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Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't know if this is on the record. One morning Price Daniel--he was governor then--invited me over there to a breakfast for Jack Kennedy. He was running for president you know. I wasn't going to go. I said, "Oh hell, that's just a lot of politicians

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

times he'd express his dissatisfaction with the ineptitudes of the people that Kennedy had on the Hill and Bobby's continual sniping at him . Can you give me an example of this sniping? An occasion where, let's say, Bobby Kennedy- B: We'd get

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that and particularly when he had a meeting not long after this announcement, first with Senator Bob Kennedy and then with Vice President Humphrey. At both of those meetings the President under- took to tell them something about his reasons for deciding not to run

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Byron People like Cecil Burney and Vann Kennedy--was that his name?--in Corpus Christi. G: Vann Kennedy, yes. B: The guy whose name I tried to remember a while ago; he's from Hillsboro, by the way. And generally when they discussed it with him

Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Well, I guess you might say so. I was strong for Stevenson, and strong for Kennedy. Mc: Did you do any campaigning for Stevenson in Texas during--? M: I don't recall that I did, no, sir. Mc: I remember Allan Shivers was opposed to Stevenson. M

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

took a vice presidential position in 1960? H: Well, r really wasn't surprised because I felt that Jack Kennedy was a pretty smart politician, and he wanted LBJ over the willing candidates for a very particular reason. That was because LBJ

Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. But it was a surprise and it was, frankly, at that time, a disappointment. was then. M: But maybe I'm not as callow now as I I hope not. Did you go on to support the Democratic ticket of Kennedy and Johnson in 1960? E: Yes. Went on and supported the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Hayden and Cannon came along and they couldn't agree on the appropriations bill, or where they were going to meet to discuss it--and finally, he never did say anything, but finally the President asked him--Kennedy asked him to see if he could get

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

/loh/oh "Well," he said, "we need you to go to some of the more liberal state delegations, for instance, North Carolina." I said, "Zack, Terry Sanford is running that show and he's a Kennedy man like horseradish." "Yes, but we don't have anybody

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

husband kept that commitment with Humphrey, didn't he? R: Yes. And then of course Humphrey was defeated in the primaries oyt [John] Kennedy. And then you know the story of Jim [Rowe) and Johnson and Phil Graham and all the people at Los Angeles. I