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  • , extend to the White House? W: Hhy, yes, of course it was of concern. F: Did you have any opportunity to observe Mr. Eisenhower's hand in the committee or not? Or did he seem to leave it alone? W: As far as I know, he left it alone. F: They had
  • 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
  • didn't see that in here. Was that in 1965? in the fall of 1965 when he had the gall bladder operation, October of 1965. I remember we had spent the night out at the hospital. big thing. It was a Vou know, Eisenhower had had a heart attack and been
  • wire services and the networks has been a foregone conclusion, was during President Kennedy's news conferences, and for that matter during President Eisenhower's. There was sort of a list that they run down to make sure they recognize a representative
  • the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F
  • when Nr . Eisenhower came in . He had to be minority leader over there . But it's one of those things that the only thing I can tell the difference is, when you're in the minority, as far as the office of doorkeeper is concerned, you have everything
  • 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
  • forth. And the result is that a White House staff--at least the Kennedy staff, and I would generalize more broadly; not the Eisenhower staff, but the Johnson staff and I gather the Nixon staff--relates so much to the man who is President that the rest
  • 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
  • like Eisenhower and Truman have been called upon for advice and counsel. Because no one knows the great burden or great responsibility that a man has in that office until he has gone through it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • in the history of the United States--no parallel in the history of any other President. When you figure the amount of 1egislation--just take education, federal aid to education! practically nil. Under the Eisenhower Administration, it was I think it went up
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 25­ If Eisenhower had said this in '55 or '56 after the Geneva Conference, in my opinion
  • ran into Dr. [George] Burkley, who was President Kennedy's private physician, and he was getting into his car. He'd gotten cut off from the President, too. you give me a ride?" I said, "Will I had known him for years, since Eisenhower days; he'd
  • at doing, as history has already recorded. I believe President Eisenhower made the statement that without Lyndon he never would have gotten any of his program through. The President was a statesman as well as a partisan, but he appealed to the members
  • on the staff. There was no justification for having an agricultural economist as a member of the council, even though that had been the tradition under Eisenhower and Truman, I guess. F: Did the President ever voice the opinion that in one sense agriculture
  • the ice for them, made them feel at home . F: Then, President Eisenhower named you the Ambassador to Ecuador, a year or so before he went out of office . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • up Do you think I What year was he elected majority leader? F: He was elected minority leader after the 1952 election. G: Then it is minority. F: He held that for two years and then in the midterm of the first Eisenhower Administration
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization
  • sense, and so therefore ~1e were not happy with the kind of leaders hip they were giv i ng in the United States Senate. He thought they were overly cooperative 1·1ith President Eisenhower and that they ~1ere not--this really goes to the Democra