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- 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, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- 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
- 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, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- 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
- 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
- , 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
- 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
- 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
- on up through the Eisenhower Administration. national estimates business. Estimates. F: I was one of the charter members of the We wrote the National Intelligence I wrote some of the first estimates on the Soviet threat. I might add we got Richard
- Williams and we had some real knockdown, drag-out fights. I was fortunate, Eisenhower had put out an executive order--I've forgotten, it was 1956 anyway, 10566 or something else like that--which laid down the fact that the ambassador in the country
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- cannot believe that it could be taken as anything major in that regard. I doubt it. M: Is the Eisenhower Doctrine taken seriously? B: Well, the Eisenhower Doctrine really was a momentary, short-termed thing without really any long--there was no time
- Simbel; Cyprus issue; CENTO; Eisenhower Doctrine; Vietnam; India-Pakistan War; LBJ's speech for advice on foreign policy matters and his diplomatic performances; Richard Rovere; John Leocacos; The Establishment; personal and private papers
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- new Administration. 2QH of the things was that the Kennedy Administration was differently organized than its predecessor, President Eisenhower. But let me state here that during Eisenhower's Administrations, I was abroad almost the Z K R O H time
- Committee, not supporting either the AFL-CIO bill or the Teamster's bill or the Eisenhower bill. The Teamsters and the Machinists very much opposed my re-election in any year after that. K: Because you had organized his--I don't know if organized
- 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
- , reflects some of your own work on which you-- T: Well, that's very true. The answer is that we need both. of judgment just where the right balance lies. It's a question I certainly felt that under the Eisenhower Administration the emphasis on nuclear
- it. This was a great psychological defeat for him besides being a great military defeat. Also, on that trip to the West Coast with President Johnson, I had an opportunity to go with him to see President Eisenhower. President Eisenhower on the Vietnam situation as I
- had been the president and he wasn't very popular. Eisenhower had great appeal in Utah. G: Now you ran successfully for the Senate in 1958. M: Yes. G: At what time did he learn about your candidacy? M: Oh, I think he learned early because
- 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
- that it was very important in 1960 to elect a Democratic president. I was deeply opposed to Nixon and to what had seemed at that time to me to be a do-nothing Eisenhower Administration. I wanted to do anything and everything possible to bring the Democrats
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- 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
- and as often and as efficiently as it had, for instance, during the Eisenhower Administration, because it was pre-empted to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
- Board. I found that Eisenhower used to have meetings with the four men who headed these four organizations. the impression that it was a rather sometime thing. And I also got It struck me that both to give the President the four-ply coordination
- the Eisenhower Administration when the Republicans had charge of the Congress during the 83rd, I believe. I don't recall my first personal contact with the PreSident, that is, person to person conversations with him, unless it was when he was going into North
- certainly since the Eisenhower Administration- -it was reaffirmed by President Kennedy- -that the ambassador speaks for the President in a foreign country, that all of the other members of the country team, our people, the C. 1. A. people, the U. S. 1. S
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thei s -- I -- 11 were not happy about some of the leftover commitments from the QuemoyMatsu days, the Eisenhower years. It was one of those things that has continued up until--and still
- , 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
- that over a year we looked at the Truman Library and Eisenhower Library and other libraries--tried to-F: Was Wayne Grover often with you on this? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- was an army officer, and although I was born in Texas, we lived all over the world. M: Like Eisenhower's birthplace was Texas. H: Yes, that's right. And the President didn't know my grandfather. My grandfather had been chief justice of the Criminal Court
- Walt Rostow was to this, but I have the feeling that he was not one of the--didn't this idea get started in the late Eisenhower period? M: Yes, apparently-- L: Jerry Smith. M: Jerry Smith was very closely connected with it. L: And Bob Schaetzel
- in September 1963. I well remember when President Kennedy completed his briefing with former President Eisenhower before he took over the White House, President Eisenhower concentrated on the Laos crisis and never mentioned Vietnam when he reviewed the various
- at Littauer in the Bureau of the Budget. My class had mostly gone to Washington. I worked for three years in the Budget Bureau through the transition, Truman to Eisenhower. M: That was about 1951 to 1954? W: That's 1951 to 1954. I got my early
- with the Eisenhower commission on National Goals as staff director . M: How much contact, if- any, did you have with Lyndon Johnson either before he was President or while he was vice President? B: My contacts with him arose almost entirely through the very close
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- would be of interest to you. I came into this position with a somewhat dubious background politically in that I had been active as a Republican. This was back in the days prior to the Eisenhower Ad- ministration. I was indeed on the research staff
- HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dixie -- I -- 4 Eisenhower. But Lyndon did take credit for lining up a completely solid
- 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
- the Eisenhower Administration, that rule by Executive order was put in. Any oil or products that were brought in by ocean tanker or by tank ship is under the rule; but that that came in by overland transportation were excepted. And they called this overland
- columnist who was the Eisenhower ambassador to Switzerland, but who was with the Intelligence with Bill Donovan [OSS] during the war and has the same feeling that fellow [Ernest] Cuneo had. Have you talked to Cuneo? F: No. C: Well, you better talk