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Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wire services and the networks has been a foregone conclusion, was during President Kennedy's news conferences, and for that matter during President Eisenhower's. There was sort of a list that they run down to make sure they recognize a representative

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or had that control of the House of Representatives. I And Lyndon used to go over there all the time. But think the initiative and the whole thrust, the kind of momentum of everything--I think Johnson was the guy by that time. I think Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

times he'd seen the press counting up the numbers as against the times that Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower had seen the press and how it really had not been as different numerically as had been indicated i,n the papers. But [he said] that he

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

when Nr . Eisenhower came in . He had to be minority leader over there . But it's one of those things that the only thing I can tell the difference is, when you're in the minority, as far as the office of doorkeeper is concerned, you have everything

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

another. I believe I agreed sometime late in January, after I had gone back to Dallas to come up. My partner had worked in the Eisenhower campaign, and he wanted to come up and join the Eisenhower Administration. and I came up here very early in February

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: At Middleburg . George Brown, at the time had been on several commissions ; one, under President Truman, the [William S .] Paley Committee, I believe it was called, on the needs of this nation for raw materials for the next twenty or thirty years . Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be pretty conservative and Roosevelt was not . . . F: That's a dozen years ago, but do you recall whether he made any comment on President Eisenhower? W: I don't believe he did, specifically. President Eisenhower at all. He was not attacking I forget

Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

years based on increases in labor, materials and additional areas added to the Park System. So things began humming and the morale of the organization went up. I was even called in to present the programs to President Eisenhower and the Cabinet, which

Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

first term in Congress was that the then-president of the United States decided to buy a farm. Mr. Eisenhower selected Gettysburg as the site for his home and his farm, so he became my most distinguished constituent. This did not help my situation 3

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

swallow that. The Republicans were in great glee. That was socialized Homer Capehart prepared an amendment to reduce the six-hundred thousand housing units to thirty thousand, which had been recommended by Eisenhower. assumed that Johnson was going

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. For example, the invasion of Normandy in Europe, which General Eisenhower led, that invasion was planned for years. I mean at least two years were put into the planning of that invasion. I'm not saying that was wrong; I'm perfectly willing to say it was right

Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, politely but immediately, that he was not in a position to participate in the Democratic campaign. Of course, he wasn't. Sid Richardson had been one of the ones who sent word to Eisenhower that they wished he'd come back from Europe and accept

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

measures under Eisenhower; relationship with LBJ; 1944 Democratic National Convention; Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower; LBJ's leadership; McCarthy period; Johnson for President Committee, 1960; ethics; Johnson

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

latio nsh ip, bu t I be l ieve he could g i ve you some ins ight on t h e Eisenhowe r relationshi ps and so forth. I think he would b e the bes t of the l i vin g pe op le from the E isenhowe r Administ r at i on . Sherman Adams --di d Sh erman Ad

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

dumb. Kennedy never used this I'm sure that Eisenhower didn't. But LBJ frequently "Now, you know, you got me into this last time, Bob, but now what about this time?" Perhaps the most notable occasion of his forcing us to constantly revalidate

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and and i t was painted red , but t h a t ' s as f a r as i t went about being a l i t t l e red schoolhouse, you know, as we accept i t , but the l i n e sounded f i n e . We were up in Eisenhower's headquarters and a s tr a n g e thing: in the room were

Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

', there's one right behind you on the wall. There's a presidential helicopter and they're ours. Right after Eisenhower, they flew our helicopters, and Johnson, of course, was one of them. He flew on our helicopters. I used to check them out when they came

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the Hill--his representatives; he called members of Congress more in one week than the Nixon Administration does in a month, or the Eisenhower Administration, or the Truman Administration. It was his style. It's the only kind that will work. A more docile

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but as the years went by, LBJ grew more and more dependent upon General Eisenhower and President Truman, part of it being nothing more than a very small fraternity of people who had served in the same spot, but also in the sense--and this sounds terrible to say

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

you tell me what he was concerned about when he wanted to talk to you? B: He was going to have to do something about, you know, his affairs. He had read about the Eisenhower Trust and the Kennedy Trust, and he thought something had to be done to put

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

meeting? B: No. G: Did you go to Gettysburg during that time? B: No. G: I thought maybe you might have met with former President Eisenhower. B: Well, I met with him once when he was in the hospital, but just the date I can't quite remember

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the government, you do this. My feeling is that something would come up under the Kennedys or maybe back under Eisenhower, and somebody started a reaction to it within the West Wing and they called up Justice or Labor or Treasury or whomever and started working

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of this precedent. Now this is not what you were talking about, but you need this. The thing that was uppermost in everybody's mind in Washington about Nixon toward the end or at the end of the Eisenhower Administration and his campaign, was his ill-fated visit

Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Bill Brennan, and we sat together in Hudson County, as I recall. He was on our superior court, then on our supreme court, and then he went by appointment of President Eisenhower to the United States Supreme Court. So that at Los Angeles Meyner

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Now you pick out three or four of the biggest Republican friends that you have in Dallas and put them down. Because we'rell--see, I didn't know if it was going to be [RobertJ Taft or Eisenhower or who-- and put them down as a reference. lI You've

Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a grant for Oral History of Eisenhower and Stevenson, and he said it would be nice if you did something like that for Harry Truman, and a couple of years later we got a good application and did. in keeping his hands off of it and so did his staff. But he

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

forth. And the result is that a White House staff--at least the Kennedy staff, and I would generalize more broadly; not the Eisenhower staff, but the Johnson staff and I gather the Nixon staff--relates so much to the man who is President that the rest

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Well, let's see, the Eisenhowers I know did enjoy Fred Waring quite a bit. And Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians were here on many occasions. Then I suppose, too, people have a tendency to pick up highlights in each administration. And I suppose

Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the second most powerful man in the nation when Eisenhower was President. He recognized that he could not be that powerful if Kennedy won the election. Now, you might say, "Well, Nixon would have won and then he'd still be Majority Leader." exactly what

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, by the fairness with which Nr. Johnson--then-Senator Johnson--acted while President Eisenhower was in the hbite House. I think that he displayed a tremendous amount of pa- triotism and a great lack of political partisanship during those years. I think

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there? Because a friendly nation asked us to help them repel aggression and three presidents have made that pledge." wasn't true. No. Three presidents hadn't made it. Well, it Eisenhower never promised anything but economic aid, and Kennedy never made any

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to the White House right at the end of the Eisenhower years. Of course it's ideal, I suppose, because where the President goes, the government goes. These planes are big and they're fast, and yet they can land at comparatively short runways. So this give

Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the Johnson leadership during the Eisenhower Administration. M: This is based upon his political skill and his knowledge of the art of politics? R: It is based on that partly. I think it is based also and more largely upon Johnson's recognition

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

like Eisenhower and Truman have been called upon for advice and counsel. Because no one knows the great burden or great responsibility that a man has in that office until he has gone through it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org