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  • knew you were also of a previous period so you were not the same kind of a Kennedy man as some of the others. Do you have any insights on his relationship with the real Kennedy people when he first carne to office, particularly with Robert Kennedy
  • Kennedy in California two years previously in the campaign for the presidency . [I] then succumbed to the motion picture actor Ronald Reagan, myself, when I sought a third term . Since that time, I have been in the private practice of law . been
  • any better there by 1963. Kennedy thought our election was in danger. I knew it was. - - - - · - ~ - - - - - - ·--·-·--· ----- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • /oh Cronin -- VIII -- 8 Senator did not, and wisely not, because at his age then he--being a senator from Alabama, he was a target. G: Later in June you had the assassination of Robert Kennedy out in Los Angeles. Do you remember that? C: I do. I
  • involving Vietnam; the riots in Washington, D.C., following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death; Robert F. Kennedy's death and his personality; Abe Fortas' nomination as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the 1968 presidential election; George Wallace's
  • at the efforts expended up to 1963 and then later, we did it the right way. G: What was Robert Kennedy's role in the 1963 civil rights bill? Do you recall his confrontation with John Lindsay and--? 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More
  • John F. Kennedy's (JFK) effort as a young politician to become a better communicator; how Lyndon Johnson's (LBJ) legislative power shifted when he became vice president and then president; JFK's and LBJ's different styles in dealing with members
  • complimented by that. I don't think we saw him after that at the inauguration. G: Let me ask you one campaign question that we passed over. The President appeared with Robert Kennedy in that [campaign], didn't he, in l964 here in New York? K: I do not know
  • of the President’s Club and its growth; LBJ offering Mrs. Krim Presidential appointments; Krim’s support of Robert Kennedy; fundraising nationwide for LBJ; entertainment celebrities attending political fundraisers; 1964 Democratic National Convention; Don Cook
  • and timetables," the standard reporting forms were very well delineated, construction was involved, utilities were involved, everybody was involved at that point. G: How did the problem of Bobby Troutman generate friction between Johnson and Robert Kennedy? F
  • said, "Great, it's a deal." If I had said yes, he might have said, "I'm delighted to know that; I want to think about it." I don't wish to exaggerate. But the fact is he did say that. D: What about the relationship to Robert Kennedy? What about
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  • McNamara, Robert Strange, 1916-2009
  • Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek
  • Robert S. McNamara
  • more interested in trying to bring activity down by the department stores that advertised so heavily than in the merits of the case. F: I remember somewhere in there Robert Kennedy was rumored as having some reservations on this Potomac River site. S
  • Stevens' involvement in entertainers that were invited to the White House; how Stevens became Special Assistant on the Arts; Robert Fleming's support in getting Howard Worth "Judge" Smith to support an arts council; John McCormack's assistance
  • Mr. Rayburn was not opposed to it, but he had certain conditions that he wanted. And as I recall, he did not want himself or he didn't want Senator Johnson to receive all the information from Senator Robert Kennedy. I don't know that there was any
  • contact with those gentlemen at all that I can recall at this time. B: Did you deal mostly with Attorney General [Robert] Kennedy? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • How Wallace classified LBJ’s political stances from the Senate through Presidential periods; the 1960 Presidential campaign; the Birmingham demonstrations and Wallace’s discussion with Robert F. Kennedy regarding them; Wallace’s high regard for John
  • and Robert Kennedy in 1964. You were perhaps in the middle, over the years, in that relationship. Did either man make an attempt during that year to improve the relationship? O: Yes, Lyndon Johnson did. G: Did he? O: In the sense that on a number
  • How John F. Kennedy's (JFK) assassination affected the reputation of Dallas and Texas; the emotional toll of JFK's and Robert Kennedy's (RFK) deaths on O'Brien; being asked to identify the missal that was used when Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) took his oath
  • , was caused by a newspaper campaign that was put on supporting Robert Kennedy for the vice presidential nomination on the Democratic ticket. There was quite a stir about it, and the President wanted no part of that. It never would have worked, and I agreed
  • Kennedy family attitude toward LBJ; Kennedy staff; discussions of staffing pattern for the White House; 1964 campaign; Republican National Convention, 1964; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam issue in the campaign; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ’s inheriting
  • ? 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
  • columnist, as a national reporter. I remember when you wrote out that first book on the Washington Merry-Go-Round. P: I wouldn't call myself established. I was just beginning with the New Deal, I had started a column with Robert S. Allen in December, 1932
  • relationship with LBJ in the early 1950s; Joseph McCarthy attack; investigation of McCarthy’s finances; reconciliations with LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Act; supported LBJ for President in 1960; JFK’s selection of LBJ excellent; Kennedy brothers adept at managing
  • in. I recall seeing Orville Freeman there, and several gentlemen I didn't know. I know I've left out some of them. B: Was Robert Kennedy there? A: I don't think he was. B: At that meeting did John Kennedy just open the floor for suggestions
  • was against the idea of the blockade, and his views became known really only after the decision had been made to go the blockade. He made known apparently to the President and to Robert Kennedy his unhappiness with the decision. M: He called that an act
  • LBJ’s personal style and diplomacy in interviews and in informal public appearances; reactions of reporters to LBJ’s unpredictable schedules; Cuban Missile Crisis involvement; role as VP; personal enmity with Robert Kennedy; relations with press
  • be approximately ten days after he had announced his non-candidacy. I quickly took a trip to Indiana to survey the scene, met with the Kennedy supporters and returned to Washington. The farewell in the Post Office Department and with the President at the White
  • Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK) approach to his 1968 presidential campaign through primaries; seeking support for RFK before the Indiana primary; utilizing Matt Reese, block captains, and student volunteers in Indiana; receptions to thank local personnel
  • them on his own . Of course, that ultimately proved correct, Texas probably being the outstanding example . M: Did Robert Kennedy go along with this? B: No, Bob Kennedy was, without any question, very much opposed to his brother's selection
  • much. I remember he said he was well-liked. G: Anything on the President's relationship with Robert Kennedy during this period? Robert Kennedy resigned as attorney general to run for the Senate from New York. W: No. I recall that Robert Kennedy came
  • of President Kennedy. And you talked about the formation of the budget at that point in time and how you worked with Lyndon Johnson. According to the books written about this event, there is the idea that Lyndon Johnson worked very hard to keep this budget
  • : At the convention I know a number of stories went around, for example, that the offering of the vice presidency to Johnson was just a ploy that the Kennedy camp never dreamed he would accept. And also that the offer was made over Robert Kennedy's objections. Were
  • ; overestimating the likelihood of LBJ being chosen as a presidential nominee in 1960; Senator Hubert Humphrey saying that he did not want to be vice president; opinions of the Kennedy/Johnson ticket in 1960; conflict among the Kennedys over LBJ's nomination
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's office, Olney, Maryland Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with 1952. We talked a little bit about it last time, but did not cover a lot of the areas. Let's
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  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • the 1960 campaign. Tell me about the presidential campaign from an Alabama perspective. C: 1960 was the [John F.] Kennedy campaign, and from an Alabama perspective, Alabama was not yet ready for a Catholic president. This was reflected of course
  • 1960 Democratic National Convention; Alabama citizens' opinion of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; the Kennedy/Nixon debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1960 campaign trip through Alabama; LBJ's ambition; LBJ as vice
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT TAFT, JR. INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Congressman Taft's office, Cannon 315, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's just identify you, sir. You're Robert Taft, Jr., Republican from First District of Ohio in the current
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  • Taft, Robert, Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Robert Taft, Jr.
  • as a secretary to Ralph Dungan. He was a special assistant to President Kennedy. His main job was to--he was a talent scout for President Kennedy with the ambassadors and cabinet officers. Latin America was on his wing [?] and we were pretty busy. And President
  • How Whittington came to work for LBJ following President Kennedy's assassination; Whittington's duties; LBJ's secretaries' rotating schedules; traveling with LBJ to the Ranch and Austin; Whittington as the first African American to integrate
  • in the North and to commit American combat troops in the South, who was advising him? M; The Kennedy people. A: Without exception, the Kennedy people! Rusk, appointed by John F. Kennedy; Robert McNamara, appointed by John F. Kennedy; McGeorge Bundy
  • at the 1960 Democratic Convention; Philip Graham; Herman Talmadge; Alsop's writing about the Vietnam War; Bill Moyers; criticism of LBJ's approach to Vietnam; Alsop being invited to visit privately with presidents; LBJ's unpredictable nature' Robert McNamara
  • across the continent from each other. C: And I probably saw more of Jack Kennedy, if everyone will hereafter forgive me for referring to him as Jack, because he was close to my age, he was a little older than I was, but we were such good friends
  • Baker, Robert G.
  • INTERVIEWEE: Juanita Roberts INTERVIEWER: Eric F. Goldman PLACE: The Cabinet Room of the White House G: Would you please tell about your talk with the President’s mother? R: It was with Dorothy [Territo]. This was primarily to be just
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  • with his mother; description of Mrs. Johnson; Mrs. Johnson’s view of family’s economic status as opposed to LBJ’s opinions; Roberts’ impressions of the Johnson family; relationship between Johnson’s father, Sam Ealy Johnson, and Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s
  • Roberts, Juanita, 1913-1983
  • Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman
  • Juanita Roberts
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Singleton -- II -- 7 G: Do, please. S: In 1960--I ' ve told this story publicly. got the promissory note. Somewhere around live still In 1960 in the fall, as you will recall, as everyone will recall, the Kennedy-Johnson
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Holton -- I -- 20 G: I understand that Robert Kennedy came in and that four of them went back to the bedroom, and this was Sam Rayburn, John Connally, Lyndon Johnson, and Robert
  • ; Rayburn's relationship with Eugene Cox; Rayburn's relationship with people in the oil and gas industry; Holton's involvement in the 1960 and 1964 presidential campaigns; Rayburn's involvement in LBJ accepting the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Robert
  • : He told me that he felt he had a commitment. And he gave me the memorandum for the record that Robert Kennedy had written on September 3, 1964, reflecting his conversation with Saunders on August 1, 1964, in which Kennedy said that while the Justice
  • : January 11, 1974 INTERVIEWEE : MRS . JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Her Manhattan apartment in New York City Tape 1 of 2 First part of tape missing (35 feet) F: Let's continue, then, our broken interview
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  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • ; JFK's staff vs. LBJ's staff; Kennedy Rose Garden; William Manchester's book; not voting in the 1964 election; LBJ's campaigning for RFK's Senate campaign
  • Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994
  • Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  • time. And he was also very gracious to them and wrote some very tender personal notes to Mrs. Kennedy during the whole first year. B: Was Robert Kennedy involved in this kind of thing, either actively or by acquiescence? M: Yes. I believe so. He
  • Development. O: Well, that all followed the pattern that had been established back at the time of Kennedy when the word was that [Robert] Weaver would be the first black member of the President's cabinet. That surrounded the enactment. As this dragged
  • of new towns; the creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development with Secretary Robert Weaver as the first African-American cabinet member; how the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was affected by the creation of HUD; a constitutional
  • . Gillette PLACE: Ms. Bonanno's office, Washington, D.C. Tape1 of 1 G: Let me ask you to talk first about the assassination of Robert Kennedy. B: I came into the White House at about seven o'clock on June 5 [1968]. The President had already been up
  • The assassination of Robert Kennedy; LBJ's interest in gun control; Secret Service protection for presidential candidates; LBJ's opinion of Robert Kennedy; security measures following Robert Kennedy's assassination; activities the day Robert Kennedy
  • to assume that probably there were some who shared the view that he should come back, and there were some who probably shared my view. I didn't see any great overriding reason for him to take that step. G: How did Robert Kennedy's death affect Lyndon
  • Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/McCarthy
  • 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
  • , it was deliberately used against him. ·There's no question of that. In a state like Texas, most of the midwestern states. I remember Robert Kennedy, who was the campaign manager, telling me that he thought that the Catholic issue hurt worse in the Midwest than
  • of time working on Morse. It seems to me it never did him any good. But, oh, yes, he worked on everybody. F: Was he looking over his shoulder after 1956 at young Senator Kennedy? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org R: ORAL HISTORY