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Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, how it came into being. c: It's very appropriate that we should talk about the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden today, Joe, it being almost the first day of spring. The development of the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, which had always been
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; Mrs. Paul Mellon; Lady Bird Johnson Park
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • writing some letters for Mrs. Johnson and for the girls, which really they were unaware of; I really don't know now whether Mrs. Johnson knows about this today or not. But as it should have been, the people who were handling letters handled, first, Kennedy
  • ; Lynda and Luci; attitude of former Kennedy staff; trips with the Johnons; luncheons during vice presidency; Mrs. Johnson's wardrobe; The Elms; preparations for arrival of Kennedys at the Ranch before the assassination; relationship of Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Mrs. Shriver came down and Mrs. Robert Kennedy came down. I remember that was the first time that the Kennedy women were involved in this, and we set up a big affair at the Shamrock. I was the emcee and introduced them. We had a couple or three
  • in the 1960 campaign; dating Mary Margaret Wiley (Valenti) and their marriage; LBJ’s possible frustration as vice-president; events leading up to the assassination of President Kennedy.
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : No. That's when he was Vice President. No. My contacts with the higher ups were directly with President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and their entourage. B: Another civil rights legislation was proposed in'63--the Celler-Clark bill. There was some
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the press at least as one of his supporters in the State of Ohio. I think it was intimated at least that you might have even changed from Kennedy to Johnson. Were there any details of that episode? H: Actually, I was a committed Kennedy delegate. I
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for their own constituencies. There was such a difficult and complicated relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy that it's hard to compare that with any other relationship he had on the Hill. Kennedy didn't want to give Johnson credit for anything
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in was that in either the fall of 1965 or 1966 I wrote to Robert Kennedy, who was, in a gingerly way, questioning the war. I said, and I think it was a very well-taken point, that he was the only American who could lead us out of it, wrest the presidency away from
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • organization, particularly by the late Robert Kennedy and also his very competent and able brother Ted. Mc When do you think Jack Kennedy first began to consider running for the Presidency? M: He came to the House a good many years ago, and I
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , when he was Vice President; . : and Robert Kennedy, pretty open and obvious? ·S: I have absolutely no knowledge on that•. And I can absolutely give you nothing useful, but I will give you something that I said to a col~m­ ist once. That reflected my
  • ; Phil Graham; relationship between Robert Kennedy and LBJ; leaving the LBJ staff in 1960; going to work for Mr. Graham at the Washington Post; interaction with LBJ in VP years; LBJ and the press; press involvement in government work; turning down LBJ’s
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, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in the White House and that it was always the fear of Robert Kennedy entering. A: Yes, that's right. That was Bobby's great tactical error. If he'd gotten into the race before New Hampshire, it would have been a very different story. Bobby was tricky
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  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • of LBJ and JFK; LBJ and columnists; LBJ's press secretaries; LBJ and the press; Gene McCarthy; Bobby Kennedy; 1968 campaign; personal observations on LBJ
  • Allen, Robert S. (Robert Sharon), 1900-1981
  • Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Robert S. Allen
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT STOREY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dean Storey's office in Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: When did you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? $: I got acquainted with him before World War II. I had met him and I saw him
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  • the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.
  • Storey, Robert G. (Robert Gerald), 1893-1981
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert Storey
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • strikes against him." I also remember--[and this was] certainly in 1959, I remember this because it was before John Kennedy announced--a group of us had dinner with him. And I must say, at that time-- F: With Johnson? K: No, with Kennedy. F: Oh
  • East; Bobby Kennedy; how the press handled record information; press secretaries; McGeorge Bundy; Bill Moyers; James Hagerty; LBJ’s presidential staffs.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 2 C: President of the New York Central. To urge Johnson to support the merger. Saunders also went to Robert Kennedy, who was the attorney general, in July of 1964 as well, talking to him about the merger. At some point in 1964 Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the idea. L: I suppose they do. B: Then did you have an opportunity in Los Angeles to see the Kennedy group in action at the convention? L: Yes. I particularly saw Robert Kennedy on the floor. This didn't make a very favorable impression on me
  • Ky; Robert Komer; Tex Goldschmidt; Nguyen Van Thieu; RMN; Khrushchev; Max Milliken; William Westmoreland; William Gaud; Henry Kissinger; Phil LaFollette; Mike Monroney; Abe Fortas; Harold Ickes.
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the hottest years of the Kennedy 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- I -- 2 Administration. I'm not saying that he
  • government work; Bundy's DePauw University speech; LBJ's view of the Kennedys, specifically Bobby; Bundy's relationship to the Kennedys; the Washington D.C. cocktail circuit and its effect on public opinion; LBJ's accessibility; how the staff went about
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Before he had his heart attack there was a lot of speculation that he might run for president in 1956. Did you have any insight into this? S: No. Was that the year that [Stuart] Symington ran? I think it was 1956. Yes, because in 1960 Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not have been willing to do it--but he was going to stick the Kennedys all the way out there and all the way out front. And that was calculated at every stage. G: Was Robert Kennedy less committed to advancing the nomination? C: Well, no. I think Robert
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT HARDESTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Hardesty, Robert L. (Robert Louis), 1931-
  • Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert L. Hardesty
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Feild -- III -- 26 and that Bobby Kennedy acquiesced in. And I don't think that the Kheel report did anything more than sanction de facto reality. G: Why did Robert Kennedy seem to lose interest in the committee? Why did he acquiesce
  • with Eisenhower's President's Committee on Government Employment Policy; discrimination in federal hiring nationwide; in-house vs. contract work discrimination; Potomac Institute report for the Department of Defense; Robert McNamara's work to hire more black
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. I had been a roommate in college of a man named Robert B. Troutman, Jr. Has his name come across? G: No. A: Oh, boy! He and LBJ had one hell of a battle over LBJ's responsibilities in equal opportunity enforcement in the Kennedy Administration
  • nominee for the 1960 election; Robert B. Troutman, Jr. and his disagreements with LBJ; how Abram met LBJ; LBJ and civil rights legislation; Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on the black family; White House Conference on Civil Rights and Moynihan’s
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to make responsible decisions. 1I And like everybody else I supported him very actively. And so the end of the first period of our relationship was rather funny. As you probably know, Phil Graham and I had gone to President Kennedy at the critical
  • at the 1960 Democratic Convection; Philip Graham; Herman Talmadge; Alsop's writing about the Vietnam War; Bill Moyers; criticism of LBJ's approach to Vietnam; Alsop being invited to visit privately with presidents; LBJ's unpredictable nature' Robert McNamara
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Sharon Francis -- Interview IV -- 3 clearly was heated. I might say, going back into some history, he had set his heart on it long, long ago. Because I remember doing a research paper for him when Kennedy was alive on all the times that the Antiquities
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the ticket. I don't believe the President was going to put For some unfathomable reason, or perhaps not so unfathomable, I think that between Robert Kennedy and the President LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • The Walter Jenkins incident; Senator Barry Goldwater; LBJ choosing a running mate; Robert Kennedy; Marvin Watson; the 1964 convention.
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • For Kennedy-Johnson. This was at Robert Kennedy's request. We turned the city into a Kennedy-Johnson city, although normally it has been a Republican city in the past. I also went into the Protestant areas of upstate Pennsylvania--into Easton
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Peabody’s views of the JFK/LBJ ticket and his part in the campaign; casual meetings with LBJ and the Kennedys, their differences of opinion on various matters; description of differences in JFK, RFK, and LBJ campaign techniques; Lawrence O’Brien’s
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • any insight into why they didn't like each other? W: No, no. G: What about some of the other Kennedy people, the cabinet people, for example? Did he talk to you about his impressions of them? [Robert] McNamara or [Dean] Rusk, or any of those? W
  • John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; the 1961 Lucy B Convair crash near the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's restlessness as vice president; LBJ's relationship with Robert and John Kennedy; the Johnsons' Tennessee walking horse; Konrad Adenauer's
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • joining in the political activities first of Senator Kennedy and then Senator Humphrey that thereafter there was reluctance of the White House to push this measure through? O: I don't think it was due to my political involvement. This from the beginning
  • of O'Brien's proposed campaign task force; O'Brien's and Rowe's political experience; LBJ's request that O'Brien evaluate of the Massachusetts primary; O'Brien and Ted Kennedy and possible stand-ins for LBJ in Massachusetts; Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK) interest
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was a long, drawn-out very tricky battle, very tricky. G: Now, the Kennedy bill when it was first introduced was really sort of a mild labor-management reporting and anticorruption type bill. It 11 ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Dubinsky in reforms of the Taft-Hartley Act; Arthur Goldberg as chief counsel AFL-CIO; the Kennedy bill; McClellan bill of rights; secondary boycott provision; picketing; the conference committee; the Landrum-Griffin bill; barbecue at the Ranch for Lopez
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [are examples]. Ray Roberts, I think he sized up people like Ed Clark, John Connally, Cecil Burney down in Corpus Christi, John Singleton who is a Federal j udge down in Houston, Joe Kilgore, John Peace over in San Antonio, many many people that you could
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: CHALMERS ROBERTS INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: M: More on LBJ Library oral histories
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  • Roberts, Chalmers McGeagh, 1910-2005
  • Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Chalmers Roberts
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • disagreed on that. There was considerable debate on leaving out Part III. There was a split between the then-senators from Massachusetts, Senator John F. Kennedy and Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a Republican. There was heated debate and sharp difference
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • contact with John F. Kennedy in that period? H: Yes. Together with Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, then Lt. Bulkeley-- I selected John F. Kennedy for PT boats, made him an instructor at the training school after he finished the course of instruction
  • of shipbuilding and sea-going unions; control of foreign steamship lines; containerization of shippers; inspections; origin/scope/work of FMC; White House support of commissioner; Robert J. Blackwell; transition from LBJ Administration to Nixon Administration
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 12- Did this impression that you say came from that meeting that Johnson was going to be offered the nomination over the objections of Robert Kennedy-did that ever get cleared up, or was that still-- B: No, that one
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • glad about is that I wasn't in a position of real responsibility because I would have done the same thing they did. G: I know that. This puts Robert Kennedy in rather a bad light I think because he is one of the few people to even dare say out loud
  • ; staff who worked on study; study plan; lack of direction or certainty of what was expected reflections on the need for historians to do the study; role of Robert McNamara; speculation about the purpose of study; reaction to publication in the New York
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little bit about politics during that period after March 31. You discussed the meeting that he had with Robert Kennedy in that period. I think [Theodore] Sorensen and Rostow were there. LBJ went out to address the broadcasters convention in Chicago. He
  • Westmoreland; Robert McNamara leaving LBJ’s staff; LBJ’s view of civil rights; Martin Luther King’s relationship with LBJ and his death; Resurrection City; LBJ meeting with people who wanted to discuss appointments; keeping meetings on or off the record
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attorney general when [Byron] White went to the Supreme Court. G: Clark had been under Robert Kennedy also? C: But Clark was the Land's Division. He was a Texan and he was Tom Clark's son. Breeding in its own way was important to Johnson in that sense
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Yesterday we were talking about President Kennedy and the southern members of Congress. Let me ask you
  • relationship with journalist Neil McNeil; concerns over publicity and media attention toward aides and staff members; Kenneth Keating's television show; John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; Robert Kennedy's appointment as attorney general
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , if you will, the issues in that campaign as you saw them. O: We had anticipated--we, the Kennedy people--that 1964 would be a relatively pleasant experience. We were anticipating an easy time of it. Just before the trip to Dallas we had an informal
  • for the 1964 campaign; the second campaign report, covering sixteen additional states and the District of Columbia; improved distribution of campaign materials by mid-October 1964; efforts to reach African-American and elderly voters; Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • official capacity during the Johnson Administration was as ambassador to the uominican Republic for his first few months in office, after President Kennedy's assassination. Then you came back as special presidential troubleshooter at the time the Dominican
  • ; Adlai Stevenson’s briefing on Dominican Republic; relationship between LBJ and Robert Kennedy; 1968 presidential campaign; LBJ’s control of 1968 Democratic convention; Hubert H. Humphrey’s campaign.
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • were upset, and among them was Senator Kennedy--Robert Kennedy--who was furious and denied it. He didn't deny about the Lincoln book saying that the meeting had taken place as phil had said. He didn't deny that phil had been the go-between, but LBJ