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Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Guajardo, we made to Washington on occasion of a seminar in Washington, D.C. F: Is this the one at Georgetown? B: The Georgetown. At that time we visited President Kennedy, and Guajardo arranged for a visit of President Alemán to Vice President Johnson
  • Contact with LBJ; Miguel Aleman; visit to the LBJ Ranch; Johnson and Kennedy visits to Mexico; LBJ's funeral; the ranch at Chihuahua
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President Johnson, I'd say the more important variable from the standpoint of the Policy Planning Council is the Secretary of State . Now insofar as the President's personality comes to bear on it's work, I'd
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • concerned me greatly because I don't think that it's necessary to have uniform thinking in any political party. I felt that the reason that Kennedy and Johnson had so much difficulty carrying Texas after Jack Kennedy had drafted Lyndon to be his running mate
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • informed than we did under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations because it's quite natural for the White House to communicate more with their natural allies here on the Hill. And of course we get frequent White House briefings. We get frequent visits
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • published, except that I know that he was a very, very strong supporter of him and I think he did whatever he could both to persuade Kennedy to offer it to him and persuade [Johnson]-- a harder job, really, in view of their relative roles in the Senate-- M
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the Kennedy Administration but had not reached the 1 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
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [popular] attitude was so captivated by Kennedy-there were streets named after Kennedy, buildings named after Kennedy-that they never quite got a grip on him [LBJ]. Because of the general French interest in American foreign policy and very little
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , do you recall? R: Yes. Yes. The question was with Texas and the vice president run--it ended up in a Kefauver and Kennedy race--who Texas should be for. Johnson wanted to be for Hubert Humphrey, but he couldn't move the delegation that fast
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • overwhelmed legislatively by the Democrats most of the time. Of course I think that Kennedy could have been considered pretty much of an anathema to Republicans and there was very little communication between the White House and the Republican members
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or another, in effect putting what was Senator [President?] Kennedy's executive order into legislation. By and large I think that President Johnson thought that order had been ineffective. Getting federally subsidized housing--housing backed by Federal Home
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the Chinese, take that first step that needs to be taken if one is to walk a thousand miles, a la Jack Kennedy. [We] proposed over and over again that we exchange newsmen, that we exchange scholars, that we don't exchange if that's their wish, that they send
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about--I presume before 1960 you-did not know- the Johnsons . the Kennedy's prior to that? Did you have anything to do with 0: No, I didn't F: So you come into this part of service in the 1960's with John F . I didn't know either one . Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to France during the entire time Mr. Johnson had been President? % Yes, I was appointed by president Kennedy to France, and I got there in 2 F W R E H U 1962, and I was happily ensconced there, perfectly prepared and willing indeed to spend the rest
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with good grace just as Richard Nixon did in 1960 when he probably had some grounds to make a loud cry--I suspect that Nixon wouldn't be president today if he had made a fuss about the Kennedy election in 1960. Politically, you've got to learn to be a good
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy was assassinated. I, with President Kennedy's complete support, had gone to Senator Pastore to get the legislation. And indeed, I believe that Jack Kennedy interceded with Senator Pastore on that legislation. Oren Harris, if I'm not mistaken
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • should go on. Whether it was a right decision or wrong decision, I don't think that any Republican could have won in '64 regardless. F: In retrospect, or maybe even then, did you get the feeling that Kennedy would have been a more vulnerable candidate
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in particular that were demanding that they be put on the committee. One of them was John F. Kennedy, who said he needed the prestige of the committee because he was getting ready to run for national office. The second was Hubert Humphrey, the whip
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in which there were discussions about [space]. But this was after Kennedy was in the White House, and Lyndon at that time was chairing a [space] committee, and he had Senator Bob Kerr there, I believe, and a couple of White House people, somebody from NASA
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Kennedy election that I went on the Ways and Means Committee. M: Then you were a member of that committee until you retired. T: '66, that's right. M: And then after this--you are now, I suppose, a consultant? T: Well, at the moment, I'm director
Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and an organization going and so forth, Kennedy had the thing too well sewed up, and they always felt they started too late. thinking about it far enough in advance. stick his neck out? Was he Could he not bring himself to Was he too busy with government business
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • , although I had taught swimming, I didn't know how to swim myself. And this was about the time the Bobby Kennedy parties were having everybody tossed in the pool. So Tom Boggs said that he was going to toss me in the pool and watch me drown in front
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and we all know the history--Nixon decided for whatever arbitrary reasons he was not going to expend funds the Congress appropriated. And I was reflecting upon the fact that I can remember it was Senator Mondale, Senator Kennedy, Senator Javits and Pete
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . A commitment that had been made by the Democratic Party and by us in the Kennedy-Johnson period had not been fulfilled. Go back to the five-vote margin to expand the Rules Committee. There was further change in procedure in subsequent years, but he moved from
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . By this time, in '58, future President John F. Kennedy is getting geared up quite well. Of course Johnson is or isn't gearing up, and there's lots of debate. Did you get any insights on that jockeying that must have been going on at that time? H: One
  • Policy Committee: going to work for Senator William Proxmire in 1958 as a liaison between Proxmire and LBJ; Proxmire's and LBJ's different political styles; Senator John F. Kennedy gearing up for a national political role in 1958; Proxmire's committee
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be jury trials, or whether there would be judge trials, and whether or not contempt of court would be civil or criminal. We took the hard line, the liberals, namely the criminal contempt for violations and no jury trial. It was here where Jack Kennedy made
Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • about 1960? Did you go to the convention in Los Angeles as a Stevenson supporter still? H: No, I did not. M: You had become a, what, Kennedy [supporter] at that time, or Johnson? H: Frankly, in 1960 Senator Sparkman was up for re-election
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -- I -- 4 establishment of the National Library of Medicine, which is a direct outgrowth of this study. This was adopted by the Congress; Senators Hill and Kennedy joined together to put in a bill to establish the National Library of Medicine
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President can have a very substantial influence on the program of an agency like this one. M· How does the impact that Mr. Johnson has compare to that of President Kennedy before him? G: Well, I would say there were no marked differences between them
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • he became President? Do you have any insights to the situation between Stevenson and President Johnson after that? S: Let me see. Did he die while President Johnson was in office, or while President Kennedy-M: He died in August of '65. S: Well
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 25 I serve in the Senate right now may well be very soon a candidate for the Presidency of the United States." As it turned out, it was a very nice-looking, youthful-looking Senator by the name of John F. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -17- F: That's the one where they chose Mrs. Randolph, right? L: That's right. F: What did you do in the 1960 campaign? L: I was active for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and I maintained that The Convention I'm thinking about is a different [one
  • ; “Viva Kennedy-Johnson Clubs;” LBJ’s effort to build up leaders of Mexican background; LBJ’s political sense; BRACERO problems; U.S.-Mexico relations; LBJ’s appeal to Mexican-Americans
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in your Kennedy interviews, yes, I think it does. The Taylor-Rostow mission, which came in the fall of 1961--and there has been much commentary about that particular thing--they recommended a number of steps, two of which seem to have aroused more
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the whole plan . Did President Kennedy, who I guess came in at the same time that Congress started, play any specific role? Absolutely . I'm glad you mentioned that . One of the people who had most to do with getting the legislation passed and, let's say
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Kennedy campaign and worked out of the "Citizens for Kennedy" head­ quarters in Seattle there to help move that along . And then, after the election, I had become interested in government in a--my family and I have been Democrats for a long period of time
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that so much I guess I don't know whether I had the feeling, or it's just been drummed into me. F: You and George Romney, you've been brainwashed? K: No, I think for one thing a lot of them were big Kennedy fans, and they looked on Johnson as something
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Hoover, Eisenhower. First of all after Hoover, Roosevelt; and after Roosevelt, Truman; then Eisenhower; Kennedy; Johnson. six Presidents. topics. This is with five, Naturally all this time we had conversations on various I would not say the same
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of North Vietnam--going back to my visit in 1961 at the behest of President Kennedy, the report which I submitted upon my return to Washington included a reminder that the day might well come when it would be necessary to strike the source of aggression
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with me and made it clear he totally understood. Obviously, if this campaign was going anywhere the party regulars would have to be participants. Gary Hart was a student of the Kennedy era and the Kennedy campaign in 1960. He was well aware of the need