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Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- U.S. Presidents with whom you had relationships, or did it pretty much follow the same line regardless of whether it was the Republican Eisenhower, or the Democrat--? M: You're quite right. To me, I wasn't conscious of any difference. don't profess
- and as often and as efficiently as it had, for instance, during the Eisenhower Administration, because it was pre-empted to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
- the Eisenhower Administration when the Republicans had charge of the Congress during the 83rd, I believe. I don't recall my first personal contact with the PreSident, that is, person to person conversations with him, unless it was when he was going into North
- certainly since the Eisenhower Administration- -it was reaffirmed by President Kennedy- -that the ambassador speaks for the President in a foreign country, that all of the other members of the country team, our people, the C. 1. A. people, the U. S. 1. S
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thei s -- I -- 11 were not happy about some of the leftover commitments from the QuemoyMatsu days, the Eisenhower years. It was one of those things that has continued up until--and still
- , extend to the White House? W: Hhy, yes, of course it was of concern. F: Did you have any opportunity to observe Mr. Eisenhower's hand in the committee or not? Or did he seem to leave it alone? W: As far as I know, he left it alone. F: They had
- that over a year we looked at the Truman Library and Eisenhower Library and other libraries--tried to-F: Was Wayne Grover often with you on this? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- was an army officer, and although I was born in Texas, we lived all over the world. M: Like Eisenhower's birthplace was Texas. H: Yes, that's right. And the President didn't know my grandfather. My grandfather had been chief justice of the Criminal Court
- Walt Rostow was to this, but I have the feeling that he was not one of the--didn't this idea get started in the late Eisenhower period? M: Yes, apparently-- L: Jerry Smith. M: Jerry Smith was very closely connected with it. L: And Bob Schaetzel
- with the Eisenhower commission on National Goals as staff director . M: How much contact, if- any, did you have with Lyndon Johnson either before he was President or while he was vice President? B: My contacts with him arose almost entirely through the very close
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- would be of interest to you. I came into this position with a somewhat dubious background politically in that I had been active as a Republican. This was back in the days prior to the Eisenhower Ad- ministration. I was indeed on the research staff
- HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dixie -- I -- 4 Eisenhower. But Lyndon did take credit for lining up a completely solid
- didn't see that in here. Was that in 1965? in the fall of 1965 when he had the gall bladder operation, October of 1965. I remember we had spent the night out at the hospital. big thing. It was a Vou know, Eisenhower had had a heart attack and been
- the Eisenhower Administration, that rule by Executive order was put in. Any oil or products that were brought in by ocean tanker or by tank ship is under the rule; but that that came in by overland transportation were excepted. And they called this overland
- columnist who was the Eisenhower ambassador to Switzerland, but who was with the Intelligence with Bill Donovan [OSS] during the war and has the same feeling that fellow [Ernest] Cuneo had. Have you talked to Cuneo? F: No. C: Well, you better talk
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- a little background might be interesting . I was naturally very interested in who would succeed Dwight Eisenhower, and I wanted a Democrat to be elected President . F: You had eliminated the Republican Minority Leader . B: I eliminated the Republican
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- wire services and the networks has been a foregone conclusion, was during President Kennedy's news conferences, and for that matter during President Eisenhower's. There was sort of a list that they run down to make sure they recognize a representative
- dumb. Kennedy never used this I'm sure that Eisenhower didn't. But LBJ frequently "Now, you know, you got me into this last time, Bob, but now what about this time?" Perhaps the most notable occasion of his forcing us to constantly revalidate
- a grant for Oral History of Eisenhower and Stevenson, and he said it would be nice if you did something like that for Harry Truman, and a couple of years later we got a good application and did. in keeping his hands off of it and so did his staff. But he
- forth. And the result is that a White House staff--at least the Kennedy staff, and I would generalize more broadly; not the Eisenhower staff, but the Johnson staff and I gather the Nixon staff--relates so much to the man who is President that the rest
- there? Because a friendly nation asked us to help them repel aggression and three presidents have made that pledge." wasn't true. No. Three presidents hadn't made it. Well, it Eisenhower never promised anything but economic aid, and Kennedy never made any
- like Eisenhower and Truman have been called upon for advice and counsel. Because no one knows the great burden or great responsibility that a man has in that office until he has gone through it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
- in the history of the United States--no parallel in the history of any other President. When you figure the amount of 1egislation--just take education, federal aid to education! practically nil. Under the Eisenhower Administration, it was I think it went up
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , as you may know. This is an understanding that President Eisenhower made with the Senate Armed Services Committee. However, the Joint Chiefs of Staff consider it inappropriate for them to comment on who should be appointed the chief of a service [Army
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Eisenhower wanted done . He'd get it done, get a bill passed, and he felt that was going to come to an end . about it . I remember he talked One reason he wanted to be the vice president was he felt he had reached the top in input in the Senate
- been there in the Eisenhower period and part of the Kennedy period and being a professional had no difficulty getting along with any of them. I think here sometimes the lay public tends to assume that we're all a lot more ideological and committed
- the light of having served under really four Presidents almost-- A: Three. P: Didn't Eisenhower come in there in one part of it? A: No, you see, my resignation took place the day that he was inaugurated. So I served under three Democratic Presidents
- . And there was a big political hurrah about it at that But that was his [Secretary of Treasury Anderson under Eisenhower] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
- that he did the most for were the first to turn on him when he was in the White House. B: Like who? E: Oh, you can take most of your southern states. My gosh, when we were needing so much help under the Eisenhower Administration here in the Tennessee
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- it out of a department, we never would have had any means to get anything done with. So that's the reason why we put it there. It was well known that the Congress was not going to let anybody go beyond what Eisenhower had done in expenditures. You'll
- idea of what the business and banking community really operate like. That's a bad sentence, Eisenhower syntax. But the real question is what is banking like in the real world and not in the textbook; what is the way in which IT&T conducts its affairs
- also seen in your government service a transition from the Eisenhower years to the Kennedy years. Did this kind of situation develop there, too? Between the old and the new? R: In the beginning there was certainly some suspicion as to actions taken
- . But that time \'/hen the argument got too hot and heavy, General Twining would just bundle all up and go over and sit down and talk to the President. The President didn't agree with Taylor either, talking about President Eisenhower, so that was it. with his
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- at doing, as history has already recorded. I believe President Eisenhower made the statement that without Lyndon he never would have gotten any of his program through. The President was a statesman as well as a partisan, but he appealed to the members
- about our relationships with student organizations--youth organizations--and certainly others, made in effect a statement that he had known about these things, and that they had gone on since the early days of the Eisenhower Administration