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  • of the Dallas Morning News, who had come to the White House and made that remark about Caroline and told Kennedy he had to get some backbone. The President resented that and wanted to go over Dealey's head. He had an appointment with [John] Connally. Bobby liked
  • days of the Kennedy Administration; I don't have any recollection that I had met him before that, there was nothing where I would have approached him. D: More importantly, do you have general impressions you can give me of the man, of the President
  • . But that executive order was never implemented, and it lay on also on John Kennedy's desk without being implemented. T: Well, that was not ever seen in any way as being competitive with passing something through Congress. B: Right. I think it was seen
  • staff who supported the arts; Roger Stevens and the Kennedy Center; the idea of all states receiving equal funding; Hubert Humphrey's remarks at the signing ceremony for the arts legislation.
  • Johnson and Mrs. Johnson? M: I don't recall when I first met him; of course it would have been early in the Kennedy Administration. I really don't think it was before we were sworn in. In other words, I LBJ Presidential Library http
  • a professional Democrat on the state things, but of course I voted for Roosevelt four times and then I voted for Kennedy. I wouldn't have voted for Kennedy except Johnson was on as vice president. And I'll tell you something right there that might be of interest
  • Bird Johnson's family and her business skills; events leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination; LBJ's opinion of his time as vice president; Tommy Corcoran; Charles Marsh; Alice Glass; Clark's work as ambassador to Australia and American executive
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McGeorge Bundy -- Dallek Special Interview II -- 7 D: The two men you worked for, meaning Rusk and-- B: No, meaning Kennedy and Johnson. Sure they noticed the press, and worried about it. I always thought
  • of it? G: [inaudible]--didn't know how. That is in the latter stages. I think in the early stages, of course, he had the backing of the American public opinion. When he went into office, as you know, Mr. Kennedy already had several thousand troops
  • to record my skepticism of my own value as a source for scholarship, for the reasons I mentioned earlier. I am, nevertheless, extremely interested in history and I am anxious to see scholars write the history of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations
  • real recommen­ dation of the Administration was really when President Eisenhower told Presidc:nt Kennedy he felt the first action we would have to take would be in that area -- Laos, and Viet-Nam -- and that he would have taken it ex.ct!pt th,":lt he
  • was COITu'llissioner when this I It was during his term that I was named deputy ccmrnissio ner,. with the understan ding that the post would be in the career service-- a post I : j ~ held through Mr. Kennedy's Administ ration and well into Mr. Johnson'~. i I I
  • certainly had great compassion, but Mr. Roosevelt's personal circumstances had never been such that he gripped this thing head to head nor hand to hand, and that was certainly true of John Kennedy. I think that President Johnson, it is obviously true
  • (from the staff) • · There was also ready access to prepare memos for his "night reading ". · We didn't want to abuse it, but it was there. He \>JOuld read it and respond . 7. Did you have occasio n to work with holdove r members of the Kennedy staff
  • I· re d,01_n~J. , ' v:2 :: Tr1ey 1 ro. sit.ting back 9ig9lin~J- J\nd this is HQ'te Javits civil war ~Jo·in~J on in the South; U;ey ri1ove Kennedy in and th2y cut off the South from him and blm1 up the bridge. w~~~ Thi1t 1 s th~y w~nt to do
  • mci.y jus~ turn the time clock back ~ littl e , 6 back to the time ' -; hc'n President Kennedy submitted to the 7 Congress his Higher Education facilities proposal, directed \ \ -,1 ' I 8 ,, at, as the n'!me i nl plies, thC sup;-,.ort
  • to the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy and the subsequent violent death of the man charged with the assassination. The members of the special commiss ion are: Chief Justice Earl Warren, chairman; Senator Richard Russell, Georgia; Senator John Cooper
  • hard to tell the civil rights story and the story of the Great Society unless you have very good exhibitors. And we have done the best we can. I went the other day through the Kennedy Library; they're using television sets and video tapes to a much
  • built with microphones built in the side . . • you didn't see them. But the next day, the New ·vark Times carried a page one story of Johnson's performance at the news conference the day before which was mindful of Jack Kennedy at his best. Well, I
  • "h-'i th whor:i I uas in the) ·fight was l re~line Especially since th9 I th9 s3.r.;e Nr. Willis I _to whom I referred earlier as a r...e!Tlber of President Kennedy's panel. Ev~n· ?:1ore especially since I had to sit up ver-;1 iate one night
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] ) 1 ~- in the early yo~rs of the Kennedy Adminiatration which re­ sulted in t he first cffo~ts to introduce what is now the 12 ll E leI;12nt\:'t ry 2-nd Sccon ( -.--.. :s_