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Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • interest in it. It came out after he had become president, but it had started under Kennedy, and I don't know that he was thoroughly briefed on it. I didn't get to know him very well at that stage. I have no reason to think that he didn't support it. 21
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • important precedent. And, as I remember, Lyndon Johnson did work for that bill. B: Yes, he did. Then what was your attitude toward the 1960 Democratic ticket of Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson? R: Quite frankly, I was very distressed when Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a minor part in the Presidential race on behalf of the Kennedy-Johnson ticket that year. Of course, I knew Connally and saw him as Secretary of the Navy on several occasions, and when he determined to run for governor, he wanted me to run his campaign
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • times he'd express his dissatisfaction with the ineptitudes of the people that Kennedy had on the Hill and Bobby's continual sniping at him . Can you give me an example of this sniping? An occasion where, let's say, Bobby Kennedy-­ B: We'd get
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He felt the responsi- bility for those men himself. G: He was very, He felt that very strongly. I wanted to ask you to elaborate on this Kennedy bill which he asked you to comment on in 1958. H: I don't remember now in detail. G: You indicated
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that and particularly when he had a meeting not long after this announcement, first with Senator Bob Kennedy and then with Vice President Humphrey. At both of those meetings the President under- took to tell them something about his reasons for deciding not to run
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and the committees of that nature . Ba : Back to 1960, the convention at which Mr . Kennedy was nominated for President and then Mr . Johnson for Vice President--did you have any personal loyalties at that one? Bu : No . Obviously the ethics of your position
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • rights arena. And then I wanted to include Vice President Johnson. He had been entrusted with civil rights responsibilities by President Kennedy, and I thought that this was remarkable for two reasons: He had been a southerner; he had not fought hard
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Professional background; Jordan’s two trips to Vietnam; report that the North Vietnamese threat was serious; Kennedy’s 1961-1963 decision to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Jorden’s belief that Kennedy would have followed LBJ course in Vietnam
  • obviously. The reason I'm delving on this early period is that you were in a good position to have an impression at least of what the nature of the American commitment in Vietnam was during the latter two years of President Kennedy's tenure and, thus
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that John F. Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs invasion--and I'm sure there was more to it than this--but where he felt that the United States had been disgraced because it had not used enough military power to win, John F. Kennedy decided to step up U.S
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and see what America--we had a preview of what kind of America he wanted during those two years of a coalition-proof Congress. F: I always thought he made the utmost out of Kennedy's assassination. As far as all those things that had hung, he realized
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • holding oral arguments; continuity on the FPC during the Kennedy-to-Johnson transition; work with Joe Califano; the November 1965 power blackout in the northeast U.S. and the FPC's role in investigating it; how the FPC went about gathering data
  • with, Lyndon Johnson before you were appointed to the Federal Power Commission by President Kennedy. Did you know him when he was in the Senate or even before that? S: Not before he was in the Senate. I knew him slightly as vice president as a result of some
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. F: You were just about the first senator to go on record. G: I was the first. My first attack was in October of 1963 when I criticized Jack Kennedy for sending so-called advisers down there, who were not advisers at all
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Kennedy regarding my relationship with President Kennedy during the time that he was president and also the one or two contacts I had with him during his campaign for the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Student activity fund; Gaillardian; LBJ and Mylton Kennedy; Mary Brogdon; Whiteside’s letter about postmastership; repercussions from Whiteside’s role in Lyndon Johnson Day at Southwest Texas.
  • name. We were talking about the fight between he and Babe [Mylton] Kennedy. That all stemmed from a very small item, due to the fact that Babe Kennedy was very jealous of his job as the head of the Star and Lyndon was trying to root him out
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the vice presidential B: No, I wasn't . M: You thought he might do that? B: Yes, I thought he might do it . position? I didn't think that Kennedy would offer it to him, but I thought he might take it if it was offered . M: Why do you think he
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the first step, to stop Kennedy. If they could stop McGovern, then they'd see what would happen. In the case of Kennedy and the case of McGovern, the end result reflected the intensity of the effort that had been expended over a period of a couple of years
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • picked up--but in Okla­ homa the big difference between Nixon and Kennedy, I think, was a difference of region . Mr . Kennedy spoke with a New England accent ; he always said "Oklahomer," which offended our people, [and he] was looked upon as kind
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they would send a White House car for me. on. I had a very enjoyable evening. So So I went I met the various people there, Shriver and his wife and Bob Kennedy and others. But I had met McNamara and Kennedy and others during a reception that they LBJ
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • submarines as a part of that international force. Well, when President Kennedy came to power, he took a look at this situation. And we decided then that it would be up to the Europeans to tell us what from the European point of view would meet their needs.And
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Byron People like Cecil Burney and Vann Kennedy--was that his name?--in Corpus Christi. G: Vann Kennedy, yes. B: The guy whose name I tried to remember a while ago; he's from Hillsboro, by the way. And generally when they discussed it with him
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • III -- I -- 8 breakfasts after the election and when he became vice president, and one morning he had arranged for us to meet him in one of the side rooms of the White House to meet the President. I distinctly remember Kennedy and Johnson and Humphrey
Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Lyndon Johnson. I did have considerable contact with Jack Kennedy, because he, too, was a veteran and that was indirectly a relation to Lyndon Johnson. I had no direct contact. G: You came back to Congress as a senator in 1957. J: Right. G
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • police units going down to Selma. I think Johnson learned from the 1963 march on Washington that he had to act more boldly than Kennedy had, in certain respects. When they had the 1963 march on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, which is really one
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of rejection by our own government of any neutralization talk. Neutralization was, in effect, giving them what they wanted. I went to see De Gaulle during the Kennedy days and had a long talk with him about it. I found myself in the position which is familiar
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was as a politician, and I thought that he was the best bet, would make the best candidate for president, and when he took the vice preSidential nomination after Nr. Kennedy received the nomination, I was greatly disappointed. That was one of the reasons that I di dn
Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Well, I guess you might say so. I was strong for Stevenson, and strong for Kennedy. Mc: Did you do any campaigning for Stevenson in Texas during--? M: I don't recall that I did, no, sir. Mc: I remember Allan Shivers was opposed to Stevenson. M
Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Same way about several other I'd get them as far as the Rules Committee and they would die, like the bill I had patterned after the Civilian Conservation Corps to put the youth at work. When Lyndon came in as vice president with Kennedy in 1960, I
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wasn't aware of it at the time. G: As we move to the late 1950s, you had a good deal of labor legislation in the wake of the revelations about irregularities in organized labor. Do you remember the McClellan hearings and the Kennedy-Ives bill? C: I
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And this was felt So the potential of these programs in terms of development tool was not given very much attention. It began to change very early in the--almost irrrrnediately I would say, with the advent of President Kennedy. I took a trip around the world
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • be except to ease Mrs. Kennedy's burdens if I could. S: Whenyou did become aware of things that you wanted to do--probably after the 1964 election--and started deciding what your role was going to be, did President Johnson help you in picking your three
Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)
  • will record that he was the greatest Majority Leader in the history of the Senate. He was elected Vice-President on November 8, 1960, and became President of the United States upon the death of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. He was elected President
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . We used to meet once a year, and in this particular year we met in Washington. It was just shortly after President Kennedy's assassination and Johnson's succession to the presidency. M: This would be early 1964 or late 1963? V: Well, I'm
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and wife relationship. I am sure she was a constant counselor; she was present at times of great stress. I know for example the early morning hours when Senator Kennedy was shot and the following day when the announcement had been made of his death
Oral history transcript, Erich Leinsdorf, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Kennedy Center; the 1965 signing of the immigration bill on Liberty Island; appointed assistant director of Corporation for Public Broadcasting; LBJ and music
  • , which by then was already known as the Kennedy Center. At the ground breaking ceremonies, which, if my memory serves me right, took place in early December 1967, I was sitting on that rostrum behind the President and chatted. He was always, invariably
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • one is retarded children with the Kennedys and with Hubert Humphrey who had a retarded grandchild. So you get--but I just do not recall any specifics about that. G: Anything on the health lobby? People like Mary Lasker? M: Well, Mary Lasker--what
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there that Protestants no longer--and of course the Kennedy election helped--feared that there would be a tunnel between the Vatican and the White House as they had talked about during the Al Smith campaign. Catholics on their part--and this is the most important part
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Recollections of meeting LBJ in 1958 as a UT students and later in 1960 during Kennedy-Johnson campaign; contacts with LBJ when Speaker of House; LBJ's continued help and influence on Barnes' career; Johnson-Connally political base; support of LBJ's
  • and was campaigning in Texas. for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in 1960. nomination to the Texas House. I campaigned I had just won the Democratic I did not have a Republican opponent, and I was an active campaigner for the Democratic ticket in 1960. M: Were you
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could call some of those old southern senators and talk turkey to them. They were good friends, and he had worked with them for years. So I always thought that Lyndon was able to put over the Kennedy program where there was a question 4 LBJ