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Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a small business agency under President Truman. When President Eisenhower came in he established, in 1953, the first independent small business agency, called the Small Business Administration. agency also as a lawyer. I was with that I spent
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [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
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Jim Abercrombie was one of them that he was very, very fond of and J. R. Parten certainly he was very fond of. At one time the Eisenhower Administration was toying with the idea of the Treasury revoking the tax exemption of the funds for the Republic
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing that I do remember--I don't know whether you've interviewed Charlie Herring or not. G: He's on my list. H: Charlie was U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas when Eisenhower was elected. It is customary when a new administration
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that I would be able to do that. At that particular time there were a number of different personnel units. One was a vestige of the Eisenhower Administration which had never been entirely eliminated, and there were two or three people still occupying
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • during this period of the fifties about, one, his strategy toward the Eisenhower Administration and his unwillingness to--? P: Not in great depth or detail. I think that in our infrequent, casual, social meetings, he would discuss the issues because
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of this was pretty much of an uphill battle. In the first place, I think it goes very easily without saying that at the time, the beginning years in the Eisenhower Administration, there was not a great push for government to get active in things. I would refer
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that no politics is maybe the When they changed the Administration to the Eisenhower Administration, I had a lot of Republicans--One Republican called me up and said, "I want you to come by here and get this check for $2,000. I see where they might try to remove
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Amarillo did when it chose to certify a ballot that would list Eisenhower and Nixon as the nominees of the, I think they called it, the Texas Democrats. That, I thought, was a subterfuge and the mis- leading thing to do. I opposed it, unsuccessfully
Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • president should. He did not. His interests were mostly domestic. M: Did he generally go along with President Eisenhower pretty well? Z: I think, yes, on most issues--and for that reason, I believe that when President Johnson, then-Senate leader
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Having decided that this would be a worthwhile thing to undertake I then obtained permission from the president of Johns Hopkins, who at that time was Milton Eisenhower and who was rather enthusiastic about my taking such a responsibility in the Federal
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Eisenhower Administration. M: Had they made a strong effort in the Eisenhower Administration? B: Yes, they had. They had made a strong effort with the Administration; they had never been up on the Hill. I think they would have gotten--I've always felt
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be comfortable knowing that you are working for me, that you are not working for Eisenhower or Nixon or Bobby Kennedy down the line." And I assured him that he had my total and absolute loyalty and dedication . For what that was worth I gave him that assurance
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . It was the type of operation that was instituted under Kennedy by Larry O'Brien, although I understand that President Eisenhower had something simi­ lar to that, but it was not as effective because of the fact that he had a Democratic Congress . � � � � � LBJ
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • children. A: I noticed a memo in the file one time that described Johnson directing that an Eisenhower letter be sent to his mother for safekeeping, and then later we did in fact find an Eisenhower letter in her papers. Do you know if Johnson did things
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; and I think it's probably one of the more significant innovations in terms of governmental organization of the Johnson years. Now if it existed in this kind of degree before that, I hadn't heard about it. I'm sure there had been some in the Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a fine old lady. G: Anything else on his recovery that you recall that's significant, his recuperation? J: I don't think so. He had his ups and downs. G: Now, Eisenhower had a heart attack that fall, a serious one. Do you recall LBJ's
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : 1956? What did that fight involve? M: Shivers had apparently taken the state Democratic Party to the support of Eisenhower in 1952, and he was proposing to do the same thing in 1956. Apparently there was a political struggle within the state
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • President Eisenhower. Presi- dent Kennedy recalled you to active duty in 1961, and you served as the military representative to the President. From '62 to '64, you were Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; from 1964 to 1965, Ambassador to Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in that way. Johnson seemed Generally with politicians the public and the private, you know, what you'd see on television and what you'd see face to face is more or less the same. I mean, Kennedy, Eisenhower and the rest that I've known were what you
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • envisioned it and it turned out I didn't. I never did fail to get a rule that I asked for, even the first time I went up. Judge [Howard] Smith accused me of endorsing the British dole system, you know. Eisenhower had asked for a federal 13 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 17 up this committee to make it independent of the president but still a committee which would feed advice into the president and have some influence on him. And Eisenhower decided he did not want that committee to be under anybody else
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , for an historic meeting with President Eisenhower in the fall of 1957. At that time, the federal courts had ordered integration of a high school in Little Rock, called Central High School, and nine black children had been selected as the first of their race
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was ever very critical of Eisenhower, even though there had been some bad blood between them. And I don't recall that Eisenhower was ever publicly very critical of either Kennedy or Johnson. F: I've always had the feeling probably too that Goldwater
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • price supports, [and the bill was] vetoed by Eisenhower. What do you recall about this struggle? M: Well, I remember Johnson making a speech on national television about it. To tell you frankly, I thought of that issue as a binder issue, one of those
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • II -- 9 J: Yes, and I think successfully. F: Did this bring him criticism, particularly in the political realm, for maybe being too close to the Eisenhower line? J: Yes, he received some criticism from the extremes on both sides, but it didn't
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Eisenhower, I openly supported him and did what I could for him. But there wasn't any chance for anyone to defeat General Eisenhower, then. He was a world war hero and his name-- JBF: And altogether too pleasant a person, really. F: That's right. I'll
  • Biographical information; 1928 convention; repeal of the 18th Amendment; Henry Wallace; Harry S. Truman; BEHIND THE BALLOTS and THE JIM FARLEY STORY; first meeting with LBJ; 1941 Johnson vs. O’Daniel campaign; Eisenhower; Kennedy-Kefauver fight
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • couldn't turn his people down. M: Mr. Germany, in 1952 Shivers was governor of Texas and, of course, Eisenhower and Stevenson were the candidates for the presidential office. Was there any move afoot or suggestion of Mr. Johnson to be a vice
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , although I had met him as a United States Senator. But as the Vice President of the United States and then serving as the head of Equal Employment Committee as a designee of President Kennedy--I had served on this under President Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • repeated the effort made by the Eisenhower Administration to bring about an exchange of newspapermen. We proposed the exchange of scientists, scholars, of professional men--doctors.We proposed the exchange of weather information.We proposed the exchange
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • states . But the national AF of L-CIO wasn't pursuing it as hard as I thought they should, their argument being the pendulum had swung with Eisenhower's election, as they say, politically to the right and it was not timely . the votes . By that, I
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • administration. There was, of course, the involvement with Vietnam to a degree under the Eisenhower Administration. interesting one. Humphrey's basic background in foreign policy was an He was greatly interested in trying to relieve tension in the world. He
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down in the course of it. He attempted to serve as an intermediary between the Eisenhower Administration and [Orval] Faubus. I suspect that he was in touch with Lyndon, a kind of a tactical matter during some of that time. F: I haven't interviewed
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with periods of doubt as any normal person would have--to accomplish the goal of total rehabilitation. I remember when Eisenhower came to visit him. Johnson's attack was only a few days before Eisenhower's. As I recall it, Johnson was still in the hospital when