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Folder, "Hopkins, Harry [1940]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 10 (Item)
  • ~ ·· Even it the letter doea not get to the Preaident•• deek, I would appreoiate it it you would dfop Kennedy a line eaying the letter addreaeed to the President waa received. Sincerely, s. Tou may get one or t-wo letters direct from other men ot th1a type
Record copy, Remarks of the President in Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10/29/1964 (Item)
  • , one year ago tonight at this very same hour, in that very same chair that· you are now sitting in sat John Fitzgerald Kennedy." If I may, I want to say a word to you tonight and to all Americans about the role that fate has entrusted to me this year
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • insights as to the depth of the Texas political problem that brought Mr. Kennedy there, or did you think this was just another fund raising swing? R: No. We were all aware before we left Washington that the President and Vice President :hought they were
  • Reasons for JFK’s 11/63 trip to Texas; detailed description of the day of the assassination, the motorcade, assassination, hospital, swearing-in; and flight back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s and Kennedy staff’s behavior following the assassination
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Yesterday we were talking about President Kennedy and the southern members of Congress. Let me ask you
  • The John F. Kennedy (JFK) administration's relationship with Carl Vinson and other southern Democrats; funding for an aircraft project and Vinson's argument with a staff member over his decision to support JFK; the knowledge and influence
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • think of, except I had some ideas, and I generally used to get called down when there was trouble. I had breakfast, at his request, with John Kennedy that morning. He knew I was in town and did not want to question me about the Middle East. He wanted
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • been director of the I & R [Intelligence and Research] from the beginning of the Kennedy Administration until 1963? H: Right. M: So you served about a year in the Far East post. H: Just a little over. M: Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • It spelled out what it was to do. But during the Eisenhower Administration it didn't do it. So in December 1960--1 believe it was December 20, 1960--a press conference was held down at Palm Beach by President-elect Kennedy, and Vice President-elect Johnson
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that policy, as indeed I had under President Kennedy, too. I would sometimes write a column--my wife and I saw them, him and Mrs. Johnson, very often at the White House, probably during those years, almost once a week at least in a very private way
Folder, "V.P. Johnson's Trip - BENELUX Countries, November 4-9, 1963 [originally unfoldered]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • bearing ·.,. :rr·uit 'in Kennedy Round. He categorically denied that· lE 11.U!Iined to defer GA'IT negot-iati,.on.s and stated that on conttary Trade negotiat·ions had highest •priority. Foreign Minis eer •.-acknowledged vital importance Kennedy ··Rouirnd
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Johnson Administration. You just didn't have the number of occasions. Because I was very junior on the staff, I think, is certainly one of the biggest reasons, and also the types of occasions at the White House that brought the Johnsons and the Kennedys
  • impressions of Eartha Kitt; Mrs. Johnson and porcelain Dorothy Doughty birds given to her as gifts; automobile privileges; Mrs. Kennedy taking a presidential desk; establishment of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House and Office of the White
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • started calling occasionally from the Majority Leader's office to my office. On one occasion, he called me and indicated that he was backing someone to get a job in the Kennedy Administration. The Kennedy people were against it. He thought this was a very
  • and its effect on LBJ; White House telephone line in DeLoach’s bedroom; how LBJ related to his aides. LBJ and the Kennedys, especially Bobby Kennedy; the relationship between the FBI and the Attorney General’s Office; surveillance of and interaction
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • he first really started coming on the horizon. But that convention was the time that I fell in love with John Kennedy. I was there and we had this very exciting race, and we were voting. Wright Patman even got up and said, "We can't vote
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh Cronin -- VIII -- 8 Senator did not, and wisely not, because at his age then he--being a senator from Alabama, he was a target. G: Later in June you had the assassination of Robert Kennedy out in Los Angeles. Do you remember that? C: I do. I
  • involving Vietnam; the riots in Washington, D.C., following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death; Robert F. Kennedy's death and his personality; Abe Fortas' nomination as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the 1968 presidential election; George Wallace's
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • are the author of books on both the Kennedy Administration and President Johnson, as well as a weekly column for Life on the presidency since 1966, May 1966 about. S: Yes. M: You mentioned in numerous of your writings your original contact with Mr. Johnson
  • and Presidential work; Sidey’s coverage of 1960 Presidential election; Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the vice-presidency; how LBJ was treated by Kennedy staff and family; LBJ’s interaction with Sidey and other press during the presidency; LBJ’s difficulty
Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • until I was working for the Kennedy Administration as a consultant, adviser to Rusk on multilateral force negotiations. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org M: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • force issue; MLF negotiations failure; lack of organization in the White House from the Kennedy years through 1964; relation between MLF’s demise and nonproliferation treaty negotiations; what happened to Smith’s colleagues following the MLF issue
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • were the author of--which was passed shortly after that. Did that involve any particular consultations with Mr. Johnson as Majority Leader? C: They involved consultations at the White House with president Kennedy-- LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and there was excitement about Senator Kennedy as the nominee. And it would have been very unlike him to have expressed any disappointment. If he felt that way, I think he managed to conceal it from everybody. G: What were the advantages of becoming vice president over
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 8, 1969 B: This is a continuation, the second interview with Rev. Holcomb. Sir, we left this after about 1961 or so. The next thing would be in '62 when you were appointed by President Kennedy as chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • leaders were in his office at the time, and we were discussing this question with him. The next time I met him was in a conference with President Kennedy. A number of the civil rights leaders were involved in a conference with President Kennedy and Vice
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , the later one? F: No, I attended the national convention in Chicago in 1960 when Kennedy was nominated. That's the only one I ever attended. I never LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this whole thing up they began to open their eyes. It led from one thing to another and Mr. Johnson was very anxious, as was Mr. Kennedy at that time too, in what was going on. Mr. Rayburn of course was keeping up almost daily with the thing. So
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the troops. G: Did it have any enduring impact on the way the national committee worked or was set up? O: I don't think so, particularly. I think that we continued to follow the same course from Kennedy through Johnson, which I guess, with the exception
  • job until the end of the congressional session; LBJ's support for O'Brien's work and finding the best people to do congressional relations work; Robert Kennedy's support for O'Brien staying at his job at the White House.
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There were no political overtones or anything else. It's just what it appears to be. And it wound up with some memos from Ed [Edward C. Welsh], which were done in such a form that Johnson could present them to Kennedy. But that's cut and dried
  • in other military tactics, such as rocket power and supersonic speeds; Robert Kennedy's presidential aspirations in 1963; LBJ's reaction to criticism in the press; assumptions in 1963 about President Kennedy's political future; Barry Goldwater's chances
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 'the relationship between Senator Johnson and Senator Kennedy, also a leading contender for the nomination? S: Yes, it got a· little stickier as the year wore on, and I know I remember one incident. I was back only on leave, and my family was still living
  • ; Phil Graham; relationship between Robert Kennedy and LBJ; leaving the LBJ staff in 1960; going to work for Mr. Graham at the Washington Post; interaction with LBJ in VP years; LBJ and the press; press involvement in government work; turning down LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Kennedy organization was conducting its preliminary probes. B: As early as '59? C: Oh, yes. In fact, President Kennedy and his wife made a rather extensive tour of the State in the fall of '59. They spent, I guess, a couple of days in the western
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Mr. Komer, I know you've done this for the Kennedy people [John F. Kennedy Oral History Project] but very briefly I'd like you to get us up to 1963, how you came from birth to the attention of the President. K: Well, very
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , to a good friend of mine, the nephew of ~y godfather, a boy named John Husted; that was before she met Jack Kennedy and cancelled those plans. In 1952 Dad decided to leave government. I think he was going to go back into business, but he was, by a few
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • to food and China; the problem of being under a committee system; East-West trade and U.S. trade policies; Nixon’s proposal to open international trade; the Department of Agriculture; how Symington became assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -presidential nomination in 1956? S: I don't think so. We voted for [ John F . ] Kennedy. The Texas delegation in our caucus at that convention voted to support Kennedy instead of IEste!!1 Kefauver, I believe. B: Was anybody thinking at that time
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the nomination? M: In 1956? B: Yes, sir. That's when Mr. Stevenson threw the convention open, and Mr. Johnson was in the running. M: I thought the contest then was between the late President John F. Kennedy and ex-Senator (Estes) Kefauver. LBJ
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Angeles. Well, as it turned out, of course, they didn't and we didn't. I think that people always had the feeling that Kennedy would come back to them, that he couldn't possibly get nominated, and the momentum of that steamroller was pretty badly
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a rather warm, simpatico man, unlike his brother. He did not have that aloofness and that hard-shell aspect to him that John Foster did. So he and Allen got along pretty well. G: Okay. The next day you flew with him to Hyannis Port to meet with Kennedy
  • Cabot Lodge campaign; Kennedy's speech to the Houston Ministerial Alliance; JFK/LBJ campaigning in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson speaking at campaign stops; Mrs. Johnson's influence on LBJ; how dates and places get confused while campaigning; campaign fatigue
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy and Robert Kennedy right after President Eisenhower's State of the Union address in January. Do you recall any of the significance to that meeting? R: No. I don't remember it at all, and I doubt if there was any unusual significance
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/6/1968 (Item)
  • visited by) ti Jim Rostow -- Mr. Rostow told th e President, "Mr. President, it has just been ^ announced that Senator Kennedy is dead." Jones following this a WHCA man went to the bedroom, and they px taped Jones a statement -- Tom Johnson:mf 6: 32a t
President's Daily Diary entry, 3/30/1964 (Item)
  • , MMV, JV, MF, Mr. Kellam 9:45 Back to sleep 11:45 T Sen. Kennedy in Washington --congratulating him on his "Meet the Press" appearance yesterday 11:55 t Ann Gargan in Palm Beach -- t o check on the condition of Amb. Joseph Kennedy 12:00 To the office
President's Daily Diary entry, 2/10/1964 (Item)
  • Tom Mann and Mac Bundy Attorney General Robt Kennedy Sen. Mike Mansfield Pierre Salinger 7:45 t 8:15 8:20 8:22 8:25 8:32 8:35 8:36 8:37 8:38 8:40 8:42 8:44 8:45 8:46 8:48 8:49 8:52 8:55 9:07 9:25 9:45 10:00 t f t t f f f f f t t f f f f f f f t
President's Daily Diary entry, 11/23/1963 (Item)
  • / Legislative Leaders, to view body of President Kennedy in East Room of White House Arr 274 EOB w/ Mrs. Johnson and President Eisenhower Discussion w/ Mr McCone of CIA Depart 274 EOB w/ Mrs Johnson for Public Service for President Kennedy Return to 274 EOB
President's Daily Diary entry, 12/6/1963 (Item)
  • Mrs. Kennedy moved2>t&t*M**. out of the VICE PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON. ^H^A , (jLrv**jdh &&* H ^^no, £ * J'^ WestUJ-o» (s~f
Vice-President's Daily Diary entry, 9/19/1963 (Item)
  • Arr LBJ Ranch. Attorney General Rob't Kennedy - re: invitation to benefit in Wash DC, Sept 25 Lunch - Mrs. Johnson , Mr . Kellam, Mr. Ernest Stubbs, Liz Carpenter, MMV & YB. In den w/ Ernest Stubbs and Mr. Kellam discussing business matters. To LBJ
Folder, "[June 7, 1968 - Meeting with Prime Minister Shearer of Jamaica]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • 'to a meating in London on October 7. Thf! President 2....'"ld the Prime J',1inister discussed briefly the great tragedy suffered by the Kennedy family in the U.S. The President said that amidst this tragedy the American people must be mindful cf foe strong
Senate Daily Diary entry, 8/31/1960 (Item)
  • k door ) Judge Jo e Fishe r Texas Delegatio n lunc h Liz Carpente r To Kennedy' s offic e Foreign Relation s committe e roo m fo r presentatio n t o Senato r Gree n Sen Jordan an d Bil l Whitle y Drew Pearso n Paul Kayse r (E l Paso ) Sen Saltonstal