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  • :00p 7. 7:30p Expenditure Code Arrived P-38 Senate meets (Senator Johnson opened the Senate) Gov-elect of Florida Ferris Bryant and Sen Kennedy Sen Smathers Walter, re: LBJ's ne t wort h t o give to Knight Newspapers for story on candidates finances
  • Davis -- I -- 11 G: Did your coverage at the White House change after Kennedy became president? D: Yes. My feeling was that during the Kennedy years, a lot of the people who covered the White House, who covered Kennedy at the White House, were
  • crowds for it wasn't the parade route. Many welcome signs, etc. One sing read "LBJ ThanKs For The S. P.A. Loan" -' ! Stopped corner. Flatbush Ave. and Nostrand Ave. Here there was a large crowd and a : number of pickets. Senator Robert Kennedy joined
  • , because of Joe Kennedy's record in the past, if they felt like he shouldn't be on the ticket with Joe Kennedy's son. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • Reactions of Johnson supporters to LBJ’s acceptance of Vice Presidential nomination, meeting of Johnson organization with Kennedy organization at Hyannis Port, campaign train trip in the South with LBJ in 1960, 1964 campaign trip with Mrs. Johnson
  • Kennedy: silver desk set, set of Early American Independence papers, autographed copies of President Kennedy's books. And a $75, 000 Government gift of scholarships to American Colleges. Lynda Bird spoke at this gathering. To Hotel. To hotel banquet hall
  • To Democratic Policy Meeting Hosting benefit dinner at 4040. Pre-theater supper party to benefit Lt. Institute and Kennedy Center for the Retarded. To National Theater with Mrs. Johnson to see "Mr. President. " To British Embassy for after-theater supper-dance 3
  • THE WHITE HOUSE MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary WASHINGTON Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place) Entry No. Time LBJ Date Tuesday, November22, 1966 Ranch Activity 8:30 Wake up (The President sent telegrams to Mrs. Kennedy and Ambassador
  • Krim, and Joan Kennedy (from Austin) joined. Entry No. Time Activity 8:59 Returned to Aspen. 9:00 Dinner with the above guests, minus CR Smith (who had left at 4:30), plus Mrs. Joan Kennedy (who had come during the afternoon). After dinner, we
  • . Spiege l (Chicago ) Lunch i n P-3 8 $2.1 5 John Holto n G. Menne n William s Sec. Dillo n Wilson McCarth y fo r pictur e fo r posta l worker s Stanley Marcu s (Dallas) , askin g hi m i f h e woul d serv e o n businessmen' s committee fo r Kennedy-Johnso n
  • of his delegation. I had all Kennedy, you know, was running and he wasn't a delegate, so he didn't come. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Biographical information; envoy to Luxembourg; 1960 campaign; Eleanor Roosevelt; selling her house to LBJ when he was VP; Democratic Women for Nixon in 1960; Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy; Democratic factions
  • Kennedy in California two years previously in the campaign for the presidency . [I] then succumbed to the motion picture actor Ronald Reagan, myself, when I sought a third term . Since that time, I have been in the private practice of law . been
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
  • Kennedy Then driving w/ Mr. Kennedy 12:12p Arrive Main House 12:30p ~ 12:46p t~ 1:00p To 31 , 1968 LUNCH - w/ Mrs. Johnson David Kennedy Tom Johnson Mr and Mrs Jim Jones mf ~ Dale Meeks living room to meet w/ David Kennedy n Day Tuesday
  • across the continent from each other. C: And I probably saw more of Jack Kennedy, if everyone will hereafter forgive me for referring to him as Jack, because he was close to my age, he was a little older than I was, but we were such good friends
  • of Kentucky, who was one of his unofficial campaign managers, that he had to get out, but he stayed around here. My stepson was very active in his campaign and they were all hoping that there might be a deadlock between Stevenson and Kennedy in which Lyndon
  • relationship with LBJ in the early 1950s; Joseph McCarthy attack; investigation of McCarthy’s finances; reconciliations with LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Act; supported LBJ for President in 1960; JFK’s selection of LBJ excellent; Kennedy brothers adept at managing
  • , Robert Kennedy was the one that decided. I didn't know him, so I've often been asked why he chose me, and I really don't know the answer to that. It was probably on Byron White's recommendation, I suppose. B: I was wondering how a Yale man got mixed up
  • mother might have believed it!" Well, needless to say, when he ran for the presidency, I saw him in the Senate and he asked me who I was for and I told him I was for Johnson, Kennedy, and Symington, but in that order. And this is before he became
  • around the 1960 Decratic nomination and campaign. When did you first begin to see Mr., Johnson as a potential Presidential candidate? A: Well, I think it was ve ry apparent - - it ce rtain1y was to me - - that when Senator Kennedy was campaigning
  • Committee with him were an absolutely outstanding group of senators. It was because of their prestige and their power and their impression with the news media that we were able to start a space. program. Jack Kennedy never did understand what space
  • Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
  • not sure that I did that I was interested in coming with the government. After the election I came to Washington and I talked with Bob Kennedy and Byron White I would say right around Christmas time, as I recall, and then again in January. We talked about
  • have chosen until they saw how well Kennedy did in West Virginia. Maybe looking back on it, we should all say that Johnson was right in not going into any 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ
  • ; overestimating the likelihood of LBJ being chosen as a presidential nominee in 1960; Senator Hubert Humphrey saying that he did not want to be vice president; opinions of the Kennedy/Johnson ticket in 1960; conflict among the Kennedys over LBJ's nomination
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEt~ I DATE: November, 1968 I NTERV I E~IEE : VANN M. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: PAUL BOLTON PLACE: Corpus
  • See all online interviews with Vann Kennedy
  • Kennedy, Vann
  • Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton
  • Vann Kennedy
  • was on inaugural day when the assignment of those in the seminar was to listen to the Kennedy Inaugural, and then write me a paper on what it augured for the future stature and style of the presidency. By that time I had already moved down here in response
  • The role of Civil Service Comission in loyalty and security program; his work as president of Wesleyan College; becoming Chairman of the Civil Service Commission in the Kennedy administration, 1961; working with Vice-President Johnson on equal
  • http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 attempt to stop Jack Kennedy, who was the early front runner
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • /31 announcement; draft movement for Edward Kennedy; Chicago convention; LBJ
  • met him? K: Yes, I do. It all started with a meeting in April of 1962 when he was vice president. I was visiting President Kennedy in order to plan for a birthday salute to President Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in May. I was accompanied by Anna
  • Meeting Vice President LBJ; Ed Weisl; birthday event for President Kennedy in 1962; occasions where Krim saw LBJ before he became President; Krim’s work producing films for President Kennedy and LBJ; New York fundraising for LBJ; history
  • on television ... lt was one of the finest moments of the Kennedy presidency, and the man for whom this building was named had a great deal to do with that." Richard Reeves, biographer of John F. Kennedy, presented a fasci­ nating look at that president. Some
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Singleton -- II -- 7 G: Do, please. S: In 1960--I ' ve told this story publicly. got the promissory note. Somewhere around live still In 1960 in the fall, as you will recall, as everyone will recall, the Kennedy-Johnson
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • to recess in order to gain some delay. This was not done. As the balloting began and after a few states had been called, he remarked that Kennedy was picking up a vote or so or perhaps a half-vote as he went along. When it was certain that Senator Kennedy
  • the election of 1960, when all four of us went into the government. F: Yes. M: So I became involved in politics really through Governor Stevenson, and then to the Kennedys. F: How far back does you acquaintance with--I don't know which title to give him
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
  • 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
  • of time working on Morse. It seems to me it never did him any good. But, oh, yes, he worked on everybody. F: Was he looking over his shoulder after 1956 at young Senator Kennedy? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org R: ORAL HISTORY
  • was so close to Mr . Johnson? J: No . B: Were those in Minnesota who objected? J: No . B: They seem to have made a very effective team in those Senate years . J: Yes . B: Before the convention, I understand that the : Kennedy people were very
  • the 1960 campaign. Tell me about the presidential campaign from an Alabama perspective. C: 1960 was the [John F.] Kennedy campaign, and from an Alabama perspective, Alabama was not yet ready for a Catholic president. This was reflected of course
  • 1960 Democratic National Convention; Alabama citizens' opinion of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; the Kennedy/Nixon debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1960 campaign trip through Alabama; LBJ's ambition; LBJ as vice
  • the Kennedy Administration as well. In the Eisenhower Administration you served as Ambas sador to France for a number of years and then as Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and as Undersecretary of State in the late 1950 1 s. During the period
  • . Kennedy campaign for the 1960 Presidential LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • ; contact with LBJ; Lady Bird; access to the President; Kennedy Round; comparison of LBJ and JFK staffs; support of RFK after 3/31 announcement; LBJ request not to actively support a candidate; difference in general agricultural policy between LBJ and JFK