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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Date > 1969-07-29 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? P: The only time I really ever campaigned for him was in the 1960 election. I was in law school in 1948. And so, yes, in the 1960 campaign as he and Mr. Kennedy were running, I did do some rather modest [campaigning], and all in Texas, nothing
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Washington-newcomer Purcell to many people; Bobby Kennedy; the JFK assassination; Luci Johnson babysitting for the Purcells; the hard-working staff of the White House; the JFK to LBJ transition; Meat Inspection Act; LBJ communication problems with mass media
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • during the Johnson Administration, as indeed during the Kennedy Administration as well, was as executive secretary of the National Security Council from 1961 to 1969. S: That's correct. M: You had been a career Foreign Service officer in various
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of his responsibility. B: Did the activity on the Commission change much when Cliff Alexander took over as chairman? H: Let's keep the order. ing byplay on that. When Mr. Roosevelt resigned--there's a little interestYou see, Senator Robert Kennedy had
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • interpose some questions as it seems judicious. U: All right. The question of Indian policy was one I found one of the most frustrating issues of my Department. I made the rather foolish statement the day President Kennedy announced my appointment--he
  • Indian problems; Indian Bureau; Philco Nash; Robert Bennett; Alaska; VISTA; transition; relations with Mexico; oil; tidelands
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to McPherson, I go back to the Hansion now on Sunday, March 31st, somewhere around noon, and to Horace Busby. I remember Buz shoved some yellow legal pages across the table to me. The first thing my eye fell on was a quote from President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • recall one instance where Lyndon Johnson did not personally read every sentence of every letter. And I think that someone like Juanita Roberts, who knows about this aspect of the presidential office in even greater detail, would corroborate