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Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of those spontaneous things, because of her fondness for Jackie Kennedy and because Jackie Kennedy had great regard for Warnecke, the designer of the restoration, as well as the new buildings around Lafayette Park." He said frankly he felt Mrs. Mellon had
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was running for president? G: [John F.] Kennedy. B: Kennedy, yes. Yes, we did. G: Was LBJ restive as vice president? Was he unhappy in the position, do you think? B: I don't think so. G: Really? Did you see much of him then? B: No. I only went
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , it might not be desirable for the President even to make a television address. And so by that time it was no longer a question of Kennedy, unhappily he was dead, so it was McCarthy or Humphrey, and I certainly couldn't see the President going. So
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • majority leader. I can recall in 1959 I was active in connection with the labor legislation that ultimately became known as the Landrum-Griffin Act. between the House and the Senate. We had a long conference John Kennedy was the chairman of the Senate
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • say that he can identify himself with Jack Kennedy and with President Eisenhower and Mr. Truman and Mr. Roosevelt and he identifies with Andrew Jackson, but he cannot identify with Woodrow Wilson. He has tried but he has no feeling of association. He
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Wentzel took pictures of them, of the two Presidents, together at that particular meeting. F: Did the President, President Kennedy, that is, come out to greet your group? Mc: No. There was a helicopter--a small hard-core group that went to the summer
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to lead up to this to tell you this: I would have supported Jack Kennedy for president if it had not have been that I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in show business should keep their political feelings private. F: You hadn't campaigned for Kennedy in 1960? A: No. F: Were you on the West Coast at that time? A: Yes. It was when Goldwater was announced; it really terrified me. At the time
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it was on Navy Day in 1966, when Senator Robert Kennedy was out in California doing some campaigning for the Democratic ticket out there, and I was in Long Beach then and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, not a very important post in Washington, But I had gone
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • known them. They have known our children and have been extremely kind to them ; have remembered us in so many little ways that just always warms our hearts . I will never forget when President Kennedy came to Houston, we were supposed to have been
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • after the assassination of Kennedy. M: Yes, that's on the first tape, right. F: Right. And I discussed it with him several times later, two or three times, in the presence of the heads of the other civil rights organizations. They were all backing
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in connection with the Korean war; the President did announce that there would be no new (public works) project starts, and so the Eisenhower Administration was severely criticized for "no new starts." And I recall that the Kennedy Administration
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to. mind is Christapher Weeks' book, The Job Carps--Dallars and Dropauts I think is the name of it. I think there, when he gaes back to. 1963, he recounts the story af Kennedy's interest in paverty and the kinds of activities that he began with people
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't recall his name at the moment, not the one who's a famous Japanese architect that planned on the Kennedy Library--this is another man. But President Johnson mentioned him to me two or three times, seemed to be well impressed with his work
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . S: I was sent over, I believe, by Robert Kennedy, but I may have been It must have been early 1964. asked ahead of time by Sargent Shriver if that was something I would like. to do. I think that's what happened. I think Sargent LBJ
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . In other words, he was, I think, the only American that Diem would either listen to or really pour his heart out to or talk to. G: He had made a trip in 1961, I think, Lansdale had, hadn't he, for Kennedy? P: He made a trip earlier and then he went out
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to something I've just finished reading here that one of the Brookings people has written, Mr. James Sundquist's book which covers the Eisenhower and Kennedy--Johnson years and draws contrasts. He has a section on the environment and describes what has
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connor -- I -- 2 By and large, I think that after he became president-following the assassination of President Kennedy--and [he] had the opportunity to work directly with the leaders of the Business
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they do not. Eisenhower never--now, I say to the Supreme Court. F: Yes. W: I don't know, he might have to individuals on the Court, but not to me. Eisenhower never, never-- F: Not to Chief Justice Warren. W: No. President Kennedy did ask me my
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the years. G: He liked to bring guests deer hunting. W: He liked to bring guests, yes. G: Were you ever present when the Kennedys came to the Ranch in the earlier days? W: Yes. G: You were? Do you recall Bobby Kennedy coming down and going hunting
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . So I got deeply involved in space. Between the 1960 election and inauguration, I was on President Kennedy's task force trying to reformulate space policy. It must have been either December of '60 or January of '61 that I first met Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , as a courtesy to Mrs. Kennedy kept--stayed on at The Elms, as you know, for several days, and Johnson inevitably relied on his State Department liaison person whom he knew, Lee Stull, in my absence. Lee I had placed in the--we had a little office on the seventh
  • and the Limited Test Ban Treaty; informing LBJ of the coup against Diem in Vietnam; Vice-President LBJ’s lack of inclusion in NSC events; problems between JFK’s and LBJ’s staffs; LBJ’s loyalty to Kennedy; LBJ’s distaste for protocol; events surrounding Walter
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Oh, yes. M: Irreconcilable ones that just couldn't be compromised? T: Yes, we had several issues of that kind. For instance, the Kennedy round, when the deadline on June 30 of 1967 of the Kennedy round came along. We were up all night long
  • informational; explaining Vietnam policy across the country; Interagency Committee structure; Balance of Payments Committee; Kennedy Round; Relations with the Budget Bureau and the Council of Economic Advisors; LBJ’s relationship with businessmen; Sidney
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • quite good. There had been a conscious decision with Kennedy to try to work with him and not try to exert great pressures on him and to encourage him rather than to leverage LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about the one where Kefauver and Kennedy-G: Oh, I was there. F: And Adlai was, for a second time. G: I'm sorry, I will go back. You see, these years! All right. Yes, I was at the convention. F: As a delegate? G: No, Walter asked me to come
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Kennedy at that time, Archie asked me a few times to prepare some speeches on housing. And I did that. I prepared a couple of speeches for John F. Kennedy, and of course, I had met him when he was by here. But that was really where my expertise
  • Working for three Kennedy brothers; housing finance management his expertise; Dick Goodwin set up eleven task forces for LBJ; contacted Haar; task to get ideas to beautify cities and states, to clean rivers, zoning, save the environment; LBJ would
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • guess you might say, the principal witness for the military pay raise--no, that was during President Kennedy's--the first one at least. It's really awfully hard for me to remember the names of committees most often they didn't have a name
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in 1964 and had not been implemented. And Bobby Kennedy was ready to make a blast; in fact, had made one. Frank told me that they were gravely concerned that they were really going to get after the President on this, and they needed somebody and needed
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , as all these guys from the Kennedy offices and other places had called over to get friends excused from the draft or put into a reserve outfit right away because otherwise they might have to go into the army and go to Vietnam. So that's basically what I
  • of Vietnam; problems with civilians and military personnel working together, especially in terminology; Senator Edward Kennedy's visit to Knowlton's operations; Knowlton's work to secretly employ over 800 new White House staff members during LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --increases in salaries. We got firearms control beyond where we had expected to get it. B: The bill as it came out was more than you expected? C: It was more than we had expected to get, and we even added to that later after Senator Kennedy's
Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • recall going with Senator Mansfield and two or three other members of the Congress out to Andrews Air Force Field to meet the new President, who came in on the plane which also carried the body of President Kennedy and his family. I don't recall just when
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • about mail order murder and that every gun should be registered. Well, I don't think that would have changed the assassinations. Bobby Kennedy was killed by a registered gun. But I assume that the fact that he probably was under threats all the time--I'm
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But it was a surprise and it was, frankly, at that time, a disappointment. was then. M: But maybe I'm not as callow now as I I hope not. Did you go on to support the Democratic ticket of Kennedy and Johnson in 1960? E: Yes. Went on and supported the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • also during the Kennedy Administration. F: Yes, that's true. P: Who did you work with most closely then? F: Well, you see, when an administration first comes in, it's only understandable that they are beginning of course truly a new way of /ife
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • really evolved. 1961. You had no organized crime program until Attorney General Kennedy gave a great deal of personal attention to the organized crime program. I think when he came into office you had seventeen lawyers in the Organized Crime Section