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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into the Eisenhower period of the 1950's. You were going to tell me about your appoint- ment to the Civil Service Commission. M: Yes. This was an interesting series of events that related to the transition between the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. As I
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a number of times in Washington while he was a congressman. F: You were on the Civil Rights Commission. Of course that started under Eisenhower and continued under Kennedy, but Johnson as vice president had some concern with that. Did you work with him
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as a member of the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority--Mr. Eisenhower appointed me, I believe in June of 1959 after my defeat for Congress--when the appoi ntment came up for a vote the ~lajority Leader, Mr. Johnson, stood and said, "t4r
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s philosophy on leaks; Sam Rayburn; John Rankin insulting to all; Eisenhower appointed Hays to TVA in 1959; Fair Employment Practices Commission; Fulbright; Faubus and Arkansas Central High School fiasco; "Southern
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . R: Well, I heard that from former President Eisenhower, and I think more recently, in awarding me this Distinguished Federal Service Award, President Johnson in the presentation practically said the same thing. M: How often in the White House
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; Eisenhower/LBJ relationship.
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh STAATS -- I -- 2 instead of going back to Chicago. The other minor correction would be that for five years, late 1953 to 1958, I was asked by President Eisenhower to be the executive director
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , practically all of the progressive Bills were supported by the three of us. B: During the Eisenhower years, sir, do you remember any conscious attempt to sort of mute partisanship during the years of a Republican President and a Democratic C ongres s when you
  • of partisanship during Eisenhower years; supported JFK-LBJ ticket; JFK’s Catholicism; JFK’s rapport with Congress; personal relationship with JFK; LBJ as VP; JFK-LBJ relationship; JFK assassination; Secret Service protection; arrangements with LBJ should McCormack
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the Washington field office in 1952 and you did some work. Y: Correct. M: And then you went to the White House detail in February of 1953. Is that correct? Y: That's correct. M: And then what happened to you? Y: That was during the Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • helped--not only helped, hell, he did it--turn the press around--it was beginning to go against us, he turned it around--but he also figured out how to get to Eisenhower through Knowland . That's the only reason we ever got that bill compromised
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • went to Washington to advise President Eisenhower that we should be aggressive about meeting the challenge of Sputnik rather than LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
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, 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, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Johnson, when he made a commitment, he would deliver on that commitment . If he said, "We're going to stay on "X" or "Y," then he got his people to do that . F: It has often been said that President Eisenhower was made to look as good as he did look
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? Bi : He started immediately to put them into shape . There were a lot of them who felt that the Democrats ought to oppose everything the Repub­ licans do . They ought to spend all of their time trying to cut up Presi dent Eisenhower, etc
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rather quiet days during the Eisenhower Administration. making speeches throughout the COtmtry. He hadn't been out too much His campaign for the nomination LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . While I have voted against a lot of civil rights legislation, I certainly have not held to any theory that we shouldn't have fairness for all of our people. F: Going back to 1952, Eisenhower carried Texas, as you know, and [Adlai] Stevenson lost
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I don't think to me privately but to small groups of us, that one of the first things that he did was call in General Eisenhower and had a very detailed discussion with him of General Eisenhower's judgment LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in 1956, Texas supported Eisenhower, and you had this split between Texas loyalists and Texas regulars. On How much did you get involved in this? the one hand, you came from the district that houses the State Capitol where Governor Shivers is strong
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • U.S. Presidents with whom you had relationships, or did it pretty much follow the same line regardless of whether it was the Republican Eisenhower, or the Democrat--? M: You're quite right. To me, I wasn't conscious of any difference. don't profess
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • nominees. There shouldn't be any hocus pocus about putting Eisenhower on there as the Democratic nominee and putting them on as some kind of independents or something. M: Did Mr. Johnson's activity in the Leland Olds case as he was reappointed
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . It was there that Governor Shivers, having bolted the Democratic Party in behalf of President Eisenhower in 1952, some of us felt that that same posture would be taken in 1956. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , extend to the White House? W: Hhy, yes, of course it was of concern. F: Did you have any opportunity to observe Mr. Eisenhower's hand in the committee or not? Or did he seem to leave it alone? W: As far as I know, he left it alone. F: They had
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the contact. We had some other people. there. I think Charlie Woodson from Brownwood was Charlie and I were always good Democrats together, [for] almost everything, including during the Eisenhower race. Even though I had served under Eisenhower, we worked
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't see that in here. Was that in 1965? in the fall of 1965 when he had the gall bladder operation, October of 1965. I remember we had spent the night out at the hospital. big thing. It was a Vou know, Eisenhower had had a heart attack and been
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • wire services and the networks has been a foregone conclusion, was during President Kennedy's news conferences, and for that matter during President Eisenhower's. There was sort of a list that they run down to make sure they recognize a representative
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • when Nr . Eisenhower came in . He had to be minority leader over there . But it's one of those things that the only thing I can tell the difference is, when you're in the minority, as far as the office of doorkeeper is concerned, you have everything
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • another. I believe I agreed sometime late in January, after I had gone back to Dallas to come up. My partner had worked in the Eisenhower campaign, and he wanted to come up and join the Eisenhower Administration. and I came up here very early in February