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Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Senate, the principal proponent of the bill was Senator [John F.] Kennedy, and the principal obstacle was the fact that Senator [John] McClellan had a bill of his own with very, very many amendments to the existing law. His, of course, was very
of a 1958 labor bill supported by Senator John F. Kennedy; how LBJ would gain votes for other senators' bills; LBJ's ability to get Republican senators to vote in support of Democratic plans; Senator Bill Langer's vote; how opposing senators would help each

Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and enthusiasm, he felt a certain sense of implied inferiority to President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy, who somehow or other had managed to steal the limelight, as it were, to act as the very embodiment of culture. And so he was delighted to think

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. McCormack were working for President Kennedy at the time, and you and Mr. Rayburn, of course, with Senator Johnson. P: But not for vice president. You know, Mr. Rayburn almost blocked Johnson getting the vice presidency because he felt like it was kind

Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

school and college . . . president of the student council sort of activity . Later, I considered running for the United States Senate, but President Kennedy chose current Senator Tydings rather than me . I picked the weak spot to run against

Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a bi t of trouble. There were huge crowds out, and he and Kennedy were in the parade; they were the main dignitaries. M: When did you see C: I can't be sure just when it was I saw him again. t1: Did you see him between that 1960 parade and the time

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you invited him before he became president, or had you invited President Kennedy and he inherited the job? G: No, we had not invited President Kennedy. The point was that the building wasn't ready, and we didn't know just when it was going

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and this again is something that is just a historical point, I've always thought that both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Eisenhower suffered a great serious loss in the first nine months of their first terms. When Senator Taft died the Republican Party control

Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it to them, here it is. F: Right. Well it continued to be an issue though, and when Eisenhower goes out and the Kennedy Administration comes in, they still come back to you for help on that. I: That's right. F: What did they do on that? I: Gee

Oral history transcript, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to overstay my welcome. B: No, go ahead. Go ahead G: In 1960 you were secretary for the Committee for Kennedy and Johnson in Houston, is that correct? 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
for Kennedy/Johnson in Houst 1960; 1964 Senate election against Ralph Yarborough; personal vs. political friend to LBJ; 1970 Senate election against Yarborough; advice from LBJ; LBJ's retirement

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of President Kennedy Of course, I never being assassinated, or dying, or any- thing like that, although those are always possibilities. basically, I thought that as ~lajority But Leader people knew him, but that LBJ Presidential Library http
; Spears’ support for LBJ as Vice-President; the relationship between LBJ and John F. Kennedy; Spears’ appointment as a federal judge; Johnson’s relationship with Ralph Yarborough; removing himself from politics as a judge; asking LBJ for favors; Mrs

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Washington. In the contexts I've seen him in, this wouldn't be easy We've to~do. been in situations where he naturally would have to divide attention among a number of people who would be there. M: Did you have any connection with the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

an issue from 1911, when the United States declared that they couldn't comply with the award, until 1963, when it was finally settled in the agreement between President Kennedy and President López Mateos. F: As vice president and as a man from

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, it was to provide for undergraduate scholarships. It got into a controversial teacher corps proposal, which was not in the initial presentation but was something Gaylord Nelson and Ted Kennedy had an interest in. That became the single most controversial aspect. G

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in October of ' 6 0 . The man he had named previously, who had formerly been District Commissioner, died before reaching Quito, and so I was the next one chosen. F: I don't want to pre-empt what people working on John F. Kennedy might ask you sometime
Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that President Johnson continued the same general advisory team that President Kennedy had and that you've got the sort of continuity that you'd have with keeping on the same team. Another is that Johnson in effect has sabotaged the Kennedy approach to foreign

Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and finally when Kennedy accepted him as vice president, we all were very reluctant and very fearful that he was going to be one of the worst racists that we ever had up there. F: Right. E: I think rightfully so, because he had never done anything
Evers' friendship with LBJ as VP and President; LBJ as Chairman of Equal Employment Commission for JFK; LBJ and Louis Martin at meeting of black leaders; Voters' Rights Bill signed into law; Bobby Kennedy's run for presidency; Senator James Eastland

Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

the most work in was when he was running on the ticket with President Johnson for vice president. B: With Kennedy? G: (Laughter) With Kennedy, yes, for vice president. He was the vice presidential nominee, and Mrs. Edward Clark and I were co-chairmen

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to talk about how far we would go when the matter of going to the moon was concerned. Kennedy about going to the I felt that the statement of President mo~n was more to startle the public. than anything else, like Sputnik was, that going to the moon

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

been in the Senate there's no question Lyndon Johnson would have been nominated over Jack Kennedy. But Lyndon just didn't fully understand the political realities of that. He thought that by having support of the senators and by working on the floor

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and promoting Mr. Johnson wherever they could. Sort of advance men, as we called them. F: When did you first learn that he had been offered and had accepted the vice presidential nomination by Mr. Kennedy? P: It was, of course, speculated in the newspapers

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't know if this is on the record. One morning Price Daniel--he was governor then--invited me over there to a breakfast for Jack Kennedy. He was running for president you know. I wasn't going to go. I said, "Oh hell, that's just a lot of politicians

Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the way up to the Kennedy Administration. We found out that if they took away our tax exemption, it would be two years before we could litigate it--complete the litigation. With a reserve fund of about twenty or thirty thousand dollars, we couldn't take

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: That's correct. M: At what date did you acquire that position? R: I took over this desk about six months before President Kennedy was assassinated, so I've been here for almost six years. M: You've been here through the entire Johnson Administration

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of these same lands for timber or for grass and so on. by President Kennedy in a general sense. So the Bureau was established In actuality it was established not by executive order of the President, but by Secretarial Order of Secretary Udall. He did

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this thing, your chronology here, and I'll tell you things that come to mind. On page 2, January 8, Johnson put Kennedy on the Foreign Relations Committee, passing over [Estes] Kefauver who complained about it. Johnson and Kefauver were just oil and water

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to President Johnson on the day or the day after the death of President Kennedy that either we had to get in there or the South Vietnamese were going to collapse and that this was the fact. And the decision in effect was made at that time subjectively

Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Corporation also. So I was appointed by Secretary Freeman and by President Kennedy, and took office the same day that Secretary Freeman took office. B: So I've been here ever since. Sir, is it usual for a career man, such as yourself, to be named

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

any reasons--to particularly have any talks about it. He was for it and so was 1. You see when President Kennedy died and the Vice-President became President. I was President Pro-Tern of the Senate until there was a new election. I went down

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: In the beginning of 1963 I headed a mission to Bolivia for the Bureau of the BU9get as a special consultant. Then, in the late spring of '63, I headed a mission for President Kennedy to the United States Trust Territory in the Pacific Islands, and that occupied

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was the Vice President, presiding on occasion, and [there were] Symington and Kennedy and Humphrey. And as far as basic capability was concerned--at least in the legislative context--there was no question, he was just head and shoulders above them all. He

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

miss opportunities. "What was behind the emphasis on the army's special forces in the Kennedy Administration? Any perceived contradiction between the apparent shift of mission for special forces from guerrilla fighters to counterguerrilla operatives?" I

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And the Catholics are a union all their own. She got thousands- literally thousands--of postcards and letters welcoming her to the club. We got very few against. I think that, one, Kennedy's election as a Catholic made it safe for anybody in any religion
Jenkins; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries; break between Moyers and LBJ; George Christian; Lady Bird as a business manager; LBJ’s love of giving gifts; communication between Lady Bird and Jackie Kennedy.

Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not always so sure of You can get a few people to do that but I don't believe, at that time anyway, that you could get men to give up their principles just to get on a committee. Now, he placed John Kennedy on the Foreign Relations Committee when John

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

perhaps in an indirect way, but after the election of 1960, after the election of President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson, did the Civil Rights Movement more or less deliberately and consciously decide that now the time has come to press harder

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was in Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and to a lesser degree in North Carolina. B: In '60 there were no permanent Kennedy-Johnson campaign coordinators in those LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the assassination of President Kennedy November, 1963. While I always most friendly to him, I really didn't see President Johnson from the time of s campaign for re-election in 1964 until about February, 1968, when named my son, John, Jr., to membership

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

appointed by President Kennedy? B: I was appointed by President Kennedy in May of 1962 to that job. M: Had you had before that time any opportunity to make acquaintance with Mr. Johnson before he became President? B: Well, I was trying to remember
Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, that I would only find out by living with it day after day, week after week. This was early 1961. The Kennedy Administration had just come in, and a number of people in and around government had told me in effect, "If you know so goddamn much about

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