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Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • situation for you then because there were other contenders for the nomination. Were there other contenders that you--? H: Jack Kennedy was serving on my committee. committeeman. And he made a good He always supported me on that committee. LBJ
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • beginning in respect to John Kennedy not long before he died. Actually, this one didn't go, of course, so far nor did the issue become so divisive. I think one could speculate that had he lived, had he not tragically died, that Kennedy would have faced
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • really until President Kennedy came along, when he of course was vice president. I used to see him during those days; because one of my duties was to brief the Vice President on the situation in the Far East. M: That's one of the questions I wanted
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : One of the themes that seems to run through the late fifties is politics looking on toward 1960, and the candidates lining up and frustrating each others' efforts in terms of legislation. I was wondering, in par- ticular with regard to Jack Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, '~ell, getting ready to go to the airport now. as a matter of fact, I'm I'll be in there tonight." ''Well, he'll see you tomorrow." So I went by and went over to see him, and he said that he wanted me to take the chairmanship of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • although he overdid it of keeping all the Kennedy people on that he possibly could. The--I know that Bill White was one of the first to pound that home to him, Bill White of The New York Times--but he-- G: That he overdid it? R: Yes. Johnson definitely
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --then United Press--worked as a radio writer for many years, and then started covering several departments-- F: Did you see--? T: --and then started covering the White House [at the] start of the Kennedy years, January 1961. F: When did you first
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of necessity and convenience. Everybody knew what Johnson's talents were and everybody understood he knew the Senate unlike any majority leader [or] minority leader had ever known it. I'm sure that's one of the reasons why [John F.] Kennedy was 7 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • was stopped on the highway, and there is just something peculiarly poignant in that. Here was a man running for vice president and trying very hard to help the man he was serving, President Kennedy, in becoming president. And stopped in a funeral procession
  • . Johnson's appreciation for the variety in lifestyles around the United States; voting and election day 1960; the Johnsons' activities in the days following the election, including John F. Kennedy's visit to the LBJ Ranch; the apartment on the fifth floor
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Ted Kennedy had made--a good talk on Vietnam. I had talked with--who was it? MG: [Theodore] Sorensen? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • flexible; Humphrey's personality and how it changed during the convention: Humphrey's loyalty to LBJ and frustration over the situation; why John F. Kennedy beat Humphrey in West Virginia in 1960; 1960 opposition from Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., and meetings
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasker -- I -- 7 against Kennedy, who was working so hard, he'd have to do an awful lot of work. But Johnson was afraid of neglecting his job
  • ; approaching LBJ for support in health care funding; desalination of water; talking to Mrs. Roosevelt about LBJ’s views on civil rights; LBJ in the Vice-Presidential period; how she joined the Equal Opportunity Employment Committee; the Kennedy Center
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Kennedy Administration. So that the missile gap fortunately never occurred; we tried to make it clear it was only potential even at the time. F: This is an unprovable question and your answer will be equally unprovable for the time being, but from your
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . that visited. I went down with--one of the first high-level people I went down with President Kennedy. And we went LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • effort, of course, was in '60 when Johnson had some aspirations to be president, and John Kennedy was nominated for President and Johnson for Vice president. I might point out that once again that this campaign started in the early part of the year
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, but was infinitesimal in comparison, occurred the night that Bobby Kennedy lost the Oregon primary. It's not very pleasant to move through a losing election night, because at the presidential level, I've always considered election night somewhat comparable to the final
  • opinion of Citizen Hughes author Michael Drosnin and falsehoods in the book; Hughes' $25,000 donation through O'Brien to Robert Kennedy's campaign; O'Brien's trip to Ireland after the 1968 election.
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh They frequently say that President Kennedy was going to Dallas to help patch up Texas factionalism
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be for Johnson rather than for Kennedy it was inescapable conclusion that Kennedy had the thing . And that night, I know Mr . Johnson stayed in his hotel room and had on his house slippers and a sports shirt, and they hadn't gotten very far down the list when he
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . B: That was the case with Texas at that time. I've heard it said that the Texas delegation and Johnson himself were active in trying to get the vice presidential nomination for John Kennedy in 1956. E: I think that is correct. B
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • after that, although he kept in contact with what was going on in Washington until, oh, right up almost to the time of his death in July. M: Yes. You were in the Congress at the time I guess Mr. Kennedy was assassinated and served through
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • right after President Kennedy's assassination in December 1963, President Johnson addressed a group of business leaders, and I think you were there and had some recollections of that meeting, his effectiveness in dealing with the business community. Do
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • convention, the one that picked Adlai Stevenson for the second time and nominated Estes Kefauver? M: Yes, I was there. F: Do you have any light to throw on why Texas abandoned Kefauver and went for Kennedy? M: I was not really in on a lot
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with LBJ; doing LBJ’s makeup; LBJ giving to a poor family and the Catholic church in Stonewall; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys and Hubert Humphrey; LBJ’s interest in the media (TV, ticker tape, newspapers) and sensitivity to the media; diversity
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • presidency? Did you have any intimations of this? E: He sent for me and sent for John Stennis and told us that he had not made up his mind, that he'd been offered the vice presidency. Now as I recall, that was the morning after Kennedy was nominated. I
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or late fifties? T: He became more liberal in the late fifties in the Senate. I remember in 1960, when he ran for president, I supported him over Kennedy at the convention. I made a speech at the Democratic Convention to the South Carolina caucus
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • something about your appointment to the Bureau of the Budget. G: I was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. President Kennedy in January 1961. I came in with I had planned to serve for two years as a member of the Council and to return to my
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he met with Robert Kennedy at the White House. LBJ Presidential Library 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
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , if I recall. We had a lot of candidates I'm just taking this off the top of my head. The campaign was Senator Symington, Humphrey, Johnson, and Kennedy. They had the four people. B: As I recall, there was a good deal of activity in the Kansas
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Senator McCarthy--McCarthy hated Warren Burger, because he had run a campaign against McCarthy when he was in the House of Representatives; he had been the manager for a man by the name of Kennedy, and they had called McCarthy, among other things
  • in Minnesota; Humphrey's career and support from the DFL; protestant versus Catholic political issues and support; John F. Kennedy's assassination and Keith's subsequent support for LBJ; the 1964 Democratic National Convention; LBJ campaigning in Minnesota
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, to West Virginia and Kentucky. Do you remember--? W: No, I didn't go with him on that trip. (Interruption) G: Let's see. You were saying you went to New York with him one time. W: Yes. We stayed at the—where did the Kennedys stay? We stayed
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HORWITZ -- I -- 20 Landrum Bill came over to the Senate. that. Let me go back a minute before I may say in 1958 we had worked a great deal with Senator Kennedy. M: I was going to ask about that. H
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that would support the Johnson candidacy. Did you find in tallying your candidates that the Kennedy people had beaten you to a lot of states that would have fallen within the support of Lyndon Johnson? W: Of course I could not say that these states would
  • Puerto Ricans fired gun shots in the House of Representatives; LBJ's first heart attack; Election 1960; Involvement during early sixties in Texas politics; Reaction to Kennedy's assassination; Running for State Chairman; Election of 1964; Convention
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • made to the governors just two or three days after the assassination-they were in town for the Kennedy funeral, and I don't know why they never put the statement out, it was just beautiful; he was obviously ad-libbing it and he was talking about what
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
  • Biographical information; what his jobs were for LBJ; how the staff decided which invitations LBJ would accept; Senator Dodd; advance work; Bobby Baker; working with the Kennedy staff; the JFK assassination and Sinclair’s work in the following days
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been his supporter from then on; all through the years we were close friends. I flew with him after the great events out in California, when the meeting adjourned with Johnson being [the nominee for] vice president and Bobby [Kennedy] still fussing
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : In the days when I was assistant secretary of defense, then the National Security Council and the executive committee thereof dealt with all the important policy issues, and I was always present at those; so in those days I used to--in Mr. Kennedy's day--I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • through it. It had some negative references, probably to all the Kennedys, Bobby Kennedy. I didn't read it in detail. There was no need to because I had never seen that memo before. It was not the memo Bob Maheu had shown me so I simply stated, "I've never
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , no, careful screening." F: So that the Bricker Amendment wasn't anything to fear as far as he was concerned. D: The Bricker Amendment failed by one vote short of two-thirds. And like a friend of Joe Kennedy's asked Joe Kennedy why did Jack Kennedy vote
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Shriver during the 1960 campaign. was at Princeton. paign. I That would have been my senior year during the cam- I worked for the Johnson-Kennedy ticket during that campaign. r was doing my senior honors thesis for the School of Public and Inter
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of them, like Congressman Frank Smith, and others were wanting us to support Senator Kennedy for the vice presidential nomination. After the first roll call, it was obvious to me and to many others that if we were going to stop Kefauver, Kennedy
  • First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson