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Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or intimate, as far as I know. Their voting records were quite similar, particularly after Mr. Johnson became vice president and president. Yarborough s voting 1 record was almost a hundred per cent with both the Kennedy and the Johnson Administration
Oral history transcript, Willy Brandt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • office at the Social Democrat [sic]. Were you in Berlin when Mr. Johnson came there as vice president? B: Yes, of course. He came the weekend after the Wall was erected. I had sent a letter to President Kennedy Tuesday or Wednesday after that Sunday
  • F. Kennedy; LBJ at Chancellor Adenauer's funeral; the Kennedy Round; Dean Rusk.
Oral history transcript, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You are Richard E. Neustadt, and you are currently director of the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard. N: I'm Associate Dean of the School and Director of the Institute
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the rather competitive and sometimes heated dialogue with John Kennedy, and the fact that I thought that Lyndon Johnson, himself, would feel that he had a more powerful and persuasive role to play as the Senate leader, and that this in fact would probably
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , if you will, the issues in that campaign as you saw them. O: We had anticipated--we, the Kennedy people--that 1964 would be a relatively pleasant experience. We were anticipating an easy time of it. Just before the trip to Dallas we had an informal
  • John F. Kennedy's (JFK) plans for the 1964 presidential campaign before his death; Barry Goldwater's visit to Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) after the 1964 Republican National Convention; O'Brien's involvement in LBJ's 1964 presidential campaign; October 1964
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • agreements to do that. One way or the other, it never did take place. So they felt like in order for President Kennedy to have any chance of getting legislation that he knew that he was going to propose considered by the House, we had to get some way to get
  • Kennedy's opposition to LBJ's vice presidential nomination; LBJ as a campaigner; Rayburn's death; the father-son relationship between LBJ and Rayburn.
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and for wage-and-hour standards and for the whole surveillance of the manpower world--the position of executive director was created. That's how I got into the ball game, and I was a Kennedy appointee shoved down Lyndon Johnson's throat. So they tried
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Richard Nixon, and the candidates, the three that I recall, who were in contention early in the year were all senatorial candidates. One was John F. Kennedy, the other LBJ, and the third of course was Hubert Humphrey. Now later, as we all know
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • him. I came out of the Kennedy background. It's kind of ironic, as a matter of fact, because I was one of the first so-called Kennedy intellectuals in the fifties, in 1956. work for John Kennedy when he was here i n ~1assachusetts I went
  • Roche’s career advancements in politics; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys, McNamara, Bundy, Valenti, Moyers, Rostow and others; his involvement in Vietnam-related issues; personal evaluation of may official personnel and the effectiveness
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
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Gillette PLACE: Ms. Bonanno's office, Washington, D.C. Tape1 of 1 G: Let me ask you to talk first about the assassination of Robert Kennedy. B: I came into the White House at about seven o'clock on June 5 [1968]. The President had already been up
  • The assassination of Robert Kennedy; LBJ's interest in gun control; Secret Service protection for presidential candidates; LBJ's opinion of Robert Kennedy; security measures following Robert Kennedy's assassination; activities the day Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • during the Johnson Administration, as indeed during the Kennedy Administration as well, was as executive secretary of the National Security Council from 1961 to 1969. S: That's correct. M: You had been a career Foreign Service officer in various
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a letter. M: Did you know Moyers? C: I didn't know him at that time. I didn't know him personally until after the campaign there was over, and the Kennedy campaign was beginning. And, as you'll recall, they had a great dinner here in Austin for Lyndon
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, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1960, particularly one particular evening I remember when the Johnson forces were being pretty overwhelmed by the Kennedy blitz. I happened to be strongly for Kennedy at that time, but I found myself at a big party given by Jules Stein of the MCA
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to dictate memoranda of conversations between myself and President Kennedy or President Johnson. I did not keep an office diary like a Harold Ickes or a James Forrestal. My view was that a President was entitled to have a completely private conversation
  • Detailed recollections of LBJ as President; reflections on his role as Majority Leader and VP; LBJ and Rusk’s personal and professional relationship; LBJ, RFK and certain Kennedy staff members; LBJ and foreign leaders; the Tuesday Lunch; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Sharon Francis -- Interview IV -- 3 clearly was heated. I might say, going back into some history, he had set his heart on it long, long ago. Because I remember doing a research paper for him when Kennedy was alive on all the times that the Antiquities
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . I was active in four state conventions prior to that and I was active in the 1960 presidential campaign prior to being a delegate to the convention. M: And did you support John F. Kennedy? P: I supported John F. Kennedy in the West Virginia
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Peabody’s views of the JFK/LBJ ticket and his part in the campaign; casual meetings with LBJ and the Kennedys, their differences of opinion on various matters; description of differences in JFK, RFK, and LBJ campaign techniques; Lawrence O’Brien’s
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • liberal viewpoints . I'm trying to think who the other contenders were . F: There were primarily Stuart Symington and John F . Kennedy, and some believed that Adlai Stevenson might come back for kind of a run on it, and Hubert Humphrey . B: I don't
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : July. At least, I left at the end of July. Previous to that you had been director of the Bureau of the Budget under the Kennedy administration, and that had been your only government service since the time of the Truman administration. Is that correct
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • trouble getting John to accept it. G: What was the objection? W: I don't know. John just wasn't ready for it. But he did accept it. G: Yes. Did they have trouble getting the Kennedys to accept that idea? W: Yes, they sure did. G: They did
  • John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; the 1961 Lucy B Convair crash near the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's restlessness as vice president; LBJ's relationship with Robert and John Kennedy; the Johnsons' Tennessee walking horse; Konrad Adenauer's
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . D; Yes, very happily, they did. I remember the next week Life magazine had a centerfold and they had pictures of everybody laughing. They had all the senators, Humphrey, Kennedy, Johnson, Symington, all of them---l sti 11 have that copy of Li
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • working on the pieces of legislation that you were? P: I didn't have day-to-day [contact]. I knew him and I knew of him. I suppose I became acquainted with him most when I worked in the political campaign of 1958. M: The Kennedy campaign? P
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It was, interestingly, at that convention that a then-young Senator named John F. Kennedy received his first nationwide attention. known him earlier, not really known him, but had met him. I had I had read his book, Profiles in Courage, and thought it magnificent. I
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , you know. It just appeared one day and you were under way. Did you have fairly high hopes of success? C: Yes. Maybe we were starry-eyed. Maybe we were foolish. But we did have high hopes of success. For some reason I felt that Senator [John] Kennedy
  • office; preparations for the 1960 state and national Democratic conventions; Crooker's work with Woodrow Seals; setting up the Kennedy-Johnson campaign headquarters in Houston and staffing it; Texans' response to LBJ accepting the vice presidential
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • convention, his possibi lities as a preside ntial or a vice · preside ntial nominee were remote -and not very practic al. I was not involved in that 1956 campaign. F: You anticipa ted that this was going to be a Kefauver versus Kennedy fight? P: I'm
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and practiced John Kennedy appointed me Federal Aviation administrator on January 19, 1961. I met Lyndon Johnson only once before the inauguration when I was in the Pentagon and had to deal with him in his office on some minor defense matter back in 1949
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and that he would stand by these principles that he hoo practiced and expoused (sic) for so many years. B: Did you participate in the 1960 presidential campaign, sir? M: Yes, sir, I did. B: Did you campaign for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket? M: No, sir, I
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? You know there was all that uncertainty about whether he was going to run in 1960 and when he finally offered himself, Kennedy already had the nomination sewed up. P: Oh, yes. I, of course, was supporting Johnson for the presidency and I thought
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • perceived to be some foot-dragging. I think one member of the original cabinet of President Kennedy that had difficulty with it was the Postmaster General, Ed Day. Ed talked to me on a number of occasions and to others in the White House and he felt
  • goals, namely, John F. Kennedy's (JFK) New Frontier program; the requirement that cabinet members yield to White House recommendations; Ed Day as U.S. postmaster general; how JFK envisioned his relations with Congress, his legislative program
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- IV -- 6 Kennedy for the presidency in 1960 and overhearing some of the conversations with Governor Stevenson. Johnson's reaction, to me, I think Johnson felt
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the party as head of the delegatio n to the national conventio n. And then in 1960 I helped him at the time he was nominated for Vice President when President Kennedy was rtmning. F: Well, now in 1956, Governor Stevenson had not made it clear whether he
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wouldn't go speak, I found a young fellow in the Senate that would speak. His name was John F. Kennedy. I felt a great kindness to these people when they had struggled and struggled on small amounts of money in their state, but they elected their candidates
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the originator, or were you in on the beginning of the socalled Troika and the Quadriad? H: Yes. Let me tell you a little about that. Again, I may not have the exact dates, but these can be checked out from the memos in the Kennedy period. We, fairly early
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • trader. I think it was the Populist bias against restrictions on the free flow of goods. He believed very strongly in free trade and had a magnificent record in the area. The Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in it. 14: In the 1960 convention the Democratic Party of Nichigan had committed itself to two goals. First of all, we had a candidate, John Kennedy, whom we'd settled on after I decided that I was not going to be a favorite son candidate. form. Our
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • never gotten published) but which if the library wants, it can have. critical points in decision-making. It was my last effort to think out these new Following that, the Kennedy brain trust emerged and those details, I think I have set down on record
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a strong women's division, and they really did wonderful work, but if I may be perfectly frank, I will say that the entire committee fell to pieces when Jack Kennedy became President, and I'm afraid that my dearly beloved Lyndon Johnson continued
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • witnessed that fight between Kennedy and Kefauver for the vice presidency? T: Oh, yes. F: How much did Senator Johnson show his preference to the Texas delegation in I was very much in that. that. T: Let's see if I can remember it. You know at one
  • presidential campaigns; Senators Kefauver and Kennedy for the vice-president; LBJ’s first heart attack and recovery; Senator Ralph Yarborough; LBJ to running for vice-presidency; JFK; opportunities for Thornberry to become a federal judge; limitations