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Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • concurrent--I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would have probably gone over to the Civil Rights Commission whether or not Jack Kennedy had been assassinated. As I've been indicating in another context, I often wore a number of hats, and this was a time
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to remember what was fact and what wasn't fact. M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're Cyrus R. Vance, and your official positions in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations were entirely in the Department of Defense, as Counsel and as Secretary
  • Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts), 1917-2002
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . So I was one of them. Pat Kennedy, who was later to head up VISTA and who is now the city manager of Columbia, Maryland, was another. Jerry Bruno was the third one, and you know who Jerry is. Mel Cottone, who was also a Kennedy advance man
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • deeply believed in it myself. own recommendations in writing. I gave him my I don't know how Stanton and Brown conveyed their views, but I conveyed mine to him. A good deal of work was done at that time, also, with Senator [Robert] Kerr, who I
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , l986 INTERVIEWEE: STANLEY L. GREIGG INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Greigg's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 MG: I think you were working for [Hubert] Humphrey while [Lawrence] O'Brien was working for Kennedy. G
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Mr. President." "Well, why in the hell didn't you tell me?" (Laughter) So that was just prior to the time that he asked for this tax, and he knew I didn't like deficits; he knew [Robert] Byrd didn't like deficits and he was chairman of the Finance
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : That was part of the price of passing the legislation which is why I think we ought to get it. Then also look and see if there aren't memos from [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara to the President suggesting that we make him [Yarmolinsky] general counsel
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the steel price increase because by ten in the morning, I've got--oh, my god, no by ten in the morning, I've got [Robert] McNamara, [George] Ball, [Henry] Fowler, Dryden [?], [Alexander] Trowbridge. No, this is 1966; I'm sorry. Oh no, I'm sorry. I've got
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . SEATO conference . This would have Anyway, we had a I remember Dean Rusk--it had to be--well, see, when did the Kennedy Administration take office? � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Kennedy was assassinated, President Johnson, then the [vice president], and Ralph Yarborough were both riding in the parade in Dallas, and they had a hard time deciding who was going to ride where. Just like children, you know. And Ralph wasn't going
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEL~EE : DR. ROBERT QUARLES INTERVIEWER: f.1ARSTOi~ STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: His office, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, r~aryland Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Dr. Robert Q. Marston, presently the director of the National
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  • Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Robert Q. Marston
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . government. I think much progress was made in perfecting the organization of the Defense Department in previous administrations. I think Mr. [Robert] McNamara contributed substantially to further improving the organization. And I think during Mr. [Clark
  • The organization of the Department of Defense and its relationship to the president and his advisers in decision-making; delegation of authority within the Department of Defense; comparing Clark Clifford to Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • him to be demanding and very similar in many ways to [Robert S.] McNamara, whom I had worked for before, in the sense that he wanted things done very rapidly, wanted enormous detail, wanted options presented on almost every matter from the smallest
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little insight in one of those memos which we ought to use, which is that when Nicholas Johnson is talking to [Robert] Kintner--it's just an indication of the climate. He's talking to Kintner about one of the reasons that he ought to go back to Berkeley
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had got an understanding agreement approving the staff and getting minority council. I had urged Senator McClellan to recommend Robert Kennedy for the position of minority council. G: Let's talk about some legislative matters during the 1950s, when
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you may be called on to assist in obtaining an item or items in the way I feel the President and Mrs. Johnson would like in particular. Well, let's see, now, his secretary, Mrs. Roberts, would contact me and say, "This is what the President would like
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • got that news on a very sad day, as you know. It was the day Robert Kennedy was to be buried here in Washington, and we had planned a brief memorial ceremony here at the department. The funeral cortege was to stop outside the department
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • kind of experiment. F: There is, I suppose, a certain similarity between Franklin Roosevelt's early days and the kind of young men around Kennedy, except that they didn't have the issues. C: Yes~ although in all fairness President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a President, you know? And we did our best. ~1 : Did you ever travel with Mrs. Johnson on any of her campaign trips? T: Not really. Mrs. Johnson came to El Paso with Mrs. Sargent Shriver and fvIrs. Robert Kennedy, Ethel, the three ladies. This was during
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to go--which I did. I had issued a Johnson-support statement, as acting chairman of the D.C. Democratic Party, like everybody else. on something like this. The press always tries to get an angle I don't think John Kennedy had been dead twenty-four
  • Visits with LBJ immediately after the Kennedy funeral; Rauh’s encouraging LBJ and John Connally to do something about desegregation; working with LBJ and Clarence Mitchell; LBJ criticizing the ADA; the convention of Atlantic City; Reuther; Dr
Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Opportunity Act and was to provide special impact funds to a specific ghetto area, but as S'~nator [Robert] Kennedy and [Jacobs] Javits envisioned, not only would this assist the local residents in welfare and education and employment, but it would also
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • cause and--nobody came into the state, as I recall, to help me. that Kennedy came out. I think it was 1958 He came out and helped me, because of course he was running for president and Wisconsin was an important state. He might have helped me
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Well, fortunately that was before the Smith-Connally Act and it was before Taft-Hartley and there were no inhibitions as against appropriate contributions. So I suggested that he ought to talk to then-Secretary-Treasurer, a man named Tom Kennedy, now
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . Then under Kennedy you joined the Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy. CK: That's right. K: Till 1966, yes. The same one then went on under President Johnson. Then also you were on President Kennedy's Railroad Emergency Board. I want to skip
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Now you had, I'm sure, been to cabinet meetings before you became a member of the cabinet. O: I'd been to all of them. G: As the head of congressional relations. O: Yes. It was automatic on all cabinet agendas, [in] both [the] Kennedy and Johnson
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this myself. Obviously I didn't have enough experience to do it singlehandedly. So I talked to the head of the scientific advisory committee of the Kennedy Foundation, a great pediatrician named Dr. Robert Cooke. I said to him, "What about this?" And he said
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had named the [Robert F. Kennedy] Stadium without authority, and I remember his feeling quite bitter at Udall for having overstepped his authority in that way. That was at this same time I think that we're talking about. I don't remember the other
  • of the rights to The Vantage Point and its proceeds; dinner to celebrate LBJ’s accomplishments; Arthur Goldberg and a Supreme Court appointment; 1969 inauguration; LBJ readjusting to life at the Ranch; LBJ horseback riding; Robert McNamara’s trip to the Kremlin
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • submitted my letter of resignation. I told him I was going to do it. Bob McNamara suggested we call up the reserves, put our nation on a full war footing. I told the President, in front of Bob, who's an old friend of mine from the Kennedy days, "You do
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and he'd sort of tip his orange juice to Sam Rayburn. And when there would come on TV a replay of what the news had about the assassination and Jack Kennedy's face would appear, then Johnson would grimace. He obviously thought an enormous amount of Jack
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , when we were pouring the troops in. Then the thing began to get organized when [Robert] Komer organized the CORDS [Civil Operations and Rural Development Staff] to try to put our programs together and we, using our influence with the Vietnamese, tried
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • of the original ones. We thought we had coordinated that more with the rest of the institutes, but when Benno Schmidt--I can't remember whose administration it was-was very active--I think it was in the Kennedy Administration, I'm not sure. No, it was in Nixon's
Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • rapidly. Therefore in 1961 Kennedy, as you know, sent General [Maxwell] Taylor. I happened to be the man that briefed General Taylor on the situation. I had only been there about three months, so with the expertise of three months' traveling around
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And the third program was one known as the Kennedy-Javits, Senator Robert Kennedy of New York and Senator [Jacob] Javits of New York, which was called Special Impact Program. That Special Impact Program was designed to try to pull together all the elements
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XII -- 4 too bad~ These were the hearings, by the way, out of which grew Kennedy's missile gap charge during the 1960 campaign, which was not true. G: There was no missile gap. Did Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Republican terms. But the Republican Party in the state was controlled by Colonel [Robert R.] McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. By God, you weren't going to get the statewide Republican nomination unless you were kosher with Colonel McCormick, and Dirksen
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Robert M . LaFollette came there to lecture he That was Robert M . LaFollette, said, "Lindley, I want you to meet him ." Jr ., whom I later served in the Congress with . He did the same with reference to permitting me to get close, as it were, to Vice
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't recall his name at the moment, not the one who's a famous Japanese architect that planned on the Kennedy Library--this is another man. But President Johnson mentioned him to me two or three times, seemed to be well impressed with his work
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . S: I was sent over, I believe, by Robert Kennedy, but I may have been It must have been early 1964. asked ahead of time by Sargent Shriver if that was something I would like. to do. I think that's what happened. I think Sargent LBJ