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Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : At the convention I know a number of stories went around, for example, that the offering of the vice presidency to Johnson was just a ploy that the Kennedy camp never dreamed he would accept. And also that the offer was made over Robert Kennedy's objections. Were
  • ; overestimating the likelihood of LBJ being chosen as a presidential nominee in 1960; Senator Hubert Humphrey saying that he did not want to be vice president; opinions of the Kennedy/Johnson ticket in 1960; conflict among the Kennedys over LBJ's nomination
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the first announcements President Kennedy made after held been elected to the presidency--and this is in December of 1960--was that he was going to make the Vice President the head of his space advisory council, or something of that kind. Well, when we read
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , the later one? F: No, I attended the national convention in Chicago in 1960 when Kennedy was nominated. That's the only one I ever attended. I never LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • done some work with the USIA, and I thought I might ask you about that. The USIA, of course, was in existence before you were on the White House staff, but apparently about the time you came onboard there was a controversy over a John F. Kennedy film