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  • President Eisenhower and Johnson. K: Didn't they-- There was a great deal to that. We'll come to that in a minute. let's stay on Truman for a little bit. But Johnson felt that under Paul Butler particularly, the Democratic National Committee
  • First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956
  • rather quiet days during the Eisenhower Administration. making speeches throughout the COtmtry. He hadn't been out too much His campaign for the nomination LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • , I don't think to me privately but to small groups of us, that one of the first things that he did was call in General Eisenhower and had a very detailed discussion with him of General Eisenhower's judgment LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ENDICOTT PEABODY (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: DAVID Mc COMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Johnson, and I think to most of us at that point it had become clear that Bobby had it in mind to challenge Johnson for the nomination in 1968. I remember up at Camp David at some point, maybe late 1962 or maybe the spring of 1963, again we were swimming
  • with Bill Brennan, and we sat together in Hudson County, as I recall. He was on our superior court, then on our supreme court, and then he went by appointment of President Eisenhower to the United States Supreme Court. So that at Los Angeles Meyner
  • , too, But I took this year and my brother took the summer out, and we campaigned throughout the state of Missouri. As you know, that was an Eisenhower year even in Missouri. He carried the state by 30,000 votes; we carried it by maybe l50~000
  • there was no woman on it. And of course this comment has been made with respect to the Nixon Administration. I'm not quite as critical as most people because on this issue nobody has done very well since President Eisenhower with Mrs. Hobby who, if you recall
  • : The public including the Senators? W: I think many of the Senators. I think that as the hearings progressed, we found that people within the defense establishment had strongly warned the President--Prepident Eisenhower--and the Secretary of Defense
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George
  • 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
  • . 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
  • on a private, social basis, no. But certainly on a political basis, Governor Shivers was Democrats-for-Eisenhower, he was a states l rights person, he was a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
  • , 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
  • in space was fairly accurate; that what had happened was, I think, largely budgetary considerations--the Eisenhower Administration had--well, not exactly suppressed--certainly had not given a great deal of emphasis-- F: Had preferred to disbelieve-- W
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George
  • everything. Lyndon as floor leader in the Senate, nothing stands out particularly. He and Sam Rayburn dominated the scene legislatively. They were not obstructive as far as the Eisenhower Administration went. On the initial civil rights measures
  • it. I think the President was abused some by the press, but I think this is the expectation. I think any- one who will sit in that office can expect to be abused. You look at history; they always have been. Eisenhower is the only one that I know
  • to the President, has beginning with President Eisenhower--had done most of the clearing 'of the personal items of President Kennedy for the family. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F
  • 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
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 25­ If Eisenhower had said this in '55 or '56 after the Geneva Conference, in my opinion
  • for Eisenhower, of course, but also this was one of the counties for Willkie, as I recall, when he ran in 1940, and also [for] the man from Kansas--what is his name? F: Landon . B: Landon . I think Tulsa County, you will find, was one of those for Landon
  • sense, and so therefore ~1e were not happy with the kind of leaders hip they were giv i ng in the United States Senate. He thought they were overly cooperative 1·1ith President Eisenhower and that they ~1ere not--this really goes to the Democra