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Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Kennedy had me there on his ghetto housing bill that he proposed around 1966 or 1967. B: That would be Senator Robert Kennedy. A: Senator Robert Kennedy. And I became, more or less, a pretty con- stant visitor to Washington, being a big supporter
  • Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT C. WEAVER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Robert C. Weaver
  • LBJ when NYA set up; John Corson; Frank Horne; reaction to VP LBJ’s approach to civil rights; comparison of JFK and LBJ’s style; LBJ’s knowledge of housing; 1964 and 1965 urban task forces; first acquaintance with Robert Wood; role in formation of HUD
  • Weaver, Robert Clifton, 1907-1997
  • Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert C. Weaver
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thing that concerned me was I couldn't really envision anybody else lead~~3 this country as Presidc':t. None of the people that \'icre on the scene, Hhich of course at that tir.:c included Senator Robert Kcnr.cdy and Vice President Humphrey-I had net
  • impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/5/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Robert Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles; LBJ discusses gun control with Senator Mike Mansfield; LBJ calls Senators Dirksen & Aiken about agriculture; Lady Bird cancels appointments; Lady Bird works on telegrams for Rose & Ethel Kennedy; LBJ makes
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to overstate my national I began \vorking in national campaigns, as I recall, in 1956, involvement. being head of the Speakers' Bureau in Southern California for Adlai Stevenson. I had a role in John Kennedy's campaign in 1960, and a minor role
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the District." Kennedy. Charlie Horsky had been created for that job under President Steve Pollak was there for Johnson. Steve Pollak did leave very quickly after we were nominated and appointed. M: What's the significance of that? F: The significance