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  • think it was any sudden, overnight decision that he made, because 1 had been in his presence where I could have assumed very easily that this man was doing all he could for this term and maybe would go on. B: Were you close to Robert Kennedy? 5: Yes
  • ; LBJ’s efforts in Vietnam; Martin Luther King’s assassination; working on the Commission for Federal-State Relations; LBJ inheriting JFK’s staff; being offered a federal appointment; LBJ deciding not to run in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with Robert Kennedy
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: SIR ROBERT GORDON MENZIES INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies
  • Menzies, Robert Gordon, Sir, 1894-1978
  • Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies
  • and show some of their favorite wor~ (pages 2-3). ,.. Kennedy photographer Cecil Stoughton caught a delightful moment of a president at play with his children (above). Jerry Pulley preserved an historic meeting between his president and Prime Minister
  • , p. 70, lines 19_2~LJ 00-105] 1/30178 A 8118170 A [same sanitization 5/9/00 NLJ 00-105] • FILE LOCATION Robert W. Komer Oral History Interviews RESTRICTION CODES (A) Closed by Executive Order 12358'governing access to national security
  • See all online interviews with Robert Komer
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert Komer
  • th e l ate 1950s with the Racket s Committee invest i gating staff, with , l ater, Senator Robert Kennedy . 0: No . Did you get to know Mr . Johnson at all du r i ng t hat time? I had seen him , but I ' d never met [h im) . The fi r st time I
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • : Yes. G: Do you recall the circumstances of that? O: No. There was just a lot of movement up and down the stairway. G: Then Robert Kennedy went and talked with the Johnson people--Johnson, Rayburn, Connally, and the like--and told him
  • ) to be his running mate and O'Brien's and Robert Kennedy's (RFK) response; LBJ adding "geographical balance" to the ticket; JFK's meeting with LBJ to gauge his interest in the vice presidency; RFK's relationship with JFK; O'Brien's interview with Mike Wallace
  • relationship with the Kennedys and all the rest." The reason it never caused me difficulty is because of the clear understanding I had with Bobby. G: John Roche wrote in a December 1967 memo that with regard to Robert Kennedy--this is to LBJ--"Your actions
  • they affected the Post Office Department; political problems with Sam Yorty and Jesse Unruh; O'Brien's loyalty in working for LBJ until LBJ announced that he would not seek re-election; LBJ's relationship with Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy; November 1967
  • York, and two things happened while I was sick: one, I read James MacGregor Burns' book on Kennedy [John Kennedy: A Political Profile], and secondly, I sat in on a couple of meetings that my wife had at our apartment. And I got interested
  • the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, how it came into being. c: It's very appropriate that we should talk about the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden today, Joe, it being almost the first day of spring. The development of the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, which had always been
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; Mrs. Paul Mellon; Lady Bird Johnson Park
  • writing some letters for Mrs. Johnson and for the girls, which really they were unaware of; I really don't know now whether Mrs. Johnson knows about this today or not. But as it should have been, the people who were handling letters handled, first, Kennedy
  • ; Lynda and Luci; attitude of former Kennedy staff; trips with the Johnons; luncheons during vice presidency; Mrs. Johnson's wardrobe; The Elms; preparations for arrival of Kennedys at the Ranch before the assassination; relationship of Mrs. Johnson
  • . Mrs. Shriver came down and Mrs. Robert Kennedy came down. I remember that was the first time that the Kennedy women were involved in this, and we set up a big affair at the Shamrock. I was the emcee and introduced them. We had a couple or three
  • in the 1960 campaign; dating Mary Margaret Wiley (Valenti) and their marriage; LBJ’s possible frustration as vice-president; events leading up to the assassination of President Kennedy.
  • : No. That's when he was Vice President. No. My contacts with the higher ups were directly with President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and their entourage. B: Another civil rights legislation was proposed in'63--the Celler-Clark bill. There was some
  • , and Wesley United Methodist Church Choir. -I- Vietnam Redux: McNamara Recants Echoes from Vietnam-the war that will not end-sounded again. Robert McNamara, who as Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations was one of the principal
  • ber of conversationsduring the period. AttorneyGeneral Robert Kennedy (left), Senator Hubert Humphrey (cen­ ter), and Senator Barry Goldwater (right) were among the persons President Johnson talked to, all of them fig­ ures in the political environment
  • by the press at least as one of his supporters in the State of Ohio. I think it was intimated at least that you might have even changed from Kennedy to Johnson. Were there any details of that episode? H: Actually, I was a committed Kennedy delegate. I
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • for their own constituencies. There was such a difficult and complicated relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy that it's hard to compare that with any other relationship he had on the Hill. Kennedy didn't want to give Johnson credit for anything
  • for TV coverage of the anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination,he accompanied Public Relations Officer Robert Hicks and observed the media at work. Joshua also worked with Lynn Bell, Curator of the Center for American History. While there he cat­
  • in was that in either the fall of 1965 or 1966 I wrote to Robert Kennedy, who was, in a gingerly way, questioning the war. I said, and I think it was a very well-taken point, that he was the only American who could lead us out of it, wrest the presidency away from
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • organization, particularly by the late Robert Kennedy and also his very competent and able brother Ted. Mc When do you think Jack Kennedy first began to consider running for the Presidency? M: He came to the House a good many years ago, and I
  • , when he was Vice President; . : and Robert Kennedy, pretty open and obvious? ·S: I have absolutely no knowledge on that•. And I can absolutely give you nothing useful, but I will give you something that I said to a col~m­ ist once. That reflected my
  • ; Phil Graham; relationship between Robert Kennedy and LBJ; leaving the LBJ staff in 1960; going to work for Mr. Graham at the Washington Post; interaction with LBJ in VP years; LBJ and the press; press involvement in government work; turning down LBJ’s
  • the debate was on in earnest. M: The reason I asked, one of the events that took place sort of coincidentally here was the Robert Kennedy-Theodore Sorensen suggestion for a peace commission of some kind that they asked you to relay to the President. Can you
  • in the White House and that it was always the fear of Robert Kennedy entering. A: Yes, that's right. That was Bobby's great tactical error. If he'd gotten into the race before New Hampshire, it would have been a very different story. Bobby was tricky
  • See all online interviews with Robert S. Allen
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • of LBJ and JFK; LBJ and columnists; LBJ's press secretaries; LBJ and the press; Gene McCarthy; Bobby Kennedy; 1968 campaign; personal observations on LBJ
  • Allen, Robert S. (Robert Sharon), 1900-1981
  • Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Robert S. Allen
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT STOREY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dean Storey's office in Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: When did you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? $: I got acquainted with him before World War II. I had met him and I saw him
  • See all online interviews with Robert Storey
  • the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.
  • Storey, Robert G. (Robert Gerald), 1893-1981
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert Storey
  • strikes against him." I also remember--[and this was] certainly in 1959, I remember this because it was before John Kennedy announced--a group of us had dinner with him. And I must say, at that time-- F: With Johnson? K: No, with Kennedy. F: Oh
  • East; Bobby Kennedy; how the press handled record information; press secretaries; McGeorge Bundy; Bill Moyers; James Hagerty; LBJ’s presidential staffs.
  • -- 2 C: President of the New York Central. To urge Johnson to support the merger. Saunders also went to Robert Kennedy, who was the attorney general, in July of 1964 as well, talking to him about the merger. At some point in 1964 Robert Kennedy
  • of the idea. L: I suppose they do. B: Then did you have an opportunity in Los Angeles to see the Kennedy group in action at the convention? L: Yes. I particularly saw Robert Kennedy on the floor. This didn't make a very favorable impression on me
  • Ky; Robert Komer; Tex Goldschmidt; Nguyen Van Thieu; RMN; Khrushchev; Max Milliken; William Westmoreland; William Gaud; Henry Kissinger; Phil LaFollette; Mike Monroney; Abe Fortas; Harold Ickes.
  • to the hottest years of the Kennedy 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- I -- 2 Administration. I'm not saying that he
  • government work; Bundy's DePauw University speech; LBJ's view of the Kennedys, specifically Bobby; Bundy's relationship to the Kennedys; the Washington D.C. cocktail circuit and its effect on public opinion; LBJ's accessibility; how the staff went about
  • . G: Before he had his heart attack there was a lot of speculation that he might run for president in 1956. Did you have any insight into this? S: No. Was that the year that [Stuart] Symington ran? I think it was 1956. Yes, because in 1960 Kennedy
  • not have been willing to do it--but he was going to stick the Kennedys all the way out there and all the way out front. And that was calculated at every stage. G: Was Robert Kennedy less committed to advancing the nomination? C: Well, no. I think Robert
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT HARDESTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Robert L. Hardesty
  • Hardesty, Robert L. (Robert Louis), 1931-
  • Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert L. Hardesty
  • walked in, Roosevelt looked up and said, "Claude, have I ever told you about Robert Livingston? Robert Liv­ ingston is an ancestor of my wife, and he signed the Declara­ tion of Independence." And the President told him about Robert Livingston for 15
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Feild -- III -- 26 and that Bobby Kennedy acquiesced in. And I don't think that the Kheel report did anything more than sanction de facto reality. G: Why did Robert Kennedy seem to lose interest in the committee? Why did he acquiesce
  • with Eisenhower's President's Committee on Government Employment Policy; discrimination in federal hiring nationwide; in-house vs. contract work discrimination; Potomac Institute report for the Department of Defense; Robert McNamara's work to hire more black
  • there. I had been a roommate in college of a man named Robert B. Troutman, Jr. Has his name come across? G: No. A: Oh, boy! He and LBJ had one hell of a battle over LBJ's responsibilities in equal opportunity enforcement in the Kennedy Administration
  • nominee for the 1960 election; Robert B. Troutman, Jr. and his disagreements with LBJ; how Abram met LBJ; LBJ and civil rights legislation; Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on the black family; White House Conference on Civil Rights and Moynihan’s
  • to make responsible decisions. 1I And like everybody else I supported him very actively. And so the end of the first period of our relationship was rather funny. As you probably know, Phil Graham and I had gone to President Kennedy at the critical
  • at the 1960 Democratic Convection; 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
  • anything else, Eisenhower. .. was able to keep clown inflation and thus helped the country in a way that probably any­ one else who might have been presi­ dent in the late l 950s would not have been able to do." John F Kennedy: "When he was tragically
  • Sharon Francis -- Interview IV -- 3 clearly was heated. I might say, going back into some history, he had set his heart on it long, long ago. Because I remember doing a research paper for him when Kennedy was alive on all the times that the Antiquities
  • on the ticket. I don't believe the President was going to put For some unfathomable reason, or perhaps not so unfathomable, I think that between Robert Kennedy and the President LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • The Walter Jenkins incident; Senator Barry Goldwater; LBJ choosing a running mate; Robert Kennedy; Marvin Watson; the 1964 convention.
  • For Kennedy-Johnson. This was at Robert Kennedy's request. We turned the city into a Kennedy-Johnson city, although normally it has been a Republican city in the past. I also went into the Protestant areas of upstate Pennsylvania--into Easton
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Peabody’s views of the JFK/LBJ ticket and his part in the campaign; casual meetings with LBJ and the Kennedys, their differences of opinion on various matters; description of differences in JFK, RFK, and LBJ campaign techniques; Lawrence O’Brien’s
  • any insight into why they didn't like each other? W: No, no. G: What about some of the other Kennedy people, the cabinet people, for example? Did he talk to you about his impressions of them? [Robert] McNamara or [Dean] Rusk, or any of those? W
  • John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; the 1961 Lucy B Convair crash near the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's restlessness as vice president; LBJ's relationship with Robert and John Kennedy; the Johnsons' Tennessee walking horse; Konrad Adenauer's
  • joining in the political activities first of Senator Kennedy and then Senator Humphrey that thereafter there was reluctance of the White House to push this measure through? O: I don't think it was due to my political involvement. This from the beginning
  • of O'Brien's proposed campaign task force; O'Brien's and Rowe's political experience; LBJ's request that O'Brien evaluate of the Massachusetts primary; O'Brien and Ted Kennedy and possible stand-ins for LBJ in Massachusetts; Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK) interest