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Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • liaison with the Congress. F: As far as you know, did the President ever confer with Lyndon Johnson on whether he should run in 1956? H: As far as I know, no, and I don't think he would have. I don't think he would have. F: This is a Dwight Eisenhower
  • Staff officer of Eisenhower; treated as family by Ike; met LBJ in 1953; became LBJ’s close friend, politically and socially; Tidelands Bill; foreign aid; Ike got 83% of legislation through Congress; good political leader; knew intimately government
Folder, "February 20, 1968 - 1:05 p.m. Tuesday luncheon with Rusk, McNamara, Wheeler, Helms, Rostow, Clifford," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • not listen. That is exactly what I thought would happen." Clark Clifford: Would the President like to report on his visit with President Eisenhower? The President: I enjoyed the trip very much. I intend to get away from here Wednesday afternoon and spend
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Folder, "January 29, 1968 - 1:40 p.m. Pueblo 9 - Senior Advisors - McNamara, Rusk, Katzenbach, Lodge, Helms, etc.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • a distinguished American. (The Presirent later identified this as General Eisenhower.) This memo 0 utlined. what :courses this "distinguished American thought were offered to us. 11 (That memo is attached as appendix A. ) Clark Clifford: Any way you look
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • probably done a better job of staying out of politics and staying out of taking public positions than any man that has ever retired from the office of the presidency in the history.. came out and endorsed everybody in the country. Harry Truman Dwight
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • signatures I took the whole list, photostats of it, in a wheelbarrow into the White House and presented them to [Dwight] Eisenhower, changed our name to Committee of a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until she'll qualify
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a little background might be interesting . I was naturally very interested in who would succeed Dwight Eisenhower, and I wanted a Democrat to be elected President . F: You had eliminated the Republican Minority Leader . B: I eliminated the Republican
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that in '56? H: I don't know. I never talked to him about that. But he might have felt that Dwight David Eisenhower being the great war hero that he was, that perhaps he'd be wise to wait a little bit. He may have thought that, I don't know. B
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/21/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • ; Lady Bird to beauty parlor; LBJ meets with advisors about Vietnam; LBJ meets with and gives speech to White House Conference on Education participants; dinners with aides and James Hagerty; Lady Bird's tv show on beautification; Dwight Eisenhower
Folder, "McNamara, Robert," Office Files of Fred Panzer, Box 379 (Item)
  • are the most and figures point to the conclusilm that Ho Chi -1:: : . "Yes, I do," said FitzGerald. : •. ,::. powerful spokesmen of what Dwight Eisenhower l\.Iinh and Comp..1.n}'should h:we "mon'Cl to a J • ti • _·... "But.why?" said _?vicNamara
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cut from Goldwater cloth. way around. I think from their point of view, it was the other Goldwater was cut from their cloth. The Wyoming Republicans in 1956, 1952, really believed that Dwight Eisenhower was a trick the Democrats played
Folder, "South Vietnam and U.S. Policies [X-File] [1 of 2], Files of Walt Rostow, NSF, Box 19 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Folder, "[February 17, 1965 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting with General Eisenhower and Others]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION :::!:!!:-~ THE JOINT CHIEFS OF WASHINGTON, D.C. /cony #1 - The President c I #2 - General Eisenhower STAFF no other copies 'G 20301 ""]../ ,...,.-· -":'"""~~-- 17 February 1965 - --- MEMORANDUM OF MEETING
  • Folder, "[February 17, 1965 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting with General Eisenhower and Others]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: MILTON EISENHOWER (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ F: More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • See all online interviews with Milton S. Eisenhower
  • Biographical information; FDR; LBJ's relationship with Eisenhower; invitation to LBJ to speak at Johns Hopkins; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Chamizal dispute; LBJ as civil rights leader; Latin American affairs; 1960 election; Dominican Crisis; Panama
  • Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Milton S. Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Johnson's relationship with General Eisenhower? A: I know something of that, and I think they were relations of mutual respect. Now, when I say I know something about it, on some occasions --and I cannot be more specific than that--on matters relating
  • Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh During Mr. Johnson's years in the Senate, particularly during the Eisenhower years, you were, I know, very close to President Eisenhower. What
  • First impressions of LBJ; legislative accomplishments as President; opinions on the Vietnam War; similarity between LBJ as a Senate leader and Halleck as a House leader; friendship with LBJ; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ and the vice presidency; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • would do a little arm-twisting, but not so much on the Republican side. If he did it, it was more to get enough Democrats added to the Republican forces to win the day. M: What were his relations with President Eisenhower? Mundt: Pretty good. He
  • First meeting LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; 1948 Mundt-Nixon proposal; Joe McCarthy; USIA; Smith-Mundt Act of 1948; Arthur Larson; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower-Nixon-Dulles foreign policy; Quemay-Matsu-Pescadores problem; Russia détente
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Senator Russell came in--this was during the Eisenhower days--and asked him, "Bob, how are you going to vote on this Don Paarlberg going to be assistant secretary of agriculture?" The Senator said, "I guess I'm going to vote for him, Dick. Why?" Well, he
  • ; 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.
Folder, "[February-April 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • ~· MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT WITH HUGH SIDEY OF TIME MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 8, 1967 This was a general discussion on American involvement in Vietnam. The President said that President Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson had done everything possible
Folder, "[January-March 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with him. The success of the Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy I always felt depended to a large degree on two things: One, the enormous confidence and respect Dulles had--that they had for Dulles up there. They felt Secretary
  • Contacts with LBJ; success of Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy; personal contact between Secretary Dulles and LBJ; AID bill; estimation of LBJ; formidable experience of talking to LBJ; Macomber never brought good news
Folder, "February 6, 1968 - 10:30 a.m. Senior Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • and in their timing. They stretched the Seventh Army out like an accordion. The Germans did much like the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, even to wearing United States uniforms. I never heard at that time anybody who wanted to fire General Eisenhower because
Folder, "April 7, 1968 - 3:05 p.m. President's meeting with Gen. William Westmoreland - Cabinet Room," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)
  • The President: General Westmoreland will visit with General Eisenhower. Let's not · make him late. Walt Rostow: at the DMZ. General Westmoreland will discuss future deployment .'' ~ General Westmoreland: We want to move ahead on strong-point obstacle system
Folder, "[November 20, 1968 Meeting with Tuesday Luncheon Group]," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • when you see what happened in Eisenhower's years. We don't have a credible justification for what GVN is doing. Let's try to get Thieu aboard. Secretary Clifford: I would like to see both Hanoi or the NLF present. Secretary Rusk: I would like to see
Folder, "April 8, 1968 - 12:15 p.m. President, Rusk, Clifford, Rostow, Christian," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • w as Marshallesque and re served , but he did tell Mrs. Johnson on the telephone that he got f ull support - 2 ­ from the Commander-in-Chief. The President said that Westmoreland reported that he had a good meeting with President Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ; I was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time of the Bay of Pigs. The election was held in 1960; General Eisenhower was president. President Kennedy took over on 20 January 1961. And three months later, here was a major operation put
  • ; views on Eisenhower's methods; CIA and the military; impressions of General Harkins, Bradley and Patton; Laotian settlement negotiated by Harriman; Taylor-Rostwo recommendations; Acre of Diamonds; reflections on Diem; conference during Cuban Missile
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Geneva Accords, and the ink was hardly dry on Dulles' signature when he and Eisenhower decided that we should try to control South Vietnam where the French had failed. That seemed, to use one of my mother's most used words, LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , as they call it? B: In 1952 of course we had a new preSident, and in his State of the Union Message he said that Hawaii should have statehood and he didn't mention Alaska. M: President Eisenhower? . B: Yes, President Eisenhower. So this started one
Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 3 April 1964 - 20 May 1964," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)
  • , Speaker McC.o J:maelc, Boggs. HaUeck, AJ'enda. and one or two others 1. The Preaident opoke at some length on the South Vietnamese policies, reading a letter of l?~es1dettt Eisenhower to preeumably Diem in October. 1954, lndi.cathls pre1ent policy
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • effective work done now is Mansfield is so far in the other direction from Johnson. Mansfield is more of a gentlemanly man than Johnson ever thought of being, but Johnson got things done. F: Without getting into the pros and cons of the Eisenhower
  • temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Hoover, Eisenhower. First of all after Hoover, Roosevelt; and after Roosevelt, Truman; then Eisenhower; Kennedy; Johnson. six Presidents. topics. This is with five, Naturally all this time we had conversations on various I would not say the same
Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 4 January 1964 - 28 April 1965," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)
  • which originated the document. (C) Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in the donor's deed of gift. NATIONAL ARCHIVES A ND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION NA FORM 1429 (6-85) 1. 4 January 1964 ... Review of DCI' s briefings of General Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; Eisenhower/LBJ relationship.
Folder, "January 31, 1968 - 8:40 a.m. Pueblo 13 - Breakfast with Congressional Leaders & Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • " ~ The Preside1.. ,: I appreciate your coming here. can be out of the hospital as quickly a~ possible. rl \ ·I.?c;pe·Sena-Yo~.....H u·s-sell Our people have talked with General Eisenhower. In addition, we have talked with Senator Russ ell, Mc George Bundy
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh STAATS -- I -- 2 instead of going back to Chicago. The other minor correction would be that for five years, late 1953 to 1958, I was asked by President Eisenhower to be the executive director
Folder, "November 15, 1967 - 2:16 p.m. Bunker, Rusk, McNamara, Wheeler, Helms, Rostow, Christian," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • , former Press Secretary to President Eisenhower, going to Vietnam for a short while to replace Barry Zorthian, joint Information Officer . It was agreed he would be a good man for the job - - but it was unlikely that Hagerty would leave ABC to take
Folder, "[April 4, 1968 - 3:50 p.m. Meeting with U Thant]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • , even with the best of motivations, the more hostile one gets towards the stay. Our government in Berma is anti-communist, but we try to deal with our problems by our own means. Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles g ave us g enerous aid by way of arm s
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as the work of the United Nations Development Program is concerned, he always displ~ed the greatest interest and sympathy for it, and support of it. F: As you know, when the Eisenhower Administration came in, the JohnsonR~burn line was to do a kind
Folder, "November 21, 1967 - 8:30 a.m. VP, Rusk, McNamara, Bunker, Komer, Wheeler, Westmoreland, Helms, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • prestige to handle the information duties within Saigon. The President and Secretary Rusk agreed with Christian. General Wheeler said he, Ambassador Bunker, General Westmoreland and Bob Komer went to see General Eisenhower at Walter Reed yesterday