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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
  • 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.
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , 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
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : 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
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 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
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://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
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 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
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  • Short, Robert
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert Short
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • 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
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • .] 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
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty (Item)
  • 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
  • Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
  • Black, Eugene R. (Eugene Robert), b. 1898
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
  • 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.
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was a problem of course and I was looking for a job all the time. Ultimately, I made contact here with the Chicago Defender and Mr. Robert S. Abbott, who was then the publisher and owner of the paper. And February 18, 1936, I came on as a reporter
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • much California politics and was not altogether then hitched to the national politics? B: No . Of course, I don't think Robert Kennedy really thought he'd run for � � � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that you could or should do. B: That announcement that the Cabinet would not be considered was interpreted in the press at the time as a rather elaborate way to not name Robert Kennedy as vice president. Was that the general opinion among those of you
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and looking around, Robert Weaver, I think, almost had a trauma over the length of time that Johnson took to name him as the head of HUD. Do you have any idea why Johnson took so long, other than the fact that he is sometimes slow and careful? W: I know
  • The appointment of Robert Weaver to HUD; acting as gift adviser to CTJ and Clark Clifford, drawing up guidelines for wedding gifts; CTJ responds to the Jenkins incident; LBJ's insistence that staff be on call; LBJ's blocks the transfer of Perry
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to gain publicity themselves. We had known this for many years back, but it was first-hand knowledge at the time of the convention. G: Was Robert Kennedy a factor here at this convention in terms of the FBI's role and was he aware that you were there? D
  • and its effect on LBJ; White House telephone line in DeLoach’s bedroom; how LBJ related to his aides. LBJ and the Kennedys, especially Bobby Kennedy; the relationship between the FBI and the Attorney General’s Office; surveillance of and interaction
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . D; Yes, very happily, they did. I remember the next week Life magazine had a centerfold and they had pictures of everybody laughing. They had all the senators, Humphrey, Kennedy, Johnson, Symington, all of them---l sti 11 have that copy of Li
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was supporting Robert Kennedy. S: Yes, I remember that. I think he talked about that in cabinet meet- ings. G: Okay. Now, you visited the Ranch in April of 1968, right after that March 31 speech. S: No, I don't. Do you recall that visit to the LBJ Ranch
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and practiced John Kennedy appointed me Federal Aviation administrator on January 19, 1961. I met Lyndon Johnson only once before the inauguration when I was in the Pentagon and had to deal with him in his office on some minor defense matter back in 1949
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out and seeing the right people? B: That's right. And I'll say this, there was no hanky-panky or anything else going on. This fellow Jack McDonald, God rest his soul, never ran for office himself, but he was very interested in politics and Robert L
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on, of course, Robert Kennedy picked him to head up the whole Mongoose Operation. My experience with him was that he was useful; you didn't have to accept all his judgments or ideas. And I was, I suppose, instrumental in getting him his generalship. I
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the nomination? M: In 1956? B: Yes, sir. That's when Mr. Stevenson threw the convention open, and Mr. Johnson was in the running. M: I thought the contest then was between the late President John F. Kennedy and ex-Senator (Estes) Kefauver. LBJ
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a rather warm, simpatico man, unlike his brother. He did not have that aloofness and that hard-shell aspect to him that John Foster did. So he and Allen got along pretty well. G: Okay. The next day you flew with him to Hyannis Port to meet with Kennedy
  • Cabot Lodge campaign; Kennedy's speech to the Houston Ministerial Alliance; JFK/LBJ campaigning in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson speaking at campaign stops; Mrs. Johnson's influence on LBJ; how dates and places get confused while campaigning; campaign fatigue
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • of proud of the way I handled myself at the 1988 [1968?] convention. I wasn't in opposition to Hubert Humphrey, even though he was for the war. I was kind to Robert Kennedy, even though he announced against us at native South Dakotan[?]. I came out
  • and Robert Kennedy; civil rights legislation debate; civility among legislators; the New York Times not running a story about Senator James Eastland referring to Anwar Sadat as a "nigger;" McGovern and Frank Church meeting with Hubert Humphrey about support
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went to P-38, that went out the I was told, in fact, I bel ieve it was Juanita Roberts who told me, "When the Senator tells you to do something, don't ask him anything, just do it." She said, "For instance, if he says, 'Set yourself on fire,' don't
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • number of people that were highly qualified that could have been selected by the President, of which obviously Mr. Humphrey was one of those. P: Did you feel yourself, did you interpret the events that occurred, that Mr. Robert Kennedy
  • with Kennedy with LBJ as Vice President
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 2 inception in 1957, so that means you served through now four presidents. H: That's right, all four. M: Did Mr. Johnson use the Civil Rights Commission any differently from either President Eisenhower or Kennedy, or for that matter
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • affect Texas, and it was felt at that time that the political attitude in Texas would be unfriendly to the solution that I had proposed. Later President Kennedy proposed a specific solution which was almost word for word what I had-F: Did he confer
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • that; that Ed Guthman book [Robert Kennedy in His Own Words]. B: Yes. It has him saying in 1964 that he believes in the domino theory; JFK believed in it; we all believed in it. That isn't quite true; we didn't all believe in it. But most of us did, and he did
  • Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek