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  • \\ of the President's outstanding efforts on behalf of inter-American friendship. Sec y Rusk and Amb. Sevilla-Sacasa are among the honorary Presidents of this organization, which presented the award earlier to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman , Eisenhower, and Kennedy
  • the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 Honorable Matthew McCloskey U.S. Amb to Ireland Cabinet Room Secy Ball Amb Thompson Alexis Johnson Edwin Martin Secy Dillon Att Genl Robert Kennedy Secy Gilpatric General Wheeler Secy Vance General Carter
  • / Pres. t George Meany t Mrs. John Kennedy f Lynda Bird to the Pres & Mrs Johnson Mrs Johnson departed Pres asked her to invite Bill Whites to dinner f Cong. Boggs f Amb Seppala f Page 2 Saturday West Wing 12-21-63 Office Telephone *s Entry No .1
  • Rudolfo A. Weidman, (Argentina), Alberto Zuleta Angel (Columbia); Jose Bonilla Antiles (Dom. Rep), Manuel Truces (Chile) Cabinet Room - Signs S.J. Res.136 - the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Cong Charles Buckley of New York Ralph Dungan
  • Andrews AFB Helicopter to South Lawn In the mansion 2:45 2:47 2:50 4:03 4:06 4:07 4:55 5:30 mns.) " ) t t t t t t service of Mrs. Robert Wagner - arriving (see attached itinerary) 1:45 Mr Jenkins (n/r - fr mansion) Bill Moyers ( " " " ) Larry
  • by) * Expenditur D ______ "^ Day Sunday _ t Mr. """T^^ Mrs. e Roberts James e J IT Rowe " " Telephone Enrry Time ? No. 1 or t Activity Code Lo LD (Include visited by)* Expenditure * 6:02 t Residence TRAVEL ACTIVIT T '• Diary Departur e
  • General Maxwell D. Taylor , Chairman FAA Najeeb Halaby, Administrator JUSTI CE DEPARTMENT Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General OEP Edward A. McDermott, Director STATE Dean Rusk, Secretary TREASURY C. Dougl as D illon, Secretary USIA Carl Rowan, Director
  • , I sat down to lunch downstairs, in that room where I first came to a dinner with the Kennedys in January of ’61, with Bess, and Liz, and Ashton, and Tish Baldridge, who had come down to give us about four days of her time for advice and getting us
  • Fredericka of Greece, President Segni of Italy, and Chancellor Erhardt of Germany at the LBJ Ranch; heads of state gifts; dinner with the Jack Valentis and Bill Whites; White's book on LBJ and his book on Senator Robert Taft
  • : Panama On April 30 and on June 15, 1962 President Kennedy signed t-wo National Security Action ~moranda (Nos . 152 and 164 y/ I respectively) with regard to re~ations with Panama, the Panama ~/f-~ / , Canal Zone and items raised during the visit
  • strikes against him." I also remember--[and this was] certainly in 1959, I remember this because it was before John Kennedy announced--a group of us had dinner with him. And I must say, at that time-- F: With Johnson? K: No, with Kennedy. F: Oh
  • East; Bobby Kennedy; how the press handled record information; press secretaries; McGeorge Bundy; Bill Moyers; James Hagerty; LBJ’s presidential staffs.
  • to the hottest years of the Kennedy 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- I -- 2 Administration. I'm not saying that he
  • government work; Bundy's DePauw University speech; LBJ's view of the Kennedys, specifically Bobby; Bundy's relationship to the Kennedys; the Washington D.C. cocktail circuit and its effect on public opinion; LBJ's accessibility; how the staff went about
  • . Johnson will give a dinner in honor of the Presi­ dent of the Republic of Korea and Mrs. Park at the White House. Dress: Black tie. 5 TUESDAY, MAY 18 8:00 a.m. The Honorable Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, will have breakfast with President
  • . G: Before he had his heart attack there was a lot of speculation that he might run for president in 1956. Did you have any insight into this? S: No. Was that the year that [Stuart] Symington ran? I think it was 1956. Yes, because in 1960 Kennedy
  • HUMPHREY, The Vice Pres. &Mrs. JACKSON, Lady (no admit card) JOHNSON, Miss Luci Baines JOHNSON, Miss Lynda Bird KENNEDY, Mrs. Edward M. KINTNER, Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. KRIM, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur B. KROCK, Mr. & Mrs. Edward LANFRANCHI, Mr. & Mrs. Mario LASKER
  • not have been willing to do it--but he was going to stick the Kennedys all the way out there and all the way out front. And that was calculated at every stage. G: Was Robert Kennedy less committed to advancing the nomination? C: Well, no. I think Robert
  • at the funeral of President Kennedy on Nov. 26, 1963. Besides President Johnson and the late President's widow, others at the gravesite today were; ' Sen. and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy Secy Robert McNamara Sen. an d Mrs. Edward M. Kennedy other DOD officials Mr
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT HARDESTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Robert L. Hardesty
  • Hardesty, Robert L. (Robert Louis), 1931-
  • Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert L. Hardesty
  • walked in, Roosevelt looked up and said, "Claude, have I ever told you about Robert Livingston? Robert Liv­ ingston is an ancestor of my wife, and he signed the Declara­ tion of Independence." And the President told him about Robert Livingston for 15
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT C. WOOD INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. Mc COMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Robert C. Wood
  • Wood, Robert Coldwell, 1923-2005
  • Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb
  • Robert C. Wood
  • anything else, Eisenhower. .. was able to keep clown inflation and thus helped the country in a way that probably any­ one else who might have been presi­ dent in the late l 950s would not have been able to do." John F Kennedy: "When he was tragically
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Feild -- III -- 26 and that Bobby Kennedy acquiesced in. And I don't think that the Kheel report did anything more than sanction de facto reality. G: Why did Robert Kennedy seem to lose interest in the committee? Why did he acquiesce
  • 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
  • there. I had been a roommate in college of a man named Robert B. Troutman, Jr. Has his name come across? G: No. A: Oh, boy! He and LBJ had one hell of a battle over LBJ's responsibilities in equal opportunity enforcement in the Kennedy Administration
  • nominee for the 1960 election; Robert B. Troutman, Jr. and his disagreements with LBJ; how Abram met LBJ; LBJ and civil rights legislation; Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on the black family; White House Conference on Civil Rights and Moynihan’s
  • to make responsible decisions. 1I And like everybody else I supported him very actively. And so the end of the first period of our relationship was rather funny. As you probably know, Phil Graham and I had gone to President Kennedy at the critical
  • at the 1960 Democratic Convection; Philip Graham; Herman Talmadge; Alsop's writing about the Vietnam War; Bill Moyers; criticism of LBJ's approach to Vietnam; Alsop being invited to visit privately with presidents; LBJ's unpredictable nature' Robert McNamara
  • Sharon Francis -- Interview IV -- 3 clearly was heated. I might say, going back into some history, he had set his heart on it long, long ago. Because I remember doing a research paper for him when Kennedy was alive on all the times that the Antiquities
  • on the ticket. I don't believe the President was going to put For some unfathomable reason, or perhaps not so unfathomable, I think that between Robert Kennedy and the President LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • The Walter Jenkins incident; Senator Barry Goldwater; LBJ choosing a running mate; Robert Kennedy; Marvin Watson; the 1964 convention.
  • For Kennedy-Johnson. This was at Robert Kennedy's request. We turned the city into a Kennedy-Johnson city, although normally it has been a Republican city in the past. I also went into the Protestant areas of upstate Pennsylvania--into Easton
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Peabody’s views of the JFK/LBJ ticket and his part in the campaign; casual meetings with LBJ and the Kennedys, their differences of opinion on various matters; description of differences in JFK, RFK, and LBJ campaign techniques; Lawrence O’Brien’s
  • any insight into why they didn't like each other? W: No, no. G: What about some of the other Kennedy people, the cabinet people, for example? Did he talk to you about his impressions of them? [Robert] McNamara or [Dean] Rusk, or any of those? W
  • John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; the 1961 Lucy B Convair crash near the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's restlessness as vice president; LBJ's relationship with Robert and John Kennedy; the Johnsons' Tennessee walking horse; Konrad Adenauer's
  • joining in the political activities first of Senator Kennedy and then Senator Humphrey that thereafter there was reluctance of the White House to push this measure through? O: I don't think it was due to my political involvement. This from the beginning
  • of O'Brien's proposed campaign task force; O'Brien's and Rowe's political experience; LBJ's request that O'Brien evaluate of the Massachusetts primary; O'Brien and Ted Kennedy and possible stand-ins for LBJ in Massachusetts; Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK) interest
  • some time early any particular as an "Acting" Kennedy served on as Attorney and then you were Acting Attorney or six months? to February The sorts Mr. Robert 13, [1965] problems Attorney of problems [1964] the first week I guess
  • , it was a long, drawn-out very tricky battle, very tricky. G: Now, the Kennedy bill when it was first introduced was really sort of a mild labor-management reporting and anticorruption type bill. It 11 ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Dubinsky in reforms of the Taft-Hartley Act; Arthur Goldberg as chief counsel AFL-CIO; the Kennedy bill; McClellan bill of rights; secondary boycott provision; picketing; the conference committee; the Landrum-Griffin bill; barbecue at the Ranch for Lopez
  • . - - ~ct.~:-(4 /?-, _ ~ - /4 ~~~~ ~ ~ - _-- --- -- - MEMORANDUM RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS To: Files From: Robert C. Herr Date: August 24, 1968 Jim Kirkham and I met yesterday of Group Research, for American Inc., and Mr
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: CHALMERS ROBERTS INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: M: More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • See all online interviews with Chalmers Roberts
  • Roberts, Chalmers McGeagh, 1910-2005
  • Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Chalmers Roberts
  • [are examples]. Ray Roberts, I think he sized up people like Ed Clark, John Connally, Cecil Burney down in Corpus Christi, John Singleton who is a Federal j udge down in Houston, Joe Kilgore, John Peace over in San Antonio, many many people that you could
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • disagreed on that. There was considerable debate on leaving out Part III. There was a split between the then-senators from Massachusetts, Senator John F. Kennedy and Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a Republican. There was heated debate and sharp difference
  • contact with John F. Kennedy in that period? H: Yes. Together with Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, then Lt. Bulkeley-- I selected John F. Kennedy for PT boats, made him an instructor at the training school after he finished the course of instruction
  • of shipbuilding and sea-going unions; control of foreign steamship lines; containerization of shippers; inspections; origin/scope/work of FMC; White House support of commissioner; Robert J. Blackwell; transition from LBJ Administration to Nixon Administration
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 12- Did this impression that you say came from that meeting that Johnson was going to be offered the nomination over the objections of Robert Kennedy-did that ever get cleared up, or was that still-- B: No, that one
  • on Equal Employment Opportunity RFK - Robert F. Kennedy UT – University of Texas WH - White House (but not always; sometimes it is spelled out) WJ - Walter Jenkins Please be aware that there may be misspellings of proper names. 07/2024 1 lbjlibrary.org
  • glad about is that I wasn't in a position of real responsibility because I would have done the same thing they did. G: I know that. This puts Robert Kennedy in rather a bad light I think because he is one of the few people to even dare say out loud
  • ; staff who worked on study; study plan; lack of direction or certainty of what was expected reflections on the need for historians to do the study; role of Robert McNamara; speculation about the purpose of study; reaction to publication in the New York
  • : Sentor Edward Kennedy -re Springfield Armory Cong. Ed Boland (Manatos memo re to DT) Cong. Silvio Conte April 28, 1966 THURSDAY White House Mike Manatos Joe Califano (pl) OFF RECORD: Senato r Henry Jackson Senator Warren Magnuson Re Charles Luce
  • jotted down a statement for him to say in this meeting with President Kennedy and other advisers. Well, you know, I was bowled over. One, I'm not that smart, but I strained every bit of gray matter that I could to produce. I don't know whether
  • . Shriver and Ethel Kennedy to Texas; LBJ’s ability to recall names; 1960 election night; began working for LBJ when VP.