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Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Kennedy as a supporter of your health programs? M: We were very good friends so he knew what I was--yes. But he never--we had to make the big push in the Senate to get extra money always because, of course, they were always trying to do their budget. G
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the Pentagon. C: Let me start with the earlier meeting. G: Okay. (Interruption) C: On November 9, 1964, Secretary [Robert] McNamara and Cyrus Vance went down to the Ranch and I was not with them. They were armed with a proposal we had worked on since
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . W: Yes, though President Kennedy had rather deliberately tried to bring i.n a new group that was post-New Deal. G: We kind of felt estranged from the Kennedy group. W: To some extent, though I happened to serve on a Kennedy task force and 1 had
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ's tour in Australia; kangaroos for the ranch; LBJ's decision to retain Kennedy cabinet; press leaks; opinions of Stuart Udall; appointment to the Department of the Interior; Rebekah Johnson's relationship with LBJ; Boatner's father's death
  • : You mentioned that you were known as Lyndon Johnson's man in the Interior Department, and he had other people who were closely identified with him in other departments and agencies. How did this work? B: Well, he kept the Kennedy cabinet
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /refusal to change as times changed; LBJ’s change from a 'southern’ to a ‘western’ outlook; Russell as LBJ’s senate mentor; LBJ’s dominant personality and power of persuasion; Senator Robert Kerr; Jordan’s activities as advance man for LBJ in the 1960
  • close until Senator Robert Byrd came along. In the Fifties Senator Russell had an office at the corner of First and Constitution, close by one of the main entrances and exits to what is now the Russell Office Building but was then the only Senate
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and Montague; Special Assistant Robert Komer's staff; the goals of pacification; Komer's personality; Montague's role on Komer's staff projects to stabilize the Vietnam economy; the PROVN (The Program for the Pacification and Long Term Development of South
  • Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger
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  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT M. MONTAGUE INTERVIEWER: Ted PLACE: Gittinger General Montague's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: When were you assigned to Vietnam? M: Let's see. That should be kind of easy, I think. I started out my
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Youth Administration made little impact upon the three-man staff of the International News Service at Austin. That staff consisted of Vann M. Kennedy, myself, and Walter Fleet, a youngster whose job it was to punch the tape which fed through
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ; discussions on Vietnam; LBJ and Vietnam; incidents preceding and following Gulf of Tonkin incident; Robert McNamara; use of intelligence support
  • was trying to keep it covered up for many good reasons. But at any rate, after the Bay of Pigs and even after the Cuban missile crisis, I know that the Kennedys and John McCone, who talked to me about it almost as soon as I came back to Washington
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was then either Cy [Cyrus] Vance's special assistant or general counsel to the army. That was September 1962. We got into this--I shouldn't say we, I got into it on the Saturday before the Sunday night in which the rioting really hit its peak. Mr. [Robert
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • House in Palm Beach, Florida, where he was to meet with President Kennedy and members of the President's Cabinet, as well as leaders of Congress, prior to the opening of Congress, which was scheduled sometime the 8th or 9th of January, as I recall
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Kennedy, Mr . Nixon, and Mr . Albert all in one little huddle . They were the only � � � � 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, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Capron's work on the Council of Economic Advisers in 1963; research and plans to address poverty issues in the Kennedy Administration; Capron's involvement in a Saturday lunch group that studied poverty issues and developed related program ideas
  • is that I became actively involved in June of that year. But even earlier than that I was aware that another senior staff member, Robert Lampman, who was on leave from the University of Wisconsin, was working on updating and pulling together information
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT LAMPMAN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Lampman's residence, Madison, Wisconsin Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start, Dr. Lampman, by asking you to trace the beginning of your involvement with what became the War on Poverty. L
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to something I've just finished reading here that one of the Brookings people has written, Mr. James Sundquist's book which covers the Eisenhower and Kennedy--Johnson years and draws contrasts. He has a section on the environment and describes what has
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "Confidentally, I'm supporting Jack Kennedy, who is the logical one," and so forth. Kennedy?" "Will you line up with Jack But you know, there were seven Democratic candidates, potentials and hopefuls at that time. Lyndon was number seven at the bottom as far
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • tax. As I say, he was chief of staff, appointments, everything. MG: Okay, who else? AG: Mildred was Walter's secretary and his right hand. was in the Senate office. Juanita [Roberts] The Senate office was very, very small. MG: Now, when you say
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the tragedy of Robert Kennedy, and he called me up and said, "r want you to put men on that right away," about six o'clock in the morning, "put good men on it," and so forth and so on, which we did. M: So he does not at weird hours and frequently
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and only the President knows--I have no idea--and I always denied this, about ten days before my Under Secretary had come to me-F: Is this David Black? U: Yes. --with the idea of naming the District of Columbia Stadium for Robert Kennedy. He, of course
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Robert Komer. C: This is [Gerald] Ford, Albert. I wonder if this is the right year? B: To the Cabinet Room for the congressional bipartisan leadership meeting. C: Yes. B: . . . with you for a review. Ford was there. Tom Johnson made notes
Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at that time was assistant secretary, asked me to take the White House Latin American adviser job, which Robert B. Sayre had occupied for about nine months previous to that. F: Had you known Walt Rostow or the President at all before this time? B: I had
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Commission. He went back to Truman. He had been reappointed a couple of times and had been in the Eisenhower years I know and of course the Kennedy years, since John F. Kennedy was very fond of his son, or at least leaned on him. I would presume he was fond
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT KOMER li~TERVIEWER: PAIGE E. PLACE: Mr. Komer's office, RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C. MULHOLL&~ Tape 1 of 3 M: You were, for part of the time in 1964 and '65, the White House man on Africa as well as the Middle
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Failed tax increases; Wilbur Mills; 1968 primaries; Bobby Kennedy entering the 1968 presidential race; the Tet offensive and negotiating with the North Vietnamese; Clark Clifford; bombing halts; Monsignor Paul Marcinkus visiting LBJ at the Ranch
  • . The President felt that they were motivated more by Bobby Kennedy than by Gene McCarthy. G: Really? K: Yes. Particularly the Lowenstein one. He felt that was a Kennedy front. I had no evidence of that. Since it was New York, he used to talk to me a lot about
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Bay of Pigs: reasons for failure; criticism of JFK’s Administration; military-industrial complex discussed in reference to General Dynamics controversy; disapproval and disagreement with Robert McNamara’s policies; opinions on LBJ Administration’s
  • of this," and that ended the discussion. All these at'ticles that you have seen that have been written by the great brains of the Kennedy Administration, including Robert Kennedy, on the Bay of Pigs as to the bad military advice and the betrayal of the military
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • First knowledge of LBJ; Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune enthusiastic regarding LBJ; Mrs. Bethune and the NYA; friendship with Stuart Symington; LBJ getting building for Huston-Tillotson College; relationship with LBJ; 1957 Civil
  • of government. My first knowledge of the President came when he was running for the Senate, and at that time I was talking to many people like Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, all of whom said that it would be a great thing if Texas could
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • despite the President? W: Bailey never had the confidence of the President, I don't think; he was feared by the President as a Kennedy man, and also I think he was getting a little tired of it, and nobody was allowed to move without Johnson's direct
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was informed, and I'm quite confident that it was the case, that Robert Kennedy, who must have been a member of the War on Poverty Task Force in his position as attorney general, had made a final effort in the closing stages of putting together
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to that, how did the Civil Rights Division get along with the FBI in investigative matters such as in those cases? P: I think the best person to ask is Mr. Doar. B: He would have been handling the main aspects of those? P: That's correct. And D. Robert
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Democratic National Convention; the support of John Connally and the Wesley West family; early memories of John F. Kennedy; LBJ's senate majority leader office; committee to select the best senators throughout history; LBJ persuading Texas delegates to vote
  • , but comes later on in his life and I probably already have recited that in my White House things about after he--having taken over as President after the death of President [John F.] Kennedy--in August of 1964 was approaching the convention time. And he had
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Vietnam; France’s involvement with Vietnam; the Pueblo; General Hamilton Howze; overestimating enemy power; conflict between military and intelligence staff; Robert McNamara’s request for an opinion paper on anti-ballistic missile use; Soviet involvement
  • morning when all of the analysis had been completed and so on. From that Monday when he was notified, which would have been the fifteenth or possibly the sixteenth, until the following Monday, the twenty-second, which was the evening that President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mean, I do remember at the University of Chicago, if I can find them, an economist from Northwest[ern University], Robert Eisner, laying into us on the war, but in terms of--you know, I would go around the table. . . . Ah, here's New York. G: You were
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • . There were others after that, but I would have to consider that our first meeting. After leaving Washington, there was a story in the newspaper, the [Rowland] Evans-[Robert] Novak column, and in that column they mentioned my visit to the White House
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it; no state commission ever has. F: You've got people like you, Andy Brimmer, Robert Weaver, and others scattered around. ~ Now then, you've g.ot something like downtown New York, the financial district, which has been pretty much lilywhite. Do you get
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • back, I think it was about 1939, the war clouds came out and it was dropped. He appointed a commission, headed by his friend Robert Anderson of Texas, to look at the same thing we'd looked at, and they made a report. They came up with a different
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • adjustments. The Congress had been very jealous and zealous in main- taining control over the rates of pay of a large portion of the federal employees. Starting in the Kennedy Administration there was an effort to achieve a higher degree of rationality
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Of course, that was primarily a Kennedy campaign. OM: That's true. F: Mr. Johnson was subordinate in this instance, except you did have . . . Vr'1: We had the tea F: You had the tea Vfvl: Yes. F: Tell me a little bit about them. VM: ~'Jell
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • temper and tactics; 1960 Kennedy/Johnson campaign; Hofheinz’ private bill regarding Yorktown Corporation; LBJ’s jokes; 1960 Democratic Convention and LBJ’s acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; assignments LBJ offered James.
  • at their home and I knew Senator Hugo Black pretty we 11 . The Durr' s used to have a lot of pa rti es. They had people over like Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, John L. Lewis, the Johnsons, Hugo Black and his lovely wife, Virginia's sister. G: Do you
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Clark; pardons and paroles; LBJ’s relationship with Hoover; Omnibus Crime Act of 1968; Model Cities; Robert Weaver; Bob Wood; tariffs; press relations; overseas airline decision; 1968 LBJ campaign and decision not to run; political activities after the 3
  • Katzenbach and Bob Kennedy all operated a very extensive network throughout the South. When you called John Doar about a problem that you had heard about in Meridian or in Selma, wherever, as sometimes happened--a lawyer or a judge or an elected official
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into this, because I answered yes." where they were asked for references. They sit and they never Then he got to the section [He wrote] "Honorab 1e Robert Kennedy" and two others of similar stature. And he smiled and he said, "They're going to have fun