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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • be except to ease Mrs. Kennedy's burdens if I could. S: Whenyou did become aware of things that you wanted to do--probably after the 1964 election--and started deciding what your role was going to be, did President Johnson help you in picking your three
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the conferees. I notice we had [Najeeb] Halaby call Tripp [Juan Trippe?]; we even had U.S. Steel make some calls. We tried to get guys that knew them to-And the ambitious Democrats, like [Edward] Kennedy, even though they didn't want to vote against labor
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could call some of those old southern senators and talk turkey to them. They were good friends, and he had worked with them for years. So I always thought that Lyndon was able to put over the Kennedy program where there was a question 4 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by the local officials, and so on. Lyndon came back with that knowledge, and then he started thinking about the route we were going to take. There were several officials that were not exactly happy about his running with Jack Kennedy or about being
  • LBJ was convinced to be John F. Kennedy's running mate; LBJ's and Hale Boggs' dedication to the War on Poverty and civil rights, especially in the South; Lynda Johnson dating George Hamilton; Hale Boggs' involvement in Adlai Stevenson's 1956
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said Duckworth liked him generally? B: Yes. I don't remember how it trailed off. Back when we went to Hyannis Port after the convention, Duckworth did not like the Kennedys. I forget what period he was in at that time but he didn't like them. So we
Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)
  • will record that he was the greatest Majority Leader in the history of the Senate. He was elected Vice-President on November 8, 1960, and became President of the United States upon the death of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. He was elected President
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . We used to meet once a year, and in this particular year we met in Washington. It was just shortly after President Kennedy's assassination and Johnson's succession to the presidency. M: This would be early 1964 or late 1963? V: Well, I'm
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; the Manpower Development and Training Act, as such, was proposed by the then Kennedy Administration. It was a piece of legislation designed to provide training opportunities for the unemployed and under-employed people to retrain them for occupations for which
Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , and also personal friends of mine. Henry Brooks, who had been the former district attorney of Travis County supported me and did all he could for me. PB: I understand that a man of our age who is now in Corpus Christi, named Vann Kennedy, was also one
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and wife relationship. I am sure she was a constant counselor; she was present at times of great stress. I know for example the early morning hours when Senator Kennedy was shot and the following day when the announcement had been made of his death
Oral history transcript, Erich Leinsdorf, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , which by then was already known as the Kennedy Center. At the ground breaking ceremonies, which, if my memory serves me right, took place in early December 1967, I was sitting on that rostrum behind the President and chatted. He was always, invariably
  • of the Kennedy Center; the 1965 signing of the immigration bill on Liberty Island; appointed assistant director of Corporation for Public Broadcasting; LBJ and music
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1 -- 3 G: Kennedy introduced essentially a Medicare program that year that would be financed by an increase in Social Security taxes. Do you remember that? M: Well, I remember Johnson and [Robert] Kerr cooperating on some kind of a Medicare
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • one is retarded children with the Kennedys and with Hubert Humphrey who had a retarded grandchild. So you get--but I just do not recall any specifics about that. G: Anything on the health lobby? People like Mary Lasker? M: Well, Mary Lasker--what
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there that Protestants no longer--and of course the Kennedy election helped--feared that there would be a tunnel between the Vatican and the White House as they had talked about during the Al Smith campaign. Catholics on their part--and this is the most important part
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XII -- 4 too bad~ These were the hearings, by the way, out of which grew Kennedy's missile gap charge during the 1960 campaign, which was not true. G: There was no missile gap. Did Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and was campaigning in Texas. for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in 1960. nomination to the Texas House. I campaigned I had just won the Democratic I did not have a Republican opponent, and I was an active campaigner for the Democratic ticket in 1960. M: Were you
  • Recollections of meeting LBJ in 1958 as a UT students and later in 1960 during Kennedy-Johnson campaign; contacts with LBJ when Speaker of House; LBJ's continued help and influence on Barnes' career; Johnson-Connally political base; support of LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hobby -- I -- 3 President Kennedy. The Post did not support the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, but supported Mr. Nixon in that year. And in 1964 we supported Mr. Johnson. M: So
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Have you ever participated in any other similar type of oral history project? A: I've had a lot of colleges interview me on similar projects, and some of the Kennedy people interviewed me on John Kennedy's Presidency and my association with him. He
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have. Because Udall, who later became a congressman, he and some of the others were quietly working and organizing at the convention with [John F.J Kennedy. And at that time I thought that was a kind of a turning point, and he was losing the West
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • took a vice presidential position in 1960? H: Well, r really wasn't surprised because I felt that Jack Kennedy was a pretty smart politician, and he wanted LBJ over the willing candidates for a very particular reason. That was because LBJ
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • written into the Democratic platform an idea to have a heart conference at the presidential level, and President Kennedy had called such a heart conference but it was a disaster. I wondered if you remembered any of the reasons why it didn't turn out well
  • trying to get practical results from the NIH; Wilbur Cohen; fact sheets on heart disease, stroke and cancer; Lasker’s disagreements with Dr. Shannon; Truman’s effect on heart research and health insurance; the Kennedy family; doctor’s response to medical
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President-in either case, whether President Kennedy or President Johnson, had occasion to deal directly with you in your official capacity? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • associated with the War on Poverty. I understand that you are originally from New York or New Jersey. Do you want to explain how you got involved in the administration? RG: Yes. I was working in the Department of Justice during the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with the candidate as we had in past campaigns. In 1960, I don't believe I saw anything of President Johnson when he was running with Jack Kennedy, as the Vice Presidential candidate. PresiC'.ential candidates at all. him as a reporter, at the We paid no attention
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • complained about Kennedy and bitterly complained about 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
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, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~ F: There's some haziness as to whether Johnson had any hopes in '56 or not. I was. I did go. You know, that's the one in which Kefauver and Kennedy got tied up. M: Well, I ' l l tell you. Lyndon hadn't said a ,vord to me about that thing
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • your wedding. II They were living· at the Kennedy-Warren. [A D. C. apartment house] So they asked us to make up a list of whom we wanted. Philip had been here a year and a half, and the list got so big that the wedding had to be moved from
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • entertained President Kennedy the day after he was assassinated. He {'Kennedy] was coming from Dallas to Austin for a dinner, then LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : From October, 1963. M: So that would be during the final months of the Kennedy Administration you joined the Weather Bureau, and came over here during the Johnson Administration. W: That's correct. When ESSA was formed in 1965, I was nominated
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in his life I never did see it. He was a close friend of Vann Kennedy and very active in any political campaign that came along. How he made his living is something else � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the Farmers Home Administration under President Kennedy's Administration . M: Could you compare roughly the Agriculture Department's operations and goals in the days of the Resettlement Administration with the goals of the Farmers Home Administration
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Anthony] Kennedy in which he said he didn't promise anything to the White House. There was no subtlety; it was low interest rates, low interest rates, low interest rates. Then I brought Brimmer in to the President and the President started right off
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a discernab le differenc e in viewpoint or emphasis or interest toward the United Nations or other internati onal organiza­ tion by President Johnson as compared to, say, President Kennedy? S: Well, of course, in this field of United Nations affairs
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to that, during the Johnson Administration, you were an assistant to the Secretary of Treasury from about 1963 on. Is that right? D: From the beginning of the Kennedy M: From '61 until you-- D: Until I came back here. M: Did you have any occasion prior
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at that time, I had met him, but I can't say that I knew him. This was 1962? There was a presidential election in 1960 with Kennedy and Nixon. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thing begat another as a result of this one visit. Mr. West told me that Mrs. Kennedy was thinking about publishing and selling post cards on the White House at the White House, and he wondered if the Park Service had any kind of vehicle which might
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • under President Kennedy, at least none that I recall. The first day that we were sworn in we all got herded into Sherman Adams' old office and took the oath together, and that was the last tL--:e, I think, we ever got in the same room. P=esident Johnson