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Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • campaign director for the Kennedy-Johnson campaign; and in 1961 I was appointed United States LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in his office drinking bourbon. He made some kind of a remark like this, "I'll never trade my vote for a gavel." I was asking him about his becoming a vice-presidential candidate under Kennedy. He said he'd never do that; he didn't want to be the vice
  • temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "Lyndon, that's not true at all." He had that feeling. He worked on it. He thought the New Dealer, the young New Dealers, who were an arrogant bunch-I used to say about the Kennedy crowd, "I've seen nobody as arrogant in Washington since we grew up
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • say when I was in college in Ann Arbor I literally fell in love with Roosevelt. I considered Roosevelt more or less my ideal from a political point of view. So I started off in the Democratic Party. Mc: How did you make connection with the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , denied my charges, but that's about what it amounted to . As I remember, the national administration--President Kennedy was in California on two or three occasions during '62 on allegedly non-political trips . F: Which the President can make very well
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barrow -- I -- 6 there until he should release them, and he never did release them until the final--as you know, when they made it unanimous on Kennedy . F: Oklahoma under Senator Kerr, and the one thing
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Kennedy was running for President. F: You weren't involved in either of those 1956 or 1958 convention fights? H: No, I wasn't. I never have gone to conventions because there are two factions in Texas, as you well know, and I always wanted the votes
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and retired I believe early in President Kennedy's time went back to the Wilson Administration. So there is a great deal of continuity. B: Do your duties involve anything pertaining to the mansion itself, the LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • presidential race between Senator Kennedy and Kefauver when he threw Texas l votes to Kennedy rather to Kefauver, although Kefauver went on to win. Any idea whey he went for Kennedy? S: I couldn't say. That happened so quickly, that I don't remember being
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • anybody have to be worried about what are the political consequences of making that first big move because it has already been made. ?=esident Kennedy kind of foreshadowed that by I think one of his rare emotional outbursts when his own proposal to create
Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Right. You've served here at the bank through all of President Kennedy's administration, and then all of President Johnson's. H: The last part of Eisenhower's administration, Kennedy and Johnson, yes. M: Was there any change in the United States
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • feel that he believes that we entered into a program which was initiated actually under President Kennedy when we sent fighting troors :Ln there. That we had entered into a program and conunitted ourselves to supporting the political independence
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Presidential nomination under Jack Kennedy? F: No. I was startled when he did. J: Where were you? How'd you hear it? F: I think just-- J: Did you go to Los Angeles? F: No, I didn't. I think just public-- J: Just like anybody else who's interested
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • after Johnson and Rayburn 8 The transition from Kennedy to Johnson as President LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Oral History Collection Tape Index
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Services. It was my program; a program I invented. M: And that was dating from the Kennedy Administration, correct? L: I'm sorry, I don't remember the dates. M: Oh, they're easily checked. I'll have to find them out. But President Kennedy did put
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and practice and the nature of the appropriations process--it's difficult to manage expenditures. M: Did you have anything to do with the budget cut that came shortly after the Kennedy assassination? Johnson came in and the budget was going to be over one
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • which would prove to our ultimate disadvantage. Now my position was public, was well known. When President Kennedy sent an emissary to me to ask that I remain on as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, I could immediately see that having me
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • : Good. Yes, I had no problems with him. U: Yes. JFK [John F. Kennedy] made you the director of the Food for Peace program-- M: Yes. U: --upon his election as president in 1960. Can you describe that experience? M: JFK knew that in the House I had
  • ; the G.I. Bill; McGovern's first impressions of LBJ; utilizing farm surpluses to reduce hunger in the U.S.; John F. Kennedy's visit to South Dakota to announce Food for Peace; JFK as president; the day JFK was assassinated; McGovern's relationship with JFK
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you can see how they would have that added feeling of poignant grief, that their own state had to be embarrassed about it. So this is something that those of us in the Kennedy and the Johnson officia l family would like to seal off. Did you come
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mills -- II -- 3 which was a pretty strong endorsement of it, I thought. I thought the time had come to pass it. I don't think we could have passed it in 1961. I told Kennedy that, and he agreed, I guess. He never did really press me about it. G: Did
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : I don't believe so. W: --went to Houston and made the tapes, and to Beaumont and to New York to meet with presidential nominee Kennedy and to appear on nationwide TV and then back to the Valley and on up to Corpus Christi and then into Austin
  • with Kennedy with LBJ as Vice President
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • serving in this position since 1961. Is that correct? "\1: Since July 1961. M: You were an appointee, then, of President Kennedy and served through the entire Johnson Administration. W: Yes. ~II: For many years you were associated IVi th various
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
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, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the United States senator. And Ed Johnson, of course, w a s pushed out of position almost immediately with the state convention at Durango when Kennedy came in and took over the delegates under the leadership of Byron White, nO\\l the Supreme Court justice
  • Impressions of LBJ's early Senate years; Alaskan Statehood Bill; Kennedy-Johnson campaign; Wilderness Bill; Redwood National Park; Department of the Interior land control; University of Colorado honorary degree; LBJ's reaction to upscale black
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • are of the opinion today that Holleman was named as assistant secretary of labor primarily because of Lyndon Johnson . F: That's something I wanted to ask you . Whether in effect this was President Kennedy trying to make good to the Texas liberal wing or whether
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • trusted him. Marianne Means, I never did figure out how she made the transition from Kennedy to Johnson, except she is pretty and she is very quick-witted. He appreciated that in women and she became one of the favorites. I think he figured he had enough
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that he didn't have a civil rights record at all, although Senator Kennedy didn't have a great civil rights record either. As a matter of fact my feeling about the two of them at that time was that it didn't make very much difference who was the nominee
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you, Miss Miller. [Presume it was for coffee] Sir, before we get back into the chronology, you were just telling me an anecdote about Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and President Kennedy and thenVice President Johnson. H: This was very interesting. Mr
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • policy? W: Well, of course it has. If you would put that question in terms of how does it differ from the Kennedy Administration or the Eisenhower Administration, then you can say something about it. B: Why not do it that way? W: As compared
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and we did discuss that several times. F: As you know, there was some uncertainty in some of the Texas delegation about President Kennedy. Did Johnson sort of accept this as a fact of life and tell you how to encircle it? W: We had the mutual problem
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the President was in the campaign of 1960. But in 1960 I traveled mainly with Nixon and with Kennedy, so that the answer to your question is that I really had hardly set eyes on the man until early in 1965 when NBC assigned me to the White House as its White
  • Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and Senator Senator Jack Kennedy from Massachusetts, and I think, my recollection is, that the Texas delegation supported Senator Gore on the first ballot and supported Senator Kennedy on the second ballot. One little thing that happened here. Senator
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course
  • ; contact with LBJ and White House staff; Vietnam; Johnson Administration legislative briefings; the Pueblo incident; reflections on LBJ in various situations; comparison and evaluation of the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • or he'd never-- G: Why did he wait so long before he announced in 1960? B: Well, it wasn't an accident. It was planned timing, in my judgment. Now . . . M: Did he wait until after the primary, was that the deal? G: Well, he waited until Kennedy had
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • .] Kennedy in the spring, headed by Eleanor Roosevelt as the chairman, and Esther Peterson as vice chairman. I worked at the Commission until it finished its report, and I do not, quite frankly, remember the date. It was somewhere in the fall of 1963, because
  • Prokop's career history; LBJ's vice presidential staff and Prokop's duties; LBJ's dissatisfaction with his vice presidency; how President Kennedy's staff viewed LBJ and his staff; Kennedy staff's lack of appreciation for LBJ's talents; why Prokop
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Lyndon Johnson. A: I first became acquainted with him only after the Kennedy assassination. I had seen him around the White House occasionally, and I guess we nodded, though I doubt that he was sure who I was. F: But you never had any real
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the differences between Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, both of whom you had ample opportunity to observe. Talk particularly, first of all about the difference in approach in Cabinet meetings. U: There were differences. They were not too great, however
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] whether I'm right on the state or not but it was in the morning, and he was handed a telegram where Senator Kennedy had asked for permission to appear before various state caucuses and by error, the secretary had included the state of Texas. Immediately
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • is that he is a member of the National Security Council--that was an innovation of Harry Truman. Second, he is the chairman of the Space Council--that was an innovation of President Kennedy, who requested Congress to amend the Space Act very early during
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Short -- I -- 2 S: Right, right. But I knew him personally from the time that he was the majority leader of the Senate. Kennedy was by this time--no, I'm sorry, Kennedy was not yet president; Eisenhower