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  • 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
  • '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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • . 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • . 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • in those days, because back here in Washington I helped the International Visitors' Program, and worked with foreign students during Angier Biddle Duke's tenure as chief of protocol under Kennedy. progra~s I gave in the State Department, folk music
  • these things about Jim and he liked Jim so he went to the secretary of defense and asked if he could have a Jet Star. Of course it had to be approved by President Kennedy and they finally agreed that yes, he could have a Jet Star. So he picked Cross to be his
  • felt when he took over as president after Kennedy was killed that he had a mission to try to pass the legislation that had been unable to pass, that Kennedy espoused but could not pass. So in the first hundred to hundred and eighty days he had
  • th t he Pr e siĀ­ dent a grea t deal. He was a very v is ib le Pr es s Sec r e t ary --ver y, v e r y v is i ble , more so than anybody I guess. We l l, Saling er was v i s ib le in Kennedy 's days, of course--bu t Bi l l wa s the fi rst Pre ss
  • , and we would always have a little visit for an hour. W: The Kennedy-Harren was VJhere they VJere living, wasn't it? A: Yes. G: Did he talk much about President Roosevelt and his enthusiasm for the New Deal? A: He was always a great admirer
  • 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 HURD -- I -- 17 parti cul arly under Nrs. John F. Kennedy
  • for the District." Kennedy. Charlie Horsky had been created for that job under President Steve Pollak was there for Johnson. Steve Pollak did leave very quickly after we were nominated and appointed. M: What's the significance of that? F: The significance
  • in Special Forces when they picked up the counterinsurgency mission under Kennedy and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lehan -- II -- 24 Kennedy and so on. Obviously, Concorde was going to be built; and the TU-144, the Russian version, was going
  • at the time I was there was Lee White, who as you know came out of a background with the Kennedy Administration on the Hill. Lee was what I would call a very practical, careful lawyer, really one of the very best, with a great deal of judgment. Harry McPherson
  • to the educational experience of the other students. And so we intended from the beginning that there should be a considerable number of mid-career people involved in the Johnson School. But we didn't intend to emphasize it as much as the Kennedy School
  • Dispensary in Washington, D.C., under Dr. [George] Burkley. Dr. Burkley was the commanding officer there, and when Dr. Burkley was chosen as physician at the White House under President Kennedy, I was one of the persons that went up there. I was a hospital
  • , as the ranking Republican on this committee interested in drugs and these problems; we talked with [Abraham A.] Ribicoff, who had no problem at all. We sent word to Bob Kennedy's office as to the problems and volunteered to meet with him if he had time and if he
  • done some work with the USIA, and I thought I might ask you about that. The USIA, of course, was in existence before you were on the White House staff, but apparently about the time you came onboard there was a controversy over a John F. Kennedy film
  • a person serves very closely with a President--no matter who it is, particularly in a job like that--and when he held Kennedv obviously in such affection. ~as one of Kennedy's closest confidants, that carrier dedication was an emotional experience Jr
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 17 C: Oh, yes, that 1 s right. It's more folklore than a ny thin g . Lord, I've heard so much fo l k lore though about Eisenhower and Kennedy that we j ust have added to the folklore about
  • ," and that was true. That was one of the things that defeated him, and it was thirty-some-odd years later when Kennedy, a Catholic, was elected, the first Catholic. B: Did you know that Lyndon Johnson was at that convention? S: No. B: He was going to school
  • the Democratic National Convention when President Johnson and President Kennedy, at that time, were in the midst of having selection made F: This was 1960, you mean. C: 1960. I remember giving a speech at this local park in Tucson and President Johnson, who