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Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Biographical information; what his jobs were for LBJ; how the staff decided which invitations LBJ would accept; Senator Dodd; advance work; Bobby Baker; working with the Kennedy staff; the JFK assassination and Sinclair’s work in the following days
  • of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been his supporter from then on; all through the years we were close friends. I flew with him after the great events out in California, when the meeting adjourned with Johnson being [the nominee for] vice president and Bobby [Kennedy] still fussing
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a staunch supporter of the President. He supported President Kennedy fully and he supported President Johnson fully, and we could never have any quarrel with Mansfield's support of the program. In the area of Vietnam, he had a tendency to refrain from
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Minnesota; Humphrey's career and support from the DFL; protestant versus Catholic political issues and support; John F. Kennedy's assassination and Keith's subsequent support for LBJ; the 1964 Democratic National Convention; LBJ campaigning in Minnesota
  • and Senator McCarthy--McCarthy hated Warren Burger, because he had run a campaign against McCarthy when he was in the House of Representatives; he had been the manager for a man by the name of Kennedy, and they had called McCarthy, among other things
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , no, careful screening." F: So that the Bricker Amendment wasn't anything to fear as far as he was concerned. D: The Bricker Amendment failed by one vote short of two-thirds. And like a friend of Joe Kennedy's asked Joe Kennedy why did Jack Kennedy vote
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson
  • of them, like Congressman Frank Smith, and others were wanting us to support Senator Kennedy for the vice presidential nomination. After the first roll call, it was obvious to me and to many others that if we were going to stop Kefauver, Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the fields of social welfare. My impression is that President Johnson was looking for a tag to describe his major legislative accomplishments, purposes, to correspond to Kennedy's New Frontier. My re~ollection is that the phrase Great Society came out
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but it had an appropriation. The Leamon piece says that Bobby [Kennedy] rode to the Hill with this young sociologist who finally enabled him to understand his point about delinquency when Bobby said, "Oh, I see. If I'd been born here this might have happened
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, though, I was back in Texas and he called and he was really pleased this time, because the President himself had spoken to him and you know that meant, "You stay out of the way, Busby. My friend John Kennedy wants me to do this." They wanted him to go
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • President Kennedy was made president and then continued on when Johnson succeeded to that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with usually in the Senate? B : No, but on occasion it would happen. a very important point . My wife raises a point that is It's not unimportant that she was born in Fort Worth and lived in Dallas until she came up here with the Kennedy Administration
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of overtones, a lot of politics, a lot of areas where the legislative body is at its worst rather than at its best. And so after a lot of thought on this, we concluded, and I so recorrunended to President Kennedy, that rather than to recommend a farm program
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Kennedy's choice of Johnson for his running mate, I was pretty much assured that Stu Symington was going to be the Vice Presidential candidate. Since I was a preconvention supporter of Symington, I felt pretty good about that. When the announcement
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • of the 1960 election when Johnson was the running mate for John Kennedy on the Democratic ticket, and the result of that--the Democratic candidate got forty-six thousand, roughly, more votes than the Republican candidate, who was Richard Nixon, and there were
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • perhaps you might just begin by indicating when your first acquaintance with Lyndon Johnson or with any of those close to him began . B: Well, actually, some of the acquaintance goes back to the Kennedy years, because I was somewhat involved
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. THOMSON, JR. INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Kennedy Institute of Politics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're James Thomson, and you held several different
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
  • : On any particular issue? B: Yes. I was defeated-- It's a tough thing to say, but the truth of the matter is that it was race. I ran twenty to thirty thousand votes ahead of President Kennedy in the election, but that still was not enough. fifty
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • M: Mrs. Bartlett, you have already mentioned that he was in favor of Johnson's candidacy in 1960. Was he very surprised at Mr. Johnson's accepting the vice presidential spot with John Kennedy? B: Yes. He wasn't sorry, because here was a friend
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • playing a role of any importance in liaison with the Senate for the Kennedy Administration as Vice President? B: Well, I, no t being in position of Senate leadership, really am not qualified to answer that. It is my personal observation that he still
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a cubbyhole on the same floor with the Kennedy organization there on Connecticut [Avenue]. Was it Connecticut? I could go right to the building right now, but I've forgotten the name of the street. Anyhow, Buck was traveling with Mr. Johnson and so
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the Kennedy people noticed was that they approved of it. They didn't get the ifs and the whereases. G: How did you learn about the invasion? R: Oh, I learned about it when it happened. G: Just through the newspapers? R: Right. Johnson didn't mention
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • wasn't really very close to any of the foreign policy decisions that you worked with while you were working for Mr. Kennedy? B: He was not at all close to them. He was actually involved in very few of the decisio ns that were taken during that period
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on beautification program; Maxine Cheshire; Ambassador Adlai Stevenson’s relationship with the First Family; Rene Verdon; suggestions on gifts; A White House Diary; LBJ Ranch and the Hill Country; Hirschon collection; letter from Jackie Kennedy to Lady Bird put up
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: ELIZABETH CARPENTER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Ms. Carpenter's home in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Liz, let's start off talking about the reaction to the book on the Kennedy assassination particularly
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , was chairman of one of the committees and made a report from the committee in the 1956 convention. F: Were you privy to any of what to a lot of people was a surprise when the Texas delegation went for Kennedy instead of Kefauver? c: No, I wasn't. That's
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believe it was in 1956--didn't he nominate Kennedy for the Vice Presidency? F: For Vice President. He was the one who swung the convention away from Kefauver over to Mr. Kennedy. H: At that time, some time between '56 and '60, I would think that he
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McClendon -- I -- 5 M: Yes. my I couldn't travel with Kennedy. papers~ It was just too expensive [for] and of course they didn't send
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ; the Johnson treatment; books written about LBJ’s Presidency; friction between the Kennedys and LBJ; press relations and criticisms; cause of LBJ’s unpopularity; LBJ’s interest in polls
  • measures-border taxes, import surcharges and so forth--that would undo and would start unraveling the results of the Kennedy Round. There were two schools of thought within the Administration--the free-trader school, and I'd say that was the State
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the State Department hierarchy, being in 1961 as, first, Policy Planning Council chief, and then later as Undersecretary for Political Affairs under Mr. Kennedy. Did Mr. Johnson take, that you could see, a very large role in foreign affairs as Vice
Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Contact with LBJ; Miguel Aleman; visit to the LBJ Ranch; Johnson and Kennedy visits to Mexico; LBJ's funeral; the ranch at Chihuahua
  • and Guajardo, we made to Washington on occasion of a seminar in Washington, D.C. F: Is this the one at Georgetown? B: The Georgetown. At that time we visited President Kennedy, and Guajardo arranged for a visit of President Alemán to Vice President Johnson
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • concerned me greatly because I don't think that it's necessary to have uniform thinking in any political party. I felt that the reason that Kennedy and Johnson had so much difficulty carrying Texas after Jack Kennedy had drafted Lyndon to be his running mate
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • informed than we did under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations because it's quite natural for the White House to communicate more with their natural allies here on the Hill. And of course we get frequent White House briefings. We get frequent visits
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [popular] attitude was so captivated by Kennedy-there were streets named after Kennedy, buildings named after Kennedy-that they never quite got a grip on him [LBJ]. Because of the general French interest in American foreign policy and very little
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , do you recall? R: Yes. Yes. The question was with Texas and the vice president run--it ended up in a Kefauver and Kennedy race--who Texas should be for. Johnson wanted to be for Hubert Humphrey, but he couldn't move the delegation that fast
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • overwhelmed legislatively by the Democrats most of the time. Of course I think that Kennedy could have been considered pretty much of an anathema to Republicans and there was very little communication between the White House and the Republican members
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or another, in effect putting what was Senator [President?] Kennedy's executive order into legislation. By and large I think that President Johnson thought that order had been ineffective. Getting federally subsidized housing--housing backed by Federal Home
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the Kennedy Administration but had not reached the 1 LBJ Presidential Library 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
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about--I presume before 1960 you-did not know- the Johnsons . the Kennedy's prior to that? Did you have anything to do with 0: No, I didn't F: So you come into this part of service in the 1960's with John F . I didn't know either one . Kennedy
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the Chinese, take that first step that needs to be taken if one is to walk a thousand miles, a la Jack Kennedy. [We] proposed over and over again that we exchange newsmen, that we exchange scholars, that we don't exchange if that's their wish, that they send