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Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it; no state commission ever has. F: You've got people like you, Andy Brimmer, Robert Weaver, and others scattered around. ~ Now then, you've g.ot something like downtown New York, the financial district, which has been pretty much lilywhite. Do you get
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • back, I think it was about 1939, the war clouds came out and it was dropped. He appointed a commission, headed by his friend Robert Anderson of Texas, to look at the same thing we'd looked at, and they made a report. They came up with a different
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • adjustments. The Congress had been very jealous and zealous in main- taining control over the rates of pay of a large portion of the federal employees. Starting in the Kennedy Administration there was an effort to achieve a higher degree of rationality
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Of course, that was primarily a Kennedy campaign. OM: That's true. F: Mr. Johnson was subordinate in this instance, except you did have . . . Vr'1: We had the tea F: You had the tea Vfvl: Yes. F: Tell me a little bit about them. VM: ~'Jell
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • temper and tactics; 1960 Kennedy/Johnson campaign; Hofheinz’ private bill regarding Yorktown Corporation; LBJ’s jokes; 1960 Democratic Convention and LBJ’s acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; assignments LBJ offered James.
  • at their home and I knew Senator Hugo Black pretty we 11 . The Durr' s used to have a lot of pa rti es. They had people over like Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, John L. Lewis, the Johnsons, Hugo Black and his lovely wife, Virginia's sister. G: Do you
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Clark; pardons and paroles; LBJ’s relationship with Hoover; Omnibus Crime Act of 1968; Model Cities; Robert Weaver; Bob Wood; tariffs; press relations; overseas airline decision; 1968 LBJ campaign and decision not to run; political activities after the 3
  • Katzenbach and Bob Kennedy all operated a very extensive network throughout the South. When you called John Doar about a problem that you had heard about in Meridian or in Selma, wherever, as sometimes happened--a lawyer or a judge or an elected official
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into this, because I answered yes." where they were asked for references. They sit and they never Then he got to the section [He wrote] "Honorab 1e Robert Kennedy" and two others of similar stature. And he smiled and he said, "They're going to have fun
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , who at that time was Secretary [Robert] Weaver, would become the acting secretary of housing and urban development. F: Why was that put in? C: I don't know. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Perrin, Robert, 1925-
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  • INTERVIEWEE: C. ROBERT PERRIN INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Mr. Perrin's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Mr. C. Robert Perrin, the Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Today's date
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1 -- 3 G: Kennedy introduced essentially a Medicare program that year that would be financed by an increase in Social Security taxes. Do you remember that? M: Well, I remember Johnson and [Robert] Kerr cooperating on some kind of a Medicare
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ was convinced to be John F. Kennedy's running mate; LBJ's and Hale Boggs' dedication to the War on Poverty and civil rights, especially in the South; Lynda Johnson dating George Hamilton; Hale Boggs' involvement in Adlai Stevenson's 1956
  • movement of many friends in Louisiana who felt there should be a twoparty system. They went to the Republican Convention and, of course, were successful in getting [Dwight] Eisenhower to run instead of [Robert] Taft. So many of the people who had supported
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • trying to get practical results from the NIH; Wilbur Cohen; fact sheets on heart disease, stroke and cancer; Lasker’s disagreements with Dr. Shannon; Truman’s effect on heart research and health insurance; the Kennedy family; doctor’s response to medical
  • written into the Democratic platform an idea to have a heart conference at the presidential level, and President Kennedy had called such a heart conference but it was a disaster. I wondered if you remembered any of the reasons why it didn't turn out well
Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the short run. So I asked I think it was [Nicholas] Katzenbach--I'm not 100 per cent sure, it might have been [Robert] Kennedy--told him that I wanted to leave, or that I had heard about the task force and that if the Justice Department didn't have anyone
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • Baker, Robert G.
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  • , 1974 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: I believe, Mr. Baker, you're from Pickens, South Carolina. B: That's correct. Pickens is the county seat
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ); attending the Guam Conference with General Westmoreland; how Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) was started with Knowlton and Lathram heading it; director of CORDS, Robert Komer, bringing Robert Montague with him to Vietnam
  • , as all these guys from the Kennedy offices and other places had called over to get friends excused from the draft or put into a reserve outfit right away because otherwise they might have to go into the army and go to Vietnam. So that's basically what I
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an acknowledgement from the White House within twenty-four hours. That had been the rule through Kennedy and we carried on through Johnson. [They got] at least an acknowledgement signed by Larry, which I signed. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy Task Force; comprehensive community action program; Sargent Shriver; Shriver Task Force; legislation; VISTA; drafting the bill; resident participation; planning and operation problems; regional planning; political power; Moynihan; Job Corps
  • had been talking to [Walter] Heller--this is Kennedy--and had asked Heller, who was then chairman of the Council [of Economic Advisers], as you know, to do some kind of study, to get the analysis done in essence for maybe a major presidential thrust
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HUGHES -- I -- 3 BH: Yes~ Rich~ there were eight presidential hopefuls, of whom John F. Kennedy was one. them around. There were so many that they were shuffling They had two ballrooms
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Newman -- I -- 4 Jake Jacobsen. I went to Washington and called Jake Jacobsen, and he said, "Well, really, the person for you to call is Juanita Roberts." So I called Juanita, and she made arrangements for me to come in and I met
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • How Kuchel became a Senator; LBJ in the Senate; LBJ’s relationships with Robert Taft and William Knowland; LBJ’s political skill in the Senate with both Democracts and Republicans; LBJ’s interest in tidelands; the Patrick J. Hurley/Dennis Chavez
  • : Yes. I guess my tenure began [at] the tail end of 1952. Nixon resigned a day or so early and that had something to do with my seniority. I was made senior to some of those who came in on the same date. Jack Kennedy and I were elected the same day
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Kennedy, who was up on Long Island, I think, on this particular occasion-M: This was Robert Kennedy? H: Robert Kennedy. He, having been Attorney General for a time, and therefore had known about the deliberations of this 303 Committee, had known
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and sometimes take immediate action . B: Yes, that's right . leadership . And also he had me circulate copies of it to the I would have a copy of my brief and a copy of the Record sent to Senators Mansfield and Russell Long ; subsequently, Ted Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contact with the field. That operation was under the direction of Nancy Lyons, who had been extremely effective, she and the other women, in the Kennedy campaign.She was 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • circumstances, to various kinds of proposals. M: Then how long did you stay with the AEC? I: I stayed with the AEC in the changeover of Administration, and I was White House liaison under both the Republicans and Democrats. I came to know President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • anything to do with his trip to Vietnam when he was vice president? S: No, that took place while I was in Geneva, I believe, 1961? M: Yes, it would have been while you were there. What was your job in the department at the time that President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- IX -- 5 R: Marie Fehmer, Juanita Roberts and me. For a little while there was another girl
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the deputy budget director, talked to Ehrlichman or [H. R.] Haldeman. I also talked to [Robert F.] Ellsworth and I think some of us talked to [Robert P.] Mayo, I don't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy wanted the vice president to represent him, right? C: Right at the independence of an African Republic--Senegal. dent asked me to go along. of two or three people. And the Presi­ We took a plane and a congressional delegation I remember
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. Lewis
  • Lewis, Robert G. (Robert George), 1919-
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  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. LEWIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Lewis' residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to begin by tracing what you know about the origin of the Task Force [on Agriculture and Rural Life]. L
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert
  • Robert Fleming
  • Fleming, Robert H.
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  • INTERVIEWEE: DATE: Robert Fleming, Deputy Press Secretary for LBJ November 8, 1979 PLACE: Washington, D.C. SUBJECT: Fleming's Knowledge of Daily Summaries of the Network \ Television Coverage: During the Period of TET, 1968 INTERVIEWER: David Culbert
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Robert] Taft have a close working relationship? Do you have any insight on that? Y: I think he had a great admiration for Taft. Taft wasn't nearly as conservative as a lot of people thought he was. He was one of the sponsors of federal aid
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things, little footnotes to history here: when Robert Kennedy died, we lost the liberal vote on the Judiciary Committee. We tried to get Goodell put on in his place, but Dirksen put his son-in-law on-- G: [Howard] Baker. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the Presidential nomination. Also, it had been indicated to me, either by President Kennedy or Secretary Di110n--I've forgotten now which--that we in the Treasury Department should extend, make every effort to keep the Vice President informed as to significant
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was able to purchase television time and allow Edmund Muskie to speak; 1970 election results nationwide; the Chappaquiddick incident involving Edward Kennedy; a February 1971 meeting between O'Brien, Carl Albert, Mike Mansfield, and potential 1972 potential
  • chairmen and people at all levels in the party.We wanted to have Democratic governors and other officeholders around the country involved with the national committee. Vice chairmen were named. Governor [Robert] McNair became a vice chairman to be liaison
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • to see him remarry; Horace Busby's employment with the Johnsons; Robert Kennedy's visit to the LBJ Ranch; Hubert and Muriel Humphrey's visit to the Ranch; Lady Bird Johnson's birthday celebration at the Ranch; the Johnson for President headquarters
  • , or home on leave, and hotel rooms were scarce. I think I've already told you about the time I had Mrs. [Jacqueline] Kennedy there. M: I don't believe so. J: It was when she was a brand new Senate bride. As I recall, Senator [John] Kennedy had already
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • Baker, Robert G.
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  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's office, Olney, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start with 1951. The first thing I want to ask deals with LBJ's election as whip. Do you have any recollection
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • think at first he had thought of me in the capacity of Executive Director of the Kennedy Foundation, which had just lost its director. I indicated to him that I would not be interested in thiS; that I couldn't do it; that I was very flattered, but I
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the first announcements President Kennedy made after held been elected to the presidency--and this is in December of 1960--was that he was going to make the Vice President the head of his space advisory council, or something of that kind. Well, when we read
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • helicopter support or something--without a clearance by the White House. I was appalled. When I was a special assistant to [Robert] McNamara, I got a call one day and I also found out that President Kennedy had cut back on Johnson's mess people and what have
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on and on and on and on and on, and the President kept him waiting for about an hour and fifteen minutes. Juanita [Roberts] was getting hysterical because she was running out of polite chitchat. You know, Hubert Humphrey just sat there and kept saying it was okay, he was prepared to wait. Hubert