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Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • minimum wage; the work of congressional liaisons under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and LBJ; the expansion of the Rules Committee; Roosevelt's trip with LBJ to Adlai Stevenson's funeral; Roosevelt leaving Congress to work with Ambassador
  • on the ticket and felt very, very strongly that Mr. Kennedy needed him. I remember a number of things. My mother, of course, was for Adlai Stevenson, and she was bitterly, really bitterly disappointed because she wasn't very happy with President Kennedy's
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the whole picture. M: How much evidence, if any, did you ever see that there were Kennedy loyalists in the press or even in the government who used leaks consciously to damage the Johnson Administration? Was there any of this at all? S: Yes
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape #l) December 9, 1971 Ba : This is an interview with Ambassador David Bruce, it's December 9, 1971 and I'm Harri Baker . And Mr . Bruce, of course was Ambassador to Great Britain during the Kennedy
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, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • better than I would. Prior to the Johnson Administration-- in fact, we had set up our cadre but we hadn't actuallY taken over yet in the Kennedy Administration--I explained to Secretary [Orville] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on the program, who had brought it through the entire Kennedy-Johnson Administrations before he left office . M: Then after that dinner you return ed, what, to the Cape to prepare for your-­ L: We left immediately after the dinne r, I think. There were
Oral history transcript, Harry J. Middleton, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1979, by William C. Spragens (Item)
  • (from the staff) • · There was also ready access to prepare memos for his "night reading ". · We didn't want to abuse it, but it was there. He \>JOuld read it and respond . 7. Did you have occasio n to work with holdove r members of the Kennedy staff
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from the standpoint of their responsibilities under the Constitution. F: There is no critic like the one who wasn 1 t involved. G: Exactly so. F: What about Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in this respect. G: I really did not see very much
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , a sound position if we're to be a government in which the laws are enacted by a legislative branch and enforced by an executive branch. But we continued to study these. President Kennedy's executive order had been quite limited, and at the time, I think
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , it might not be desirable for the President even to make a television address. And so by that time it was no longer a question of Kennedy, unhappily he was dead, so it was McCarthy or Humphrey, and I certainly couldn't see the President going. So
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Wentzel took pictures of them, of the two Presidents, together at that particular meeting. F: Did the President, President Kennedy, that is, come out to greet your group? Mc: No. There was a helicopter--a small hard-core group that went to the summer
Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it's going to be up to us to do it. G: Was there any difference between the way the administration's legislative liaison operation worked under Presidents Johnson and [John F.] Kennedy? Had it changed? P: It became a lot more--it had changed
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in show business should keep their political feelings private. F: You hadn't campaigned for Kennedy in 1960? A: No. F: Were you on the West Coast at that time? A: Yes. It was when Goldwater was announced; it really terrified me. At the time
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • known them. They have known our children and have been extremely kind to them ; have remembered us in so many little ways that just always warms our hearts . I will never forget when President Kennedy came to Houston, we were supposed to have been
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Council? · J: No, I di.d 'not nave personal contact.. Mr. The ftrst time I recall seei.ng Johnson was during the campaign, when he was running . . . with Jack ~ Kennedy for presi·dent.. , " They ran a special train thro_ugh the country, and he
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • capacity first, I suppose as Under Secretary of Labor. I think when Goldberg had gone to the Court, I think Wirtz had come into the job which meant that was back in the Kennedy Administration. So he had served honorably and well and made a good reputation
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was running for president? G: [John F.] Kennedy. B: Kennedy, yes. Yes, we did. G: Was LBJ restive as vice president? Was he unhappy in the position, do you think? B: I don't think so. G: Really? Did you see much of him then? B: No. I only went
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in connection with the Korean war; the President did announce that there would be no new (public works) project starts, and so the Eisenhower Administration was severely criticized for "no new starts." And I recall that the Kennedy Administration
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, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to. mind is Christapher Weeks' book, The Job Carps--Dallars and Dropauts I think is the name of it. I think there, when he gaes back to. 1963, he recounts the story af Kennedy's interest in paverty and the kinds of activities that he began with people
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connor -- I -- 2 By and large, I think that after he became president-following the assassination of President Kennedy--and [he] had the opportunity to work directly with the leaders of the Business
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the years. G: He liked to bring guests deer hunting. W: He liked to bring guests, yes. G: Were you ever present when the Kennedys came to the Ranch in the earlier days? W: Yes. G: You were? Do you recall Bobby Kennedy coming down and going hunting
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of the school; Sputnik and LBJ's interest in space; LBJ's cousin, Oriole Bailey; Jack and Mary Margaret Valenti's courtship; John F. Kennedy's 1956 visit to Texas and the LBJ Ranch while campaigning for Adlai Stevenson; Christmas family tradition, including
  • and JFK [John F. Kennedy], except it's not very nice to say about--well, Lyndon was fond of Kefauver, but he thought he was a lightweight, and that is not nice to say. M: Well, sure, that--he is long gone; his wife is long gone. And anyway, when you see
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • guess you might say, the principal witness for the military pay raise--no, that was during President Kennedy's--the first one at least. It's really awfully hard for me to remember the names of committees most often they didn't have a name
Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . So I got deeply involved in space. Between the 1960 election and inauguration, I was on President Kennedy's task force trying to reformulate space policy. It must have been either December of '60 or January of '61 that I first met Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
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Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But it was a surprise and it was, frankly, at that time, a disappointment. was then. M: But maybe I'm not as callow now as I I hope not. Did you go on to support the Democratic ticket of Kennedy and Johnson in 1960? E: Yes. Went on and supported the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : No question about that, yes. B: What would be the atmosphere of this one? V: It has been very good under difficult circumstances, because the preceding administration--President Kennedy with his brother as Attorney General--the Attorney General
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ? That was the year that president Kennedy was seek- ing the nomination of the Democratic Party and a movement started to try to get Senator Johnson, who was the Majority Leader, nominated instead of President Kennedy. We formed an organization, and again John
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that developed in 1960 is that Johnson had a much stronger Jewish following than Kennedy did, much stronger. This is one of the major reasons for sending Johnson up to New York to make that famous-well, I don't know if famous--but that speech at the Liberal
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Vietnam may have affected its standing within the UN: policy changes in regard to China and Taiwan; UN reaction to the Tet Offensive in 1968; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; obstacles to negotiation in times of war, such as in Vietnam in the 1960s
  • Johnson give his famous speech of March 31 [1968] when he announced the limitation of the bombing and his non-candidacy? S: No, I don't. If you were to ask me where were you when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was 14 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Johnson got the Manned Spacecraft Center in a deal with Kennedy-a political deal--in reward for Lyndon Johnson running as Vice President . B: Is there any truth in that? I don't think there is one iota of truth in it . Lyndon Johnson on the overall
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Hayden and Cannon came along and they couldn't agree on the appropriations bill, or where they were going to meet to discuss it--and finally, he never did say anything, but finally the President asked him--Kennedy asked him to see if he could get
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • I· re d,01_n~J. , ' v:2 :: Tr1ey 1 ro. sit.ting back 9ig9lin~J- J\nd this is HQ'te Javits civil war ~Jo·in~J on in the South; U;ey ri1ove Kennedy in and th2y cut off the South from him and blm1 up the bridge. w~~~ Thi1t 1 s th~y w~nt to do
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --increases in salaries. We got firearms control beyond where we had expected to get it. B: The bill as it came out was more than you expected? C: It was more than we had expected to get, and we even added to that later after Senator Kennedy's
Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • recall going with Senator Mansfield and two or three other members of the Congress out to Andrews Air Force Field to meet the new President, who came in on the plane which also carried the body of President Kennedy and his family. I don't recall just when
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • about mail order murder and that every gun should be registered. Well, I don't think that would have changed the assassinations. Bobby Kennedy was killed by a registered gun. But I assume that the fact that he probably was under threats all the time--I'm