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Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • President Eisenhower? M: No, you see-- B: Oh, recommendations from the previous administration? M: Right. President Truman had convened a committee of distinguished citizens who presented to him a series of things which they thought would be helpful
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the national security was in jeopardy, impose a quota system. So this was enacted and President Eisenhower then appointed a group that made findings relative to the importance of oil and gas to national security and then based on that he imposed quotas which
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Taft and Eisenhower. G: Do you recall LBJ's reaction to this, to the Truman announcement? J: No. I think he liked Truman, and he liked him better in perspective as the years went on, as so many people did, but he was very much aware of his
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the fading hours of the Eisenhower Administration, late 1959, early 1960. Eisenhower was facing his last year in office and there were these stories about news management, that Eisenhower was managing the news; Jim Hagerty, his press secretary, was managing
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bonanno -- II -- 2 went to the few colleagues--there were only two alive when I worked for him, Truman and Eisenhower--when you wanted advice
  • LBJ's relationship with Presidents Eisenhower, Truman, and Nixon; LBJ's 1968 speech to the Ladies Garment Workers in Atlantic City; LBJ's meeting with Australian Prime Minister John Gorton and U.S. relations with Australia; LBJ inviting Bonanno's
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • abrupt way of doing things. G: There were a number of former presidents [there]. Let's see, President Truman was there at the funeral and President Eisenhower. B: Eisenhower, yes. G: Of course, President Kennedy came. B: Yes. G: Anything else
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a historical question, it started with the Eisenhower Administration. And I think that we had been engaged in supporting a colonial war by the French in Indo-China, and that there was no reason at all in terms of any obligations of the United States that we
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • - fifties when the Harris Gas Act was laboriously passed through both houses of Congress under the Eisenhower Administration, it was due in the main to the work of Johnson and Rayburn. Eisenhower vetoed it, yet Eisenhower got the support of the Republican
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --Senator Johnson go? M: In the fall of 1955, I was playing golf one day, on a Sunday. Governor Stevenson called me off the golf course [and] said that President Eisenhower had had a heart attack, and the press was LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time, Eisenhower, .and that the worst thing that could happen for the Democrats was to get bloodied 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org f More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could control it. were unalterably opposed to it. The bureaucrats Eisenhower was opposed to it. It was just because of sheer personal power that we were able to start it. Now, our original idea was to build a center on top of Diamond Head Mountain
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . They missed a bet in not, as I say, using it as a more versatile institution. On the one hand, I think the Eisenhower use of the Cabinet was with these long meetings and having all the Cabinet members sit and discuss at great length--you know, the classic
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • could scarcely have survived, I think, politically had he not had the faithful support in this matter of most of the Republican leaders--certainly beginning with General Eisenhower. So in brief, to summarize, the number one divisive factor so far as his
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of airplanes--Rayburn didn't like flying. He finally got used to it when his sister, Miss Lou, was dying of cancer. But he had flown with Eisenhower in 1945, right after World War II, when Eisenhower, who didn't know where he was born, finally was convinced
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • Eisenhower came in, of course the Republicans then were less suspicious because it would be the Republicans who were doing it. And it was converted into a department. K: What kind of functional difference did it make to no longer be an agency but a cabinet
  • Conversion of Federal Security Agency to HEW; observations on Eisenhower; biographical information; early recollections of FSA; the Hill Burton Act; reflections on working on legislation over the years; memories of working on Medicare
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Security, and before that the chairman of the Social Security Board. He remained in Washington until April of 1953 when he retired under the Eisenhower Administration. In one form or another from 1935 to 1953, I was in effect closely associated with Mr
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on a private, social basis, no. But certainly on a political basis, Governor Shivers was Democrats-for-Eisenhower, he was a states l rights person, he was a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that r'iJr. Daniel did not lend any support to the Democratic ticket when Mr. Eisenhower was a candidate and Allan Shivers openly supported the Eisenhower ticket. I don't think Mr. Daniel openly supported it, but then he was supporting Mr. Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 23 of newscaster and camera, of actress and lighting, of politicians and makeup--all of these are just factors within a larger factor. Now, whatever Robert Montgomery did for Eisenhower I suppose helped him. However Mr
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy and Robert Kennedy right after President Eisenhower's State of the Union address in January. Do you recall any of the significance to that meeting? R: No. I don't remember it at all, and I doubt if there was any unusual significance
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Canyon Dam affair in those years? C: Well, yes and no. The major controversy, particularly as styled Hell's Canyon was in the late fifties and was a part of the Eisenhower era. However, in our time came High Mountain Sheep case which was an incredibly
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /oh 6 F: What did the Majority Leader do to get the bill on the floor? E: The first bill was passed during the Eisenhower Administration by the Nixon subterfuge which he held that a bill coming over from the House, didn't have to go to a committee
Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to President Eisenhower. Do you think that's accurate? A: No, I don't think he surrendered to President Eisenhower. Of course, President Eisenhower in my book was not a politician anyway. He might have known army politics, but not the party politics. While I
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't seem to know this, I talked to the fellows that I know--it was just a rule of thumb that we got a dollar's worth of defense for every two dollars we spent, and that's still the case. This used to drive Johnson crazy. Johnson told me that Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • present at the Amarillo State Convention in 1952? That went for Eisenhower? H: No, I was not involved in that. F: Was Senator Johnson influential in your receiving the appointment as U. S. District Attorney? H: Yes, it was his recommendation
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, 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 6 the inaugural gown for Mrs. Eisenhower. So we knew a little bit about the problems. F: How
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • been done before . There was a coordinated effort to deal with some of these same issues and same problems under the Eisenhower Administration, but it was sort of an ad hoc affair that when the budget had to be formulated, they met ; when
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Defense Fund. B: Because the directorate was--? M: No, no. They then got reasons afterwards. But as soon as the Eisenhower Administration took over, they came after us. I think they're still under investigation. We've been under investigation all
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there on Monday, well, it didn't pay to ride a DC-3 ten hours to get back to Houston and ride 10 hours back . There was nothing to do . farm during the Eisenhower Administration . there and we We had some friends up felt we needed to get outside of Washington
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • during President Eisenhower's Administration. When Senator Kennedy became President, there was serious question whether he would retain these citizen appointments of President Eisenhower. But he did. And the net result was that by this action he put
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stanton -- III -- 7 G: I have one question that goes back to 1956, and there was television coverage of a speech that he gave regarding Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill. Do you remember that? Apparently, he had some
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . W. Murchiso n talked to me about running the campaig n--and a number of other people- -for Eisenhow er. But I didn't do either because I was associat ed with Mr. Murchis on, who was very much for Eisenhow er, and I had been a Democra t all my life
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Humphrey -- Interview I -- 7 Then after the election of '52--what year was it that?-F: Johnson was made minority leader in '52. That's when Eisenhower-- H: After the election of '52
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • form, if it hadn't been for Senator Yarborough and his ardent work in its behalf. You know, the Eisenhower years, as I look back on them with the dates before me, seem to have been more relaxed years, for all the knife-edge [inaudible] number
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , that it was entirely possible that the vice presidency would be more important under a man like Senator Kennedy, an activist, instead of President Eisenhower, who did not make very much out of the job. I might say that there was no real thought being given
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that it was in the public interest to do it, and they went along. After that the Department of Defense progressed some as years went on. It would depend pretty much on the identity of the specific Secretary. In about '53 the Eisenhower Administration put through another
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Commission. He went back to Truman. He had been reappointed a couple of times and had been in the Eisenhower years I know and of course the Kennedy years, since John F. Kennedy was very fond of his son, or at least leaned on him. I would presume he was fond
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • recall who kept the reports. He had someone on his staff who was active in the campaign for him who did it. F: Then you became a commissioner for the Interstate Commerce commission in 1955 under President Eisenhower? H: Yes, I was appointed
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and South; and that the effort to take over the country and to bring it under the control of the government in Hanoi should not succeed. the basic objective has ever.changed since~ I don't think indeed, since Eisenhower. You know, Eisenhower made some