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Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

know, counterinsurgency was stylish, and Brute [Victor] Krulak, the marine, had a similar position on the Joint Staff. Same one I had much later. So the army was very anxious to get in the act and do the right things, and the Kennedys were pressing hard

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

interview you mentioned that you had had one other interview of this kind with a history project. N: Dorothy Fosdick on-- P: Was it the Kennedy history project? N: Yes. P: These things of course will connect and be accessible to scholars in both

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or deputy assistant attorney general during the Kennedy days, who then went to work for a law firm in Washington, who then was known later as Suds Geoghegan because of his effective representation for the packaging for the soap and detergent industry

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Levinson -- V -- 25 F: I thought he did an excellent job, too, in these emotional moments after Bobby Kennedy's death, "In God's name," or "How long in the name

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the National Defense Education Act back in 1958 [or] 1959. Jack Kennedy had reported the bill out of a labor committee. All the universities were hot for it to repeal it. And many of them were threatening to have nothing further to do with the NDEA as long

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Social? M: Social. Mc: Did you see him in Washington? M: I was trying to think. I would imagine that I did, but I have no definite recollection of it. I'm sure I did. Mc: Well then, after the assassination of President Kennedy did you have

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there? T: No, I didn't go. I wish I had. G: And Kennedy won the nomination, and he went on the ticket as vice president. Anything about the campaign that--you worked for the ticket, I know, and-- T: Not very much. I was very much surprised that he

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

switched my loyalties and my allegiance. G: They also seemed to have opposed Estes Kefauver for the vice presidential nominee and even went to [Albert] Gore and to [John] Kennedy and [Hubert] Humphrey. Do you remember that, their efforts there to organize

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the possibility that, prior to the convention—I suppose now that I'm thinking back that he had discussed retiring, but I don't think I had thought that that's what he would do. I know that when he was debating that day whether or not to accept Senator Kennedy's

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for FDR, and the other was in 1964, I guess it was, when Johnson was on the ticket as president. That's the only two times the county has voted Democratic. Johnson was unable to carry the county in 1960 when he was on the ticket with Kennedy. G: You

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these towns are about the same. We had a real prominent place to display Kennedy-Johnson signs, and that caused a lot of comment around town and that caused a lot of Republican stirring around, trying to do something of equal quality. But anyway, 11 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, when John F. Kennedy appointed Udall to his cabinet one of Udall's aides telephoned me and asked if I would come in for a job interview. I did, and right after the inauguration received another call from the aide saying, "Where are you? We're starting

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? H: I was on North Capitol Street just at the main Post Office Building. F: What did you do--hear it by radio or word of mouth? H: Well, I stopped for a traffic signal and someone drove up to my side

Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. I was administrative head of the research department and after about a year there my boss was George Mitchell who is now on the Board of Governors appointed by President Kennedy--he had been on leave when I first came

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

fundamental changes have come about, not only in the makeup of the National Park System, but also in some of the policies and guidelines. F: Before we get on to your career as Director, you are on the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

did that happen to come about? S: A little background on that--Assistant Secretary Reed was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Coast Guard Activities at that time, and he had persuaded President Kennedy to make this speech

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

nominee. But at any rate we worked pretty hard on that, lined up delegations to question ....• Vann Kennedy who was the Secretary of the State Committee and had his office in the Capitol Press Room where you and I both had worked PB: Where we

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to that censure committee? · S: I did not. I suppose a lot of people have speculated that he might have wanted to ask Senator Kennedy to serve·just to ~mbarrass him and to · cripple him politically, but I don't think so. ·In fact, the Senator .. 16

Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)

by Wilbur Cohen, whom I had known more or less casually before that because of the Kennedy campaign--I had been co-chairman of the health plank group that was organizing for the Democratic platform. We met several times in Washington and I knew Wilbur. When

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lawrence Westbrook. Lawrence Westbrook was an assistant administrator of WPA, and he, Hopkins and Williams were all rather close. They used to play poker at the Kennedy-Warren apartment house where Westbrook had an apartment. Johnson speaks

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Because my wife and I were relatively young--I was thirty-eight at the time--and we had come from John Kennedy Massachusetts, we received a lot of press coverage. country in We were doing unusual things in the conservative State of Ohio. When

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

became President. This was in December of 1963, soon after he had assumed office following the death of President Kennedy, tions, I believe, from I had been home for a few weeks on consulta- Sofia. I was anxious to see President Johnson LBJ

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

what your position was or why you wanted him to work with you. on Medicare. I can never forget till the day I die when they came I really had a great affection for the late President John Kennedy, but he had never been able to pass any bills, because

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: Well, trade policy was a continuing part of that. M: You were there, I guess, when the climax came to the major trade activities that Johnson undertook? T: Yes, the Kennedy Round business was in mid-1967. From that point on, I guess there was a sort

Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Career history as a photographer; Kaufman's work in Dallas covering Lee Harvey Oswald after the John F. Kennedy assassination; covering LBJ at the LBJ Ranch while staying in a Stonewall hotel; LBJ's recovery from gallbladder surgery; finding

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

President Kennedy's assassination, President Johnson relied very heavily on 10 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, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in to give Mrs. Johnson a very nice tribute, which they read to her downstairs in the Library, and they presented her with an honorary membership. She took them out and showed them the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and was sort of at her modest best saying, "Well

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and saw LBJ from time to time when he was in the Senate, during the early part of his career, later as majority leader, and then as vice president. After Kennedy's death, I saw him quite often. The Women's National Democratic Club had a private dance group

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

about as usual, about as I have for the past twenty, twenty-five years. F: You didn't have any opportunity to observe his relationships then with President Kennedy? K: Heavens, F: Where were you on that November 22, 1963? Here in Austin? K: Right

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. President Kennedy asked me to do something about Cuba, that was later on, which I tried to G: do~ but never got on top of it. Now, you say Mongoose came later but that the Bay of Pigs thing was gathering momentum or whatever long before. L: Oh, yes

Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)

for Johnson-Kennedy they might be cutting their own political throats, so their speeches were not very enthusiastic either. out. Then Lyndon came By that time he was a pretty tired man, and I'm sure he did the best he could, but he didn't draw out

Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that Sargent Shriver would head the OEO? H: I think so. G: It was more or less assumed by all of you that [he would]? H: I think so. G: Do you recall any input by the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy? H: Not that I was aware of. I'm not certain about

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Kennedy, known as Executive Order 10988, which set up for the first time a formal government policy with respect to the rights of federal empoyees to be in unions. There was never any question, there was never any deviation, there was 'never any compromise

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the same trip that Kennedy made in 1960, and I was with him on that trip. It was a great trip. and it did a lot of good. I honestly believe that if Humphrey had come through . . . I don't mean [to criticize] him personally. I don't think [he.made

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is important? S: No. When he ran for re-election as president after Kennedy was assassinated, I made a bet with Beavers up here, who's the Buick dealer, that Johnson would carry Gregg County by a bigger percentage of the vote than he carried G