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Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

by other more valuable things, but anyway I think the great difference between Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy, for instance, is that it did not seem to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

us about this? Well, I can just tell you that the negotiations in the longshore industryon the Atlantic, on the Gulf, from the very first week when we arrived on the scene with President Kennedy until the year of our departure, were characterized

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

husband kept that commitment with Humphrey, didn't he? R: Yes. And then of course Humphrey was defeated in the primaries oyt [John] Kennedy. And then you know the story of Jim [Rowe) and Johnson and Phil Graham and all the people at Los Angeles. I

Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ever discussed the other to me. I had the feeling that Shriver had a considerable degree of respect for the President. And I would guess, out of all of the Kennedys--if I may call him a Kennedy--l think that he had a better sense of the obligation he

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

pri maries for the Knight newspapers . G: Did you cover New Hampshire, by any chance? 0: No, New Hampshire was too early ; I was still in Vietnam . But I went with Bobby Kennedy to California ; I was with Kennedy when killed in California

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as the majority leader of the Senate. Then when he got selected as vice president, which was a bit of a shock at the time--no one was expecting Kennedy to pick Lyndon Johnson. But the big reaction for me was, as I think I've mentioned, when President Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to overstate my national I began \vorking in national campaigns, as I recall, in 1956, involvement. being head of the Speakers' Bureau in Southern California for Adlai Stevenson. I had a role in John Kennedy's campaign in 1960, and a minor role

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: The refunds were of such a tremendous scale that I have to ask, was there a political advantage that accrued from this for the party in power? S: I'm sure that there was. A lot of this happened under Kennedy. You have to say for Kennedy that he

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

gathered strength over the years. Then when President Kennedy came out for a wilderness bill of some kind, this gave it new momentum. President Johnson supported it and of course he signed the bill in September of 1964. Aspinall initially took a very hard

Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and they were trying to figure out, the $tetson,~ompany was, ~~w to get a hat on President Kennedy. So they finally decided that ifthey could make LBJ a hat, since he did ~ • ' ' I \ ' • wear hats and was out on the Ranch some, that maybe Kennedy

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to transpire. One of our chief functions on that particular trip was to raise a crowd, because we felt it was important that Lyndon Johnson get as good a reception as John Kennedy did. We found out various ways in which the Kennedy assistants had raised a crowd

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to that, to innovate. F: Mr. Eisenhower, as President, tried to put through an aid-to-education bill without success. Mr. Kennedy tried, too. Why do you think that it finally came through then under Mr. Johnson? D: Well, you see that fear that I alluded

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, President Kennedy, President Johnson, President Nixon-- all want to try to change, and they can't get it done. F: Thank you. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org \ ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, that's a very important element that you throw in. All my service to the government, responding to President Truman and President Kennedy and President Johnson were, you might say, requested or command performances. M: I did it because they asked me

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: And then it worked on into the Kennedy Administration? S: No, the Bane Committee actually reported before the Eisenhower Administration was finished. Actually, there were two, if not more, bills on physician manpower in the Eisenhower Administration which never

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

no! No!" But they insisted, so we-- F: That helped your allowance, didn't it? L: Yes, it did! F: Where were you at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? L: I'll never [forget]. I was. So sometimes it could be As every American, I'll always remember

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that Kennedy--think it would work. F: Does this about wrap this up? R: I think that does it. F: Thank you, Mr. Rowe. R: All right, sir. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview III] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he was on the ticket. Yes. But I'm thinking there was a move to nominate him for vice president, and he made a speech--I think I'm right on this--and said that he was in favor of Jack Kennedy. Now, was that in 1956? G: I believe so. S: I think

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Harbor after Nixon became President effects of Tet offensive as a public relations defeat; LBJ’s harassment by both the media and Kennedy people in the administration; further results of military restraints from Washington.

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

talked to them about this job, things were in a pretty static and steady state, and they looked like they would go on that way for a long time. King were alive. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther Student unrest had not really started. It was a very

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, with President Kennedy being President at the time. I spent most of the day with him. I met him at Stewart Air Force Base, which is -near Newburgh, New York, in the morning. the graduation ceremonies late that morning. He addressed He had lunch with us in my

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or deputy assistant attorney general during the Kennedy days, who then went to work for a law firm in Washington, who then was known later as Suds Geoghegan because of his effective representation for the packaging for the soap and detergent industry

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Social? M: Social. Mc: Did you see him in Washington? M: I was trying to think. I would imagine that I did, but I have no definite recollection of it. I'm sure I did. Mc: Well then, after the assassination of President Kennedy did you have

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there? T: No, I didn't go. I wish I had. G: And Kennedy won the nomination, and he went on the ticket as vice president. Anything about the campaign that--you worked for the ticket, I know, and-- T: Not very much. I was very much surprised that he

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for FDR, and the other was in 1964, I guess it was, when Johnson was on the ticket as president. That's the only two times the county has voted Democratic. Johnson was unable to carry the county in 1960 when he was on the ticket with Kennedy. G: You

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these towns are about the same. We had a real prominent place to display Kennedy-Johnson signs, and that caused a lot of comment around town and that caused a lot of Republican stirring around, trying to do something of equal quality. But anyway, 11 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? H: I was on North Capitol Street just at the main Post Office Building. F: What did you do--hear it by radio or word of mouth? H: Well, I stopped for a traffic signal and someone drove up to my side

Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. I was administrative head of the research department and after about a year there my boss was George Mitchell who is now on the Board of Governors appointed by President Kennedy--he had been on leave when I first came

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

did that happen to come about? S: A little background on that--Assistant Secretary Reed was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Coast Guard Activities at that time, and he had persuaded President Kennedy to make this speech

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

nominee. But at any rate we worked pretty hard on that, lined up delegations to question ....• Vann Kennedy who was the Secretary of the State Committee and had his office in the Capitol Press Room where you and I both had worked PB: Where we

Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with it. M: Well, the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency was a tripod organization basically under the direction of the Justice Department, with Bobby Kennedy being the nominal head of it. And he was. I mean, he was not only nominal, but he

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to that censure committee? · S: I did not. I suppose a lot of people have speculated that he might have wanted to ask Senator Kennedy to serve·just to ~mbarrass him and to · cripple him politically, but I don't think so. ·In fact, the Senator .. 16

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Because my wife and I were relatively young--I was thirty-eight at the time--and we had come from John Kennedy Massachusetts, we received a lot of press coverage. country in We were doing unusual things in the conservative State of Ohio. When

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

became President. This was in December of 1963, soon after he had assumed office following the death of President Kennedy, tions, I believe, from I had been home for a few weeks on consulta- Sofia. I was anxious to see President Johnson LBJ

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Career history as a photographer; Kaufman's work in Dallas covering Lee Harvey Oswald after the John F. Kennedy assassination; covering LBJ at the LBJ Ranch while staying in a Stonewall hotel; LBJ's recovery from gallbladder surgery; finding

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

President Kennedy's assassination, President Johnson relied very heavily on 10 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

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and saw LBJ from time to time when he was in the Senate, during the early part of his career, later as majority leader, and then as vice president. After Kennedy's death, I saw him quite often. The Women's National Democratic Club had a private dance group