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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and you'll see. respect for Jack Kennedy. If he You can go back and So Mr. Rayburn did not have a lot of I think that once he became president, he did. G: In that room were Robert Kennedy and Speaker Rayburn and I think John Connally and Lyndon Johnson
  • See all online interviews with Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? H: That's quite right. F: You didn't assign additional people to McCarthy or Robert Kennedy? H: No, I should say not. F: At the convention in '68, did you see evidence of the alleged heavy-hand LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • ; reputation as a hawk in Vietnam erroneous; Robert Kintner; rivalry between RFK and LBJ; Presidential press secretaries; LBJ seeking professional advice on TV style; conscious of Texas twang; Barry Goldwater; George Wallace; 3/31 speech; evaluation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
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  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
  • Baskin, Robert E.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert E. Baskin
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • much California politics and was not altogether then hitched to the national politics? B: No . Of course, I don't think Robert Kennedy really thought he'd run for � � � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 2 inception in 1957, so that means you served through now four presidents. H: That's right, all four. M: Did Mr. Johnson use the Civil Rights Commission any differently from either President Eisenhower or Kennedy, or for that matter
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in his office drinking bourbon. He made some kind of a remark like this, "I'll never trade my vote for a gavel." I was asking him about his becoming a vice-presidential candidate under Kennedy. He said he'd never do that; he didn't want to be the vice
  • 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, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the beginning and the recognition that he would receive as vice president, and he said that with great emphasis. There were no particular stories to the contrary but there had been stories that he and the Attorney General, Mr. Robert Kennedy, were feuding
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the President, and they helped Robert in the state. But Johnson had plenty of good Kennedy men working for him--O'Donnell and his brother Warren were both running the Johnson campaign and working in it very well. F: Did you have any difficulty at all
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • look back at the day I was appointed with the Viet Cong inside the Embassy garden there in the TET offensive, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the urban riots and convention battles, and all of the things that happened
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [of War Robert] Patterson and General Eisenhower, then chief of staff of the Army. In the separate Air Force concept, all three would be under the Secretary of Defense. The Navy position was one of coordination as against administration. In effect
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • top secret things, just kind of a right-hand man type to the General. At the end of 1960--1 didn't know anything about this till I read it in Newsweek--somebody touted Clifton as the military aide to the newly elected President Kennedy. He didn't deny
  • as General Clifton’s photographer for industrial and VIP special events; being a White House photographer during the Kennedy administration; August 1961 trip to Berlin Wall with Vice-President Johnson and Y.R. Okamoto’s coverage of the trip; European trip
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • despite the President? W: Bailey never had the confidence of the President, I don't think; he was feared by the President as a Kennedy man, and also I think he was getting a little tired of it, and nobody was allowed to move without Johnson's direct
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the first announcements President Kennedy made after held been elected to the presidency--and this is in December of 1960--was that he was going to make the Vice President the head of his space advisory council, or something of that kind. Well, when we read
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • deeply believed in it myself. own recommendations in writing. I gave him my I don't know how Stanton and Brown conveyed their views, but I conveyed mine to him. A good deal of work was done at that time, also, with Senator [Robert] Kerr, who I
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we're talking about now. F: Right. P: The farm-to-market roads, they were beginning to talk about them but not do anything about them. You see, the Highway Commission had just been formed with Robert Hubbard as chairman, and they were not too active
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had been selected by the Republican caucus to be chairman of what we call the Republican Policy Committee in the time Senator Robert Taft was the Republican leader of the Senate. When he went to the hospital he asked me to sit in as the acting leader
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the election of 1960, when all four of us went into the government. F: Yes. M: So I became involved in politics really through Governor Stevenson, and then to the Kennedys. F: How far back does you acquaintance with--I don't know which title to give him
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was not that favorable that he was considered in 1960, for instance. candidate for President. He was not considered by our people as the ideal You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy. When he was selected
  • First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that time in which you're beginning to think about, 1960, and it shows John F. Kennedy with the controversial issue of labor, and Stuart Symington with the controversial issue of certain armed forces propositions, and Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • It spelled out what it was to do. But during the Eisenhower Administration it didn't do it. So in December 1960--1 believe it was December 20, 1960--a press conference was held down at Palm Beach by President-elect Kennedy, and Vice President-elect Johnson
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • which would prove to our ultimate disadvantage. Now my position was public, was well known. When President Kennedy sent an emissary to me to ask that I remain on as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, I could immediately see that having me
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • President Kennedy was made president and then continued on when Johnson succeeded to that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and this again is something that is just a historical point, I've always thought that both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Eisenhower suffered a great serious loss in the first nine months of their first terms. When Senator Taft died the Republican Party control
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • successful. That was the way we ran it, and this was the way it went with Johnson. We'd go down to see him. it was Kennedy who sent for me. five billion dollars. Of course, when we first were there, Our budget in those years was around I knew Jack
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • majority was so slim, I think just one or two votes. C: Well, actually, yes, there was a very close thing, I think until he was president and fell heir to the batch of unfinished business that Kennedy left and couldn't finish because he didn'tknow how
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the chairman of it. G: And then Kennedy-- Excuse me. Was this his dOing, do you think, or was it Kennedy's doing? EG: Yes, Johnson wanted to be chairman of the council. No president wanted to take the time, I think, to preside over the meetings
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • talked to them about this job, things were in a pretty static and steady state, and they looked like they would go on that way for a long time. King were alive. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther Student unrest had not really started. It was a very