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  • -- immediately upon takeoff - showed Busby and Cater the telegram he had just received from Sen. Robt Kennedy. The President himselt made no comment. . . just handed it to the two men. . . and Busby said, "He wants to see you like he wanted to see McNamara
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert Lampman
  • Lampman, Robert James, 1920-1997
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  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT LAMPMAN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Lampman's residence, Madison, Wisconsin Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start, Dr. Lampman, by asking you to trace the beginning of your involvement with what became the War on Poverty. L
  • to something I've just finished reading here that one of the Brookings people has written, Mr. James Sundquist's book which covers the Eisenhower and Kennedy--Johnson years and draws contrasts. He has a section on the environment and describes what has
  • , "Confidentally, I'm supporting Jack Kennedy, who is the logical one," and so forth. Kennedy?" "Will you line up with Jack But you know, there were seven Democratic candidates, potentials and hopefuls at that time. Lyndon was number seven at the bottom as far
  • tax. As I say, he was chief of staff, appointments, everything. MG: Okay, who else? AG: Mildred was Walter's secretary and his right hand. was in the Senate office. Juanita [Roberts] The Senate office was very, very small. MG: Now, when you say
  • the tragedy of Robert Kennedy, and he called me up and said, "r want you to put men on that right away," about six o'clock in the morning, "put good men on it," and so forth and so on, which we did. M: So he does not at weird hours and frequently
  • , and only the President knows--I have no idea--and I always denied this, about ten days before my Under Secretary had come to me-F: Is this David Black? U: Yes. --with the idea of naming the District of Columbia Stadium for Robert Kennedy. He, of course
  • with Robert Komer. C: This is [Gerald] Ford, Albert. I wonder if this is the right year? B: To the Cabinet Room for the congressional bipartisan leadership meeting. C: Yes. B: . . . with you for a review. Ford was there. Tom Johnson made notes
  • at that time was assistant secretary, asked me to take the White House Latin American adviser job, which Robert B. Sayre had occupied for about nine months previous to that. F: Had you known Walt Rostow or the President at all before this time? B: I had
  • . Y., 5/21/fA. KENNEDY, Mrs. James L., 414 Cortelyon Rd., Brooklyn 18, N. Y., 5/22/64. ATTARD, Spiro, 1654 E. 7th St., Brooklyn 23, N. Y., 5/21/64. GARCIA,Alfred, 119-25 190 St., St. Albans, N. Y., 5/22/64. LANG,Charles T., 1149 Putnam Ave., Brooklyn
  • Commission. He went back to Truman. He had been reappointed a couple of times and had been in the Eisenhower years I know and of course the Kennedy years, since John F. Kennedy was very fond of his son, or at least leaned on him. I would presume he was fond
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT KOMER li~TERVIEWER: PAIGE E. PLACE: Mr. Komer's office, RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C. MULHOLL&~ Tape 1 of 3 M: You were, for part of the time in 1964 and '65, the White House man on Africa as well as the Middle
  • Folder, "INDIA - December 1963-1964 [4 of 4]," Files of Robert W. Komer, NSF, Box 23
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  • Inspector General, Foreign Assistance April MEMO FOR: Here to Secretary 14, 19~4 Mr. Robert W. Komer National Security Council is a copy McNamara telecommunications of what on the India project. J,, K,, Mansfield Attachments we sent
  • Failed tax increases; Wilbur Mills; 1968 primaries; Bobby Kennedy entering the 1968 presidential race; the Tet offensive and negotiating with the North Vietnamese; Clark Clifford; bombing halts; Monsignor Paul Marcinkus visiting LBJ at the Ranch
  • . The President felt that they were motivated more by Bobby Kennedy than by Gene McCarthy. G: Really? K: Yes. Particularly the Lowenstein one. He felt that was a Kennedy front. I had no evidence of that. Since it was New York, he used to talk to me a lot about
  • of recreation is horseback riding. As y;ou know, you met Park when he came to this country in November 1961 shortly after ecizlng power by a mU1tary coup: you met him again when he came to President Kennedy' a £uneral. In the attached menprandum (which you have
  • Bay of Pigs: reasons for failure; criticism of JFK’s Administration; military-industrial complex discussed in reference to General Dynamics controversy; disapproval and disagreement with Robert McNamara’s policies; opinions on LBJ Administration’s
  • of this," and that ended the discussion. All these at'ticles that you have seen that have been written by the great brains of the Kennedy Administration, including Robert Kennedy, on the Bay of Pigs as to the bad military advice and the betrayal of the military
  • First knowledge of LBJ; Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune enthusiastic regarding LBJ; Mrs. Bethune and the NYA; friendship with Stuart Symington; LBJ getting building for Huston-Tillotson College; relationship with LBJ; 1957 Civil
  • of government. My first knowledge of the President came when he was running for the Senate, and at that time I was talking to many people like Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, all of whom said that it would be a great thing if Texas could
  • AND TO -, : ·~ ·~:: ~: FOLLOW .IT BY ONE TO THE U .s • WOULD APPEAR .TO PLAY DOWN THE . : . :... , ::J : : . .. MEXICAN VISIT. I OF ·coURSE p·o INTED ' OUT Tif AT THE ·_ VISIT TO TH£ ·' _·. . ~:j HAD · BEEN AGREED WITH KENNEDY · AND TH AT THERE NEED
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  • Negro Sector 42. Leroy Johnson, 43. Sen. Johnson and Rev. Samuel Williams on television 44. Julian 45. J. 46. Q. V. Williamson, 47. Amos Parker, Center 48. John Rolle, Manpower Counselor Service Center 49. Patrolman Robert L. Johnson
  • :30 PM: A 11:00 PM: Jackson COFO called Schwelb at approximately 11:00, but he gave no indication cf having taken any action. 12 :00 PM: Robert Weil from Jackson COFO called Schwelb and gave him the license number or· the missing cari and further
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • despite the President? W: Bailey never had the confidence of the President, I don't think; he was feared by the President as a Kennedy man, and also I think he was getting a little tired of it, and nobody was allowed to move without Johnson's direct
  • was informed, and I'm quite confident that it was the case, that Robert Kennedy, who must have been a member of the War on Poverty Task Force in his position as attorney general, had made a final effort in the closing stages of putting together
  • to that, how did the Civil Rights Division get along with the FBI in investigative matters such as in those cases? P: I think the best person to ask is Mr. Doar. B: He would have been handling the main aspects of those? P: That's correct. And D. Robert
  • Democratic National Convention; the support of John Connally and the Wesley West family; early memories of John F. Kennedy; LBJ's senate majority leader office; committee to select the best senators throughout history; LBJ persuading Texas delegates to vote
  • , but comes later on in his life and I probably already have recited that in my White House things about after he--having taken over as President after the death of President [John F.] Kennedy--in August of 1964 was approaching the convention time. And he had
  • Vietnam; France’s involvement with Vietnam; the Pueblo; General Hamilton Howze; overestimating enemy power; conflict between military and intelligence staff; Robert McNamara’s request for an opinion paper on anti-ballistic missile use; Soviet involvement
  • morning when all of the analysis had been completed and so on. From that Monday when he was notified, which would have been the fifteenth or possibly the sixteenth, until the following Monday, the twenty-second, which was the evening that President Kennedy
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  • , "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country
  • Negotiations Walt Rostow Michael "Mike"Blumenthal , Deputy Special Representative for Trade I re "Eyes Joe - - scheduling Kennedy Round Decisions only" briefing paper returned to Rostow Califano Negotiations WHITE Hous e Dat e Ma IDENT LYNDO N B
  • in the Kennedy & Johnson dministration ": Robert Daile!-, "Lyndon B. Johnson. A Biography"; Sally Davenport, "Policy Stralegies for a Progres­ sive Agenda: Adopting and Implementing the Higher Education Act"; Dorothy C Donnell , ·•u Strategic Options in Viet­ nam
  • when Strongbow IEarl of Pembroke] landed in County Wexford to start the long march of Irish misery voted for him. Once Kennedy was elected, that was the end of the American Irish. ... You see, there is never a real ma­ jority in the United States
  • mean, I do remember at the University of Chicago, if I can find them, an economist from Northwest[ern University], Robert Eisner, laying into us on the war, but in terms of--you know, I would go around the table. . . . Ah, here's New York. G: You were
  • . There were others after that, but I would have to consider that our first meeting. After leaving Washington, there was a story in the newspaper, the [Rowland] Evans-[Robert] Novak column, and in that column they mentioned my visit to the White House
  • EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE UNITED ST ATES: A Symposium on Civil Rights Co-sponsored by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and The University of Texas at Austin Edited by Robert C Rooney Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs The University
  • 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
  • if Jamaica In this source the thesis to provide connection a possible of capital that Caribbean for Jamaica. developing countries the Kennedy Round of GATT and the recent Conference but does little concerning U.S. agreement assistance. Bank
  • 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
  • that I wasn't on drugs. [Laughter] That's P-A-S-S- -D. [Laughter] l 've not talked a lot about v hat happened in [the election cri­ sis in] Florida, but I do in this book. My really good pal, Bob Strauss, for whom you've named the Robert S. Strauss Center
  • 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
  • Negro CollegeFund Inc. YORK,Herbert F., Univ. of Calif. BENSON,Bruce B., League of Wanen Voters BILLHEJNER,Robert, Natl. Council of Churches BUNDY,McGeorge, Ford Foundation DABIS, Charles, Chicago, Ill. FELD, Bernard. T., Cambridge, Mass. HIGGINS, George
  • : 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