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Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. So I've I was appointed first by President Kennedy in November, 1962, then by President Johnson in April, 1965, and the third time by President Johnson in August of 1967. M: So he did take a positive step in renaming you in the position you LBJ

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him in his presidential race in 1960, because it was remarkable, the almost unanimous southern support he had with the exception, say, of the younger governors like Governor [Ernest] Hollings of South Carolina, who was for Kennedy, Governor [James

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

because I learned afterwards that when he left he wanted to know who I was . I had met Shriver some two or three years before that when President Kennedy invited me to the White House to attend a luncheon honoring President Senghor of Senegal . I had

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. It was somewhat of a strained relationship because Senator McNamara represented a liberal school of thought in terms of legislation that then-Senator Johnson simply did not reflect. I think the years between 1956 and 1961 when President Kennedy and Vice

Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

Kennedy? G: Where they launch the missiles? L: Yes, at Cape Kennedy they launch the missiles. But there is a small town about thirty miles from that where we stayed the night. Orlando. Orlando, Florida. From Orlando, Florida, then we went to Cape

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

president following the assassination of Kennedy, and he made me the manager of that bill. He asked Mike Mansfield, "Let Hubert Humphrey handle that bill," that comprehensive Civil Rights Act of 1964, which I handled. Two things he did. First of all, he

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was always as a tax adviser or attorney to the Johnsons. M: Then when President Kennedy was killed here in Dallas, apparently the new President, Lyndon Johnson, contacted you immediately. Is that correct? B: He endeavored to. I was in Shreveport

Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: No, sir, I believe there were no other dealings during the period prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. B: And then afterwards during President Johnson's presidency--after late '63 into '64--any contact then? E: The first contact after

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of country for about two and a half weeks. I went from Rome back to Washington; as I mentioned earlier, I arrived there the day of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Then I went back via the Far East, stopped off and saw our embassy

Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

the remark that the Kennedy boys were baby, something to that--if I had been around Lyndon, Lyndon LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

us about this? Well, I can just tell you that the negotiations in the longshore industryon the Atlantic, on the Gulf, from the very first week when we arrived on the scene with President Kennedy until the year of our departure, were characterized

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

husband kept that commitment with Humphrey, didn't he? R: Yes. And then of course Humphrey was defeated in the primaries oyt [John] Kennedy. And then you know the story of Jim [Rowe) and Johnson and Phil Graham and all the people at Los Angeles. I

Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ever discussed the other to me. I had the feeling that Shriver had a considerable degree of respect for the President. And I would guess, out of all of the Kennedys--if I may call him a Kennedy--l think that he had a better sense of the obligation he

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

pri maries for the Knight newspapers . G: Did you cover New Hampshire, by any chance? 0: No, New Hampshire was too early ; I was still in Vietnam . But I went with Bobby Kennedy to California ; I was with Kennedy when killed in California

Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he got there. he went to the White House. Then Kennedy was killed, and It's rather strange to have a combination like that, but he did. G: Well, let me ask you to elaborate on your discussion with him in which he indicated he planned to run

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to overstate my national I began \vorking in national campaigns, as I recall, in 1956, involvement. being head of the Speakers' Bureau in Southern California for Adlai Stevenson. I had a role in John Kennedy's campaign in 1960, and a minor role

Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

rapidly. Therefore in 1961 Kennedy, as you know, sent General [Maxwell] Taylor. I happened to be the man that briefed General Taylor on the situation. I had only been there about three months, so with the expertise of three months' traveling around

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

gathered strength over the years. Then when President Kennedy came out for a wilderness bill of some kind, this gave it new momentum. President Johnson supported it and of course he signed the bill in September of 1964. Aspinall initially took a very hard

Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and they were trying to figure out, the $tetson,~ompany was, ~~w to get a hat on President Kennedy. So they finally decided that ifthey could make LBJ a hat, since he did ~ • ' ' I \ ' • wear hats and was out on the Ranch some, that maybe Kennedy

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to transpire. One of our chief functions on that particular trip was to raise a crowd, because we felt it was important that Lyndon Johnson get as good a reception as John Kennedy did. We found out various ways in which the Kennedy assistants had raised a crowd

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to that, to innovate. F: Mr. Eisenhower, as President, tried to put through an aid-to-education bill without success. Mr. Kennedy tried, too. Why do you think that it finally came through then under Mr. Johnson? D: Well, you see that fear that I alluded

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and wondrous role of some kind, but my concerns running from the time when I ran Nixon's campaign against Kennedy in 1960 were always domestic. And the reason I wanted HEW was because I wanted to address problems that I was convinced could be addressed after we

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

://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 Castro -- VI -- 12 Laurance as its chairman. When Kennedy was president

Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

by the conventional approach. That, of course, was going to take on much more amplitude in the Kennedy Administration when counterinsurgency became very popular and stylish. But there were a good many officers at the lower 1eve1--in those days they were advisers

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, President Kennedy, President Johnson, President Nixon-- all want to try to change, and they can't get it done. F: Thank you. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org \ ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of public buildings and served in that capacity from 1959 until 1961. We had an administrator of GSA appointed in January, [1961J by President Kennedy, John Moore of Philadelphia. He was a vice presi- dent of the University of Pennsylvania and a friend

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, that's a very important element that you throw in. All my service to the government, responding to President Truman and President Kennedy and President Johnson were, you might say, requested or command performances. M: I did it because they asked me

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: And then it worked on into the Kennedy Administration? S: No, the Bane Committee actually reported before the Eisenhower Administration was finished. Actually, there were two, if not more, bills on physician manpower in the Eisenhower Administration which never

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

no! No!" But they insisted, so we-- F: That helped your allowance, didn't it? L: Yes, it did! F: Where were you at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? L: I'll never [forget]. I was. So sometimes it could be As every American, I'll always remember

Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Did LBJ help you at all in business, say, the rubber plants or anything like that? H; No, he didn't have to. As a boy, I lost this index finger when I was a youngster, Peking Cooperage Company. That's a subsidiary of Gulf. I think Ethel Kennedy's

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that Kennedy--think it would work. F: Does this about wrap this up? R: I think that does it. F: Thank you, Mr. Rowe. R: All right, sir. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview III] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. G: Okay. So from '62 to '64 you were the director of the Peace Corps in Peru, and from '64 to '66 you were the Latin America regional director. .. ·. ~, 3 M: That's right. G: ~n I . 1966 you joined with Senator Robert Kennedy's staff

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Harbor after Nixon became President effects of Tet offensive as a public relations defeat; LBJ’s harassment by both the media and Kennedy people in the administration; further results of military restraints from Washington.

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

talked to them about this job, things were in a pretty static and steady state, and they looked like they would go on that way for a long time. King were alive. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther Student unrest had not really started. It was a very

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to go on this trip, I need to get a real barrage into the Kennedy brothers. Lyndon Johnson is supporting me and Sam Rayburn is supporting someone else." And so we made our plans, and I sent, on that Friday night in the middle of October of 1961

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, with President Kennedy being President at the time. I spent most of the day with him. I met him at Stewart Air Force Base, which is -near Newburgh, New York, in the morning. the graduation ceremonies late that morning. He addressed He had lunch with us in my

Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to us. Secretary of State Dulles at that time believed in that domino theory. He was the one that thought that Vietnam was awfully important to us. followed him. I didn't think it was And, then President Kennedy By the time that Johnson became