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Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be developed between governors and the president. Naturally, I saw him quite frequently when he was president. M: Did he perform any task for President Kennedy in regard to the governors? K: I don't know whether he was given any task, but occasionally when
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Interior? But somebody, as I understand it, was asked, 'Where do you think I can make the greatest contribution?" thought for her, they say. don't know. And somebody came up with that It may have been from her own mind, I But Jackie Kennedy, President
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with him.The President was pretty sore and I believe thought that Bill would end up in the Bobby Kennedy camp. Indeed I think Bill has been in several camps in New York--all over the lot--which is probably what any highly intelligent, famous, and ambitious
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attempt to build a structure in Washington, and we were not getting very far. It was not long after Dallas when, sitting in my office, it dawned on us that this rightly should be the Kennedy Center. You can say, "God, you were a bunch of ghouls sitting
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : You continued in that capacity until what--1963? B: Yes, until 1963, when I was appointed by President Kennedy to be the Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration . M: I see . Were there any particular problems with the Veteran's
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to remember what was fact and what wasn't fact. M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're Cyrus R. Vance, and your official positions in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations were entirely in the Department of Defense, as Counsel and as Secretary
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Roosevelt. As you know the minority groups felt about President Roosevelt in those days much as, say, the minority groups felt about Senator Kennedy or President Kennedy in these times. Johnson had been working with young people. He had a great rapport
Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , l986 INTERVIEWEE: STANLEY L. GREIGG INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Greigg's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 MG: I think you were working for [Hubert] Humphrey while [Lawrence] O'Brien was working for Kennedy. G
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not separate that out and say that he said to himself, "Well, I've got to be loyal to Kennedy in order to--"That's why I come back to--I can't remember whether I mentioned the anecdote. As we were coming back from the Spaak luncheon--yes, I think I did tell you
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • guess we did. M: Kennedy and Johnson against Nixon. J: Against Nixon. I can't remember. supported him. I think we supported him. M: Wait a minute. That can be checked o Who ran? Kennedy and Johnson? I think we did. We would have I can look
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • guess we did. M: Kennedy and Johnson against Nixon. J: Against Nixon. I can't remember. supported him. I think we supported him. M: Wait a minute. That can be checked o Who ran? Kennedy and Johnson? I think we did. We would have I can look
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -Indian he might seem in the various things he said, he continued and even extended the basically pro-Indian policy of Kennedy--indeed went further along the same lines. I might add he accomplished more than Kennedy, too. Particularly in a period when we
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or Commission was the predecessor to the Cultural Center Commission, which in turn was a predecessor to the Kennedy Center Commission. It was through then-Senator Johnson that I was appointed as a member. I was actually appointed by President Nixon, who
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gone through this experience. I may have told you before about him carrying out Kennedy's deal with us in 1962, when the House had passed the big tax bill in 1962. We wanted to be certain that they wouldn't have a bigger deficit, so Kennedy agreed
Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • those things. G: Speeches that were given in the Congress or-- W: In the Congress and other places, that's right. G: Did you see Kennedy's election as a major impetus for health insurance? W: No question. That was part of the campaign issue
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from the standpoint of their responsibilities under the Constitution. F: There is no critic like the one who wasn 1 t involved. G: Exactly so. F: What about Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in this respect. G: I really did not see very much
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , a sound position if we're to be a government in which the laws are enacted by a legislative branch and enforced by an executive branch. But we continued to study these. President Kennedy's executive order had been quite limited, and at the time, I think
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and so on they had. And that particular paper was used by a, certain number of people, including Hubert Humphrey, in some of the campaign preparations at least leading up to the 1960 election. G: Did Kennedy use it at all? L: I don't think he did
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it's President Nixon going to Florida or California, or President Johnson coming to the LBJ Ranch-F: Kennedy to Hyannisport. T: Kennedy to HyaLlnisport, I really think it r s almost imperative that a Preside:-tt get out of tmvn on Vleekends when he
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a ;';":') on it-- it must be the 27th or 28th of l-larch--the heat again3t ,hhnson was getting very, very hot indeed. You know, Kennedy and ;'>J,iirthy were both on his tail. and McPherson and Liz Cater and I and Bess Abell and Ervin Duggan-- C~~p~nter that's about all
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the world in them--for the Secretary of Defense on occasion, other Cabinet members, other groups, NATO parliamentarian people, Congressmen, Senators. As you probably know, the President authorized the use of one of them by the Kennedy family, and we flew
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . They never knew that he was at heart a progressive and liberal human person. And they didn't find it possible to give him a sympathetic hearing after he was President. M: Do~u suppose their connection with John F. Kennedy had something to do
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • known a big poker game was going on in his garage. Kennedy. But, anyhow, he got in an argument with Mylton We called him Babe Kennedy. guy, and I never will forget. Kennedy was a pretty good sized He said, "Lyndon, if you open your mouth one more
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he really thought much about it might lead to the vice presidency, or the presidency. I know about what happened with Kennedy at the very nearly turned that down. I was there. conve~tion. He Rayburn advised him to turn it down. He said, "You're
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it must have come later. B: Later? Really? Of course, he was a strong Kennedy man, he was a strong Kennedy man. But on the other hand, in a way would that have been considered a comedown to go from a number-two cabinet post to a number-two OEO post? I
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Kennedy's initial declaration of our space 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org 18 More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the ticket and felt very, very strongly that Mr. Kennedy needed him. I remember a number of things. My mother, of course, was for Adlai Stevenson, and she was bitterly, really bitterly disappointed because she wasn't very happy with President Kennedy's
  • minimum wage; the work of congressional liaisons under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and LBJ; the expansion of the Rules Committee; Roosevelt's trip with LBJ to Adlai Stevenson's funeral; Roosevelt leaving Congress to work with Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the whole picture. M: How much evidence, if any, did you ever see that there were Kennedy loyalists in the press or even in the government who used leaks consciously to damage the Johnson Administration? Was there any of this at all? S: Yes
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape #l) December 9, 1971 Ba : This is an interview with Ambassador David Bruce, it's December 9, 1971 and I'm Harri Baker . And Mr . Bruce, of course was Ambassador to Great Britain during the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • majority was so slim, I think just one or two votes. C: Well, actually, yes, there was a very close thing, I think until he was president and fell heir to the batch of unfinished business that Kennedy left and couldn't finish because he didn'tknow how
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You've got a problem. Back under Kennedy, you plugged for a cut in taxes to stimulate the economy. Now then you are starting to plug for a tax increase to slow down the economy. A: Right. F: In both cases you are delayed because of the political
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . SEATO conference . This would have Anyway, we had a I remember Dean Rusk--it had to be--well, see, when did the Kennedy Administration take office? � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a potent force in Washington. One of the first tough issues I got ABA to support was JFK's tax program, which was first-rate. The assassination of Kennedy had left Johnson with the unfinished job of this major and much-needed reduction in both individual
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on the program, who had brought it through the entire Kennedy-Johnson Administrations before he left office . M: Then after that dinner you return ed, what, to the Cape to prepare for your-­ L: We left immediately after the dinne r, I think. There were
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Council? · J: No, I di.d 'not nave personal contact.. Mr. The ftrst time I recall seei.ng Johnson was during the campaign, when he was running . . . with Jack ~ Kennedy for presi·dent.. , " They ran a special train thro_ugh the country, and he
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • Legislature, did you have any impression of what kind of a man he was after he became president after the assassination? J: You've got to understand this. I worked very hard for the election of the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in 1960 in Houston. And I was very
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • capacity first, I suppose as Under Secretary of Labor. I think when Goldberg had gone to the Court, I think Wirtz had come into the job which meant that was back in the Kennedy Administration. So he had served honorably and well and made a good reputation
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)