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Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : No question about that, yes. B: What would be the atmosphere of this one? V: It has been very good under difficult circumstances, because the preceding administration--President Kennedy with his brother as Attorney General--the Attorney General
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ? That was the year that president Kennedy was seek- ing the nomination of the Democratic Party and a movement started to try to get Senator Johnson, who was the Majority Leader, nominated instead of President Kennedy. We formed an organization, and again John
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Johnson got the Manned Spacecraft Center in a deal with Kennedy-a political deal--in reward for Lyndon Johnson running as Vice President . B: Is there any truth in that? I don't think there is one iota of truth in it . Lyndon Johnson on the overall
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • kind of experiment. F: There is, I suppose, a certain similarity between Franklin Roosevelt's early days and the kind of young men around Kennedy, except that they didn't have the issues. C: Yes~ although in all fairness President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Hayden and Cannon came along and they couldn't agree on the appropriations bill, or where they were going to meet to discuss it--and finally, he never did say anything, but finally the President asked him--Kennedy asked him to see if he could get
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was there; she has been Kennedy's physician. Dr. George Burkley and his very capable associate, Dr. Jim Young, both of the navy, were also there and were assuming very active roles in the care of Kennedy, in that traveling was hard for Dr. Travell. They had done
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and he'd sort of tip his orange juice to Sam Rayburn. And when there would come on TV a replay of what the news had about the assassination and Jack Kennedy's face would appear, then Johnson would grimace. He obviously thought an enormous amount of Jack
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Colby -- Interview II -- 15 President Kennedy that I think President Johnson had a few doubts
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that was in the late fifties. Of course in 1960 along came John Kennedy, which helped a lot. I can't remember anything specifically, how that happened or how it segued into his being an acceptable liberal. But somehow it did. G: Let me just ask you about a variety
Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • renovated itself when he was vice president. Of course, when he was running for vice president, he and President Kennedy came to Laredo for a Democratic fund rally, and I happen to went because I said I had a card-one of the schoolteachers, somebody gave me
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then remember referring that, "Mr. President, you were, after all, in the Kennedy entourage, and you saw it." I remember he didn't answer, but I was saying to him that I can understand that there were problems; I can understand why you felt as you do. But I
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • take that into You cannot forever fight the will of the people. I hope that people are not regretting nmv that we are a state. M: Senator, we had also discussed other subjects. We had brought it through Kennedy's assassination and also discussed Mr
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would a president, whether it was Mr. Johnson or Kennedy COpy 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
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in. the program, since he Hasn't particularly knoHn to the Kennedys. Do you know anything at all about that? t>J: Well, I'm sure it was. I do know that a man by the name of rok. Arch i'4ercey of the Merkle Press told me that he had been in communication
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • /loh/oh "Well," he said, "we need you to go to some of the more liberal state delegations, for instance, North Carolina." I said, "Zack, Terry Sanford is running that show and he's a Kennedy man like horseradish." "Yes, but we don't have anybody
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was a member, and I remember Senator Symington and Senator Kennedy were members. they were. I've forgotten who else We used to meet regularly and discuss matters of concern to the Democratic party. Both Senator Johnson and Congressman Rayburn LBJ
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • agreed to set up the COMSAT Corporation is a way that makes it conducive to working with federal agencies. R: Well, that was set up during the Kennedy Administration. M: The end of the Kennedy Administration, right. R: Yes, we worked with them very
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Committee on Employment of the Handicapped in April 1964. You succeeded the second chairman to this committee, Major General Melvin Maas at the event of his death. In 1962 you were appointed by President Kennedy as a vice-chairman of the committee when
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No. No, I thought that when he started to run for the nomination he not only had Kennedy, but Stu [Symington] was running at that pOint, wasn't he, and Bob Kerr was a candidate, it seems to me. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the last minute and get in. And I think that Lyndon was at that time convinced that the way to win that race was to wait very late and come in and be a sort of compromise force around which folks could rally. I think he thought that Mr. Kennedy would
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • have put what looks like 6K? P: BK. D: That's BK. P: One of my secretaries--my secretary was BK, Barbara Kennelly; that was her name--BK [was] Barbara Kennedy, not Kennelly. Barbara Kennelly is on here, too. She was a congresswoman from
  • Hutchinson, Frank and Jean Ikard, Jim Imhofe, Wayne Jebhurst [?], Warren Jernigan, Corey Johnson [?], Lady Bird Johnson, Luci Johnson, Lynda Johnson, Jerry Jolash [?], Claire Jones, John Marvin Jones, Barbara Kennelly, Jack Kemp, Barbara Kennedy [?], Joe
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Kennedys making a big to-do about that? R: Yes, indeed. In fact while I was out there I met up one day I think we had breakfast in Can Tho with Kennedy's refugee staffers. There was a fellow by the name of Powers. G: Dave Powers? R: No, it wasn't
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • know, my love is. great for men from.among the.liberal leaders that we had in the Senate. who were good, genuine liberals and moderates: Pastore, Mansfield, Humphrey. I knew Senator Kennedy; didn 1 t get to know him too well. He was ill most
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the assassination of President Kennedy, and then you held long talks with him in the immediately following few days . What subjects seemed to interest him most or worried him the most during those early talks with you? A: Of course, one of the problems, and one
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the table and really took pleasure in doing it, although I never for a moment thought I was going to make a life's career out of that. I was just doing it until we had a more expansive household and more means. G: Was this the Kennedy-Warren place? J
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in nominating John Kennedy as vice president. F: Texas went for Kennedy over Kefauver, which surprised a lot of . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org 'ยท ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was strong. The report he got was that when President Kennedy was ki 11 ed i.t might have been done by those connected with, or associ ated with, or in sympathy with the far right movement. Some reporter gave him that ~ LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • elected, But that's an examp l e . could hav e al lowed his n ame to go on the ballot and didn't. He He didn't active l y campaign himself in New Hampshire. B: Were Rob e rt Kennedy's activities involved in this, too? C: Well, par tly because he di
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and interpreter for Supreme Court Justice [William] Douglas and for Bob Kennedy in 1955 when they went to the Soviet Union. So I told Tom Sorensen that I would agree to come out to Berkeley and talk to their five thousand students in the student union at high
Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with either President Kennedy or President Johnson? M: No, sir. B: In the normal course of things-- M: I have attended meetings where they've spoken and the like, but at the time I have had no particular direct contact. B: From your vantage point here
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Manned Spacecraft Center. P: That's right. Now let's talk about that a minute. The Manned Spacecraft Center was to be located in one of about three places towards the final months of consideration of a site. Boston, with the Kennedys interested
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Yes. I guess my tenure began [at] the tail end of 1952. Nixon resigned a day or so early and that had something to do with my seniority. I was made senior to some of those who came in on the same date. Jack Kennedy and I were elected the same day
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in an apartment though at the Kennedy-Warren at that time. I don't imagine I stayed with them then. I imagine I stayed at the Dodge. G: The Woodley Park Towers, they stayed there, too, I think in 1941. R: That's true. They must have stayed--oh, I know
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • 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 Shanks -- I -- 4 nomination against [John] Kennedy, we were
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, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Spinn -- I -- 7 G: No. S: Didn't? Babe Kennedy used to play tennis and I was thinking
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • driver, Bashir Ahmad, in Pakistan; LBJ's visit to Greece; Stephen and Jean Kennedy Smith's role on the trip to Asia; LBJ's trip to West Point to speak at commencement and his first impression of General William Westmoreland; planning for Pakistan's
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by the late President Kennedy, was there any dismay on the part of the black community that "that man" had been named on the Democratic ticket? W: I really wouldn't want to try to reconstruct that. From my own memory, I know the President at that time had
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to head the agency for several reasons. I I think that s true. I Do you know? ber one, he had the congressional support. Num- Number two, he had the just enough but not too much of a connection with the Kennedy family, being a brother-in-law
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said later we were just not going to do it, and he said, "That's a good idea." F: Were you involved in the death of Robert Kennedy? S: No. F: That, you know, broke out pretty late 'Ivashington time. S: Oh, yes, I remember, and I was called about