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Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--5 The bill passed the House, and President Kennedy signed it into law. ceremony. I was privileged to be invited
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.
  • , however, when you became postmaster general for the Kennedy Administration. Is that correct? G: I became postmaster general effective September 30, 1963 under Jack Kennedy, President Kennedy, and of course served under him until his death a month
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Carolina during his campaign for the PreSidency after he succeeded President Kennedy. Now I had been in his company a number of times with the North Carolina delegation, I think. We had conferred with him in con- nection with some matters affecting
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the Democratic Convention went on a chartered car by train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. F: I was on that car. I rather gather that the attorney generals had a feeling that Kennedy was not their candidate, or at least was not likely to be a winning
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by the people from Texas. Of course, he was selected by John Kennedy to be his running mate, and then I think he was pretty well taken seriously. B: Did you have anything to do with the pre-convention campaign? Did any- one from Mr. Johnson's camp try
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • his suite in the Biltmore. Oscar Chapman and May Oliver (?), I believe it was, we all were using this room, but mainly Chapman and I were using it. F: Did you have the feeling that you had started late? Y: Yes. And the Kennedy operation was so well
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: T.H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Hardeman's residence, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last we time had gone to the 1960 election, which brings us to John Kennedy's years as president. One of the questions that comes up
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • work for the Kennedy project. H: Yes I did. There were a couple of things. First, the members of the council during the Kennedy Administration, not all of them, but a group of us got together with Paul Samuelson and Joe Pechman. M:. Was Kermit
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 7 (VII), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Discusses several trips LBJ made as Vice President; describes a visit between LBJ and the Kennedys at George Brown’s house, and a visit to Prime Minister Nehru’s house.
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: MARY MARGARET VALENTI INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Valenti's residence in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 V: I see—here it says, “To Middleburg with President and Mrs. Kennedy.” Do the diaries say it reads
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , " meaning John Kennedy, "wins West Virginia, the show's over anyway ; then it's not going to make any difference . If he wins West Virginia, he'll take the convention and the nomination." I'll always rernelnber that, because he did take West Virginia
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
  • it was not that favorable that he was considered in 1960, for instance. candidate for President. He was not considered by our people as the ideal You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy. When he was selected
Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • project? P: Yes, I was interviewed in connection ~vith the John F. Kennedy Oral History Project and also, as a matter of interest, my father, who was a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)
  • , and we're now about a forty-five man law firm. I'm politically a Democrat, and I have worked as an advisor on the edges of government and in various political campaigns, in the course of which I've come to know the president and also President Kennedy. live
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • H: Actually John Connally was the chairman of the delegation, but he was, of course, Lyndon's right-hand man. M: Isn't it true then that Johnson supported Kennedy in 1956? H: For the vice presidency? M: Yes. H: He ran against him for vice
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there with the Democratic National Convention of that year of which the potential contenders were John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and there was even a movement for Adlai Stevenson continuing in that year. Could we begin by your telling me what your activities were about
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that time in which you're beginning to think about, 1960, and it shows John F. Kennedy with the controversial issue of labor, and Stuart Symington with the controversial issue of certain armed forces propositions, and Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • been director of the I & R [Intelligence and Research] from the beginning of the Kennedy Administration until 1963? H: Right. M: So you served about a year in the Far East post. H: Just a little over. M: Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • It spelled out what it was to do. But during the Eisenhower Administration it didn't do it. So in December 1960--1 believe it was December 20, 1960--a press conference was held down at Palm Beach by President-elect Kennedy, and Vice President-elect Johnson
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that policy, as indeed I had under President Kennedy, too. I would sometimes write a column--my wife and I saw them, him and Mrs. Johnson, very often at the White House, probably during those years, almost once a week at least in a very private way
Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • force issue; MLF negotiations failure; lack of organization in the White House from the Kennedy years through 1964; relation between MLF’s demise and nonproliferation treaty negotiations; what happened to Smith’s colleagues following the MLF issue
  • until I was working for the Kennedy Administration as a consultant, adviser to Rusk on multilateral force negotiations. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org M: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and there was excitement about Senator Kennedy as the nominee. And it would have been very unlike him to have expressed any disappointment. If he felt that way, I think he managed to conceal it from everybody. G: What were the advantages of becoming vice president over
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , the later one? F: No, I attended the national convention in Chicago in 1960 when Kennedy was nominated. That's the only one I ever attended. I never LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1970 INTERV IB~EE: JAMES J. REYNOLDS INTERVIEHER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Reynolds' office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: r.lr. Secretary, let's tell how you first come to be an assistant secretary under President Kennedy and get you up
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 26, 1971 M: You are Judge Anthony Celebrezze, and your connection with the Johnson Administration was as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, which you had actually undertaken in 1962 under President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • contact after this? R: Here was a great change for me. For one thing, like many others, I had been much taken by Mr. Kennedy's personality and capacity to put things in verbal forms. It was inspiring. I think my wife even more so; she had been so
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • [For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ
  • of the people that were connected with him who had connections with you. You mentioned [Ted] Sorensen as I recall, and connections through Kennedy which also brought you into contact with Lyndon Johnson. C: Well, my actual relationship with Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or intimate, as far as I know. Their voting records were quite similar, particularly after Mr. Johnson became vice president and president. Yarborough s voting 1 record was almost a hundred per cent with both the Kennedy and the Johnson Administration
Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • pretty highly of John Kennedy? E: Well, I don't think he thought very highly of him as a politician, you know, as a vote getter or anything like that, but men change their views depending on the circumstances in which they're confronted with people. I
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a letter. M: Did you know Moyers? C: I didn't know him at that time. I didn't know him personally until after the campaign there was over, and the Kennedy campaign was beginning. And, as you'll recall, they had a great dinner here in Austin for Lyndon
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the Johnson-Rayburn group, but I have never been heavily involved with the party political machine in Texas. F: \fuen you come down to 1960, it is evi.dent that Johnson is probably going to run against Kennedy and whoever else, Stuart Symington and other
Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • or seconded Stevenson or not. Mc: Do you remember the fight for the Vice Presidency between John F. Kennedy and Kefauver? M: Oh yes, I did. And Pennsylvania went--at least the majority of us-- went for Kefauver, yes. Mc: Do you remember the Texas
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • liberal viewpoints . I'm trying to think who the other contenders were . F: There were primarily Stuart Symington and John F . Kennedy, and some believed that Adlai Stevenson might come back for kind of a run on it, and Hubert Humphrey . B: I don't
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • by focusing on your experiences from 1961 to 1965, serving both under President Johnson and President Kennedy. You were appointed the Director of the Bureau of the Census in 1961. S: Yes. G: This is a political appointment? S: Yes
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • office; preparations for the 1960 state and national Democratic conventions; Crooker's work with Woodrow Seals; setting up the Kennedy-Johnson campaign headquarters in Houston and staffing it; Texans' response to LBJ accepting the vice presidential
  • , you know. It just appeared one day and you were under way. Did you have fairly high hopes of success? C: Yes. Maybe we were starry-eyed. Maybe we were foolish. But we did have high hopes of success. For some reason I felt that Senator [John] Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and that he would stand by these principles that he hoo practiced and expoused (sic) for so many years. B: Did you participate in the 1960 presidential campaign, sir? M: Yes, sir, I did. B: Did you campaign for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket? M: No, sir, I
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? You know there was all that uncertainty about whether he was going to run in 1960 and when he finally offered himself, Kennedy already had the nomination sewed up. P: Oh, yes. I, of course, was supporting Johnson for the presidency and I thought
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the originator, or were you in on the beginning of the socalled Troika and the Quadriad? H: Yes. Let me tell you a little about that. Again, I may not have the exact dates, but these can be checked out from the memos in the Kennedy period. We, fairly early
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in it. 14: In the 1960 convention the Democratic Party of Nichigan had committed itself to two goals. First of all, we had a candidate, John Kennedy, whom we'd settled on after I decided that I was not going to be a favorite son candidate. form. Our
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 to the President, and I went with him to that office. And then the Eisenhowers came along, and then when the Eisenhowers left and the Kennedys came in, I clamored to get back
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wouldn't go speak, I found a young fellow in the Senate that would speak. His name was John F. Kennedy. I felt a great kindness to these people when they had struggled and struggled on small amounts of money in their state, but they elected their candidates