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Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 13 well committed to that and knew that he had taken positions that were pretty difficult maybe politically to sustain, considering where he came from. G: I wonder if his cooperation with President [Dwight] Eisenhower disturbed her during the 1950s
  • minimum wage; the work of congressional liaisons under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and LBJ; the expansion of the Rules Committee; Roosevelt's trip with LBJ to Adlai Stevenson's funeral; Roosevelt leaving Congress to work with Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • president in the United States that we have ever had. Of all of our presidents, his Administration is outstanding. Whereas one president might boast of one piece of legislation, or another president might boast as our beloved Dwight Eisenhower did
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, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • probably done a better job of staying out of politics and staying out of taking public positions than any man that has ever retired from the office of the presidency in the history.. came out and endorsed everybody in the country. Harry Truman Dwight
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, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • envy Dwight Eisenhower his status as a former president of these United States." Now, this is before he had ever announced publicly he was not going to run. F: Yes. S: And Humphrey was there. I've got a picture of that meeting, and hell, I can
  • in the 1964 campaign; Humphrey's loyalty to LBJ; LBJ's popularity in Minnesota; JFK's assassination and the fear that more tragedy would follow; the likelihood that LBJ would run for re-election in 1968; LBJ's admiration of Dwight Eisenhower's life
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • and important Charles de Gaulle, and Mrs. de Gaulle, having a party at the French Embassy in honor of President and Mrs. [Dwight] Eisenhower, to which, by reasons of position, Lyndon and I went, with my eyes out on stems and taking it all in. And the Woman's
  • in Austin; LBJ's ambivalence about becoming a presidential candidate in 1960; LBJ's opinion of Mormons; Perle Mesta; the Johnsons' opinion of Charles de Gaulle; false rumors that Mamie Eisenhower was an alcoholic; Mamie Eisenhower's interests and personality
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • office played a big part in our lives. I just really cannot overemphasize how much Lyndon loved the Senate and being majority leader. And I know he could see in the changing situation--[Dwight] Eisenhower going out of office--who would the next president
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the 1950s, General [Dwight D.] Eisenhower sent to Congress some legislative proposals, one including some economic aid for Middle Eastern countries, and there was considerable controversy about the economic aid and reluctance to grant it. And Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 9 F: No, not in any meaningful personal way, only in large public gatherings. M: How about people, say, Dwight Eisenhower or major personnel? F: Same thing. Naturally I worked very closely with the chiefs of our Mission who were Mr. Philip
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • signatures I took the whole list, photostats of it, in a wheelbarrow into the White House and presented them to [Dwight] Eisenhower, changed our name to Committee of a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until she'll qualify
  • system; Eisenhower's World War II experience and how it shaped his views on China; failed American efforts to advise and train Chiang Kai-shek and his troops; why General George C. Marshall failed in regard to China; Judd's ideas on briefing the American
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to that first one. G: Okay. You did go to Camp David during that. J: The first time he went to Camp David after I came on board he asked me to come with him. Again, I had read so much about Camp David when Eisenhower was president, and all the names
  • admiration for Dwight Eisenhower; LBJ's interest in space; Jim Webb; Jacobsen's opinion of Eric Goldman; LBJ's failure to get the appreciation or cooperation of people in the arts; the 1965 White House Festival of the Arts; Vietnam in 1965; LBJ's view
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . Her's death occurred in her puppyhood. Him lived on for a long time. M: In January the name Lewis Strauss comes up, because President [Dwight] Eisenhower 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • signatures I took the whole list, photostats of it, in a wheelbarrow into the White House and presented them to [Dwight] Eisenhower, changed our name to Committee of a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until she'll qualify
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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • to the same party, according to Lyndon's beliefs you should be a loyal. You should try to do the president's bidding to carry his wood and water, and Lyndon would no longer be in that ideal position he had been in with [Dwight] Eisenhower where he could
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a little background might be interesting . I was naturally very interested in who would succeed Dwight Eisenhower, and I wanted a Democrat to be elected President . F: You had eliminated the Republican Minority Leader . B: I eliminated the Republican
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You don't think it ever got in the way of getting on with the main business of governing the country? K: No, I never felt that way. F: I'd be interested in one final question, and that is since Harry Truman, with the aberration of Dwight Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of energy and imagination to know how to make things move in Congress. During those Eisenhower years, I dare say that Congress would have been at a complete standstill if it hadn't been for Johnson. M: Was he committed to any particular issues, or was he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • them, as did [General Dwight] Eisenhower. I don't know whether it 1 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
  • role in that position; 1951 congressional issues, including initiating a military draft; attempts to persuade Dwight Eisenhower to run for the presidency; Major J. R. Parten; Washington, D.C. social events, especially involving Texans; Zephyr Wright's
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • school at the end of the Eisenhower Administration. As a means to an end I signed on with the Park Service to work I knew not where, but I was assigned to what was then called the Custis-Lee Mansion, Arlington House. As a native of western New York State
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that was unheard of certainly in Texas politics and maybe in every other state as far as I know. That Democratic State Co n vention, so-called, in Amarillo passed a resolution endorsing Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican candidate, for president and called upon
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • everything. That's what made it really great to be with Carl Hayden. So that's how I came back with him, and it was right at the height of McCarthyism when I came back right from the University of Arizona. Of course, [Dwight] Eisenhower had been elected
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on donations; 1969 tax law; physical move of material to Austin; typical appraisal workday; comparison of working conditions on LBJ and Nixon papers; controversial Nixon deed of gift; President Eisenhower memorandum; personal association with LBJ; Pentagon
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- II -- 5 simply tell the generals what they ought to do, that for different reasons both General [Dwight] Eisenhower, because he had more stars than they did, and Mr. [Harry] Truman, because he just didn't give a damn
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that in '56? H: I don't know. I never talked to him about that. But he might have felt that Dwight David Eisenhower being the great war hero that he was, that perhaps he'd be wise to wait a little bit. He may have thought that, I don't know. B
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • House' speech; LBJ and the press; LBJ’s television appearances; Festival of the Arts; Eric Goldman; Dwight MacDonald; Charlton Heston.
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; delay in appointing Secretary; rent supplements; role in formation of Model Cities Program; staffing; Dwight Ink; favored decentralization; informal meetings of all Presidential appointees; housing for HUD; cooperation with other departments; Philip
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • interest in it, if any, was negative. Yet you had a responsibility to continue these programs. I think [with] this particular battle you can underscore the problem by the appeal that Kennedy made to Eisenhower. Eisenhower had lived with foreign aid, too. He
  • , and political experience; how the JFK staff viewed LBJ; the 1963 civil rights bill; 1963 foreign aid bill; Dwight Eisenhower's and JFK's frustration with Otto Passman; 1963 test ban treaty; 1963 education bills; LBJ's view of vocational education; the naming
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to me that it was being loyal to the party. The big split, I think, was when--didn't Governor Shivers support [Dwight] Eisenhower? 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . So I knew Joe, and then he--he was a great guy. He was the one bad appointment that Roosevelt made. He was a genius at selecting, picking out Ike [Dwight D. Eisenhower] to put him in charge of that. He didn't know whether Ike was a good soldier
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to think of who. The whos don't come easy. He had other advisers than I've named; outside the government, he would talk to people. He talked to [Dwight] Eisenhower several times. G: Anything on Eisenhower's advice? J: No, I don't remember. G: Do you
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of getting a totally outside group, outside of the Office of Education obviously, but also' outside HEl-l, headed by a man called Dwight Ink from the Atomic Energy Commission. We got the President to appoint him so that there wouldn't be any horsing around
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Muttnik first went up. Then later he was chairman of the committee that hammered out the bill. He was outer space, really. Without him I don't think we would have gone along nearly as fast as we did. You may remember, Eisenhower was very skeptical
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not popular; O'Brien's and JFK's relationships with Bryce Harlow and Dwight Eisenhower; congressmen using the navy or air force for travel and Sam Rayburn's opposition to these junkets; providing transportation to bring members of Congress back to Washington D
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That didn't come about until whose time, Kennedy's? Or was it Eisenhower's? It was Eisenhower's. It was Eisenhower's, because Oveta Culp 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • "idea haiti nluch Eisenhower paid attention to the counciH S: That's very hard to tell fOl~ two reasons. In the first pla.C>J; at least for me personally, maybe to give YLl a lHtlran I~~t ()f idea vlhich admittedly is \·:ord of mouth, I got a d
  • Biographical information; the Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ Administrations and the Council of Economic Advisers; new economics; Troika; tax cut; contact with Congress on economic matters; Appalachia program; SST; Agriculture Department budget
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cut from Goldwater cloth. way around. I think from their point of view, it was the other Goldwater was cut from their cloth. The Wyoming Republicans in 1956, 1952, really believed that Dwight Eisenhower was a trick the Democrats played
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? C: No, I did not have any such hope. In the 1956 election Eisenhower had polled fiveeighths of the votes and Stevenson three-eighths, almost to a tenth of a per cent. And somewhere along the line, I guess Will Wilson was down here not long before