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Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

wouldn't reappoint anybody, so that time ran out . So when Eisenhower came in, he appointed a whole new group of seven [members] . That kept on going . When Kennedy came in, the whole seven were coming in 1963 for reappointment at that time . One

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CLIFTON C. CARTER--8 In 1952, we had had Governor Shivers and Senator Daniel endorse President Eisenhower and the Republicans, and Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn were determined this would not happen again

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 12 F: That, of course, was the one thing Al Smith did for the party, and later Eisenhower, you know that was the first time they recognized that they ought to pay some attention to them. Did you see anything of Johnson while he was vice president

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

been there in the Eisenhower period and part of the Kennedy period and being a professional had no difficulty getting along with any of them. I think here sometimes the lay public tends to assume that we're all a lot more ideological and committed

Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

," and "This is for this department, I want a report on it." I think he followed it. He'd turn it over to a subordinate, the head of another department, yet he still kept it with him. I don't think he's the type of man who can delegate things, I think Eisenhower was a great

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the light of having served under really four Presidents almost-- A: Three. P: Didn't Eisenhower come in there in one part of it? A: No, you see, my resignation took place the day that he was inaugurated. So I served under three Democratic Presidents

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

? B: We then spent months working on legislation between the staffs of those two Senators and others; and if I recall correctly, a bill was passed which President Eisenhower vetoed and later a watered down version was passed which the President signed

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And there was a big political hurrah about it at that But that was his [Secretary of Treasury Anderson under Eisenhower] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it. Sure. After the Democrats took the Senate, what, in the first by election in Eisenhower's period? G: Yes. S: The morning after the election, Lyndon called me and he said, "My friend, I'm going to buy some more stations, and I want you to tell me

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

know, some of the worst judicial appointments made were made by the Kennedys in the South. We basically got along on the old Eisenhower appointments. B: Does anybody in particular stand out in your mind? Y: Oh yes. Judge Cox from Mississippi

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

will be curved and what have you. Lastly, you had this great tradition stemming back to the Eisenhower years--and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the elevator, personally. If he came into the office I don't recollect it. He had a very good relationship with [Dwight] Eisenhower and always spoke kindly of him. I think it was the office of the president that he was bound and determined to respect. I do

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the National Guard for anything in race, we would have had a different racial history, just like if you had a northerner as president at the time of Selma and all like that, and they had sent in troops as Eisenhower did in Little Rock, we wouldn't have

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that he did the most for were the first to turn on him when he was in the White House. B: Like who? E: Oh, you can take most of your southern states. My gosh, when we were needing so much help under the Eisenhower Administration here in the Tennessee

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

it out of a department, we never would have had any means to get anything done with. So that's the reason why we put it there. It was well known that the Congress was not going to let anybody go beyond what Eisenhower had done in expenditures. You'll

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

what he thought was best for the nation. History has proven what Mr. Eisenhower said) had it not been for Lyndon Johnson as the majority leader, President Eisenhower never would have gotten a program passed. When the President [Johnson] thought

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

idea of what the business and banking community really operate like. That's a bad sentence, Eisenhower syntax. But the real question is what is banking like in the real world and not in the textbook; what is the way in which IT&T conducts its affairs

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

also seen in your government service a transition from the Eisenhower years to the Kennedy years. Did this kind of situation develop there, too? Between the old and the new? R: In the beginning there was certainly some suspicion as to actions taken

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But that time \'/hen the argument got too hot and heavy, General Twining would just bundle all up and go over and sit down and talk to the President. The President didn't agree with Taylor either, talking about President Eisenhower, so that was it. with his

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

appointment to the AEC. I received the balance of Sumner Pike's term and was not reappointed by President Eisenhower. M: I'd like to get started just generally speaking and ask you if you recall your very first acquaintance or association with Mr. Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 25 If Eisenhower had said this in '55 or '56 after the Geneva Conference, in my opinion

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was involved, he really VJas involved, in those early days; it vJas during the last days of the Eisenhower Administration. And I found him supportive of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

already begun under the Eisenhower Administration with the creation of the Inter-American Bank and with the Act of Bogotá [Bogotá Agreement], which had been agreed to with Douglas Dillon, who was the American representative that summer of 1960. The term

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with--but take Brennan, I used to play golf sometimes with Eisenhower and he told me that Brennan had disappointed him; that Judge Vanderbilt, who was then the Chief Justice of New Jersey and upon whose court Brennan sat, had told him that Brennan was more

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but then, he was running against a general, and a very popular one. If you'll notice, in most of his speeches he always referred to Eisenhower as "the general." And isn't it strange that we didn't turn off at a "general" but I guess we were just sold

Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Eisenhower won the presidency and the control of Congress in the 1952 election--at that time I was administrator of what was the Small Defense Plants Administration, a piece of legislation which Senator Sparkman, Senator Johnson, mostly Democrats but some

Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 Presidency that there was an effective presentation and a creation of the present Department of Housing and Urban Development. As an active mayor, I had been appointed first by President Eisenhower when the Advisory Commission

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Johnson More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh VII 22 wasn't brought up until he got back and was able to lead it through. Of course, Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

didn't know when I was going out to Indochina, but I got a call again from him, and th.en I started taking French, and then I got a call from the air force saying, "Th.e President"-- meaning Eisenhower--"has just called. He's been talking

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at doing, as history has already recorded. I believe President Eisenhower made the statement that without Lyndon he never would have gotten any of his program through. The President was a statesman as well as a partisan, but he appealed to the members