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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Then it was shortly after that we started getting the responses of civil turmoil, and I can't remember whether it was that night or the next night where things erupted in Washington. I remember that [Joseph] Califano set up sort of a command post, I believe in his
  • Kennedy; LBJ’s meetings with potential 1968 candidates; the 1969 transition; LBJ/Nixon relationship; LBJ’s relationship with governors, including Connally; what happened to the LBJ staff after LBJ left office; George Reedy; RFK’s death; LBJ’s opinion
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • trusted him. Marianne Means, I never did figure out how she made the transition from Kennedy to Johnson, except she is pretty and she is very quick-witted. He appreciated that in women and she became one of the favorites. I think he figured he had enough
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to transpire. One of our chief functions on that particular trip was to raise a crowd, because we felt it was important that Lyndon Johnson get as good a reception as John Kennedy did. We found out various ways in which the Kennedy assistants had raised a crowd