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Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in October of ' 6 0 . The man he had named previously, who had formerly been District Commissioner, died before reaching Quito, and so I was the next one chosen. F: I don't want to pre-empt what people working on John F. Kennedy might ask you sometime
  • Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the SEC in the Johnson presidency as compared to earlier presidencies? C: No, I don't think so. First of all, I can't speak about relationships of earlier administrations--with the possible exception of the Kennedy Administration--and members
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Turkey." However, '~ow, doggone, Not the bases, but the Jupiter missiles, I think--Jupiter or Thor that we had in Turkey. Kennedy put real heat on on that, and they were moved out shortly thereafter. F: When you said the President, you meant
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that President Johnson continued the same general advisory team that President Kennedy had and that you've got the sort of continuity that you'd have with keeping on the same team. Another is that Johnson in effect has sabotaged the Kennedy approach to foreign
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Shriver's selection? Y: No. No, again, as I think I spelled out in that article of mine you've got ["The Beginnings of OEO"], I was aware of the fact that there was a task force under Kennedy. task forces. I guess there were several I was vaguely
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and he would be well placed to be there early. It may have been it had something to do with some military contractors, because we know that during the Kennedy years, when Johnson was vice president, that Houston was chosen to be the space center, and I
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and finally when Kennedy accepted him as vice president, we all were very reluctant and very fearful that he was going to be one of the worst racists that we ever had up there. F: Right. E: I think rightfully so, because he had never done anything
  • Evers' friendship with LBJ as VP and President; LBJ as Chairman of Equal Employment Commission for JFK; LBJ and Louis Martin at meeting of black leaders; Voters' Rights Bill signed into law; Bobby Kennedy's run for presidency; Senator James Eastland
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • the most work in was when he was running on the ticket with President Johnson for vice president. B: With Kennedy? G: (Laughter) With Kennedy, yes, for vice president. He was the vice presidential nominee, and Mrs. Edward Clark and I were co-chairmen
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson's reaction when she as first lady was compared to other first ladies? I remember seeing in the press a lot of comparisons of Mrs. Johnson and, say, Mrs. Roosevelt, and most of all, Mrs. Kennedy. A: It's very hard for any first lady to be compared
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an acknowledgement from the White House within twenty-four hours. That had been the rule through Kennedy and we carried on through Johnson. [They got] at least an acknowledgement signed by Larry, which I signed. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Attorney General Robert Kennedy being the brother of the President that, even more than usual, the Office of Legal Counsel was called upon by White House folks in legal matters in which the White House cared about a very great deal. Therefore, it seemed
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • step, and then got into private banking, only at the beginning of 1965. i1: How di d you happen to be sel ected as an under secretary of the treasury in 1961? R: I think that was the result of the effort the group with President Kennedy were making
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to talk about how far we would go when the matter of going to the moon was concerned. Kennedy about going to the I felt that the statement of President mo~n was more to startle the public. than anything else, like Sputnik was, that going to the moon
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been in the Senate there's no question Lyndon Johnson would have been nominated over Jack Kennedy. But Lyndon just didn't fully understand the political realities of that. He thought that by having support of the senators and by working on the floor
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and promoting Mr. Johnson wherever they could. Sort of advance men, as we called them. F: When did you first learn that he had been offered and had accepted the vice presidential nomination by Mr. Kennedy? P: It was, of course, speculated in the newspapers
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know if this is on the record. One morning Price Daniel--he was governor then--invited me over there to a breakfast for Jack Kennedy. He was running for president you know. I wasn't going to go. I said, "Oh hell, that's just a lot of politicians
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Kennedy as a supporter of your health programs? M: We were very good friends so he knew what I was--yes. But he never--we had to make the big push in the Senate to get extra money always because, of course, they were always trying to do their budget. G
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the way up to the Kennedy Administration. We found out that if they took away our tax exemption, it would be two years before we could litigate it--complete the litigation. With a reserve fund of about twenty or thirty thousand dollars, we couldn't take
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the regulatory process was all about . maybe I had been able to fool some people . I guess Anyway, I was appointed November 16, and I served as a board member until February 10, I think, 1961, at which time President Kennedy designated me as chairman
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of feeling, Mr. Vann Kennedy, who was then here with the United Press, was secretary of the [State Democratic Executive] Committee, I asked Mr. Kennedy to take those certificates as they came in--a lot of them came to me and I forwarded them to him
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of these same lands for timber or for grass and so on. by President Kennedy in a general sense. So the Bureau was established In actuality it was established not by executive order of the President, but by Secretarial Order of Secretary Udall. He did
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • House in Palm Beach, Florida, where he was to meet with President Kennedy and members of the President's Cabinet, as well as leaders of Congress, prior to the opening of Congress, which was scheduled sometime the 8th or 9th of January, as I recall
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Is that correct? B: That is correct. M: And you were appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture by President Kennedy in 1962. B: Right. Having been previously appointed director of Agricultural Credit on Inauguration day. M: Right
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this thing, your chronology here, and I'll tell you things that come to mind. On page 2, January 8, Johnson put Kennedy on the Foreign Relations Committee, passing over [Estes] Kefauver who complained about it. Johnson and Kefauver were just oil and water
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to President Johnson on the day or the day after the death of President Kennedy that either we had to get in there or the South Vietnamese were going to collapse and that this was the fact. And the decision in effect was made at that time subjectively
Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Corporation also. So I was appointed by Secretary Freeman and by President Kennedy, and took office the same day that Secretary Freeman took office. B: So I've been here ever since. Sir, is it usual for a career man, such as yourself, to be named
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • any reasons--to particularly have any talks about it. He was for it and so was 1. You see when President Kennedy died and the Vice-President became President. I was President Pro-Tern of the Senate until there was a new election. I went down
Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : In the beginning of 1963 I headed a mission to Bolivia for the Bureau of the BU9get as a special consultant. Then, in the late spring of '63, I headed a mission for President Kennedy to the United States Trust Territory in the Pacific Islands, and that occupied
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • adjustments. The Congress had been very jealous and zealous in main- taining control over the rates of pay of a large portion of the federal employees. Starting in the Kennedy Administration there was an effort to achieve a higher degree of rationality
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was the Vice President, presiding on occasion, and [there were] Symington and Kennedy and Humphrey. And as far as basic capability was concerned--at least in the legislative context--there was no question, he was just head and shoulders above them all. He
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • miss opportunities. "What was behind the emphasis on the army's special forces in the Kennedy Administration? Any perceived contradiction between the apparent shift of mission for special forces from guerrilla fighters to counterguerrilla operatives?" I
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on? C: Right, the first . G: Okay . Do you recall how the Vice President was chosen to go on that trip, any insight there? C: I think that was very early in the Kennedy Administration, I forget exactly what month . G: April . C: April . G
  • the Kennedy family
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy wanted the vice president to represent him, right? C: Right at the independence of an African Republic--Senegal. dent asked me to go along. of two or three people. And the Presi­ We took a plane and a congressional delegation I remember
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And the Catholics are a union all their own. She got thousands-­ literally thousands--of postcards and letters welcoming her to the club. We got very few against. I think that, one, Kennedy's election as a Catholic made it safe for anybody in any religion
  • Jenkins; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries; break between Moyers and LBJ; George Christian; Lady Bird as a business manager; LBJ’s love of giving gifts; communication between Lady Bird and Jackie Kennedy.
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did you have any relationship at all with the Vice President during this period when you first became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? L: He appeared at some of the meetings that we had, but remember when President Kennedy came in, the organization
  • commitment to Vietnam; ideas on how the war should have been conducted; discussion of apparent consensus in Washington that JFK would drop LBJ from the ticket; LBJ’s fear of escalation during the war; LBJ’s decision to retain the “Kennedy crowd” after his
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • would be glad to see it happen. There will be some discontent. There's still a small so-called China lobby, I suppose, but it's of no consequence and was not during the Kennedy and Johnson years.The issues really turned on whether or not we were prepared
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • perhaps in an indirect way, but after the election of 1960, after the election of President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson, did the Civil Rights Movement more or less deliberately and consciously decide that now the time has come to press harder
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • temper and tactics; 1960 Kennedy/Johnson campaign; Hofheinz’ private bill regarding Yorktown Corporation; LBJ’s jokes; 1960 Democratic Convention and LBJ’s acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; assignments LBJ offered James.
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • political campaigns. Johnson's views on everything. I didn't square with Senator I certainly didn't with President Kennedy's, but I felt myself in a position to support the Democratic ticket and I felt very strongly about it. I sought an opportunity