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  • . Johnson's reaction when she as first lady was compared to other first ladies? I remember seeing in the press a lot of comparisons of Mrs. Johnson and, say, Mrs. Roosevelt, and most of all, Mrs. Kennedy. A: It's very hard for any first lady to be compared
  • to the Houston convention because that has some pertinence. You know this Catholic issue was one of the big issues used against Al Smith in '28, and then, of course, it was in Houston that a generation later John F. Kennedy had this meeting LBJ Presidential
  • Biographical information; 1928 convention; repeal of the 18th Amendment; Henry Wallace; Harry S. Truman; BEHIND THE BALLOTS and THE JIM FARLEY STORY; first meeting with LBJ; 1941 Johnson vs. O’Daniel campaign; Eisenhower; Kennedy-Kefauver fight
  • with him on many occasions. Not only in Texas but also in Washington and I maintained my contact with him. fact, I would guess that I participated in all of his campaigns. In To include, of course, his presidential campaign both with President Kennedy
  • and [Robert] Kerr, Senator Kerr. Bob Myers was also there; he was then the Chief Actuary of Social Security. And Kennedy got up and made this speech in favor of Medicare, and Kerr waited to the end and he made his speech against it and in favor of what
  • to comment on them and frequently did so that as far as Washington was concerned there was pretty good coordination. For a time President Johnson had Mr. Robert Komer in the White House to coordinate what was called "the other war," that is, the political
  • look back at the day I was appointed with the Viet Cong inside the Embassy garden there in the TET offensive, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the urban riots and convention battles, and all of the things that happened
  • ," [with] no one ready, the bases not touched, none of the groundwork that Kennedy had laid, none of the long work in the field. 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • election and by this time you had Humphrey running against Robert Kennedy. R: That caused some little friction. (Laughter) Schnittker must have told you that. G: Describe that for me if you will. Schnittker was supporting Kennedy. R: I don't know
  • secretary for international programs in the Department of Agriculture; Freeman's and John Schnittker's loyalties to LBJ and John F. Kennedy; White House Fellow Mike Walsh; Robertson's dealings with Resurrection City; Jose Williams; Fannie Lou Hamer; progress
  • be not But again I could say that about Jack Kennedy or -F: That's just par for the course. C: Nixon and everybody else. Nixon, I remember when he was placed on the old Un-American Activities Committee. As a matter of fact, I told him since he's been
  • ://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 Curtis -- I -- 22 when Jack Kennedy was shot. witness. He got the word, but he
  • 29, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Sheraton-Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start first with the Kennedy-Ives bill. We discussed that some last time but not in any
  • 1958; Kennedy-Ives bill; Texas labor; Arthur Goldberg's concern about Senate Republican Policy Committee charges; federal aid to education; National Defense Education Act; Mike Mansfield's leadership abilities; Supreme Court bills; death of Mrs
  • against Johnson . We had that real bitter battle with Alan Shivers in 1956 when he took over the machinery, but from then on it has always been who's for Johnson . '60 we were voting for Johnson . Now Kennedy had a great deal of appeal to the Latins
  • from the State Department listed at the top of this grouping: [Frederick] Dutton, [Robert] Lee, [Eugene] Krizek, and [Nick] Zumas. Dutton was very much a substance fellow; he wasn't a fellow that went to the Hill very often, as I recall it. Gene Krizek
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 20 that whatever adjustments were made were not made by Vice President Johnson but came from the White House and were frequently the product of Robert Kennedy's
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • , incidentally, was Bob [Robert F.] Woodward, who was offered the job, and who took it. This telephone call came to us in Santiago, Chile, where he was our ambassador and had been for about two weeks. Immediately after I said "No" to President Kennedy, he said
  • with the candidate as we had in past campaigns. In 1960, I don't believe I saw anything of President Johnson when he was running with Jack Kennedy, as the Vice Presidential candidate. PresiC'.ential candidates at all. him as a reporter, at the We paid no attention
  • Biographical information; reporting political, congressional and military affairs; 1960 and 1964 Democratic campaigns; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cy Vance; Robert McNamara; crises operations; defense directorates; public affairs
  • probably brought up to a point, aside fro::! the usual afvising one does, when Mr. Kennedy appointed me to serve on an advisory panel or cormnittee on educ.:J.tion after his election anG prior to his assu:nption of office. M: You didn't campaign for him
  • : In 1956 you had that horse race between young John Kennedy and Estes Kefauver for the vice presidency, and Johnson shook a lot of people by taking Texas for Kennedy instead of for Kefauver. Were you privy at all to his thinking or strategy in this, or do
  • of your interviews you just mentioned in passing Robert Hill, who was Ambassador to Mexico, and I wonder if we could explore a little bit the relations with him. I had a feeling that they went a little deeper. R: Of course they would. You see, Bob had
  • Db you recall when this was in 1968? M: I would say probably August, some time like that. We were late on the bill. This was prior to the assassination of Robert Kennedy [June 1968], I would probably place it in a matter of time, two weeks before
  • for Lyndon Johnson, he's the best man in the state ... and so on. My first direct contact came in mid-1959. I had gone to Washington from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to serve as special assistant and economic adviser to Texan Robert B. Anderson
  • of the treasury and Henry Fowler and Robert Roosa as undersecretaries; LBJ's request that Walker praise Fowler's abilities to the press; publicity for an ABA-sponsored luncheon attended by Robert Anderson, Robert Roosa, Douglas Dillon, and Henry Fowler; LBJ's
  • the word "planning." Because as John F. Kennedy once said, the very future of the democracies will depend upon whether they can compete with the more rigorous and brutal methods of the totalitarians through planning under freedom. This is a rather
  • Employment Act of 1946, its intended and eventual uses; tax reductions of 1964; regulating the federal budget; the war against poverty and its failures; local control of education; planning in a free society; President John F. Kennedy; rising
  • . When the President decided to run for the Senate, Miss Juanita Roberts was a secretary of his and the daughter of J. J. Duggan, who LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • : He preceded us. such. I'm not even sure whether I ever saw his report as I was told parts of it, at least. One of the first things I did when I got back in 1961, at President Kennedy's direction, was to go to the Vice President and tell him
  • of, to illustrate his policies, Betty Furness as an illustration of a woman brought in; Robert Weaver as a Negro [was] brought in; and I mentioned to you once before John Hechinger. Hechinger himself was interested in how he was selected and said to be sure
  • and appointment of Robert Weaver as first Secretary; review and appointment of various other persons.
  • delinquency. this. Youth. They had about four cities where they tried One of them was New York, where they set up Mobilization for Another one was Syracuse. New Haven, I think, Baltimore. I can't remember precisely--- I'm not sure. Robert Kennedy had
  • ; Medicare; Helen Taussig; Advisory Council on Public Welfare Task Force on Income Maintenance (Heineman Commission); Advisory Commission on Status of Women; Esther Peterson; LBJ fixed associations between Wicky/Cohen/Social Security; Medicare; Mrs. Kennedy
  • it was on Navy Day in 1966, when Senator Robert Kennedy was out in California doing some campaigning for the Democratic ticket out there, and I was in Long Beach then and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, not a very important post in Washington, But I had gone
  • of the SEC in the Johnson presidency as compared to earlier presidencies? C: No, I don't think so. First of all, I can't speak about relationships of earlier administrations--with the possible exception of the Kennedy Administration--and members
  • to believe that your experience here after the Martin Luther King assassination is one reason that you didn't have an outbreak--real outbreak--following the assassination of Robert Kennedy? C: I think so. I think it had something to do with it. If during
  • was supported by every And in 1959 I was John Kennedy's chairman in [Oregon]. K: I did want to ask about that because-- G: He was the author of a highly controversial labor bill. There were five of us who were swing votes on the Education and Labor
  • was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
  • to get a haircut. And with this security check, of course I was privileged to work there. Then I met a young captain there--he was working at the time in transportation--Captain Schultz, Robert Schultz, who didn't have the privilege of using the private
  • of things that you would have been testifying before . Did you take any role at all in the 1960 election campaign beyond just an ordinary citizen? B: The 1960 election campaign? F: That's the one between Nixon and Kennedy, with Johnson of course tagging
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: C. ROBERT PERRIN INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Mr. Perrin's office in Washington, D.C. Tape of 2 G: This is the second session with r'lr. Robert Perrin, Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity
  • See all online interviews with C. Robert Perrin
  • Perrin, Robert, 1925-
  • Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • C. Robert Perrin
  • [of War Robert] Patterson and General Eisenhower, then chief of staff of the Army. In the separate Air Force concept, all three would be under the Secretary of Defense. The Navy position was one of coordination as against administration. In effect
  • , four presidents. F: Right. R: Eisenhower, Kennedy F: Johnson and Nixon. R: And he was tremendous. F: live heard John Connally say in Texas that at the governors Four presidents. conferences, you were always the best prepared governor
  • Howard] Edmondson of Oklahoma, who was soundly defeated by the [Robert] Kerr forces, and the Mayor of New Orleans, who was just--Mayor deLesseps Morrison's support really was religious. He was a French Catholic who liked John Kennedy. have any lines
  • See all online interviews with Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • [Roberts] and I have laughed about this so much--he had a real hang-up on the toilet paper holder, how awkward the place it had been put. We'd get a fifteen-minute lecture on [how] the guy who installed the toilet paper holder in the john was the torture
  • See all online interviews with Robert E. Waldron
  • Waldron, Robert Earl, 1927-1995
  • Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert E. Waldron
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT B . ANDERSON INTERVIEWER PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Anderson's office, One Rockefeller Plaza, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You don't have any connection with Arkansas? A: No . I had connections only
  • See all online interviews with Robert B. Anderson
  • Anderson, Robert Bernerd, 1910-1989
  • Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Robert B. Anderson
  • 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 Cahn -- I -- 21 G: What was Robert Kennedy's involvement