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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 68, 1 May 1998," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , he said, could be "eas­ ily stated: Why didn't we take Berlin ahead of the Soviets?" But "the answers" he maintained, "are far from easy. Although a single person !General Dwight D. Eisenhowerj was responsible for leaving Berlin to the Soviets, he had
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because Patton was a staffer in the war department on MacArthur's staff like Eisenhower was at the time of the bonus marchers business, but then he was off on subsequent assignments and only really sort of caught fire in 1941, 1942, or early in the war
  • LBJ’s November 1963 trip to Luxembourg and other Benelux nations; William R. Rivkin; LBJ’s loyalty to JFK; LBJ’s complex personality; LBJ’s daily schedule while on trips; LBJ’s preference for hotels; Crockett and Dwight Porter; John Rooney; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • party at the Carlton Hotel for the two Texas members of [Dwight] Eisenhower's cabinet, Oveta Culp Hobby, who was secretary of HEW [Department of Health, Education, and Welfare], and Bob Anderson, who was secretary of the navy, both of whom had been our
  • Activities and volunteer work in the spring of 1953; dinner parties and socializing with Washington, D.C. friends; a party the Johnsons threw at the Carlton Hotel; Mamie Eisenhower; LBJ's political career in 1953; the early stages of public
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he had told Carter that Lyndon Johnson used to could go down and have drinks with Dwight Eisenhower all the time, and it was an essential part of their relationship, just to have a social relationship with President Eisenhower. Johnson was afraid
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/17/1966 (Item)
  • Johnston, Logan T. , Chairman, Armco Steel Corp Joyce, Dwight P. , Chairman, The Glidden Co. Keim, Robert P. , President-elect, the Advertising Council, Inc. Kendall, Donald M. , President, Pepsi Co. , Inc. Sx Kenyon. Robert E. , Jr. , Exec VP, Magazine
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • fizzled out. I don't know exactly when and how it lost all its steam; I don't remember. But at any rate, the Republican one was over in rather quick time with [Dwight] Eisenhower nominated and [Richard] Nixon nominated for the vice presidency
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. Was it at a time when Shivers was still a Democratic governor but was acting more like a Republican? G: Well, he did support Eisenhower. S: Well, I know, I mean, but had he started to do that at this particular time? Well, okay. G: 1952. S: Yes. Well, I
  • Allan Shivers and LBJ's 1956 fight for control of the Texas Democratic Party; Spears' work with Shivers; Shivers leaving the Democratic Party; the 1956 Texas Democratic Convention; Dwight Eisenhower as president; John Connally.
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 33, 15 March 1985," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Roosevelt. (Below) Ronald Reagan with Nixon, Ford and Carter, October 8, 1981 (Right) WASHING10N, Jan. 20--THE SITUA­ TION DRAWS MIXED REACTIONS-Outgoing President Harry Truman, at right, and Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower, in center, appear to be sharing a joke
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • Congresses, beginning in 1957. Can you talk about what that was like for you? M: Well it seemed to me that, in terms of the political situation, that [Dwight] Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn, the speaker of the house, and Lyndon Johnson, the majority leader
  • The relationship between President Dwight Eisenhower and Congress in 1957; why the White House and Congress were able to work together better in the 1950s than in 2011; increased patriotism and optimism following World War II and the Depression
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , there was, even President [Dwight] Eisenhower, with whom Lyndon and the Speaker had gotten along so well, and had served so well, pushing his legislation when they could. They had just made an art, I think, out of helping run the government, although they were
  • ; assembling a Senate committee to investigate Senator Joseph McCarthy; LBJ's support for President Dwight Eisenhower; Lynda's illness in the fall of 1954; Willie Day Taylor's help to the Johnsons; South Korean President Syngman Rhee's toast regarding war
Reference File, "Camp David" (Item)
  • it "ShangriLa," for the mountain kingdom in Lost Horizon, the 1933 novel by James Hilton. It was renamed in 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in honor of his then-five-year-oldgrandson, Dwight David Eisenhower II. Over the years, Roosevelt's successors
Reference File, "Camp David" (Item)
  • it "ShangriLa," for the mountain kingdom in Lost Horizon, the 1933 novel by James Hilton. It was renamed in 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in honor of his then-five-year-oldgrandson, Dwight David Eisenhower II. Over the years, Roosevelt's successors
Telephone conversation # 5654, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 9/24/1964, 11:47AM (Item)
  • MCNAMARA REPORTS EARLE WHEELER, ANDREW GOODPASTER WILL MEET WITH EISENHOWER, RELAYS EISENHOWER'S COMMENT TO WHEELER THAT NO ONE SHOULD MAKE STATEMENT ABOUT DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS EXCEPT THE PRESIDENT; NORSTAD'S STATEMENT
Telephone conversation # 5656, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 9/24/1964, 12:45PM (Item)
  • BUNDY REPORTS THAT EARLE WHEELER, ANDREW GOODPASTER WILL MEET WITH EISENHOWER ABOUT CAMPAIGN ISSUE CONCERNING DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, SUGGESTS ROBERT ANDERSON NOT BE CONTACTED UNTIL AFTER THEIR MEETING WITH EISENHOWER
Telephone conversation # 5657, sound recording, LBJ and OFFICE CONVERSATION, 9/24/1964, 12:45PM (Item)
  • BUNDY REPORTS THAT EARLE WHEELER, ANDREW GOODPASTER WILL MEET WITH EISENHOWER ABOUT CAMPAIGN ISSUE CONCERNING DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, SUGGESTS ROBERT ANDERSON NOT BE CONTACTED UNTIL AFTER THEIR MEETING WITH EISENHOWER
Telephone conversation # 5691, sound recording, LBJ and EARLE WHEELER, 9/26/1964, 11:52AM (Item)
  • WHEELER REPORTS ON MEETING WITH EISENHOWER ABOUT DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS; EISENHOWER'S RECOMMENDATIONS THAT DETAILED DISCLOSURE OF AUTHORITY NOT BE MADE AND HIS MEETING WITH WHEELER NOT BE REPORTED; RUMORS OF COUP IN SOUTH
Telephone conversation # 5980, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 10/28/1964, 11:43PM (Item)
  • LBJ'S PRESS COMMENT ABOUT SCANDALS IN PAST ADMINISTRATIONS; WALTER JENKINS INCIDENT; LBJ ASKS KATZENBACH TO RESEARCH WHAT ACTIONS WERE TAKEN ABOUT EISENHOWER STAFF MEMBERS, DISCUSSES MEETING WITH JFK ABOUT POSSIBLE INDICTMENT OF EISENHOWER STAFF
Telephone conversation # 7175, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCONE, 3/27/1965, 12:40PM (Item)
  • MCCONE SUGGESTS GUS LONG AS POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR AS CIA DIRECTOR; POSSIBLE CONFLICT OF INTEREST DUE TO LONG'S OIL INTERESTS; LBJ'S IMAGE AS OIL MAN; MCCONE OFFERS TO BRIEF EISENHOWER ON VIETNAM; LBJ EXPRESSES HIS RESPECT FOR EISENHOWER
Telephone conversation # 7636, sound recording, LBJ and ANDREW GOODPASTER, 5/12/1965, 11:35AM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS GOODPASTER TO BRIEF EISENHOWER ON VIETNAM BOMBING PAUSE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; LBJ SUMMARIZES US INVOLVEMENT IN DOMINICAN CRISIS; NEGOTIATIONS WITH JUAN BOSCH; COMMUNIST ROLE; LBJ OFFERS ASSISTANCE TO EISENHOWER, EXPRESSES APPRECIATION
Telephone conversation # 8559, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 8/18/1965, 8:05PM (Item)
  • WH DINNER LAST NIGHT FOR BUSINESS, LABOR LEADERS; GOLDBERG'S BRIEFING OF EISENHOWER ON UN DUES; JOB FOR JOHN EISENHOWER; CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS; WH DINNER FOR UN DELEGATES, MEETING WITH FIRST LADY FOR UN WOMEN; VIETNAM PEACE EFFORTS; INDIA
Telephone conversation # 8208, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 6/29/1965, 4:32PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS RUSK TO CALL EISENHOWER ABOUT HIS CONCERNS THAT DNC IS CIRCULATING PRIVATE 1954 LETTER FROM EISENHOWER TO WINSTON CHURCHILL ON VIETNAM; HARLAN CLEVELAND; JOSEPH SISCO; LBJ'S RECENT MEETING WITH ADLAI STEVENSON ABOUT LBJ'S UN ANNIVERSARY
Telephone conversation # 8212, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 6/30/1965, 3:50PM (Item)
  • RUSK REPORTS THAT HE, MCNAMARA WILL REVIEW POLICY ON ARMY FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES LIKE PROJECT CAMELOT, ALSO TELLS LBJ THAT EISENHOWER'S LETTER TO WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS PUBLISHED IN HIS BOOK, NOT LEAKED BY STATE, WH; EISENHOWER'S SUPPORT FOR VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 13595, sound recording, LBJ and HALE BOGGS, 10/24/1968, 12:50PM (Item)
  • BOGGS READS ANNOUNCEMENT THAT PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON VIOLENCE WILL INVESTIGATE MAJOR COMMUNICATION MEDIA'S USE OF VIOLENCE IN TV AND MOVIES; LBJ SUGGESTS CALLING COMMISSION "EISENHOWER COMMISSION" AFTER CHAIRMAN MILTON EISENHOWER
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that at the time. G: [Dwight D.] Eisenhower, citing this episode, vetoed the legislation. Any insights on that and how that affected the situation in your state? C: You're talking about tidelands oil? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • The natural gas bill of 1956; Senator Lister Hill's reputation for being pro-labor; labor legislation in the 1950s; President Eisenhower's 1958 veto of the rivers and harbors bill; Alaskan statehood; Eisenhower as president; the election
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 6, 18 July 1975," LBJ Library (Item)
  • for a variety of national security offices directed by such well known figures as Dwight Eisenhower, George Marshall, Nelson Rockefeller, Averell Harriman, and Walt Rostow. In 1961, she began working for Rostow, then Deputy Special Assistant to President Kennedy
President's Daily Diary entry, 9/8/1966 (Item)
  • , Director, Legislation and Research. National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn. , Washington, PALMER, Dwight R. G., Commissioner, State Highway Dept, of New Jersey. Trenton. NJ PARKHOUSE, A. Russell, President, Montgomery County Commissioners. Norristown, Pa
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • else in to that job. If it hadn't been for him, I don't believe the Eisenhower Administration would have been able to 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • LBJ's 1955 heart attack at George Brown's home and his health before the heart attack; LBJ's recovery from the heart attack; why LBJ was an effective Senate majority leader; LBJ's relationships with President Dwight Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/15/1966 (Item)
  • Service"by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on March 7, 1960.
President's Daily Diary entry, 9/16/1965 (Item)
  • Eisenhower ar e Honorar y Co - Chairmen. The President' s audienc e include d 250 0 lawyers , 16 0 high court s judge s (includin g 71 who are Chie f Justices ) from lll nation s NOMINATION SEN T T O TH E SENATE O N SEPT 1 6 - To m Lilley , o f Wes t
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ] Thornberrys. J: Yes, we saw a good deal, in those days, of Senator George Smathers. And we went down to Florida with the Thornberrys and Mary Rather to go to a dinner in his honor. And then [Dwight] Eisenhower, in his path, was doing some of the same things
  • LBJ's January 1956 return to Congress following his heart attack; Jesse Kellam; the Johnsons' interest in sports; KTBC's success; criticism of LBJ; President Eisenhower's February 1956 announcement that he would run for re-election; the table Frank
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 39, 15 February 1987," LBJ Library (Item)
  • The Eisenhowers: Famous Family Reminiscences Da,id Eisenhower. grand­ son of Dwight D. Eisen­ hower. discussed hi!i work, Eisenl,ower at War, an ac­ count of his grandfather's command of the allied ex­ peditionary forces in Eng­ land in World \.\'ar II. \\hat I mi
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • feelings. And his feelings were opposed to Adlai Stevenson, period, and ardently supportive of [Dwight] Eisenhower as I remember. And Lyndon, who believed that, as he would express it, from the court house to White House, on balance, adding it all together
  • vacation to Daytona Beach; getting to know Liz and Les Carpenter; James Forrestal; Dale and Virginia "Scooter" Miller; Lynda's experience with a cotillion for congressional children; Mrs. Johnson's impressions of President Dwight Eisenhower; LBJ's view
Folder, "[February 17, 1965 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting with General Eisenhower and Others]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION :::!:!!:-~ THE JOINT CHIEFS OF WASHINGTON, D.C. /cony #1 - The President c I #2 - General Eisenhower STAFF no other copies 'G 20301 ""]../ ,...,.-· -":'"""~~-- 17 February 1965 - --- MEMORANDUM OF MEETING
  • Folder, "[February 17, 1965 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting with General Eisenhower and Others]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • candidate for death. Eisenhower's name began to show up on those early primaries that began to happen in New Hampshire and New Jersey and places like that. He finally came out with a statement that he would run on the Republican ticket if he heard the clear
  • Senate Preparedness Subcommittee work trying to control spending and corruption; Luci's early interest in religion; the tidelands issue; the possibility of Dwight Eisenhower running for president; returning to visit San Marcos with LBJ; growing media
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • movement of many friends in Louisiana who felt there should be a twoparty system. They went to the Republican Convention and, of course, were successful in getting [Dwight] Eisenhower to run instead of [Robert] Taft. So many of the people who had supported
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • they, in turn, didn't necessarily campaign for the national ticket. M: The reason I bring that up is that according to the books S h i v e r s was against Adlai Stevenson and tried to lead Texas Democrats in favor of Dwight Eisenhower. B: Yes, well
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 32, 1 November 1984," LBJ Library (Item)
  • .-.omeother re ent acqu1s1tions Three of the pieces-the drawing of oodrow Wilson the pamting by Dwighl D. Eisenhower and the wood engraving of Martin Luther King were donate by Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Temple. The others were acquired by the LBJ Foundatio
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 38, 20 October 1986," LBJ Library (Item)
  • personalities depicted are Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Barry oldwater, George Bush and George Wallace. Although the ollectior will require time for reservation and cataloging before becoming available for r search, it 1s
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 71, 30 April 1999," LBJ Library (Item)
  • that one frantic guest captured on his film An ebullient Dwight D. Eisenhower, Athens, Greece, 1952. Photo cour­ tesy of Peter Smith, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Turkish cavalry in the snow, 1948. Photo courtesy of Peter Smith, Harry Ransom
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • pick up most of the housing in the country, or present a legislative proposal. [John?] Kennedy had said during the campaign that he would eliminate discrimination in housing with the stroke of a pen, and that [Dwight] Eisenhower could have done