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Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Eisenhower had Sherman Adams, Harry Truman had General Vaughan, and Kennedy had Bobby Kennedy. These were their lightning rods. They were the bastards. The President was always the good guy, and when anything would happen, they would say, "Well, it's

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

he became president, in later years, kind of like Eisenhower. Except he was always hipped on the subject of getting people to church on Sunday, especially Catholics. When Sally would spend the night with Lynda, he'd have her come and-0: Walter

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

--at least the public sector of it--is by exercising political influence in one way or another. Actually, my father has only become active in politics--at least in the foreground, let's say--in recent years. He went under President Eisenhower. He

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

president would be a lousy press secretary for another. This is little understood. Jim Hagerty was the perfect press secretary for Ike Eisenhower. He wouldn't have lasted two days with LBJ. I would say that the perfect press secretary for LBJ was George

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on several projects for President Kennedy. In the mid-fifties I had also come down and met President Eisenhower on an anti-inflation program that the Advertising Council was running. But I found being one of fifteen young men seated in two rows

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of President Eisenhower's farewell reference to the military ind us trial complex! Nobody knew of its importance at the time of its delivery, although some might have prized the prominence it has today. Think also of the actual positioning of President

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a couple of phone calls during this time, probably within a week or two, that came out of nowhere. There was a call from Jim Hagerty, who had been Eisenhower's press secretary and then held a senior position at ABC Television. He said that there was a need

Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Works Committee on the Federal Aid Highway Bill. This was the time when the Interstate System was being proposed. Senator Gore was one of the principal. F: This was during the Eisenhower Administration. C: When President Johnson was the Majority

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Simbel; Cyprus issue; CENTO; Eisenhower Doctrine; Vietnam; India-Pakistan War; LBJ's speech for advice on foreign policy matters and his diplomatic performances; Richard Rovere; John Leocacos; The Establishment; personal and private papers

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

[For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the 1299th, the squadron that I was in, was so-called the state side. We were stationed at Bolling and at that time we were flying C-131s and they had some U-4s and they had a helicopter because of Eisenhower, a previous president. The other squadron, the so

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

sense, and so therefore ~1e were not happy with the kind of leaders hip they were giv i ng in the United States Senate. He thought they were overly cooperative 1·1ith President Eisenhower and that they ~1ere not--this really goes to the Democra

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. As an intelligence man I would like you to comment on that statement. M: I'm going to take you back to how we got in this mess to begin with, if I may, and this is Charlie Morris' version. G: By all means. M: Of course, we, under Eisenhower I believe

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in these meetings to make them meaningful and worthwhile.And indeed they were. For example, there is a comment, "We need material on the record of the Eisenhower-Nixon years." And Orville Freeman responds, "We have it in great detail. I'm making it immediately

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)