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  • in person, they said, "Yes, sir," over the phone, and that was that. This would not have happened in an older administration, even under Kennedy. Nobody yet had confidence in whom they could trust, but it was an example of a truncated decision-making process
  • R. F'IELDSj who st}ll. ted to the m.eeting 9 :axM.Ht.g other things~ th~.. t :a l .1 NS~P m~mbers and white people shnuld keep their guns in order to protect themselves . On October 31; lf167'J Capt.aim ROBERT RAM.SEY» Vice Squad~ IH.llsborougb
  • there. When you worked in the jungle, you had to put this, that, infiltration and all the rest, cutting off food and whatnot. I had a pretty good idea of what--and I knew [Sir Robert] Thompson down there, too, who set up their whole operation, came up
  • McGovern, and Robert McClory; Fulbright and the Fulbright Program; political pressures and the Board of Foreign Scholarships; the Sterling Tucker appointment; cultural exchange programs; cultural exchanges and the CIA; Anthony Solomon; Dean Rusk
  • that there ought to be a study of the offices overseas. study. functio~ of cultural affairs The Brookings Institution was asked to perform this The State Department and I think the White House under the Kennedy Administration w"ere very interested
  • Maxwell Taylor visited Vietnam in order to report to President Kennedy just a few months before you were assigned to Saigon. Did you have a chance to talk to him on his way back? H: Well, yes, we had him out to dinner, as a matter of fact, and he didn't
  • with conservation matters. She visited Calvin Coolidge's birthplace and presented a plaque designating it as a National Historical Lan~rk; she visited an old wood- covered bridge; she visited the Robert Frost home--or the approaches to it. We didn't have time
  • Asia. McG. B. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Fri., Feb. 4, 1966, 12:30 MR. PRESIDENT: These pages from a standard book of reference show the general context in which President Kennedy was working on Caribbean matters in October, 1963. m~ rs. McG. B
  • to be on the are being scrutinized by than Attorney General Robert Kennedy, a former antagonist, who almost got into a fistfight together out what it's Joe MoOarthy's end of an investi~ation. His multi-corporate no less Senator staff with Oohn a few years ago
  • ,to the Prealdent JACJr/pw/Jul 29 65 Identical Memo to: Lee White John Con nor Robert Weaver Gardner Ackley Donald Hornig r:_oJW~ ·/J-0 )1.! 1 ~ ...'s'' MEMORANDUM FOR LEE
  • ), as checked by IC JACK F..AY RID:F;NHOUR, were negative w;tth respec.t to an arrest of VIDNJEVICH since _las-t reported.· Concerning the arrest of VIDNJEVICH, October 31, 1966, at Kennedy High ·School, previo~ly :t"epqrted, records of the Chicago Police
  • . Charles C. Diggs Jr. John G. Do~. Don Edwards Respectfully yours, Leonard Farbstein Theodore R. Kttpferman Robert L. Leggett Samuel N. Friedel Donald_M. Fraser Patsy T. Mink Jacob H. Gilbert Thomas M. Rees . Edith Green Henry s.· Reuss Seymour Halpern
  • . 3, 1967 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT SUBJECT: Mrs. Kennedy•a visit to Cambodia Last winter the Cambodian Chief of State. :prince Sihan-ouk, invited Mrs. Kennedy to Phnom Penh to participate in a ceremony naming a street in the Cambodian 6apital
  • well ·and .give ,· . . ' · us the best available leadership for this important part of the Agenc1' s .activities·. I !.- Richard Helms Director cc t The Honorable Dean Rusk The Hon~:rabl~ · Robert S. McNamara --- ----.-.-•- ~"""""'l
  • WASHINGTON Tuesday, September 14, 1965, 5 PM MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT I had lunch today with Bob Kennedy, and it was the best discussion we have had in more than a year. We talked about a number of topics, but mostly about Vietnam, and I must say I
  • of the effects of United States actions in the Kennedy Round upon all American industries, including the textile industry. No major decisions have been or will be taken by our representatives in Geneva without a decision by the President, following a full review
  • increased I believe it was President Kennedy who momentum to the Alliance has been well welcomed John McCone to this position received and preparations are underway. by saying "welcome · to the bull's-eye"The reaction in Latin America to the indeed
  • Posts and USUN State Subjects IMMEDIATE Kennedy Funeral and Interment 1. As of noon Washington time, June 6, following are plans for funeral and interment of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: (a) The Senator's body will lie in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Ne
  • Biographical information; Wiley College; Dr. Melvin Tolson; CTJ and civil rights; LBJ is disappointed that Wright did not notice passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act; LBJ complains that blacks are ungrateful to him; Robert Weaver, Roger Wilkins
  • talking with him because he just seemed so brilliant. To me he was somebody you could look up to. earth, a good person to talk to. He was just very down to And also Weaver. G: Robert Weaver? W: Robert Weaver, Housing. G: Did LBJ have anything
  • for the New York Times. G: What story was that, that you referred to, the one [for which] they needed all the manpower they could get? B: All the stories. They were covering visits from Secretary [Robert] McNamara, they were covering all kinds
  • ; the Military Aide to the President; the Special Counsel to the President; the Air Poree Military Aide to the Vice President; Bromley Smith and Robert H. Johnson, NSC Staff, attended the meeting. - SECREl -SECRET EXECUTIVE OFFICE NATIONAL OF THE SECURITY
  • 1961 - Dr. Hans A. Bethe · 1962 - Dr. Edward Teller 1963 - Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer 1964 - Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover No awards were granted in 1960 and 1965. All of the recipients · received $50,000 except Dr. Fermi and Admiral Rickover, who
  • CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE DATE ~ _ JD_ r i' N '- ~/$/. the President to Sir Robert Menzies 1 page possible classified information letter 26a information ·- ~ 0.- /)./ RESTRICTION J i t . 7 ". ·4 /8/65 A L / mem----­ letter 26c duplicate of 26a 4
  • ~· ~. ··.:.:· /7r~·:. 4~. white 6 t'eet ·l .inch '.176 . ppunds.. . . . '· ,, unknown W. ~ Metz · None NAME AND NUMBER Robert Astor . ·Muldonian . · · #Uack.e r ·1813 ARR,ESTED OR · RECEIVED applf'c an . .' Print .,. ' Rec~ived · '. · October. 17
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] atmosphere. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh And you know there's that famous quote of Kennedy putting more weight on the New York Times
  • people thought that he lacked Kennedy's feel for foreign affairs. Was that your impression of him? M: Well, Lyndon Johnson had a different kind of experience in foreign affairs. His was considerable experience at one level of foreign affairs
  • : It was very ineffective at first. The major person in the White House that did have some knowledge of the Hill was Jack Martin, I. Jack Martin, who had been Senator [Robert] Taft's assistant. I have a feeling that other members of the Eisenhower
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XIV -- 2 within our power, the ability to break the price. Also, [Robert] McNamara was worried that we were operating with a blunderbuss. With aluminum we ought to find a more delicate, surgical way to do this. And I shared
  • ; the relationship between LBJ and Richard Russell; Robert Taft; tidelands controversy; Felix Longoria's burial; a letter from Herbert Hoover to Harry Truman regarding Hoover's public service; buying souvenir pieces of the White House during its renovation; Paul
  • . It was through him that we first heard--I'll continue this when I get back-(Interruption) An interesting little sidelight is that it was through Senator John McClellan that somewhat later on, and I don't remember what year, we first heard of Robert Kennedy
  • Roberts: oing through some old clippings of Governor Br an , I ran across this. I had intended to send it to you earlier in the hope that you· might get a chuckle as I did. . ··•'"'~··'"'. Melba * Gandy ~ I f @ r111.e.e1.s­ ....... ~ L
  • , Director Ray Cline, Deputy Director COMMERCE Luther Hodges, Secretary Theodore Thau, Executive Secretary, Advisory Committee on Export Policy DEFENSE Robert S. McNam.ara, Secretary Cyrus Vance , Deputy Secretary OEP Edward A. McDermott, Director STATE
  • Evans of the Evans-[Robert] Novak column at lunch, perhaps in early or mid-1971. Rowlie asked me why Chuck Colson hated my guts. I responded that I didn't know who Chuck Colson was. The name was a name I wasn't familiar with. Rowlie said, "Of course you
  • guess it was 1947. F: Yes, that'd be about right. L: Yes, 1947, I guess. that. I'd been assistant about a year and a half before Jatk Roberts was elected district judge, and Archer resigned. What'd I say the governor's name was? F: Jester? LBJ
  • . 1 S GREETINGS, AFTERCONVEYING PRESIDENT KENNEDY VICE PRESIDENT EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FORWARMTH OF WELCOME ACCORDED HIMANDFRIENDLINESS DEMONSTRATED BY LEBANESE WHOOFTENAPPLAUDED ANDCHEERED AT SIGHTOF U.S. FLAG.CHEHAB REPLIEDTHIS WASNOSURPRISETO
  • , Secretary of Commerce, Wasblngton 25, D.C. Edgar Kaiser, President, Kal&er Industries, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, Calif. Robert F. Kennedy, Tbe Attorney General, lilll Department of Justice, Washington 25, D.C. Kn. Mary Lasker, Mary Lasker Foundntiou
  • . With best wishes and warmest personal regards, I am Sincerely yours, .. MES/em [7 of 8] ­ MARLIN E.SANDLIN 1700 SOUTHWEST TOWER HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002 October 22, 1967 Mrs. Juanita Roberts Personal Secretary to the President The White House Washington