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Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ; I was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time of the Bay of Pigs. The election was held in 1960; General Eisenhower was president. President Kennedy took over on 20 January 1961. And three months later, here was a major operation put
  • ; views on Eisenhower's methods; CIA and the military; impressions of General Harkins, Bradley and Patton; Laotian settlement negotiated by Harriman; Taylor-Rostwo recommendations; Acre of Diamonds; reflections on Diem; conference during Cuban Missile
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and a whole crew lobbying at one point. Johnson looked at McCarthy, and he walked over to him, and he said: "Joe, would you really like to screw Eisenhower, and screw him good?" Joe was real mad at the President at that point. And of course By God
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that at the time. G: [Dwight D.] Eisenhower, citing this episode, vetoed the legislation. Any insights on that and how that affected the situation in your state? C: You're talking about tidelands oil? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • The natural gas bill of 1956; Senator Lister Hill's reputation for being pro-labor; labor legislation in the 1950s; President Eisenhower's 1958 veto of the rivers and harbors bill; Alaskan statehood; Eisenhower as president; the election
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . R: Well, I heard that from former President Eisenhower, and I think more recently, in awarding me this Distinguished Federal Service Award, President Johnson in the presentation practically said the same thing. M: How often in the White House
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Geneva Accords, and the ink was hardly dry on Dulles' signature when he and Eisenhower decided that we should try to control South Vietnam where the French had failed. That seemed, to use one of my mother's most used words, LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , as they call it? B: In 1952 of course we had a new preSident, and in his State of the Union Message he said that Hawaii should have statehood and he didn't mention Alaska. M: President Eisenhower? . B: Yes, President Eisenhower. So this started one
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • guess it was during this period that President Truman visited Washington. I believe you did a story on President Truman's comments about Democrats who were too supportive of President Eisenhower. W: I went to see Mr. Truman at his hotel. He said he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a very long-range effect upon Johnson•s political fortunes, too. He had always had a strong following in the Jewish section of the United States, but I think this solidified it. Then he also played quite a role during the era when Eisenhower decided
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and he was quite an interesting, complicated person. He admired other presidents. He loved to talk about Truman and he talked a lot about Roosevelt. He spoke admiringly of Eisenhower and their relationship. I was present many times when he would talk
  • in Selma, Alabama, and George Wallace; LBJ's commitment to civil rights issues; Davis visiting the White House; LBJ's openness with the press and problems that arose from his openness; LBJ and gift giving; President Dwight Eisenhower; LBJ's optimism
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an enormous amount of experience working with the old President's Committee on Government Contracts under the Eisenhower period. I worked with all the previous presidential committees from the very first word go, going back to the Truman committee on civil
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • effective work done now is Mansfield is so far in the other direction from Johnson. Mansfield is more of a gentlemanly man than Johnson ever thought of being, but Johnson got things done. F: Without getting into the pros and cons of the Eisenhower
  • 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 L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in foreign policy and the Viet wa brought him down. But God knows, he is a political genius as will come out over the period we discuss here. The night that Eisenhower swept Stevenson off the boards most everybody did what I did--they got drunk! I had
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • down the list of Senators and pick out how most of them will vote. M: Particularly a careful, thorough man like Lyndon Johnson was, as a rule. S: That's right. M: What about his relationship with President Eisenhower? S: That's probably one
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • expressed when he came back? B: You know, in reading your notes I think that the wisdom of people like Senator George and of what I call the elder statesmen was able to help guide Eisenhower through this period. You got to remember now, Chiang Kai-shek
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to head this operation? B: Yes, that's correct. A fellow named Charlie Walker had headed this administration under the Eisenhower Administration. He's still around in town. Charlie followed me when I left office in the Johnson Administration. He came
  • Security benefits and tax increase; sugar quotas; tax revision; contrast between Eisenhower's and JFK's tax bills (capital equipment, investment tax credit and the entertainment allowance); bank opposition to withholding provisions; 1962 tax shelter
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • pretty low one. things, from a high level down to a I remember one time that we went down President Johnson was talking about the weekend before when he had been with General Eisenhower in Palm Springs. he'd had since he'd become president. He said
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of a committee member was he? It's probably hard for people to remember, but in 1953 and 1954 we had a Republican Senate, not a House, but a Senate, because President Eisenhower had been elected president and he was able to take along with him enough to control
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . . . . (Pause in recording) G: A little bit more specifically, you perhaps remember that he called in a lot of key people. C: Oh, I do. G: Former President Eisenhower was one. Can you remember the people that were called in? You perhaps [called] some
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • himself to be drawn only so far. G: I want to ask you about some of the foreign policy issues in that session of Congress in 1953. Do you remember Eisenhower's Yalta Resolution at all with regard to the Soviet violations [of wartime agreements]? M: Yes
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that was the year after--there was a Republican Congress the first year Eisenhower came in, being a Republican Congress. So then we lobbied even before that though and Senator [Edward] Thye had been very helpful to us and he was in Minnesota. He was chairman
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • Congresses, beginning in 1957. Can you talk about what that was like for you? M: Well it seemed to me that, in terms of the political situation, that [Dwight] Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn, the speaker of the house, and Lyndon Johnson, the majority leader
  • The relationship between President Dwight Eisenhower and Congress in 1957; why the White House and Congress were able to work together better in the 1950s than in 2011; increased patriotism and optimism following World War II and the Depression
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • after his attack there was a NATO meeting in Paris. I went to the meeting; the wives went along. Lyndon had had this attack, and Eisenhower offered his presidential plane that had bedrooms on it if Lyndon wanted to go and thought he ought to go and get
  • ; Formosan Resolution; Tax Bill; Disarmament; Highway Bill; Natural Gas Act of 1956 and reason Eisenhower vetoed it; investigation of Bobby Baker and attempts to get testimony from Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the Republicans nationally more represented my views on things, my conservative, capitalist, particularist, oriented ideas. And so in about 1951 I decided that I would identify myself as a Republican. In 1952 I participated in the preconvention Taft-Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , there was, even President [Dwight] Eisenhower, with whom Lyndon and the Speaker had gotten along so well, and had served so well, pushing his legislation when they could. They had just made an art, I think, out of helping run the government, although they were
  • ; assembling a Senate committee to investigate Senator Joseph McCarthy; LBJ's support for President Dwight Eisenhower; Lynda's illness in the fall of 1954; Willie Day Taylor's help to the Johnsons; South Korean President Syngman Rhee's toast regarding war
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; Eisenhower/LBJ relationship.
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • ." And Dwight Eisenhower was a Republican and became the Republican nominee and promised that he would support the state ownership. Texas wasn't the only state involved. All the coastal states had--nearly all of them had; all of the Gulf Coastal states, and I
  • Texas tideland issues in the 1950s; cross-filing, which allowed Democrats to support Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election; Allan Shivers' support for Republicans; LBJ's and Sam Rayburn's devotion to the Democratic Party; John Tower's
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • measures under Eisenhower; relationship with LBJ; 1944 Democratic National Convention; Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower; LBJ's leadership; McCarthy period; Johnson for President Committee, 1960; ethics; Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Department, to move against violations of civil rights. J: Did Lyndon oppose it? G: Yes, he did. J: Yes. G: But this is one that President Eisenhower seems to have backed down on rather quickly, 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • got all of the Democrats plus Langer and maybe occasionally Young. G: He made a number of speeches on the drought situation in the Southwest at this time. J: Yes. He got Eisenhower to fly down here, I think. G: Yes. And he seems to have borrowed
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about little bitty new quails falling into those cracks. Lyndon was introducing, along with other senators, a request for emergency aid to the cattlemen. [Dwight] Eisenhower had already declared the area a drought disaster area. G: LBJ worked
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • what caused Congressman Halleck to support it? This surprised some people. D: Well, I must say for Charlie Halleck that he took a rather broad view, and obviously he served in the Eisenhower Administration; he and Eisenhower were very close friends
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stevenson more enthusiastically than he did that [time]? E: I'm sure he was. But I don't have any recollection of any specifics about it. Oh, yes, that happens all the time in Texas. G: Was he urged to support Eisenhower by conservatives? E: I don't
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Is this a Presidential appointment? D: Yes, it's a Presidential appointment. I was appointed from the career ranks by President Eisenhower effective May 1,1959. F: Is it a term, or do you--? D: No, you serve at the pleasure of the President; it does not require
  • Biographical information; Nelson Rockefeller; "no new start" policy under Eisenhower; 91st Congress authorized the most reclamation; Reclamation Fund; Newland
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Everybody was sort of getting himself established just as Mr. Johnson was. Now as you know, in 1952 with Eisenhower, the DerrlOcratic Party was under great attack in Texas. I would say that Mr. Rayburn was rnore interested in the solidarity
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . And incidentally, my boss, Bob Amory, and one of his senior assistants, Robert Komer, were the agency's representatives on the NSC planning board in the Eisenhower Administration. And that was ultimately my route to the NSC staff, because in 1961 Bob Komer went
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , it was ostensibly a Republican thing because General Eisenhower was President. But Johnson took the Administration's proposals and so altered them as to get a bill through. It was actually the most skillful single legislative job of leadership I ever saw, because
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on to 1948. Do you know who LBJ backed in the 1948 presidential election? Was he for Truman? I know [Alvin] Wirtz wanted Eisenhower to run for the Democrats. W: Lyndon was for Eisenhower. G: You think he was? W: I know definitely. G: Yes. What did he
  • A.W. Moursund's 1946 district attorney campaign; the death of Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ supporting Dwight Eisenhower in the 1948 presidential election; LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate campaign against Coke Stevenson; Winters' offer to shear
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • behind the scenes and trying to prevent it from becoming an issue of McCarthy versus the Democrats so that the Republicans would not line up behind McCarthy. S: Possibly. hurt the It really would be McCarthy against Eisenhower. most~-the The people
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as the work of the United Nations Development Program is concerned, he always displ~ed the greatest interest and sympathy for it, and support of it. F: As you know, when the Eisenhower Administration came in, the JohnsonR~burn line was to do a kind
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphy -- II -- 4 President Eisenhower was concerned. He did make facilities of this kind available to President Eisenhower to the extent that he needed them and would. use them
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority