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Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEt~ I DATE: November, 1968 I NTERV I E~IEE : VANN M. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: PAUL BOLTON PLACE: Corpus
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  • Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton
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Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there officially until 1962? G: Until 1962, that's right. M: Now, someplace in here you must have come into contact with John F. Kennedy. G: Oddly enough, I had very little contact with John F. Kennedy . . I met him, LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kennedy, and having succeeded Kennedy under the circumstances that he did, he implied to me both
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the purpose of again becoming a candidate for Congress, which I did in 1958, and I was elected again to the 86th Congress. Come 1960, of course, I had a different handicap. This time it wasn't Ike and his farm; this time it was John F. Kennedy and his religion
  • Act; Quigley's work on civil rights; LBJ's growth and sincerity regarding civil rights; civil rights in the Kennedy Administration; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and HEW's submission of ideas for the Act; 1963 events in Birmingham as a turning point
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it. It was a terrific thing because there were so many people that were trying to influence President Kennedy. And, of course, President Kennedy had a terrific decision to make even against his own state, because MIT wanted it, you see, and California, where they had
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • working on the pieces of legislation that you were? P: I didn't have day-to-day [contact]. I knew him and I knew of him. I suppose I became acquainted with him most when I worked in the political campaign of 1958. M: The Kennedy campaign? P
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the party as head of the delegatio n to the national conventio n. And then in 1960 I helped him at the time he was nominated for Vice President when President Kennedy was rtmning. F: Well, now in 1956, Governor Stevenson had not made it clear whether he
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • feel that he believes that we entered into a program which was initiated actually under President Kennedy when we sent fighting troors :Ln there. That we had entered into a program and conunitted ourselves to supporting the political independence
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • policy? W: Well, of course it has. If you would put that question in terms of how does it differ from the Kennedy Administration or the Eisenhower Administration, then you can say something about it. B: Why not do it that way? W: As compared
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, '~ell, getting ready to go to the airport now. as a matter of fact, I'm I'll be in there tonight." ''Well, he'll see you tomorrow." So I went by and went over to see him, and he said that he wanted me to take the chairmanship of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh They frequently say that President Kennedy was going to Dallas to help patch up Texas factionalism
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be for Johnson rather than for Kennedy it was inescapable conclusion that Kennedy had the thing . And that night, I know Mr . Johnson stayed in his hotel room and had on his house slippers and a sports shirt, and they hadn't gotten very far down the list when he
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • something about your appointment to the Bureau of the Budget. G: I was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. President Kennedy in January 1961. I came in with I had planned to serve for two years as a member of the Council and to return to my
Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , if I recall. We had a lot of candidates I'm just taking this off the top of my head. The campaign was Senator Symington, Humphrey, Johnson, and Kennedy. They had the four people. B: As I recall, there was a good deal of activity in the Kansas
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that would support the Johnson candidacy. Did you find in tallying your candidates that the Kennedy people had beaten you to a lot of states that would have fallen within the support of Lyndon Johnson? W: Of course I could not say that these states would
  • Puerto Ricans fired gun shots in the House of Representatives; LBJ's first heart attack; Election 1960; Involvement during early sixties in Texas politics; Reaction to Kennedy's assassination; Running for State Chairman; Election of 1964; Convention
Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • presented Senator Kennedy's farm program to an audience in downstate Illinois at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. B: During the campaign of that year? A: During the campaign of 1960, yes. B: Had you up to September of '66 ever met or had
  • Biographical data; rural American support of Johnson-Humphrey campaign and Kennedy-Johnson administration policies; White House contacts while Administrator of Farmer Cooperative Service; role in drafting legislation for bills pertaining to FCS
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Oklahoma. I was with United Press International for four years. B: Was that in Oklahoma, too? C: That was in Oklahoma, Texas and in Kansas City. I was in Texas, incidentally, during the assassination of President Kennedy in '63, and was working
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • candidate, Senator Kennedy, but from our investigation, I don't think it was ever conceived. Now there was the, I think the Air Force, had a stronger feeling on that than the other services, and of course the investigation and the intelligence of the Air
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ in the Senate Armed Services Committee and Preparedness Sub-Committee; Kem Resolution; activities in the Senate; amendment to Kerr-Mills Bill; Saltonstall-Kennedy Act; Senator Hayden; Smithsonian
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is sue on its own ITlerits? R: On the merits. The same way when Lyndon Johnson was President he adopted the Kennedy platform of 1960 and went beyond it; and he sent up some rather extreme public housing and urban renewal proposals to our Banking
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President Johnson, I'd say the more important variable from the standpoint of the Policy Planning Council is the Secretary of State . Now insofar as the President's personality comes to bear on it's work, I'd
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • published, except that I know that he was a very, very strong supporter of him and I think he did whatever he could both to persuade Kennedy to offer it to him and persuade [Johnson]-- a harder job, really, in view of their relative roles in the Senate-- M
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to France during the entire time Mr. Johnson had been President? % Yes, I was appointed by president Kennedy to France, and I got there in 2 F W R E H U 1962, and I was happily ensconced there, perfectly prepared and willing indeed to spend the rest
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Kennedy election that I went on the Ways and Means Committee. M: Then you were a member of that committee until you retired. T: '66, that's right. M: And then after this--you are now, I suppose, a consultant? T: Well, at the moment, I'm director
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • , although I had taught swimming, I didn't know how to swim myself. And this was about the time the Bobby Kennedy parties were having everybody tossed in the pool. So Tom Boggs said that he was going to toss me in the pool and watch me drown in front
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President can have a very substantial influence on the program of an agency like this one. M· How does the impact that Mr. Johnson has compare to that of President Kennedy before him? G: Well, I would say there were no marked differences between them
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • he became President? Do you have any insights to the situation between Stevenson and President Johnson after that? S: Let me see. Did he die while President Johnson was in office, or while President Kennedy-M: He died in August of '65. S: Well
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 25 I serve in the Senate right now may well be very soon a candidate for the Presidency of the United States." As it turned out, it was a very nice-looking, youthful-looking Senator by the name of John F. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -17- F: That's the one where they chose Mrs. Randolph, right? L: That's right. F: What did you do in the 1960 campaign? L: I was active for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and I maintained that The Convention I'm thinking about is a different [one
  • ; “Viva Kennedy-Johnson Clubs;” LBJ’s effort to build up leaders of Mexican background; LBJ’s political sense; BRACERO problems; U.S.-Mexico relations; LBJ’s appeal to Mexican-Americans
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the whole plan . Did President Kennedy, who I guess came in at the same time that Congress started, play any specific role? Absolutely . I'm glad you mentioned that . One of the people who had most to do with getting the legislation passed and, let's say
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Kennedy campaign and worked out of the "Citizens for Kennedy" head­ quarters in Seattle there to help move that along . And then, after the election, I had become interested in government in a--my family and I have been Democrats for a long period of time
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • been committed by their state primaries to Kennedy alreadYi but I tried to get them lined up for Senator Johnson on the second ballot, if there should be one. Of course, one trouble with delegates is that they are invariably polite, and they are sort