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Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be president. Did he ever talk to you about this? Did he ever say, "I want to run for president" or anything--? B: Yes, he did. I put him on the airplane to go to Los Angeles when he went out there to joust against Kennedy. I was the only staff man back
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , as a kind of close outSider, to discern any difference between the Department of the Interior under Mr. Udall, under the Administrations of Mr. Kennedy and then later under Mr. Johnson. H: Have you noticed any changes one way or another? Well, as I've
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 2 B: Were Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson, after him, especially interested in this concept of self-help feature? J: Yes. I think they both emphasized it. Probably because I was a little closer to it later, I would say that President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a President, you know? And we did our best. ~1 : Did you ever travel with Mrs. Johnson on any of her campaign trips? T: Not really. Mrs. Johnson came to El Paso with Mrs. Sargent Shriver and fvIrs. Robert Kennedy, Ethel, the three ladies. This was during
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to go--which I did. I had issued a Johnson-support statement, as acting chairman of the D.C. Democratic Party, like everybody else. on something like this. The press always tries to get an angle I don't think John Kennedy had been dead twenty-four
  • Visits with LBJ immediately after the Kennedy funeral; Rauh’s encouraging LBJ and John Connally to do something about desegregation; working with LBJ and Clarence Mitchell; LBJ criticizing the ADA; the convention of Atlantic City; Reuther; Dr
Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the history has proven that once you find a job and you're making better money you want to move out of there. Now within the Economic Opportunity Act there was also an area called Special Impact. It was the Kennedy-Javits Amendment to the Economic
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have supported a variety of vice presidential candidates, [Albert] Gore and Humphrey and Kennedy. S: Johnson did? G: Yes. S: Well, I guess it could be argued that maybe his effort there was to Everybody but Kefauver. try to head off Kefauver
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on the President's making his statement. M: Would you consider this the current recognition of a world population problem? L: Well, it was the first time of course a President had ever given it that kind of recognition. President Kennedy was so much more cautious
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • successful. That was the way we ran it, and this was the way it went with Johnson. We'd go down to see him. it was Kennedy who sent for me. five billion dollars. Of course, when we first were there, Our budget in those years was around I knew Jack
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The Vice President--I happened to run corridor--Mr. Nixon. I said, And he said, into him in the "Thrus, you want to have some fun?" ''What's that?" He said, ''Why don't you get up and predict the ticket will be Kennedy and Johnson!" did. I thought
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • cause and--nobody came into the state, as I recall, to help me. that Kennedy came out. I think it was 1958 He came out and helped me, because of course he was running for president and Wisconsin was an important state. He might have helped me
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that kind of moral support here at home base. I do have the impression that during the time I was in Mexico, he followed events in that country and in Latin America in general rather closely. F: You were the Ambassador when President and Mrs. Kennedy came
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to remember whether it was late that day or the next morning, but Dean Rusk called me in to show me a letter that John Kennedy wrote to Lee Kuan Yew apologizing for the incident. Well, needless to say, I got a lot of religion out of that, and that day
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • saying that] this was a matter you discussed often and at inordinate length. O: Inordinate length, back to the Kennedy days, and Russell Long became wedded to this concept. He was almost alone for a long time in his advocacy. The period that we're
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to prepare myself for the private sector that extended back prior to joining Hubert Humphrey and shortly following the death of Bobby Kennedy had been brought into focus. I had failed to comply with the agreements I had made with the three networks and Hughes
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • magnitude than the ones I was dealing with and that his time and energy should be reserved for those problems, and the best thing that a bureaucrat can do is to try and solve the problems without bothering the president. I never bothered Kennedy or Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it was late that day or the next morning, but Dean Rusk called me in to show me a letter that John Kennedy wrote to Lee Kuan Yew apologizing for the incident. Well, needless to say, I got a lot of religion out of that, and that day, the following day, went
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Kennedy called The Boy's Life Of John F. Kennedy, which I thought of and then the guy wrote it and did sort of a crununy job. So I re,vrote it and it turned out to be sort of a best seller kind of a thing. After about a year and a half or two years
  • ; press leaks and staff members talking to the press; believing in what you write; 'crisis mongering'; changes in socioeconomic conditions for Negroes; presenting statistical information to the President; the Kerner Commission; Robert Kennedy speaking out
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • involvement in the Peace Corps development and indicate how you got into Sargent Shriver's orbit to begin with. W: Well. at the time President Kennedy was elected in November of 1960 I was working in the International Division of the Budget Bureau as what
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Well, fortunately that was before the Smith-Connally Act and it was before Taft-Hartley and there were no inhibitions as against appropriate contributions. So I suggested that he ought to talk to then-Secretary-Treasurer, a man named Tom Kennedy, now
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . Then under Kennedy you joined the Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy. CK: That's right. K: Till 1966, yes. The same one then went on under President Johnson. Then also you were on President Kennedy's Railroad Emergency Board. I want to skip
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to changes in administration. I think there have been eight. When President Kennedy came in there was a change, and then another change and then President Johnson took over and there have been several changes. It hasn't been contrived, it hasn't been
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was to cover the President Kennedy tour through Texas. I was responsible for setting up our coverage and planning our coverage. in Dallas. As a result of that I laid on a little extra help Goodness knows I didn't have in mind any kind of real trouble
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remember doing an inventory of those materials, not for gift purposes but for security purposes. That included, for example, the Jackie Kennedy letters to Lyndon Johnson, which are absolutely fascinating. I started working on this material, and also
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and not running for re-election. here: So there were three nominations being held Harding's, mine, and Pat Kennedy as director of the VISTA program. So this was the situation then as Congress took off in August for its vacation. And when they came back
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • effectively. This was a tremendous advantage to him in getting his programs through. He took great pride, and I think rightly so, that, in the remnant of President John Kennedy's office, after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, he, Johnson, put through all
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to McPherson, I go back to the Hansion now on Sunday, March 31st, somewhere around noon, and to Horace Busby. I remember Buz shoved some yellow legal pages across the table to me. The first thing my eye fell on was a quote from President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Now you had, I'm sure, been to cabinet meetings before you became a member of the cabinet. O: I'd been to all of them. G: As the head of congressional relations. O: Yes. It was automatic on all cabinet agendas, [in] both [the] Kennedy and Johnson
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Joseph P. Kennedy said, "Listen, Sarge, if you're right 55 per cent of the time, you're a genius." And look at our elections. If the president in an election campaign wins by 55 or 56 per cent of the vote, we call that a landslide. The opposite side
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , or home on leave, and hotel rooms were scarce. I think I've already told you about the time I had Mrs. [Jacqueline] Kennedy there. M: I don't believe so. J: It was when she was a brand new Senate bride. As I recall, Senator [John] Kennedy had already
  • Lady Bird Johnson's first impressions of Fidel Castro; Hester Beall Provenson's public speaking course; the Johnsons' 30th Place home in 1959; early impressions of Jacqueline Kennedy; hosting a lunch for the wives of new senators; Sam Houston
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Kennedy sent for me and I was told that they had made a mistake . They had thought any one of the assistants was qualified, but Mr . Bishop's assignment had had nothing to do with day-to-day operation of the Department . After Mr . Brawley left Mr . Day
  • 30 minute interview with LBJ on appointment as Deputy Postmaster General; contact with Senator Kennedy about congressional retirement program; background of appointment as Assistant Postmaster General for Operations (congressional endorsements
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that as that relationship cooled between them and we got into '60 and I threw my lot in with Senator Symington, I think temporarily it had an adverse affect upon my relationship with Senator Johnson. I remember in the spring sometime in '60 for instance, Senator Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a sense of urgency about it? D: Oh, yes! You know, I think in later years we were told that the President, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, called [Joseph A.] Califano and the White House inner circle and said, "Look, fellas, I know
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • philosophy or another? B: He would probably represent the Carter political philosophy today. Get rid of regulation. He thought regulation was terrible. He wanted to get rid of as much of it as he could. G: Who had appointed him? B: Kennedy. I've never
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • had a bargain with the President that he would honor an agreement that I had made with President Kennedy that I would go on vacation in January of 1964, I guess. Then certainly part of the Panama crisis was during that absence, but I do remember being
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that in your materials. I was at one meeting at a Kennedy house, but I can't remember if it was Shriver's or Ted Kennedy's. that you mention it, it undoubtedly was Shriver's. Now It may have been that meeting and I guess I remember Ted Kennedy coming
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of 1960 when John Kennedy and \~ 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be developed between governors and the president. Naturally, I saw him quite frequently when he was president. M: Did he perform any task for President Kennedy in regard to the governors? K: I don't know whether he was given any task, but occasionally when