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  • it. This was a great psychological defeat for him besides being a great military defeat. Also, on that trip to the West Coast with President Johnson, I had an opportunity to go with him to see President Eisenhower. President Eisenhower on the Vietnam situation as I
  • it. I think the President was abused some by the press, but I think this is the expectation. I think any- one who will sit in that office can expect to be abused. You look at history; they always have been. Eisenhower is the only one that I know
  • Goodfellow. In the wind-up, Douglas wanted to do something for the Majority Leader of the Senate who had done a lot of things for him in the Eisenhower Administration. Thet'lajority Leader told him, III want a mission put on that field that will grow
  • to the President, has beginning with President Eisenhower--had done most of the clearing 'of the personal items of President Kennedy for the family. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • . While I have voted against a lot of civil rights legislation, I certainly have not held to any theory that we shouldn't have fairness for all of our people. F: Going back to 1952, Eisenhower carried Texas, as you know, and [Adlai] Stevenson lost
  • of the Eisenhower victory. of his own that year. }1: Senator Johnson did not have a campaign Did he help you any in your campaign? I He came out here,' and he made a speech down at Yuma, but that was a year that couldn't anyone help you very much. F: Just got
  • had been the president and he wasn't very popular. Eisenhower had great appeal in Utah. G: Now you ran successfully for the Senate in 1958. M: Yes. G: At what time did he learn about your candidacy? M: Oh, I think he learned early because
  • , I don't think to me privately but to small groups of us, that one of the first things that he did was call in General Eisenhower and had a very detailed discussion with him of General Eisenhower's judgment LBJ Presidential Library http
  • --it was Eisenhower, wasn't it, that had his heart attack when LBJ had his heart attack? Anyway, this majority leader--I'll think of his name as soon as you leave here--he wanted to move Fort Hood from Texas to Louisiana because those farmers--well, whoever
  • . John recommended Jim Gaither, whose father incidentally was the author of the Gaither Report of the Eisenhower years, the report dealing with national security. Jim was added to our staff in August of 1966, I believe, dealing primarily in the poverty
  • into politics? B : Yes . In '56 I ran for a four-year term on the commission--statewide--and was elected . I stayed there till November of '59 when I was appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board by President Eisenhower . ably know ,is a The CAB, as you
  • that it was very important in 1960 to elect a Democratic president. I was deeply opposed to Nixon and to what had seemed at that time to me to be a do-nothing Eisenhower Administration. I wanted to do anything and everything possible to bring the Democrats
  • and certainly made it more valuable and brought out things in the White House that had been somewhat passed over. M: I have read that Mrs. Eisenhower did not particularly show off the White House to members of Congress, whereas Mrs. Kennedy did. Is this true
  • in the West on one slogan, that he was going to end the no new starts policy. Well, the no new starts meant no new dams. That wasn't exactly the Eisenhower Administration's policy. They were for slowing it down. F: That Colorado series, like Turaconti
  • , the fact that you have two fairly common na..-,es like Kennedy and Johnson? W: I don 1 t think there 1 s any significance whatsoever. F: I mean, obviously if I use the name Eisenhower in something, we know this, but so many people are named Kennedy
  • , which I wish every American could have, of spending an hour With General Eisenhower at Frankfurt, and almost another hour thereafter with General Bedell Smith, Chief of statt - to General Eisenhower. ot all the .Ambassadors that we have ever had who
  • factor, and it wa:-.a very int resting one. It was that Eisenhower. who was th President. was a man 1hat in a peculiar ,ort of way was on the wrong tidet. After all. hi~ entire career had been managed under Democratic presidents. and Ialthough! he
  • Issue Number XLIV December 15, 1988 Symposium Probes Urban Problems During the Johnson Administration, three presidential commissions­ known as the (Nicholas) Katzen­ bach, (Robert) Kerner and (Milton) Eisenhower Commissions-threw a glaring
  • is the chair of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which reviewed the report. The President's Foreign Intelli­ gence Advisory Board, familiarly known by the acronym PFIAB, or "Piffy-ab," was begun during th Eisenhower Administration
  • , Saul Haas, Joseph D. Erich Leinsdorf, John D. Rockefeller, Carl Sanders, FRank E. Schooley, Jack Valenti, S, Eisenhower, James R. Killian, Jr. VHITE HOUSE date DENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON Feb. 17. 1968 DIARY President began his day at (Place). Day
  • remember now who they were. But he went up there and he tried to relax, and he'd walk up and down the roads and take some of us with him walking. He'd sit and look out the window at the Eisenhower golf course at Camp David. I could tell he was greatly
  • to that, to innovate. F: Mr. Eisenhower, as President, tried to put through an aid-to-education bill without success. Mr. Kennedy tried, too. Why do you think that it finally came through then under Mr. Johnson? D: Well, you see that fear that I alluded
  • /show/loh/oh Sharon Francis -- Interview IV -- 9 Mamie Eisenhower, clearly express their own personality, their own preferences for how they spent their time. While that is the dominant determinant of what a first lady is, Mrs. Johnson, in addition
  • alliance began with Laurance's involvement with the 1965 White House Conference on Natural Beauty. When Eisenhower was president he appointed the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission, and appointed 11 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • structure in South Vietnam. \ Accordingly, President Eisenhower ift December 1954 made the ! decision to extend substantial economic assistance to South Vietnam. In so doing, he stated our basic |ixEkx purposes in terms that still apply* (from Eisenhower
  • to the LBJ Library; meeting about script for West Hall filming; bridge game with Lynda Robb; Lady Bird mentions headlines; President Eisenhower is critically ill
  • -- White House 6. Talk t o Eisenhower. Honolulu Communique. 7. Letter to Kosygin. Clifford a nd Rusk draft it. 8. Letter to Wilson -- Rusk 2:24 p. m. CIA Director Richard Helms looked at the President, shook hands and said "good luck. " MEETH~G
  • in Eisenhower's 1954 letter were no longer supported by the people of Vietnam themselves. Secretary Rusk asked Ambassador Taylor if it could be said that the key leaders had looked at the dangers of recent weeks and might be sobered toward responsibility
  • here remark that "The Lcacership seems mighty hawky so far.'') The Russians had problems a:nd weaknesses of e1eir own. The President read parts of a message fro::n Ge!leral Eisenhower to P!'ime Minister Churchill at a time of crisis in Vietnam in 1954
  • . There was a brief recovery when we opposed the Tri­ partite attack on Egypt in 1956, but it was quickly vitiated by the Joint Resolution on the Middle East, commonly known as the Eisenhower Doctrine, which Egypt and Syria interpreted as being directed against them
  • ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - .. - - - - - - - - - - - .. .. - THE WHITE HOUSE THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE INTER-AMERICAN CULTURAL COUNCIL MEETING IN MARACAY, VENEZUELA, DELIVERED BY DR. MILTON EISENHOWER, CHAIRMAN OF THE AMERICAN DELEGATION If man is to achieve his fullest potential, he must
  • buildin g mad eo f the shellston e wit h th e Italia n travertine floors . Th e grou p discusse d reported tha t th e lan d Wa S new a t lengt h th e Italia n travertine , pointing ou t tha t th e Eisenhowe r Librar y wa s mad e o f being cleare d fo r th
  • hi m tha t h e wante d t o express dee p sympath y of the people fo r who m he spoke . He sai d tha t Presiden t Eisenhowe r wanted t o com e and was sorr y he couldn' t make it . Afte r hi s recent operatio n th e tri p woul d b e to o much for him
  • Rostow - in the Situation Room Walt 8:24a t 19. 1967 ; __™_^ : ^-^ , . __ -^ THE WHIT E Hous e toda PRESIDENT LYNDO N B . JOHNSON General Eisenhowe r departed Walter Ree d Army Hospital a t 10:0 0 a. m. e Ma y 19 , 196 7 y Dat DAILY WAR Y
  • , retiring. Ltr to Gen. D. D. Eisenhower thank'g for his telegr re grandson j J Ltr to Mr. and Mrs. Rob't B. Anderson - grandson K Ltr to Neva and Wesley West - grandson i Mr. Isaac Teague - thank'g f his telegr on the grandso n J Ltr to Mr. and Mrs. Bob
  • — re: The Consular Agreement and how the President should deal with General Eisenhower on it. ', Under Secy of State Nicholas Katzenbach 1 ^ PRESIDENTIA P L PRAYE R BREAKFAS T February 2 , 196 7 - Th e Shoreham Hote l 7:40 Depar t Whit e House
  • . It is unfortunate we are there, but throughout history we have had to face this situation where aggressors try to capture their enemies. Eisenhower told Kennedy this would be his biggest problem. Kennedy attempted to solve the South­ east Asian situation