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Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

developed. I think that anyone coming into the presidency new, interested in how it's been done before, would want some detail in indicating how President Eisenhower had organized the White House. He at once was not amenable to that. M: Any particular part

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think doing the job. I think he was really interested in seeing the property, the navy property, but I think they all were very impressed with their visit up to Eisenhower. G: What did he say about Eisenhower? E: Well, he liked him. G: Do you
[For interviews 1 and 2] Wartime service in the Red Cross; seeing LBJ during his visit to Paris on a mission; the mission committee; activities during visit; impressions of Eisenhower; flight back to Texas with LBJ; conditions in Europe; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

essentially correct, yes. me in the civil rights role. Mr. Johnson really inherited I was appointed by Mr. Eisenhower when the Civil Rights Commission came into being back in 1957. Senator Lyndon Johnson was a key figure in developing this legislation. M

Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. D: Yes. F: So that you, in one sense, have to look two ways at once. This was the year when Stevenson was first nominated by the Democrats and Eisenhower by the Republicans. According to my notes on August 24, 1952, you announced that you
Details of political career and first contacts with LBJ when he was a Congressman; background of tidelands legislation; 1952 Senate race against Tom Connally; support of Eisenhower's presidential race; weekly meetings of Texas Congressional

Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

here that you recall Lyndon Johnson really at work on? J: What stands out is that on foreign policy he had a very close working relationship with President Eisenhower. He made it very clear, and he took that stand in our caucuses and so on, that we

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

as he walked away. I went the next day to Washington to see President [Dwight] Eisenhower to report that "we've got an ally in the UN, that the ambassador secretly agrees with our side." The President ordered the heat to be put on that man; it was done
received worldwide as the founder of Flair; Cowles' work as a "personal ambassador" of President Dwight Eisenhower; Cowles' friendships with foreign dignitaries; how Cowles got involved with government work during President Harry Truman's administration

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of achievement for Johnson as I could remember. He was really playing the Senate like [Arturo] Toscanini playing the NBC Orchestra; everything seemed to be at his command and he seemed to be able to deal with Eisenhower and with the Democrats in the Senate

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: It had been the policy of the Eisenhower Administration and their Interior Department to try to get the government out of the dam-building business. The Eisenhower Administration used all the political muscle they had to keep this Echo Park Dam from

Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

never had any real conflict over the '52 convention or my support of Eisenhower and his support of Stevenson until the '56 state convention. F: He and Rayburn stumped the state in '52 for Stevenson. feeling that they were half-hearted about

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for reelection in 1952. I didn't run that year. I had had three terms in the House, and I expected to go back into business and didn't of course because President Eisenhower talked me into going to work for the State Department. F: You were Assistant

Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

it. M: The Democratic critics once accused him of making divided government work by surrendering to President Eisenhower. Would you say that was-- H: No, I don't think so. I think he surrendered to expediency. M: I see. H: I think wherever he

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

was. Eisenhower was president. He didn't know one damn thing about the operation of the government. army. Let me explain to you. All of his life he had only been in the Another thing, Eisenhower was really not the man in charge of the war; General George C

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: The public including the Senators? W: I think many of the Senators. I think that as the hearings progressed, we found that people within the defense establishment had strongly warned the President--Prepident Eisenhower--and the Secretary of Defense
[For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George

Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -11- And then along came Mr. Eisenhower who was elected in 1952. The Senate was Republican at that time, I believe, and the Democrats needed somebody. M: A couple of big democrats, McFarland

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

introduced quite explicitly the dangers of guerrilla warfare as a technique. There was a good deal of thought in that period about the inadequacies of the so-called Eisenhower great equation, that is to say, a preponderant reliance on the nuclear threat
Guerilla warfare, especially in countries with a lack of unity under a central government; difficulties opposing guerilla warfare tactics; President Eisenhower's policy toward developing countries and his role as a reluctant innovator; special

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

many of the Eisenhower years. Did Mr. Johnson participate in NSC affairs during that period? S: That I can't answer. I just didn't know of his activities as a Senator. M: Right. How about the staff work? Did staff work frequently get prepared

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

] Thornberrys. J: Yes, we saw a good deal, in those days, of Senator George Smathers. And we went down to Florida with the Thornberrys and Mary Rather to go to a dinner in his honor. And then [Dwight] Eisenhower, in his path, was doing some of the same things
LBJ's January 1956 return to Congress following his heart attack; Jesse Kellam; the Johnsons' interest in sports; KTBC's success; criticism of LBJ; President Eisenhower's February 1956 announcement that he would run for re-election; the table Frank

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and political standpoint. G: I wanted to ask you about the nature of bipartisanship under the Eisenhower Administration as it began in 1953. To what extent was it genuinely bipartisan? J: I think on foreign relations matters it was almost completely
More detailed recollections of the majority leadership; the Policy Committee; Wayne Morse; Robert Taft; nature of bipartisanship under Eisenhower Administration; William Knowland and Hawaii and Alaska statehood

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)

: In the Eisenhower Administration--during that time when he was leader on one side and you were leader on the other side--it has been commented many times--as you know, since Lyndon Johnson has been President--on foreign affairs President Eisenhower had been very

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a number of times in Washington while he was a congressman. F: You were on the Civil Rights Commission. Of course that started under Eisenhower and continued under Kennedy, but Johnson as vice president had some concern with that. Did you work with him

Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 B: That .would have been the last year of Eisenhower's Administration. C

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Eisenhower or something, he would deliberately leave the leader's seat and go to the back of the chamber and take some desk there to make his speech opposing Eisenhower. The man was very rigid. Russell once said of him that he walks 1ike he thinks, or he

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as a member of the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority--Mr. Eisenhower appointed me, I believe in June of 1959 after my defeat for Congress--when the appoi ntment came up for a vote the ~lajority Leader, Mr. Johnson, stood and said, "t4r
Biographical information; LBJ’s philosophy on leaks; Sam Rayburn; John Rankin insulting to all; Eisenhower appointed Hays to TVA in 1959; Fair Employment Practices Commission; Fulbright; Faubus and Arkansas Central High School fiasco; "Southern

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on in as much detail as you can. Let me ask you first generally about foreign policy during the [Dwight D.] Eisenhower years and how bipartisan it was. The Democrats controlled Congress through much of that time and the Republicans--many of them--had a more
Foreign policy during the Dwight Eisenhower administration; Robert Taft and the Hill-Burton Act; partisanship in the Senate during the Eisenhower administration; the Bricker Amendment; support for organized labor in southern states; separation

Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

sentiments toward Lyndon Johnson? Johnson and President Roosevelt had early a sort of mutual admiration. Did you ever hear President Truman express himself for Lyndon Johnson? M: I can't remember. F: What about President Eisenhower? You've known them all

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

policy? W: Well, of course it has. If you would put that question in terms of how does it differ from the Kennedy Administration or the Eisenhower Administration, then you can say something about it. B: Why not do it that way? W: As compared

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; that the American people are courageous, they want courage, they're frustrated by seeing us unable to beat a little six-rate power. I told him that I thought he should communicate more with General Eisenhower, who had told me, he said, "Tell your friend Johnson

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

what he could do. I knew he was ambitious. I knew he was ambitious from the beginning. He always wanted to forge ahead. We were at the Chicago convention, and I think it was the occasion of the Lebanese landing. And President Eisenhower, right
; Barkley; Rayburn-Johnson conversation regarding the Democratic nomination for president; LBJ's working relationship with Eisenhower; Rayburn; Civil Rights Act; Federal aid to education; Gerald Ford

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. I called him at that time--I gave him the nickname "Lyin' Down Lyndon" because he made two speeches for Adlai. And of course Adlai down in Texas was not very popular compared with Eisenhower. Eisenhower as the big man. He was pretty peeved at me

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

else in to that job. If it hadn't been for him, I don't believe the Eisenhower Administration would have been able to 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
LBJ's 1955 heart attack at George Brown's home and his health before the heart attack; LBJ's recovery from the heart attack; why LBJ was an effective Senate majority leader; LBJ's relationships with President Dwight Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: There was a report by Mr. Sprague who was, who expected to be, the Under Secretary of the Air, or the Assistant Secretary of the Air, under President Eisenhower, and that missed out because he could not get rid of his conflict of interest. So he never was appointed
and JFK Center for Performing Arts; Republican Policy Committee; Select Committee on Small Businesses; relationship with the President; arm twister; LBJ worked closely with Eisenhower; contact with LBJ as VP and President; RR dispute; social contact

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XII -- 4 too bad~ These were the hearings, by the way, out of which grew Kennedy's missile gap charge during the 1960 campaign, which was not true. G: There was no missile gap. Did Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of helping the Eisenhower Administration during the fifties? S: We worked quite well with the Eisenhower Administration in the field of foreign policy. with the President. [It was] rather strange. [but] we didn't work President Eisenhower was not much

Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was on the liberal side. G: I've heard that he offered more support to President Eisenhower on some issues than Senator Knowland did. Y: Yes, I think this is probably true although I'm not too knowledgeable on that question. G: I think this could well be true

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that the Administration itself--the Eisenhower Administration--was not aware of just what they were proposing with that Title III; there were some pecu liarities in the indexing of laws that made it very difficult to find out exactly what Title III meant--they weren't

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that. Was it at a time when Shivers was still a Democratic governor but was acting more like a Republican? G: Well, he did support Eisenhower. S: Well, I know, I mean, but had he started to do that at this particular time? Well, okay. G: 1952. S: Yes. Well, I
Allan Shivers and LBJ's 1956 fight for control of the Texas Democratic Party; Spears' work with Shivers; Shivers leaving the Democratic Party; the 1956 Texas Democratic Convention; Dwight Eisenhower as president; John Connally.

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Eisenhower in 1952. The issue was whether the Democratic Party was going to support the nominee in 1956 or not. And I suppose Johnson and [Sam] Rayburn, it was a challenge to them. They had to rescue the party from the Shivers turncoats, from the Democrats
Allan Shivers and Democrats for Eisenhower in 1952; the role of LBJ and Sam Rayburn in the 1956 Texas State Democratic Convention; Paul Butler and the Democratic Advisory Committee; party at Dewey Bradford's house; how LBJ won county and precinct

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with him, so we were good friends. He was seeing President Eisenhower. Well, I saw Majority Leader Johnson then and indicated he was doing quite well. A member of the press obviously came by, and I indicated in the press report that his electrocardiogram

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, when we used to sign the appointment papers. In President Eisenhower's time, the personnel man did that. In President Johnson's time, they were customarily made for the man who occupied the position of appointment secretary~ B: Who would that have

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was never entirely clear whether there genuinely was a threat to the peace in the Middle East at that point. The real problem was that Eisenhower thought there was or at least asked Congress for some sort of backing, some sort of action. Johnson always

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