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  • Detailed recollections of LBJ as President; reflections on his role as Majority Leader and VP; LBJ and Rusk’s personal and professional relationship; LBJ, RFK and certain Kennedy staff members; LBJ and foreign leaders; the Tuesday Lunch; LBJ’s
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rusk -- Interview I -- 13 M: Particularly the story of the personal blow-up that Mr. Johnson allegedly had at Robert Kennedy at the first Cabinet meeting. Do you think that's false? R: I don't remember or recollect
  • Christian, Drew Pearson, Chalmers Roberts, and Rober.t S. Allen. SERIES OUTLINE I. II. III. IV. VI. PRESS SECRETARY'S NEWS CONFERENCES (mimeographed set) A. PRESS SECRETARY'S NEWS CONFERENCES (typed/carbons) WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASES PRESIDENTIAL PRESS
  • and Veterans 1968 Task Force on Workmen's Disability Income Stewart Orville Udall Freeman 12/1/67 10/26/67 Sargent Shriver Alan Boyd Robert McNamara 1/19/68 No date 11/22/67 10/19/67 Betty Furness Ramsey Clark No date 10/68 Eugene V. Ros tow Wilbur
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • domestic programs, and perhaps in the civil rights field, schools, and so on. When I was in Justice under Robert Kennedy, he was the head of a delegation, I think, to discuss a Peace Corps equivilence throughout the Caribbean, down in Puerto Rico
  • on housing (Suburbia) in 1965; impressions of Robert Wood and Charles M. Haar; evaluation of task forces; service on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association.
  • committed themselves to Kennedy, although the majority of the delegation was for President Johnson. Mc: I've heard that the people from the Texas delegation were rather surprised by the organization of the Kennedy people . . I've gotten the impression
  • Almanac p. 81, 392; 1964 Almanac p. 77, 425, 879. . In 1961, President Kennedy proposed legislation /to create a Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. He promised to make HHFA Administrator Robert C. Weaver, a Negro, Secretary of the new Department
  • Career history; Novak's private meetings with LBJ; economic advisor Paul Douglas; LBJ drunk; Sam Shaffer and Newsweek; press coverage of the senate vs. the presidency; LBJ's attitude during the vice-presidency; Kennedy staff's disregard for LBJ
  • Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Robert D. S. Novak
  • Novak, Robert D.
  • See all online interviews with Robert D. S. Novak
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT NOVAK INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: I've already identified you on the tape, but just to get the credentials on here as well, you are Robert Novak and you are a syndicated columnist
  • and retired I believe early in President Kennedy's time went back to the Wilson Administration. So there is a great deal of continuity. B: Do your duties involve anything pertaining to the mansion itself, the LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Development and Trans port, ~aga t te o, sent the X. President several of the John F. Kennedy commemorative stamps issued by the Senegalese Post Office. Enclosed with the letter, in fact, were five first day covers, one plate block of four stamps and three
  • opinion of Citizen Hughes author Michael Drosnin and falsehoods in the book; Hughes' $25,000 donation through O'Brien to Robert Kennedy's campaign; O'Brien's trip to Ireland after the 1968 election.
  • that, but was infinitesimal in comparison, occurred the night that Bobby Kennedy lost the Oregon primary. It's not very pleasant to move through a losing election night, because at the presidential level, I've always considered election night somewhat comparable to the final
  • Administration http://archives.gov National Archives Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov http://www.lbjlibrary.org FOLDER TITLE STATUS WHCF BOX # Kennedy, Robert F. [1 of 4] [2 of 4] [3 of 4] [4 of 4] Robert F. Kennedy folders contain: material analyzing
  • , 1960 (include visited by)* Expenditure Code LD Arrived P-38 Senator Johnson opened the Senate Sen Kennedy's office to see Bob Woodruff To Kennedy's office to see Gov. Hodges Sen Ellender's lunch G-44 Sen Kennedy Oveta Hobby -- "wanted to see
  • Memo, de Gaulle's comments on death of President Kennedy, 11/24/63
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
  • Memcon, Moroccan Sympathy on President Kennedy's Death, 11/25/63
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. All of our holdings are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
  • : Well, I think that it basically stemmed from a mid-1960 visit that then-Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania and Robert Kennedy--trips that they made to Mississippi. G: In April 1967? D: I think it would be about that, yes. Those two senators were
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • , the first personal association with President Johnson was in New Mexico. He came out to speak. Now I've forgotten the year, but this was when the President [Lyndon Johnson] and John Kennedy were both working for the nomination. He came to speak
  • Early involvement with Senator Robert Kerr; first contact with LBJ; Sam Rayburn and Kerr; managing Kerr campaigns; Kerr's early interest in LBJ for president; LBJ's work for Oklahoma; organizing Oklahoma for LBJ; 1960 Democratic National Convention
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE : ALLEN BARROW INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : The home of James Jones in Tulsa, Oklahoma . Tape 1 of 1 F: Judge Barrow, first of all, how did you get involved with Senator [Robert S .] Kerr? B: It was in his 1948
  • exaggeration and last minute decisions, stubbornness and secrecy. Addendum: 3/29/1968 call from LBJ about polling to determine where LBJ stood against Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy; early hints that LBJ would not run in 1968; reasons LBJ had
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Krim -- III -- 4 Committee, that I had had some contacts, considerable contacts actually during the Kennedy years, and I felt that it was important for him
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert Short
  • Short, Robert
  • See all online interviews with Robert Short
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT E. SHORT INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Short's office, Minneapolis, Minnesota Tape 1 of 1 S: --the majority leader of the Senate. F: Yes. You don't look old enough for that. S: Oh, yes, I am old enough
  • 12, 1964 American Bar Association speech, New York City October 14, 1964 Alfred E_.. Smith dinner, New York City -October -15, 1964 Campaign speech, w /Senatorial Candidate _:. ·. Robert F. Kennedy, Rochester . . Campaign. speech, w /Senatorial
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 8, 1969 B: This is a continuation, the second interview with Rev. Holcomb. Sir, we left this after about 1961 or so. The next thing would be in '62 when you were appointed by President Kennedy as chairman of the Texas
  • It was reached persons: McNamara, Secretary Chief of the Secret tlme, who crune to tho Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense, Douglas J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the and Attoznay CIA; James Reilly, General, at that Robert Kennedy. ThG investigation
  • and Presidential work; Sidey’s coverage of 1960 Presidential election; Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the vice-presidency; how LBJ was treated by Kennedy staff and family; LBJ’s interaction with Sidey and other press during the presidency; LBJ’s difficulty
  • are the author of books on both the Kennedy Administration and President Johnson, as well as a weekly column for Life on the presidency since 1966, May 1966 about. S: Yes. M: You mentioned in numerous of your writings your original contact with Mr. Johnson
  • and Harold Geneen of ITT, and other memos that would be harmful if leaked; Mitchell's and Kleindienst's denials of knowledge or involvement in ITT; Terry Lenzner's and Sam Dash's demand that Robert Maheu's replacement, Chester Davis, provide them
  • through it. It had some negative references, probably to all the Kennedys, Bobby Kennedy. I didn't read it in detail. There was no need to because I had never seen that memo before. It was not the memo Bob Maheu had shown me so I simply stated, "I've never
  • attitude. C: And maybe some contrasts. During the--at least my experience on the receiving end in the Pentagon during the Kennedy administration was that they were--they pressed hard to be deeply involved in awarding contracts and who they went to. Indeed
  • . Johnson's appreciation for the variety in lifestyles around the United States; voting and election day 1960; the Johnsons' activities in the days following the election, including John F. Kennedy's visit to the LBJ Ranch; the apartment on the fifth floor
  • was stopped on the highway, and there is just something peculiarly poignant in that. Here was a man running for vice president and trying very hard to help the man he was serving, President Kennedy, in becoming president. And stopped in a funeral procession
  • Prokop's career history; LBJ's vice presidential staff and Prokop's duties; LBJ's dissatisfaction with his vice presidency; how President Kennedy's staff viewed LBJ and his staff; Kennedy staff's lack of appreciation for LBJ's talents; why Prokop
  • .] Kennedy in the spring, headed by Eleanor Roosevelt as the chairman, and Esther Peterson as vice chairman. I worked at the Commission until it finished its report, and I do not, quite frankly, remember the date. It was somewhere in the fall of 1963, because
  • Angeles. Well, as it turned out, of course, they didn't and we didn't. I think that people always had the feeling that Kennedy would come back to them, that he couldn't possibly get nominated, and the momentum of that steamroller was pretty badly
  • it. animosity. There was never a time I felt that there was any There are stories about certain people picking on him, like the late Robert Kennedy, but I did not see this personally. M: Did he ever talk about that with you? I: No. M: How would you rate
  • Watkins, Ambas­ sador Richard Holbrooke, and LBJ biog­ rapher Robert Caro. The thirty-minute programs began airing in May. 4 Lewis and Clark Exhibition Opens It took an heroic effort. but the Mu­ seum staff linished on schedule: Discov­ ering America
  • Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty
  • Jacob•en worked up all these a.nawera. Don't yuu have them? HARDESTY: l have all of tboae. JOHNSON: Who told ua to get on Air Force 1, Ken O'Donnell, wa•n't it? HARDESTY: Ken O'Donnell. JOHNSON: I ta.lk.ed to Kennedy and he called me back and I
  • / TheVPres Senator Lister Hill Senator Wayne Morse Senator Ralph Yarborough \ • Senator Jennings Randolph Senator Harrison Williams • Senator £ftaJ-B_ria___aiiB-hi-i Claiborne Pell I Senator Edward Kennedy II Senator Robert Griffin jf Senator Winston Prouty
  • premises and offer new solutions. The leaders of the party, Fritz Mondale and T ddy Kennedy, each continues o be, in different ways, a Roosevelt legatee. No one then will any longer live in FDR's shadow as Lyndon Johnson did, but it may be sometime still
  • Ribicoff off. G: Was there a Kennedy versus Johnson element to those hearings because Robert Kennedy was very prominent and it seems that the witnesses associated with the Kennedys received a much lighter treatment than those who were not, or had not been
  • in that way. Johnson seemed Generally with politicians the public and the private, you know, what you'd see on television and what you'd see face to face is more or less the same. I mean, Kennedy, Eisenhower and the rest that I've known were what you
  • Black, Eugene R. (Eugene Robert), b. 1898
  • was on the board of the bank . My relationships with President Johnson really started in the early part of his administration as President, and it came about in this way . Several months before President Kennedy was killed he asked me to LBJ Presidential
  • thought so and I did too. M: Mr. White, were you particularly surprised by Robert Kennedy's candidacy early last year? W: No, not greatly surprised, except in this sense. I think if Senator McCarthy had not first run--Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire
  • the Convention in 1960 in Los Angeles was over--and I was there, right in the middle of it, I was called in by Robert Kennedy. We talked about some of the problems. Mr. Jack Kennedy later obtained information from me about some of the things, and he went out
  • job until the end of the congressional session; LBJ's support for O'Brien's work and finding the best people to do congressional relations work; Robert Kennedy's support for O'Brien staying at his job at the White House.
  • the troops. G: Did it have any enduring impact on the way the national committee worked or was set up? O: I don't think so, particularly. I think that we continued to follow the same course from Kennedy through Johnson, which I guess, with the exception
  • years in the '30's and '40's as a staff assistant to Senator Robert Lafollette Jr., and as an assistant on the Senate Finance Committee in the '40's, were you not? C: Yes, that's right. I was with Senator Lafollette from '35 to '37 and again from '39