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Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and this again is something that is just a historical point, I've always thought that both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Eisenhower suffered a great serious loss in the first nine months of their first terms. When Senator Taft died the Republican Party control
  • leaders of free world after WWII; Little Rock and civil rights; Ike against forced bussing; states rights; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Ike and LBJ had heart attacks in 1955; Dulles and foreign affairs; 1956 Hungarian uprising; Israel and Suez Crisis; Sputnik
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the U.S. Committee on the IGY was Joseph Kaplan, and Lloyd Berkner was one, and they were always having James Van Allen in. They relied heavily on Wernher Von Braun in order to evaluate the Soviet program and what the Soviets were doing. Von Braun said
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Right. Well now, this is the period of China's deterioration and it is the period of the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy, which to some extent is helped along by what's happening in China. You have got the problem here of whether the State Department
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee with him were an absolutely outstanding group of senators. It was because of their prestige and their power and their impression with the news media that we were able to start a space. program. Jack Kennedy never did understand what space
  • Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the election of 1960, when all four of us went into the government. F: Yes. M: So I became involved in politics really through Governor Stevenson, and then to the Kennedys. F: How far back does you acquaintance with--I don't know which title to give him
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • strong for one thing. And looking back on it we do indeed now know that Kennedy could have been in some trouble if Wyoming hadn't switched its votes at the last minute. meant a second ballot. That would have We do know that Symington would have picked
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was not that favorable that he was considered in 1960, for instance. candidate for President. He was not considered by our people as the ideal You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy. When he was selected
  • First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that time in which you're beginning to think about, 1960, and it shows John F. Kennedy with the controversial issue of labor, and Stuart Symington with the controversial issue of certain armed forces propositions, and Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in 1960 you know. F: Did you have any opportunity to observe his relationship with Jack Kennedy? B: Yes, very friendly, until the White House days, until Kennedy got in the White House; then things changed, but their relationship was very good
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • It spelled out what it was to do. But during the Eisenhower Administration it didn't do it. So in December 1960--1 believe it was December 20, 1960--a press conference was held down at Palm Beach by President-elect Kennedy, and Vice President-elect Johnson
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in his office drinking bourbon. He made some kind of a remark like this, "I'll never trade my vote for a gavel." I was asking him about his becoming a vice-presidential candidate under Kennedy. He said he'd never do that; he didn't want to be the vice
  • 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, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , denied my charges, but that's about what it amounted to . As I remember, the national administration--President Kennedy was in California on two or three occasions during '62 on allegedly non-political trips . F: Which the President can make very well
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • presidential race between Senator Kennedy and Kefauver when he threw Texas l votes to Kennedy rather to Kefauver, although Kefauver went on to win. Any idea whey he went for Kennedy? S: I couldn't say. That happened so quickly, that I don't remember being
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • feel that he believes that we entered into a program which was initiated actually under President Kennedy when we sent fighting troors :Ln there. That we had entered into a program and conunitted ourselves to supporting the political independence
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • which would prove to our ultimate disadvantage. Now my position was public, was well known. When President Kennedy sent an emissary to me to ask that I remain on as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, I could immediately see that having me
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 2 inception in 1957, so that means you served through now four presidents. H: That's right, all four. M: Did Mr. Johnson use the Civil Rights Commission any differently from either President Eisenhower or Kennedy, or for that matter
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Kennedy Administration. So that the missile gap fortunately never occurred; we tried to make it clear it was only potential even at the time. F: This is an unprovable question and your answer will be equally unprovable for the time being, but from your
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • President Kennedy was made president and then continued on when Johnson succeeded to that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on Johnson's potentialities as presidential timber? S: I don't remember. I think he would have preferred President Johnson to President Kennedy. He thought at least at first that President Kennedy was too young for the job. He didn't realize how fast
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • look back at the day I was appointed with the Viet Cong inside the Embassy garden there in the TET offensive, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the urban riots and convention battles, and all of the things that happened
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • top secret things, just kind of a right-hand man type to the General. At the end of 1960--1 didn't know anything about this till I read it in Newsweek--somebody touted Clifton as the military aide to the newly elected President Kennedy. He didn't deny
  • as General Clifton’s photographer for industrial and VIP special events; being a White House photographer during the Kennedy administration; August 1961 trip to Berlin Wall with Vice-President Johnson and Y.R. Okamoto’s coverage of the trip; European trip
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • despite the President? W: Bailey never had the confidence of the President, I don't think; he was feared by the President as a Kennedy man, and also I think he was getting a little tired of it, and nobody was allowed to move without Johnson's direct
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the first announcements President Kennedy made after held been elected to the presidency--and this is in December of 1960--was that he was going to make the Vice President the head of his space advisory council, or something of that kind. Well, when we read
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the day . I do believe that it was at a National Security Council meeting early in May of 1961 when I briefed President Kennedy and other senior people in the government, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the service secretaries, and other
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • successful. That was the way we ran it, and this was the way it went with Johnson. We'd go down to see him. it was Kennedy who sent for me. five billion dollars. Of course, when we first were there, Our budget in those years was around I knew Jack
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • majority was so slim, I think just one or two votes. C: Well, actually, yes, there was a very close thing, I think until he was president and fell heir to the batch of unfinished business that Kennedy left and couldn't finish because he didn'tknow how
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • involved in the discussions, to give President Kennedy a feeling of comfort as to the recommendation, both from the legislative point of view and the business community poi nt of view. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • talked to them about this job, things were in a pretty static and steady state, and they looked like they would go on that way for a long time. King were alive. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther Student unrest had not really started. It was a very