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Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of President Kennedy. And you talked about the formation of the budget at that point in time and how you worked with Lyndon Johnson. According to the books written about this event, there is the idea that Lyndon Johnson worked very hard to keep this budget

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

there officially until 1962? G: Until 1962, that's right. M: Now, someplace in here you must have come into contact with John F. Kennedy. G: Oddly enough, I had very little contact with John F. Kennedy . . I met him, LBJ Presidential Library http

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, 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