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Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of the Eisenhower years. That carne at about the time when I would have been eligible for a more junior position. Then when Kennedy came in in 1960 I was quite available, but nobody ever offered me the kind of a job that I wanted. I was particularly interested

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

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

not effective. This has to be second hand at best, but did you get the feeling that there was more White House concern with head counting under Johnson than there had been under Kennedy who maybe had even more than Eisenhower? In other words

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

about our relationships with student organizations--youth organizations--and certainly others, made in effect a statement that he had known about these things, and that they had gone on since the early days of the Eisenhower Administration

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with an interest right from childhood, I was fortunate to be named by President Eisenhower in 1958 as chairman of the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission. F: Where did the idea for that commission stem from? R: I would suppose, giving due credit

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for Stevenson. I had supported Stevenson" as everybody else had, in '52, and in '56 I was one of his co-chairmen. But I think I might have gladly gone to Harriman on a second ballot because I didn't feel Stevenson could possibly beat Eisenhower. I didn't know

Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a loyal Democrat. Of course, everything I'm saying here, everything that can be said about the period has to be cast against the background of what we thought was a real traitorous thing that Allan Shivers had done in having endorsed Eisenhower, of having

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, one was Eisenhower County, and Senator Aiken made a wry comment about how I was renaming the counties. I think he knew what the map showed, and he knew my personal interest in it and he kindly but humorously kidded me a little bit about renaming

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of anybody--and as I say, I had dealings with a number of people in Washington in high offices, both Republican and Democrat--this was in the Eisenhower years, and I don't think there's a single person that I ever met there that impressed me as a man

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

are on this committee? L: It's rather large, I think it's 130 or something like that. There are--the three cochairmen are rather active--and then probably about ten others-President Eisenhower has been very good, Omar Bradley has been fine, President Truman

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would win. G: Is that the one? I don't remember the content of the speech. originally an Eisenhower statement. That statement was, I think, But I think Senator Russell made a speech during this period in which he said the government of South Vietnam

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

. President Eisenhower had aborted the case in the last week of his Administration and sent it back to the CAB so that the route structure in the Pacific was very much the same as it was at the end of World War II. decided. President Johnson thought the case

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Yes, the lack of power and the lack of action. We always hear about the "new era" when Eisenhower gave Nixon more responsibility and more authority, and the same was supposedly true that Kennedy was to have added onto Johnson's responsibility from

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to that. Ike decided to look more to the Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphrey, remember how powerful he was. I think it's fair to say that before Maurice Stans, Maurice Stans was the last Eisenhower budget director and a very strong guy, the Budget

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was going to be on the tidelands, and then announced Texas could not support him. But Johnson stayed with the Stevenson camp and the regular Democratic machinery. The result of that election, of course, was Eisenhower's victory and a Republican victory

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that occupied one corner near his desk. He had the presidential papers in the bookcases surrounding--they were kind of built into the walls of the Oval Room, that is, the papers of Truman and Eisenhower and Kennedy. Now instead of the presidential papers

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

business. The clause in the contract, I mean there was a clause that was required to be inserted in all government contracts. If you compared the clause that was used in the Eisenhower Administration with the clause that was used in the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, then they have to come along and say "But all is not lost.We have a solution." That's the format that has always been used. Guys like Eisenhower who philosophized about the way "things are pretty good and we don't really have to get too worked up"--they don't

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the President's health and an arrangement whereby if he were disabled, either because of a heart attack or something, then McCormack would step in and take over the duties temporarily, I guess relating to an agreement that Nixon and Eisenhower had worked out. Carl

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was appointed by Eisenhower to the Interstate Commerce Commission and went to Washington and stayed up there. He [Everett Hutchinson] is dead now, but Elizabeth Hutchinson still comes to a lot of different functions. And they were my classmates, my dear friends

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

you recall an example of this kind of--? R: Well, the best example was landing in an air field in Boise, Idaho, after the Walter Jenkins case had broken. And in talking to the press he made some remark about President Eisenhower having had

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/loh/oh Shriver -- V -- 11 if you said to Eisenhower, "Here are three million men. Use them in Europe." Well, he decides he's going to attack [a] Normandy beach at a certain time with two million of those men. He doesn't distribute them all down

Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

years-and not only in the past eight years--this was true of previous administrations as well . It was true in the Eisenhower administration that people often moved � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

than it polled in 1952, and everybody assumed that was the year of record voting--the year Eisenhower beat Stevenson. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the staff. There was no justification for having an agricultural economist as a member of the council, even though that had been the tradition under Eisenhower and Truman, I guess. F: Did the President ever voice the opinion that in one sense agriculture

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these lost youngsters off welfare, out of detention homes, out of dead-end situations, and make them employable.McElroy's response was, "Well, I've heard from President Eisenhower and others that this is a boondoggle, so that's good enough for me

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for Eisenhower, of course, but also this was one of the counties for Willkie, as I recall, when he ran in 1940, and also [for] the man from Kansas--what is his name? F: Landon . B: Landon . I think Tulsa County, you will find, was one of those for Landon

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

the ice for them, made them feel at home . F: Then, President Eisenhower named you the Ambassador to Ecuador, a year or so before he went out of office . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but it was something that the White House wanted done . teresting . I said, "llell, this is in You've been around here a lot longer than I have . did he do that?" Tell me, when He said, "Well, no president has made any pronouncement on this since Eisenhower made

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this. But they didn't get around, by any means, to all the industry. And that was about it. No rate regulation, virtually. G: Would you attribute this to simply a more laissez-faire attitude on behalf of the Eisenhower Administration? Or did it go back even before

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

should come out in the area. M: Did he specifically indicate that he wanted you to go easy on President Eisenhower, perhaps? V: No. M: Just the bipartisan charge would have taken care of that? V: That's correct. M: When you did undertake