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Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of It was the only Democratic paper in Boston, and everyone thought that Joseph P. Kennedy--Jack Kennedy's father--was going to buy it. So every day I thought that this young Congressman was going to be my publisher's son tomorrow. So necessarily I paid a lot
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jackson -- I -- 3 G: When you came to the Senate you were assigned to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations which Joseph McCarthy chaired. Did you talk to Lyndon Johnson about
  • LBJ as congressman; Joseph McCarthy; bipartisan foreign policy under DDE; Space Committee; statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; LBJ legislative strategy as majority leader; 1955 Minimum Wage Bill; Hell's Canyon; Senator Richard Russell; Senator Dirksen
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Government Official b. Philadelphia, Pa., April 22, 1923. B.S., St. Josaph's College. Philadelphi ~ 1950; M.S·. in Pub. Affairs, ·Princeton, 1952; With iriternat. cliv. U.S. Bureau Budget, 1951-56; legislative asst. to Senator John F. Kennedy, 1956-57; staff
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • convention, his possibi lities as a preside ntial or a vice · preside ntial nominee were remote -and not very practic al. I was not involved in that 1956 campaign. F: You anticipa ted that this was going to be a Kefauver versus Kennedy fight? P: I'm
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the party as head of the delegatio n to the national conventio n. And then in 1960 I helped him at the time he was nominated for Vice President when President Kennedy was rtmning. F: Well, now in 1956, Governor Stevenson had not made it clear whether he
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • I· re d,01_n~J. , ' v:2 :: Tr1ey 1 ro. sit.ting back 9ig9lin~J- J\nd this is HQ'te Javits civil war ~Jo·in~J on in the South; U;ey ri1ove Kennedy in and th2y cut off the South from him and blm1 up the bridge. w~~~ Thi1t 1 s th~y w~nt to do
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in nominating John Kennedy as vice president. F: Texas went for Kennedy over Kefauver, which surprised a lot of . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org '· ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • I went to Coke, and I said; "Coke, nobody's presen­ ted me with your petition." So I satd, "Hell, I want to sign it. Who's got it?" And he said, well, old man Kennedy had it down there. F: Now who's old man Kennedy? L: He was a member
Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and they were trying to figure out, the $tetson,~ompany was, ~~w to get a hat on President Kennedy. So they finally decided that ifthey could make LBJ a hat, since he did ~ • ' ' I \ ' • ­ wear hats and was out on the Ranch some, that maybe Kennedy