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  • the time schedule was, and he said that I should be out at Kennedy by no later than four o'clock; that they were going to have a plane there; that Luke Battle would be flying up to fill me in on the latest information; and that I would have a small staff
  • Jacob•en worked up all these a.nawera. Don't yuu have them? HARDESTY: l have all of tboae. JOHNSON: Who told ua to get on Air Force 1, Ken O'Donnell, wa•n't it? HARDESTY: Ken O'Donnell. JOHNSON: I ta.lk.ed to Kennedy and he called me back and I
  • . W: Yes, though President Kennedy had rather deliberately tried to bring i.n a new group that was post-New Deal. G: We kind of felt estranged from the Kennedy group. W: To some extent, though I happened to serve on a Kennedy task force and 1 had
  • to the Chinese, take that first step that needs to be taken if one is to walk a thousand miles, a la Jack Kennedy. [We] proposed over and over again that we exchange newsmen, that we exchange scholars, that we don't exchange if that's their wish, that they send
  • the Pentagon bought, in a sense, the McNamara package? C: The military had not. They went along because McNamara was a very strong Secretary of Defense and backed up by strong Presidents. First in President Kennedy and in President Johnson, and they really
  • probably brought up to a point, aside fro::! the usual afvising one does, when Mr. Kennedy appointed me to serve on an advisory panel or cormnittee on educ.:J.tion after his election anG prior to his assu:nption of office. M: You didn't campaign for him
  • in the Army you had no connection with the federal government? L: No, that's not correct. In 1961, the first year of the Kennedy administration, I did some work as a consultant for the Office of the Under Secretary of Transportation in the Department
  • concluded we had only one or two days to wrap up conference reports, and I didn't see any chance of a divisive issue where my vote would be necessary or a record vote. So I walked by and I sat down by Lyndon and I said, "Lyndon, Kennedy's going
  • Proxmire of Wisconsin were friends of LBJ while he was Majority Leader; LBJ lost Southern votes with the Civil Rights Act of 1957; LBJ’s presidential ambitions were evident in 1959; advised by friends to avoid the VP offer; Kennedy "Irish Mafia" rivalry
  • : In 1956 you had that horse race between young John Kennedy and Estes Kefauver for the vice presidency, and Johnson shook a lot of people by taking Texas for Kennedy instead of for Kefauver. Were you privy at all to his thinking or strategy in this, or do
  • about--I presume before 1960 you-did not know- the Johnsons . the Kennedy's prior to that? Did you have anything to do with 0: No, I didn't F: So you come into this part of service in the 1960's with John F . I didn't know either one . Kennedy
  • , Symington speaking on air power, Kennedy speaking on civil rights, and somebody else speaking on labor--Humphrey maybe. I don't remember how they lined up. And here's Johnson speaking on 20 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ
  • both of us had been nominated by President Kennedy before the assassination and gone through and been submitted to the Senate from the relevant committee, and our appointments were actually confirmed by the Senate, these two appointments, at 1 :00
  • to France during the entire time Mr. Johnson had been President? % Yes, I was appointed by president Kennedy to France, and I got there in 2 F W R E H U 1962, and I was happily ensconced there, perfectly prepared and willing indeed to spend the rest
  • re:ponsibility to make all of the arrangements lvith regard to I Has here. the reception at the Governor's Hansion. You'll recall that the Texas trip that President Kennedy and Pre::ident Johnson Here making started in San Antonio and ,.;ent to Hous ton
  • and concern for Governor Connally’s health; the Yarborough/Connally split; fund-raising in Texas for 1964; planning the trip for JFK and LBJ to Texas; Kennedy popularity in Texas; what was done with the money from the cancelled Austin dinner 11/22/63; guest
  • with good grace just as Richard Nixon did in 1960 when he probably had some grounds to make a loud cry--I suspect that Nixon wouldn't be president today if he had made a fuss about the Kennedy election in 1960. Politically, you've got to learn to be a good
  • called the National Women's Committee for Civil Rights, at the request of President Kennedy I served as the co-chairman with Mildred McAfee Horton in this effort to secure LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org " ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • thing that could look like a possibility of defeating Kefauver, and that was to get behind Jack Kennedy. So Johnson got the Texas delegation behind Jack Kennedy, which could not have been done if there had not been the first vote for Gore. One
  • . Where did you first get in President Johnson's orbit? H: I was a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, appointed in September of 1962, and a year later, while I was in Brussels, I got a telegram from President Kennedy saying that he
  • . I think I could call up and talk to Buddy Bishop and Whitten and so on and if I needed to talk to Jamie--talk to Jamie. But there is a story--a lot of this is just--this is a story I've heard by word of mouth. Some guy back before the Kennedy/Johnson
  • secretary for international programs in the Department of Agriculture; Freeman's and John Schnittker's loyalties to LBJ and John F. Kennedy; White House Fellow Mike Walsh; Robertson's dealings with Resurrection City; Jose Williams; Fannie Lou Hamer; progress
  • be not But again I could say that about Jack Kennedy or -F: That's just par for the course. C: Nixon and everybody else. Nixon, I remember when he was placed on the old Un-American Activities Committee. As a matter of fact, I told him since he's been
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Curtis -- I -- 22 when Jack Kennedy was shot. witness. He got the word, but he
  • Kennedy was assassinated. I, with President Kennedy's complete support, had gone to Senator Pastore to get the legislation. And indeed, I believe that Jack Kennedy interceded with Senator Pastore on that legislation. Oren Harris, if I'm not mistaken
  • should go on. Whether it was a right decision or wrong decision, I don't think that any Republican could have won in '64 regardless. F: In retrospect, or maybe even then, did you get the feeling that Kennedy would have been a more vulnerable candidate
  • anybody else could really bring him anything, particularly. I wasn't even sure that Gene could, but I wouldn't have sworn that anybody could. Now he started out by ruling out certain people. And there was no doubt whatsoever that Bobby Kennedy
  • for a better package. There was a lot of discussion and speculation about the vice presidential business during the convention. I was not in on any of those negotiations except I had the misfortune of being the fellow to tell Jack Kennedy that he wasn't
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Democratic political campaigns leading to 1956 Convention; Central High School integration; 1960 Democratic Convention and Kennedy-Johnson nomination; relations with LBJ as VP; ghost writing for Lady
  • , in which there were discussions about [space]. But this was after Kennedy was in the White House, and Lyndon at that time was chairing a [space] committee, and he had Senator Bob Kerr there, I believe, and a couple of White House people, somebody from NASA
  • the Kennedy election that I went on the Ways and Means Committee. M: Then you were a member of that committee until you retired. T: '66, that's right. M: And then after this--you are now, I suppose, a consultant? T: Well, at the moment, I'm director
  • and an organization going and so forth, Kennedy had the thing too well sewed up, and they always felt they started too late. thinking about it far enough in advance. stick his neck out? Was he Could he not bring himself to Was he too busy with government business
  • . Whether it was for President Eisenhower, President Kennedy or President Johnson, they work late, and it's easier for them to get in and get a haircut by having somebody come in. If they went out to get a haircut it would take them an hour, an hour
  • of things that you would have been testifying before . Did you take any role at all in the 1960 election campaign beyond just an ordinary citizen? B: The 1960 election campaign? F: That's the one between Nixon and Kennedy, with Johnson of course tagging
  • , although I had taught swimming, I didn't know how to swim myself. And this was about the time the Bobby Kennedy parties were having everybody tossed in the pool. So Tom Boggs said that he was going to toss me in the pool and watch me drown in front
  • . A commitment that had been made by the Democratic Party and by us in the Kennedy-Johnson period had not been fulfilled. Go back to the five-vote margin to expand the Rules Committee. There was further change in procedure in subsequent years, but he moved from
  • remembe r. Oh, he talked a little bit about the differences between Kennedy and himself. He was very sensitive about the Kennedy's silver spoon background and very uneasy, I think, about his own simpler origins. Though actually I think he exaggerated
  • ; Medicare; Helen Taussig; Advisory Council on Public Welfare Task Force on Income Maintenance (Heineman Commission); Advisory Commission on Status of Women; Esther Peterson; LBJ fixed associations between Wicky/Cohen/Social Security; Medicare; Mrs. Kennedy
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
  • 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
  • of the Budget, was an old friend and neighbor. President Kennedy in April 1963 had asked the Council of Economic Advisors for a report on what ought to be done about poverty. [I heard Roger Wilkins say on the radio yesterday that Kennedy's request came out
  • Opportunity (OEO); Robert Kennedy's and the Justice Department's involvement in drafting bills for community action programs; the Bureau of the Budget's response to CAP; White House support for community action; the assumption that CAP would work within local
  • be jury trials, or whether there would be judge trials, and whether or not contempt of court would be civil or criminal. We took the hard line, the liberals, namely the criminal contempt for violations and no jury trial. It was here where Jack Kennedy made
  • about 1960? Did you go to the convention in Los Angeles as a Stevenson supporter still? H: No, I did not. M: You had become a, what, Kennedy [supporter] at that time, or Johnson? H: Frankly, in 1960 Senator Sparkman was up for re-election
  • -- I -- 4 establishment of the National Library of Medicine, which is a direct outgrowth of this study. This was adopted by the Congress; Senators Hill and Kennedy joined together to put in a bill to establish the National Library of Medicine