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  • JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, SR.'S HEALTH; LBJ PRAISES ACTIONS OF EDWARD KENNEDY IN SENATE
  • National Archives and Records Administration http://archives.gov National Archives Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov http://www.lbjlibrary.org COLLECTION DETAILS and FOLDER TITLE LIST Collection: Papers from the John F. Kennedy Library, 1983
  • Bio: Pierre Emil George Salinger (b. 1925) journalist and government official, was the Press Secretary to Senator John F. Kennedy from 1959 to 1960, and again from 1961 to 1963 during Kennedy's presidency. He was the Chief Foreign Correspondent
  • Bio: Ralph W. Nicholson (1916-1995) was Assistant Postmaster General during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. President Kennedy put him in charge of installations and logistics at the Post Office Department in 1961, and he later took over
  • ) Massachusetts Kennedy, Senator Robert F. (D) New York Kuchel, Senator Thomas H. (R) California Lausche, Senator Frank J. (D) Ohio Long, Senator Edward V. (D) Missouri Long, Senator Russell B. (D) Louisiana McCarthy, Senator Eugene J. (D) Minnesota McClellan
  • Roche’s career advancements in politics; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys, McNamara, Bundy, Valenti, Moyers, Rostow and others; his involvement in Vietnam-related issues; personal evaluation of may official personnel and the effectiveness
  • him. I came out of the Kennedy background. It's kind of ironic, as a matter of fact, because I was one of the first so-called Kennedy intellectuals in the fifties, in 1956. work for John Kennedy when he was here i n ~1assachusetts I went
  • ; trying to interest LBJ in China; an Eye Institute separate from the National Institutes of Health; community Mental Health Centers and Mike Gorman; the Family Planning Services Act; Adlai Stevenson’s relationship with LBJ; Robert Kennedy; assessment
  • experiences. He realized that if something bad happened to him or someone close to him, it was happening to tens of millions of other people, and he wanted to do something to help them. G: When you first told President Johnson that President Kennedy before
  • temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
  • in his office drinking bourbon. He made some kind of a remark like this, "I'll never trade my vote for a gavel." I was asking him about his becoming a vice-presidential candidate under Kennedy. He said he'd never do that; he didn't want to be the vice
  • Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb
  • Robert W. Calvert
  • Calvert, Robert W.
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  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT CALVERTY INTERVIEWER: DAVID McComb PLACE: Chief Justice Calvert's office in the Supreme Court Building, Austin, Texas. Tape 1 of 1 M: To start off with, let's start with you. Where were you born, when and where did you get your
  • [13 copies] Let us for God's sake resolve to live under the law, statements on the death of Senator Robert Kennedy [9 copies] Five Principles of Peace in the Middle East, excerpts from "Remarks of President Lyndon B. Johnson" [see Panzer, box 383
  • in Washington D.C.; Lasker’s relationship with Mrs. Johnson; supporting Robert Kennedy; encouraging Mrs. Johnson’s interest in beautification and health; beautification projects in Washington D.C.; National Institutes of Health and clinical research goals; Nash
  • of the relationship between the President and Attorney General Kennedy during Robert Kennedy's campaign for the Senate from New York? Did he talk with you? L: Did the President talk with me? F: Yes. L: No. F: He did come up here and work for him. L: I
  • to work on the Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign; turnover on LBJ's staff.
  • . G: Sure, between LBJ and RFK. Now, Robert Kennedy met with the President shortly after that March 31 speech, I think on April 3, the day before this trip to New York, and evidently commended him on his speech and commended his statesmanship
  • , though? B: If she did, she didn't show it any way that I could judge her. G: The story is told that there were two meetings between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and his people, among them Sam Rayburn, and during one of those meetings he [Kennedy
  • question that future scholars are going to note and would probably wonder at the omission. During Robert Kennedy's tenure as Attorney General, there was a rather well publicized dispute between him and J. Edgar Hoover over electronics surveillance. E
  • , where .we went ahead and had a meeting. At this time we told Robert Kennedy that we would like to work for the candidate, John F. Kennedy, but we would work at it by ourselves. That we didn't want to work under any state Democratic setup because we
  • to the Vatican during JFK's administration; difficulty managing the great number of lower-level appointments; Robert Kennedy's proposal to raise the salary of Justice Department lawyers; civil rights and the Democratic Party in 1962; Southern Democratic
  • perceived to be some foot-dragging. I think one member of the original cabinet of President Kennedy that had difficulty with it was the Postmaster General, Ed Day. Ed talked to me on a number of occasions and to others in the White House and he felt
  • Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Robert S. Strauss
  • Strauss, Robert Schwarz, 1918-2014
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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I INTERVID~ INTERVIHJEE: ROBERT
  • '? We moved up here the first of January of 1961 and served in the Vice-President's office there. As a matter of fact, he was so short on personnel that the Army recalled Juanita Roberts and me to active service. She was a major in the WACS. and I
  • white leaders in Civil Rights: Hodding Carter III, Bill Reedy, Claude Ramsey, Father Phillips McCloone and Father William Morrissey; SCLC base in Alabama; opinion of Kennedy men; LBJ’s administration involved in voting rights, public accommodation
  • involved, as I see it, to do all these things. B: At that time whom did you deal with in the administration? Did you talk in those years, beginning in 1961, directly with the attorney general, Robert Kennedy? H: No, we were dealing more with John Doar
  • during the Johnson Administration, as indeed during the Kennedy Administration as well, was as executive secretary of the National Security Council from 1961 to 1969. S: That's correct. M: You had been a career Foreign Service officer in various
  • for vice president; Judge Robert Hall and the Alabama delegation; Lloyd Hand and the JFK appearance before Protestant ministers in Houston; the 1960 campaign in Texas; LBJ helps Henry B. Gonzalez, brings Cantinflas to San Antonio; the special senatorial
  • convention, his possibi lities as a preside ntial or a vice · preside ntial nominee were remote -and not very practic al. I was not involved in that 1956 campaign. F: You anticipa ted that this was going to be a Kefauver versus Kennedy fight? P: I'm
  • Reedy's office Dean BM's Rusk Welch Secretary Robert McNamara to office at March White Carol House 25 1965 Thursday Welch Marvin the Mildred Watson Education Stegall on the Bill Hill working returning w/ his call Mrs John F Kennedy
  • spent $9. 5 billion on poverty in his last year, Kennedy $12. 5 billion, and Johnson $28 billion. Manpower training cost from 3 to 4 to 12 billion in the same period. ) The President: It is not right to say that we are not moving fast enough because
  • Material for McCarthy, 1968] “EJM Media” [1968 Campaign Media Coverage] “‘Face the Nation’ [transcripts] 12/10/67, 5/17/68, 6/2/6/68, 8/26/68, 11/3/68” “EJM Press Conferences, TV, and Radio” [empty] “(EJM) Names” “McGovern” “EJM—RFK” [Robert F. Kennedy
  • Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Patricia Roberts Harris
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  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, the President asked me to serve as a member of the President's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. S: And, to this moment, today, you are still sitting on that commission? LBJ Presidential Library http
  • , AFL-CIO, Washington, D. C. Kenneth Fiester, Labor Press Assoc, AFL-CIO, Washington Robert H. Fox, The Chronicle. Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council, Cincinnati John Garrett, Boilerworkers-Blacksmiths Record; Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths
  • House Dav SATURDAY Af-MvMytmrttiWt-vttttfdhy) LD Casey Ireland, House Banking & Currency Committee David Kennedy, Chairman of the Bd, Continental Ill Bank of Chicago Raymond J. Lapin, Pres, Bankers Mortgage Co. of Calif. Mrs. Mike Manatos and 2
  • . Jordan Senator Ralph Yarborough \ Senator Robert F. Kennedy Senator Milto n R. Young Senator Warren G . Magnuson Senator Mike Mansfield UNABLE TO ATTEND: Senator Everett Dirksen Senator Georg e S . McGovern Senator Peter H. Dominick, Senator Joseph Josep
  • - Exec . Dir . , America n Municipa l Assoc. Burton F . Mille r - Vic e Pres. , Amer . Roa d Builders' Assoc . W. Ra y Rogers - Pres . , Assoc . Gen . Contractor s o f America Robert O . Swai n - Pres. ^ Internationa l Roa d Federation ' H. E. Humphreys
  • : This is extensive background, and I'm very sorry I must out of time--your time--limit some of my questions more to the 1961 area of your service in Defense. Would you briefly define for me the responsibilities of deputy secretary of defense? N: When Mr. [Robert
  • said, when I spoke about [John F.] Kennedy's support in the Senate--I said I thought a number of Senators wanted to support Kennedy and he said, "Yes, but the trouble is he's got all of the minnows and none of the whales." The whales generally sat
  • -hand now. I guess I was working for [Robert] McNamara by this time. Yarmolinsky had literally moved out of the Pentagon. Bob would not let him. He wanted to keep his hat as special assistant to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense and McNamara
  • Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio
  • -or-less the final break when Robert Kennedy ran for the presidency? C: I'm not sure that you've put the question in the right way or that I understand it. Do you want to try that again? M: Was there something that really brought it into the open
  • . I have There were others the same day. That evening was the evening that Senator [Robert] Kennedy was wounded in Los Angeles, and the following day the activities were interrupted for that reason. F: Yes, I remember. T: And although we finished
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  • of the preliminary work that had been done in the Kennedy Administration that I thought possibly the President wasn't familiar with. The pbverty program very essentially started out by having Robert Kennedy chair an administrative committee of cabinet or sub-cabinet
  • by these artists. What compels them is a necessity to Back Row: Torkwase Dyson, Arleen Polite, Lillian Blades, David Newton, Channel Guice, Roy LaGrone, Marie Cochran, Robert Pruitt, Rejina Thomas Middle Row: Harry Middleton, Janine Jackson, Angelbert Metoyer
  • . It was, interestingly, at that convention that a then-young Senator named John F. Kennedy received his first nationwide attention. known him earlier, not really known him, but had met him. I had I had read his book, Profiles in Courage, and thought it magnificent. I
  • with the Kennedy family; Joe Kennedy's proposal to make LBJ run for president in 1960 with JFK as his running mate.
  • ] Shiel of Chicago, in turn a friend of Bishop [Robert Emmet] Lucey of Texas. I had never met Johnson. But I had known well his chief Aubrey Williams, who was also a Texan, who was the [national] head of the Youth Administration. One day Aubrey Williams
  • , Bureau of Reclamation, Dept of Interior Duncan, Robert B Congressman Dubrow, Morgan , Office of the Assistant Secretary of Interior- Wate r and Power Dunn, Oscar --VP, General Electric Company, Erie, Pa First, Williamson L -- Ofc of Cong Foley Foley