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  • to remain senator and majority leader. Where then are you, Mr. Joseph Patrick Kennedy!" And I was right. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Johnson was [nominated for] vice president, the [presidential] nominee was Kennedy, and we had some--because I was down at the LBJ Ranch after he went out as president, young Bill Kerr and I were visiting with him and we were laughing about it. G
  • ; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; LBJ and Kerr's dealings with Senator Joseph McCarthy; Reynolds' post-presidential visit to the LBJ Ranch with Bill Kerr; Eisenhower's responsibility for U.S. involvement in Vietnam; LBJ as vice president.
  • to that, during the Johnson Administration, you were an assistant to the Secretary of Treasury from about 1963 on. Is that right? D: From the beginning of the Kennedy M: From '61 until you-- D: Until I came back here. M: Did you have any occasion prior
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Estes Kefauver; Douglas Dillon; Pierce Salinger; Joseph Laitin; Horace Busby; George Reedy; Henry Fowler; Bill Moyers; Bob McCloskey; Frederick Deming; George Christian; relations with the White
  • in 1960 you know. F: Did you have any opportunity to observe his relationship with Jack Kennedy? B: Yes, very friendly, until the White House days, until Kennedy got in the White House; then things changed, but their relationship was very good
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
  • was never privy to that. So mine was a routine, but I was aware that I could be called at any time. I had some calls from the Kennedy Administration at night, too. Mrs. Kennedy and the President had a couple of last minute ideas, and they called me
  • the campaign and convention of 1964; Okamoto's return as White House photographer in 1965; trip with Mrs. Kennedy to England for dedication of a memorial to JFK; Stoughton’s final days as White House photographer; White House photographers and receiving
  • in the State Department hierarchy, being in 1961 as, first, Policy Planning Council chief, and then later as Undersecretary for Political Affairs under Mr. Kennedy. Did Mr. Johnson take, that you could see, a very large role in foreign affairs as Vice
  • and Guajardo, we made to Washington on occasion of a seminar in Washington, D.C. F: Is this the one at Georgetown? B: The Georgetown. At that time we visited President Kennedy, and Guajardo arranged for a visit of President Alemán to Vice President Johnson
  • Contact with LBJ; Miguel Aleman; visit to the LBJ Ranch; Johnson and Kennedy visits to Mexico; LBJ's funeral; the ranch at Chihuahua
  • to answer this, but given your Massachusetts background and your Texas connections, did you see anything during the Vice Presidential years or the time immediately after the assassination of the speculative or alleged rivalry between Johnson and Kennedy
  • on the national level? W: No. I was covered by the Hatch Act. F: How did you happen to come to the attention of John F. Kennedy? W: I haven't the slightest idea. I have been told by no less than twenty people that they had seen President-elect Kennedy
  • entertained President Kennedy the day after he was assassinated. He {'Kennedy] was coming from Dallas to Austin for a dinner, then LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • participates in these visits, if they occur within their area. M: And you stayed in Atlanta until 1960? Y: Through 1960. At the very end of 1960, I came back to Washington on a temporary assignment and was here during the inauguration of President Kennedy
  • Kennedy walked into his office, the first time after John Kennedy 1 s death. It was Lyndon that suggested that we see Guess Who's Corning to Dinner, and we all went out to the hangar which is completed now, for showing movies, . and very nice, except
  • ; Lady Bird meets LBJ at hangar; park meeting continues at the LBJ Birthplace; to LBJ Ranch house; Johnsons, Lynda & Chuck Robb and the Krims drive the Lewis place; Robert Kennedy announces run for President; "Guess Who's Coming for Dinner?" movie shown
  • ; late lunch; Lynda Robb arrives; Lady Birds takes a nap, swims & has her hair styled; appointments to the Arts Council & Kennedy Center; another ride with guests
  • of the fu tu re , " When it w as o v e r we went in to take off our r o b e s , and I saw John and N e llie , and with the f i r s t tim e Joh n u sin g h is rig h t handr'^t^ shake h an d s s ince the a s s a s s in a t i o n of P r e s id e n t Kennedy. We
  • Act; Lady Bird observes Robert Kennedy; LBJ & Lady Bird to LBJ Ranch
  • Lady Bird misses Spanish class, goes to hair salon & goes over details for the day; Lady Bird meets with American Heart Association winner, Marie Mushro; Beautification meeting; at Jacqueline Kennedy Garden to receive wheelbarrow of seeds; reception