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Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Well, let's see, the Eisenhowers I know did enjoy Fred Waring quite a bit. And Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians were here on many occasions. Then I suppose, too, people have a tendency to pick up highlights in each administration. And I suppose

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the second most powerful man in the nation when Eisenhower was President. He recognized that he could not be that powerful if Kennedy won the election. Now, you might say, "Well, Nixon would have won and then he'd still be Majority Leader." exactly what

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, by the fairness with which Nr. Johnson--then-Senator Johnson--acted while President Eisenhower was in the hbite House. I think that he displayed a tremendous amount of pa- triotism and a great lack of political partisanship during those years. I think

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, South Dakota voted more overwhelmingly for Eisenhower in 1952 than any other state in the Union. And it was shortly after that that I first met George McGovern, the new state chairman. Well, George McGovern got elected to the House

Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

when these farm programs were started that we'd get a fair shake for agriculture. B: In other words, it would almost certainly be a change from the policies of the Eisenhower Administration? L: Yes. Getting back a little bit on how I happened

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

- cated at the time that the administration, the Eisenhower Administration, had failed to protect the wool industry properly. M: No. I don't recall that. I probably voted with Lyndon on it because out inmy state--I'm sure I did--we have wool too

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

service with the Civil Rights Commission in 1960 on into the Kennedy years, did you have an opinion of Lyndon Johnson in those days? M: No, I didn't. When I entered the government of course, Mr. Eisenhower was the President. I entered in July of 1960

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Mrs. Eisenhower's clothes, remember. In the spring of the year, for instance, the first lady is guest of honor at the Senate wives luncheon. The routine was about the same, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it isn't still the same, but each

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the two houses, there would have been no end to it. I've seen a number of instances which I felt that Mansfield and McCormack really didn't push, the way that Rayburn and Johnson would have, well, as they did for Eisenhower. P: There was a great man

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, 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, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a kid, pretty near. He had been head of the House of Representatives. G: I understand that in 1954, President Eisenhower nominated you as an alternate delegate to the U.N. Do you know why you were selected? N: Yes. They tried to balance

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people when he was retained by Eisenhower on the ticket. G: The Checkers speech. O: The Checkers speech. We considered excerpting from the Checkers speech with another punch-in-the-nose type spot. We were getting into dangerous territory because how

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

chairman. Well, Eisenhower for some reason that I don't understand, insisted on being chairman of the President's Advisory Council on Outer Space. And so, that was--we gave in to them simply to be sure that we could get the bill through the Congress. One

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

wouldn't reappoint anybody, so that time ran out . So when Eisenhower came in, he appointed a whole new group of seven [members] . That kept on going . When Kennedy came in, the whole seven were coming in 1963 for reappointment at that time . One

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CLIFTON C. CARTER--8 In 1952, we had had Governor Shivers and Senator Daniel endorse President Eisenhower and the Republicans, and Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn were determined this would not happen again

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 12 F: That, of course, was the one thing Al Smith did for the party, and later Eisenhower, you know that was the first time they recognized that they ought to pay some attention to them. Did you see anything of Johnson while he was vice president

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

," and "This is for this department, I want a report on it." I think he followed it. He'd turn it over to a subordinate, the head of another department, yet he still kept it with him. I don't think he's the type of man who can delegate things, I think Eisenhower was a great

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

? B: We then spent months working on legislation between the staffs of those two Senators and others; and if I recall correctly, a bill was passed which President Eisenhower vetoed and later a watered down version was passed which the President signed

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it. Sure. After the Democrats took the Senate, what, in the first by election in Eisenhower's period? G: Yes. S: The morning after the election, Lyndon called me and he said, "My friend, I'm going to buy some more stations, and I want you to tell me

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

know, some of the worst judicial appointments made were made by the Kennedys in the South. We basically got along on the old Eisenhower appointments. B: Does anybody in particular stand out in your mind? Y: Oh yes. Judge Cox from Mississippi

Folder, "Pepper, Claude (Senator) [1944]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 26 (Item)

and daring with which an Eisenhower . assault.a Normandy, to deny whole st2ctes, millions of Americans, the right to vote for the nominee of one of the nation's dominant parties, even if he be the President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief

Folder, "Politics - 1951," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 30 (Item)

is the :Pemocratic Presidential nominee · and if the Republi-i cans name ¢ither Taft or Eisenhower, ~t means that the independent .southern Delegates will ;follow the Byrnes advice, disregard the label, and vote for the GOP nominee. · · Meanwhile

Folder, "McNamara, Robert," Office Files of Fred Panzer, Box 379 (Item)

are the most and figures point to the conclusilm that Ho Chi -1:: : . "Yes, I do," said FitzGerald. : •. ,::. powerful spokesmen of what Dwight Eisenhower l\.Iinh and Comp..1.n}'should h:we "mon'Cl to a J • ti • _·... "But.why?" said _?vicNamara

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 7, 1 November 1975," LBJ Library (Item)

isn't it? But nee ssaT1Jso my guards thought - and they are the ones exposed to danger. 14 A draft of Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech on February 29, 1956, announcing his dedsion l seek reelection, addresses itself m part to the matter

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Cyprus, 11/29/1967, Volume 4, Tab 61," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

: The Eisenhower - Bradl ey TV show overall was helpful. He wished, however, that the two Generals had abi ded by their earlier decision, namely not to comment on new moves in Vietnam in view of the fact that they did not hav e responsibility for making decisions

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/17/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)

Eisenhower; tea held for White House Committee on the Fine Arts, the Library Committee, and the Committee on Paintings; Lady Bird goes for swim; dinner is with the George Browns; LBJ calls Oveta Culp Hobby

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

will be curved and what have you. Lastly, you had this great tradition stemming back to the Eisenhower years--and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)

anything else. I got it from the Nevi York Ti!'l~.5-. of yours this morning. I've never seen But that's the way Eisenhower took Part Three and Russell just ran him out of the White House balcony, because said, they slip nr never heard of it, didn't

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the elevator, personally. If he came into the office I don't recollect it. He had a very good relationship with [Dwight] Eisenhower and always spoke kindly of him. I think it was the office of the president that he was bound and determined to respect. I do

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the National Guard for anything in race, we would have had a different racial history, just like if you had a northerner as president at the time of Selma and all like that, and they had sent in troops as Eisenhower did in Little Rock, we wouldn't have

Folder, "March 4, 1968 - 5:33 p.m. Meeting with Senior Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

~~™~tlie ~~AqB.tlilt~~ which were yesterday postponed; that is, with Senators Rus sell and Dirksen; Congr·e ssman Rivers; and, via General Goodpaster, with General Eisenhower. ' :: 6;t-~~. Once y ou have come to a decision, y~u will need urgent refinement