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Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, with President Kennedy being President at the time. I spent most of the day with him. I met him at Stewart Air Force Base, which is -near Newburgh, New York, in the morning. the graduation ceremonies late that morning. He addressed He had lunch with us in my

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or deputy assistant attorney general during the Kennedy days, who then went to work for a law firm in Washington, who then was known later as Suds Geoghegan because of his effective representation for the packaging for the soap and detergent industry

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Social? M: Social. Mc: Did you see him in Washington? M: I was trying to think. I would imagine that I did, but I have no definite recollection of it. I'm sure I did. Mc: Well then, after the assassination of President Kennedy did you have

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there? T: No, I didn't go. I wish I had. G: And Kennedy won the nomination, and he went on the ticket as vice president. Anything about the campaign that--you worked for the ticket, I know, and-- T: Not very much. I was very much surprised that he

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for FDR, and the other was in 1964, I guess it was, when Johnson was on the ticket as president. That's the only two times the county has voted Democratic. Johnson was unable to carry the county in 1960 when he was on the ticket with Kennedy. G: You

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these towns are about the same. We had a real prominent place to display Kennedy-Johnson signs, and that caused a lot of comment around town and that caused a lot of Republican stirring around, trying to do something of equal quality. But anyway, 11 LBJ

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to transpire. One of our chief functions on that particular trip was to raise a crowd, because we felt it was important that Lyndon Johnson get as good a reception as John Kennedy did. We found out various ways in which the Kennedy assistants had raised a crowd

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to that, to innovate. F: Mr. Eisenhower, as President, tried to put through an aid-to-education bill without success. Mr. Kennedy tried, too. Why do you think that it finally came through then under Mr. Johnson? D: Well, you see that fear that I alluded

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? H: I was on North Capitol Street just at the main Post Office Building. F: What did you do--hear it by radio or word of mouth? H: Well, I stopped for a traffic signal and someone drove up to my side

Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with it. M: Well, the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency was a tripod organization basically under the direction of the Justice Department, with Bobby Kennedy being the nominal head of it. And he was. I mean, he was not only nominal, but he

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to that censure committee? · S: I did not. I suppose a lot of people have speculated that he might have wanted to ask Senator Kennedy to serve·just to ~mbarrass him and to · cripple him politically, but I don't think so. ·In fact, the Senator .. 16

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Because my wife and I were relatively young--I was thirty-eight at the time--and we had come from John Kennedy Massachusetts, we received a lot of press coverage. country in We were doing unusual things in the conservative State of Ohio. When

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

about as usual, about as I have for the past twenty, twenty-five years. F: You didn't have any opportunity to observe his relationships then with President Kennedy? K: Heavens, F: Where were you on that November 22, 1963? Here in Austin? K: Right

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the same trip that Kennedy made in 1960, and I was with him on that trip. It was a great trip. and it did a lot of good. I honestly believe that if Humphrey had come through . . . I don't mean [to criticize] him personally. I don't think [he.made

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is important? S: No. When he ran for re-election as president after Kennedy was assassinated, I made a bet with Beavers up here, who's the Buick dealer, that Johnson would carry Gregg County by a bigger percentage of the vote than he carried G

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at West Point, at which time he was, of course, Vice President of the United States, with President Kennedy being President at the time. I spent most of the day with him. I met him at Stewart Air Force Base, which is near Newburgh, New York

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 11 W: I think he did, but not for long, and it wasn't much of a career for him. The only thing that--it was either Babe [Mylton] Kennedy or Jack Lane or maybe one of the Puls that stayed there at the Gates' house. They decided one Sunday afternoon

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of view as an old populist, one of the finest things that a President could do would be to use his powers to help bring interest rates down. I didn't have much success in that regard about interest rates with Lyndon Johnson or with John Kennedy. say I

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the White House the same way a woman will bring a fern plant into her home. It was sort of window dressing. And I think that he saw Schlesinger that way in the Kennedy White House. I don't think he thought that any of these people really had anything to do

Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Career history as a photographer; Kaufman's work in Dallas covering Lee Harvey Oswald after the John F. Kennedy assassination; covering LBJ at the LBJ Ranch while staying in a Stonewall hotel; LBJ's recovery from gallbladder surgery; finding

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

President Kennedy's assassination, President Johnson relied very heavily on 10 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

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and saw LBJ from time to time when he was in the Senate, during the early part of his career, later as majority leader, and then as vice president. After Kennedy's death, I saw him quite often. The Women's National Democratic Club had a private dance group

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

became more convinced--we had many talks about this--that the FAA should not remain independent. We began to set in motion plans to reopen the whole question of a Department of Transportation. To do this required support from FAA. President Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

came aboard? s: Only the most general kind of instructions. At that time Henry Wilson had been in charge of the House side of Congressional relations for the President-well, he'd come in from the Kennedy days, he'd been there since '61

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

'62 through '64 there was a lot of attention being paid to the desirability of reducing taxes, and there was a massive tax reduction, individual and corporate income taxes, that President Kennedy sent down. The legislation actually didn't get passed

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the Secretary takes on this. If he's with us, let him put his hand up in an expression of support. And that audience broke into rhythmic applause like they did after the Kennedy film at the convention. And I sat there, unfortunately I didn't have

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

history ,,,ill reflect that he is a fine judge. He came from the Congress to the federal judiciary under a little bit af a tainted circurnstance because there were a lot of people that accused President Kennedy, who nominated him to the Federal District

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of numerous fountain pens at the signing of some of these major bills. My work was primarily with the people who are the principal historical figures of this period--first, Francis Keppel, Commissioner of Education under President Kennedy and later President

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

members within a year, and so on October 22, 1963, President Kennedy reappointed me to the Commission. term under the new statute. tenure. We thereby acquired a three-year The prior statute gave the commissioners no We held office at the President's

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

what he had to do. And he proved that later on when he had a great part in seeing that the civil rights acts were passed after Kennedy was assassinated. I think President Johnson can be credited with passing more liberal legislation than anybody

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Narva -- I -- 24 Kennedy Administration and the last year with Lyndon Johnson--George Burkley had planned to retire. He'd

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

even recall ever hearing of him. We had other members we were active with like Jack Kennedy and Dick Nixon, but Lyndon Johnson, 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at the moment and their ability to talk to the Soviets about our position is hard to reconstruct, but Wilson felt it was a fundamental difference, and I am inclined to agree. M: There were also a couple of flurries in there--one involving Bobby Kennedy, I

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

imagine Kennedy told him that he could . G : Do you think that he felt that his heart was a factor, and maybe that if he continued as majority leader he might have health problems? B: He didn't talk about it . G: Back to the presidency now . You

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. In retrospect I would say that John F. Kennedy did. On occasion he was good at this, but there were times too when he lost his audience. I remember when he gave his "Older American" speech in Madison Square Garden. It was judged a real calamity in terms

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Education Academic Facilities Act, put the federal government in the business of aiding education, and the 1956 act which was much more comprehensive. I think settled it. I think the importance of this would be hard to exaggerate. Mr. Kennedy had done what

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in a forum Bob Calvert was chairman, Vann Kennedy was secretary. were all Stevenson appointees, Stevenson's tion. that was all the people, Stevenson's organiza- When they had that one vote, he waited, to find one. They he waited for them to try

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that area, we are going to impound them, because the Humane Society is going to have a court order." He really got excited then. He called Christine Stevens, the wife of Roger Stevens, the director of the Kennedy Center. Chris has been very involved