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Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a little background might be interesting . I was naturally very interested in who would succeed Dwight Eisenhower, and I wanted a Democrat to be elected President . F: You had eliminated the Republican Minority Leader . B: I eliminated the Republican
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that was unheard of certainly in Texas politics and maybe in every other state as far as I know. That Democratic State Co n vention, so-called, in Amarillo passed a resolution endorsing Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican candidate, for president and called upon
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: MILTON EISENHOWER (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ F: More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • See all online interviews with Milton S. Eisenhower
  • Biographical information; FDR; LBJ's relationship with Eisenhower; invitation to LBJ to speak at Johns Hopkins; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Chamizal dispute; LBJ as civil rights leader; Latin American affairs; 1960 election; Dominican Crisis; Panama
  • Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Milton S. Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Johnson's relationship with General Eisenhower? A: I know something of that, and I think they were relations of mutual respect. Now, when I say I know something about it, on some occasions --and I cannot be more specific than that--on matters relating
  • Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • sentiments toward Lyndon Johnson? Johnson and President Roosevelt had early a sort of mutual admiration. Did you ever hear President Truman express himself for Lyndon Johnson? M: I can't remember. F: What about President Eisenhower? You've known them all
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of helping the Eisenhower Administration during the fifties? S: We worked quite well with the Eisenhower Administration in the field of foreign policy. with the President. [It was] rather strange. [but] we didn't work President Eisenhower was not much
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • down the list of Senators and pick out how most of them will vote. M: Particularly a careful, thorough man like Lyndon Johnson was, as a rule. S: That's right. M: What about his relationship with President Eisenhower? S: That's probably one
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • then. Oh, he would give you a tip on something if you'd run into him, but he had come that far along in his leadership that he had to treat everybody fairly, treat everybody the same. M: What did you think of his cooperation with Eisenhower? T: He
  • as a Congressman; McCarthy hearings; LBJ’s cooperation with Eisenhower; rating LBJ as a Senator and Majority Leader; Timmons’ Conventions Record; Democratic and Republican conventions; LBJ and 1960 campaign; Barry Goldwater; “Trial Balloons;” LBJ’s high standing
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • know, we were running against Eisenhower, and it was pretty much an uphill race. It was quite difficult to even get speakers to represent the Democratic position, particularly to try to educate and elevate the people of this country to accept him
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (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 Hoyt -- I -- 14 several under Truman and Eisenhower, I didn't want any part of it, because
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • present at the Amarillo State Convention in 1952? That went for Eisenhower? H: No, I was not involved in that. F: Was Senator Johnson influential in your receiving the appointment as U. S. District Attorney? H: Yes, it was his recommendation
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there on Monday, well, it didn't pay to ride a DC-3 ten hours to get back to Houston and ride 10 hours back . There was nothing to do . farm during the Eisenhower Administration . there and we We had some friends up felt we needed to get outside of Washington
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . W. Murchiso n talked to me about running the campaig n--and a number of other people- -for Eisenhow er. But I didn't do either because I was associat ed with Mr. Murchis on, who was very much for Eisenhow er, and I had been a Democra t all my life
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Jim Abercrombie was one of them that he was very, very fond of and J. R. Parten certainly he was very fond of. At one time the Eisenhower Administration was toying with the idea of the Treasury revoking the tax exemption of the funds for the Republic
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Eisenhower, I openly supported him and did what I could for him. But there wasn't any chance for anyone to defeat General Eisenhower, then. He was a world war hero and his name-- JBF: And altogether too pleasant a person, really. F: That's right. I'll
  • Biographical information; 1928 convention; repeal of the 18th Amendment; Henry Wallace; Harry S. Truman; BEHIND THE BALLOTS and THE JIM FARLEY STORY; first meeting with LBJ; 1941 Johnson vs. O’Daniel campaign; Eisenhower; Kennedy-Kefauver fight
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Eisenhower was supplying no new ideas at all in the conduct of American affairs, either domestically or from a foreign relations point of view. F: Sort of characterized by his Interior policy which had the slogan "No new starts." L: That's right--no new
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with them, they thought they owned you; and if you disagreed with them, they thought you were sour-graping them. So that policy has stood, except for 1952 when we came out for Eisenhower. The paper and the publisher have remained inactive, but Phil
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • nominees. There shouldn't be any hocus pocus about putting Eisenhower on there as the Democratic nominee and putting them on as some kind of independents or something. M: Did Mr. Johnson's activity in the Leland Olds case as he was reappointed
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the contact. We had some other people. there. I think Charlie Woodson from Brownwood was Charlie and I were always good Democrats together, [for] almost everything, including during the Eisenhower race. Even though I had served under Eisenhower, we worked
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • another. I believe I agreed sometime late in January, after I had gone back to Dallas to come up. My partner had worked in the Eisenhower campaign, and he wanted to come up and join the Eisenhower Administration. and I came up here very early in February
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the second most powerful man in the nation when Eisenhower was President. He recognized that he could not be that powerful if Kennedy won the election. Now, you might say, "Well, Nixon would have won and then he'd still be Majority Leader." exactly what
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of that scrap between Johnson and Shivers over Shivers' threat to support Eisenhower again? B: It had something to do with it . M: I know there were two conventions apparently that year, one in the spring and one - in the fall . In the spring convention
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what he thought was best for the nation. History has proven what Mr. Eisenhower said) had it not been for Lyndon Johnson as the majority leader, President Eisenhower never would have gotten a program passed. When the President [Johnson] thought
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on the qualifications of any potential nominee before he would be nominated. arrangement with the American Bar Association. This was by special Every President--Presi- dent Eisenhower, President Kennedy, President Johnson lived up to it. I think sometimes it irked
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for Stevenson. I had supported Stevenson" as everybody else had, in '52, and in '56 I was one of his co-chairmen. But I think I might have gladly gone to Harriman on a second ballot because I didn't feel Stevenson could possibly beat Eisenhower. I didn't know
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for Eisenhower, of course, but also this was one of the counties for Willkie, as I recall, when he ran in 1940, and also [for] the man from Kansas--what is his name? F: Landon . B: Landon . I think Tulsa County, you will find, was one of those for Landon
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Eisenhower had Sherman Adams, Harry Truman had General Vaughan, and Kennedy had Bobby Kennedy. These were their lightning rods. They were the bastards. The President was always the good guy, and when anything would happen, they would say, "Well, it's
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)