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Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Clinton is a career civil servant who worked during the Kennedy Administration for Ralph Dungan. He's now the director of housing of the new Communities Program for the Department of Hous ing and Urban Development. LBJ Presidential Library http
; problems in accepting appointments; the Robert Weaver appointment; problem of women appointees; leaking appointments; loans of personnel from departments from the White House; impressions of LBJ as an executive; the Great Society

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

appointed by President Kennedy? B: I was appointed by President Kennedy in May of 1962 to that job. M: Had you had before that time any opportunity to make acquaintance with Mr. Johnson before he became President? B: Well, I was trying to remember
Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the President's Appalachian Regional Commision. S: Yes, that's right. Frank Roosevelt was--the IT~in reason I went to work for Frank was because one of the assignments he had been given by President Kennedy was to be chairman of the Appalachian Regional

Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in connection with the Korean war; the President did announce that there would be no new (public works) project starts, and so the Eisenhower Administration was severely criticized for "no new starts." And I recall that the Kennedy Administration

think that President Truman was a great builder, a great architect of our policies of collective security and development. I think that Presi- dent Kennedy was able in a--to project an image of this country and of his own leadership

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