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- on Caroline's tricycle, and the fat hit the fire with that, you can see. Kennedy started chewing on his cigar and look- ing stern and didn't look anywhere, and all of us began having a slight case of cardiac arrest as this thing was read. When he got through
- 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
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- Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton
- Vann Kennedy
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , the later one? F: No, I attended the national convention in Chicago in 1960 when Kennedy was nominated. That's the only one I ever attended. I never LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- this whole thing up they began to open their eyes. It led from one thing to another and Mr. Johnson was very anxious, as was Mr. Kennedy at that time too, in what was going on. Mr. Rayburn of course was keeping up almost daily with the thing. So
- , Sam, you're too old." Sam never forgot it. Then we decided we were going to take on Kefauver. Lyndon went out to back Jack Kennedy for vice president and almost overnight with all of us working together, we almost did it. I remember Lyndon sent me out
- with the Kennedy family; Joe Kennedy's proposal to make LBJ run for president in 1960 with JFK as his running mate.
- it, but that's part of the game. M: Then did you support Johnson in 1960? K: Yes, I did. In 1960? No, I supported Kennedy, and Kennedy selected Johnson. I supported the ticket. M: Had you forgiven Johnson by that time? K: No, I hadn't. I was opposed
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- that the President wanted to see me. And when I went in to see the President he had gone into that little-bitty office that had once been a bathroom, but President Kennedy converted into a very small relaxation room. As Jack and I went down the corridor toward
- said, '~ell, getting ready to go to the airport now. as a matter of fact, I'm I'll be in there tonight." ''Well, he'll see you tomorrow." So I went by and went over to see him, and he said that he wanted me to take the chairmanship of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- with LBJ; doing LBJ’s makeup; LBJ giving to a poor family and the Catholic church in Stonewall; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys and Hubert Humphrey; LBJ’s interest in the media (TV, ticker tape, newspapers) and sensitivity to the media; diversity
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- rnaybe--help control the nomination. But it was soon pretty evident that the convention was going to nominate Stevenson again. Regardless of what anybody did, they were going to nominate him again. M: And in '60? T: In '60, of course, I think Kennedy
- , so I didn't go. F: Previous to that for a year or so, you know, there had been--obviously, Mr. Kennedy was working hard at it and had been certainly since the mid-fifties. The question was whether Johnson would let his name be entered and let
- a cubbyhole on the same floor with the Kennedy organization there on Connecticut [Avenue]. Was it Connecticut? I could go right to the building right now, but I've forgotten the name of the street. Anyhow, Buck was traveling with Mr. Johnson and so
- -17- F: That's the one where they chose Mrs. Randolph, right? L: That's right. F: What did you do in the 1960 campaign? L: I was active for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and I maintained that The Convention I'm thinking about is a different [one
- ; “Viva Kennedy-Johnson Clubs;” LBJ’s effort to build up leaders of Mexican background; LBJ’s political sense; BRACERO problems; U.S.-Mexico relations; LBJ’s appeal to Mexican-Americans
- that so much I guess I don't know whether I had the feeling, or it's just been drummed into me. F: You and George Romney, you've been brainwashed? K: No, I think for one thing a lot of them were big Kennedy fans, and they looked on Johnson as something
- don't know if this is on the record. One morning Price Daniel--he was governor then--invited me over there to a breakfast for Jack Kennedy. He was running for president you know. I wasn't going to go. I said, "Oh hell, that's just a lot of politicians
- of feeling, Mr. Vann Kennedy, who was then here with the United Press, was secretary of the [State Democratic Executive] Committee, I asked Mr. Kennedy to take those certificates as they came in--a lot of them came to me and I forwarded them to him
- temper and tactics; 1960 Kennedy/Johnson campaign; Hofheinz’ private bill regarding Yorktown Corporation; LBJ’s jokes; 1960 Democratic Convention and LBJ’s acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; assignments LBJ offered James.
- the assassination of President Kennedy November, 1963. While I always most friendly to him, I really didn't see President Johnson from the time of s campaign for re-election in 1964 until about February, 1968, when named my son, John, Jr., to membership
- was. I'm glad he did. We were over at Mr. Rayburn's--Ann and I --for dinner the night before he left for the convention in Los Angeles. Of course, that's what we were talking about, and there was a lot of talk about [John] Kennedy had it in the bag
- the parents were in Texas at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. Lynda was in Austin at the University, but Luci was--I was out at the Elms with Luci. And that afternoon I went by the school to pick her up to take her home. That is one of my
- they would send a White House car for me. on. I had a very enjoyable evening. So So I went I met the various people there, Shriver and his wife and Bob Kennedy and others. But I had met McNamara and Kennedy and others during a reception that they LBJ
- . Well, fortunately that was before the Smith-Connally Act and it was before Taft-Hartley and there were no inhibitions as against appropriate contributions. So I suggested that he ought to talk to then-Secretary-Treasurer, a man named Tom Kennedy, now
- known a big poker game was going on in his garage. Kennedy. But, anyhow, he got in an argument with Mylton We called him Babe Kennedy. guy, and I never will forget. Kennedy was a pretty good sized He said, "Lyndon, if you open your mouth one more
- in. the program, since he Hasn't particularly knoHn to the Kennedys. Do you know anything at all about that? t>J: Well, I'm sure it was. I do know that a man by the name of rok. Arch i'4ercey of the Merkle Press told me that he had been in communication
- , his accepting it? D: No, I really wasn't. Tell you what I did. After Kennedy was nominated on the first ballot--of course, I was disappointed--I got on the plane and carne on horne. F: But not surprised? D: Not surprised, no. I got there a day
- as the majority leader of the Senate. Then when he got selected as vice president, which was a bit of a shock at the time--no one was expecting Kennedy to pick Lyndon Johnson. But the big reaction for me was, as I think I've mentioned, when President Kennedy
- is important? S: No. When he ran for re-election as president after Kennedy was assassinated, I made a bet with Beavers up here, who's the Buick dealer, that Johnson would carry Gregg County by a bigger percentage of the vote than he carried G
- with a shaggy hairdo. He was Visibly amused. shall never forget. grandchildren. It was Senator John F. Kennedy. And thaUs an experience that I I wished I could record it for my It was a great experience for us. PB: Did you have other contacts
- brief I think he did an overall good job particularly in really grabbing the ball after President Kennedy's death. G: Anything else on LBJ or your association with him? M: I don't know, but I'll try to think of some. I've really been a little busy