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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? O: There were those in the Kennedy White House who had a tendency to discuss him in a rather demeaning manner. But when I say "they," there were a couple of them and no more than that. The [Kenneth] O'Donnell-[Pierre] Salinger-O'Brien-[David] Powers
  • , and political experience; how the JFK staff viewed LBJ; the 1963 civil rights bill; 1963 foreign aid bill; Dwight Eisenhower's and JFK's frustration with Otto Passman; 1963 test ban treaty; 1963 education bills; LBJ's view of vocational education; the naming
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with in the final analysis, as we headed toward Los Angeles, were Catholic pros. David Lawrence was governor of Pennsylvania; Mike DiSalle was governor of Ohio; Dick Daley was the kingpin, of course, in Chicago and, therefore, Illinois. In each instance
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not popular; O'Brien's and JFK's relationships with Bryce Harlow and Dwight Eisenhower; congressmen using the navy or air force for travel and Sam Rayburn's opposition to these junkets; providing transportation to bring members of Congress back to Washington D
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a couple of phone calls during this time, probably within a week or two, that came out of nowhere. There was a call from Jim Hagerty, who had been Eisenhower's press secretary and then held a senior position at ABC Television. He said that there was a need
Telephone conversation # 455, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 12/12/1963, 4:01PM (Item)
  • O'BRIEN SAYS LUCIUS CLAY WILL CALL GERALD FORD ABOUT FOREIGN AID BILL; SUGGESTION THAT LBJ ASK DWIGHT EISENHOWER TO CALL FORD, CHARLES HALLECK; OTTO PASSMAN'S COMMENTS ABOUT HIS MEETING WITH LBJ; TAX BILL; COFFEE AGREEMENT; VISIT OF PRESIDENT
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then we've known of a candidate advocating raising taxes, and it was a disaster. G: Nixon wrote in his memoirs that had Wallace not been in the race, he would have won in a landslide comparable to Eisenhower's in 1952. O: I don't know whether he would have
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • people when he was retained by Eisenhower on the ticket. G: The Checkers speech. O: The Checkers speech. We considered excerpting from the Checkers speech with another punch-in-the-nose type spot. We were getting into dangerous territory because how
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the President's health and an arrangement whereby if he were disabled, either because of a heart attack or something, then McCormack would step in and take over the duties temporarily, I guess relating to an agreement that Nixon and Eisenhower had worked out. Carl
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in these meetings to make them meaningful and worthwhile.And indeed they were. For example, there is a comment, "We need material on the record of the Eisenhower-Nixon years." And Orville Freeman responds, "We have it in great detail. I'm making it immediately