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  • , Politics and Mr. Sundquist is the Policy~ the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years, and as I understand, is to be the author of a forthcoming volume on the administration of some of the programs enacted during the Kennedy and Johnson years. lid like
  • 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
  • a ITleITloranduITl at that tiITle to Johnson--I sent it to JiITl Rowe, who worked for hiITl at that time- -not on the advantages to the disabled of getting Social Security but on the political iITlplications of getting Disability. Because Eisenhower had at first
  • abhor most types of speculation, and this is one that is as bad as most. This matter has been hanging fire for eight years. President Eisenhower was unwilling to sign off on it after years of very costly hearings during his Administration
  • : Which was on the top floor of the White House and was used by General Eisenhower as a card room and by Caroline Kennedy as a school. luci redecorated it herself and made it into a very comfortable living room-type with a record player up there and book
  • , Eisenhower had Sherman Adams, Harry Truman had General Vaughan, and Kennedy had Bobby Kennedy. These were their lightning rods. They were the bastards. The President was always the good guy, and when anything would happen, they would say, "Well, it's
  • he became president, in later years, kind of like Eisenhower. Except he was always hipped on the subject of getting people to church on Sunday, especially Catholics. When Sally would spend the night with Lynda, he'd have her come and-0: Walter
  • ] Eisenhower made it." He said, "Yes, but they won their wars, and we're not sure about this one." At that time we just didn't know. Then he said he would never run against the incumbent, the President. As a general, he would not run against the commander
  • of President Eisenhower's farewell reference to the military ind us trial complex! Nobody knew of its importance at the time of its delivery, although some might have prized the prominence it has today. Think also of the actual positioning of President
  • Works Committee on the Federal Aid Highway Bill. This was the time when the Interstate System was being proposed. Senator Gore was one of the principal. F: This was during the Eisenhower Administration. C: When President Johnson was the Majority
  • Simbel; Cyprus issue; CENTO; Eisenhower Doctrine; Vietnam; India-Pakistan War; LBJ's speech for advice on foreign policy matters and his diplomatic performances; Richard Rovere; John Leocacos; The Establishment; personal and private papers
  • [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
  • the 1299th, the squadron that I was in, was so-called the state side. We were stationed at Bolling and at that time we were flying C-131s and they had some U-4s and they had a helicopter because of Eisenhower, a previous president. The other squadron, the so
  • 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 1ยท1ith President Eisenhower and that they ~1ere not--this really goes to the Democra
  • . As an intelligence man I would like you to comment on that statement. M: I'm going to take you back to how we got in this mess to begin with, if I may, and this is Charlie Morris' version. G: By all means. M: Of course, we, under Eisenhower I believe
  • 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