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Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • /loh/oh "Well," he said, "we need you to go to some of the more liberal state delegations, for instance, North Carolina." I said, "Zack, Terry Sanford is running that show and he's a Kennedy man like horseradish." "Yes, but we don't have anybody
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was a member, and I remember Senator Symington and Senator Kennedy were members. they were. I've forgotten who else We used to meet regularly and discuss matters of concern to the Democratic party. Both Senator Johnson and Congressman Rayburn LBJ
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • agreed to set up the COMSAT Corporation is a way that makes it conducive to working with federal agencies. R: Well, that was set up during the Kennedy Administration. M: The end of the Kennedy Administration, right. R: Yes, we worked with them very
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Committee on Employment of the Handicapped in April 1964. You succeeded the second chairman to this committee, Major General Melvin Maas at the event of his death. In 1962 you were appointed by President Kennedy as a vice-chairman of the committee when
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Hutchinson, Frank and Jean Ikard, Jim Imhofe, Wayne Jebhurst [?], Warren Jernigan, Corey Johnson [?], Lady Bird Johnson, Luci Johnson, Lynda Johnson, Jerry Jolash [?], Claire Jones, John Marvin Jones, Barbara Kennelly, Jack Kemp, Barbara Kennedy [?], Joe
  • have put what looks like 6K? P: BK. D: That's BK. P: One of my secretaries--my secretary was BK, Barbara Kennelly; that was her name--BK [was] Barbara Kennedy, not Kennelly. Barbara Kennelly is on here, too. She was a congresswoman from
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • know, my love is. great for men from.among the.liberal leaders that we had in the Senate. who were good, genuine liberals and moderates: Pastore, Mansfield, Humphrey. I knew Senator Kennedy; didn 1 t get to know him too well. He was ill most
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the table and really took pleasure in doing it, although I never for a moment thought I was going to make a life's career out of that. I was just doing it until we had a more expansive household and more means. G: Was this the Kennedy-Warren place? J
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in nominating John Kennedy as vice president. F: Texas went for Kennedy over Kefauver, which surprised a lot of . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org '· ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was strong. The report he got was that when President Kennedy was ki 11 ed i.t might have been done by those connected with, or associ ated with, or in sympathy with the far right movement. Some reporter gave him that ~ LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was there; she has been Kennedy's physician. Dr. George Burkley and his very capable associate, Dr. Jim Young, both of the navy, were also there and were assuming very active roles in the care of Kennedy, in that traveling was hard for Dr. Travell. They had done
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • became a hero after he died. President Johnson probably took as much brutal treatment as any President--and undeservedly so. I would consider that sorrow. I think that it was sorrowful for him at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy. I
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that was in the late fifties. Of course in 1960 along came John Kennedy, which helped a lot. I can't remember anything specifically, how that happened or how it segued into his being an acceptable liberal. But somehow it did. G: Let me just ask you about a variety
Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • renovated itself when he was vice president. Of course, when he was running for vice president, he and President Kennedy came to Laredo for a Democratic fund rally, and I happen to went because I said I had a card-one of the schoolteachers, somebody gave me
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • F.] Kennedy and [Hubert] Humphrey were already declared at that period. If they weren't declared, it was certainly known that they were candidates. In response to a query from me, he went to unusual lengths to marshal the reasons why he had
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • tremendous respect, always, for his intellectual ability. I thought he was a towering--I thought that he was, that intellectually he was far superior to Nixon, to Ford. And Kennedy had a very quick facile mind, but Johnson in some ways had a deeper mind
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and interpreter for Supreme Court Justice [William] Douglas and for Bob Kennedy in 1955 when they went to the Soviet Union. So I told Tom Sorensen that I would agree to come out to Berkeley and talk to their five thousand students in the student union at high
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did not affect his friendship with Russell or Russell's friendship with him. But if he had gone too far in his innate liberalism he would not have had the degree of support of all the South that appealed to Kennedy and his backers. G: Before we
Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with either President Kennedy or President Johnson? M: No, sir. B: In the normal course of things-- M: I have attended meetings where they've spoken and the like, but at the time I have had no particular direct contact. B: From your vantage point here
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Manned Spacecraft Center. P: That's right. Now let's talk about that a minute. The Manned Spacecraft Center was to be located in one of about three places towards the final months of consideration of a site. Boston, with the Kennedys interested
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in an apartment though at the Kennedy-Warren at that time. I don't imagine I stayed with them then. I imagine I stayed at the Dodge. G: The Woodley Park Towers, they stayed there, too, I think in 1941. R: That's true. They must have stayed--oh, I know
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shanks -- I -- 4 nomination against [John] Kennedy, we were
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Spinn -- I -- 7 G: No. S: Didn't? Babe Kennedy used to play tennis and I was thinking
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Groce -- I -- 14 JG: In the subsequent election of 1960--of Kennedy--I wrote to the clerk in Washington and asked him to please send me a copy of the motion that had been filed several years before. I've got the letter
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • elected, But that's an examp l e . could hav e al lowed his n ame to go on the ballot and didn't. He He didn't active l y campaign himself in New Hampshire. B: Were Rob e rt Kennedy's activities involved in this, too? C: Well, par tly because he di
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , Politics and Mr. Sundquist is the Policy~ the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years, and as I understand, is to be the author of a forthcoming volume on the administration of some of the programs enacted during the Kennedy and Johnson years. lid like
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • participates in these visits, if they occur within their area. M: And you stayed in Atlanta until 1960? Y: Through 1960. At the very end of 1960, I came back to Washington on a temporary assignment and was here during the inauguration of President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the news, the two of us were alone. know, it was just sort of, I guess, blank. It You I don'tthinkwe spilled into the halh"ays, but just a blank,empty feeling. At the time we heard that President Kennedy had been shot, we didn't hear much beyond
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gradually took a very benevolent view toward DSG. Of course, after the 1960 election when Jack Kennedy was elected president, the relationships became much more close. In fact, if there had not been a close working relationship between the Speaker
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Number eight was Willard Wirtz who was secretary of labor under both Kennedy and Johnson. Now those are the eight people. We sent that report to the Regents. One of the interesting responses to it was a note that came--I'm sorry, oh, six weeks later
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • House back in the early years of the Kennedy Administration to discuss with Mac Bundy and Ralph Dungan, who was then the President's chief ''headhunter'' for finding people to take on major jobs in the Federal administration. I was invited to discuss
Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • hand, which I did. So I left Rand on a year's leave in 1960 in the spring, and started work in the Office of Research and Engineering in May of 1960 for what would have been a year or so. Then, after President Kennedy was elected, he picked Mr
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 than President Kennedy's. But I would clearly say
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , no, education, social science, human behavior. I was on the scientific advisory board of the Air Force; I was chairman of President Kennedy's Commission on International Education and Cultural Affairs, and I was a member of President Kennedy's task force
Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for ten years . My last management position with the G .E . Company was as manager of the engineering operation at Cape Kennedy . I left Florida in 1965--October of '65-­ and was relocated to Washington by the company . My first task was to serve
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; David Kennedy; George Champion; George Moore; bank holding company; Patman's Push to have GAO audit Office of Comptroller
  • I think the Small Business Administration was under the sameinstructions from President Kennedy, to liberalize credit in this country. "Let's get more money out; let's get it working; let's put the money out." And we did, in my opinion, quite
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was Jack LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DANIEL -- I -- 19 Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Peter P. Muirhead, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Herman R. Allen (Item)
  • mci.y jus~ turn the time clock back ~ littl e , 6 back to the time ' -; hc'n President Kennedy submitted to the 7 Congress his Higher Education facilities proposal, directed \ \ -,1 ' I 8 ,, at, as the n'!me i nl plies, thC sup;-,.ort