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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

things, little footnotes to history here: when Robert Kennedy died, we lost the liberal vote on the Judiciary Committee. We tried to get Goodell put on in his place, but Dirksen put his son-in-law on-- G: [Howard] Baker. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the Presidential nomination. Also, it had been indicated to me, either by President Kennedy or Secretary Di110n--I've forgotten now which--that we in the Treasury Department should extend, make every effort to keep the Vice President informed as to significant

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

chairmen and people at all levels in the party.We wanted to have Democratic governors and other officeholders around the country involved with the national committee. Vice chairmen were named. Governor [Robert] McNair became a vice chairman to be liaison
was able to purchase television time and allow Edmund Muskie to speak; 1970 election results nationwide; the Chappaquiddick incident involving Edward Kennedy; a February 1971 meeting between O'Brien, Carl Albert, Mike Mansfield, and potential 1972 potential

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, or home on leave, and hotel rooms were scarce. I think I've already told you about the time I had Mrs. [Jacqueline] Kennedy there. M: I don't believe so. J: It was when she was a brand new Senate bride. As I recall, Senator [John] Kennedy had already
to see him remarry; Horace Busby's employment with the Johnsons; Robert Kennedy's visit to the LBJ Ranch; Hubert and Muriel Humphrey's visit to the Ranch; Lady Bird Johnson's birthday celebration at the Ranch; the Johnson for President headquarters

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's office, Olney, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start with 1951. The first thing I want to ask deals with LBJ's election as whip. Do you have any recollection
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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Robert G. (Bobby) Baker

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

think at first he had thought of me in the capacity of Executive Director of the Kennedy Foundation, which had just lost its director. I indicated to him that I would not be interested in thiS; that I couldn't do it; that I was very flattered, but I
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Board of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, which is a mouthful; and we gave our first award dinner in Austin, and the awardee was Archbishop [Robert E.] Lucey from San Antonio. And the speaker that evening was Senator Johnson--I believe he

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, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on and on and on and on and on, and the President kept him waiting for about an hour and fifteen minutes. Juanita [Roberts] was getting hysterical because she was running out of polite chitchat. You know, Hubert Humphrey just sat there and kept saying it was okay, he was prepared to wait. Hubert

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

helicopter support or something--without a clearance by the White House. I was appalled. When I was a special assistant to [Robert] McNamara, I got a call one day and I also found out that President Kennedy had cut back on Johnson's mess people and what have

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and three or four others, [Robert] Kerr, sitting there. And I went back to Russell; I got up quietly and went back and said, "Shall we call for a quorum?" He said, "No, tell John to call for a vote." I went back and told Senator Stennis, "Senator Russell

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

might re-enter? That with all that had gone on with the Kennedy assassination, for example, the troubles in Chicago, and so forth, do you happen to know whether or not he ever waivered, whether there was a possibility that he might have come back? H

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Vietnam issues in 1967. There was early on a disagreement between Secretary of Defense [Robert] McNamara and General [Earle] Wheeler over the effectiveness of the bombing. O: Yes. G: My impression is that the bombing became increasingly an issue
could see them; contact with the press and efforts to publicize legislative progress; disagreement between Robert McNamara and General Earle Wheeler over the effectiveness of bombing in Vietnam; cabinet meeting updates on Vietnam; LBJ's reaction

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were picking up, but you couldn't find the expenditures, not through the government expenditures. What was happening was old [Robert] McNamara was putting out--he'd go to a factory and give them a letter of intent saying, "I want so many tanks, I want
Excise tax reduction; raising the discount rate in 1965; Robert McNamara's and Charles Schultze's misrepresentations of defense expenditures; Barr's involvement in the opening of a bank in Vietnam; the effect of U.S. involvement in Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Senator Robert Kennedy's body along with seventy-five staff members of the Kennedy family. But as I say, they are controlled by this office. Now, in addition to that, the President has a Jet Star for short hops. This hauls thirteen people and he used

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: The first thing I wanted to ask you about was Johnson and Steve Mitchell, because Mitchell is really in the picture here in 1953. B
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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Robert G. (Bobby) Baker

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, surprisingly to him, was run out of the attorney general's office and that he himself had very little control of it. Robert Kennedy was the one who would designate who got jobs and that sort of thing. Any recollections on that? O: I don't recall

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Did the President ever entertain the notion that Shriver was disloyal to him? JG: I never saw any sign of that. MG: He seems to have been under the impression that OEO was full of Robert Kennedy supporters. Did you feel that way? LBJ

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that he was not going to run again and the vacancy was then created when Larry O'Brien resigned as Postmaster General to assist Senator Robert Kennedy's campaign for the PreSidency, I believe the President decided ~hat the appointment to the Cabinet
of the Labor Department and Secretary of Labor Bill Wirtz; Wirtz’s temporary resignation; Robert McNamara’s resignation; setting the President’s appointments.

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969, an article by Charles Roberts dealing with the events leading up to Mr. Johnson's March 31st [1968] speech on Viet Nam. And since its publication, it has created some stir as to exactly how accurate it is. Could you just take that story as you saw
Charles Roberts article; Clifford’s doubts; TET offensive; personal doubts about the Vietnam commitment; LBJ didn’t like to hear opposition to the Vietnam policy; 3/22 luncheon meeting with LBJ; 20th parallel memorandum; State Department meeting

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with the discussion of this Upper Colorado River project and the Echo Park Dam. B
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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Robert G. (Bobby) Baker

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT N. GINSBURGH INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Ginsburgh's residence, Chevy Chase, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: General Ginsburgh, would you begin by telling us how you came to be associated with the Policy Planning Council
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in Vietnam; intelligence input to the Policy Planning Council; the response of intelligence analysts when their advice was not used; Dean Rusk’s relationship with Robert McNamara; joining Rostow on the National Security Council staff in 1966; Ginsburgh’s work
Ginsburgh, Robert N.
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger
Robert N. Ginsburgh

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Robert Kennedy was, I guess, Any--? 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to McPherson, I go back to the Hansion now on Sunday, March 31st, somewhere around noon, and to Horace Busby. I remember Buz shoved some yellow legal pages across the table to me. The first thing my eye fell on was a quote from President Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or someone else. (Interrupti on) G: Babe Kennedy. W: I don't actually remember him living in that garage apartment> It was - a whole lot like [Raymond] Dwiggins has told me many times. He said, "Well, I can understand Barton Gill claiming that he

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Have you ever participated in any other similar type of oral history project? A: I've had a lot of colleges interview me on similar projects, and some of the Kennedy people interviewed me on John Kennedy's Presidency and my association with him. He
Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Board of Education meetings; Richard Russell; Will Rogers, Jr.; recollections of LBJ as congressman; Albert Thomas; 1948 election; Mike Mansfield; Robert Kerr; Mike Monroney; Clint Anderson

Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in. the program, since he Hasn't particularly knoHn to the Kennedys. Do you know anything at all about that? t>J: Well, I'm sure it was. I do know that a man by the name of rok. Arch i'4ercey of the Merkle Press told me that he had been in communication

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on a trip. The one thing that I remember is talking to the Secret Service agent who had gained quite a bit of prominence at the Kennedy assassination, Clint Hill, who was the fellow who was on the second car and leaped on the back of the presidential car

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I remember he dedicated the statue of Robert E. Lee. Well, I was shocked. I had never seen him before. He went up a little platform that they had built especially, and it seemed like it was agony for him to get along. F: Did you see much

Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

programs. Well, he was overtaken by events, and after Kennedy's death and the great push to create th~ poverty program in his memory, things went so fast that Sam's pace and I'll have to say rather narrow views were not needed. Hence Moynihan became

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to that, in the immediate past, you had served as Ambassador to OEeD and then prior to that in the Kennedy Administration, both as Director for the United States and the World Bank for a short time-L: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it if it had been offered to me; it wasn't. F: You were rumored. D: Yes,I was rumored, but I wasn't; he later appointed me on the Advisory Commi ttee. ma~ ~-Tashington. taking it? I found it Did you consider being USIA head under Kennedy? the mos t

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the literature nobody made a big deal about it at all. Sort of said, "Yeah, that's a pretty good idea." This is the solution to the Achilles' heel problem which had vexed the Kennedy Administration and others up until this time. 15 LBJ Presidential Library
[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

an everwidening cone into Oklahoma and the Southwest. abiding fundamentalism. covert issue then. There's a deep and John Kennedy's religion was something of a I mean it was a burning brush fire among [what] I guess you would call the religious groups

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

talk history. Sec: [Identifying professor referred to above] H: Well, you see, a minute on Califano. Professor Shea. Well, the Cubans were coming in fast, and when they decided in the Kennedy Administration, to put the people who had been through
Adams; gaining minority representation; John Doar; Jim Folsom; Patrick Moynihan; rehabilitation program; attitude toward voluntary or national service systems; Ted Kennedy; definition of uniformity in relation to draft; criticism of lack of uniformity

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was that at some point during the conversation, LBJ asked [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara to talk to the chairman about arms limitation, and particularly ABM [anti-ballistic missile] limitation. At which point, McNamara 11 LBJ Presidential Library http
for LBJ in 1967 following Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's death; Krimer's involvement in the 1967 Glassboro Summit as an interpreter; basic interpretation protocol; LBJ's relationship with Aleksei Kosygin; Kosygin's discussion with Robert McNamara regarding

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLIII -- 2 were. As you might expect I--and I notice [Robert] McNamara as well wanted to include a statement that the Great Society was going forward. Everyone except Fowler now favored suspension

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

had a bargain with the President that he would honor an agreement that I had made with President Kennedy that I would go on vacation in January of 1964, I guess. Then certainly part of the Panama crisis was during that absence, but I do remember being

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