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Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

; contact with LBJ and White House staff; Vietnam; Johnson Administration legislative briefings; the Pueblo incident; reflections on LBJ in various situations; comparison and evaluation of the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations
and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Lyndon Johnson. A: I first became acquainted with him only after the Kennedy assassination. I had seen him around the White House occasionally, and I guess we nodded, though I doubt that he was sure who I was. F: But you never had any real

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the differences between Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, both of whom you had ample opportunity to observe. Talk particularly, first of all about the difference in approach in Cabinet meetings. U: There were differences. They were not too great, however

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

really until President Kennedy came along, when he of course was vice president. I used to see him during those days; because one of my duties was to brief the Vice President on the situation in the Far East. M: That's one of the questions I wanted

Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Simpson; weddings of Lynda and Luci; International Ladies Garment Union; fashion taste of Lady Bird and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy; the Committee for the Acquisition of American Art for the White House; White House social functions; privilege of serving
for advice. He gave them the answers. F: I see, and the questions too, probably. Were you involved in the inaugural festivities at the time that President Kennedy was inaugurated? M: No, we were invited, but I made it a point of policy never to go

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

said, '~ell, getting ready to go to the airport now. as a matter of fact, I'm I'll be in there tonight." ''Well, he'll see you tomorrow." So I went by and went over to see him, and he said that he wanted me to take the chairmanship of the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

John Kennedy's. And as I studied it, it occurred to me that perhaps the addendum that was needed to the amendment was one that would put an end to the practice of allwhite [inaudible] juries which had developed in the federal procedure. So I

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

nomination of the party in 1960 that he went about it the wrong way. [They said that] he waited too late to firmly announce, that he put too much reliance on endorsement by his colleagues in the Senate, that the other path, the path that John Kennedy chose

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh They frequently say that President Kennedy was going to Dallas to help patch up Texas factionalism

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be for Johnson rather than for Kennedy it was inescapable conclusion that Kennedy had the thing . And that night, I know Mr . Johnson stayed in his hotel room and had on his house slippers and a sports shirt, and they hadn't gotten very far down the list when he

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connell -- I -- 2 research for the State Department. [He] left Humphrey in about 1958 to go with Chet Bowles over to India, came back and I think became director of intelligence and research under Kennedy. He's now

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or late fifties? T: He became more liberal in the late fifties in the Senate. I remember in 1960, when he ran for president, I supported him over Kennedy at the convention. I made a speech at the Democratic Convention to the South Carolina caucus

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

something about your appointment to the Bureau of the Budget. G: I was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. President Kennedy in January 1961. I came in with I had planned to serve for two years as a member of the Council and to return to my

Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, if I recall. We had a lot of candidates I'm just taking this off the top of my head. The campaign was Senator Symington, Humphrey, Johnson, and Kennedy. They had the four people. B: As I recall, there was a good deal of activity in the Kansas

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, 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
TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 in 1959. We began to make a serious attack on it in 1961. We had a little gold crisis as Jack Kennedy

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

presidency? Did you have any intimations of this? E: He sent for me and sent for John Stennis and told us that he had not made up his mind, that he'd been offered the vice presidency. Now as I recall, that was the morning after Kennedy was nominated. I

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HORWITZ -- I -- 20 Landrum Bill came over to the Senate. that. Let me go back a minute before I may say in 1958 we had worked a great deal with Senator Kennedy. M: I was going to ask about that. H

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Puerto Ricans fired gun shots in the House of Representatives; LBJ's first heart attack; Election 1960; Involvement during early sixties in Texas politics; Reaction to Kennedy's assassination; Running for State Chairman; Election of 1964; Convention
that would support the Johnson candidacy. Did you find in tallying your candidates that the Kennedy people had beaten you to a lot of states that would have fallen within the support of Lyndon Johnson? W: Of course I could not say that these states would

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, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Biographical data; rural American support of Johnson-Humphrey campaign and Kennedy-Johnson administration policies; White House contacts while Administrator of Farmer Cooperative Service; role in drafting legislation for bills pertaining to FCS
presented Senator Kennedy's farm program to an audience in downstate Illinois at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. B: During the campaign of that year? A: During the campaign of 1960, yes. B: Had you up to September of '66 ever met or had

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 H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in Oklahoma. I was with United Press International for four years. B: Was that in Oklahoma, too? C: That was in Oklahoma, Texas and in Kansas City. I was in Texas, incidentally, during the assassination of President Kennedy in '63, and was working

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

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