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Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and interpreter for Supreme Court Justice [William] Douglas and for Bob Kennedy in 1955 when they went to the Soviet Union. So I told Tom Sorensen that I would agree to come out to Berkeley and talk to their five thousand students in the student union at high
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did not affect his friendship with Russell or Russell's friendship with him. But if he had gone too far in his innate liberalism he would not have had the degree of support of all the South that appealed to Kennedy and his backers. G: Before we
Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with either President Kennedy or President Johnson? M: No, sir. B: In the normal course of things-- M: I have attended meetings where they've spoken and the like, but at the time I have had no particular direct contact. B: From your vantage point here
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Manned Spacecraft Center. P: That's right. Now let's talk about that a minute. The Manned Spacecraft Center was to be located in one of about three places towards the final months of consideration of a site. Boston, with the Kennedys interested
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in an apartment though at the Kennedy-Warren at that time. I don't imagine I stayed with them then. I imagine I stayed at the Dodge. G: The Woodley Park Towers, they stayed there, too, I think in 1941. R: That's true. They must have stayed--oh, I know
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • 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 Shanks -- I -- 4 nomination against [John] Kennedy, we were
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • information. And we were really barred by the new people from com- munication with them; there wasn't any dialogue. Now I've been through three changes of administrations in responsible positions--Truman to Eisenhower, Eisenhower to Kennedy, and Johnson
Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Spinn -- I -- 7 G: No. S: Didn't? Babe Kennedy used to play tennis and I was thinking
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , Politics and Mr. Sundquist is the Policy~ the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years, and as I understand, is to be the author of a forthcoming volume on the administration of some of the programs enacted during the Kennedy and Johnson years. lid like
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • participates in these visits, if they occur within their area. M: And you stayed in Atlanta until 1960? Y: Through 1960. At the very end of 1960, I came back to Washington on a temporary assignment and was here during the inauguration of President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the news, the two of us were alone. know, it was just sort of, I guess, blank. It You I don'tthinkwe spilled into the halh"ays, but just a blank,empty feeling. At the time we heard that President Kennedy had been shot, we didn't hear much beyond
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gradually took a very benevolent view toward DSG. Of course, after the 1960 election when Jack Kennedy was elected president, the relationships became much more close. In fact, if there had not been a close working relationship between the Speaker
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Number eight was Willard Wirtz who was secretary of labor under both Kennedy and Johnson. Now those are the eight people. We sent that report to the Regents. One of the interesting responses to it was a note that came--I'm sorry, oh, six weeks later
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • House back in the early years of the Kennedy Administration to discuss with Mac Bundy and Ralph Dungan, who was then the President's chief ''headhunter'' for finding people to take on major jobs in the Federal administration. I was invited to discuss
Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • hand, which I did. So I left Rand on a year's leave in 1960 in the spring, and started work in the Office of Research and Engineering in May of 1960 for what would have been a year or so. Then, after President Kennedy was elected, he picked Mr
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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 5 than President Kennedy's. But I would clearly say
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , no, education, social science, human behavior. I was on the scientific advisory board of the Air Force; I was chairman of President Kennedy's Commission on International Education and Cultural Affairs, and I was a member of President Kennedy's task force
Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for ten years . My last management position with the G .E . Company was as manager of the engineering operation at Cape Kennedy . I left Florida in 1965--October of '65-­ and was relocated to Washington by the company . My first task was to serve
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • I think the Small Business Administration was under the sameinstructions from President Kennedy, to liberalize credit in this country. "Let's get more money out; let's get it working; let's put the money out." And we did, in my opinion, quite
  • ; David Kennedy; George Champion; George Moore; bank holding company; Patman's Push to have GAO audit Office of Comptroller
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and 1956. C: That's right. F: No, no. C: Well, it was in the next campaign when Kennedy ran. F: Right, in 1960. C: In 1960, that's right. F: Yes. C: I endorsed him publicly. I was asked to be co-chairman of a Johnson for President Committee
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was Jack 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 DANIEL -- I -- 19 Kennedy
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and President Kennedy is they were two of the worst leakers in town themselves. I remember once--(Laughter)--when Mac [McGeorge] Bundy called me about a leak; he said Kennedy was furious about it. It appeared in Joe Alsop's column, and it could only come from
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • affairs to its predecessors the Kennedy Administration? P: I .think they've both been very forward-looking Administrations, very sympathetic and sensitive to African aspirations. I would say that you can't make a great deal of differentiation. M: You
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . It's true that the manpower programs were started in '62 during the Kennedy Administration, but they have moved forward in this period with increased momentum, with tremendous increase in the investment in people. The programs have grown very rapidly
Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 When President Kennedy came into office, he appointed a congressman from Maine by the name of Frank Coffin to a job
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , his accepting it? D: No, I really wasn't. Tell you what I did. After Kennedy was nominated on the first ballot--of course, I was disappointed--I got on the plane and carne on horne. F: But not surprised? D: Not surprised, no. I got there a day
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • basis, a billion and three-quarters on the official settlements basis in 1968. Now, I think it's fair to say that nothing much was done in the way of a balance of payments program until President Kennedy came into office. That's not to indict the former
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be on foreign policy things, basically, rather than domestic politics. However, I did cover the 1960 campaign; I covered President Kennedy, I covered Mr. Nixon alternately, and I covered Lodge. I never covered Johnson. M: One of the four you missed out on. S
Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • up a candidate and the candidate would have to be running on the record of the last four years as well as the Kennedy Administration. So it became important at that time even though we were in the process of getting ready for another legislative year
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that occupied one corner near his desk. He had the presidential papers in the bookcases surrounding--they were kind of built into the walls of the Oval Room, that is, the papers of Truman and Eisenhower and Kennedy. Now instead of the presidential papers
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was set up, I believe, initially by President Kennedy. actively. He used it very It consists of about a half-dozen leaders of labor unions, and about a half-dozen highly placed industrialists, and I think-around three public members--somewhere between
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • president following the assassination of Kennedy, and he made me the manager of that bill. He asked Mike Mansfield, "Let Hubert Humphrey handle that bill," that comprehensive Civil Rights Act of 1964, which I handled. Two things he did. First of all, he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that McFarland lost to Barry Goldwater, and that was a personal sadness and an opportunity for a forward step for Lyndon. And, going against the tide, Henry Cabot Lodge was defeated by Kennedy--young Jack Kennedy. Price Daniel was elected handily and also
Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was always as a tax adviser or attorney to the Johnsons. M: Then when President Kennedy was killed here in Dallas, apparently the new President, Lyndon Johnson, contacted you immediately. Is that correct? B: He endeavored to. I was in Shreveport
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : No, sir, I believe there were no other dealings during the period prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. B: And then afterwards during President Johnson's presidency--after late '63 into '64--any contact then? E: The first contact after
Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • the remark that the Kennedy boys were baby, something to that--if I had been around Lyndon, Lyndon LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral