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  • - cated at the time that the administration, the Eisenhower Administration, had failed to protect the wool industry properly. M: No. I don't recall that. I probably voted with Lyndon on it because out inmy state--I'm sure I did--we have wool too
  • service with the Civil Rights Commission in 1960 on into the Kennedy years, did you have an opinion of Lyndon Johnson in those days? M: No, I didn't. When I entered the government of course, Mr. Eisenhower was the President. I entered in July of 1960
  • will remember, General Quesada was the first administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency which was created by the act of 1958. He served under General Eisenhower and obviously submitted his resignation when the Democrats came in in 1960, at ~~hich LBJ
  • 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
  • good. I think you can run a mission or I think you can run any job, as President Eisenhower certainly LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Mrs. Eisenhower's clothes, remember. In the spring of the year, for instance, the first lady is guest of honor at the Senate wives luncheon. The routine was about the same, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it isn't still the same, but each
  • the Democratic Party machinery of Texas for Eisenhower, the Republican, Mr. Rayburn and Johnson decided that they must take the Democratic machinery away from Allan. F: Yes. P: They revealed their plans to me in Washington on an occasion and pressed me
  • the two houses, there would have been no end to it. I've seen a number of instances which I felt that Mansfield and McCormack really didn't push, the way that Rayburn and Johnson would have, well, as they did for Eisenhower. P: There was a great man
  • , as you may know. This is an understanding that President Eisenhower made with the Senate Armed Services Committee. However, the Joint Chiefs of Staff consider it inappropriate for them to comment on who should be appointed the chief of a service [Army
  • thing--at our house when he was Majority Leader working very hard . Dean Acheson, who had been the previous Secretary of State--was not now Secretary of State--it must have been during the Eisenhower years--stood up and gave a toast
  • was a kid, pretty near. He had been head of the House of Representatives. G: I understand that in 1954, President Eisenhower nominated you as an alternate delegate to the U.N. Do you know why you were selected? N: Yes. They tried to balance
  • people when he was retained by Eisenhower on the ticket. G: The Checkers speech. O: The Checkers speech. We considered excerpting from the Checkers speech with another punch-in-the-nose type spot. We were getting into dangerous territory because how
  • chairman. Well, Eisenhower for some reason that I don't understand, insisted on being chairman of the President's Advisory Council on Outer Space. And so, that was--we gave in to them simply to be sure that we could get the bill through the Congress. One
  • Eisenhower wanted done . He'd get it done, get a bill passed, and he felt that was going to come to an end . about it . I remember he talked One reason he wanted to be the vice president was he felt he had reached the top in input in the Senate
  • of that scrap between Johnson and Shivers over Shivers' threat to support Eisenhower again? B: It had something to do with it . M: I know there were two conventions apparently that year, one in the spring and one - in the fall . In the spring convention
  • wouldn't reappoint anybody, so that time ran out . So when Eisenhower came in, he appointed a whole new group of seven [members] . That kept on going . When Kennedy came in, the whole seven were coming in 1963 for reappointment at that time . One
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CLIFTON C. CARTER--8 In 1952, we had had Governor Shivers and Senator Daniel endorse President Eisenhower and the Republicans, and Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn were determined this would not happen again
  • -- 12 F: That, of course, was the one thing Al Smith did for the party, and later Eisenhower, you know that was the first time they recognized that they ought to pay some attention to them. Did you see anything of Johnson while he was vice president
  • been there in the Eisenhower period and part of the Kennedy period and being a professional had no difficulty getting along with any of them. I think here sometimes the lay public tends to assume that we're all a lot more ideological and committed
  • ," and "This is for this department, I want a report on it." I think he followed it. He'd turn it over to a subordinate, the head of another department, yet he still kept it with him. I don't think he's the type of man who can delegate things, I think Eisenhower was a great
  • the light of having served under really four Presidents almost-- A: Three. P: Didn't Eisenhower come in there in one part of it? A: No, you see, my resignation took place the day that he was inaugurated. So I served under three Democratic Presidents
  • ? B: We then spent months working on legislation between the staffs of those two Senators and others; and if I recall correctly, a bill was passed which President Eisenhower vetoed and later a watered down version was passed which the President signed
  • . And there was a big political hurrah about it at that But that was his [Secretary of Treasury Anderson under Eisenhower] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • it. Sure. After the Democrats took the Senate, what, in the first by election in Eisenhower's period? G: Yes. S: The morning after the election, Lyndon called me and he said, "My friend, I'm going to buy some more stations, and I want you to tell me
  • then at the outset of the second Eisenhower administration, and experience up to that point had suggested that while in the overall we were making some real progress in the rebuilding process, that there were also structural, philosophical, fiscal problems
  • during the Eisenhower [inaudible]. F: Do you think that most of the civil rights activists understood his compromises as assistance for them, or do you think that they were basically purists who thought you don't give an inch? In other words
  • know, some of the worst judicial appointments made were made by the Kennedys in the South. We basically got along on the old Eisenhower appointments. B: Does anybody in particular stand out in your mind? Y: Oh yes. Judge Cox from Mississippi
  • WASHJNOTON December 9, 1968 Monday - 5:30 p. m. FOR THE PRESIDENT THRU: Walt Rostow Only two Presidents, Truman and Eisenhower, have faced exactly the options before you now as you consider the form, purpose, and manner of presenting your final message
  • . , l/ Some time ago when I had requested an interview with the President for our SIPA News Syndicate I had enclosed some stories done during my recent interview with Mr. Eisenhower in Gettysburg. / I had as~ed that those stories be returned since
  • and daring with which an Eisenhower . assault.a Normandy, to deny whole st2ctes, millions of Americans, the right to vote for the nominee of one of the nation's dominant parties, even if he be the President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief
  • is the :Pemocratic Presidential nominee · and if the Republi-i cans name ¢ither Taft or Eisenhower, ~t means that the independent .southern Delegates will ;follow the Byrnes advice, disregard the label, and vote for the GOP nominee. · · Meanwhile
  • or even minutes. The Tuesday meeting was patterned after meetings that President Eisenhower had told me he had with Prime Minister Churchill during the war, that he would have a luncheon meeting and an evening meeting, 6 - Rostow lnterv and they were
  • taught at Trinity College there for eight years. He has been a frequent participant in Brookings Institution conferences and an occasional lecturer for Eisenhower Fel­ lows. Hardeman is currently living in San Antonio, where he is a professor of political
  • of official presi­ dential Christmas cards began in 1953 with President Eisenhower." Castro explained, observing that Ike was a talented amateur painter and uesigned his own cards. They are now important collectors' items. Castro, a Director Emeritus
  • with great reluctance when she moved to Washington. But be­ ing a student of history, she decided to make the most of things by learning what famous people had lived in her room. Former President Eisenhower told her that he believed that the lady-in-waiting
  • : The Eisenhower - Bradl ey TV show overall was helpful. He wished, however, that the two Generals had abi ded by their earlier decision, namely not to comment on new moves in Vietnam in view of the fact that they did not hav e responsibility for making decisions
  • will be curved and what have you. Lastly, you had this great tradition stemming back to the Eisenhower years--and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • anything else. I got it from the Nevi York Ti!'l~.5-. of yours this morning. I've never seen But that's the way Eisenhower took Part Three and Russell just ran him out of the White House balcony, because said, they slip nr never heard of it, didn't
  • Council and was actually started by Eisenhower back in 1955, the schools are the organization that keeps things going because we have a captive audiente. [With] adults we don't have a captive audience, and we must also inspire some motivation. We
  • , who was hailed by Newsweek as "The nation's leading Presidential scholar," has written five major books focusing on the presidencies of Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He has also published works on the Cold War and the relationship