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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
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  • were upset, and among them was Senator Kennedy--Robert Kennedy--who was furious and denied it. He didn't deny about the Lincoln book saying that the meeting had taken place as phil had said. He didn't deny that phil had been the go-between, but LBJ
  • experiences. He realized that if something bad happened to him or someone close to him, it was happening to tens of millions of other people, and he wanted to do something to help them. G: When you first told President Johnson that President Kennedy before
  • ; trying to interest LBJ in China; an Eye Institute separate from the National Institutes of Health; community Mental Health Centers and Mike Gorman; the Family Planning Services Act; Adlai Stevenson’s relationship with LBJ; Robert Kennedy; assessment
  • of the relationship between the President and Attorney General Kennedy during Robert Kennedy's campaign for the Senate from New York? Did he talk with you? L: Did the President talk with me? F: Yes. L: No. F: He did come up here and work for him. L: I
  • in Washington D.C.; Lasker’s relationship with Mrs. Johnson; supporting Robert Kennedy; encouraging Mrs. Johnson’s interest in beautification and health; beautification projects in Washington D.C.; National Institutes of Health and clinical research goals; Nash
  • thing begat another as a result of this one visit. Mr. West told me that Mrs. Kennedy was thinking about publishing and selling post cards on the White House at the White House, and he wondered if the Park Service had any kind of vehicle which might
  • : Exactly. And he had a unique role, and still even does in his retirement as a senior adviser--Fairfield Osborne, Robert Moses, also. For thirty years I've worked with them as leaders and pioneers in these fields. So that having started
  • about--I presume before 1960 you-did not know- the Johnsons . the Kennedy's prior to that? Did you have anything to do with 0: No, I didn't F: So you come into this part of service in the 1960's with John F . I didn't know either one . Kennedy
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
  • of these same lands for timber or for grass and so on. by President Kennedy in a general sense. So the Bureau was established In actuality it was established not by executive order of the President, but by Secretarial Order of Secretary Udall. He did
  • or Commission was the predecessor to the Cultural Center Commission, which in turn was a predecessor to the Kennedy Center Commission. It was through then-Senator Johnson that I was appointed as a member. I was actually appointed by President Nixon, who
  • to lead up to this to tell you this: I would have supported Jack Kennedy for president if it had not have been that I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • information. And we were really barred by the new people from com- munication with them; there wasn't any dialogue. Now I've been through three changes of administrations in responsible positions--Truman to Eisenhower, Eisenhower to Kennedy, and Johnson
  • and 1956. C: That's right. F: No, no. C: Well, it was in the next campaign when Kennedy ran. F: Right, in 1960. C: In 1960, that's right. F: Yes. C: I endorsed him publicly. I was asked to be co-chairman of a Johnson for President Committee
  • husband kept that commitment with Humphrey, didn't he? R: Yes. And then of course Humphrey was defeated in the primaries oyt [John] Kennedy. And then you know the story of Jim [Rowe) and Johnson and Phil Graham and all the people at Los Angeles. I
  • for the District." Kennedy. Charlie Horsky had been created for that job under President Steve Pollak was there for Johnson. Steve Pollak did leave very quickly after we were nominated and appointed. M: What's the significance of that? F: The significance