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Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • successful. That was the way we ran it, and this was the way it went with Johnson. We'd go down to see him. it was Kennedy who sent for me. five billion dollars. Of course, when we first were there, Our budget in those years was around I knew Jack
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The Vice President--I happened to run corridor--Mr. Nixon. I said, And he said, into him in the "Thrus, you want to have some fun?" ''What's that?" He said, ''Why don't you get up and predict the ticket will be Kennedy and Johnson!" did. I thought
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that kind of moral support here at home base. I do have the impression that during the time I was in Mexico, he followed events in that country and in Latin America in general rather closely. F: You were the Ambassador when President and Mrs. Kennedy came
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • saying that] this was a matter you discussed often and at inordinate length. O: Inordinate length, back to the Kennedy days, and Russell Long became wedded to this concept. He was almost alone for a long time in his advocacy. The period that we're
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to prepare myself for the private sector that extended back prior to joining Hubert Humphrey and shortly following the death of Bobby Kennedy had been brought into focus. I had failed to comply with the agreements I had made with the three networks and Hughes
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • magnitude than the ones I was dealing with and that his time and energy should be reserved for those problems, and the best thing that a bureaucrat can do is to try and solve the problems without bothering the president. I never bothered Kennedy or Johnson
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was to cover the President Kennedy tour through Texas. I was responsible for setting up our coverage and planning our coverage. in Dallas. As a result of that I laid on a little extra help Goodness knows I didn't have in mind any kind of real trouble
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • effectively. This was a tremendous advantage to him in getting his programs through. He took great pride, and I think rightly so, that, in the remnant of President John Kennedy's office, after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, he, Johnson, put through all
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a sense of urgency about it? D: Oh, yes! You know, I think in later years we were told that the President, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, called [Joseph A.] Califano and the White House inner circle and said, "Look, fellas, I know
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • philosophy or another? B: He would probably represent the Carter political philosophy today. Get rid of regulation. He thought regulation was terrible. He wanted to get rid of as much of it as he could. G: Who had appointed him? B: Kennedy. I've never
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of 1960 when John Kennedy and \~ 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/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be developed between governors and the president. Naturally, I saw him quite frequently when he was president. M: Did he perform any task for President Kennedy in regard to the governors? K: I don't know whether he was given any task, but occasionally when
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was organized was probably as follows: The President really made the decisions. I was in charge of scheduling out of the White House; Kenny O'Donnell, who was formerly appointments secretary to President Kennedy, worked out of the national committee office
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Interior? But somebody, as I understand it, was asked, 'Where do you think I can make the greatest contribution?" thought for her, they say. don't know. And somebody came up with that It may have been from her own mind, I But Jackie Kennedy, President
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into a ballroom after the dinner for the performance. But before they did, President Kennedy went around to the tables shaking hands. Lyndon went into the ballroom and was told to go ahead and start, not thinking that he too ought to shake hands something he
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Roosevelt. As you know the minority groups felt about President Roosevelt in those days much as, say, the minority groups felt about Senator Kennedy or President Kennedy in these times. Johnson had been working with young people. He had a great rapport
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • guess we did. M: Kennedy and Johnson against Nixon. J: Against Nixon. I can't remember. supported him. I think we supported him. M: Wait a minute. That can be checked o Who ran? Kennedy and Johnson? I think we did. We would have I can look
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • guess we did. M: Kennedy and Johnson against Nixon. J: Against Nixon. I can't remember. supported him. I think we supported him. M: Wait a minute. That can be checked o Who ran? Kennedy and Johnson? I think we did. We would have I can look
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Four years later, in 1964, as the fight for voting rights continued, Johnson and Dirksen put this same provision, in almost identical language, in their bill without any reference to their action in 1960. What had produced the change? Kennedy had been
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or Commission was the predecessor to the Cultural Center Commission, which in turn was a predecessor to the Kennedy Center Commission. It was through then-Senator Johnson that I was appointed as a member. I was actually appointed by President Nixon, who
Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • those things. G: Speeches that were given in the Congress or-- W: In the Congress and other places, that's right. G: Did you see Kennedy's election as a major impetus for health insurance? W: No question. That was part of the campaign issue
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from the standpoint of their responsibilities under the Constitution. F: There is no critic like the one who wasn 1 t involved. G: Exactly so. F: What about Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in this respect. G: I really did not see very much
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , a sound position if we're to be a government in which the laws are enacted by a legislative branch and enforced by an executive branch. But we continued to study these. President Kennedy's executive order had been quite limited, and at the time, I think
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a ;';":') on it-- it must be the 27th or 28th of l-larch--the heat again3t ,hhnson was getting very, very hot indeed. You know, Kennedy and ;'>J,iirthy were both on his tail. and McPherson and Liz Cater and I and Bess Abell and Ervin Duggan-- C~~p~nter that's about all
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . They never knew that he was at heart a progressive and liberal human person. And they didn't find it possible to give him a sympathetic hearing after he was President. M: Do~u suppose their connection with John F. Kennedy had something to do
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it must have come later. B: Later? Really? Of course, he was a strong Kennedy man, he was a strong Kennedy man. But on the other hand, in a way would that have been considered a comedown to go from a number-two cabinet post to a number-two OEO post? I
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the ticket and felt very, very strongly that Mr. Kennedy needed him. I remember a number of things. My mother, of course, was for Adlai Stevenson, and she was bitterly, really bitterly disappointed because she wasn't very happy with President Kennedy's
  • minimum wage; the work of congressional liaisons under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and LBJ; the expansion of the Rules Committee; Roosevelt's trip with LBJ to Adlai Stevenson's funeral; Roosevelt leaving Congress to work with Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the whole picture. M: How much evidence, if any, did you ever see that there were Kennedy loyalists in the press or even in the government who used leaks consciously to damage the Johnson Administration? Was there any of this at all? S: Yes
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape #l) December 9, 1971 Ba : This is an interview with Ambassador David Bruce, it's December 9, 1971 and I'm Harri Baker . And Mr . Bruce, of course was Ambassador to Great Britain during the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • majority was so slim, I think just one or two votes. C: Well, actually, yes, there was a very close thing, I think until he was president and fell heir to the batch of unfinished business that Kennedy left and couldn't finish because he didn'tknow how
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • better than I would. Prior to the Johnson Administration-- in fact, we had set up our cadre but we hadn't actuallY taken over yet in the Kennedy Administration--I explained to Secretary [Orville] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on the program, who had brought it through the entire Kennedy-Johnson Administrations before he left office . M: Then after that dinner you return ed, what, to the Cape to prepare for your-­ L: We left immediately after the dinne r, I think. There were
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Council? · J: No, I di.d 'not nave personal contact.. Mr. The ftrst time I recall seei.ng Johnson was during the campaign, when he was running . . . with Jack ~ Kennedy for presi·dent.. , " They ran a special train thro_ugh the country, and he
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • capacity first, I suppose as Under Secretary of Labor. I think when Goldberg had gone to the Court, I think Wirtz had come into the job which meant that was back in the Kennedy Administration. So he had served honorably and well and made a good reputation
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was running for president? G: [John F.] Kennedy. B: Kennedy, yes. Yes, we did. G: Was LBJ restive as vice president? Was he unhappy in the position, do you think? B: I don't think so. G: Really? Did you see much of him then? B: No. I only went
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , it might not be desirable for the President even to make a television address. And so by that time it was no longer a question of Kennedy, unhappily he was dead, so it was McCarthy or Humphrey, and I certainly couldn't see the President going. So
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Wentzel took pictures of them, of the two Presidents, together at that particular meeting. F: Did the President, President Kennedy, that is, come out to greet your group? Mc: No. There was a helicopter--a small hard-core group that went to the summer
Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it's going to be up to us to do it. G: Was there any difference between the way the administration's legislative liaison operation worked under Presidents Johnson and [John F.] Kennedy? Had it changed? P: It became a lot more--it had changed
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)