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Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

domestic programs, and perhaps in the civil rights field, schools, and so on. When I was in Justice under Robert Kennedy, he was the head of a delegation, I think, to discuss a Peace Corps equivilence throughout the Caribbean, down in Puerto Rico
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

committed themselves to Kennedy, although the majority of the delegation was for President Johnson. Mc: I've heard that the people from the Texas delegation were rather surprised by the organization of the Kennedy people . . I've gotten the impression
on housing (Suburbia) in 1965; impressions of Robert Wood and Charles M. Haar; evaluation of task forces; service on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association.

Folder, "CQ - HUD," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)

Almanac p. 81, 392; 1964 Almanac p. 77, 425, 879. . In 1961, President Kennedy proposed legislation /to create a Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. He promised to make HHFA Administrator Robert C. Weaver, a Negro, Secretary of the new Department

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

, 1971 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT NOVAK INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: I've already identified you on the tape, but just to get the credentials on here as well, you are Robert Novak and you are a syndicated columnist
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Career history; Novak's private meetings with LBJ; economic advisor Paul Douglas; LBJ drunk; Sam Shaffer and Newsweek; press coverage of the senate vs. the presidency; LBJ's attitude during the vice-presidency; Kennedy staff's disregard for LBJ
Novak, Robert D.
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Robert D. S. Novak

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and retired I believe early in President Kennedy's time went back to the Wilson Administration. So there is a great deal of continuity. B: Do your duties involve anything pertaining to the mansion itself, the LBJ Presidential Library http

Folder, "Gen CO 263 Republic of Senegal," WHCF CO, Box 66 (Item)

Development and Trans port, ~aga t te o, sent the X. President several of the John F. Kennedy commemorative stamps issued by the Senegalese Post Office. Enclosed with the letter, in fact, were five first day covers, one plate block of four stamps and three

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that, but was infinitesimal in comparison, occurred the night that Bobby Kennedy lost the Oregon primary. It's not very pleasant to move through a losing election night, because at the presidential level, I've always considered election night somewhat comparable to the final
opinion of Citizen Hughes author Michael Drosnin and falsehoods in the book; Hughes' $25,000 donation through O'Brien to Robert Kennedy's campaign; O'Brien's trip to Ireland after the 1968 election.

Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Well, I think that it basically stemmed from a mid-1960 visit that then-Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania and Robert Kennedy--trips that they made to Mississippi. G: In April 1967? D: I think it would be about that, yes. Those two senators were

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, the first personal association with President Johnson was in New Mexico. He came out to speak. Now I've forgotten the year, but this was when the President [Lyndon Johnson] and John Kennedy were both working for the nomination. He came to speak
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1972 INTERVIEWEE : ALLEN BARROW INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : The home of James Jones in Tulsa, Oklahoma . Tape 1 of 1 F: Judge Barrow, first of all, how did you get involved with Senator [Robert S .] Kerr? B: It was in his 1948
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Early involvement with Senator Robert Kerr; first contact with LBJ; Sam Rayburn and Kerr; managing Kerr campaigns; Kerr's early interest in LBJ for president; LBJ's work for Oklahoma; organizing Oklahoma for LBJ; 1960 Democratic National Convention

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Krim -- III -- 4 Committee, that I had had some contacts, considerable contacts actually during the Kennedy years, and I felt that it was important for him
exaggeration and last minute decisions, stubbornness and secrecy. Addendum: 3/29/1968 call from LBJ about polling to determine where LBJ stood against Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy; early hints that LBJ would not run in 1968; reasons LBJ had

Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT E. SHORT INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Short's office, Minneapolis, Minnesota Tape 1 of 1 S: --the majority leader of the Senate. F: Yes. You don't look old enough for that. S: Oh, yes, I am old enough
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Short, Robert
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz
Robert Short

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 8, 1969 B: This is a continuation, the second interview with Rev. Holcomb. Sir, we left this after about 1961 or so. The next thing would be in '62 when you were appointed by President Kennedy as chairman of the Texas

Folder, "Garrison Investigation, New Orleans, 1967-1968," Papers of John B. Connally, Box 324 (Item)

It was reached persons: McNamara, Secretary Chief of the Secret tlme, who crune to tho Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense, Douglas J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the and Attoznay CIA; James Reilly, General, at that Robert Kennedy. ThG investigation

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

are the author of books on both the Kennedy Administration and President Johnson, as well as a weekly column for Life on the presidency since 1966, May 1966 about. S: Yes. M: You mentioned in numerous of your writings your original contact with Mr. Johnson
and Presidential work; Sidey’s coverage of 1960 Presidential election; Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the vice-presidency; how LBJ was treated by Kennedy staff and family; LBJ’s interaction with Sidey and other press during the presidency; LBJ’s difficulty

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

through it. It had some negative references, probably to all the Kennedys, Bobby Kennedy. I didn't read it in detail. There was no need to because I had never seen that memo before. It was not the memo Bob Maheu had shown me so I simply stated, "I've never
and Harold Geneen of ITT, and other memos that would be harmful if leaked; Mitchell's and Kleindienst's denials of knowledge or involvement in ITT; Terry Lenzner's and Sam Dash's demand that Robert Maheu's replacement, Chester Davis, provide them

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

attitude. C: And maybe some contrasts. During the--at least my experience on the receiving end in the Pentagon during the Kennedy administration was that they were--they pressed hard to be deeply involved in awarding contracts and who they went to. Indeed

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

was stopped on the highway, and there is just something peculiarly poignant in that. Here was a man running for vice president and trying very hard to help the man he was serving, President Kennedy, in becoming president. And stopped in a funeral procession
. Johnson's appreciation for the variety in lifestyles around the United States; voting and election day 1960; the Johnsons' activities in the days following the election, including John F. Kennedy's visit to the LBJ Ranch; the apartment on the fifth floor

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

.] Kennedy in the spring, headed by Eleanor Roosevelt as the chairman, and Esther Peterson as vice chairman. I worked at the Commission until it finished its report, and I do not, quite frankly, remember the date. It was somewhere in the fall of 1963, because
Prokop's career history; LBJ's vice presidential staff and Prokop's duties; LBJ's dissatisfaction with his vice presidency; how President Kennedy's staff viewed LBJ and his staff; Kennedy staff's lack of appreciation for LBJ's talents; why Prokop

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Angeles. Well, as it turned out, of course, they didn't and we didn't. I think that people always had the feeling that Kennedy would come back to them, that he couldn't possibly get nominated, and the momentum of that steamroller was pretty badly

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it. animosity. There was never a time I felt that there was any There are stories about certain people picking on him, like the late Robert Kennedy, but I did not see this personally. M: Did he ever talk about that with you? I: No. M: How would you rate

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 81, June 2003," LBJ Library (Item)

Watkins, Ambas sador Richard Holbrooke, and LBJ biog rapher Robert Caro. The thirty-minute programs began airing in May. 4 Lewis and Clark Exhibition Opens It took an heroic effort. but the Mu seum staff linished on schedule: Discov ering America

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty (Item)

Jacob•en worked up all these a.nawera. Don't yuu have them? HARDESTY: l have all of tboae. JOHNSON: Who told ua to get on Air Force 1, Ken O'Donnell, wa•n't it? HARDESTY: Ken O'Donnell. JOHNSON: I ta.lk.ed to Kennedy and he called me back and I
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/10/1967 (Item)

/ TheVPres Senator Lister Hill Senator Wayne Morse Senator Ralph Yarborough \ • Senator Jennings Randolph Senator Harrison Williams • Senator £ftaJ-B_ria___aiiB-hi-i Claiborne Pell I Senator Edward Kennedy II Senator Robert Griffin jf Senator Winston Prouty

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 24, 1 January 1982," LBJ Library (Item)

premises and offer new solutions. The leaders of the party, Fritz Mondale and T ddy Kennedy, each continues o be, in different ways, a Roosevelt legatee. No one then will any longer live in FDR's shadow as Lyndon Johnson did, but it may be sometime still

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Ribicoff off. G: Was there a Kennedy versus Johnson element to those hearings because Robert Kennedy was very prominent and it seems that the witnesses associated with the Kennedys received a much lighter treatment than those who were not, or had not been

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in that way. Johnson seemed Generally with politicians the public and the private, you know, what you'd see on television and what you'd see face to face is more or less the same. I mean, Kennedy, Eisenhower and the rest that I've known were what you

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was on the board of the bank . My relationships with President Johnson really started in the early part of his administration as President, and it came about in this way . Several months before President Kennedy was killed he asked me to LBJ Presidential
Black, Eugene R. (Eugene Robert), b. 1898

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

thought so and I did too. M: Mr. White, were you particularly surprised by Robert Kennedy's candidacy early last year? W: No, not greatly surprised, except in this sense. I think if Senator McCarthy had not first run--Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire

Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the Convention in 1960 in Los Angeles was over--and I was there, right in the middle of it, I was called in by Robert Kennedy. We talked about some of the problems. Mr. Jack Kennedy later obtained information from me about some of the things, and he went out

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the troops. G: Did it have any enduring impact on the way the national committee worked or was set up? O: I don't think so, particularly. I think that we continued to follow the same course from Kennedy through Johnson, which I guess, with the exception
job until the end of the congressional session; LBJ's support for O'Brien's work and finding the best people to do congressional relations work; Robert Kennedy's support for O'Brien staying at his job at the White House.

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

years in the '30's and '40's as a staff assistant to Senator Robert Lafollette Jr., and as an assistant on the Senate Finance Committee in the '40's, were you not? C: Yes, that's right. I was with Senator Lafollette from '35 to '37 and again from '39

Folder, "Garrison [1967]," Justice Department Files, Papers of Ramsey Clark, Box 94 (Item)

a concealed weapon. He wrote numerous letters to the Miami Police Department, Immigration and Naturalization service, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, expressing dissatisfaction with the united States and a desire to be returned to Cuba. Consequently

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was a problem of course and I was looking for a job all the time. Ultimately, I made contact here with the Chicago Defender and Mr. Robert S. Abbott, who was then the publisher and owner of the paper. And February 18, 1936, I came on as a reporter

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

much California politics and was not altogether then hitched to the national politics? B: No . Of course, I don't think Robert Kennedy really thought he'd run for � � � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that you could or should do. B: That announcement that the Cabinet would not be considered was interpreted in the press at the time as a rather elaborate way to not name Robert Kennedy as vice president. Was that the general opinion among those of you

Folder, "FEIGHAN, Michael A.," Congressional Favors, Box 10 (Item)

. Robert Kennedy Industries Corp, Huntington, New York for radio navigational sets for aircraft. n 3/30 Army . $1,077,002 contract to General Motors Corp, Sen. F. Lausche Indianapolis, Indiana for 284 ·each Steering Sen. S. Young Gear Assemblies and 2

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 84, June 2004," LBJ Library (Item)

· rooms. The Kennedys tried to g ·t the atholic clergy t > dissuade those in the march from staying overnight. Many govern ment agents were assigned toke pan ey throw Castro. Robert Kennedy ran the committee, which came up with many schemes, some of them

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and looking around, Robert Weaver, I think, almost had a trauma over the length of time that Johnson took to name him as the head of HUD. Do you have any idea why Johnson took so long, other than the fact that he is sometimes slow and careful? W: I know
The appointment of Robert Weaver to HUD; acting as gift adviser to CTJ and Clark Clifford, drawing up guidelines for wedding gifts; CTJ responds to the Jenkins incident; LBJ's insistence that staff be on call; LBJ's blocks the transfer of Perry

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

A&M, College Station, Texas BERRY, Lewis E., Minority Counsel, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Washington, D. C. BLATNIK, Cong. John A. BOERRIGTER, Dr. Glenn C., HEW BOGGS, Sen. Caleb BORKENSTEIN, Robert H. , Indiana Univ, Bloomington

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