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Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • measures under Eisenhower; relationship with LBJ; 1944 Democratic National Convention; Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower; LBJ's leadership; McCarthy period; Johnson for President Committee, 1960; ethics; Johnson
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Eisenhower Administration in 1953 as you suggest, I've served under three Presidents, as you indicate: Johnson. President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President So from a practical sense it is a non-political or non-partisan appointment. B: Do you
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • information. And we were really barred by the new people from com- munication with them; there wasn't any dialogue. Now I've been through three changes of administrations in responsible positions--Truman to Eisenhower, Eisenhower to Kennedy, and Johnson
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, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Eisenhower was supplying no new ideas at all in the conduct of American affairs, either domestically or from a foreign relations point of view. F: Sort of characterized by his Interior policy which had the slogan "No new starts." L: That's right--no new
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with them, they thought they owned you; and if you disagreed with them, they thought you were sour-graping them. So that policy has stood, except for 1952 when we came out for Eisenhower. The paper and the publisher have remained inactive, but Phil
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into politics? B : Yes . In '56 I ran for a four-year term on the commission--statewide--and was elected . I stayed there till November of '59 when I was appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board by President Eisenhower . ably know ,is a The CAB, as you
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • would in effect be a supplemental to normal eligibility. We won that thing twice in the course of the Eisenhower years over the vigorous opposition of the President and the vigorous opposition of his party in the Senate and a number of southern
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ while working for Senator Patrick McNamara; impressions of LBJ; LBJ’s techniques for garnering votes; “Johnson Treatment;” LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; total liberal; LBJ lacked tremendous
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • measures under Eisenhower; relationship with LBJ; 1944 Democratic National Convention; Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower; LBJ's leadership; McCarthy period; Johnson for President Committee, 1960; ethics; Johnson
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with an interest right from childhood, I was fortunate to be named by President Eisenhower in 1958 as chairman of the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission. F: Where did the idea for that commission stem from? R: I would suppose, giving due credit