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Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, South Dakota voted more overwhelmingly for Eisenhower in 1952 than any other state in the Union. And it was shortly after that that I first met George McGovern, the new state chairman. Well, George McGovern got elected to the House

Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

when these farm programs were started that we'd get a fair shake for agriculture. B: In other words, it would almost certainly be a change from the policies of the Eisenhower Administration? L: Yes. Getting back a little bit on how I happened

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

- cated at the time that the administration, the Eisenhower Administration, had failed to protect the wool industry properly. M: No. I don't recall that. I probably voted with Lyndon on it because out inmy state--I'm sure I did--we have wool too

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

service with the Civil Rights Commission in 1960 on into the Kennedy years, did you have an opinion of Lyndon Johnson in those days? M: No, I didn't. When I entered the government of course, Mr. Eisenhower was the President. I entered in July of 1960

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

will remember, General Quesada was the first administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency which was created by the act of 1958. He served under General Eisenhower and obviously submitted his resignation when the Democrats came in in 1960, at ~~hich LBJ

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the history of the United States--no parallel in the history of any other President. When you figure the amount of 1egislation--just take education, federal aid to education! practically nil. Under the Eisenhower Administration, it was I think it went up

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

good. I think you can run a mission or I think you can run any job, as President Eisenhower certainly LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Mrs. Eisenhower's clothes, remember. In the spring of the year, for instance, the first lady is guest of honor at the Senate wives luncheon. The routine was about the same, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it isn't still the same, but each

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Democratic Party machinery of Texas for Eisenhower, the Republican, Mr. Rayburn and Johnson decided that they must take the Democratic machinery away from Allan. F: Yes. P: They revealed their plans to me in Washington on an occasion and pressed me

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the two houses, there would have been no end to it. I've seen a number of instances which I felt that Mansfield and McCormack really didn't push, the way that Rayburn and Johnson would have, well, as they did for Eisenhower. P: There was a great man

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, as you may know. This is an understanding that President Eisenhower made with the Senate Armed Services Committee. However, the Joint Chiefs of Staff consider it inappropriate for them to comment on who should be appointed the chief of a service [Army

Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thing--at our house when he was Majority Leader working very hard . Dean Acheson, who had been the previous Secretary of State--was not now Secretary of State--it must have been during the Eisenhower years--stood up and gave a toast

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a kid, pretty near. He had been head of the House of Representatives. G: I understand that in 1954, President Eisenhower nominated you as an alternate delegate to the U.N. Do you know why you were selected? N: Yes. They tried to balance

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people when he was retained by Eisenhower on the ticket. G: The Checkers speech. O: The Checkers speech. We considered excerpting from the Checkers speech with another punch-in-the-nose type spot. We were getting into dangerous territory because how

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

chairman. Well, Eisenhower for some reason that I don't understand, insisted on being chairman of the President's Advisory Council on Outer Space. And so, that was--we gave in to them simply to be sure that we could get the bill through the Congress. One

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Eisenhower wanted done . He'd get it done, get a bill passed, and he felt that was going to come to an end . about it . I remember he talked One reason he wanted to be the vice president was he felt he had reached the top in input in the Senate

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of that scrap between Johnson and Shivers over Shivers' threat to support Eisenhower again? B: It had something to do with it . M: I know there were two conventions apparently that year, one in the spring and one - in the fall . In the spring convention

Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

wouldn't reappoint anybody, so that time ran out . So when Eisenhower came in, he appointed a whole new group of seven [members] . That kept on going . When Kennedy came in, the whole seven were coming in 1963 for reappointment at that time . One

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CLIFTON C. CARTER--8 In 1952, we had had Governor Shivers and Senator Daniel endorse President Eisenhower and the Republicans, and Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn were determined this would not happen again

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 12 F: That, of course, was the one thing Al Smith did for the party, and later Eisenhower, you know that was the first time they recognized that they ought to pay some attention to them. Did you see anything of Johnson while he was vice president

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

been there in the Eisenhower period and part of the Kennedy period and being a professional had no difficulty getting along with any of them. I think here sometimes the lay public tends to assume that we're all a lot more ideological and committed

Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

," and "This is for this department, I want a report on it." I think he followed it. He'd turn it over to a subordinate, the head of another department, yet he still kept it with him. I don't think he's the type of man who can delegate things, I think Eisenhower was a great

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the light of having served under really four Presidents almost-- A: Three. P: Didn't Eisenhower come in there in one part of it? A: No, you see, my resignation took place the day that he was inaugurated. So I served under three Democratic Presidents

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

? B: We then spent months working on legislation between the staffs of those two Senators and others; and if I recall correctly, a bill was passed which President Eisenhower vetoed and later a watered down version was passed which the President signed

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And there was a big political hurrah about it at that But that was his [Secretary of Treasury Anderson under Eisenhower] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it. Sure. After the Democrats took the Senate, what, in the first by election in Eisenhower's period? G: Yes. S: The morning after the election, Lyndon called me and he said, "My friend, I'm going to buy some more stations, and I want you to tell me

Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

then at the outset of the second Eisenhower administration, and experience up to that point had suggested that while in the overall we were making some real progress in the rebuilding process, that there were also structural, philosophical, fiscal problems

Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

during the Eisenhower [inaudible]. F: Do you think that most of the civil rights activists understood his compromises as assistance for them, or do you think that they were basically purists who thought you don't give an inch? In other words

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

know, some of the worst judicial appointments made were made by the Kennedys in the South. We basically got along on the old Eisenhower appointments. B: Does anybody in particular stand out in your mind? Y: Oh yes. Judge Cox from Mississippi

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

will be curved and what have you. Lastly, you had this great tradition stemming back to the Eisenhower years--and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Council and was actually started by Eisenhower back in 1955, the schools are the organization that keeps things going because we have a captive audiente. [With] adults we don't have a captive audience, and we must also inspire some motivation. We

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

so, at least I never saw that when I was in the Post. M: It's going to be a hard thing to track down fifty years from now. F: Well, put it this way. Phil Graham was strong for Eisenhower in 1952; he was sort of halfand-half in 1956

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Braestrup -- I -- 20 delivered communiques in Tokyo during the Korean War, and as Eisenhower's people issued communiques in World War II. So you had to have a communique, an official

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the National Guard for anything in race, we would have had a different racial history, just like if you had a northerner as president at the time of Selma and all like that, and they had sent in troops as Eisenhower did in Little Rock, we wouldn't have

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

advisory posts prior to your involvement in the Johnson Administration. You were on the Regional War Labor Boards during the war and then you were on Eisenhower's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

through the state, and in a city, I believe it was Dallas, we held a rally, and Senator Johnson read a letter from General Eisenhower, then President, to a prominent Texas Republican, and after the rally was over, I walked up to Senator Johnson and I said

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that he did the most for were the first to turn on him when he was in the White House. B: Like who? E: Oh, you can take most of your southern states. My gosh, when we were needing so much help under the Eisenhower Administration here in the Tennessee

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

it out of a department, we never would have had any means to get anything done with. So that's the reason why we put it there. It was well known that the Congress was not going to let anybody go beyond what Eisenhower had done in expenditures. You'll