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Folder, "October 5, 1967 - 6:55 p.m. McNamara, Rusk, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • Dirksen, at 72, from Chicago, can stand up and be my defender the way he has been. SECRETARY RUSK: He has a little stronger chemical than others. in his system THE PRESIDENT: Quoted parts of the James McGregor Burns book on Kennedy's quotes about
Folder, "October 11, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Rusk, McNamara, Rostow, Helms, Christian," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • past meetings produced more than we expected. 3.~ Lb) l5')lt,) ,, A discussion of trade hearings followed. Secretary Rusk: There have been several assaults on. the Hill concerning the Kennedy Round. We need to see all of these proposed changes
Folder, "March 5, 1968 - 1:14 p.m. Tuesday luncheon meeting - Rusk, Clifford, Wheeler, Helms, Taylor, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • it not been for this policy of gradualism. SECRETARY RUSK: There may be a point to that. If back under President Kennedy we had recommended and approved putting in 100, 000 men it might have saved things. THE PRESIDENT: What is the situation on the Pueblo
Folder, "May 14, 1968 - 1:10 p.m. Tuesday lunch with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)
  • Vietnamese statement in Paris. It says again that the United States is the aggressor. "U Thant, DeGaulle, Senator Kennedy and Fulbright say you should stop bombing." They want world opinion to sway us. The sooner we show we will do what is right, the better
Folder, "October 29, 1968 - 1 p.m. Tuesday luncheon with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • . The President: Summarize it. Secretary Rusk: Recommend you wait to hear from Bunker. I take the long view. President Kennedy said we would make a battle there to save South Vietnam. That set us on course. After the Tonkin Gulf, you put in troops to keep South
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • guess you might say, the principal witness for the military pay raise--no, that was during President Kennedy's--the first one at least. It's really awfully hard for me to remember the names of committees most often they didn't have a name
Folder, "Vice President's Trip to Southeast Asia, May 9-24, 1961 (I) [1 of 2]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
  • Top Secret Kennedy from Diem State To VP Johnson cd c~,e,-t" -f-'- 7 p r "1'" Conf. from Chiang Kai-shek RESTRICTION ~54 06/09/61 A 4 p 06/09/61 A 4 p 06/09/61 A ID-~~ 7'J £tateffleRt irs #11 Letter DATE CORRESPONDENTSOR TITLE
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • I· re d,01_n~J. , ' v:2 :: Tr1ey 1 ro. sit.ting back 9ig9lin~J- J\nd this is HQ'te Javits civil war ~Jo·in~J on in the South; U;ey ri1ove Kennedy in and th2y cut off the South from him and blm1 up the bridge. w~~~ Thi1t 1 s th~y w~nt to do
Folder, "February 7, 1968 - 12:29 p.m. National Security Council Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • with the members of Congress today. I pointed out that there had been 11 aircraft incidents under President Truman; 33 under President Eisenhower; 7 under President Kennedy; and 11 under President Johnsono I told them not to get panicky about the Pueblo situation
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was a member, and I remember Senator Symington and Senator Kennedy were members. they were. I've forgotten who else We used to meet regularly and discuss matters of concern to the Democratic party. Both Senator Johnson and Congressman Rayburn LBJ
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • agreed to set up the COMSAT Corporation is a way that makes it conducive to working with federal agencies. R: Well, that was set up during the Kennedy Administration. M: The end of the Kennedy Administration, right. R: Yes, we worked with them very
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/7/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Johnsons attend Christian Church; LBJ gives kisses to small girl, Kimberly Frye; lunch at White House with the McNamaras; Jacqueline Kennedy; bowling with Lynda; dinner with the Bill Whites and the Jack Brooks; Jake Pickle, Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and interpreter for Supreme Court Justice [William] Douglas and for Bob Kennedy in 1955 when they went to the Soviet Union. So I told Tom Sorensen that I would agree to come out to Berkeley and talk to their five thousand students in the student union at high
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gradually took a very benevolent view toward DSG. Of course, after the 1960 election when Jack Kennedy was elected president, the relationships became much more close. In fact, if there had not been a close working relationship between the Speaker
Folder, "Vice President's Trip to Southeast Asia, May 9-24, 1961 (II)," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 1 (Item)
Folder, "Hilsman, Roger (Vietnam - Diem) (1963) [1 of 2]," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 263 (Item)
  • Kennedy in Hyannisport, it being a Saturday night. 'There is a sharp difference of recoJlection between Ivfr. Forrestal and General Krulak.{thon in the JCS as their Vicb1am man) as to •.vhether General 'Taylor ever cleared the message. I believe
Folder, "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965, Volume 5, Tabs 326-340," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 42 (Item)
  • Vietnam itself. COPY LBJ LIBRARY - 11 - President Kennedy's decision chose none of these possible i alternatives. His decision was that American military personnel should be j I ‘ .f introduced to assist t e South Vietnamese m ilitary forces
Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 6 January 1964 - 1 April 1964," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)
  • .> 3.3lh)ll>; L~..l£&.) Then I would brief Lord Home and his party when they are here in February . This was agreed. 8. Reviewed briefly President Kennedy's letter to me of January ! 6 and asked for reaffirmation of DCI responsibilities as outlined
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be on foreign policy things, basically, rather than domestic politics. However, I did cover the 1960 campaign; I covered President Kennedy, I covered Mr. Nixon alternately, and I covered Lodge. I never covered Johnson. M: One of the four you missed out on. S
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was set up, I believe, initially by President Kennedy. actively. He used it very It consists of about a half-dozen leaders of labor unions, and about a half-dozen highly placed industrialists, and I think-around three public members--somewhere between
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • pri­ maries for the Knight newspapers . G: Did you cover New Hampshire, by any chance? 0: No, New Hampshire was too early ; I was still in Vietnam . But I went with Bobby Kennedy to California ; I was with Kennedy when killed in California
Folder, "October 3, 1967 - 6:10 p.m. Rusk, McNamara, Rostow, Helms, Christian Robin Olds and Col. Cross," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • The President said he was astounded to find that there were several groups of people who were working to get Congressmen who are in agreement with our policies to make a reassessment. In this case, Senator Teddy Kennedy had approached Congressman O'Neal
Folder, "February 9, 1968 - 11:02 a.m. Joint Chiefs of Staff," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • : I saw where Senator Kennedy pointed out that the South Vietnamese voted not to call up 18 year olds. General Wheeler: I met last night with this unnamed group chaired by Nick Katzenbach and Paul Nitze. We are pressing for the South Vietnamese
Folder, "[May 16, 1965 - 6:45 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • yoa all want, we'll 10 on Tueaday evea.ina ow: time, but 1would10 Moaday. McNAMARA What do w• ••Y to the preaa? THE PllESIDENT We doa•t need to dlaclo•• every piece o1 •trat•&Y to th• pr•••· I would aay to Maaafield. Kennedy, Tul• briaht that we
Folder, "[January 31, 1968 - Meeting with Congressional Leaders]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • to::owi~g ~he . Bay o= ?ig3 ?re~id~nt Kennedy s-~ ~D a Foreign I~~ellige~~a THE .__..,-4C..,.,~ --·~-\,,,.4-·· c~rcu:""r1stances --~ c.••'"-' Page ? ') _..; 14 :..cvis~::-:_,• Boa.re. and D.::. Ki2.l.:.z..n ·.1as the head of it . =~=. ci
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , that's a very important element that you throw in. All my service to the government, responding to President Truman and President Kennedy and President Johnson were, you might say, requested or command performances. M: I did it because they asked me
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : And then it worked on into the Kennedy Administration? S: No, the Bane Committee actually reported before the Eisenhower Administration was finished. Actually, there were two, if not more, bills on physician manpower in the Eisenhower Administration which never
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Harbor after Nixon became President effects of Tet offensive as a public relations defeat; LBJ’s harassment by both the media and Kennedy people in the administration; further results of military restraints from Washington.
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
Folder, "Far East Trip, May, 1961," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • their knowledge with the local administrators in other nations who so badly need their help and advice. ## Papers for Vice President's Trip VIETNAM Talking Position paper (based on Kennedy letter) papers: U.S. Economic Aid Political Support for Diem
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/18/1967 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird sleeps late, goes to Spanish lesson and to hair salon; tea for Friends of the Kennedy Center; Lady Bird mentions guests; receiving line; Lady Bird to Nicaraguan Embassy for tea for diplomatic wives in Lady Bird's honor; drive back to White
  • iv es o r s o m e t h i n g -V ig n e tte s o f th e d a y - - o n ly o n e w o m a n in th e r e c e iv in g lin e c a l l e d m e M r s . Kennedy. T h a t u s e d to h a p p e n q u ite f r e q u e n tly , b u t no t in th e l a s t y e a r o r tw o
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • did that happen to come about? S: A little background on that--Assistant Secretary Reed was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Coast Guard Activities at that time, and he had persuaded President Kennedy to make this speech
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • became President. This was in December of 1963, soon after he had assumed office following the death of President Kennedy, tions, I believe, from I had been home for a few weeks on consulta- Sofia. I was anxious to see President Johnson LBJ
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/21/1968 (Friday) (Item)
  • ; to hair salon; reception in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden for Conference on the Status of Women; Lyn Nugent's birthday party; Luci Nugent records sound from party for Pat Nugent in Vietnam; late dinner; special mass for Lyn Nugent at the White House
Folder, "January 24, 1968 - 1 p.m. Pueblo II - National Security Council," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • to move in if the situation gets h ot. The President: I spent some of this morning with Senator Ted Kennedy discus sing bis trip to Vietnam and the report he plans to submit. There are tWo points he made: . 1. He is distressed about the degree
Folder, "[February 17, 1965 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting with General Eisenhower and Others]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • on an incident that had occurred at the time of President Kennedy's funeral. President De Gaulle had indi­ cated an interest in visiting the U.S. in the spring of 1964. Subsequently, President Johnson, in explaining to a group of governors why he was some minutes
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/28/1966 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • Meeting with Madam Shoumatoff about FDR portrait; Lady Bird, Nash Castro and Mary Lasker visit award-winning beautification sites; Beautification Committee meeting; Lady Bird mentions attendees and agenda; award ceremony in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/17/1965 (Monday) (Item)
  • on beautification; house guests; Jacqueline Kennedy letter to Lady Bird that appears at auction; State Dinner for President Park; Lady Bird mentions several guests; LBJ leaves party to work until 4:30 a.m.