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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson -- XI -- 2 at the Kennedy-Warren in a small apartment, our return to the Kennedy-Warren actually, because it had been our first, brief home after Lyndon came to Congress. Lyndon had had, for a few weeks, a little apartment over there the summer
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Returning to Saigon following the JFK assassination; Robert McNamara’s December 1963 visit to Vietnam; January 1964 Khanh coup and alleged French involvement; what the French might have wished for Vietnam; Christmas 1964 in Dalat; Tran Van Don; Le
  • of country for about two and a half weeks. I went from Rome back to Washington; as I mentioned earlier, I arrived there the day of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Then I went back via the Far East, stopped off and saw our embassy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the peace movement--working either for [Cyrus] Vance, or as general counsel of the army, or for [Robert] McNamara, so I had some experience. I remember telling the President--well, first of all, when I finally got to the President, when I finally started--I
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and financial influence; the American Medical Association's (AMA) opposition to health care legislation that Hill supported; Robert Taft's involvement in the Hill-Burton Act; Hill's relationship with other senators and with LBJ in the 1950s; LBJ's performance
  • : The only one that really comes to mind would be AMA. Again, I need to point out, even on the Republican side, for example, Bob [Robert A.] Taft on the Hill-Burton construction act--Taft was the guy who got the proviso in that the South get two dollars
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by the late President Kennedy, was there any dismay on the part of the black community that "that man" had been named on the Democratic ticket? W: I really wouldn't want to try to reconstruct that. From my own memory, I know the President at that time had
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and Martin. Then after Mr. Bob Calvert, Robert W. Calvert, who's a contemporary of ~lr. Johnson and former speaker of the [Texas] House, now chief justice of the Supreme Court [of Texas], was elected to the Supreme Court in 1950, we moved down with his
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM CLYDE FRIDAY INTERVIEWER: Janet Kerr-Tener PLACE: Dr. Friday's office, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 F: There's an interesting little footnote here, if I have the time sequence correct. Robert Goheen
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • take the list after everybody had accepted and go through it; I don't know what caused the change; to my knowledge it was not done during the Kennedy Administration. I think the initial problem came in 1964, when the President had the first presidential
Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Sargent Shriver would head the OEO? H: I think so. G: It was more or less assumed by all of you that [he would]? H: I think so. G: Do you recall any input by the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy? H: Not that I was aware of. I'm not certain about
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • put the so-called "jury trial" amendment on the voting rights part of the bill. not the big thing. We fought that, but for me the jury trial amendment was It was part three that was the big thing. And of course John Kennedy was with us on part three
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a terrible commentary. P: Anyhow, on the way back, I was flown to Honolulu to participate in one of [Robert] McNamara's big flying circuses. G: Of 1962? P: 1962, yes. This was August, I think. And I was asked to give a brief presentation of what we
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things kind of came together and had different meaning as a resul t of reading it. I thi nk it was a very important contri- buti,on. G: Did you ever talk to President Kennedy about the poverty program, or what should be done? LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they do not. Eisenhower never--now, I say to the Supreme Court. F: Yes. W: I don't know, he might have to individuals on the Court, but not to me. Eisenhower never, never-- F: Not to Chief Justice Warren. W: No. President Kennedy did ask me my
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Vietnam; Farmer’s resignation; Literacy Plan; Adam C. Powell; Farmer’s proposal regarding literacy; White House Conference on Civil Rights; assassination of MLK; liberal party ticket candidate; Farmer blasted Shriver in 1966 at CORE convention; Robert
  • after the assassination of Kennedy. M: Yes, that's on the first tape, right. F: Right. And I discussed it with him several times later, two or three times, in the presence of the heads of the other civil rights organizations. They were all backing
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • about that story of him promoting a trip to Laredo one I didn't. I had too many other irons in the fire. live seen his samples and everything a lot of times, yes. night by selling socks? R: No, I don't. G: I think it's in [Robert] Carols book
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • recall one instance where Lyndon Johnson did not personally read every sentence of every letter. And I think that someone like Juanita Roberts, who knows about this aspect of the presidential office in even greater detail, would corroborate
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; Pierre Renfret; rumors of recession, 1966-1967; Ford strike, 1967; Ackley's resignation and subsequent ambassadorship to Italy; transition to Nixon Administration; Robert McNamara; balance of payments problem; Charles de Gaulle
  • : You've got a problem. Back under Kennedy, you plugged for a cut in taxes to stimulate the economy. Now then you are starting to plug for a tax increase to slow down the economy. A: Right. F: In both cases you are delayed because of the political
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • informational; explaining Vietnam policy across the country; Interagency Committee structure; Balance of Payments Committee; Kennedy Round; Relations with the Budget Bureau and the Council of Economic Advisors; LBJ’s relationship with businessmen; Sidney
  • : Oh, yes. M: Irreconcilable ones that just couldn't be compromised? T: Yes, we had several issues of that kind. For instance, the Kennedy round, when the deadline on June 30 of 1967 of the Kennedy round came along. We were up all night long
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • quite good. There had been a conscious decision with Kennedy to try to work with him and not try to exert great pressures on him and to encourage him rather than to leverage LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about the one where Kefauver and Kennedy-G: Oh, I was there. F: And Adlai was, for a second time. G: I'm sorry, I will go back. You see, these years! All right. Yes, I was at the convention. F: As a delegate? G: No, Walter asked me to come
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • drinking. I think he had one slim scotch in the evening. He was on a diet, and he had Lady Bird on the diet with him. I remember Juanita Roberts being at the house planning all of the diets. I remember that very much. That was a little later
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the Limited Test Ban Treaty; informing LBJ of the coup against Diem in Vietnam; Vice-President LBJ’s lack of inclusion in NSC events; problems between JFK’s and LBJ’s staffs; LBJ’s loyalty to Kennedy; LBJ’s distaste for protocol; events surrounding Walter
  • , as a courtesy to Mrs. Kennedy kept--stayed on at The Elms, as you know, for several days, and Johnson inevitably relied on his State Department liaison person whom he knew, Lee Stull, in my absence. Lee I had placed in the--we had a little office on the seventh
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon's fault--in other words, he did so many brilliant, wonderful things on his own. Nobody could have passed Medicare, nobody could have passed the civil rights bill, when Daddy was dead, and no one could have done that. Kennedy couldn't do
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with a bill. He looked around for help. Nobody offered any help, and he said, "With- out objection it is so ordered. II I looked on with absolutely amazement. That was my first experience with the dynamism, the force, the "vigah," as Kennedy would have
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Staats is now the U.S. comptroller general. They talked me into coming into government, which I had never thought of doing, and I went to work for the Bureau of the Budget. I was sworn in about two weeks before the assassination of Kennedy, and after
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to contend that we were victims of disinformation, because it was coupled with a longer article by Robert Elegant about the failures of the media in Vietnam. Incidentally, I disagree very strongly with his thesis, but I think that was part of the reason why
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think Dick Goodwin was the one responsible. He could put words together because he had the knack. I told the President much later in the game that the only successful speech writers in the history of this country had been playwrights. Robert Sherwood
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -recovery kinds of letters. So I wrote one [response], which was obviously given to him. I believe it was Juanita [Roberts] who told me that he liked the letter and he wanted me to come out to work some at the hospital. G: Let me ask you to describe what
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • something to the effect that this came naturally to Luci, but she and Lynda could barely comb their own hair or something to that effect. And he always liked—oh, one thing, I know that very early when I started to work there, I remember Juanita Roberts
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • safety sailed through the Senate. That was really basically. . . . Then Bobby [Kennedy?] came in, I see, to join with the call for more . . . G: Did this irritate the President? C: I don't have any recollection of that. I think he just didn't want
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was Mr. Roberts, the president of our bank in Wharton. of our bank, E. G. Brooks. There was another one, a vice president They've always been as nice to me as any- body you ever saw in your life. When I came to Houston a letter of introduction
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of those spontaneous things, because of her fondness for Jackie Kennedy and because Jackie Kennedy had great regard for Warnecke, the designer of the restoration, as well as the new buildings around Lafayette Park." He said frankly he felt Mrs. Mellon had
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • between Dr. Givens and Mayor [Robert Thomas "Tom"] Miller of the city was very close, and Mayor Miller was a very close friend to Lyndon Baines Johnson, so all of this fit in together to make [inaudible] combination of me getting to know Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; the decision to not call up the reserves to fight in Vietnam; December 1965 bombing pause and negotiations; "hawks" and "doves" advising LBJ, such as Robert McNamara and George Ball; Arthur Goldberg; the Immigration Bill of 1965; meetings betweeen Cliff Carter
  • telling him that if you did certain things, that we could win. [William] Westmoreland and [Robert] McNamara and [Walt] Rostow and everybody that advised him on Vietnam were telling him that if you did certain military things, you could force them
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said later we were just not going to do it, and he said, "That's a good idea." F: Were you involved in the death of Robert Kennedy? S: No. F: That, you know, broke out pretty late 'Ivashington time. S: Oh, yes, I remember, and I was called about
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Was this kind of secrecy necessary? 0: I don't know how you'd define that . Maybe it was necessary to him . I remember some examples under President Kennedy when virtually transcripts of meetings in the President's office appeared in the press . That kind
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; naming the 1st model cities; working with the White House as LBJ’s power waned; Robert Wood; Vietnam’s effect on domestic spending; problems with progressing from plans to action; difficulty with appropriation of funds; working in cooperation
  • of the Senate as Vice President at the time my confirmation hearing came up, and he noticed my name on the calendar. That afternoon, after the confirmation hearing, I was in the office of Robert Giaimo, the Democratic congressman from my Connecticut district