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- that he met with Robert Kennedy at the White
House.
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- See all online interviews with Juanita Roberts
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- Roberts, Juanita, 1913-1983
- Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
- Juanita Roberts
- think it was any sudden, overnight
decision that he made, because 1 had been in his presence where I
could have assumed very easily that this man was doing all he could
for this term and maybe would go on.
B:
Were you close to Robert Kennedy?
5:
Yes
- ; LBJ’s efforts in Vietnam; Martin Luther King’s assassination; working on the Commission for Federal-State Relations; LBJ inheriting JFK’s staff; being offered a federal appointment; LBJ deciding not to run in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with Robert Kennedy
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General Robert Kennedy or some of the other staff members?
Y:
I would say they were sort of lumped together. You sort of thought of them as the clique
or the clan, the Eastern Establishment. I guess the more unkind characterizations have
been the Mafia
- Kennedy
had me there on his ghetto housing bill that he proposed around
1966 or 1967.
B:
That would be Senator Robert Kennedy.
A:
Senator Robert Kennedy.
And I became, more or less, a pretty con-
stant visitor to Washington, being a big supporter
- Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America
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I said, "In Southeast
Asia we need a policy as to where we're going .
What are
we there for?
What are the conditions for us to leave?"
I tried to get Kennedy to see this .
I pointed out that in
Korea we never knew what we wanted there .
we
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- thing that concerned me
was I couldn't really envision anybody else lead~~3 this country as
Presidc':t.
None of the people that \'icre on the scene, Hhich of course
at that tir.:c included Senator Robert Kcnr.cdy and Vice President Humphrey-I had net
- impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
- Kennedy, known as Executive Order 10988, which
set up for the first time a formal government policy with respect to
the rights of federal empoyees to be in unions. There was never any
question, there was never any deviation, there was 'never any compromise
- important precedent.
And,
as I remember, Lyndon Johnson did work for that bill.
B:
Yes, he did.
Then what was your attitude toward the 1960 Democratic
ticket of Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson?
R:
Quite frankly, I was very distressed when Mr. Johnson
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the same trip that Kennedy made in 1960, and I was with him on that
trip.
It
was a great trip. and it did a lot of good.
I honestly
believe that if Humphrey had come through . . . I don't mean [to criticize] him personally.
I don't think [he.made
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for the District."
Kennedy.
Charlie Horsky had been created for that job under President
Steve Pollak was there for Johnson.
Steve Pollak did leave very
quickly after we were nominated and appointed.
M:
What's the significance of that?
F:
The significance