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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: MILTON EISENHOWER (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ F: More on LBJ Library oral histories
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  • Biographical information; FDR; LBJ's relationship with Eisenhower; invitation to LBJ to speak at Johns Hopkins; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Chamizal dispute; LBJ as civil rights leader; Latin American affairs; 1960 election; Dominican Crisis; Panama
  • Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Milton S. Eisenhower
  • . Johnson's relationship with General Eisenhower? A: I know something of that, and I think they were relations of mutual respect. Now, when I say I know something about it, on some occasions --and I cannot be more specific than that--on matters relating
  • Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh During Mr. Johnson's years in the Senate, particularly during the Eisenhower years, you were, I know, very close to President Eisenhower. What
  • First impressions of LBJ; legislative accomplishments as President; opinions on the Vietnam War; similarity between LBJ as a Senate leader and Halleck as a House leader; friendship with LBJ; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ and the vice presidency; LBJ
  • would do a little arm-twisting, but not so much on the Republican side. If he did it, it was more to get enough Democrats added to the Republican forces to win the day. M: What were his relations with President Eisenhower? Mundt: Pretty good. He
  • First meeting LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; 1948 Mundt-Nixon proposal; Joe McCarthy; USIA; Smith-Mundt Act of 1948; Arthur Larson; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower-Nixon-Dulles foreign policy; Quemay-Matsu-Pescadores problem; Russia détente
  • and Senator Russell came in--this was during the Eisenhower days--and asked him, "Bob, how are you going to vote on this Don Paarlberg going to be assistant secretary of agriculture?" The Senator said, "I guess I'm going to vote for him, Dick. Why?" Well, he
  • ; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; LBJ and Kerr's dealings with Senator Joseph McCarthy; Reynolds' post-presidential visit to the LBJ Ranch with Bill Kerr; Eisenhower's responsibility for U.S. involvement in Vietnam; LBJ as vice president.
  • ; 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
  • 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
  • , 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • the Kennedy Administration as well. In the Eisenhower Administration you served as Ambas sador to France for a number of years and then as Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and as Undersecretary of State in the late 1950 1 s. During the period
  • Appointment as Secretary; relationship with LBJ during Eisenhower administration; State Department Appropriation Bill and Foreign Aid Bill in 1959 and 1960; LBJ's role as VP; Cuban Missile Crisis; differences between LBJ and JFK; budget; balance
  • the Eisenhower Administration in 1953 as you suggest, I've served under three Presidents, as you indicate: Johnson. President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President So from a practical sense it is a non-political or non-partisan appointment. B: Do you
  • of his leadership, he had to be. He was leader in the Senate mostly during the time that President Eisenhower, a Republican, was in the White House. And I think, and I'm sure you'd find many sources more reliable than I in that regard, as I recall
  • know, we were running against Eisenhower, and it was pretty much an uphill race. It was quite difficult to even get speakers to represent the Democratic position, particularly to try to educate and elevate the people of this country to accept him
  • , practically all of the progressive Bills were supported by the three of us. B: During the Eisenhower years, sir, do you remember any conscious attempt to sort of mute partisanship during the years of a Republican President and a Democratic C ongres s when you
  • of partisanship during Eisenhower years; supported JFK-LBJ ticket; JFK’s Catholicism; JFK’s rapport with Congress; personal relationship with JFK; LBJ as VP; JFK-LBJ relationship; JFK assassination; Secret Service protection; arrangements with LBJ should McCormack
  • signatures I took the whole list, photostats of it, in a wheelbarrow into the White House and presented them to [Dwight] Eisenhower, changed our name to Committee of a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until she'll qualify
  • /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
  • to that I've often laughed about since. I told him that not too long before, in 1960, President Eisenhower had come through on a very similar visit; this was his trip which was supposed to take him to Japan when he was cancelled out by the peace
  • President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President Johnson, I'd say the more important variable from the standpoint of the Policy Planning Council is the Secretary of State . Now insofar as the President's personality comes to bear on it's work, I'd
  • , there was almost a fixation of lying to the press. A very small thing in the Senate: Tom Gates was up for secretary of Defense the last year of the Eisenhower Administration, and Russell Long was holding it up. And we asked Johnson at the daily press conference
  • recall there was a vote that came up about the Marines and I voted with the Eisenhower Administration on the question--I was a Democrat then. I thought the Eisenhower Administration was right on it, whatever the question was. After the vote, Lyndon
  • went to Washington to advise President Eisenhower that we should be aggressive about meeting the challenge of Sputnik rather than LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • that he believed that it was inadvisable for Congress to take up Alaska statehood legislation without considering Hawaii statehood alsoo He said that the two bills were discussed at the meeting of Republican legislative leaders with President Eisenhower
  • is typical of the Johnson pattern ever since the Eisenhower years. Mc: How do you mean? P: He made ever effort to be cooperative with Eisenhower. It's the con- sensus business, and I think he honestly felt--there is a great streak of fundamental
  • and South; and that the effort to take over the country and to bring it under the control of the government in Hanoi should not succeed. the basic objective has ever.changed since~ I don't think indeed, since Eisenhower. You know, Eisenhower made some
  • that no politics is maybe the When they changed the Administration to the Eisenhower Administration, I had a lot of Republicans--One Republican called me up and said, "I want you to come by here and get this check for $2,000. I see where they might try to remove
  • President Eisenhower. Presi- dent Kennedy recalled you to active duty in 1961, and you served as the military representative to the President. From '62 to '64, you were Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; from 1964 to 1965, Ambassador to Vietnam
  • in that way. Johnson seemed Generally with politicians the public and the private, you know, what you'd see on television and what you'd see face to face is more or less the same. I mean, Kennedy, Eisenhower and the rest that I've known were what you
  • , although I had met him as a United States Senator. But as the Vice President of the United States and then serving as the head of Equal Employment Committee as a designee of President Kennedy--I had served on this under President Eisenhower
  • administration. There was, of course, the involvement with Vietnam to a degree under the Eisenhower Administration. interesting one. Humphrey's basic background in foreign policy was an He was greatly interested in trying to relieve tension in the world. He
  • cannot believe that it could be taken as anything major in that regard. I doubt it. M: Is the Eisenhower Doctrine taken seriously? B: Well, the Eisenhower Doctrine really was a momentary, short-termed thing without really any long--there was no time
  • 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
  • new Administration. 2QH of the things was that the Kennedy Administration was differently organized than its predecessor, President Eisenhower. But let me state here that during Eisenhower's Administrations, I was abroad almost the Z K R O H time
  • , reflects some of your own work on which you-- T: Well, that's very true. The answer is that we need both. of judgment just where the right balance lies. It's a question I certainly felt that under the Eisenhower Administration the emphasis on nuclear
  • it. This was a great psychological defeat for him besides being a great military defeat. Also, on that trip to the West Coast with President Johnson, I had an opportunity to go with him to see President Eisenhower. President Eisenhower on the Vietnam situation as I
  • had been the president and he wasn't very popular. Eisenhower had great appeal in Utah. G: Now you ran successfully for the Senate in 1958. M: Yes. G: At what time did he learn about your candidacy? M: Oh, I think he learned early because
  • that it was very important in 1960 to elect a Democratic president. I was deeply opposed to Nixon and to what had seemed at that time to me to be a do-nothing Eisenhower Administration. I wanted to do anything and everything possible to bring the Democrats
  • early because of the Strauss Lewis Strauss had been on the Atomic Energy Commission and was being nominated now by President Eisenhower in 1959 for the post of Secretary of Commerce. And I was on the Commerce Committee also at this time, and that's