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Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Oh, yes. M: Irreconcilable ones that just couldn't be compromised? T: Yes, we had several issues of that kind. For instance, the Kennedy round, when the deadline on June 30 of 1967 of the Kennedy round came along. We were up all night long
  • informational; explaining Vietnam policy across the country; Interagency Committee structure; Balance of Payments Committee; Kennedy Round; Relations with the Budget Bureau and the Council of Economic Advisors; LBJ’s relationship with businessmen; Sidney
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • quite good. There had been a conscious decision with Kennedy to try to work with him and not try to exert great pressures on him and to encourage him rather than to leverage LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about the one where Kefauver and Kennedy-G: Oh, I was there. F: And Adlai was, for a second time. G: I'm sorry, I will go back. You see, these years! All right. Yes, I was at the convention. F: As a delegate? G: No, Walter asked me to come
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon's fault--in other words, he did so many brilliant, wonderful things on his own. Nobody could have passed Medicare, nobody could have passed the civil rights bill, when Daddy was dead, and no one could have done that. Kennedy couldn't do
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Kennedy sent for me and I was told that they had made a mistake . They had thought any one of the assistants was qualified, but Mr . Bishop's assignment had had nothing to do with day-to-day operation of the Department . After Mr . Brawley left Mr . Day
  • 30 minute interview with LBJ on appointment as Deputy Postmaster General; contact with Senator Kennedy about congressional retirement program; background of appointment as Assistant Postmaster General for Operations (congressional endorsements
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with a bill. He looked around for help. Nobody offered any help, and he said, "With- out objection it is so ordered. II I looked on with absolutely amazement. That was my first experience with the dynamism, the force, the "vigah," as Kennedy would have
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Staats is now the U.S. comptroller general. They talked me into coming into government, which I had never thought of doing, and I went to work for the Bureau of the Budget. I was sworn in about two weeks before the assassination of Kennedy, and after
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to contend that we were victims of disinformation, because it was coupled with a longer article by Robert Elegant about the failures of the media in Vietnam. Incidentally, I disagree very strongly with his thesis, but I think that was part of the reason why
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think Dick Goodwin was the one responsible. He could put words together because he had the knack. I told the President much later in the game that the only successful speech writers in the history of this country had been playwrights. Robert Sherwood
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -recovery kinds of letters. So I wrote one [response], which was obviously given to him. I believe it was Juanita [Roberts] who told me that he liked the letter and he wanted me to come out to work some at the hospital. G: Let me ask you to describe what
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • something to the effect that this came naturally to Luci, but she and Lynda could barely comb their own hair or something to that effect. And he always liked—oh, one thing, I know that very early when I started to work there, I remember Juanita Roberts
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • safety sailed through the Senate. That was really basically. . . . Then Bobby [Kennedy?] came in, I see, to join with the call for more . . . G: Did this irritate the President? C: I don't have any recollection of that. I think he just didn't want
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was Mr. Roberts, the president of our bank in Wharton. of our bank, E. G. Brooks. There was another one, a vice president They've always been as nice to me as any- body you ever saw in your life. When I came to Houston a letter of introduction
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of those spontaneous things, because of her fondness for Jackie Kennedy and because Jackie Kennedy had great regard for Warnecke, the designer of the restoration, as well as the new buildings around Lafayette Park." He said frankly he felt Mrs. Mellon had
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • between Dr. Givens and Mayor [Robert Thomas "Tom"] Miller of the city was very close, and Mayor Miller was a very close friend to Lyndon Baines Johnson, so all of this fit in together to make [inaudible] combination of me getting to know Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • telling him that if you did certain things, that we could win. [William] Westmoreland and [Robert] McNamara and [Walt] Rostow and everybody that advised him on Vietnam were telling him that if you did certain military things, you could force them
  • ; the decision to not call up the reserves to fight in Vietnam; December 1965 bombing pause and negotiations; "hawks" and "doves" advising LBJ, such as Robert McNamara and George Ball; Arthur Goldberg; the Immigration Bill of 1965; meetings betweeen Cliff Carter
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said later we were just not going to do it, and he said, "That's a good idea." F: Were you involved in the death of Robert Kennedy? S: No. F: That, you know, broke out pretty late 'Ivashington time. S: Oh, yes, I remember, and I was called about
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Was this kind of secrecy necessary? 0: I don't know how you'd define that . Maybe it was necessary to him . I remember some examples under President Kennedy when virtually transcripts of meetings in the President's office appeared in the press . That kind
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Robert Kennedy, had sent him a book in which he had marked a passage saying, "this might be of interest to you ." BA : Yes, I've seen references to that ; it's references to one of Bruce Catton's books on the Civil War, I believe
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Senate as Vice President at the time my confirmation hearing came up, and he noticed my name on the calendar. That afternoon, after the confirmation hearing, I was in the office of Robert Giaimo, the Democratic congressman from my Connecticut district
  • ; naming the 1st model cities; working with the White House as LBJ’s power waned; Robert Wood; Vietnam’s effect on domestic spending; problems with progressing from plans to action; difficulty with appropriation of funds; working in cooperation
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Chuck Baird Robert Anders on; Bill Shaw 17 17 Decisio n to withdra w from governm ent C. R. Smith; Charle s E. Fiero 18 Busine ss reactio n to the Off ice of Foreig n Direct Investm ents 18,19 Staffin g 20 Specia l Trade Repres entativ e 21
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 Then in June I received a call. I remember this because this was two days before the assassination of Robert Kennedy. I was in Hawaii then, and a call came through from John Bailey and he said
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the last minute and get in. And I think that Lyndon was at that time convinced that the way to win that race was to wait very late and come in and be a sort of compromise force around which folks could rally. I think he thought that Mr. Kennedy would
  • Poage, W. R. (William Robert), 1899-1987
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on for about a year--this was by that time late 1968--and I don't recall whatever happened to it. I don't know whether it was ever sold or not. G: Was Senator [Robert] Kennedy involved in this at all, also? K: I don't recall that he was. G: Another
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . G: Okay. So from '62 to '64 you were the director of the Peace Corps in Peru, and from '64 to '66 you were the Latin America regional director. .. ·. ~, 3 M: That's right. G: ~n I . 1966 you joined with Senator Robert Kennedy's staff
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • after another. It just seemed like something to do. Most of us had been doing it with the Kennedy preliminary thing and we just stayed with it. G: Did you have a shortage of operating funds as a task force? B: We didn't have any operating funds
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Johnson -- XXXVI -- 16 who had to deal with that, that is, first, [John] Kennedy, succeeded in multiplies by Lyndon Johnson, were not present, did not sign it. Lyndon was in Mayo having a kidney stone operation. That was something that plagued him much
  • of Mary Rather's brother and sister-in-law and Rather's efforts to care for their children; Juanita Roberts; Oklahoma Senator Bob Kerr; LBJ's view about alcohol; Averell Harriman; Estes Kefauver and his speech in Waxahachie, Texas; Christmas Eve at LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he got there. he went to the White House. Then Kennedy was killed, and It's rather strange to have a combination like that, but he did. G: Well, let me ask you to elaborate on your discussion with him in which he indicated he planned to run
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and got an answer back that, yes, it would be all right. We decided to have it at the Kennedy-Warren, and it was going to cost a dollar seventyfive a plate, and I invited, as I always did, choosing very carefully because one was limited in the number
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe it could have been anybody that he would have liked better. And there we were, opposite numbers to that great Senator [Robert] Taft, the majority leader, who had Bill Knowland of California for his number-two man. But the shocking change
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Rights Bill? C: Well, I'd have to refresh a little bit to get the years, the different steps straight. Well, for example, I know that Jack Kennedy never was real strong in that direction prior to the August 22, 1963 march, you know, when a hundred
  • majority leader; Joe McCarthy; political divisions in North Carolina; Samuel James Ervin; Kerr Scott’s regard for LBJ; Robert Rice Reynolds; William B. Whitley; LBJ’s power in the Senate; Bobby Baker investigation; Bill Knowland; the issue of tobacco 1954
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a hundred [votes] at a time, and then the final big change. The Texas Election Bureau was, and still is, noted for really incredible accuracy. Robert Johnson, the manager, who's retired now, he would take a pencil--that was before computers, he wouldn't
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it in his book. Some parts of his book are not completely reliable but I believe that is. G: Do you rec211 the initial relationship b2tvJeen Lyndon Johnson and Bill Knowland after Senator [Robert] Taft had to leave? M: It was always a fairly cordial
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • somebody who concentrated on Vietnam and another chap who concentrated on Asian problems outside of Vietnam. [Robert] Komer had responsibility for the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. M: Corresponds to the ANE bureau in the State Department. C
  • Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • driver, Bashir Ahmad, in Pakistan; LBJ's visit to Greece; Stephen and Jean Kennedy Smith's role on the trip to Asia; LBJ's trip to West Point to speak at commencement and his first impression of General William Westmoreland; planning for Pakistan's
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was appointed of course as the ambassador by then-President Kennedy. in his days as a reserve major general. What led to that? I had known him He was serving over in the Pentagon on the army general staff in a mobilization assignment and I was assigned
  • staff; Edward Lansdale; General Taylor; Robert McNamara; David Nes; Rufus Phillips; Charles Bohannon; Lucien Conein; Dunn's eyewitness to the Diem coup; Pham Ngoc Thao; PLF (VC); Article 32 investigation of Dunn; Father DeJaeger; Tran Van Don; Big Minh
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the success of the original. G: Yes. There was an indication that I think Robert Cooke, a specialist in early childhood education, brought some of this significance to Shriver's attention. W: Do you recall this? I honestly don't because at this point