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Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

a cubbyhole on the same floor with the Kennedy organization there on Connecticut [Avenue]. Was it Connecticut? I could go right to the building right now, but I've forgotten the name of the street. Anyhow, Buck was traveling with Mr. Johnson and so

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the Kennedy people noticed was that they approved of it. They didn't get the ifs and the whereases. G: How did you learn about the invasion? R: Oh, I learned about it when it happened. G: Just through the newspapers? R: Right. Johnson didn't mention

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to formally head up this group. B: As I recall it, and as some of these memorandam indicate--and there are not enough that really tie it down--[that group was formed] sometime in the early fall of 1963 as a result of a [James] Patton visit to Jack Kennedy

Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, was chairman of one of the committees and made a report from the committee in the 1956 convention. F: Were you privy to any of what to a lot of people was a surprise when the Texas delegation went for Kennedy instead of Kefauver? c: No, I wasn't. That's

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

of judges in Texas, because President Kennedy did consult him on that; and I had the understanding that probably there had been an understanding between President Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, the Vice President, prior to Lyndon Johnson agreeing to accept

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the word "planning." Because as John F. Kennedy once said, the very future of the democracies will depend upon whether they can compete with the more rigorous and brutal methods of the totalitarians through planning under freedom. This is a rather
Employment Act of 1946, its intended and eventual uses; tax reductions of 1964; regulating the federal budget; the war against poverty and its failures; local control of education; planning in a free society; President John F. Kennedy; rising

Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Interviewer: Paige E. Mulhollan Date: M: March 7, 1969 Let's begin, sir, by identifying you. You're Fred Korth, and your most recent government service was as Secretary of the Navy from early in 1962--January--until October of 1963 in the Kennedy
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

than a hard-nosed politician who knew the ropes of getting the various commitments. M: Did it seem to you at the time that the Kennedys had already--to use the vernacular that has been expressed--had sewed up the delegates in the convention? G

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

believe it was in 1956--didn't he nominate Kennedy for the Vice Presidency? F: For Vice President. He was the one who swung the convention away from Kefauver over to Mr. Kennedy. H: At that time, some time between '56 and '60, I would think that he

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

is sue on its own ITlerits? R: On the merits. The same way when Lyndon Johnson was President he adopted the Kennedy platform of 1960 and went beyond it; and he sent up some rather extreme public housing and urban renewal proposals to our Banking

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McClendon -- I -- 5 M: Yes. my I couldn't travel with Kennedy. papers~ It was just too expensive [for] and of course they didn't send

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1974 INTERVIEWEE: ESTHER PETERSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Peterson's residence in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 P: It all kind of blends together a little bit within my memory. But it is true that before the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

measures-border taxes, import surcharges and so forth--that would undo and would start unraveling the results of the Kennedy Round. There were two schools of thought within the Administration--the free-trader school, and I'd say that was the State
; the Johnson treatment; books written about LBJ’s Presidency; friction between the Kennedys and LBJ; press relations and criticisms; cause of LBJ’s unpopularity; LBJ’s interest in polls

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

wouldn't take it, he then called him up from Texas and told him that he had to take it. M: For the same reasons, for the good of the ,party? W: For the same reasons, for the good of the party. That if Kennedy ran and didn't have somebody like Senator

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: It is now. I was just indicating that--perhaps as useful background, even though it's in the Kennedy Administration--you were of course involved in Viet Nam from a very early time, and I'd like to get some indication as to how much Mr. Johnson as Vice

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to work for Mac [McGeorge] Bundy, Kennedy's national security adviser, and Bob asked me in September of 1961 if I would come join him, as they began to beef up their staff a little bit, and the agency agreed to send me down to the NSC on detail. That's how

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, to a certain extent? C: I think the election of President Kennedy in 1960 set the kind of climate which would allow in 1961 a young man like me, relatively LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Kennedy? Had they anticipated the intense amount of effort that would be involved in it? C: As a general proposition I would say that events outran leadership throughout the period that I was at Justice. The pressures and dynamics were pushing for civil

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was never privy to that. So mine was a routine, but I was aware that I could be called at any time. I had some calls from the Kennedy Administration at night, too. Mrs. Kennedy and the President had a couple of last minute ideas, and they called me
the campaign and convention of 1964; Okamoto's return as White House photographer in 1965; trip with Mrs. Kennedy to England for dedication of a memorial to JFK; Stoughton’s final days as White House photographer; White House photographers and receiving

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, because I was the number two under Frank Wisner and I was the number two under Dick Bissell. As is probably relatively well known, both Allen Dulles and Dick Bissell were let go from the agency by President Kennedy because of the sad outcome of the Bay

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

for president in 1960, I [would have] kind of preferred that the convention would have nominated Johnson for president to Kennedy, because I felt that Johnson would come closer to my favorite issues, my position on the issues that were important to me

Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the State Department hierarchy, being in 1961 as, first, Policy Planning Council chief, and then later as Undersecretary for Political Affairs under Mr. Kennedy. Did Mr. Johnson take, that you could see, a very large role in foreign affairs as Vice

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

. Was that by President Kennedy? B: Yes . M: Focusing on that work for a few moments : Was there a difference in the way the Kennedy Administration operated as compared to the way the Johnson Administration operated? B: In regards to the Fine Arts? M : In regard

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

. K: Was that through the Kennedy Administration as well? 6 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

Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and Guajardo, we made to Washington on occasion of a seminar in Washington, D.C. F: Is this the one at Georgetown? B: The Georgetown. At that time we visited President Kennedy, and Guajardo arranged for a visit of President Alemán to Vice President Johnson
Contact with LBJ; Miguel Aleman; visit to the LBJ Ranch; Johnson and Kennedy visits to Mexico; LBJ's funeral; the ranch at Chihuahua

Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. As a matter of fact, after Kennedy was assassinated, at which time I was working with the USIA getting ready to go to South America, USIA asked me to do a story on Johnson and civil rights, which I did and which I wish I had a copy of, in which I reported my

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President Johnson, I'd say the more important variable from the standpoint of the Policy Planning Council is the Secretary of State . Now insofar as the President's personality comes to bear on it's work, I'd

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

concerned me greatly because I don't think that it's necessary to have uniform thinking in any political party. I felt that the reason that Kennedy and Johnson had so much difficulty carrying Texas after Jack Kennedy had drafted Lyndon to be his running mate

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

against Johnson . We had that real bitter battle with Alan Shivers in 1956 when he took over the machinery, but from then on it has always been who's for Johnson . '60 we were voting for Johnson . Now Kennedy had a great deal of appeal to the Latins

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

informed than we did under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations because it's quite natural for the White House to communicate more with their natural allies here on the Hill. And of course we get frequent White House briefings. We get frequent visits

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

published, except that I know that he was a very, very strong supporter of him and I think he did whatever he could both to persuade Kennedy to offer it to him and persuade [Johnson]-- a harder job, really, in view of their relative roles in the Senate-- M

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the Kennedy Administration but had not reached the 1 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

Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that. He was more than interested. You see, even though I had been a Kennedy appointee as director of the Civil Rights Commission, I came to believe that Johnson had a genuine sensitivity and commitment on the civil rights efforts ab initio

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[popular] attitude was so captivated by Kennedy-there were streets named after Kennedy, buildings named after Kennedy-that they never quite got a grip on him [LBJ]. Because of the general French interest in American foreign policy and very little

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, do you recall? R: Yes. Yes. The question was with Texas and the vice president run--it ended up in a Kefauver and Kennedy race--who Texas should be for. Johnson wanted to be for Hubert Humphrey, but he couldn't move the delegation that fast

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

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

on it. So he knew where I stood. Well, now, Hobart ran with the ball on that. He loved it. Because first Hobart-(Interruption) With due respect to all of them--see, my only role in all of this business with Johnson and Kennedy was just one thing: can I sell

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

overwhelmed legislatively by the Democrats most of the time. Of course I think that Kennedy could have been considered pretty much of an anathema to Republicans and there was very little communication between the White House and the Republican members

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