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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

what he thought was best for the nation. History has proven what Mr. Eisenhower said) had it not been for Lyndon Johnson as the majority leader, President Eisenhower never would have gotten a program passed. When the President [Johnson] thought

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

idea of what the business and banking community really operate like. That's a bad sentence, Eisenhower syntax. But the real question is what is banking like in the real world and not in the textbook; what is the way in which IT&T conducts its affairs

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

also seen in your government service a transition from the Eisenhower years to the Kennedy years. Did this kind of situation develop there, too? Between the old and the new? R: In the beginning there was certainly some suspicion as to actions taken

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But that time \'/hen the argument got too hot and heavy, General Twining would just bundle all up and go over and sit down and talk to the President. The President didn't agree with Taylor either, talking about President Eisenhower, so that was it. with his

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

arose because of Johnson's leadership in the Senate. And insofar as it was a problem the problem was that Stevenson felt Johnson was not making the issues on which he would have to run in 1956, because as you recall, Johnson was supporting the Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of credit really for saving the life of the Council in 1953 when it looked as though Eisenhower might not use the Council at all . I think on grounds of institutional loyalty and on grounds of his own very good personal relationships with Paul McCracken

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

appointment to the AEC. I received the balance of Sumner Pike's term and was not reappointed by President Eisenhower. M: I'd like to get started just generally speaking and ask you if you recall your very first acquaintance or association with Mr. Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 25 If Eisenhower had said this in '55 or '56 after the Geneva Conference, in my opinion

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was involved, he really VJas involved, in those early days; it vJas during the last days of the Eisenhower Administration. And I found him supportive of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

within the Wh i t e House, and I think it deprived the public of a really full understanding of the problems that the Eisenhower Administration were up against. My view of it is that the open approach, as the Nixon people call it, is really a pretty good

Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

already begun under the Eisenhower Administration with the creation of the Inter-American Bank and with the Act of Bogotá [Bogotá Agreement], which had been agreed to with Douglas Dillon, who was the American representative that summer of 1960. The term

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ran into Dr. [George] Burkley, who was President Kennedy's private physician, and he was getting into his car. He'd gotten cut off from the President, too. you give me a ride?" I said, "Will I had known him for years, since Eisenhower days; he'd

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was the demilitarization of the Sinai, which had been agreed to with Dag Hammarskjold. After all, the Israelis in 1956-57 pulled out at our insistence, General Eisenhower's, and part of the deal was what I told you, a letter that the peacekeeping force--which [David] Ben

Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

dealing with was going to be a long-term operation. You also have to remember, back in the sixties, that the Kennedy Administration followed the Eisenhower Administration, and there just weren't that many people either at the federal level or at the local

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

this is something again the public never quite appreciates. For example, Eisenhower had never had an attack before, you see, but he had it during the presidency. And I would estimate that if we could look ahead three hundred years from now at presidents who

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with--but take Brennan, I used to play golf sometimes with Eisenhower and he told me that Brennan had disappointed him; that Judge Vanderbilt, who was then the Chief Justice of New Jersey and upon whose court Brennan sat, had told him that Brennan was more

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it for a 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barr -- IV -- 16 long time: from the Eisenhower years to the Kennedy years, the Johnson

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but then, he was running against a general, and a very popular one. If you'll notice, in most of his speeches he always referred to Eisenhower as "the general." And isn't it strange that we didn't turn off at a "general" but I guess we were just sold

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. The original idea, I might say, was that Milton Eisenhower would be invited to be chairman. He was willing to serve on the initial period of the commission, but did not feel he had the time to be the chairman, so he turned it down. It was then hoped that Dr

Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Agency. We're now in the Eisenhower administration. And that became one of the focuses of the multilateral control effort, because the act in essence provided that we could cut off aid to a country that was shipping strategic goods to the bloc, unless

Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Eisenhower won the presidency and the control of Congress in the 1952 election--at that time I was administrator of what was the Small Defense Plants Administration, a piece of legislation which Senator Sparkman, Senator Johnson, mostly Democrats but some

Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 Presidency that there was an effective presentation and a creation of the present Department of Housing and Urban Development. As an active mayor, I had been appointed first by President Eisenhower when the Advisory Commission

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

on the qualifications of any potential nominee before he would be nominated. arrangement with the American Bar Association. This was by special Every President--Presi- dent Eisenhower, President Kennedy, President Johnson lived up to it. I think sometimes it irked

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Johnson More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh VII 22 wasn't brought up until he got back and was able to lead it through. Of course, Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

didn't know when I was going out to Indochina, but I got a call again from him, and th.en I started taking French, and then I got a call from the air force saying, "Th.e President"-- meaning Eisenhower--"has just called. He's been talking

Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at doing, as history has already recorded. I believe President Eisenhower made the statement that without Lyndon he never would have gotten any of his program through. The President was a statesman as well as a partisan, but he appealed to the members