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  • Contributor > Rauh, Joseph L. (Joseph Louis), 1911-1992 (remove)
  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • The complex Democratic two-camp division in the 1959-1960 campaign; being confronted by Kennedy about his alliance; Rauh’s version of the Kennedy, Humphrey, Johnson party choice for President and Vice-President; Rauh’s disappointment over JFK’s
  • that the Istop Kennedy' people could do him, fine. In West Virginia we had such obvious Istop Kennedy' people as that bigot Robert Byrd helping us. M: Helping in quotation marks almost there. R: "Helping," yes. But his sole motivation was to stop Kennedy
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, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • put the so-called "jury trial" amendment on the voting rights part of the bill. not the big thing. We fought that, but for me the jury trial amendment was It was part three that was the big thing. And of course John Kennedy was with us on part three