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Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be vetoed or it probably would be so innocuous that it would never hurt labor or anybody else. F: This is a little off the subject, but did you get the feeling that Bobby Kennedy really had a kind of personal vendetta against Jimmy Hoffa? G: Oh, I don't
temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

leaders sometime down the road. We had them over for lunch, and we had a whole bunch of them in the East Wing for lunch. [Jimmy] Hoffa was trying to take over part of the Machinists and I get a call from Hoffa with a proposed idea about a suggestion

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and civil rights leaders; LBJ-Yarborough conflict over patronage; Bobby Baker; Jimmy Hoffa; wire-tapping issue; communications satellite program; law and order issues; National Crime Commission report; Katzenbach moves from Justice to State Department

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

helpful. Labor you could count on. This was prior to the days of [Jimmy] Hoffa and all that sort of exposé, but even then labor was a helpful force. I don't have any problems at all with his being pro-labor. G: Any insights on the McClellan hearings

Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and you died here," that's about what we had. We had that kind of a country, four separate parts. And Johnson did believe that once you became a nation of people who fashioned themselves really together with a common purpose, much like [Jimmy] Carter's
and paying for media time in advance; taking money from Jimmy Hoffa; Walter Jenkins; a rumor that Humphrey had an altercation with a prostitute.

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and civil rights leaders; LBJ-Yarborough conflict over patronage; Bobby Baker; Jimmy Hoffa; wire-tapping issue; communications satellite program; law and order issues; National Crime Commission report; Katzenbach moves from Justice to State Department

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as others, some crookedness or some pressure or something like that. tee didn't take on Walter Reuther or the AF of L. [Dave] Beck and sent him to the penitentiary. [Jimmy] Hoffa. But that commit- They shot down Then the target was I could see on TV Jack

Oral history transcript, Sheldon Cohen, interview 2 (II), 6/18/1975 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the government at the time that much of what he was doing while under the guise of civil libertarianism was really trying to get [James] Hoffa out. In fact, it was once suggested to me by a United States senator that if I would help get Hoffa out, Long would get

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

indicating unfairness in the indictments of Jimmy Hoffa and things like that. And at that time, quite clearly I think, Bob felt that he might be a burden to his brother and that perhaps he would be best not in the--there had been some rumors, newspaper

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and civil rights leaders; LBJ-Yarborough conflict over patronage; Bobby Baker; Jimmy Hoffa; wire-tapping issue; communications satellite program; law and order issues; National Crime Commission report; Katzenbach moves from Justice to State Department

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

so often did, that held better watch Kennedy. He came there to see me, and there was a rerun of the investigation in which Bobby Kennedy was castigating [James] Hoffa. You could see Jack Kennedy pass ing Bobby Kennedy notes to ask Hoffa

Oral history transcript, Sheldon Cohen, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

on Jimmy Hoffa; Operation Dry Up and other efforts to stop illicit liquor; Cohen's implementation of a rule that IRS employees could not testify without his permission; problems with the withholding tax; Cohen's work improving tax forms; technological

Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, first in executive session. was then counsel and did some of the questioning. to him was not very friendly. Jimmy Hoffa. Robert Kennedy I guess my response He treated me a little bit as if I were And I never became an admirer of his as a result

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Green -- I -- 7 1959 in which Jimmy Hoffa was one of the prime targets. I have a cartoon somewhere where I'm at the top of his priority list

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Bittman, had been an attorney in the U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago and apparently distinguished himself in the Jimmy Hoffa case during the Kennedy Administration. He had been asked to come to Washington to work LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. In the later stages of the case, at least, there doesn't appear to have been very much political discussion about it. Were the same factors involved in the [James] Hoffa investigation? Again, perhaps it should be pointed out that that was already well underway
; James Hoffa investigation; draft dissent cases; Dr. Benjamin Spock; Oakland Induction center; General Lewis B. Hershey; Selective Service; Ann Arbor sit-ins; Las Vegas skimming cases; attracting good men for government service; public controversy.

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on this, how do these disclosures occur; that is, would a case that's pending in the Justice Department, tell the court that certain evidence involved in the case has been acquired by electronic surveillance as the Hoffa case, the Baker case--are those taps

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

States Attorneys. Also, where there are highly significant cases such as the Hoffa case, the Baker case-B: Excuse me, sir. V: Yes. The Baker case? The Cargill case--that was a case of the lawyer and the Supreme Court Justices in Oklahoma. We

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/oh Spock -- I -- 20 S: Oh, sure, just as a practical matter. I never thought that he was a total hero and I certainly didn't like his strong-arm methods, for instance, against [James] Hoffa. He felt as long as he was right he could ignore other

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on the McClellan Rackets Committee, which had investigated Hoffa and was investigating the UAW Kohler strike. He couldn't have been more helpful to the UAWand I would see him many times in connection with this investigation. Of course his brother Bobby

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Then of course Dave Beck was president of the Teamsters Union, and he went to jail; and then the Hoffa incidents. The nation just turned very much against labor unions, which had been out of bounds with a lot of their practices. burning issue. So this became

Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

hearings, -it might also, but I don't · recall any incidents. M: ·· This was the · ea;rlier _hearings _when Robert Kennedy D: The Hoffa- M: Yes. w.

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)

that Martin Luther King or Stokely Carmichael should ever be assassinated because somebody disagrees with them. I don't believe that Hoffa should have his character assassinated because he's a thug. I don't believe the end justifies the means. The Dominican

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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