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Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 13 well committed to that and knew that he had taken positions that were pretty difficult maybe politically to sustain, considering where he came from. G: I wonder if his cooperation with President [Dwight] Eisenhower disturbed her during the 1950s
minimum wage; the work of congressional liaisons under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and LBJ; the expansion of the Rules Committee; Roosevelt's trip with LBJ to Adlai Stevenson's funeral; Roosevelt leaving Congress to work with Ambassador

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

adding to a total of twenty years. F: Also, you had the feeling that if Mr. Eisenhower could get past the Republican nominating convention you had a pretty powerful candidate. C: That may have been a little too early for that, I'm not sure his name
with Congressman Johnson; discussions with LBJ of governmental problems during the Eisenhower years; Senator McCarthy; friendship with LBJ, 1954-1960; 1957 Civil Rights Act; advised LBJ on inflation; LBJ’s leadership; effect of 1960 support of Senator Symington

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the earlier aura of volunteerism and the whole idea of conciliation agreements which had surrounded the Eisenhower committee. There had never been a real, hard compliance line drawn prior to this Kennedy President's committee. Prior to that time, nobody

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Women's National Press Club and because he was very proud of that, I think--the girl from Texas who had that job--and so- F: When were you head of the Women's National Press Club? C: I believe it was 1956. Was that an Eisenhower year? 4 LBJ
First meeting Lady Bird; worked for Esther Van Wagoner Tufty; her wedding; presentation of calf from LBJ and Rayburn to President Eisenhower; ready access; LBJ’s willingness to share credit with local Congressmen whenever a story broke; two real

Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a secretary, you know, I don't know whether President Johnson does, but I think President Eisenhower started that--the secretary. And I think since then, there has been some record of what went on in the Cabinet. But I know there was nothing like

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, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall this in connection with the Congress that came in in 1955 . You know, in 1954 we had the Congress that Eisenhower had brought in with him . That's the reason that Johnson was minority leader instead of majority leader in that Congress, which

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

afraid of him? P: Oh, yes. (Interruption) --and he could be very arbitrary. G: But he didn't retaliate against you? P: No, partly because it was 1959 that we had this thing. In 1960 the presidency became available with Eisenhower retiring, and I
Rights Bill; impressions of Wayne Morse; LBJ's sources of power; counting votes; LBJ and Eisenhower; Alaska-Hawaii statehood; Harris-Fulbright natural gas bill; views on support of education; issue of regulation of electronic media; unemployment

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and back. M: Right. W: Then there followed an intimate access period which I think he -' probably overdid. Then he kind of tapered off that period. always had a good press. Eisenhower Eisenhower was never on a first name basis with anybody

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

by thenPresident Eisenhower to fly with him to meet President L6pez Mateos in Acapulco. It was in February, 1959. And President Eisenhower invited also Senator Johnson to fly with him, not throughout Mexico, but from Washington to Austin, to an air force base

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a lot of trouble. Well, to give you an example, in the state convention in Amarillo in 1952, some of his strong supporters were upset with him because he wouldn't agree to placing [Dwight] Eisenhower on both the Democratic and Republican ticket
Allan's Shivers' political philosophy; Shivers' refusal to place Dwight Eisenhower on both the Democratic and Republican tickets in the 1952 presidential election in Texas; Shivers' supporters and detractors; Sandlin's involvement with the Veterans

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

helped--not only helped, hell, he did it--turn the press around--it was beginning to go against us, he turned it around--but he also figured out how to get to Eisenhower through Knowland . That's the only reason we ever got that bill compromised

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)

real recommen dation of the Administration was really when President Eisenhower told Presidc:nt Kennedy he felt the first action we would have to take would be in that area -- Laos, and Viet-Nam -- and that he would have taken it ex.ct!pt th,":lt he

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

emphasized over and over, not only in 1963 and 1964 but back prior to that when Eisenhower came up with his civil rights bill back in 1957 or 1958, along in there--we always made the legal argument along with the moral. But the main emphasis was on the legal

Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in a fit of fury and rage. And by no means all the press was in love with Jack Kennedy; there were some reporters who were, but he had his share of criticism too. And the credibility gap has always existed too. In the Eisenhower days, for example, the "Top

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/5/1967 (Item)

Eisenhowe r ha d expresse d a n _ interest i n getting details o f this morning' s happenings , an d th e Presiden t sai d tha t h e . — • would arrange t o hav e someon e brief Mr . Eisenhowe r righ t away . ) 10:22a Th _. | / 10:23 t e Presiden t

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)

guess, forty-three when he was elected. He was my age. Most of his principal advisors and assistants were approximately of his age or younger, rather than of the age of Eisenhower advisors, or of the Democratic contemporaries of President Eisenhower

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/10/1968 (Item)

. Terenc e J . Cooke , D . D. Archbisho p of New York Hon. Roma n Hruska , U S Senate Hon. Hal e Boggs , Hous e o f Representatives Hon. Willia m McCulloch , Hous e o f Representatives Dr. Milto n S . Eisenhower , Baltimore , M d Chairma n o f the Commissio

President's Daily Diary entry, 8/2/1968 (Item)

Jones mf Dr. William Lukash Yoichi Okamoto Tom Johnson and Yuki down at Walter Reed Hospital -the President and Mrs. Johnson departed the helo site in a car... en route visit to General Dwight Eisenhower t^*" Frances 12:10p Wheels ~7 " - . briefly

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/3/1968 (Item)

Eisenhower) The Presiden t th e fron t pag e o f th e Sta r — there waa a repor t o n a violent deat h o f Mrs . Suzann e Morri s whos e husban d i s a n aid e t o Senator Muskie . Worked item s ou t o f thebox 7:05p T o Ova 7:06p t Georg 7:20p Th

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/25/1968 (Item)

Archivist for Presidential Libraries Chester Newland, LBJ Library Phillip Brooks, Truman Library John Wickman, Eisenhower Library 6:25 p. 6:30p President 6:30 p 7:30 p. Majority left Cabinet Room and returned to Ova l Office, accompanied by Lawson Knott

President's Daily Diary entry, 12/3/1968 (Item)

Lyndo n Baine s Johnso n Presidential Librar y Dr. Danie l J . Reed , Assistan t Archivist for Presidentia l Libraries , GS A Hon. Jame s B . Rhoads , Archivis t o f th e Unite d State s Dr. Joh n E . Wickman , Director , th e Dwigh t Davi d Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

patterns inside the federal government, in spite of the fact that Eisenhower had taken a bold step: he'd created an executive order, created a president's committee on government employment policy, a position, by the way, for which I was hired at one point
with Eisenhower's President's Committee on Government Employment Policy; discrimination in federal hiring nationwide; in-house vs. contract work discrimination; Potomac Institute report for the Department of Defense; Robert McNamara's work to hire more black

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/22/1963 (Item)

EOB 6:50 Tazewell Shepard ___________ 6: 55 Secretary Harriman and Sen. Fulbright 7:05 f President Truman • 7:10 t General Eisenhower ____________ 7:29 t _____ sargent .Shriver ___________ 7:35 Mac Kilduff 7:36 Easting dinner in 274 EOB ' _ 7:40

Folder, "August 17, 1967 - 6:20 p.m. Meeting with Freshmen Republican Congressmen," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

Majority Leader I voted with President Eisenhower 76 percent on foreign policy, 36 percent on domestic policy. Of course, I know you do not have as good a President to support as I did, but I know that you want to vote for what is right and what the people

Folder, "April 4, 1968 - 3:47 p.m. President's meeting with U Thant at the United Nations in New York City," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

with former President Eisenhower (on the ground at March AFB). The President will depart March AFB about 8 a. m. for Honolulu, arriving 11: 30 a. m. local time. The meetings will dis cuss hi gh-level milit ary appointment s now pending and military

Folder, "July 24, 1968 - 1:30 p.m. Tuesday lunch with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

help to us than the Democrats in the last few months. Secretary Clifford: Ike said he would be glad to see me. The President: Eisenhower has helped me in every critical thing I have asked him to help on. You would be good to talk with him. Secretary

Folder, "[September 19, 1967 - 8:36 a.m. Congressional Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

the Republicans are gutting the bill." The President noted "in 1960, Eisenhower indicted only 19 people from organized crime and we've indicted l~ 190 this year alone. One of the problems today is that they didn't do anything about it in those Republican years

Telephone conversation # 12816, transcript, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 3/14/1968, 5:57PM (Item)

thing in 1936 and on the farm question, even in the middle of the campaign; He sent for the people • : . P: Oh, we do that all the time.' · I went to Eisenhower the other day across the country. We will be fully briefing Nixon and the others from

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/22/1966 (Item)

in the second year of each term — FDR, Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, JKF Justice Attny Abe Gen Barber Fortas Katzenbach re Attny Gen (b.2) Shop MW Mrs. Johnson, Edmund Gov. Brown, departed for Taylor residence, Santa Fe, W.M. San Francisco

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/31/1966 (Item)

very interesting pictures and signs -- drawn and made by school children. The President is the first head of state to visit Korea since Eisenhower, and Mrs. Johnson is the first First Lady of any country to ever come to visit Korea. As the motorcade

President's Daily Diary entry, 8/20/1965 (Item)

Smith Goodpaster's Bill Moyers Larry O'Brien visit with to a report on General General Eisenhower Aug White 20 1965 Friday House To Sout h Lawn fo r REMARKS t o Whit e Hous e Conferenc e o n Equal Employmen t Opportunitie s Introduced

President's Daily Diary entry, 1/25/1966 (Item)

. -- and the President asked to see her before announcing her appointment) Bill Moyers MW (pl) Mrs. Fagan Dickson joined Senator Robert Kennedy (B.2) S^*a*< GeneralDwight Eisenhower -Palm Desert, California (Indio, Calif.) (B.; To mansion w/ Mrs. Fagan Dickson

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/30/1965 (Item)

June 30 1965 White Secy House Mann Larry Franklin O'Brien D Roosevelt To mansion General Secretary General Senator Jr w/ JV for luncheon Eisenhower McNamara Wheeler Dirksen George Reedy Secy Wednesday Rusk Jake Jacobse n Jack Valent i Bill

Folder, "[April-May 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

also advised the President that Doubleday wants to do the President's memoirs. He said this firm published Eisenhower and Truman. The President said he had turned all the publishing offers he has received over to a lawyer, and decisions would be made

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