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  • said Duckworth liked him generally? B: Yes. I don't remember how it trailed off. Back when we went to Hyannis Port after the convention, Duckworth did not like the Kennedys. I forget what period he was in at that time but he didn't like them. So we
  • have. Because Udall, who later became a congressman, he and some of the others were quietly working and organizing at the convention with [John F.J Kennedy. And at that time I thought that was a kind of a turning point, and he was losing the West
  • took a vice presidential position in 1960? H: Well, r really wasn't surprised because I felt that Jack Kennedy was a pretty smart politician, and he wanted LBJ over the willing candidates for a very particular reason. That was because LBJ
  • complained about Kennedy and bitterly complained about LBJ Presidential Library 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
  • service with the Civil Rights Commission in 1960 on into the Kennedy years, did you have an opinion of Lyndon Johnson in those days? M: No, I didn't. When I entered the government of course, Mr. Eisenhower was the President. I entered in July of 1960
  • ~ F: There's some haziness as to whether Johnson had any hopes in '56 or not. I was. I did go. You know, that's the one in which Kefauver and Kennedy got tied up. M: Well, I ' l l tell you. Lyndon hadn't said a ,vord to me about that thing
  • in his life I never did see it. He was a close friend of Vann Kennedy and very active in any political campaign that came along. How he made his living is something else � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • a discernab le differenc e in viewpoint or emphasis or interest toward the United Nations or other internati onal organiza­ tion by President Johnson as compared to, say, President Kennedy? S: Well, of course, in this field of United Nations affairs
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hobby -- I -- 3 President Kennedy. The Post did not support the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, but supported Mr. Nixon in that year. And in 1964 we supported Mr. Johnson. M: So
  • under President Kennedy, at least none that I recall. The first day that we were sworn in we all got herded into Sherman Adams' old office and took the oath together, and that was the last tL--:e, I think, we ever got in the same room. P=esident Johnson
  • 2 B: Were Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson, after him, especially interested in this concept of self-help feature? J: Yes. I think they both emphasized it. Probably because I was a little closer to it later, I would say that President Johnson
  • to have supported a variety of vice presidential candidates, [Albert] Gore and Humphrey and Kennedy. S: Johnson did? G: Yes. S: Well, I guess it could be argued that maybe his effort there was to Everybody but Kefauver. try to head off Kefauver
  • successful. That was the way we ran it, and this was the way it went with Johnson. We'd go down to see him. it was Kennedy who sent for me. five billion dollars. Of course, when we first were there, Our budget in those years was around I knew Jack
  • . The Vice President--I happened to run corridor--Mr. Nixon. I said, And he said, into him in the "Thrus, you want to have some fun?" ''What's that?" He said, ''Why don't you get up and predict the ticket will be Kennedy and Johnson!" did. I thought
  • saying that] this was a matter you discussed often and at inordinate length. O: Inordinate length, back to the Kennedy days, and Russell Long became wedded to this concept. He was almost alone for a long time in his advocacy. The period that we're
  • to prepare myself for the private sector that extended back prior to joining Hubert Humphrey and shortly following the death of Bobby Kennedy had been brought into focus. I had failed to comply with the agreements I had made with the three networks and Hughes
  • magnitude than the ones I was dealing with and that his time and energy should be reserved for those problems, and the best thing that a bureaucrat can do is to try and solve the problems without bothering the president. I never bothered Kennedy or Johnson
  • was to cover the President Kennedy tour through Texas. I was responsible for setting up our coverage and planning our coverage. in Dallas. As a result of that I laid on a little extra help Goodness knows I didn't have in mind any kind of real trouble
  • effectively. This was a tremendous advantage to him in getting his programs through. He took great pride, and I think rightly so, that, in the remnant of President John Kennedy's office, after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, he, Johnson, put through all
  • of 1960 when John Kennedy and \~ 1 LBJ Presidential Library 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
  • to be developed between governors and the president. Naturally, I saw him quite frequently when he was president. M: Did he perform any task for President Kennedy in regard to the governors? K: I don't know whether he was given any task, but occasionally when
  • was organized was probably as follows: The President really made the decisions. I was in charge of scheduling out of the White House; Kenny O'Donnell, who was formerly appointments secretary to President Kennedy, worked out of the national committee office
  • of Interior? But somebody, as I understand it, was asked, 'Where do you think I can make the greatest contribution?" thought for her, they say. don't know. And somebody came up with that It may have been from her own mind, I But Jackie Kennedy, President
  • into a ballroom after the dinner for the performance. But before they did, President Kennedy went around to the tables shaking hands. Lyndon went into the ballroom and was told to go ahead and start, not thinking that he too ought to shake hands something he
  • Roosevelt. As you know the minority groups felt about President Roosevelt in those days much as, say, the minority groups felt about Senator Kennedy or President Kennedy in these times. Johnson had been working with young people. He had a great rapport
  • a sense of urgency about it? D: Oh, yes! You know, I think in later years we were told that the President, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, called [Joseph A.] Califano and the White House inner circle and said, "Look, fellas, I know
  • philosophy or another? B: He would probably represent the Carter political philosophy today. Get rid of regulation. He thought regulation was terrible. He wanted to get rid of as much of it as he could. G: Who had appointed him? B: Kennedy. I've never
  • guess we did. M: Kennedy and Johnson against Nixon. J: Against Nixon. I can't remember. supported him. I think we supported him. M: Wait a minute. That can be checked o Who ran? Kennedy and Johnson? I think we did. We would have I can look
  • . Four years later, in 1964, as the fight for voting rights continued, Johnson and Dirksen put this same provision, in almost identical language, in their bill without any reference to their action in 1960. What had produced the change? Kennedy had been
  • or Commission was the predecessor to the Cultural Center Commission, which in turn was a predecessor to the Kennedy Center Commission. It was through then-Senator Johnson that I was appointed as a member. I was actually appointed by President Nixon, who
  • those things. G: Speeches that were given in the Congress or-- W: In the Congress and other places, that's right. G: Did you see Kennedy's election as a major impetus for health insurance? W: No question. That was part of the campaign issue
  • it must have come later. B: Later? Really? Of course, he was a strong Kennedy man, he was a strong Kennedy man. But on the other hand, in a way would that have been considered a comedown to go from a number-two cabinet post to a number-two OEO post? I
  • minimum wage; the work of congressional liaisons under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and LBJ; the expansion of the Rules Committee; Roosevelt's trip with LBJ to Adlai Stevenson's funeral; Roosevelt leaving Congress to work with Ambassador
  • on the ticket and felt very, very strongly that Mr. Kennedy needed him. I remember a number of things. My mother, of course, was for Adlai Stevenson, and she was bitterly, really bitterly disappointed because she wasn't very happy with President Kennedy's
  • the whole picture. M: How much evidence, if any, did you ever see that there were Kennedy loyalists in the press or even in the government who used leaks consciously to damage the Johnson Administration? Was there any of this at all? S: Yes
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape #l) December 9, 1971 Ba : This is an interview with Ambassador David Bruce, it's December 9, 1971 and I'm Harri Baker . And Mr . Bruce, of course was Ambassador to Great Britain during the Kennedy
  • majority was so slim, I think just one or two votes. C: Well, actually, yes, there was a very close thing, I think until he was president and fell heir to the batch of unfinished business that Kennedy left and couldn't finish because he didn'tknow how
  • better than I would. Prior to the Johnson Administration-- in fact, we had set up our cadre but we hadn't actuallY taken over yet in the Kennedy Administration--I explained to Secretary [Orville] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • on the program, who had brought it through the entire Kennedy-Johnson Administrations before he left office . M: Then after that dinner you return ed, what, to the Cape to prepare for your-­ L: We left immediately after the dinne r, I think. There were