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  • service with the Civil Rights Commission in 1960 on into the Kennedy years, did you have an opinion of Lyndon Johnson in those days? M: No, I didn't. When I entered the government of course, Mr. Eisenhower was the President. I entered in July of 1960
  • ~ F: There's some haziness as to whether Johnson had any hopes in '56 or not. I was. I did go. You know, that's the one in which Kefauver and Kennedy got tied up. M: Well, I ' l l tell you. Lyndon hadn't said a ,vord to me about that thing
  • your wedding. II They were living· at the Kennedy-Warren. [A D. C. apartment house] So they asked us to make up a list of whom we wanted. Philip had been here a year and a half, and the list got so big that the wedding had to be moved from
  • entertained President Kennedy the day after he was assassinated. He {'Kennedy] was coming from Dallas to Austin for a dinner, then LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • : From October, 1963. M: So that would be during the final months of the Kennedy Administration you joined the Weather Bureau, and came over here during the Johnson Administration. W: That's correct. When ESSA was formed in 1965, I was nominated
  • in his life I never did see it. He was a close friend of Vann Kennedy and very active in any political campaign that came along. How he made his living is something else � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • of the Farmers Home Administration under President Kennedy's Administration . M: Could you compare roughly the Agriculture Department's operations and goals in the days of the Resettlement Administration with the goals of the Farmers Home Administration
  • thing begat another as a result of this one visit. Mr. West told me that Mrs. Kennedy was thinking about publishing and selling post cards on the White House at the White House, and he wondered if the Park Service had any kind of vehicle which might
  • to be president. Did he ever talk to you about this? Did he ever say, "I want to run for president" or anything--? B: Yes, he did. I put him on the airplane to go to Los Angeles when he went out there to joust against Kennedy. I was the only staff man back
  • , as a kind of close outSider, to discern any difference between the Department of the Interior under Mr. Udall, under the Administrations of Mr. Kennedy and then later under Mr. Johnson. H: Have you noticed any changes one way or another? Well, as I've
  • 2 B: Were Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson, after him, especially interested in this concept of self-help feature? J: Yes. I think they both emphasized it. Probably because I was a little closer to it later, I would say that President Johnson
  • a President, you know? And we did our best. ~1 : Did you ever travel with Mrs. Johnson on any of her campaign trips? T: Not really. Mrs. Johnson came to El Paso with Mrs. Sargent Shriver and fvIrs. Robert Kennedy, Ethel, the three ladies. This was during
  • of the history has proven that once you find a job and you're making better money you want to move out of there. Now within the Economic Opportunity Act there was also an area called Special Impact. It was the Kennedy-Javits Amendment to the Economic
  • to have supported a variety of vice presidential candidates, [Albert] Gore and Humphrey and Kennedy. S: Johnson did? G: Yes. S: Well, I guess it could be argued that maybe his effort there was to Everybody but Kefauver. try to head off Kefauver
  • on the President's making his statement. M: Would you consider this the current recognition of a world population problem? L: Well, it was the first time of course a President had ever given it that kind of recognition. President Kennedy was so much more cautious
  • successful. That was the way we ran it, and this was the way it went with Johnson. We'd go down to see him. it was Kennedy who sent for me. five billion dollars. Of course, when we first were there, Our budget in those years was around I knew Jack
  • . The Vice President--I happened to run corridor--Mr. Nixon. I said, And he said, into him in the "Thrus, you want to have some fun?" ''What's that?" He said, ''Why don't you get up and predict the ticket will be Kennedy and Johnson!" did. I thought
  • cause and--nobody came into the state, as I recall, to help me. that Kennedy came out. I think it was 1958 He came out and helped me, because of course he was running for president and Wisconsin was an important state. He might have helped me
  • that kind of moral support here at home base. I do have the impression that during the time I was in Mexico, he followed events in that country and in Latin America in general rather closely. F: You were the Ambassador when President and Mrs. Kennedy came
  • saying that] this was a matter you discussed often and at inordinate length. O: Inordinate length, back to the Kennedy days, and Russell Long became wedded to this concept. He was almost alone for a long time in his advocacy. The period that we're
  • magnitude than the ones I was dealing with and that his time and energy should be reserved for those problems, and the best thing that a bureaucrat can do is to try and solve the problems without bothering the president. I never bothered Kennedy or Johnson
  • it was late that day or the next morning, but Dean Rusk called me in to show me a letter that John Kennedy wrote to Lee Kuan Yew apologizing for the incident. Well, needless to say, I got a lot of religion out of that, and that day, the following day, went
  • Kennedy called The Boy's Life Of John F. Kennedy, which I thought of and then the guy wrote it and did sort of a crununy job. So I re,vrote it and it turned out to be sort of a best seller kind of a thing. After about a year and a half or two years
  • ; press leaks and staff members talking to the press; believing in what you write; 'crisis mongering'; changes in socioeconomic conditions for Negroes; presenting statistical information to the President; the Kerner Commission; Robert Kennedy speaking out
  • involvement in the Peace Corps development and indicate how you got into Sargent Shriver's orbit to begin with. W: Well. at the time President Kennedy was elected in November of 1960 I was working in the International Division of the Budget Bureau as what
  • . Well, fortunately that was before the Smith-Connally Act and it was before Taft-Hartley and there were no inhibitions as against appropriate contributions. So I suggested that he ought to talk to then-Secretary-Treasurer, a man named Tom Kennedy, now
  • to changes in administration. I think there have been eight. When President Kennedy came in there was a change, and then another change and then President Johnson took over and there have been several changes. It hasn't been contrived, it hasn't been
  • was to cover the President Kennedy tour through Texas. I was responsible for setting up our coverage and planning our coverage. in Dallas. As a result of that I laid on a little extra help Goodness knows I didn't have in mind any kind of real trouble
  • remember doing an inventory of those materials, not for gift purposes but for security purposes. That included, for example, the Jackie Kennedy letters to Lyndon Johnson, which are absolutely fascinating. I started working on this material, and also
  • effectively. This was a tremendous advantage to him in getting his programs through. He took great pride, and I think rightly so, that, in the remnant of President John Kennedy's office, after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, he, Johnson, put through all
  • to McPherson, I go back to the Hansion now on Sunday, March 31st, somewhere around noon, and to Horace Busby. I remember Buz shoved some yellow legal pages across the table to me. The first thing my eye fell on was a quote from President Kennedy
  • , or home on leave, and hotel rooms were scarce. I think I've already told you about the time I had Mrs. [Jacqueline] Kennedy there. M: I don't believe so. J: It was when she was a brand new Senate bride. As I recall, Senator [John] Kennedy had already
  • Lady Bird Johnson's first impressions of Fidel Castro; Hester Beall Provenson's public speaking course; the Johnsons' 30th Place home in 1959; early impressions of Jacqueline Kennedy; hosting a lunch for the wives of new senators; Sam Houston
  • Kennedy sent for me and I was told that they had made a mistake . They had thought any one of the assistants was qualified, but Mr . Bishop's assignment had had nothing to do with day-to-day operation of the Department . After Mr . Brawley left Mr . Day
  • 30 minute interview with LBJ on appointment as Deputy Postmaster General; contact with Senator Kennedy about congressional retirement program; background of appointment as Assistant Postmaster General for Operations (congressional endorsements
  • that as that relationship cooled between them and we got into '60 and I threw my lot in with Senator Symington, I think temporarily it had an adverse affect upon my relationship with Senator Johnson. I remember in the spring sometime in '60 for instance, Senator Kennedy
  • had a bargain with the President that he would honor an agreement that I had made with President Kennedy that I would go on vacation in January of 1964, I guess. Then certainly part of the Panama crisis was during that absence, but I do remember being
  • that in your materials. I was at one meeting at a Kennedy house, but I can't remember if it was Shriver's or Ted Kennedy's. that you mention it, it undoubtedly was Shriver's. Now It may have been that meeting and I guess I remember Ted Kennedy coming
  • of 1960 when John Kennedy and \~ 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh