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Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, a very coordinated, skillful guy . He was not an athlete ; I don't think he lettered in anything . G: Where did he get to do his diving? B: In the San Marcos River . G: Vann Jones [?] . B: Don't remember him . G: Mylton Kennedy . B: I

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

sat down and analyzed it, he was the one man who could complement Kennedy and perhaps bring the South around, and he just couldn't in honor turn it down as I saw it. M: Did you have any contact with him then after he was elected vice president? N

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. In retrospect I would say that John F. Kennedy did. On occasion he was good at this, but there were times too when he lost his audience. I remember when he gave his "Older American" speech in Madison Square Garden. It was judged a real calamity in terms

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

-- President Johnson, and this is not to make invidious comparisons for one or the other because any comparison is invidious. President Johnson is a much more through-channel President than President Kennedy was. I was never particularly surprised to get

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

felt when he took over as president after Kennedy was killed that he had a mission to try to pass the legislation that had been unable to pass, that Kennedy espoused but could not pass. So in the first hundred to hundred and eighty days he had

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 3 (III), 2/27/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

th t he Pr e si dent a grea t deal. He was a very v is ib le Pr es s Sec r e t ary --ver y, v e r y v is i ble , more so than anybody I guess. We l l, Saling er was v i s ib le in Kennedy 's days, of course--bu t Bi l l wa s the fi rst Pre ss

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Geissinger -- I -- 3 So, anyhow, Oki had been there the whole time. there, I know, since Kennedy's administration. was, exactly when. tration. Frank had been I don't know when that Bob Knudsen had

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in those days, because back here in Washington I helped the International Visitors' Program, and worked with foreign students during Angier Biddle Duke's tenure as chief of protocol under Kennedy. progra~s I gave in the State Department, folk music

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that Connally was secretly helping Nixon; LBJ briefing Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace; phone communication on airplanes; a cancelled trip to Russia; transition among the staff; Stuart Udall renaming D.C. Stadium to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium; the time

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he was more knowledgeable than most laymen about the impact of environment on the psychological and social development of children largely because over the years he had been the executive director of the Kennedy Foundation. The Kennedy Foundation

Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the time when Mr. Johnson ran for president, and Mr. Kennedy asked him to be his vice [president]. Nobody wanted him to accept that job because he had always been a leader, and he had never taken second place. As far as I can remember, now I may

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

through, up goes the windows, off goes the air conditioning, and they all get down on the floor, on the tile floor where it's cool. But to please us, they get in the bed. And we insisted--Kennedy got in on a lot of this; he'd come over there. G

Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

these things about Jim and he liked Jim so he went to the secretary of defense and asked if he could have a Jet Star. Of course it had to be approved by President Kennedy and they finally agreed that yes, he could have a Jet Star. So he picked Cross to be his

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

LBJ as many others may do because I understood the progression of America's involvement in Vietnam. I knew that Eisenhower had refused to send troops, sending the military "to observe and advise". And slowly, through Kennedy, troops began to take

Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)

to be--and he's not the first one to do this. What do you do? You either appoint a commission or a committee or you have a conference. And he, I think on the advice of somebody or other, maybe--who was the guy who wrote the Howard speech? He was also a Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

take the list after everybody had accepted and go through it; I don't know what caused the change; to my knowledge it was not done during the Kennedy Administration. I think the initial problem came in 1964, when the President had the first presidential

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Bonanno -- II -- 17 B: Wouldn't allow guns to be used. Thought that the purchase of guns was just too easy. I suppose if one's been a witness to an assassination, one ends up--and this was prior to Bobby Kennedy's assassination, also, which

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

done some work with the USIA, and I thought I might ask you about that. The USIA, of course, was in existence before you were on the White House staff, but apparently about the time you came onboard there was a controversy over a John F. Kennedy film

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a person serves very closely with a President--no matter who it is, particularly in a job like that--and when he held Kennedv obviously in such affection. ~as one of Kennedy's closest confidants, that carrier dedication was an emotional experience Jr

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (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 HURD -- I -- 17 parti cul arly under Nrs. John F. Kennedy

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and other things where a lot of people thought, and certainly it was my observation, that he was trying to do all he could to show himself in a conservative vein. Jumping way ahead, after John Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon went to the White House

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. be aboard until May 1. But he won't He is, you know, Jim Allen, Chief State School Officer of New York, who, incidentally, I understand, was offered the Commissionership under President Kennedy and again under President Johnson and has just now accepted

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of the Eisenhower years. That carne at about the time when I would have been eligible for a more junior position. Then when Kennedy came in in 1960 I was quite available, but nobody ever offered me the kind of a job that I wanted. I was particularly interested

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for which there is no satisfactory answer. can do about it. There is really nothing intelligent that you In the first place, you can't prevent that sort of thing happening any more than you can prevent episodes such as the assassination of Bob Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to the State parks and municipal parks in New York State. NOw, Henry, under President Johnson, this whole BOR program, Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, was unfolded. And lim not sure--I guess it started under the Kennedy Administration. LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Special Forces when they picked up the counterinsurgency mission under Kennedy and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] atmosphere. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh And you know there's that famous quote of Kennedy putting more weight on the New York Times

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lehan -- II -- 24 Kennedy and so on. Obviously, Concorde was going to be built; and the TU-144, the Russian version, was going

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the time I was there was Lee White, who as you know came out of a background with the Kennedy Administration on the Hill. Lee was what I would call a very practical, careful lawyer, really one of the very best, with a great deal of judgment. Harry McPherson

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to the educational experience of the other students. And so we intended from the beginning that there should be a considerable number of mid-career people involved in the Johnson School. But we didn't intend to emphasize it as much as the Kennedy School

Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

people thought that he lacked Kennedy's feel for foreign affairs. Was that your impression of him? M: Well, Lyndon Johnson had a different kind of experience in foreign affairs. His was considerable experience at one level of foreign affairs

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ambassadorial post to the current administration, whereas Taylor, a military man-- M: Had come out of the Democratic administration. I mean, he rose to his pinnacle of power in the United States under Jack Kennedy. G: Yes. Was there a difference