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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was going to bring about some violence. I think I heard him express it about King, but I know I've heard him express it about Bobby Kennedy. The way he was going into the crowds and all, he was really just asking to get shot and what have you. As far as 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
Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • not be anticipated. lb traced development of the democratic process in Vietnam, said when Geno Ky took second-place on the Thieu­ 1
Folder, "[April 2, 1968 - 8:42 a.m. Congressional Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • it and our Members (the Democrats) don't want to take this away from him. The group asked if they could discuss politics briefly. The President replied that he · is tired of begging anyone for anything. I had a partnership with Jack Kennedy and when he died I
Folder, "[Briefing Papers for] September 4, 1968 National Security Council Mtg," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • •uTHE SECURITY AND FREEDOM OF BERLIN, A COMMITMENT WHICH WAS DEMONSTRATED IN 19481 WHICH · ~AS BEEN REITERATED BY PRESIDENTS EISENHOWER AND KENNEDY AND WHICH ' IS AS ' FIRM AND EXPLICIT TODAY AS rr WAS WHEN IT " WAS MADE· . TH SHOULD BE KNOWN IN BERLIN
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
Folder, "[Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • in our national policy. In the seven years prior to the Kennedy-Johnson Administra­ • tions, the United States suffered three recessions. A large proportion o! our industrial plant went unused, and our national production grew ..... at a rate o! only
Folder, "[November 2, 1967 - Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • ·of the measures of the success that history will look very f avorably upon is that both P r esidents Kennedy and Johnson didn't wait fo r public opinion to catch up with them. lrhey went ahead with what was right, and because of that the war is a success