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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • him to be demanding and very similar in many ways to [Robert S.] McNamara, whom I had worked for before, in the sense that he wanted things done very rapidly, wanted enormous detail, wanted options presented on almost every matter from the smallest
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little insight in one of those memos which we ought to use, which is that when Nicholas Johnson is talking to [Robert] Kintner--it's just an indication of the climate. He's talking to Kintner about one of the reasons that he ought to go back to Berkeley
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had got an understanding agreement approving the staff and getting minority council. I had urged Senator McClellan to recommend Robert Kennedy for the position of minority council. G: Let's talk about some legislative matters during the 1950s, when
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • kind of experiment. F: There is, I suppose, a certain similarity between Franklin Roosevelt's early days and the kind of young men around Kennedy, except that they didn't have the issues. C: Yes~ although in all fairness President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a President, you know? And we did our best. ~1 : Did you ever travel with Mrs. Johnson on any of her campaign trips? T: Not really. Mrs. Johnson came to El Paso with Mrs. Sargent Shriver and fvIrs. Robert Kennedy, Ethel, the three ladies. This was during
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Visits with LBJ immediately after the Kennedy funeral; Rauh’s encouraging LBJ and John Connally to do something about desegregation; working with LBJ and Clarence Mitchell; LBJ criticizing the ADA; the convention of Atlantic City; Reuther; Dr
  • to go--which I did. I had issued a Johnson-support statement, as acting chairman of the D.C. Democratic Party, like everybody else. on something like this. The press always tries to get an angle I don't think John Kennedy had been dead twenty-four
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • cause and--nobody came into the state, as I recall, to help me. that Kennedy came out. I think it was 1958 He came out and helped me, because of course he was running for president and Wisconsin was an important state. He might have helped me
Oral history transcript, Sheldon Cohen, interview 2 (II), 6/18/1975 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ford Motor Company executive Semon Knudsen; Cohen's relationship with Attorneys General Robert F. Kennedy, Nicholas Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark; Cohen's relationship with the FBI, especially J. Edgar Hoover and Cartha "Deke" DeLoach; Walter Jenkins
  • lawyers; I had a couple of supervisory personnel, and we questioned him. Then Chief Counsel Les Uretz and we just went at it. There were four instances, all associated with the organized crime effort that Bob Kennedy had started in 1961, none
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . Then under Kennedy you joined the Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy. CK: That's right. K: Till 1966, yes. The same one then went on under President Johnson. Then also you were on President Kennedy's Railroad Emergency Board. I want to skip
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Now you had, I'm sure, been to cabinet meetings before you became a member of the cabinet. O: I'd been to all of them. G: As the head of congressional relations. O: Yes. It was automatic on all cabinet agendas, [in] both [the] Kennedy and Johnson
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this myself. Obviously I didn't have enough experience to do it singlehandedly. So I talked to the head of the scientific advisory committee of the Kennedy Foundation, a great pediatrician named Dr. Robert Cooke. I said to him, "What about this?" And he said
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the rights to The Vantage Point and its proceeds; dinner to celebrate LBJ’s accomplishments; Arthur Goldberg and a Supreme Court appointment; 1969 inauguration; LBJ readjusting to life at the Ranch; LBJ horseback riding; Robert McNamara’s trip to the Kremlin
  • had named the [Robert F. Kennedy] Stadium without authority, and I remember his feeling quite bitter at Udall for having overstepped his authority in that way. That was at this same time I think that we're talking about. I don't remember the other
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • of the original ones. We thought we had coordinated that more with the rest of the institutes, but when Benno Schmidt--I can't remember whose administration it was-was very active--I think it was in the Kennedy Administration, I'm not sure. No, it was in Nixon's
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • submitted my letter of resignation. I told him I was going to do it. Bob McNamara suggested we call up the reserves, put our nation on a full war footing. I told the President, in front of Bob, who's an old friend of mine from the Kennedy days, "You do
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and he'd sort of tip his orange juice to Sam Rayburn. And when there would come on TV a replay of what the news had about the assassination and Jack Kennedy's face would appear, then Johnson would grimace. He obviously thought an enormous amount of Jack
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , when we were pouring the troops in. Then the thing began to get organized when [Robert] Komer organized the CORDS [Civil Operations and Rural Development Staff] to try to put our programs together and we, using our influence with the Vietnamese, tried
Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • rapidly. Therefore in 1961 Kennedy, as you know, sent General [Maxwell] Taylor. I happened to be the man that briefed General Taylor on the situation. I had only been there about three months, so with the expertise of three months' traveling around
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And the third program was one known as the Kennedy-Javits, Senator Robert Kennedy of New York and Senator [Jacob] Javits of New York, which was called Special Impact Program. That Special Impact Program was designed to try to pull together all the elements
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XII -- 4 too bad~ These were the hearings, by the way, out of which grew Kennedy's missile gap charge during the 1960 campaign, which was not true. G: There was no missile gap. Did Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Republican terms. But the Republican Party in the state was controlled by Colonel [Robert R.] McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. By God, you weren't going to get the statewide Republican nomination unless you were kosher with Colonel McCormick, and Dirksen
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Robert M . LaFollette came there to lecture he That was Robert M . LaFollette, said, "Lindley, I want you to meet him ." Jr ., whom I later served in the Congress with . He did the same with reference to permitting me to get close, as it were, to Vice
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't recall his name at the moment, not the one who's a famous Japanese architect that planned on the Kennedy Library--this is another man. But President Johnson mentioned him to me two or three times, seemed to be well impressed with his work
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . S: I was sent over, I believe, by Robert Kennedy, but I may have been It must have been early 1964. asked ahead of time by Sargent Shriver if that was something I would like. to do. I think that's what happened. I think Sargent LBJ
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 1953 to early 1964 was pretty much standard. I was running the bank. volved in the banking activities that are normal. I became in- I became involved in Robert Morris Associates and in the NABAC, which was then the National Association of Bank
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thing begat another as a result of this one visit. Mr. West told me that Mrs. Kennedy was thinking about publishing and selling post cards on the White House at the White House, and he wondered if the Park Service had any kind of vehicle which might
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attempt to build a structure in Washington, and we were not getting very far. It was not long after Dallas when, sitting in my office, it dawned on us that this rightly should be the Kennedy Center. You can say, "God, you were a bunch of ghouls sitting
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • obviously either talked to him on the phone or someone who was calling in his behalf, and invited me down there, and at the same time invited Senator Robert Kerr. So I remember, and I referred to that here, I met Senator Kerr some place, and he and I
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Working for three Kennedy brothers; housing finance management his expertise; Dick Goodwin set up eleven task forces for LBJ; contacted Haar; task to get ideas to beautify cities and states, to clean rivers, zoning, save the environment; LBJ would
  • was, in housing, finance, and management. F: You had worked also, as I recall, for Teddy Kennedy in that campaign against Edward McCormack. H: Yes, that is right. I was one of the three or four academics, with Sam Beer and Robert Wood, who had seen merits
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Conference of the United States; Frank Wozencraft; a history of the Conference; Williams appointed to head the Administrative Conference; the nature of the Conference; Charles Brannan testifies for the Conference; Robert Graham helps save the Conference
  • in 1964 and had not been implemented. And Bobby Kennedy was ready to make a blast; in fact, had made one. Frank told me that they were gravely concerned that they were really going to get after the President on this, and they needed somebody and needed
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • remember him going to Cotulla, though, that one year. B: No, I d o n ' t . I read that in the [Robert] Caro book [The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. But I had no recollection of it. G: Apparently he certainly did do that, though. B: Oh
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in my book, and McCarthy deserved him. I mean, they deserved each other. Then I also remember Bob Kennedy being there, which I thought was sort of funny, because he never commits [inaudible]. But back to McCarthy. I think the way he used it, it didn't
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it. So then we moved up to the seventeenth floor where he had a better room. And then people like Juanita Roberts, and Mary Rather, and I think Ashton Gonella was around some then, and Willie Day [Taylor] and quite a number of people of course gradually
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Did Sargent Shriver favor community action right off the bat? There's some suggestion that Robert Kennedy persuaded Shriver to favor the program. W: I would say that Shriver specifically was suspicious of community action from the beginning. G: Why
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Carleen Roberts [?], and Carleen [had] lived next door to me in Oklahoma City and I'd been sort of a beau of hers when we were going to school together . She became vice president of American Airlines--she was the only woman executive--and Lyndon sort
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stevenson; Senate seating case before Justice Black, 1948; McNeil’s relationship with President Johnson; Senators Russell, Walter George; Robert Kerr; LBJ’s love of gadgets; George Reedy; Walter Jenkins; Arthur Perry; LBJ’s secretive nature; assessment
  • : No. No, I thought that when he started to run for the nomination he not only had Kennedy, but Stu [Symington] was running at that pOint, wasn't he, and Bob Kerr was a candidate, it seems to me. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vice President? The year President Kennedy beat Richard Nixon. HW: We must have been at the ranch. EW: What was that question? MG: In 1960, rernember, when he was elected Vice President, the night of the election, I was wondering if you were
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • How Rosenblatt became involved with Southeast Asian affairs in Robert Komer's office in 1966; Rosenblatt's duties under Komer; Rosenblatt's work with the Agency for International Development (AID), the Office of Civil Operations (OCO) and Civil
  • the Kennedys making a big to-do about that? R: Yes, indeed. In fact while I was out there I met up one day I think we had breakfast in Can Tho with Kennedy's refugee staffers. There was a fellow by the name of Powers. G: Dave Powers? R: No, it wasn't
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then remember referring that, "Mr. President, you were, after all, in the Kennedy entourage, and you saw it." I remember he didn't answer, but I was saying to him that I can understand that there were problems; I can understand why you felt as you do. But I