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Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 158. effective relationship with President Eisenhower. . ~ He had a very And then David Bell, Kermit Gordon, Charlie Schultze and I worked with, and I think had quite effective relationships with President Kennedy and President Johnson. The answer
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rather quiet days during the Eisenhower Administration. making speeches throughout the COtmtry. He hadn't been out too much His campaign for the nomination LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --Senator Johnson go? M: In the fall of 1955, I was playing golf one day, on a Sunday. Governor Stevenson called me off the golf course [and] said that President Eisenhower had had a heart attack, and the press was LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson before you came into the White House? H: No, sir, I didn't run into him until I came down to Washington with President Eisenhower, which would have been in January of 1953. F: Right. How soon did you become aware of him? Do you have any clear
  • Staff officer of Eisenhower; treated as family by Ike; met LBJ in 1953; became LBJ’s close friend, politically and socially; Tidelands Bill; foreign aid; Ike got 83% of legislation through Congress; good political leader; knew intimately government
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • effective work done now is Mansfield is so far in the other direction from Johnson. Mansfield is more of a gentlemanly man than Johnson ever thought of being, but Johnson got things done. F: Without getting into the pros and cons of the Eisenhower
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 2 inception in 1957, so that means you served through now four presidents. H: That's right, all four. M: Did Mr. Johnson use the Civil Rights Commission any differently from either President Eisenhower or Kennedy, or for that matter
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • went to Washington to advise President Eisenhower that we should be aggressive about meeting the challenge of Sputnik rather than LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , extend to the White House? W: Hhy, yes, of course it was of concern. F: Did you have any opportunity to observe Mr. Eisenhower's hand in the committee or not? Or did he seem to leave it alone? W: As far as I know, he left it alone. F: They had
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the history of the United States--no parallel in the history of any other President. When you figure the amount of 1egislation--just take education, federal aid to education! practically nil. Under the Eisenhower Administration, it was I think it went up