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  • a liking to Johnson as a young Congressman and wanted to make sure that he got broader acquaintanceship with people throughout the country, and he asked Hopkins to put him in touch with someone in New York who could introduce him around, and Hopkins picked
  • and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Where did he get his money in that campaign? Brown was one of the best old-time supporters Johnson ever had. G: You know, they published the New York members of the President's Club in the Congressional Record, and the list just went on for pages
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : January 11, 1974 INTERVIEWEE : MRS . JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Her Manhattan apartment in New York City Tape 1 of 2 First part of tape missing (35 feet) F: Let's continue, then, our broken interview
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the witnesses were forced to espouse the Administration's position when they really didn't want to. F: To move ahead, you were quite active in New York politics, most particularly in city politics in New York, in the early 1960 ' s. Did Mr. Johnson as either
  • and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , but one of particular relevance here, which was a conference in New York sponsored by an organization called Peace Without War. November I believe. It was last And there then that was all on the record. I gave a talk on the issues of press relations
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • funny, because in California I am a Democrat, but in New York [Jacob] Javits, I think, is a fine, fine man, and I love Rockefeller. So I'm sort of in-between, sort of a liberal Republican in New York and as I go West, I get more and more Democratic. F
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was eight About three or four years later my brother and I went to private school in New York State, in the Catskill r"10untains. lady Bird would have been about four years of age at that time. And I did quite a little baby-sitting. M: Oh, you did? T
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • be very quick to say, if they wanted to know a good reason that by the time the troops came down here--and at that time, people were coming here in busloads from New York, et cetera, going around .Congress--by the time they got through seeing the people
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Here we were in Dallas and some reporters called New York, their home offices, to find out what they knew. I ran out into the parking lot and a cop was sitting there on a three-wheel motorcycle listening to all the traffic on the police radio. Maybe
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • hope he was to get the degree. F: Where were you on that fateful November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was shotZ P: Having lunch at the Rockefeller Center in New York. F: What did they do, interrupt your lunch? P: Well, nobody could believe it. So I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • campaigning in the early primaries against Kennedy. And so I pretty much stayed out of that one. I went to the convention as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and did some writing. I did have the distinction of being the first reporter to carry
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • after he went back to New York, Doug Dillon once or twice did, a matter of sending messages. But the decisions about what we ought to try to achieve, and a good share of the public relations about such increases when they came to public attention
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was advancing a trip that very day, in fact, for then-Vice President Johnson to New York. I was in New York with Secret Service agents for the big B'nai B'rith meeting at Madison LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to wait a little while. So we advised And finally, then, on December 15th, as I recalled the dates he did recognize the new government. What I'm trying to say is that the death of President Kennedy actually delayed recognition of the Dominican
  • of 1963; causes of Dominican Civil War, 1965; military intervention; posting Martin to negotiate a cease-fire; LBJ’s fear of a communist take-over; Ambassador Bennett; Martin’s negotiations in the Dominican Republic; Martin’s book Overtaken by Events, 1966
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • understood it was [John] Kennedy; he understood it perfectly. Johnson never really understood how the party worked. He didn't like the bosses; he thought they were crooked, the big New York bosses or the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that's how I got interested and that's how it sort of came on the agenda, as I remember it. The council then carried forward with sort of not only responding to questions from the White House but putting new thoughts forward. I notice in April 25, 1963
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ought to enter the twentieth century. Letrs get going with it. I felt that this was strong enough motivation for the simple reason that Wyoming has two Senators just like New York or California or Texas; and that therefore a new Senator LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of criticism as well as hope, and I gave it to Nick [Katzenbach]. It was just at that time, around March of 1966, that the President called me up in New York, where I was attending a Columbia Law School Board of Visitors seminar, and asked me to serve as chief
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Boston, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh It was fairly good, but Johnson is such a tinker
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Executive Committee. M: Yes. I was not there. was there. I was in New York, but my business associate Yes,- it ,vas very wild, I understand. B: Of course, Johnson was certified by one vote-- M: One vote. Charlie Gibson's vote from Amarillo, who
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • by taxpayers' money, and therefore you're using public money to take the student to school.. Well, I told the group, "I'll agree with you on that point, if you'll agree with me on this point." I go to New York quite frequently and I take the subway that goes
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Ford several times. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -2- As a matter of fact, I sat next to his wife at a Yale alumni law banquet in New Haven a few years ago. I was at that time vice president
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • recall. He started talking to me about how he had made speeches in New York and Philadelphia and others areas of the country outside the South and what fine receptions he had had and so on. I knew of course that the Majority Leader of the United
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • saw Thornberry and Thomas, Brooks, I think Gonzalez, but I can't be sure. They were there and we were all talking in hushed tones. I still had not seen the new President, didn't know where he was. We were sitting there some time when suddenly he
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • an assistant to the Governor of New York State, who at that time was Averell Harriman. From 1957 until 1962 you were an assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, and from 1963 until 1965 you \'/ere the
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • would take a trip into New England. and we made six stops that day. It would be a one-day trip, I recall it very vividly. We went into Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, and Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine; Manchester, New
  • 1964 campaign structure/organization; Arthur Krim; one-day New England campaign trip; daisy commercial; Barry Goldwater; Mrs. Johnson’s campaign trip through the South; inner workings of the campaign; Ambassador John Bartlow Martin; campaign
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KEENAN -- I -- 8 ~1: How soon after Kennedy' s assassination did you meet with the new President Johnson? K: Almost immediately
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • rule. ever had one in Wyoming. I don't believe we've I recall, particularly, as the roll call of states approached Wyoming, New Jersey, which had originally passed, came over and asked if we would defer to them when it came Wyoming's time to cast
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)