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Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

what he had to do. And he proved that later on when he had a great part in seeing that the civil rights acts were passed after Kennedy was assassinated. I think President Johnson can be credited with passing more liberal legislation than anybody

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Narva -- I -- 24 Kennedy Administration and the last year with Lyndon Johnson--George Burkley had planned to retire. He'd

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to Cyrus Vance in 1960 after the Kennedy victory, somehow felt a strand out of his own past coming to the fore when out of the blind a letter from Matthew Nimetz arrived. We interviewed Matt and later, with the approval of the President, added Matt to our

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

even recall ever hearing of him. We had other members we were active with like Jack Kennedy and Dick Nixon, but Lyndon Johnson, 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at the moment and their ability to talk to the Soviets about our position is hard to reconstruct, but Wilson felt it was a fundamental difference, and I am inclined to agree. M: There were also a couple of flurries in there--one involving Bobby Kennedy, I

Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

looked November, I was tentatively And on that particular day, which was a Wednesday in this cancelled scheduled to see President Kennedy, but it turned out later that out, that he was too busy in getting off to Texas . And of course

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

imagine Kennedy told him that he could . G : Do you think that he felt that his heart was a factor, and maybe that if he continued as majority leader he might have health problems? B: He didn't talk about it . G: Back to the presidency now . You

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

think that President Truman was a great builder, a great architect of our policies of collective security and development. I think that Presi- dent Kennedy was able in a--to project an image of this country and of his own leadership

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. In retrospect I would say that John F. Kennedy did. On occasion he was good at this, but there were times too when he lost his audience. I remember when he gave his "Older American" speech in Madison Square Garden. It was judged a real calamity in terms

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Education Academic Facilities Act, put the federal government in the business of aiding education, and the 1956 act which was much more comprehensive. I think settled it. I think the importance of this would be hard to exaggerate. Mr. Kennedy had done what

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in a forum Bob Calvert was chairman, Vann Kennedy was secretary. were all Stevenson appointees, Stevenson's tion. that was all the people, Stevenson's organiza- When they had that one vote, he waited, to find one. They he waited for them to try

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that area, we are going to impound them, because the Humane Society is going to have a court order." He really got excited then. He called Christine Stevens, the wife of Roger Stevens, the director of the Kennedy Center. Chris has been very involved

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in those days, because back here in Washington I helped the International Visitors' Program, and worked with foreign students during Angier Biddle Duke's tenure as chief of protocol under Kennedy. progra~s I gave in the State Department, folk music

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

these things about Jim and he liked Jim so he went to the secretary of defense and asked if he could have a Jet Star. Of course it had to be approved by President Kennedy and they finally agreed that yes, he could have a Jet Star. So he picked Cross to be his

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

felt when he took over as president after Kennedy was killed that he had a mission to try to pass the legislation that had been unable to pass, that Kennedy espoused but could not pass. So in the first hundred to hundred and eighty days he had

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 3 (III), 2/27/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

th t he Pr e si dent a grea t deal. He was a very v is ib le Pr es s Sec r e t ary --ver y, v e r y v is i ble , more so than anybody I guess. We l l, Saling er was v i s ib le in Kennedy 's days, of course--bu t Bi l l wa s the fi rst Pre ss

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and we would always have a little visit for an hour. W: The Kennedy-Harren was VJhere they VJere living, wasn't it? A: Yes. G: Did he talk much about President Roosevelt and his enthusiasm for the New Deal? A: He was always a great admirer

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (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 HURD -- I -- 17 parti cul arly under Nrs. John F. Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the District." Kennedy. Charlie Horsky had been created for that job under President Steve Pollak was there for Johnson. Steve Pollak did leave very quickly after we were nominated and appointed. M: What's the significance of that? F: The significance

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the Budget Bureau it's not very innovative or imaginative, and normally is not designed to rock the boat. P: Who conceives this idea of going outside of government for these new ideas? G: It was done a little bit under President Kennedy when he established

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for which there is no satisfactory answer. can do about it. There is really nothing intelligent that you In the first place, you can't prevent that sort of thing happening any more than you can prevent episodes such as the assassination of Bob Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Special Forces when they picked up the counterinsurgency mission under Kennedy and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lehan -- II -- 24 Kennedy and so on. Obviously, Concorde was going to be built; and the TU-144, the Russian version, was going

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the time I was there was Lee White, who as you know came out of a background with the Kennedy Administration on the Hill. Lee was what I would call a very practical, careful lawyer, really one of the very best, with a great deal of judgment. Harry McPherson

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to the educational experience of the other students. And so we intended from the beginning that there should be a considerable number of mid-career people involved in the Johnson School. But we didn't intend to emphasize it as much as the Kennedy School

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Dispensary in Washington, D.C., under Dr. [George] Burkley. Dr. Burkley was the commanding officer there, and when Dr. Burkley was chosen as physician at the White House under President Kennedy, I was one of the persons that went up there. I was a hospital

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, as the ranking Republican on this committee interested in drugs and these problems; we talked with [Abraham A.] Ribicoff, who had no problem at all. We sent word to Bob Kennedy's office as to the problems and volunteered to meet with him if he had time and if he

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)

"h-'i th whor:i I uas in the) ·fight was l re~line Especially since th9 I th9 s3.r.;e Nr. Willis I _to whom I referred earlier as a r...e!Tlber of President Kennedy's panel. Ev~n· ?:1ore especially since I had to sit up ver-;1 iate one night

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

done some work with the USIA, and I thought I might ask you about that. The USIA, of course, was in existence before you were on the White House staff, but apparently about the time you came onboard there was a controversy over a John F. Kennedy film

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a person serves very closely with a President--no matter who it is, particularly in a job like that--and when he held Kennedv obviously in such affection. ~as one of Kennedy's closest confidants, that carrier dedication was an emotional experience Jr

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 17 C: Oh, yes, that 1 s right. It's more folklore than a ny thin g . Lord, I've heard so much fo l k lore though about Eisenhower and Kennedy that we j ust have added to the folklore about

Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

," and that was true. That was one of the things that defeated him, and it was thirty-some-odd years later when Kennedy, a Catholic, was elected, the first Catholic. B: Did you know that Lyndon Johnson was at that convention? S: No. B: He was going to school

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)