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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT C. WOOD INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. Mc COMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb
  • ran into Dr. [George] Burkley, who was President Kennedy's private physician, and he was getting into his car. He'd gotten cut off from the President, too. you give me a ride?" I said, "Will I had known him for years, since Eisenhower days; he'd
  • a popular President Eisenhower, as far as philosophy and programs were concerned, vast numbers were also voting for Democratic alternatives as proposed by Adlai Stevenson. the party felt this way. At least the northern liberal wing of There was a very
  • people don't know how the other one-third live. (The President cited the health, education, social security budget increases of $19. 3 billion in 1961 to $23 billion in 1964, $42 billion in 1968 and a projected $47 billion in 1969. He said Eisenhower
  • of his leadership, he had to be. He was leader in the Senate mostly during the time that President Eisenhower, a Republican, was in the White House. And I think, and I'm sure you'd find many sources more reliable than I in that regard, as I recall
  • the Eisenhower Administration, that rule by Executive order was put in. Any oil or products that were brought in by ocean tanker or by tank ship is under the rule; but that that came in by overland transportation were excepted. And they called this overland
  • 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
  • : Yes, the lack of power and the lack of action. We always hear about the "new era" when Eisenhower gave Nixon more responsibility and more authority, and the same was supposedly true that Kennedy was to have added onto Johnson's responsibility from