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Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

affairs to its predecessors the Kennedy Administration? P: I .think they've both been very forward-looking Administrations, very sympathetic and sensitive to African aspirations. I would say that you can't make a great deal of differentiation. M: You

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. It's true that the manpower programs were started in '62 during the Kennedy Administration, but they have moved forward in this period with increased momentum, with tremendous increase in the investment in people. The programs have grown very rapidly

Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 When President Kennedy came into office, he appointed a congressman from Maine by the name of Frank Coffin to a job

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, his accepting it? D: No, I really wasn't. Tell you what I did. After Kennedy was nominated on the first ballot--of course, I was disappointed--I got on the plane and carne on horne. F: But not surprised? D: Not surprised, no. I got there a day

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

basis, a billion and three-quarters on the official settlements basis in 1968. Now, I think it's fair to say that nothing much was done in the way of a balance of payments program until President Kennedy came into office. That's not to indict the former

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

be on foreign policy things, basically, rather than domestic politics. However, I did cover the 1960 campaign; I covered President Kennedy, I covered Mr. Nixon alternately, and I covered Lodge. I never covered Johnson. M: One of the four you missed out on. S

Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

up a candidate and the candidate would have to be running on the record of the last four years as well as the Kennedy Administration. So it became important at that time even though we were in the process of getting ready for another legislative year

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that occupied one corner near his desk. He had the presidential papers in the bookcases surrounding--they were kind of built into the walls of the Oval Room, that is, the papers of Truman and Eisenhower and Kennedy. Now instead of the presidential papers

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was set up, I believe, initially by President Kennedy. actively. He used it very It consists of about a half-dozen leaders of labor unions, and about a half-dozen highly placed industrialists, and I think-around three public members--somewhere between

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and President Kennedy is they were two of the worst leakers in town themselves. I remember once--(Laughter)--when Mac [McGeorge] Bundy called me about a leak; he said Kennedy was furious about it. It appeared in Joe Alsop's column, and it could only come from

Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: No, sir, I believe there were no other dealings during the period prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. B: And then afterwards during President Johnson's presidency--after late '63 into '64--any contact then? E: The first contact after

Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

the remark that the Kennedy boys were baby, something to that--if I had been around Lyndon, Lyndon 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, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

by other more valuable things, but anyway I think the great difference between Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy, for instance, is that it did not seem to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

us about this? Well, I can just tell you that the negotiations in the longshore industryon the Atlantic, on the Gulf, from the very first week when we arrived on the scene with President Kennedy until the year of our departure, were characterized

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

husband kept that commitment with Humphrey, didn't he? R: Yes. And then of course Humphrey was defeated in the primaries oyt [John] Kennedy. And then you know the story of Jim [Rowe) and Johnson and Phil Graham and all the people at Los Angeles. I

Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ever discussed the other to me. I had the feeling that Shriver had a considerable degree of respect for the President. And I would guess, out of all of the Kennedys--if I may call him a Kennedy--l think that he had a better sense of the obligation he

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

pri maries for the Knight newspapers . G: Did you cover New Hampshire, by any chance? 0: No, New Hampshire was too early ; I was still in Vietnam . But I went with Bobby Kennedy to California ; I was with Kennedy when killed in California

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as the majority leader of the Senate. Then when he got selected as vice president, which was a bit of a shock at the time--no one was expecting Kennedy to pick Lyndon Johnson. But the big reaction for me was, as I think I've mentioned, when President Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to overstate my national I began \vorking in national campaigns, as I recall, in 1956, involvement. being head of the Speakers' Bureau in Southern California for Adlai Stevenson. I had a role in John Kennedy's campaign in 1960, and a minor role

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: The refunds were of such a tremendous scale that I have to ask, was there a political advantage that accrued from this for the party in power? S: I'm sure that there was. A lot of this happened under Kennedy. You have to say for Kennedy that he

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

gathered strength over the years. Then when President Kennedy came out for a wilderness bill of some kind, this gave it new momentum. President Johnson supported it and of course he signed the bill in September of 1964. Aspinall initially took a very hard

Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and they were trying to figure out, the $tetson,~ompany was, ~~w to get a hat on President Kennedy. So they finally decided that ifthey could make LBJ a hat, since he did ~ • ' ' I \ ' • wear hats and was out on the Ranch some, that maybe Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

president following the assassination of Kennedy, and he made me the manager of that bill. He asked Mike Mansfield, "Let Hubert Humphrey handle that bill," that comprehensive Civil Rights Act of 1964, which I handled. Two things he did. First of all, he

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was that McFarland lost to Barry Goldwater, and that was a personal sadness and an opportunity for a forward step for Lyndon. And, going against the tide, Henry Cabot Lodge was defeated by Kennedy--young Jack Kennedy. Price Daniel was elected handily and also

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was always as a tax adviser or attorney to the Johnsons. M: Then when President Kennedy was killed here in Dallas, apparently the new President, Lyndon Johnson, contacted you immediately. Is that correct? B: He endeavored to. I was in Shreveport

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, President Kennedy, President Johnson, President Nixon-- all want to try to change, and they can't get it done. F: Thank you. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org \ ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, that's a very important element that you throw in. All my service to the government, responding to President Truman and President Kennedy and President Johnson were, you might say, requested or command performances. M: I did it because they asked me

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: And then it worked on into the Kennedy Administration? S: No, the Bane Committee actually reported before the Eisenhower Administration was finished. Actually, there were two, if not more, bills on physician manpower in the Eisenhower Administration which never

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

no! No!" But they insisted, so we-- F: That helped your allowance, didn't it? L: Yes, it did! F: Where were you at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? L: I'll never [forget]. I was. So sometimes it could be As every American, I'll always remember

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that Kennedy--think it would work. F: Does this about wrap this up? R: I think that does it. F: Thank you, Mr. Rowe. R: All right, sir. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview III] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he was on the ticket. Yes. But I'm thinking there was a move to nominate him for vice president, and he made a speech--I think I'm right on this--and said that he was in favor of Jack Kennedy. Now, was that in 1956? G: I believe so. S: I think

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Harbor after Nixon became President effects of Tet offensive as a public relations defeat; LBJ’s harassment by both the media and Kennedy people in the administration; further results of military restraints from Washington.

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

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, with President Kennedy being President at the time. I spent most of the day with him. I met him at Stewart Air Force Base, which is -near Newburgh, New York, in the morning. the graduation ceremonies late that morning. He addressed He had lunch with us in my

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or deputy assistant attorney general during the Kennedy days, who then went to work for a law firm in Washington, who then was known later as Suds Geoghegan because of his effective representation for the packaging for the soap and detergent industry

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Social? M: Social. Mc: Did you see him in Washington? M: I was trying to think. I would imagine that I did, but I have no definite recollection of it. I'm sure I did. Mc: Well then, after the assassination of President Kennedy did you have

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there? T: No, I didn't go. I wish I had. G: And Kennedy won the nomination, and he went on the ticket as vice president. Anything about the campaign that--you worked for the ticket, I know, and-- T: Not very much. I was very much surprised that he