

dumb. Kennedy never used this I'm sure that Eisenhower didn't. But LBJ frequently "Now, you know, you got me into this last time, Bob, but now what about this time?" Perhaps the most notable occasion of his forcing us to constantly revalidate

Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for General [Dwight] Eisenhower and General [Omar] Bradley in terms of assembling the books for the JCS meetings and writing the briefs and the recommendations and all that sort of stuff. One of the people I had met at that point was a Colonel Vernon P. Mock

Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and and i t was painted red , but t h a t ' s as f a r as i t went about being a l i t t l e red schoolhouse, you know, as we accept i t , but the l i n e sounded f i n e . We were up in Eisenhower's headquarters and a s tr a n g e thing: in the room were

Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

', there's one right behind you on the wall. There's a presidential helicopter and they're ours. Right after Eisenhower, they flew our helicopters, and Johnson, of course, was one of them. He flew on our helicopters. I used to check them out when they came

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the Hill--his representatives; he called members of Congress more in one week than the Nixon Administration does in a month, or the Eisenhower Administration, or the Truman Administration. It was his style. It's the only kind that will work. A more docile

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but as the years went by, LBJ grew more and more dependent upon General Eisenhower and President Truman, part of it being nothing more than a very small fraternity of people who had served in the same spot, but also in the sense--and this sounds terrible to say

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

meeting? B: No. G: Did you go to Gettysburg during that time? B: No. G: I thought maybe you might have met with former President Eisenhower. B: Well, I met with him once when he was in the hospital, but just the date I can't quite remember

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of this precedent. Now this is not what you were talking about, but you need this. The thing that was uppermost in everybody's mind in Washington about Nixon toward the end or at the end of the Eisenhower Administration and his campaign, was his ill-fated visit

Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a grant for Oral History of Eisenhower and Stevenson, and he said it would be nice if you did something like that for Harry Truman, and a couple of years later we got a good application and did. in keeping his hands off of it and so did his staff. But he

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

forth. And the result is that a White House staff--at least the Kennedy staff, and I would generalize more broadly; not the Eisenhower staff, but the Johnson staff and I gather the Nixon staff--relates so much to the man who is President that the rest

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Well, let's see, the Eisenhowers I know did enjoy Fred Waring quite a bit. And Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians were here on many occasions. Then I suppose, too, people have a tendency to pick up highlights in each administration. And I suppose

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the second most powerful man in the nation when Eisenhower was President. He recognized that he could not be that powerful if Kennedy won the election. Now, you might say, "Well, Nixon would have won and then he'd still be Majority Leader." exactly what

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, by the fairness with which Nr. Johnson--then-Senator Johnson--acted while President Eisenhower was in the hbite House. I think that he displayed a tremendous amount of pa- triotism and a great lack of political partisanship during those years. I think

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there? Because a friendly nation asked us to help them repel aggression and three presidents have made that pledge." wasn't true. No. Three presidents hadn't made it. Well, it Eisenhower never promised anything but economic aid, and Kennedy never made any

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

like Eisenhower and Truman have been called upon for advice and counsel. Because no one knows the great burden or great responsibility that a man has in that office until he has gone through it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, South Dakota voted more overwhelmingly for Eisenhower in 1952 than any other state in the Union. And it was shortly after that that I first met George McGovern, the new state chairman. Well, George McGovern got elected to the House

Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

when these farm programs were started that we'd get a fair shake for agriculture. B: In other words, it would almost certainly be a change from the policies of the Eisenhower Administration? L: Yes. Getting back a little bit on how I happened

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

- cated at the time that the administration, the Eisenhower Administration, had failed to protect the wool industry properly. M: No. I don't recall that. I probably voted with Lyndon on it because out inmy state--I'm sure I did--we have wool too

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

service with the Civil Rights Commission in 1960 on into the Kennedy years, did you have an opinion of Lyndon Johnson in those days? M: No, I didn't. When I entered the government of course, Mr. Eisenhower was the President. I entered in July of 1960

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the history of the United States--no parallel in the history of any other President. When you figure the amount of 1egislation--just take education, federal aid to education! practically nil. Under the Eisenhower Administration, it was I think it went up

Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Mrs. Eisenhower's clothes, remember. In the spring of the year, for instance, the first lady is guest of honor at the Senate wives luncheon. The routine was about the same, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it isn't still the same, but each

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the two houses, there would have been no end to it. I've seen a number of instances which I felt that Mansfield and McCormack really didn't push, the way that Rayburn and Johnson would have, well, as they did for Eisenhower. P: There was a great man

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, as you may know. This is an understanding that President Eisenhower made with the Senate Armed Services Committee. However, the Joint Chiefs of Staff consider it inappropriate for them to comment on who should be appointed the chief of a service [Army

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a kid, pretty near. He had been head of the House of Representatives. G: I understand that in 1954, President Eisenhower nominated you as an alternate delegate to the U.N. Do you know why you were selected? N: Yes. They tried to balance

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people when he was retained by Eisenhower on the ticket. G: The Checkers speech. O: The Checkers speech. We considered excerpting from the Checkers speech with another punch-in-the-nose type spot. We were getting into dangerous territory because how

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

chairman. Well, Eisenhower for some reason that I don't understand, insisted on being chairman of the President's Advisory Council on Outer Space. And so, that was--we gave in to them simply to be sure that we could get the bill through the Congress. One

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Eisenhower wanted done . He'd get it done, get a bill passed, and he felt that was going to come to an end . about it . I remember he talked One reason he wanted to be the vice president was he felt he had reached the top in input in the Senate