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Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , which [John F.] Kennedy did not have, of the Chiefs of Staff as much and of the military establishment as such. B: He generally respected it? K: Yes, I think he did. B: To move on. I think he did, and does. Again, you say in your Memoirs
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • insights as to the depth of the Texas political problem that brought Mr. Kennedy there, or did you think this was just another fund raising swing? R: No. We were all aware before we left Washington that the President and Vice President :hought they were
  • Reasons for JFK’s 11/63 trip to Texas; detailed description of the day of the assassination, the motorcade, assassination, hospital, swearing-in; and flight back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s and Kennedy staff’s behavior following the assassination
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , the later one? F: No, I attended the national convention in Chicago in 1960 when Kennedy was nominated. That's the only one I ever attended. I never LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the rather competitive and sometimes heated dialogue with John Kennedy, and the fact that I thought that Lyndon Johnson, himself, would feel that he had a more powerful and persuasive role to play as the Senate leader, and that this in fact would probably
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • never gotten published) but which if the library wants, it can have. critical points in decision-making. It was my last effort to think out these new Following that, the Kennedy brain trust emerged and those details, I think I have set down on record
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • after Johnson and Rayburn 8 The transition from Kennedy to Johnson as President LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Oral History Collection Tape Index
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the President wanted to see me. And when I went in to see the President he had gone into that little-bitty office that had once been a bathroom, but President Kennedy converted into a very small relaxation room. As Jack and I went down the corridor toward
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the fields of social welfare. My impression is that President Johnson was looking for a tag to describe his major legislative accomplishments, purposes, to correspond to Kennedy's New Frontier. My re~ollection is that the phrase Great Society came out
Folder, "[January-March 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • spent $9. 5 billion on poverty in his last year, Kennedy $12. 5 billion, and Johnson $28 billion. Manpower training cost from 3 to 4 to 12 billion in the same period. ) The President: It is not right to say that we are not moving fast enough because
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , to a certain extent? C: I think the election of President Kennedy in 1960 set the kind of climate which would allow in 1961 a young man like me, relatively LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • concerned me greatly because I don't think that it's necessary to have uniform thinking in any political party. I felt that the reason that Kennedy and Johnson had so much difficulty carrying Texas after Jack Kennedy had drafted Lyndon to be his running mate
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Clinton is a career civil servant who worked during the Kennedy Administration for Ralph Dungan. He's now the director of housing of the new Communities Program for the Department of Hous ing and Urban Development. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Kennedy Administration, Goodwin was an assistant to Assistant Secretary Martin, who was in charge of Latin America. First he was in the White House. He had run into a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
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, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as the Defense Department representative and I used to do a lot of the telephone business with the then-Vice President. M: He did take an active interest in that? Y: Yes. M: It wasn't just a title that [John F.] Kennedy assigned him? Y: Oh, no. No, he
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was as a politician, and I thought that he was the best bet, would make the best candidate for president, and when he took the vice preSidential nomination after Nr. Kennedy received the nomination, I was greatly disappointed. That was one of the reasons that I di dn
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • majority leader. I can recall in 1959 I was active in connection with the labor legislation that ultimately became known as the Landrum-Griffin Act. between the House and the Senate. We had a long conference John Kennedy was the chairman of the Senate
Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it's going to be up to us to do it. G: Was there any difference between the way the administration's legislative liaison operation worked under Presidents Johnson and [John F.] Kennedy? Had it changed? P: It became a lot more--it had changed
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gradually took a very benevolent view toward DSG. Of course, after the 1960 election when Jack Kennedy was elected president, the relationships became much more close. In fact, if there had not been a close working relationship between the Speaker
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the same trip that Kennedy made in 1960, and I was with him on that trip. It was a great trip. and it did a lot of good. I honestly believe that if Humphrey had come through . . . I don't mean [to criticize] him personally. I don't think [he.made
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • imagine Kennedy told him that he could . G : Do you think that he felt that his heart was a factor, and maybe that if he continued as majority leader he might have health problems? B: He didn't talk about it . G: Back to the presidency now . You