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Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of the Eisenhower years. That carne at about the time when I would have been eligible for a more junior position. Then when Kennedy came in in 1960 I was quite available, but nobody ever offered me the kind of a job that I wanted. I was particularly interested

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

not effective. This has to be second hand at best, but did you get the feeling that there was more White House concern with head counting under Johnson than there had been under Kennedy who maybe had even more than Eisenhower? In other words

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

about our relationships with student organizations--youth organizations--and certainly others, made in effect a statement that he had known about these things, and that they had gone on since the early days of the Eisenhower Administration

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with an interest right from childhood, I was fortunate to be named by President Eisenhower in 1958 as chairman of the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission. F: Where did the idea for that commission stem from? R: I would suppose, giving due credit

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a loyal Democrat. Of course, everything I'm saying here, everything that can be said about the period has to be cast against the background of what we thought was a real traitorous thing that Allan Shivers had done in having endorsed Eisenhower, of having

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, one was Eisenhower County, and Senator Aiken made a wry comment about how I was renaming the counties. I think he knew what the map showed, and he knew my personal interest in it and he kindly but humorously kidded me a little bit about renaming

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

are on this committee? L: It's rather large, I think it's 130 or something like that. There are--the three cochairmen are rather active--and then probably about ten others-President Eisenhower has been very good, Omar Bradley has been fine, President Truman

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would win. G: Is that the one? I don't remember the content of the speech. originally an Eisenhower statement. That statement was, I think, But I think Senator Russell made a speech during this period in which he said the government of South Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Yes, the lack of power and the lack of action. We always hear about the "new era" when Eisenhower gave Nixon more responsibility and more authority, and the same was supposedly true that Kennedy was to have added onto Johnson's responsibility from

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was going to be on the tidelands, and then announced Texas could not support him. But Johnson stayed with the Stevenson camp and the regular Democratic machinery. The result of that election, of course, was Eisenhower's victory and a Republican victory

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

business. The clause in the contract, I mean there was a clause that was required to be inserted in all government contracts. If you compared the clause that was used in the Eisenhower Administration with the clause that was used in the Kennedy

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, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

years-and not only in the past eight years--this was true of previous administrations as well . It was true in the Eisenhower administration that people often moved � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

than it polled in 1952, and everybody assumed that was the year of record voting--the year Eisenhower beat Stevenson. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these lost youngsters off welfare, out of detention homes, out of dead-end situations, and make them employable.McElroy's response was, "Well, I've heard from President Eisenhower and others that this is a boondoggle, so that's good enough for me

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for Eisenhower, of course, but also this was one of the counties for Willkie, as I recall, when he ran in 1940, and also [for] the man from Kansas--what is his name? F: Landon . B: Landon . I think Tulsa County, you will find, was one of those for Landon

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but it was something that the White House wanted done . teresting . I said, "llell, this is in You've been around here a lot longer than I have . did he do that?" Tell me, when He said, "Well, no president has made any pronouncement on this since Eisenhower made

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

should come out in the area. M: Did he specifically indicate that he wanted you to go easy on President Eisenhower, perhaps? V: No. M: Just the bipartisan charge would have taken care of that? V: That's correct. M: When you did undertake

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

when President Kennedy signed an executive order setting up the committee. I think it stemmed out of an Eisenhower era organization known as the President's Committee on Equal Employment in Government Contracts, or something like this. somewhat

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

President Johnson became the government were one of trying to press Senator Johnson into a more liberal stance as Majority Leader. Those years, of course, President Eisenhower was in the White House; therefore, we had a Republican Administration

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to do a big study of time of movement and what have you. F: Was the Eisenhower experience at Little Rock of any value at all to you in this? C: Not much. (Interruption) F: We were at Oxford. C: Yes. Oxford, I would have to say generally

Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

, Portugal; then in the Argentine, Buenos Aires; then in Chile, Santiago; then back to the office here; then to the Ministry of Justice; then to North Africa, when the Allies were there--that's where I met [Dwight] Eisenhower and Robert Murphy and [Charles

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

formed any opinion of Mr. Johnson before 1960? P: Yes, I'd come to admire him greatly during the Eisenhow er years when he was instrumen tal as Senate Majority Leader in passing the first civil rights act that establish ed the Civil Rights

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The only one that had guts enough to come was Sam Rayburn, you know. During that Shivers stall, when Shivers were there, he'd come out for Eisenhower and everything else, and we just didn't have a damn show. We couldn't win a county convention. If we did

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and orbiting devices and 1 istening devi.ces and whatnot. There was a period of great inventiveness by tfte Ameri cans, and Eisenhower was. encouraging that a great deal. Over on as part of the job.. was counterinsurgency, whicft r was LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, as much as the roles of the past presidents, have been expanded thanks to Lyndon Johnson. He did a lot for Eisenhower, Truman, et cetera. But travel in those vice-presidential days meant the Vice President, Paul GlynnC F: Who's he? C: He was an air

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Congress during the Eisenhower years. So he moved away from Senator Russell as he acquired power of his own. Let me say in that connection that I understand, and I think it is in several articles, that when Russell encouraged Johnson to seek

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)