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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Taft, announced his candidacy for running for the presidential nomination on the Republican ticket. Of course there were questions every day put to [Dwight] Eisenhower: was he going to run? And a lot of our friends were for him. G: Really? J: Oh

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

during the Chicago episodes, nor did I hear any discussion of it. It must have been. It was happening at that time. We knew about it. There must have been a feeling that. See, at the time the British-Israeli invasion of Egypt took place, [Dwight

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to that. DG: Well, I don't think it was intended. But it was where also [Dwight] Eisenhower had held several of his press conferences and to the cognoscenti it was well known, but not to me. We decided these issues rather early in the game, and the list

Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

, Portugal; then in the Argentine, Buenos Aires; then in Chile, Santiago; then back to the office here; then to the Ministry of Justice; then to North Africa, when the Allies were there--that's where I met [Dwight] Eisenhower and Robert Murphy and [Charles

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, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was comparable in my experience to the convention in 1956 in San Francisco when the Republicans renominated Dwight Eisenhower. A president in power controls his party's convention, and Johnson controlled this one. I remember being told by somebody in the White

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and his predecessor Dwight Eisenhower said was critical to the free world." That's murder. Anyway, there was everything--The investment was tremendous. And now you get slugged. You get the Tet offensive and all the doves and the doubters who are, as you

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

friendly toward our terminal leave for enlisted men legislation. A gentleman from Florida named Dwight Rogers was likewise very interested. passed. As a matter of fact, it may have been his bill that I seem to think it was. Anyhow, he and I were very

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, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to be secretary of HEW [Health, Education, and Welfare] or do I want to be head of the Public Health Service. I've got to stay on the team." And he said, "I don't think they're ready for a military man." I said, "Well, [George] Washington made it; [Dwight

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the commanding general, you're Robert E. Lee or you're Dwight Eisenhower or some overall director of a huge enterprise, and suddenly you find that you have made a breakthrough on your right flank, you have achieved a huge success, or on your left flank, wherever

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

represented Eisenhower in the Eisenhower Administration although he fought General Eisenhower on some of the basic positions which Eisenhower had taken. He and Lyndon Johnson had a perfectly correct relationship. I was not at all intimate and I don't know how

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: MILTON EISENHOWER (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ F: More on LBJ Library oral histories
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Biographical information; FDR; LBJ's relationship with Eisenhower; invitation to LBJ to speak at Johns Hopkins; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Chamizal dispute; LBJ as civil rights leader; Latin American affairs; 1960 election; Dominican Crisis; Panama
Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz
Milton S. Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me start with a general question about 1953. Eisenhower Administration has come in. Of course, the I wanted
Senate activities and LBJ; the Eisenhower Administration, 1953

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

supersensitive about press releases about how the Democratic leadership should be fighting Eisenhower, and what I called the Joe Rauh-ADA-superliberal wing of the Democratic Party had entirely too much control of the personnel at the Democratic National Committee
Steve Mitchell; the oil business; drought relief; President Eisenhower; foreign aid; Chiang Kai-Shek; Bricker Amendment; Senator Walter George; Allan Shivers; the 1954 Senate election; Dixon-Yates controversy; Taft-Hartley amendments; Pat McCarran

Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of Defense under the Truman Administration, who had been privy to all of the strategic plans of the Joint Chiefs up until the end of the Truman Administration, to come in and review the current plans of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

counsel to the President since, except during the Eisenhower Administration. And in the Eisenhower Administration, I was in the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Duties at the White House; Judge Rosenman; Eisenhower and Truman Administrations; Charlie Murphy; Bill Moyers; Joe Califano; meeting LBJ, 1935-1936; Johnson Presidential years; met FDR at Warm Springs, GA; Marvin McIntyre; Grace Tully; working

Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, General, lets talk very briefly about when you first met, , guess, Senator Johnson. G:
Meeting with LBJ; General Parsons; Bryce Harlow; comparison of Presidents; Arthur Larson; Sputnik, briefing during Eisenhower's illness; U-2 and Geneva Summit; missile gap; Dulles; Nixon's TR to South America; LBJ's TR to Berlin Wall as VP; JFK

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Johnson's relationship with General Eisenhower? A: I know something of that, and I think they were relations of mutual respect. Now, when I say I know something about it, on some occasions --and I cannot be more specific than that--on matters relating
Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was a question of not wanting Wirtz to get directly involved in this until they had settled the maritime strike. C: I do not remember that issue. G: Then there was also a question of bringing Ike into this. C: Yes. In fact, I met Eisenhower. I don't know

Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

an advisory committee on international development. That work was done primarily outside of the Congress, outside of vJashington. F: So during that time-- R: During that period I didn't have much contact. It wasn't until the Eisenhower Administration
Early contacts with LBJ as a Congressman; relationship with Sam Rayburn; service under Eisenhower and Truman; LBJ’s friendship and loyalty; comments on the office of VP; LBJ’s sensitivity; the role of governors; Rockefeller’s comments on John

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh During Mr. Johnson's years in the Senate, particularly during the Eisenhower years, you were, I know, very close to President Eisenhower. What
First impressions of LBJ; legislative accomplishments as President; opinions on the Vietnam War; similarity between LBJ as a Senate leader and Halleck as a House leader; friendship with LBJ; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ and the vice presidency; LBJ

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: I know he stayed at the Ranch the weekend before while he was preparing for that, and he stopped at President Eisenhower's home on the way in Palm Desert. Do you remember that? J: Well, I remember--was that when we played golf with Eisenhower? G

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

like Little Rock and Eisenhower. He was very conscious of what he would perceive to be the mistakes that other presidents had made; sometimes mistakes you can only see from hindsight. In Little Rock, Eisenhower sent in troops to enforce a federal court

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

President Eisenhower and Johnson. K: Didn't they-- There was a great deal to that. We'll come to that in a minute. let's stay on Truman for a little bit. But Johnson felt that under Paul Butler particularly, the Democratic National Committee
First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

trimmed, which he was more fussy about than anything else. So as it turned out this young captain went in with the Secretary of War's office and then was assigned to General Eisenhower. He left the Pentagon and went over to the European Theater, and when

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sen. Russell Long--I--4 point to me. developed. When the Tidelands bill was pending, a filibuster Senator Taft got disgusted, and he felt that Eisenhower was being crucified

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

perceive the administration in this respect? Did he perceive them as being small-minded or myopic? M: I think so. I think he did. At the same time, you have, I believe, his very complex view of Eisenhower. I think he regarded Eisenhower as a man who

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

would do a little arm-twisting, but not so much on the Republican side. If he did it, it was more to get enough Democrats added to the Republican forces to win the day. M: What were his relations with President Eisenhower? Mundt: Pretty good. He
First meeting LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; 1948 Mundt-Nixon proposal; Joe McCarthy; USIA; Smith-Mundt Act of 1948; Arthur Larson; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower-Nixon-Dulles foreign policy; Quemay-Matsu-Pescadores problem; Russia détente

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and support Eisenhower. J: Yes. G: How much pressure did he have from people like Murchison to do just that? J: He had a little pressure, because some of his friends like Sid Richardson had been active in getting Eisenhower to run, and Murchison
Observations from 1952-1953; the Smithwick suicide; LBJ’s membership on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; Texas backing of Eisenhower for president; the Bricker Amendment; LBJ and the White House liaison staff; LBJ and the Democratic National

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in my campaign. Some of them were divided between Eisenhower and Stevenson. G: Had the AMA in Kentucky told you before the vote that if you didn't vote their way on it, that they would oppose you? C: Oh, no. No. They're smarter than that. They're

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Senator Russell came in--this was during the Eisenhower days--and asked him, "Bob, how are you going to vote on this Don Paarlberg going to be assistant secretary of agriculture?" The Senator said, "I guess I'm going to vote for him, Dick. Why?" Well, he
; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; LBJ and Kerr's dealings with Senator Joseph McCarthy; Reynolds' post-presidential visit to the LBJ Ranch with Bill Kerr; Eisenhower's responsibility for U.S. involvement in Vietnam; LBJ as vice president.

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

14, 1959. They told me before I got to Washington that Khrushchev was coming to visit Eisenhower, who was then president and that they were going to send me out with Khrushchev. They gave me about three weeks' notice--I had been hired about

Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as the Eisenhower Administration was coming into office. It was of course the last interval in which the Republicans controlled the Senate. Saltonstall was the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Senator Johnson was a member of the Committee. He had been

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Remember that resolution by Senator Joe McCarthy that would tie President Eisenhower's hands at Geneva? It was sort of a slap both at the Democrats in the Senate as well as the Eisenhower Administration. I think the Republicans wanted it killed quietly

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

developed. I think that anyone coming into the presidency new, interested in how it's been done before, would want some detail in indicating how President Eisenhower had organized the White House. He at once was not amenable to that. M: Any particular part

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think doing the job. I think he was really interested in seeing the property, the navy property, but I think they all were very impressed with their visit up to Eisenhower. G: What did he say about Eisenhower? E: Well, he liked him. G: Do you
[For interviews 1 and 2] Wartime service in the Red Cross; seeing LBJ during his visit to Paris on a mission; the mission committee; activities during visit; impressions of Eisenhower; flight back to Texas with LBJ; conditions in Europe; LBJ's

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