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Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- the Kennedy Administration as well. In the Eisenhower Administration you served as Ambas sador to France for a number of years and then as Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and as Undersecretary of State in the late 1950 1 s. During the period
- thinking about him then as a candidate? H: I hadn't thought of him as a President at that time. had not developed. The main interest He had been through the '56 convention with rJohn F.] Kennedy and he was there--Mr. Johnson was there--with Dick
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- by the press at least as one of his supporters in the State of Ohio. I think it was intimated at least that you might have even changed from Kennedy to Johnson. Were there any details of that episode? H: Actually, I was a committed Kennedy delegate. I
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- it was not that favorable that he was considered in 1960, for instance. candidate for President. He was not considered by our people as the ideal You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy. When he was selected
- First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
- in his office drinking bourbon. He made some kind of a remark like this, "I'll never trade my vote for a gavel." I was asking him about his becoming a vice-presidential candidate under Kennedy. He said he'd never do that; he didn't want to be the vice
- temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
- after that, although he kept in contact with what was going on in Washington until, oh, right up almost to the time of his death in July. M: Yes. You were in the Congress at the time I guess Mr. Kennedy was assassinated and served through
- the President can have a very substantial influence on the program of an agency like this one. M· How does the impact that Mr. Johnson has compare to that of President Kennedy before him? G: Well, I would say there were no marked differences between them
- , and this again is something that is just a historical point, I've always thought that both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Eisenhower suffered a great serious loss in the first nine months of their first terms. When Senator Taft died the Republican Party control