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Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with any justification of any vice presidential ambitions that Robert Kennedy might have? C: Oh, yes, oh, sure, there was a lot of talk about it, and earlier in '64 there was so much talk about it that the President visited with me about it at one time
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , was caused by a newspaper campaign that was put on supporting Robert Kennedy for the vice presidential nomination on the Democratic ticket. There was quite a stir about it, and the President wanted no part of that. It never would have worked, and I agreed
  • Kennedy family attitude toward LBJ; Kennedy staff; discussions of staffing pattern for the White House; 1964 campaign; Republican National Convention, 1964; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam issue in the campaign; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ’s inheriting
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the debate was on in earnest. M: The reason I asked, one of the events that took place sort of coincidentally here was the Robert Kennedy-Theodore Sorensen suggestion for a peace commission of some kind that they asked you to relay to the President. Can you
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Robert McNamara came in in 1961 and had some very strong ideas about it. He and I had a number of long visits about the matter. I gave him the information that I had going back to the genesis of the Department itself, when he took over the Department. He
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to believe that your experience here after the Martin Luther King assassination is one reason that you didn't have an outbreak--real outbreak--following the assassination of Robert Kennedy? C: I think so. I think it had something to do with it. If during
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • obviously either talked to him on the phone or someone who was calling in his behalf, and invited me down there, and at the same time invited Senator Robert Kerr. So I remember, and I referred to that here, I met Senator Kerr some place, and he and I
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • capacity first, I suppose as Under Secretary of Labor. I think when Goldberg had gone to the Court, I think Wirtz had come into the job which meant that was back in the Kennedy Administration. So he had served honorably and well and made a good reputation