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Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Everybody was sort of getting himself established just as Mr. Johnson was. Now as you know, in 1952 with Eisenhower, the DerrlOcratic Party was under great attack in Texas. I would say that Mr. Rayburn was rnore interested in the solidarity

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. And incidentally, my boss, Bob Amory, and one of his senior assistants, Robert Komer, were the agency's representatives on the NSC planning board in the Eisenhower Administration. And that was ultimately my route to the NSC staff, because in 1961 Bob Komer went

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, it was ostensibly a Republican thing because General Eisenhower was President. But Johnson took the Administration's proposals and so altered them as to get a bill through. It was actually the most skillful single legislative job of leadership I ever saw, because

Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: 1956? What did that fight involve? M: Shivers had apparently taken the state Democratic Party to the support of Eisenhower in 1952, and he was proposing to do the same thing in 1956. Apparently there was a political struggle within the state
Biographical information; BOB job; liquidation of war industries; use of BOB by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower; Major General Wilton Persons; Sherman Adams; Jack Martin; Bryce Harlow; McCarran-Walter Immigration Act; Hatch Act; problem of civil

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

behind the scenes and trying to prevent it from becoming an issue of McCarthy versus the Democrats so that the Republicans would not line up behind McCarthy. S: Possibly. hurt the It really would be McCarthy against Eisenhower. most~-the The people

Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as the work of the United Nations Development Program is concerned, he always displ~ed the greatest interest and sympathy for it, and support of it. F: As you know, when the Eisenhower Administration came in, the JohnsonR~burn line was to do a kind

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphy -- II -- 4 President Eisenhower was concerned. He did make facilities of this kind available to President Eisenhower to the extent that he needed them and would. use them
[For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority

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

? This is not a continuation of the Kennedy That was headed by--was it Clay? B: Clay was back in the Eisenhower Administration . M: Clear back that far. B: Right. I was on that committee too. Anyway, I served on this committee, and this committee had frequent

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Huitt -- III -- 2 be taking issue with Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that disability issue. I think that was during Eisenhower's presidency, as I recollect. G: Right, 1956. H: We didn't have any support for lowering of the age for disability from the administration, and we had lots of opposition from the Republican leadership

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and President [Richard] Nixon during LBJ's retirement. F: Well, obviously this ignores the striking earlier history between the two going back to the Eisenhower years, but Johnson made it a point with the [1968] election barely over--we were in New York

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

," and I said, For some reason he didn't want to go for Stevenson, must have been Texas. Texas was all Eisenhower. So he didn't do it. [He] saw Stevenson and said he thought he was going to get the nomination, LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. I saw Mr. Johnson probably one or two or three times a year. B: Weren't you fairly close to President Eisenhower when Mr. Johnson was Senate Majority Leader? S: I was never really close to Mr. Eisenhower. well. I knew him fairly I saw him twice

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Republicans. So Russell, he also wanted to be president and he thought, of the people he knew, Truman and [Robert] Taft and Eisenhower and all these people, that he was by far the ablest one of all of them, and he was a very able fellow. But he missed

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 20 And Eisenhower didn't know what he was doing. So that's not competitive with Daddy, because Daddy's dead, deader than hell in 1937 when all this other came out. brains on that. So Lyndon had plenty of And it wasn't competitiveness with Daddy

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

that wonderful story I think that you've probably heard, about the secretary during the Eisenhower Administration who talked to you and then sent his aide out to check your facts, and he ended up checking Mary Lasker's fact book because it was the one thing

Oral history transcript, Frank Denius, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

approved a mear.s by which Texas De~ocrats could vote for the Republican nominee. FD: sir. That was 1952 and you recall a. rather heatec. Yes I election between the late Adlai Stevenson and then General Eisenhower and we had ..... we'd had

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the Kennedy Administration as well. In the Eisenhower Administration you served as Ambas sador to France for a number of years and then as Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and as Undersecretary of State in the late 1950 1 s. During the period
Appointment as Secretary; relationship with LBJ during Eisenhower administration; State Department Appropriation Bill and Foreign Aid Bill in 1959 and 1960; LBJ's role as VP; Cuban Missile Crisis; differences between LBJ and JFK; budget; balance

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration in 1953 as you suggest, I've served under three Presidents, as you indicate: Johnson. President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President So from a practical sense it is a non-political or non-partisan appointment. B: Do you

Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

contact, too, with President Eisenhower. President Eisenhower was friendly to the plight of the Negro, but he was not dynamic with respect to doing anything about it. B: Did you ever present President Eisenhower with a specific case, as you described
on open housing legislation; MLK; conference with Truman on discrimination in armed forces; JFK and discrimination in armed forces; Eisenhower and civil rights, black separatism and militancy; civil rights movement today

Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

himself as being able to support President Eisenhower more often than some members of his own party in the Senate. Was this the case? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil

Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, a long time Texas Democrat who had become an Eisenhower Republican. Anderson was very close to LBJ and other Texas Democrats, especially Sam Rayburn. Not long after I arrived at Treasury, Anderson surprised me by sending me up on a solo visit to LBJ

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: That came later. But before I get into that, I want to say something about another impression before I met Mr. Johnson. That was a conversation which I can date for you. It was the Friday in August [1958] before President Eisenhower gave his Lebanon-Jordan

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the detailed maneuvering that was going on. B: In 1952 you said you managed Stevenson's campaign in Texas? H: No, Mr. Rayburn was the manager. The state officials, except for John White, either supported Eisenhower as [Allan] Shivers and Price Daniel did

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of his leadership, he had to be. He was leader in the Senate mostly during the time that President Eisenhower, a Republican, was in the White House. And I think, and I'm sure you'd find many sources more reliable than I in that regard, as I recall

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Research Project Agency and transferred ten million dollars supplemental money so that that could be going on at the same time we were working on the NASA act. So then the President sent up--well, the President, you know, in the beginning Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

then. Oh, he would give you a tip on something if you'd run into him, but he had come that far along in his leadership that he had to treat everybody fairly, treat everybody the same. M: What did you think of his cooperation with Eisenhower? T: He
as a Congressman; McCarthy hearings; LBJ’s cooperation with Eisenhower; rating LBJ as a Senator and Majority Leader; Timmons’ Conventions Record; Democratic and Republican conventions; LBJ and 1960 campaign; Barry Goldwater; “Trial Balloons;” LBJ’s high standing

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it, H: were you active in getting that passed? Yes I introduced the bill over here and worked for it very hard and very glad to see it constructed. Went up there when it was dedicated. F: Now this was passed during the Eisenhower years, H: Yes
Project Bill; Bureau of the Budget; J. Edgar Hoover; LBJ-Eisenhower relationship; 1956 campaign; VP nomination; Ernest McFarland; cloture rule; Federal Highway Department; Indian affairs; Goldwater family; Hayden's father

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

starting to say that was when you first knew him. R: I started reporting foreign policy at the beginning of the Eisenhower Administration. He was Minority Leader the first two years and then Majority Leader of the Senate. of that fact. So, I came

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Manifesto? M: Well. we used that name. It was largely because we felt a kind of passivity towards Eisenhower, an acceptance of whatever Eisenhower [wanted], as though we were going to run it out. We thought there LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

again. Mc Senator, how would you describe Mr. Johnson's relationship with Eisenhower? M: I think they enjoyed, because they were fellow Texans, a compatico position that has rarely been enjoyed by a President with a Majority Leader, which he
Biographical information; association with LBJ; Rayburn; Board of Education meetings; impression of LBJ; political reputation and closest associates; relationships of LBJ with FDR, Eisenhower and Truman; NYA; wartime price control legislation

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

know, we were running against Eisenhower, and it was pretty much an uphill race. It was quite difficult to even get speakers to represent the Democratic position, particularly to try to educate and elevate the people of this country to accept him

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there, it was about time to open up the whole atomic energy process to private develop ment. And it was time, there's no question about that. Up to that point it had been solely and simply a military project. Now, Eisenhower sent up a bill which to the liberals

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

while you were on the Committee and when he was leader of the Senate, do you recall President Johnson--then Senator Johnson--playing any major role in foreign affairs while Mr . Eisenhower was President? B: No, except he cooperated with President

Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a split delegation go to the national convention again. We Then in the September convention, Shivers had it in Amarillo, and the party itself, the state party convention endorsed Eisenhower for president. And that I think convinced everybody

Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was very bombastic, of the times with him ; he was running with and he was running against Truman . and he Eisenhower I think really what defeated McFarland was the absolute opposition Phoenix . soon of the two daily papers It was sort of a pre
personality and his staff; LBJ and Knowland; later contacts with LBJ; Republican senators; the Policy Committee; dealings with Eisenhower Administration; LBJ's attitude toward Joseph McCarthy; LBJ's legislative techniques

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that actually all Johnson was doing in Texas was fighting a rear guard action to prevent the loss from being too great. God, you couldn't have beaten Eisenhower in Texas. He was born there for one thing. G: Johnson seems to have tried to deflect attention

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

with Eisenhower on this? H: No. At that point, I was still a guy about thirty-one. I thought I was doing pretty well dealing with the top of the Navy and Air Force. M: But were you able to get your ideas through? H: Yes. Along the way I got an illustration
; to Princeton, 1957; became chairman of department, 1958; 1959 appointed by President Eisenhower to Science Advisory Committee; 1960 on JFK’s task force for a space policy; met LBJ in 1961; served under three presidents: Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ

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

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