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Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the Washington field office in 1952 and you did some work. Y: Correct. M: And then you went to the White House detail in February of 1953. Is that correct? Y: That's correct. M: And then what happened to you? Y: That was during the Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • adding to a total of twenty years. F: Also, you had the feeling that if Mr. Eisenhower could get past the Republican nominating convention you had a pretty powerful candidate. C: That may have been a little too early for that, I'm not sure his name
  • with Congressman Johnson; discussions with LBJ of governmental problems during the Eisenhower years; Senator McCarthy; friendship with LBJ, 1954-1960; 1957 Civil Rights Act; advised LBJ on inflation; LBJ’s leadership; effect of 1960 support of Senator Symington
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the earlier aura of volunteerism and the whole idea of conciliation agreements which had surrounded the Eisenhower committee. There had never been a real, hard compliance line drawn prior to this Kennedy President's committee. Prior to that time, nobody
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Women's National Press Club and because he was very proud of that, I think--the girl from Texas who had that job--and so-­ F: When were you head of the Women's National Press Club? C: I believe it was 1956. Was that an Eisenhower year? 4 LBJ
  • First meeting Lady Bird; worked for Esther Van Wagoner Tufty; her wedding; presentation of calf from LBJ and Rayburn to President Eisenhower; ready access; LBJ’s willingness to share credit with local Congressmen whenever a story broke; two real
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a secretary, you know, I don't know whether President Johnson does, but I think President Eisenhower started that--the secretary. And I think since then, there has been some record of what went on in the Cabinet. But I know there was nothing like
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 2 inception in 1957, so that means you served through now four presidents. H: That's right, all four. M: Did Mr. Johnson use the Civil Rights Commission any differently from either President Eisenhower or Kennedy, or for that matter
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson became Majority Leader in the Senate, he apparently worked with Eisenhower to help Eisenhower get through legislation, and yet Eisenhower was Republican and Johnson was a Democrat. Now, you as a member of the Senate, what did you think
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall this in connection with the Congress that came in in 1955 . You know, in 1954 we had the Congress that Eisenhower had brought in with him . That's the reason that Johnson was minority leader instead of majority leader in that Congress, which
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • afraid of him? P: Oh, yes. (Interruption) --and he could be very arbitrary. G: But he didn't retaliate against you? P: No, partly because it was 1959 that we had this thing. In 1960 the presidency became available with Eisenhower retiring, and I
  • Rights Bill; impressions of Wayne Morse; LBJ's sources of power; counting votes; LBJ and Eisenhower; Alaska-Hawaii statehood; Harris-Fulbright natural gas bill; views on support of education; issue of regulation of electronic media; unemployment
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and back. M: Right. W: Then there followed an intimate access period which I think he -' probably overdid. Then he kind of tapered off that period. always had a good press. Eisenhower Eisenhower was never on a first name basis with anybody
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by thenPresident Eisenhower to fly with him to meet President L6pez Mateos in Acapulco. It was in February, 1959. And President Eisenhower invited also Senator Johnson to fly with him, not throughout Mexico, but from Washington to Austin, to an air force base
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • helped--not only helped, hell, he did it--turn the press around--it was beginning to go against us, he turned it around--but he also figured out how to get to Eisenhower through Knowland . That's the only reason we ever got that bill compromised
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to that I've often laughed about since. I told him that not too long before, in 1960, President Eisenhower had come through on a very similar visit; this was his trip which was supposed to take him to Japan when he was cancelled out by the peace
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a five-year highway construction bill worth eighteen billion dollars. Do you remember that incident? W: Yes. G: That was, of course, relevant to your business. W: Right. It sure was. G: Eisenhower had proposed a thirty year, 3 per cent bond
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
  • real recommen­ dation of the Administration was really when President Eisenhower told Presidc:nt Kennedy he felt the first action we would have to take would be in that area -- Laos, and Viet-Nam -- and that he would have taken it ex.ct!pt th,":lt he
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in a fit of fury and rage. And by no means all the press was in love with Jack Kennedy; there were some reporters who were, but he had his share of criticism too. And the credibility gap has always existed too. In the Eisenhower days, for example, the "Top
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Johnson became President, he talked, I remember, very early in those first days with General Eisenhower. If my memory sewves me correctly, it was General Eisenhower who first urged upon him the necessity of holding the budget Hhich was to go to Congress
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that this wouldn't happen again. I was there in the Department at the time of the Eisenhower election in the fall of 1952. Secretary departed. I remained for the transition to that administration. A new Secretary was appointed. He had been head of the J. P
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President Johnson, I'd say the more important variable from the standpoint of the Policy Planning Council is the Secretary of State . Now insofar as the President's personality comes to bear on it's work, I'd
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , there was almost a fixation of lying to the press. A very small thing in the Senate: Tom Gates was up for secretary of Defense the last year of the Eisenhower Administration, and Russell Long was holding it up. And we asked Johnson at the daily press conference
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • information. And we were really barred by the new people from com- munication with them; there wasn't any dialogue. Now I've been through three changes of administrations in responsible positions--Truman to Eisenhower, Eisenhower to Kennedy, and Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)
  • guess, forty-three when he was elected. He was my age. Most of his principal advisors and assistants were approximately of his age or younger, rather than of the age of Eisenhower advisors, or of the Democratic contemporaries of President Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this ran counter to the President's order. My reaction to that--I was prepared to this; I was ready for this--was that all Presidents in the past had done this. President Eisenhower did it, and it was traditional to do this. F: This is bi-partisan really
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • patterns inside the federal government, in spite of the fact that Eisenhower had taken a bold step: he'd created an executive order, created a president's committee on government employment policy, a position, by the way, for which I was hired at one point
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hoyt -- I -- 14 several under Truman and Eisenhower, I didn't want any part of it, because
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • delegation. I agreed, and as you know finally Kefauver was nominated. It was shortly after the election of President Eisenhower that Jack Kennedy was speaking at a Sunday evening forum in Tucson, and I got a call that he wanted to see me before his
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Eisenhower Administration show much interest in the McCarthy hearings--I know they were interested--but did they demonstrate it from the White House level? S: Well, they never did to me, but I know in a way-- F: You were left alone to look at the evidence
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall there was a vote that came up about the Marines and I voted with the Eisenhower Administration on the question--I was a Democrat then. I thought the Eisenhower Administration was right on it, whatever the question was. After the vote, Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • and President Eisenhower took office in 1953. It was the custom tQroughout the country, or had been, that all U. S. attorneys would submit their resignations to the Justice Department if there was a change in administration. So I called Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But she was just totally shocked by the idea of Allan Shivers taking over the structure of the Democratic Party in Texas and converting it into a campaign organization for Ike Eisenhower. To her it was not only contrary to her political beliefs
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in criticism of him, and I don't know whether his long range strategy--Eisenhower kind of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • went to Washington to advise President Eisenhower that we should be aggressive about meeting the challenge of Sputnik rather than LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • was Eisenhower's Commissioner of Education. Now most, if not all, of these people served on subsequent Great Society task forces, and most of the people I have named in particular served on education task forces. Would you say that the participation of these people
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an Eisenhower administration proposal in 1965 that was introduced for the health professions educational assistance to encourage-- M: Eisenhower in 1965? G: Well, Eisenhower--it was something that had been proposed earlier during the Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] permanent, $8 billion temporary, passed it easily, just the difference in 357 and 365. G: Let me ask you how the White House's legislative liaison program changed over the years from, say, the late fifties and early sixties, when Eisenhower was president
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shannon -- I -- 7 two years during the beginning of the Eisenhower Administration, from the later forties right through
  • funding; Marion Folsom and Arthur Fleming as secretaries of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW); changes in NIH under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy; HEW Secretaries Oveta Culp Hobby, Marion Folsom, Abraham Ribicoff, Anthony
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that he believed that it was inadvisable for Congress to take up Alaska statehood legislation without considering Hawaii statehood alsoo He said that the two bills were discussed at the meeting of Republican legislative leaders with President Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that there were certain historical necessities for the Democratic Party that required the passage of legislation. That is, this was Eisenhower's bill; it had passed the House; here it was in the Senate; no legislation had passed in eighty-five years. Secondly
  • with Eisenhower Administration; self analysis; leader of an opposition on the staff; censure resolution; HHH; Richard Russell; HR 3; LBJ’s relationship with Kerr and JFK; contempt for some Senators and close friends in the Senate; LBJ singled out protégés; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org K: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] No, no, heavens no. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -9- They were going on in Eisenhower's time and elsewhere
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • changed as people went someplace else. G: Was the pattern something that had been drawn from previous administrations? 0: No, a total break. In the Eisenhower years, predecessor to Kennedy- Johnson, Bryce Harlow had been Larry's predecessor. helpful
  • Set-up of White House Congressional liaison office; handling of Congressional mail; comparison of Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ liaison offices; procedure; leadership agenda; guest lists; bill signings; meetings with agency liaisons; intervention of Larry