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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and got an answer back that, yes, it would be all right. We decided to have it at the Kennedy-Warren, and it was going to cost a dollar seventyfive a plate, and I invited, as I always did, choosing very carefully because one was limited in the number
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe it could have been anybody that he would have liked better. And there we were, opposite numbers to that great Senator [Robert] Taft, the majority leader, who had Bill Knowland of California for his number-two man. But the shocking change
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • majority leader; Joe McCarthy; political divisions in North Carolina; Samuel James Ervin; Kerr Scott’s regard for LBJ; Robert Rice Reynolds; William B. Whitley; LBJ’s power in the Senate; Bobby Baker investigation; Bill Knowland; the issue of tobacco 1954
  • Rights Bill? C: Well, I'd have to refresh a little bit to get the years, the different steps straight. Well, for example, I know that Jack Kennedy never was real strong in that direction prior to the August 22, 1963 march, you know, when a hundred
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • staff; Edward Lansdale; General Taylor; Robert McNamara; David Nes; Rufus Phillips; Charles Bohannon; Lucien Conein; Dunn's eyewitness to the Diem coup; Pham Ngoc Thao; PLF (VC); Article 32 investigation of Dunn; Father DeJaeger; Tran Van Don; Big Minh
  • was appointed of course as the ambassador by then-President Kennedy. in his days as a reserve major general. What led to that? I had known him He was serving over in the Pentagon on the army general staff in a mobilization assignment and I was assigned
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the success of the original. G: Yes. There was an indication that I think Robert Cooke, a specialist in early childhood education, brought some of this significance to Shriver's attention. W: Do you recall this? I honestly don't because at this point
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • put him on a committee, too . I remember on that committee, Walter Reuther and Ernie [Earnest Robert] Breech, people on it . And then later, the head of Ford,[were] I just forget exactly what it was right now ; a similar thing as the one
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we're talking about now. F: Right. P: The farm-to-market roads, they were beginning to talk about them but not do anything about them. You see, the Highway Commission had just been formed with Robert Hubbard as chairman, and they were not too active
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • driver, Bashir Ahmad, in Pakistan; LBJ's visit to Greece; Stephen and Jean Kennedy Smith's role on the trip to Asia; LBJ's trip to West Point to speak at commencement and his first impression of General William Westmoreland; planning for Pakistan's
Folder, "Multilateral Force - General," Files of Charles E. Johnson, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
  • as well as the British and French forces are within the system. The second solution, which emerged out of the acceleration of the ECC, and of the Kennedy Administration's encouragement of this develop­ ment; would be to create an analogous relationship
Folder, "Bowles 11/3/63-1965 [4 of 4]," Files of Robert W. Komer, NSF, Box 13 (Item)
  • Folder, "Bowles 11/3/63-1965 [4 of 4]," Files of Robert W. Komer, NSF, Box 13
  • Files of Robert W. Komer
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  • quite well. Mr. Robert Komer, The White House, Washington, D. C. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 13526,Sec.3.5 MAY2 1 1964By ;J NLJ 11.. 7 ~ (#119) NARA,Date '. ;2 f .-lL SEORE'f --8-f!Cfll:T -22. In your letter you say "We here have seen nothing firm about
Folder, "Korea - Vol. 1 , Memos, 11/63 - 6/64," Country Files, NSF, Box 254 (Item)
  • , Senior Staff'_.Member, National Security Council Robert Komer, Senior Staff' Member, National Security Council Christopher A. Norred, Jr., Officer in Charge, EA/K COPIES TO: White House • 2 FE - 2 EA - 4 (3cc) Amembassy Seoul• 2 Amembassy ·rokyo - 2
Folder, "Administrative History of the Department of State, Vol. I, Chapter 4, Sections E, F and G," State Dept. Administrative History Box 2 (Item)
  • encouraged this development and said that senior Department officials hoped to compare notes again on Gulf matters when British Minister of State Roberts came to Washington in mid-May. The British decision to give notice of termination of their specific
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Biographical information; National Park System; Robert C. Horn; National Capital Planning Commission; Preservation Commission; Grand Teton National Park; recreation; 1968 Land & Water Conservation Fund Act; Yellowstone National Park; tradition
  • fundamental changes have come about, not only in the makeup of the National Park System, but also in some of the policies and guidelines. F: Before we get on to your career as Director, you are on the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Hight -- I -- 9 H: It was his comments, those that I overheard, that Senator [Robert] Taft was very good to work with. He was a pro in the sense that when certain agreements were struck, for scheduling or anything having to do
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you want to recount the story? Sure, what little bit I know about it . really between Senator [Robert] of Texas, My recollection that it was Kerr of Oklahoma and Senator Johnson and it was up to Senator McFarland, would confer with all
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 31, June 13-20, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 17 (Item)
  • does -­ in terms of large increases in U. S. foreign aid appropriations. or -- you decide that we must pre-empt a Congressional move to enact a mandatory reevaluation of tbe aid program, like the Kennedy Amendment which was barely defeated last year. Z
Folder, "Gen PU 1 / FG 731 [Publications / President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity]," WHCF PU Subject Files, Box 33 (Item)
  • Opportunity. The fourth Task Force, on conferences and ublications, Commissioner William Graham. Kendrick, is under the supervision of Working on this Task .Force are Robert Gale, of the Peace Corps, Miss Katherine Ellickson, George 0. Butler. and Ofield
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 29, May 25-31, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 16 (Item)
  • ~--ABo ,rt_ :-:JT::tI~ "G,RE~:n RL:n~r,~ ~~~~"! · ~:!HEN · YOU- -AP.E HERE;·:. _: - - THA~JK,: ,YOU . VERY '. MUCH · FOR. .·YOUR KIND·.·coMMENT$.·-ABOUT·:~ tHE. '.: KENNEDY · ROUND - NEGOTIATIONS. __:· •.- -L AM ._ SURE -_TH£\.:AGREE!1ENT.JI.ILL: ?R-OVF
Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh -7- very much interested in that problem a long time and had worked with Will Alexander in Georgia on the various race relations programs, but then he'd been switched over to the Public Power Division and [Robert C.] Bob Weaver took his
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy, known as Executive Order 10988, which set up for the first time a formal government policy with respect to the rights of federal empoyees to be in unions. There was never any question, there was never any deviation, there was 'never any compromise
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • problem because there were five governors and two or three mayors involved. And we had things like--at that time [Nelson] Rockefeller was governor of New York and [Robert] Wagner was the Democratic mayor of New York [City]. In Pennsylvania, [William
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was sending [Henry "Joe"] Fowler to see every member of the Appropriations Committee to ask them to hold down spending. He said [Robert] McNamara would need a supplemental of somewhere between five and fifteen billion. Then he said if he asked for a tax bill
Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Cyprus, 1/24/1968, Volume 4, Tab 62," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)
  • PARTICIPANTS: The P resident The Vice P res ident S ecretary of State, D e an Rusk S ecretary of Defense , Robert S . M cNama ra Sec retary of Treasury, H e nry H . F owler Chairman , Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Earle G . Whee ler Di r ector, Central Int e
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/8/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird, LBJ and staff are up late because of the Farm Bill; Lady Bird does office work; LBJ, Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson attend funeral for General Douglas MacArthur; Lady Bird exchanges brief remarks with Robert Kennedy; Lady Bird describes
Folder, "January 13, 1965," President’s Appointment File [Diary Backup], Box 12 (Item)
  • find it helpful to talk in theoretical terms about deficit financing, etc. (This, by the way, is different from Kennedy's approach in his Yale speech which aroused fears in the business community.) But you don't regard a -2- $100 billion budget
Folder, "Jamaica, Volume 1, 11/63 - 6/68 [1 of 3]," Country Files, NSF, Box 58 (Item)
  • . Among the other possible successors are Minister of Trade and Industry Robert Lightbourne, a brilliant speaker and politician: Minister without Portfolio Hugh Shearer, Bustamante's personal favorite, who supervises the JLP-affiliated trade union and has
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 8, January 1 - February 28, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • , the- bad political impact abJ:>oad, the -dam•1• to our own tourlttt propam. and effects on the Kennedy R.o und. . ~ All ol thi• will culminate ln reco~•ndatlona next w•ek tor a Pr~aid•ntlal . 0 mesa•a•. In ad.ditlon, lt looke as tf you would be asked
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/16/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • ; Lady Bird meets LBJ at hangar; park meeting continues at the LBJ Birthplace; to LBJ Ranch house; Johnsons, Lynda & Chuck Robb and the Krims drive the Lewis place; Robert Kennedy announces run for President; "Guess Who's Coming for Dinner?" movie shown
  • Kennedy walked into his office, the first time after John Kennedy 1 s death. It was Lyndon that suggested that we see Guess Who's Corning to Dinner, and we all went out to the hangar which is completed now, for showing movies, . and very nice, except
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/8/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • LBJ & Lady Bird read newspapers; to St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, for Robert Kennedy funeral; the Johnsons pay respects to the Kennedy family; lunch on plane back to Washington; Lady Bird reads newspapers and takes nap; mourners killed
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • enthusiastic about the Diem regime than Kennedy was. Did you get that feeling at all? T: Well, I suppose it might be a by-product of--this has just occurred to me, I hadn't thought about it in those terms--what you might call LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But there was no activity dealing with ongoing serv- ices to individuals who were retarded. Most of what was being done was being done through voluntary organizations around the country. There was a stimulation of interest that was begun by some members of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the commitment of American combat troops. G: Even before the end of 1963, there was contemplation of pulling out a thousand troops. M: That's right. did. Mr. Kennedy announced that, the Kennedy Administration I can't remember whether it was McNamara
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • operate, and it's through these sources that one can develop countermeasures. G: I understand. I believe Secretary [Robert] McNamara testified later before one of the Senate committees that he regarded this as a routine patrol. Some people think
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ; discussions on Vietnam; LBJ and Vietnam; incidents preceding and following Gulf of Tonkin incident; Robert McNamara; use of intelligence support
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . So I've I was appointed first by President Kennedy in November, 1962, then by President Johnson in April, 1965, and the third time by President Johnson in August of 1967. M: So he did take a positive step in renaming you in the position you LBJ
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • familiar with the precedents that existed in the form of the Ford gray areas, demonstration projects, or the experiments that were held under the Juvenile Delinquency [and] Youth Offenses Control Act, under Attorney General B: Robert Kennedy? I was aware
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • , and I was a speech writer and there wasn't anything much lower than a speech writer. (Laughter) But I have come on to much more exalted planes. Now, in this library there are some forty some million papers and they are very--I think Mr. [Robert "Bob
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • Kennedy? G: Where they launch the missiles? L: Yes, at Cape Kennedy they launch the missiles. But there is a small town about thirty miles from that where we stayed the night. Orlando. Orlando, Florida. From Orlando, Florida, then we went to Cape
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 70: Apr. 1‑5, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 32 (Item)
  • . Government'• In readi- lta Kennedy Rowad cut• and it• offer to take other trad•It would be mo•t he&rte11in1 lf a aati•factory aolutlon could be found thro111Ja.cooperatt.- international for• that the Japaae•e Go.ermneat will exert lta maximum toward
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And the whole process began again at the beginning of President Kennedy's Administration. And the mills have ground exceedingly long and maybe too fine--I don't know. But the whole thing has been a tremendous LBJ Presidential Library http