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Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to lead up to this to tell you this: I would have supported Jack Kennedy for president if it had not have been that I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in show business should keep their political feelings private. F: You hadn't campaigned for Kennedy in 1960? A: No. F: Were you on the West Coast at that time? A: Yes. It was when Goldwater was announced; it really terrified me. At the time
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • known them. They have known our children and have been extremely kind to them ; have remembered us in so many little ways that just always warms our hearts . I will never forget when President Kennedy came to Houston, we were supposed to have been
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • and JFK [John F. Kennedy], except it's not very nice to say about--well, Lyndon was fond of Kefauver, but he thought he was a lightweight, and that is not nice to say. M: Well, sure, that--he is long gone; his wife is long gone. And anyway, when you see
  • of the school; Sputnik and LBJ's interest in space; LBJ's cousin, Oriole Bailey; Jack and Mary Margaret Valenti's courtship; John F. Kennedy's 1956 visit to Texas and the LBJ Ranch while campaigning for Adlai Stevenson; Christmas family tradition, including
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in connection with the Korean war; the President did announce that there would be no new (public works) project starts, and so the Eisenhower Administration was severely criticized for "no new starts." And I recall that the Kennedy Administration
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the chairman of it. G: And then Kennedy-- Excuse me. Was this his dOing, do you think, or was it Kennedy's doing? EG: Yes, Johnson wanted to be chairman of the council. No president wanted to take the time, I think, to preside over the meetings
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to. mind is Christapher Weeks' book, The Job Carps--Dallars and Dropauts I think is the name of it. I think there, when he gaes back to. 1963, he recounts the story af Kennedy's interest in paverty and the kinds of activities that he began with people
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connor -- I -- 2 By and large, I think that after he became president-following the assassination of President Kennedy--and [he] had the opportunity to work directly with the leaders of the Business
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the years. G: He liked to bring guests deer hunting. W: He liked to bring guests, yes. G: Were you ever present when the Kennedys came to the Ranch in the earlier days? W: Yes. G: You were? Do you recall Bobby Kennedy coming down and going hunting
Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . So I got deeply involved in space. Between the 1960 election and inauguration, I was on President Kennedy's task force trying to reformulate space policy. It must have been either December of '60 or January of '61 that I first met Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • guess you might say, the principal witness for the military pay raise--no, that was during President Kennedy's--the first one at least. It's really awfully hard for me to remember the names of committees most often they didn't have a name
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --increases in salaries. We got firearms control beyond where we had expected to get it. B: The bill as it came out was more than you expected? C: It was more than we had expected to get, and we even added to that later after Senator Kennedy's
Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • recall going with Senator Mansfield and two or three other members of the Congress out to Andrews Air Force Field to meet the new President, who came in on the plane which also carried the body of President Kennedy and his family. I don't recall just when
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • about mail order murder and that every gun should be registered. Well, I don't think that would have changed the assassinations. Bobby Kennedy was killed by a registered gun. But I assume that the fact that he probably was under threats all the time--I'm
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 only at the present time--it's in effect at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York; at the San Antonio International Airport; and at Dulles Airport here
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But it was a surprise and it was, frankly, at that time, a disappointment. was then. M: But maybe I'm not as callow now as I I hope not. Did you go on to support the Democratic ticket of Kennedy and Johnson in 1960? E: Yes. Went on and supported the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : No question about that, yes. B: What would be the atmosphere of this one? V: It has been very good under difficult circumstances, because the preceding administration--President Kennedy with his brother as Attorney General--the Attorney General
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ? That was the year that president Kennedy was seek- ing the nomination of the Democratic Party and a movement started to try to get Senator Johnson, who was the Majority Leader, nominated instead of President Kennedy. We formed an organization, and again John
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that developed in 1960 is that Johnson had a much stronger Jewish following than Kennedy did, much stronger. This is one of the major reasons for sending Johnson up to New York to make that famous-well, I don't know if famous--but that speech at the Liberal
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Johnson give his famous speech of March 31 [1968] when he announced the limitation of the bombing and his non-candidacy? S: No, I don't. If you were to ask me where were you when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was 14 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • in Vietnam may have affected its standing within the UN: policy changes in regard to China and Taiwan; UN reaction to the Tet Offensive in 1968; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; obstacles to negotiation in times of war, such as in Vietnam in the 1960s
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Johnson got the Manned Spacecraft Center in a deal with Kennedy-a political deal--in reward for Lyndon Johnson running as Vice President . B: Is there any truth in that? I don't think there is one iota of truth in it . Lyndon Johnson on the overall
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Hayden and Cannon came along and they couldn't agree on the appropriations bill, or where they were going to meet to discuss it--and finally, he never did say anything, but finally the President asked him--Kennedy asked him to see if he could get
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was there; she has been Kennedy's physician. Dr. George Burkley and his very capable associate, Dr. Jim Young, both of the navy, were also there and were assuming very active roles in the care of Kennedy, in that traveling was hard for Dr. Travell. They had done
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • became a hero after he died. President Johnson probably took as much brutal treatment as any President--and undeservedly so. I would consider that sorrow. I think that it was sorrowful for him at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy. I
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that was in the late fifties. Of course in 1960 along came John Kennedy, which helped a lot. I can't remember anything specifically, how that happened or how it segued into his being an acceptable liberal. But somehow it did. G: Let me just ask you about a variety
Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • renovated itself when he was vice president. Of course, when he was running for vice president, he and President Kennedy came to Laredo for a Democratic fund rally, and I happen to went because I said I had a card-one of the schoolteachers, somebody gave me
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • F.] Kennedy and [Hubert] Humphrey were already declared at that period. If they weren't declared, it was certainly known that they were candidates. In response to a query from me, he went to unusual lengths to marshal the reasons why he had
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • /loh/oh "Well," he said, "we need you to go to some of the more liberal state delegations, for instance, North Carolina." I said, "Zack, Terry Sanford is running that show and he's a Kennedy man like horseradish." "Yes, but we don't have anybody
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was a member, and I remember Senator Symington and Senator Kennedy were members. they were. I've forgotten who else We used to meet regularly and discuss matters of concern to the Democratic party. Both Senator Johnson and Congressman Rayburn LBJ
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • agreed to set up the COMSAT Corporation is a way that makes it conducive to working with federal agencies. R: Well, that was set up during the Kennedy Administration. M: The end of the Kennedy Administration, right. R: Yes, we worked with them very
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Committee on Employment of the Handicapped in April 1964. You succeeded the second chairman to this committee, Major General Melvin Maas at the event of his death. In 1962 you were appointed by President Kennedy as a vice-chairman of the committee when
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • have put what looks like 6K? P: BK. D: That's BK. P: One of my secretaries--my secretary was BK, Barbara Kennelly; that was her name--BK [was] Barbara Kennedy, not Kennelly. Barbara Kennelly is on here, too. She was a congresswoman from
  • Hutchinson, Frank and Jean Ikard, Jim Imhofe, Wayne Jebhurst [?], Warren Jernigan, Corey Johnson [?], Lady Bird Johnson, Luci Johnson, Lynda Johnson, Jerry Jolash [?], Claire Jones, John Marvin Jones, Barbara Kennelly, Jack Kemp, Barbara Kennedy [?], Joe
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • know, my love is. great for men from.among the.liberal leaders that we had in the Senate. who were good, genuine liberals and moderates: Pastore, Mansfield, Humphrey. I knew Senator Kennedy; didn 1 t get to know him too well. He was ill most
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the table and really took pleasure in doing it, although I never for a moment thought I was going to make a life's career out of that. I was just doing it until we had a more expansive household and more means. G: Was this the Kennedy-Warren place? J
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in nominating John Kennedy as vice president. F: Texas went for Kennedy over Kefauver, which surprised a lot of . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org 'ยท ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was strong. The report he got was that when President Kennedy was ki 11 ed i.t might have been done by those connected with, or associ ated with, or in sympathy with the far right movement. Some reporter gave him that ~ LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Groce -- I -- 14 JG: In the subsequent election of 1960--of Kennedy--I wrote to the clerk in Washington and asked him to please send me a copy of the motion that had been filed several years before. I've got the letter
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • elected, But that's an examp l e . could hav e al lowed his n ame to go on the ballot and didn't. He He didn't active l y campaign himself in New Hampshire. B: Were Rob e rt Kennedy's activities involved in this, too? C: Well, par tly because he di
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • tremendous respect, always, for his intellectual ability. I thought he was a towering--I thought that he was, that intellectually he was far superior to Nixon, to Ford. And Kennedy had a very quick facile mind, but Johnson in some ways had a deeper mind