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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 5, 25 April 1975," LBJ Library (Item)

by the acquisition of the personal papers of columnist Drew Pearson and former Johnson cabinet members John Gardner and Robert Wood, and the diary of Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson. In its continuing solicitation program the Library has now acquired the papers of more

Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

programs. Well, he was overtaken by events, and after Kennedy's death and the great push to create th~ poverty program in his memory, things went so fast that Sam's pace and I'll have to say rather narrow views were not needed. Hence Moynihan became

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to that, in the immediate past, you had served as Ambassador to OEeD and then prior to that in the Kennedy Administration, both as Director for the United States and the World Bank for a short time-L: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it if it had been offered to me; it wasn't. F: You were rumored. D: Yes,I was rumored, but I wasn't; he later appointed me on the Advisory Commi ttee. ma~ ~-Tashington. taking it? I found it Did you consider being USIA head under Kennedy? the mos t

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I remember he dedicated the statue of Robert E. Lee. Well, I was shocked. I had never seen him before. He went up a little platform that they had built especially, and it seemed like it was agony for him to get along. F: Did you see much

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

an everwidening cone into Oklahoma and the Southwest. abiding fundamentalism. covert issue then. There's a deep and John Kennedy's religion was something of a I mean it was a burning brush fire among [what] I guess you would call the religious groups

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ
the literature nobody made a big deal about it at all. Sort of said, "Yeah, that's a pretty good idea." This is the solution to the Achilles' heel problem which had vexed the Kennedy Administration and others up until this time. 15 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for LBJ in 1967 following Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's death; Krimer's involvement in the 1967 Glassboro Summit as an interpreter; basic interpretation protocol; LBJ's relationship with Aleksei Kosygin; Kosygin's discussion with Robert McNamara regarding
was that at some point during the conversation, LBJ asked [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara to talk to the chairman about arms limitation, and particularly ABM [anti-ballistic missile] limitation. At which point, McNamara 11 LBJ Presidential Library http

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 22, 15 May 1981," LBJ Library (Item)

by Robert Knudsen Some 600 members of he Friends f the LBJ Library from around Washington, D.C. gathered in the nation's capital on \1arch l J for the premiere of the film, ''The First Lady: Portrait of Lady Bird Johnson." The e\ent brought out much

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLIII -- 2 were. As you might expect I--and I notice [Robert] McNamara as well wanted to include a statement that the Great Society was going forward. Everyone except Fowler now favored suspension

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

concurrent--I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would have probably gone over to the Civil Rights Commission whether or not Jack Kennedy had been assassinated. As I've been indicating in another context, I often wore a number of hats, and this was a time

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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to remember what was fact and what wasn't fact. M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're Cyrus R. Vance, and your official positions in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations were entirely in the Department of Defense, as Counsel and as Secretary

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

had a bargain with the President that he would honor an agreement that I had made with President Kennedy that I would go on vacation in January of 1964, I guess. Then certainly part of the Panama crisis was during that absence, but I do remember being

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. So I was one of them. Pat Kennedy, who was later to head up VISTA and who is now the city manager of Columbia, Maryland, was another. Jerry Bruno was the third one, and you know who Jerry is. Mel Cottone, who was also a Kennedy advance man

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

deeply believed in it myself. own recommendations in writing. I gave him my I don't know how Stanton and Brown conveyed their views, but I conveyed mine to him. A good deal of work was done at that time, also, with Senator [Robert] Kerr, who I

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
thing that concerned me was I couldn't really envision anybody else lead~~3 this country as Presidc':t. None of the people that \'icre on the scene, Hhich of course at that tir.:c included Senator Robert Kcnr.cdy and Vice President Humphrey-I had net

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 20, 1 August 1980," LBJ Library (Item)

Government, but the University owns il. The LBJ Library was the first Presidential Library to be built on a University campus. (The John F. Kennedy Library has since risen on the University of Massachusetts' Dor chester campu , and the Gerald R. Ford

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Mr. President." "Well, why in the hell didn't you tell me?" (Laughter) So that was just prior to the time that he asked for this tax, and he knew I didn't like deficits; he knew [Robert] Byrd didn't like deficits and he was chairman of the Finance

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: That was part of the price of passing the legislation which is why I think we ought to get it. Then also look and see if there aren't memos from [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara to the President suggesting that we make him [Yarmolinsky] general counsel

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the steel price increase because by ten in the morning, I've got--oh, my god, no by ten in the morning, I've got [Robert] McNamara, [George] Ball, [Henry] Fowler, Dryden [?], [Alexander] Trowbridge. No, this is 1966; I'm sorry. Oh no, I'm sorry. I've got

Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, l986 INTERVIEWEE: STANLEY L. GREIGG INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Greigg's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 MG: I think you were working for [Hubert] Humphrey while [Lawrence] O'Brien was working for Kennedy. G

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. SEATO conference . This would have Anyway, we had a I remember Dean Rusk--it had to be--well, see, when did the Kennedy Administration take office? � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Kennedy was assassinated, President Johnson, then the [vice president], and Ralph Yarborough were both riding in the parade in Dallas, and they had a hard time deciding who was going to ride where. Just like children, you know. And Ralph wasn't going

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell
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INTERVIEL~EE : DR. ROBERT QUARLES INTERVIEWER: f.1ARSTOi~ STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: His office, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, r~aryland Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Dr. Robert Q. Marston, presently the director of the National

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 33, 15 March 1985," LBJ Library (Item)

. Like the time Robert Merrill, the great baritone from the Met ropolitan pera. came to the White House to sing for the Prime Mm1ster of Gr at Britain The day before the dinner my phone rang and 1t was Walt Rostow. He said. "You can't be serious You

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

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 13, 15 July 1978," LBJ Library (Item)

is entitled "Viva Jesus, Maria, y Jose." It was borrowed from Robert Wynn of San Antonio, Texa . The display as featured in the Library from December 12, 1977 until February 2, 1978. Officials of the alional Geographic visiting the Library at that time made

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 77, March 2002," LBJ Library (Item)

are drying up. If we cannot find ways to prevent that happening, future his tories will be written from press "Accessissues."Robert Schulzinger;John Prados; W. Roger Louis; John Brademas;Martha Kumar; panel chair Hugh Graham. (The panel is applauding

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

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