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Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 1953 to early 1964 was pretty much standard. I was running the bank. volved in the banking activities that are normal. I became in- I became involved in Robert Morris Associates and in the NABAC, which was then the National Association of Bank
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thing begat another as a result of this one visit. Mr. West told me that Mrs. Kennedy was thinking about publishing and selling post cards on the White House at the White House, and he wondered if the Park Service had any kind of vehicle which might
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • obviously either talked to him on the phone or someone who was calling in his behalf, and invited me down there, and at the same time invited Senator Robert Kerr. So I remember, and I referred to that here, I met Senator Kerr some place, and he and I
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to be not enough. And he wanted to become Under Secretary of State very badly and he had his strong supporters for that role--[Arthur] Goldberg and [Robert] McNamara were two of them. But the President wouldn't listen to that. B: By "left too early," did Moyers
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attempt to build a structure in Washington, and we were not getting very far. It was not long after Dallas when, sitting in my office, it dawned on us that this rightly should be the Kennedy Center. You can say, "God, you were a bunch of ghouls sitting
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : You continued in that capacity until what--1963? B: Yes, until 1963, when I was appointed by President Kennedy to be the Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration . M: I see . Were there any particular problems with the Veteran's
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was, in housing, finance, and management. F: You had worked also, as I recall, for Teddy Kennedy in that campaign against Edward McCormack. H: Yes, that is right. I was one of the three or four academics, with Sam Beer and Robert Wood, who had seen merits
  • Working for three Kennedy brothers; housing finance management his expertise; Dick Goodwin set up eleven task forces for LBJ; contacted Haar; task to get ideas to beautify cities and states, to clean rivers, zoning, save the environment; LBJ would
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in 1964 and had not been implemented. And Bobby Kennedy was ready to make a blast; in fact, had made one. Frank told me that they were gravely concerned that they were really going to get after the President on this, and they needed somebody and needed
  • Conference of the United States; Frank Wozencraft; a history of the Conference; Williams appointed to head the Administrative Conference; the nature of the Conference; Charles Brannan testifies for the Conference; Robert Graham helps save the Conference
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT
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  • Bennett, Robert LaFollette, 1912-2002
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert Bennett
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • remember him going to Cotulla, though, that one year. B: No, I d o n ' t . I read that in the [Robert] Caro book [The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. But I had no recollection of it. G: Apparently he certainly did do that, though. B: Oh
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it. So then we moved up to the seventeenth floor where he had a better room. And then people like Juanita Roberts, and Mary Rather, and I think Ashton Gonella was around some then, and Willie Day [Taylor] and quite a number of people of course gradually
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in my book, and McCarthy deserved him. I mean, they deserved each other. Then I also remember Bob Kennedy being there, which I thought was sort of funny, because he never commits [inaudible]. But back to McCarthy. I think the way he used it, it didn't
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Kennedy called The Boy's Life Of John F. Kennedy, which I thought of and then the guy wrote it and did sort of a crununy job. So I re,vrote it and it turned out to be sort of a best seller kind of a thing. After about a year and a half or two years
  • ; press leaks and staff members talking to the press; believing in what you write; 'crisis mongering'; changes in socioeconomic conditions for Negroes; presenting statistical information to the President; the Kerner Commission; Robert Kennedy speaking out
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Did Sargent Shriver favor community action right off the bat? There's some suggestion that Robert Kennedy persuaded Shriver to favor the program. W: I would say that Shriver specifically was suspicious of community action from the beginning. G: Why
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a good agreement. Ambassador Robert Anderson, who was in charge of the negotiations overall, had done a superb job in working this LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org out. ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Carleen Roberts [?], and Carleen [had] lived next door to me in Oklahoma City and I'd been sort of a beau of hers when we were going to school together . She became vice president of American Airlines--she was the only woman executive--and Lyndon sort
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then remember referring that, "Mr. President, you were, after all, in the Kennedy entourage, and you saw it." I remember he didn't answer, but I was saying to him that I can understand that there were problems; I can understand why you felt as you do. But I
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No. No, I thought that when he started to run for the nomination he not only had Kennedy, but Stu [Symington] was running at that pOint, wasn't he, and Bob Kerr was a candidate, it seems to me. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • Stevenson; Senate seating case before Justice Black, 1948; McNeil’s relationship with President Johnson; Senators Russell, Walter George; Robert Kerr; LBJ’s love of gadgets; George Reedy; Walter Jenkins; Arthur Perry; LBJ’s secretive nature; assessment
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vice President? The year President Kennedy beat Richard Nixon. HW: We must have been at the ranch. EW: What was that question? MG: In 1960, rernember, when he was elected Vice President, the night of the election, I was wondering if you were
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Kennedys making a big to-do about that? R: Yes, indeed. In fact while I was out there I met up one day I think we had breakfast in Can Tho with Kennedy's refugee staffers. There was a fellow by the name of Powers. G: Dave Powers? R: No, it wasn't
  • How Rosenblatt became involved with Southeast Asian affairs in Robert Komer's office in 1966; Rosenblatt's duties under Komer; Rosenblatt's work with the Agency for International Development (AID), the Office of Civil Operations (OCO) and Civil
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson -- XI -- 2 at the Kennedy-Warren in a small apartment, our return to the Kennedy-Warren actually, because it had been our first, brief home after Lyndon came to Congress. Lyndon had had, for a few weeks, a little apartment over there the summer
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : The only one that really comes to mind would be AMA. Again, I need to point out, even on the Republican side, for example, Bob [Robert A.] Taft on the Hill-Burton construction act--Taft was the guy who got the proviso in that the South get two dollars
  • and financial influence; the American Medical Association's (AMA) opposition to health care legislation that Hill supported; Robert Taft's involvement in the Hill-Burton Act; Hill's relationship with other senators and with LBJ in the 1950s; LBJ's performance
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of country for about two and a half weeks. I went from Rome back to Washington; as I mentioned earlier, I arrived there the day of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Then I went back via the Far East, stopped off and saw our embassy
  • Returning to Saigon following the JFK assassination; Robert McNamara’s December 1963 visit to Vietnam; January 1964 Khanh coup and alleged French involvement; what the French might have wished for Vietnam; Christmas 1964 in Dalat; Tran Van Don; Le
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the peace movement--working either for [Cyrus] Vance, or as general counsel of the army, or for [Robert] McNamara, so I had some experience. I remember telling the President--well, first of all, when I finally got to the President, when I finally started--I
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by the late President Kennedy, was there any dismay on the part of the black community that "that man" had been named on the Democratic ticket? W: I really wouldn't want to try to reconstruct that. From my own memory, I know the President at that time had
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and Martin. Then after Mr. Bob Calvert, Robert W. Calvert, who's a contemporary of ~lr. Johnson and former speaker of the [Texas] House, now chief justice of the Supreme Court [of Texas], was elected to the Supreme Court in 1950, we moved down with his
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM CLYDE FRIDAY INTERVIEWER: Janet Kerr-Tener PLACE: Dr. Friday's office, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 F: There's an interesting little footnote here, if I have the time sequence correct. Robert Goheen
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • take the list after everybody had accepted and go through it; I don't know what caused the change; to my knowledge it was not done during the Kennedy Administration. I think the initial problem came in 1964, when the President had the first presidential
Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Sargent Shriver would head the OEO? H: I think so. G: It was more or less assumed by all of you that [he would]? H: I think so. G: Do you recall any input by the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy? H: Not that I was aware of. I'm not certain about
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • after the assassination of Kennedy. M: Yes, that's on the first tape, right. F: Right. And I discussed it with him several times later, two or three times, in the presence of the heads of the other civil rights organizations. They were all backing
  • Vietnam; Farmer’s resignation; Literacy Plan; Adam C. Powell; Farmer’s proposal regarding literacy; White House Conference on Civil Rights; assassination of MLK; liberal party ticket candidate; Farmer blasted Shriver in 1966 at CORE convention; Robert
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • put the so-called "jury trial" amendment on the voting rights part of the bill. not the big thing. We fought that, but for me the jury trial amendment was It was part three that was the big thing. And of course John Kennedy was with us on part three
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a terrible commentary. P: Anyhow, on the way back, I was flown to Honolulu to participate in one of [Robert] McNamara's big flying circuses. G: Of 1962? P: 1962, yes. This was August, I think. And I was asked to give a brief presentation of what we
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things kind of came together and had different meaning as a resul t of reading it. I thi nk it was a very important contri- buti,on. G: Did you ever talk to President Kennedy about the poverty program, or what should be done? LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they do not. Eisenhower never--now, I say to the Supreme Court. F: Yes. W: I don't know, he might have to individuals on the Court, but not to me. Eisenhower never, never-- F: Not to Chief Justice Warren. W: No. President Kennedy did ask me my
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • about that story of him promoting a trip to Laredo one I didn't. I had too many other irons in the fire. live seen his samples and everything a lot of times, yes. night by selling socks? R: No, I don't. G: I think it's in [Robert] Carols book
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • recall one instance where Lyndon Johnson did not personally read every sentence of every letter. And I think that someone like Juanita Roberts, who knows about this aspect of the presidential office in even greater detail, would corroborate
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You've got a problem. Back under Kennedy, you plugged for a cut in taxes to stimulate the economy. Now then you are starting to plug for a tax increase to slow down the economy. A: Right. F: In both cases you are delayed because of the political
  • ; Pierre Renfret; rumors of recession, 1966-1967; Ford strike, 1967; Ackley's resignation and subsequent ambassadorship to Italy; transition to Nixon Administration; Robert McNamara; balance of payments problem; Charles de Gaulle
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • drinking. I think he had one slim scotch in the evening. He was on a diet, and he had Lady Bird on the diet with him. I remember Juanita Roberts being at the house planning all of the diets. I remember that very much. That was a little later
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , as a courtesy to Mrs. Kennedy kept--stayed on at The Elms, as you know, for several days, and Johnson inevitably relied on his State Department liaison person whom he knew, Lee Stull, in my absence. Lee I had placed in the--we had a little office on the seventh
  • and the Limited Test Ban Treaty; informing LBJ of the coup against Diem in Vietnam; Vice-President LBJ’s lack of inclusion in NSC events; problems between JFK’s and LBJ’s staffs; LBJ’s loyalty to Kennedy; LBJ’s distaste for protocol; events surrounding Walter