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- with Lyndon Johnson. A: I first became acquainted with him only after the Kennedy assassination. I had seen him around the White House occasionally, and I guess we nodded, though I doubt that he was sure who I was. F: But you never had any real
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connell -- I -- 2 research for the State Department. [He] left Humphrey in about 1958 to go with Chet Bowles over to India, came back and I think became director of intelligence and research under Kennedy. He's now
- 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, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- 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
- of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
- Biographical information; what his jobs were for LBJ; how the staff decided which invitations LBJ would accept; Senator Dodd; advance work; Bobby Baker; working with the Kennedy staff; the JFK assassination and Sinclair’s work in the following days
- been his supporter from then on; all through the years we were close friends. I flew with him after the great events out in California, when the meeting adjourned with Johnson being [the nominee for] vice president and Bobby [Kennedy] still fussing
- President Kennedy was made president and then continued on when Johnson succeeded to that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
- with usually in the Senate? B : No, but on occasion it would happen. a very important point . My wife raises a point that is It's not unimportant that she was born in Fort Worth and lived in Dallas until she came up here with the Kennedy Administration
- : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
- of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
- 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
- that so much I guess I don't know whether I had the feeling, or it's just been drummed into me. F: You and George Romney, you've been brainwashed? K: No, I think for one thing a lot of them were big Kennedy fans, and they looked on Johnson as something
- a bi t of trouble. There were huge crowds out, and he and Kennedy were in the parade; they were the main dignitaries. M: When did you see C: I can't be sure just when it was I saw him again. t1: Did you see him between that 1960 parade and the time
- in October of ' 6 0 . The man he had named previously, who had formerly been District Commissioner, died before reaching Quito, and so I was the next one chosen. F: I don't want to pre-empt what people working on John F. Kennedy might ask you sometime
- Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit
- 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
- : Well, as I say, I supported Goldwater . No . And there, of course, as between Johnson and Kennedy, I would have been quite happy to have seen Johnson nominated over Kennedy . M: That's what I was thinking--when they were building up to this Now, you
- important precedent. And, as I remember, Lyndon Johnson did work for that bill. B: Yes, he did. Then what was your attitude toward the 1960 Democratic ticket of Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson? R: Quite frankly, I was very distressed when Mr. Johnson
- the parents were in Texas at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. Lynda was in Austin at the University, but Luci was--I was out at the Elms with Luci. And that afternoon I went by the school to pick her up to take her home. That is one of my
- your wedding. II They were living· at the Kennedy-Warren. [A D. C. apartment house] So they asked us to make up a list of whom we wanted. Philip had been here a year and a half, and the list got so big that the wedding had to be moved from
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton
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- entertained President Kennedy the day after he was assassinated. He {'Kennedy] was coming from Dallas to Austin for a dinner, then LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
- 2 B: Were Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson, after him, especially interested in this concept of self-help feature? J: Yes. I think they both emphasized it. Probably because I was a little closer to it later, I would say that President Johnson
- 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
- Lady Bird describes riding in the motorcade in Dallas, Texas, with JFK, Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally, and Nellie Connally; hearing shots fired; feeling the car accelerate and arriving at [Parkland] Hospital; Lady Bird discusses
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb
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- 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, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- 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
- , 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
- 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
- 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
- about as usual, about as I have for the past twenty, twenty-five years. F: You didn't have any opportunity to observe his relationships then with President Kennedy? K: Heavens, F: Where were you on that November 22, 1963? Here in Austin? K: Right
- the same trip that Kennedy made in 1960, and I was with him on that trip. It was a great trip. and it did a lot of good. I honestly believe that if Humphrey had come through . . . I don't mean [to criticize] him personally. I don't think [he.made
- for the District." Kennedy. Charlie Horsky had been created for that job under President Steve Pollak was there for Johnson. Steve Pollak did leave very quickly after we were nominated and appointed. M: What's the significance of that? F: The significance