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  • and a deersKin Bookmark President autographed "To Dwight D. Eisenhower With respect and high regard, LBJ" Ex ( p t Decembe Dav_ Frida r 16, 1966 y Activity (tnc!ud e visited by ) Departed Walter Reed Army Hospital Returned to the White House
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: DWIGHT A INK INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Ink, Dwight A.
  • Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Dwight A. Ink
  • EISENHOWERS' GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AND RELATED FUND-RAISING EFFORTS FOR EISENHOWER COLLEGE
  • it if you knew that Dwight D. Eisenhower was strongly in favor of it?" There was a long pause. assuredly is. He said, "Well, is he?" I said, "He most Bob, that's a ghastly bill, a horrible, nasty, terrible LBJ Presidential Library http
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ’s role as member of House Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s role as Democratic leader in the Senate; LBJ’s qualities of leadership; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; White House-Congressional relations.
  • think there would have been a major confrontation in the Republican Party, because they were not prepared to accept Milton Eisenhower in place of Dwight Eisenhower. F: Okay, you have got an overturn now in the leadership in the Senate in 1955. What did
  • of Eisenhower. Knowland’s interest in Asian countries, his opinion of Senator Joe McCarthy, the supposed usurpation of congressional authority by the executive branch, the Civil Rights bill of 1957, the beginning of the space program, running for governor
  • won; [Dwight] Eisenhower was going to be inaugurated on January the twentieth. We had lost Senator [Ernest] McFarland in the election, and Lyndon, who had been McFarland's whip, or assistant, was elected minority leader of the Senate. At forty-four
  • LBJ's election as Senate minority leader in 1953; the small numerical difference between majority and minority parties in the 1953 Senate; committee assignments; the Johnsons' social life in early 1953; the Eisenhower inauguration and related events
  • of MacArthur? W: No, I don't. G: Let me just clear up something you said in your last interview. You said that he supported Eisenhower over [Adlai] Stevenson, and I'm wondering if you meant that he felt personally favorable, or if he actually privately
  • visit to the Ranch; the Trinity River Project; John Tower; LBJ's glasses and contacts; Ayub Khan's visit to the Ranch; LBJ's opinion of General Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower; the Cox family in Johnson City; the Elms, the Johnsons' home
  • , and then G o vern o r H a rris o n o f V irg in ia gave a little talk. Next G en era l B ra d ley h im s e lf, and then G en era l Eisenhow e r - and a ll day long, people r e fe r r e d to him as G en era l E is enhow er, not P re s id e n t Eisenhow e r
  • Dedication of the George Marshall Research Library; to Virginia Military Institute; ideas for LBJ Library; Lady Bird describes ceremony with speeches by Omar Bradley, Dwight Eisenhower and LBJ; dinner at the Fortases; Lady Bird mentions Abe Fortas
  • /5 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) and CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) are already in Washington at the beginning of the year. LBJ and other Democratic and Republican legislative leaders meet with Eisenhower at the White House to discuss Eisenhower’s State of the Union
  • on in as much detail as you can. Let me ask you first generally about foreign policy during the [Dwight D.] Eisenhower years and how bipartisan it was. The Democrats controlled Congress through much of that time and the Republicans--many of them--had a more
  • Foreign policy during the Dwight Eisenhower administration; Robert Taft and the Hill-Burton Act; partisanship in the Senate during the Eisenhower administration; the Bricker Amendment; support for organized labor in southern states; separation
  • : Early on, Stewart Alsop reported in his column that LBJ was circula­ ting a memorandum among fellow Democrats to lay out a plan of party strategy, and this was the plan that the Democrats would not categor­ ically oppose the Eisenhower Administration. R
  • Bio: Marie Schwartz (b. March 19, 1920, Atlanta, Georgia) was a journalist, author, philanthropist, and a personal friend to the Lyndon Johnson family. She was a staff writer for the Washington Post, covering the White House during the Eisenhower
  • LBJ Connection: Donor of a 1959 letter from LBJ to President Eisenhower
  • that the country, while it had just elected a lot of Democrats to the Senate, was still devoted to Dwight Eisenhower, and to pass something that attacked him would be futile. It wouldn't get you any money spent any faster; it wouldn't help the unemployed
  • not be put on the ballot, that [Dwight] Eisenhower be both the Democratic and Republican candidate. Well here again, it showed the statesmanship of Allan Shivers. He went to the platform and made an appeal that the people of Texas had a right to make
  • at the Democratic National Convention; Weldon Hart's work for Shivers; concern that Shivers might leave the Democratic Party and issues of party loyalty; the Texas State Democratic Convention resolution directing Democrats to support Dwight Eisenhower rather than
  • Jones mf Dr. William Lukash Yoichi Okamoto Tom Johnson and Yuki down at Walter Reed Hospital -the President and Mrs. Johnson departed the helo site in a car... en route visit to General Dwight Eisenhower t^*" Frances 12:10p Wheels ~7 " - . briefly
  • . Katzenbach, and Katzenbach daughter Anne where the President had LUNCH as his guests sat with him in the room and visited with him President Dwight Eisenhower - Gettysburg, Pa. (b.5) to today concerning the winning of the war in VietNam explain his
  • in the short run the war in Vietnam was certainly won by the Communists. they did not con­ quer Southeast Asia. Winston Churchill suggested SEATO to Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 .. The Kennedy administration inherited SEATO Plan 5. a plan for defending all
  • as he walked away. I went the next day to Washington to see President [Dwight] Eisenhower to report that "we've got an ally in the UN, that the ambassador secretly agrees with our side." The President ordered the heat to be put on that man; it was done
  • received worldwide as the founder of Flair; Cowles' work as a "personal ambassador" of President Dwight Eisenhower; Cowles' friendships with foreign dignitaries; how Cowles got involved with government work during President Harry Truman's administration
  • about little bitty new quails falling into those cracks. Lyndon was introducing, along with other senators, a request for emergency aid to the cattlemen. [Dwight] Eisenhower had already declared the area a drought disaster area. G: LBJ worked
  • , he said, could be "eas­ ily stated: Why didn't we take Berlin ahead of the Soviets?" But "the answers" he maintained, "are far from easy. Although a single person !General Dwight D. Eisenhowerj was responsible for leaving Berlin to the Soviets, he had
  • , because Patton was a staffer in the war department on MacArthur's staff like Eisenhower was at the time of the bonus marchers business, but then he was off on subsequent assignments and only really sort of caught fire in 1941, 1942, or early in the war
  • LBJ’s November 1963 trip to Luxembourg and other Benelux nations; William R. Rivkin; LBJ’s loyalty to JFK; LBJ’s complex personality; LBJ’s daily schedule while on trips; LBJ’s preference for hotels; Crockett and Dwight Porter; John Rooney; LBJ’s
  • party at the Carlton Hotel for the two Texas members of [Dwight] Eisenhower's cabinet, Oveta Culp Hobby, who was secretary of HEW [Department of Health, Education, and Welfare], and Bob Anderson, who was secretary of the navy, both of whom had been our
  • Activities and volunteer work in the spring of 1953; dinner parties and socializing with Washington, D.C. friends; a party the Johnsons threw at the Carlton Hotel; Mamie Eisenhower; LBJ's political career in 1953; the early stages of public
  • that he had told Carter that Lyndon Johnson used to could go down and have drinks with Dwight Eisenhower all the time, and it was an essential part of their relationship, just to have a social relationship with President Eisenhower. Johnson was afraid
  • Johnston, Logan T. , Chairman, Armco Steel Corp Joyce, Dwight P. , Chairman, The Glidden Co. Keim, Robert P. , President-elect, the Advertising Council, Inc. Kendall, Donald M. , President, Pepsi Co. , Inc. Sx Kenyon. Robert E. , Jr. , Exec VP, Magazine
  • , Dwight D. GEN FE 12/Eisenhower , Dwight D. EX FE 12/Hayes, Ruth erford B. GEN FE 12/Hayes, Rutherford B. EX FE 12/Hoover, Herbert c. GEN FE 12/Hoover, Herbert c. EX FE 12 15 open EX FE 12/Johnson, L.B./1 - Official Papers 11/23/63 -12/11/66
  • fizzled out. I don't know exactly when and how it lost all its steam; I don't remember. But at any rate, the Republican one was over in rather quick time with [Dwight] Eisenhower nominated and [Richard] Nixon nominated for the vice presidency
  • that. Was it at a time when Shivers was still a Democratic governor but was acting more like a Republican? G: Well, he did support Eisenhower. S: Well, I know, I mean, but had he started to do that at this particular time? Well, okay. G: 1952. S: Yes. Well, I
  • Allan Shivers and LBJ's 1956 fight for control of the Texas Democratic Party; Spears' work with Shivers; Shivers leaving the Democratic Party; the 1956 Texas Democratic Convention; Dwight Eisenhower as president; John Connally.
  • Roosevelt. (Below) Ronald Reagan with Nixon, Ford and Carter, October 8, 1981 (Right) WASHING10N, Jan. 20--THE SITUA­ TION DRAWS MIXED REACTIONS-Outgoing President Harry Truman, at right, and Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower, in center, appear to be sharing a joke
  • and philanthropist. She started a dress shop in New York City in 1933 which became a multi-million dollar business. She designed dresses for First Ladies from Mamie Eisenhower to Rosalyn Carter. Scope and content note: This collection consists of correspondence
  • Congresses, beginning in 1957. Can you talk about what that was like for you? M: Well it seemed to me that, in terms of the political situation, that [Dwight] Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn, the speaker of the house, and Lyndon Johnson, the majority leader
  • The relationship between President Dwight Eisenhower and Congress in 1957; why the White House and Congress were able to work together better in the 1950s than in 2011; increased patriotism and optimism following World War II and the Depression
  • , there was, even President [Dwight] Eisenhower, with whom Lyndon and the Speaker had gotten along so well, and had served so well, pushing his legislation when they could. They had just made an art, I think, out of helping run the government, although they were
  • ; assembling a Senate committee to investigate Senator Joseph McCarthy; LBJ's support for President Dwight Eisenhower; Lynda's illness in the fall of 1954; Willie Day Taylor's help to the Johnsons; South Korean President Syngman Rhee's toast regarding war
  • it "ShangriLa," for the mountain kingdom in Lost Horizon, the 1933 novel by James Hilton. It was renamed in 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in honor of his then-five-year-oldgrandson, Dwight David Eisenhower II. Over the years, Roosevelt's successors
  • it "ShangriLa," for the mountain kingdom in Lost Horizon, the 1933 novel by James Hilton. It was renamed in 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in honor of his then-five-year-oldgrandson, Dwight David Eisenhower II. Over the years, Roosevelt's successors
  • MCNAMARA REPORTS EARLE WHEELER, ANDREW GOODPASTER WILL MEET WITH EISENHOWER, RELAYS EISENHOWER'S COMMENT TO WHEELER THAT NO ONE SHOULD MAKE STATEMENT ABOUT DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS EXCEPT THE PRESIDENT; NORSTAD'S STATEMENT
  • BUNDY REPORTS THAT EARLE WHEELER, ANDREW GOODPASTER WILL MEET WITH EISENHOWER ABOUT CAMPAIGN ISSUE CONCERNING DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, SUGGESTS ROBERT ANDERSON NOT BE CONTACTED UNTIL AFTER THEIR MEETING WITH EISENHOWER
  • BUNDY REPORTS THAT EARLE WHEELER, ANDREW GOODPASTER WILL MEET WITH EISENHOWER ABOUT CAMPAIGN ISSUE CONCERNING DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, SUGGESTS ROBERT ANDERSON NOT BE CONTACTED UNTIL AFTER THEIR MEETING WITH EISENHOWER
  • WHEELER REPORTS ON MEETING WITH EISENHOWER ABOUT DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS; EISENHOWER'S RECOMMENDATIONS THAT DETAILED DISCLOSURE OF AUTHORITY NOT BE MADE AND HIS MEETING WITH WHEELER NOT BE REPORTED; RUMORS OF COUP IN SOUTH
  • LBJ'S PRESS COMMENT ABOUT SCANDALS IN PAST ADMINISTRATIONS; WALTER JENKINS INCIDENT; LBJ ASKS KATZENBACH TO RESEARCH WHAT ACTIONS WERE TAKEN ABOUT EISENHOWER STAFF MEMBERS, DISCUSSES MEETING WITH JFK ABOUT POSSIBLE INDICTMENT OF EISENHOWER STAFF
  • MCCONE SUGGESTS GUS LONG AS POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR AS CIA DIRECTOR; POSSIBLE CONFLICT OF INTEREST DUE TO LONG'S OIL INTERESTS; LBJ'S IMAGE AS OIL MAN; MCCONE OFFERS TO BRIEF EISENHOWER ON VIETNAM; LBJ EXPRESSES HIS RESPECT FOR EISENHOWER