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Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

people then, or what? M: No, my job there was somewhat like the 1944 job. It was in the area of publicity in what they called propaganda, to get Negro votes for the Democratic ticket. Eisenhower had made some inroads into the Negro vote in the election

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then we've known of a candidate advocating raising taxes, and it was a disaster. G: Nixon wrote in his memoirs that had Wallace not been in the race, he would have won in a landslide comparable to Eisenhower's in 1952. O: I don't know whether he would have

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was during the Eisenhower Administration, I was asked if I would head the GI loan program. guarantee service . And I wound up as Director of the loan Then, in 1961, was made Chief Benefits Director of the Veteran's Administration, which included all

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with the Eisenhower commission on National Goals as staff director . M: How much contact, if- any, did you have with Lyndon Johnson either before he was President or while he was vice President? B: My contacts with him arose almost entirely through the very close

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

would be of interest to you. I came into this position with a somewhat dubious background politically in that I had been active as a Republican. This was back in the days prior to the Eisenhower Ad- ministration. I was indeed on the research staff

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very fearful of It... I think when a man like Eisenhower comes out .and says that what we've got to worry about is the military industrial axis--he's no hippie. F: No! Do you thi~~ Vietnam may serve some kind of therapeutic value down the line

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

governor of South Carolina, Earl Morris, Jr., who was a candidate for governor and who was defeated. I moved to Pickens. My father was the village carrier, then became postmaster during Eisenhower's administration, thanks to Senator LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

when Paul Douglas had been introducing the textile workers, what we later called area redevelopment. the rural version. John 6SDUNPDQ introduced Neither of these got passed during the Eisenhower Administration, but Kennedy had promised to activate

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Lyndon Johnson is that, of all Presidents that I've known since Hoover, he understood the business problems better than anyone of the other Presidents. And I'm including President Roosevelt, President Truman, President Eisenhower, and President Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on everyone's part that there ought to be some simple solution. That was the basic attitude of the Eisenhower Administration. Their so-called termination policy is that what we ought to do is put them on their own and let them sink or swim. Of course the Indians

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was the problem there? W: Money. (Laughter) G: Money? They didn't have work? W: The contractors didn't have; they were getting out of work. Eisenhower was the man that put that program on. Eisenhower worked under this theory that every city needs

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the conference, the big four meeting in Geneva, for the purpose of really tying up the State Department and Eisenhower, and Mr. Johnson, instead of letting the Senate consider it, asked that it be referred to the Foreign Relations Corrmittee for study, which

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

Richard Daley; LBJ meeting with Eisenhower; Hubert Humphrey’s campaign; LBJ, Wilbur Mills and a surtax; Poor People's Campaign and consumer measures LBJ supported.

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dixie -- I -- 4 Eisenhower. But Lyndon did take credit for lining up a completely solid

Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

when he was the Democratic leader of the Senate during the Eisenhower Administration. I was with a group of railroad executives and mayors headed by former Mayor [Anthony] Celebrezze of Cleveland. Mayor Celebrezze at that time was president of the old

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with Eisenhower. I mean, the President would call or he would call him if they had legislation he thought there was something that maybe the President wouldn't sign. There was a very close, not constant, but a very close associa- tion there. MG: Okay, well

Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the more places you could be operating. By and large I thought it had a competent staff. G: Some of them were, I gather, holdovers from the committee that had been formed under Eisenhower. M: Yes, I think that's right. G: The [President's Committee

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

didn't see that in here. Was that in 1965? in the fall of 1965 when he had the gall bladder operation, October of 1965. I remember we had spent the night out at the hospital. big thing. It was a Vou know, Eisenhower had had a heart attack and been

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration, that rule by Executive order was put in. Any oil or products that were brought in by ocean tanker or by tank ship is under the rule; but that that came in by overland transportation were excepted. And they called this overland

Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

solely in the interests of literacy. am the sole source of the need for the amendments. As a Southerner tend to swallow the ends of sentences, and my syntax occasionally came out sounding like an Eisenhower press conference. I I But I have altered

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

columnist who was the Eisenhower ambassador to Switzerland, but who was with the Intelligence with Bill Donovan [OSS] during the war and has the same feeling that fellow [Ernest] Cuneo had. Have you talked to Cuneo? F: No. C: Well, you better talk

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

because Eisenhower's plane had settled down in Tennessee or something like that once with a cracked cylinder head or something minor. [There was] nobody there except local journalists to handle the story. What went out over the wires would scare the socks

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

active and to stay firm and strong and do everything to help him carry out his programs because he couldn't do those things alone . You see, I lived through the Eisenhower years too . And, actually, President Kennedy did a great deal of the running

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)

humanbeing if you can have both joy and suffering, S: so you sure don't ever have boredom. WhenJulie Nixon Eisenhower was here, she said that it was often very lonely in the White House. She felt that her mother was occasionally very lonely as First Lady

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

nationally among others who were planning for problems which the medical schools and related health activities were facing. In 1956 during the Eisenhower Administration I was invited to membership on the National Advisory Health Council as a lay member

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

from Allan Shivers. You will remember that in 1952 Allan Shivers had taken the Democratic Party and endorsed Eisenhower for president, and Mr. Rayburn didn't intend for that to happen again. So before 1956 he began preparing in advance to see

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

note that I had favored a Department of Transportation in my Bureau of the Budget days. In 1957 and 1958 I made repeated efforts to have the administration of President Eisenhower support a Department of Transportation in lieu of creating

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or phone pri or to thi s September 1953 meeting? D: are letter, asking for drought relief. F: That was from you to him? D: From me to him. F: Putting it off on Eisenhower and not-- D: Yes. F: You did this not as a private citizen, but as a state

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (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 4 in 1959. M: Under Eisenhower? S: That's correct. M

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)