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Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

'? We moved up here the first of January of 1961 and served in the Vice-President's office there. As a matter of fact, he was so short on personnel that the Army recalled Juanita Roberts and me to active service. She was a major in the WACS. and I

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

white leaders in Civil Rights: Hodding Carter III, Bill Reedy, Claude Ramsey, Father Phillips McCloone and Father William Morrissey; SCLC base in Alabama; opinion of Kennedy men; LBJ’s administration involved in voting rights, public accommodation
involved, as I see it, to do all these things. B: At that time whom did you deal with in the administration? Did you talk in those years, beginning in 1961, directly with the attorney general, Robert Kennedy? H: No, we were dealing more with John Doar

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

during the Johnson Administration, as indeed during the Kennedy Administration as well, was as executive secretary of the National Security Council from 1961 to 1969. S: That's correct. M: You had been a career Foreign Service officer in various

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for vice president; Judge Robert Hall and the Alabama delegation; Lloyd Hand and the JFK appearance before Protestant ministers in Houston; the 1960 campaign in Texas; LBJ helps Henry B. Gonzalez, brings Cantinflas to San Antonio; the special senatorial
convention, his possibi lities as a preside ntial or a vice · preside ntial nominee were remote -and not very practic al. I was not involved in that 1956 campaign. F: You anticipa ted that this was going to be a Kefauver versus Kennedy fight? P: I'm

President's Daily Diary entry, 3/25/1965 (Item)

Reedy's office Dean BM's Rusk Welch Secretary Robert McNamara to office at March White Carol House 25 1965 Thursday Welch Marvin the Mildred Watson Education Stegall on the Bill Hill working returning w/ his call Mrs John F Kennedy

Folder, "[January-March 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

spent $9. 5 billion on poverty in his last year, Kennedy $12. 5 billion, and Johnson $28 billion. Manpower training cost from 3 to 4 to 12 billion in the same period. ) The President: It is not right to say that we are not moving fast enough because

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
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the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, the President asked me to serve as a member of the President's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. S: And, to this moment, today, you are still sitting on that commission? LBJ Presidential Library http

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/23/1966 (Item)

, AFL-CIO, Washington, D. C. Kenneth Fiester, Labor Press Assoc, AFL-CIO, Washington Robert H. Fox, The Chronicle. Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council, Cincinnati John Garrett, Boilerworkers-Blacksmiths Record; Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/10/1966 (Item)

House Dav SATURDAY Af-MvMytmrttiWt-vttttfdhy) LD Casey Ireland, House Banking & Currency Committee David Kennedy, Chairman of the Bd, Continental Ill Bank of Chicago Raymond J. Lapin, Pres, Bankers Mortgage Co. of Calif. Mrs. Mike Manatos and 2

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/12/1965 (Item)

. Jordan Senator Ralph Yarborough \ Senator Robert F. Kennedy Senator Milto n R. Young Senator Warren G . Magnuson Senator Mike Mansfield UNABLE TO ATTEND: Senator Everett Dirksen Senator Georg e S . McGovern Senator Peter H. Dominick, Senator Joseph Josep

President's Daily Diary entry, 8/13/1964 (Item)

- Exec . Dir . , America n Municipa l Assoc. Burton F . Mille r - Vic e Pres. , Amer . Roa d Builders' Assoc . W. Ra y Rogers - Pres . , Assoc . Gen . Contractor s o f America Robert O . Swai n - Pres. ^ Internationa l Roa d Federation ' H. E. Humphreys

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: This is extensive background, and I'm very sorry I must out of time--your time--limit some of my questions more to the 1961 area of your service in Defense. Would you briefly define for me the responsibilities of deputy secretary of defense? N: When Mr. [Robert

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

said, when I spoke about [John F.] Kennedy's support in the Senate--I said I thought a number of Senators wanted to support Kennedy and he said, "Yes, but the trouble is he's got all of the minnows and none of the whales." The whales generally sat

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-hand now. I guess I was working for [Robert] McNamara by this time. Yarmolinsky had literally moved out of the Pentagon. Bob would not let him. He wanted to keep his hat as special assistant to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense and McNamara

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio
-or-less the final break when Robert Kennedy ran for the presidency? C: I'm not sure that you've put the question in the right way or that I understand it. Do you want to try that again? M: Was there something that really brought it into the open

Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. I have There were others the same day. That evening was the evening that Senator [Robert] Kennedy was wounded in Los Angeles, and the following day the activities were interrupted for that reason. F: Yes, I remember. T: And although we finished

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the preliminary work that had been done in the Kennedy Administration that I thought possibly the President wasn't familiar with. The pbverty program very essentially started out by having Robert Kennedy chair an administrative committee of cabinet or sub-cabinet

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 72, June 2000," LBJ Library (Item)

by these artists. What compels them is a necessity to Back Row: Torkwase Dyson, Arleen Polite, Lillian Blades, David Newton, Channel Guice, Roy LaGrone, Marie Cochran, Robert Pruitt, Rejina Thomas Middle Row: Harry Middleton, Janine Jackson, Angelbert Metoyer

Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It was, interestingly, at that convention that a then-young Senator named John F. Kennedy received his first nationwide attention. known him earlier, not really known him, but had met him. I had I had read his book, Profiles in Courage, and thought it magnificent. I

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the Kennedy family; Joe Kennedy's proposal to make LBJ run for president in 1960 with JFK as his running mate.
] Shiel of Chicago, in turn a friend of Bishop [Robert Emmet] Lucey of Texas. I had never met Johnson. But I had known well his chief Aubrey Williams, who was also a Texan, who was the [national] head of the Youth Administration. One day Aubrey Williams

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/14/1966 (Item)

, Bureau of Reclamation, Dept of Interior Duncan, Robert B Congressman Dubrow, Morgan , Office of the Assistant Secretary of Interior- Wate r and Power Dunn, Oscar --VP, General Electric Company, Erie, Pa First, Williamson L -- Ofc of Cong Foley Foley

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the beginning and the recognition that he would receive as vice president, and he said that with great emphasis. There were no particular stories to the contrary but there had been stories that he and the Attorney General, Mr. Robert Kennedy, were feuding

Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

"This is it."? H: Well, I didn't have any advance notice. I had been talking-- Well, first of all, you know, I came up to see Robert Kennedy, who was then Attorney General. I did not see him; I saw Mr. [Byron] White, who later became Justice White. He was very

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 74, January 2001," LBJ Library (Item)

? What would he do if he came back today? And how will the futme deal with his programs and ideals? LBJ's prowess in the Senate was unequalled, Daschle asserted. and recalled a remark attributed to then Senator John Kennedy, who chose LBJ as a running

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 85, November 2004," LBJ Library (Item)

Library staffers Laura Harmon and Kendra Mayer dispensed cake and ice water to students. Photo by Robert Hicks Future Forum and IBM Sponsor Education Inquiry In February 2004 the LBJ Library Future Forum convened a panel of four experts to consider

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That was the critical difference. G: Was there anything in the staffing up of the committee that reflected the friction between Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy? F: No. No, not particularly at all. Later on there were. You need to realize how the friction evolved

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

there was genuine liking between the two men. B: There has been a good deal of speculation, and probably will continue to be a good deal of speculation, about the relationship of the Kennedy staff to Mr. Johnson--Robert Kennedy and President Kennedy's various

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

presidential campaigns; Senators Kefauver and Kennedy for the vice-president; LBJ’s first heart attack and recovery; Senator Ralph Yarborough; LBJ to running for vice-presidency; JFK; opportunities for Thornberry to become a federal judge; limitations
witnessed that fight between Kennedy and Kefauver for the vice presidency? T: Oh, yes. F: How much did Senator Johnson show his preference to the Texas delegation in I was very much in that. that. T: Let's see if I can remember it. You know at one

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--to practice law; ran for the legislature from Dallas County that year and was elected. F: Was that Robert Storey? S: Yes. R. G. Storey. And served in the legislature for three terms through 1958, and I also practiced law at that same time. Ran

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Biographical information; nomination of JFK and LBJ in 1960; Manatos’ work as Senate liaison in Kennedy and Johnson administrations; House’s receptivity to administration’s bills before and after the 1964 Congressional elections; head counting
in 1964? M: No, I read these stories with a great deal of interest, but-I couldn't detect any such movement. F: Did you see any overt evidence of the schism between the Vice President and the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy? M: No, I couldn't see

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 10, 15 July 1977," LBJ Library (Item)

was instituted by President Kennedy, who pre ented the first award on July 4, 1963. The medal has smce been presented lo 133 Americans. Mrs. Johnson's medal is on display at the Library. Ford visits Library while planning his own Former President Gerald Ford

Folder, "Brewster, Daniel B. 1/1/65 - 12/31/65," Name Files, WHCF, Box B-449 (Item)

A. HARTKE, Vance HAYDEN, Carl HICKE.L\JLUOFffi, Bourke B. HlLL, Lister HOLLA1'ID, Spessard L. HRUSKA, Roman 1 ~ INOUYE, Daniel K. JACKOON, Henry M. ·JAVITS, Jacob K. JORDAN, B. Everett JCRDAN, Len B. KENNEDY, Edward M. KENNEDY, Robert F. KUCHEL, Thomas

Folder, "Longoria, Felix [Newspaper Articles] [1 of 2]," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 3 (Item)

Kennedy failed to find burial in his home meeting, , and town here, was still being probed Garcia testified that he had~ sen~ Friday by a special House com· a letter to J. IC Montgomery~ ~1 mittee. . Three Rivers mayor, and that ·! The '·investigation

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
trader. I think it was the Populist bias against restrictions on the free flow of goods. He believed very strongly in free trade and had a magnificent record in the area. The Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of his responsibility. B: Did the activity on the Commission change much when Cliff Alexander took over as chairman? H: Let's keep the order. ing byplay on that. When Mr. Roosevelt resigned--there's a little interestYou see, Senator Robert Kennedy had

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LX -- 4 two Kennedys joined with the Republicans--[Robert] Griffin who is a very partisan animal--to try to stick it to Johnson was in his mind. Then, I guess on the twenty-eighth, we had a bipartisan leadership

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
be in line and held give them the spoon and say okay, taste it. We thought, at least I thought, Senator Russell was a very good man and a good friend of the President. G: Now, Senator Robert Kennedy came out that fall, too, to go hunting. 0: Yes

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 47, 1 July 1990," LBJ Library (Item)

reunion. They are: Willard Wirtz (labor), Alexander Trowbridge (Commerce), Joseph Barr (Treasury), John Gardner (HEW), Clark Clifford (Defense), Robert Wood (HUD), Alan Boyd (Transportation), Rober,t McNamara (Defense), Anthony Celebrezze (HEW), Orville

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; how the War on Poverty came to include more than Community Action; an Rowland Evans and Robert Novak column in the Washington Post indicating that Shriver might be LBJ’s 1964 vice presidential running mate and reaction of the Kennedy faction
of Education. Therefore when Kennedy started the Peace Corps it wasn't surprising--to me-that he would ask somebody like me to take an interest in it. G: Sure. The material about you also mentions your working with juvenile delinquency, largely through your

Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: July. At least, I left at the end of July. Previous to that you had been director of the Bureau of the Budget under the Kennedy administration, and that had been your only government service since the time of the Truman administration. Is that correct

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