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  • secretary for international programs in the Department of Agriculture; Freeman's and John Schnittker's loyalties to LBJ and John F. Kennedy; White House Fellow Mike Walsh; Robertson's dealings with Resurrection City; Jose Williams; Fannie Lou Hamer; progress
  • election and by this time you had Humphrey running against Robert Kennedy. R: That caused some little friction. (Laughter) Schnittker must have told you that. G: Describe that for me if you will. Schnittker was supporting Kennedy. R: I don't know
  • be not But again I could say that about Jack Kennedy or -F: That's just par for the course. C: Nixon and everybody else. Nixon, I remember when he was placed on the old Un-American Activities Committee. As a matter of fact, I told him since he's been
  • ://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 Curtis -- I -- 22 when Jack Kennedy was shot. witness. He got the word, but he
  • 1958; Kennedy-Ives bill; Texas labor; Arthur Goldberg's concern about Senate Republican Policy Committee charges; federal aid to education; National Defense Education Act; Mike Mansfield's leadership abilities; Supreme Court bills; death of Mrs
  • 29, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Sheraton-Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start first with the Kennedy-Ives bill. We discussed that some last time but not in any
  • from the State Department listed at the top of this grouping: [Frederick] Dutton, [Robert] Lee, [Eugene] Krizek, and [Nick] Zumas. Dutton was very much a substance fellow; he wasn't a fellow that went to the Hill very often, as I recall it. Gene Krizek
  • , incidentally, was Bob [Robert F.] Woodward, who was offered the job, and who took it. This telephone call came to us in Santiago, Chile, where he was our ambassador and had been for about two weeks. Immediately after I said "No" to President Kennedy, he said
  • probably brought up to a point, aside fro::! the usual afvising one does, when Mr. Kennedy appointed me to serve on an advisory panel or cormnittee on educ.:J.tion after his election anG prior to his assu:nption of office. M: You didn't campaign for him
  • : In 1956 you had that horse race between young John Kennedy and Estes Kefauver for the vice presidency, and Johnson shook a lot of people by taking Texas for Kennedy instead of for Kefauver. Were you privy at all to his thinking or strategy in this, or do
  • of your interviews you just mentioned in passing Robert Hill, who was Ambassador to Mexico, and I wonder if we could explore a little bit the relations with him. I had a feeling that they went a little deeper. R: Of course they would. You see, Bob had
  • Db you recall when this was in 1968? M: I would say probably August, some time like that. We were late on the bill. This was prior to the assassination of Robert Kennedy [June 1968], I would probably place it in a matter of time, two weeks before
  • of the treasury and Henry Fowler and Robert Roosa as undersecretaries; LBJ's request that Walker praise Fowler's abilities to the press; publicity for an ABA-sponsored luncheon attended by Robert Anderson, Robert Roosa, Douglas Dillon, and Henry Fowler; LBJ's
  • for Lyndon Johnson, he's the best man in the state ... and so on. My first direct contact came in mid-1959. I had gone to Washington from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to serve as special assistant and economic adviser to Texan Robert B. Anderson
  • . When the President decided to run for the Senate, Miss Juanita Roberts was a secretary of his and the daughter of J. J. Duggan, who LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • : He preceded us. such. I'm not even sure whether I ever saw his report as I was told parts of it, at least. One of the first things I did when I got back in 1961, at President Kennedy's direction, was to go to the Vice President and tell him
  • and appointment of Robert Weaver as first Secretary; review and appointment of various other persons.
  • of, to illustrate his policies, Betty Furness as an illustration of a woman brought in; Robert Weaver as a Negro [was] brought in; and I mentioned to you once before John Hechinger. Hechinger himself was interested in how he was selected and said to be sure
  • ; Medicare; Helen Taussig; Advisory Council on Public Welfare Task Force on Income Maintenance (Heineman Commission); Advisory Commission on Status of Women; Esther Peterson; LBJ fixed associations between Wicky/Cohen/Social Security; Medicare; Mrs. Kennedy
  • delinquency. this. Youth. They had about four cities where they tried One of them was New York, where they set up Mobilization for Another one was Syracuse. New Haven, I think, Baltimore. I can't remember precisely--- I'm not sure. Robert Kennedy had
  • of the SEC in the Johnson presidency as compared to earlier presidencies? C: No, I don't think so. First of all, I can't speak about relationships of earlier administrations--with the possible exception of the Kennedy Administration--and members
  • to believe that your experience here after the Martin Luther King assassination is one reason that you didn't have an outbreak--real outbreak--following the assassination of Robert Kennedy? C: I think so. I think it had something to do with it. If during
  • was supported by every And in 1959 I was John Kennedy's chairman in [Oregon]. K: I did want to ask about that because-- G: He was the author of a highly controversial labor bill. There were five of us who were swing votes on the Education and Labor
  • was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
  • of things that you would have been testifying before . Did you take any role at all in the 1960 election campaign beyond just an ordinary citizen? B: The 1960 election campaign? F: That's the one between Nixon and Kennedy, with Johnson of course tagging
  • Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell
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  • Perrin, Robert, 1925-
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  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: C. ROBERT PERRIN INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Mr. Perrin's office in Washington, D.C. Tape of 2 G: This is the second session with r'lr. Robert Perrin, Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity
  • [of War Robert] Patterson and General Eisenhower, then chief of staff of the Army. In the separate Air Force concept, all three would be under the Secretary of Defense. The Navy position was one of coordination as against administration. In effect
  • , four presidents. F: Right. R: Eisenhower, Kennedy F: Johnson and Nixon. R: And he was tremendous. F: live heard John Connally say in Texas that at the governors Four presidents. conferences, you were always the best prepared governor
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • Baker, Robert G.
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  • Howard] Edmondson of Oklahoma, who was soundly defeated by the [Robert] Kerr forces, and the Mayor of New Orleans, who was just--Mayor deLesseps Morrison's support really was religious. He was a French Catholic who liked John Kennedy. have any lines
  • Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • Waldron, Robert Earl, 1927-1995
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  • [Roberts] and I have laughed about this so much--he had a real hang-up on the toilet paper holder, how awkward the place it had been put. We'd get a fifteen-minute lecture on [how] the guy who installed the toilet paper holder in the john was the torture
  • Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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  • Anderson, Robert Bernerd, 1910-1989
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  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT B . ANDERSON INTERVIEWER PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Anderson's office, One Rockefeller Plaza, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You don't have any connection with Arkansas? A: No . I had connections only
  • 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 Cahn -- I -- 21 G: What was Robert Kennedy's involvement
  • that year. Eisenhower called for [Robert] Taft, who was the Republican [Senate] leader at the time, and Lyndon was minority leader, Democrat. they went in for a conference. And so Well, this hasn't been told yet, but I heard directly from Lyndon
  • and President Kennedy; Presidential scholar ceremony invitee list; Laitin losing his code name; LBJ not wanting people to know who he was taking to Camp David; how the press manipulate the people who release the news; LBJ’s relationship with the press; the focus
  • courageous, either that or stupid of me at the time. This was dated May 25, 1966. He was always anxious to show statistics which would demonstrate that he was holding more press conferences than his pred1ccessor, Jack Kennedy. We put out a new tabulation
  • the Kennedy family
  • on? C: Right, the first . G: Okay . Do you recall how the Vice President was chosen to go on that trip, any insight there? C: I think that was very early in the Kennedy Administration, I forget exactly what month . G: April . C: April . G
  • and concern for Governor Connally’s health; the Yarborough/Connally split; fund-raising in Texas for 1964; planning the trip for JFK and LBJ to Texas; Kennedy popularity in Texas; what was done with the money from the cancelled Austin dinner 11/22/63; guest
  • ~"as Governor Connally's vie't-l that Texas had done a very substantial part with regard to the fund-raising. But in any event President Kennedy and, perhaps, Attorney General . Robert Kennedy and others l.Jere desirous of having a fund-raising dinner in Texas
  • regarding his relationship with Robert Kennedy during any of this period? G: No. We never discussed-- MG: He never mentioned that. G: This was more nearly in terms of what I saw of Johnson the man and then connecting it with the--but even there, you
  • Indian problems; Indian Bureau; Philco Nash; Robert Bennett; Alaska; VISTA; transition; relations with Mexico; oil; tidelands
  • interpose some questions as it seems judicious. U: All right. The question of Indian policy was one I found one of the most frustrating issues of my Department. I made the rather foolish statement the day President Kennedy announced my appointment--he
  • as General Clifton’s photographer for industrial and VIP special events; being a White House photographer during the Kennedy administration; August 1961 trip to Berlin Wall with Vice-President Johnson and Y.R. Okamoto’s coverage of the trip; European trip
  • top secret things, just kind of a right-hand man type to the General. At the end of 1960--1 didn't know anything about this till I read it in Newsweek--somebody touted Clifton as the military aide to the newly elected President Kennedy. He didn't deny
  • Position in government during War on Poverty; Appalachian program; Kennedy
  • at that time in poverty, because there was already ongoing the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency under Robert Kennedy. That also was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • of Atherton Bean to the Federal Reserve Board. I don't know whether we'd put Thurgood Marshall on the Court yet. We had put [Robert] Weaver in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. We moved with [Andrew] Brimmer. Brimmer was a black economist
  • Evaluation of LBJ; LBJ’s knowledge of, and interest in, the cattle business; government program to purchase surplus beef during the cattle crisis; transition from Kennedy to LBJ administration; shepherding bills through Congress and keeping LBJ
  • to develop Kennedy and Johnson factions from the sub-Cabinet and lower level. Did anything like that occur in Agriculture? M: Nothing of that sort occurred in Agriculture until the candidacy of Robert Kennedy was announced. At which time John Schnittker
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Democratic political campaigns leading to 1956 Convention; Central High School integration; 1960 Democratic Convention and Kennedy-Johnson nomination; relations with LBJ as VP; ghost writing for Lady
  • for a better package. There was a lot of discussion and speculation about the vice presidential business during the convention. I was not in on any of those negotiations except I had the misfortune of being the fellow to tell Jack Kennedy that he wasn't
  • thing that could look like a possibility of defeating Kefauver, and that was to get behind Jack Kennedy. So Johnson got the Texas delegation behind Jack Kennedy, which could not have been done if there had not been the first vote for Gore. One
  • with the Attorney General Robert Kennedy being the brother of the President that, even more than usual, the Office of Legal Counsel was called upon by White House folks in legal matters in which the White House cared about a very great deal. Therefore, it seemed