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Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

known, that nothing was coming out of our office. columnist, a pro~war And I Temember a.ferocious argument with one columnist---Joseph Alsop--who wrote about it and said it was coming from a source close to Robert Kennedy. ~t, and he said it was me

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

up my wife and children and drive them cross-country to bring them back to Washington. When we were going through the city of Rapid City, South Dakota, Thursday, the 24th of August, and we stopped at a signal on St. Joseph Street. M: You must have

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in America today, very intelligent and responsible people, who apparently have come to the conclusion that militancy and confrontation is a necessary weapon. After all, the late Robert Kennedy and Senator McGovern and a great number of highly respected

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Kennedy, was up there, and the secretary of labor and HEW and agriculture; and in addition to being up there testifying directly, they made phone calls. And their staff, assistant secretaries, undersecretaries, congressional relations people, all

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

his suite in the Biltmore. Oscar Chapman and May Oliver (?), I believe it was, we all were using this room, but mainly Chapman and I were using it. F: Did you have the feeling that you had started late? Y: Yes. And the Kennedy operation was so well

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of 1936 on, either as an associate delegate or a full delegate. B: At the 1960 convention, were you active in the fight between Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson for the nomination? A: No, I was not present at the 1960 convention. B: Then, sir, during
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Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Kennedy's choice of Johnson for his running mate, I was pretty much assured that Stu Symington was going to be the Vice Presidential candidate. Since I was a preconvention supporter of Symington, I felt pretty good about that. When the announcement

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, to a certain extent? C: I think the election of President Kennedy in 1960 set the kind of climate which would allow in 1961 a young man like me, relatively LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

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Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the national level? W: No. I was covered by the Hatch Act. F: How did you happen to come to the attention of John F. Kennedy? W: I haven't the slightest idea. I have been told by no less than twenty people that they had seen President-elect Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to be developed between governors and the president. Naturally, I saw him quite frequently when he was president. M: Did he perform any task for President Kennedy in regard to the governors? K: I don't know whether he was given any task, but occasionally when

Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of Interior? But somebody, as I understand it, was asked, 'Where do you think I can make the greatest contribution?" thought for her, they say. don't know. And somebody came up with that It may have been from her own mind, I But Jackie Kennedy, President

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

: No question about that, yes. B: What would be the atmosphere of this one? V: It has been very good under difficult circumstances, because the preceding administration--President Kennedy with his brother as Attorney General--the Attorney General

said later we were just not going to do it, and he said, "That's a good idea." F: Were you involved in the death of Robert Kennedy? S: No. F: That, you know, broke out pretty late 'Ivashington time. S: Oh, yes, I remember, and I was called about

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to overstate my national I began \vorking in national campaigns, as I recall, in 1956, involvement. being head of the Speakers' Bureau in Southern California for Adlai Stevenson. I had a role in John Kennedy's campaign in 1960, and a minor role

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to go on this trip, I need to get a real barrage into the Kennedy brothers. Lyndon Johnson is supporting me and Sam Rayburn is supporting someone else." And so we made our plans, and I sent, on that Friday night in the middle of October of 1961

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 and in Mr. Kennedy's Administration--has the force expanded too much and are we returning to smaller deployment of special forces groups? R: I don't think there has been a significant change

wanted to ask you about was the issue of the overcrowding at Arlington Cemetery. I believe specifically since John F. Kennedy's burial there, this has grown as a controversy and the debate has been whether to expand or confine Arlington Cemetery. whom

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

members within a year, and so on October 22, 1963, President Kennedy reappointed me to the Commission. term under the new statute. tenure. We thereby acquired a three-year The prior statute gave the commissioners no We held office at the President's

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