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Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of this," and that ended the discussion. All these at'ticles that you have seen that have been written by the great brains of the Kennedy Administration, including Robert Kennedy, on the Bay of Pigs as to the bad military advice and the betrayal of the military
  • Bay of Pigs: reasons for failure; criticism of JFK’s Administration; military-industrial complex discussed in reference to General Dynamics controversy; disapproval and disagreement with Robert McNamara’s policies; opinions on LBJ Administration’s
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of government. My first knowledge of the President came when he was running for the Senate, and at that time I was talking to many people like Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, all of whom said that it would be a great thing if Texas could
  • First knowledge of LBJ; Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune enthusiastic regarding LBJ; Mrs. Bethune and the NYA; friendship with Stuart Symington; LBJ getting building for Huston-Tillotson College; relationship with LBJ; 1957 Civil
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • morning when all of the analysis had been completed and so on. From that Monday when he was notified, which would have been the fifteenth or possibly the sixteenth, until the following Monday, the twenty-second, which was the evening that President Kennedy
  • Vietnam; France’s involvement with Vietnam; the Pueblo; General Hamilton Howze; overestimating enemy power; conflict between military and intelligence staff; Robert McNamara’s request for an opinion paper on anti-ballistic missile use; Soviet involvement
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • despite the President? W: Bailey never had the confidence of the President, I don't think; he was feared by the President as a Kennedy man, and also I think he was getting a little tired of it, and nobody was allowed to move without Johnson's direct
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was informed, and I'm quite confident that it was the case, that Robert Kennedy, who must have been a member of the War on Poverty Task Force in his position as attorney general, had made a final effort in the closing stages of putting together
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to that, how did the Civil Rights Division get along with the FBI in investigative matters such as in those cases? P: I think the best person to ask is Mr. Doar. B: He would have been handling the main aspects of those? P: That's correct. And D. Robert
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , but comes later on in his life and I probably already have recited that in my White House things about after he--having taken over as President after the death of President [John F.] Kennedy--in August of 1964 was approaching the convention time. And he had
  • Democratic National Convention; the support of John Connally and the Wesley West family; early memories of John F. Kennedy; LBJ's senate majority leader office; committee to select the best senators throughout history; LBJ persuading Texas delegates to vote
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • . There were others after that, but I would have to consider that our first meeting. After leaving Washington, there was a story in the newspaper, the [Rowland] Evans-[Robert] Novak column, and in that column they mentioned my visit to the White House
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mean, I do remember at the University of Chicago, if I can find them, an economist from Northwest[ern University], Robert Eisner, laying into us on the war, but in terms of--you know, I would go around the table. . . . Ah, here's New York. G: You were
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it; no state commission ever has. F: You've got people like you, Andy Brimmer, Robert Weaver, and others scattered around. ~ Now then, you've g.ot something like downtown New York, the financial district, which has been pretty much lilywhite. Do you get
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • back, I think it was about 1939, the war clouds came out and it was dropped. He appointed a commission, headed by his friend Robert Anderson of Texas, to look at the same thing we'd looked at, and they made a report. They came up with a different
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • adjustments. The Congress had been very jealous and zealous in main- taining control over the rates of pay of a large portion of the federal employees. Starting in the Kennedy Administration there was an effort to achieve a higher degree of rationality
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Of course, that was primarily a Kennedy campaign. OM: That's true. F: Mr. Johnson was subordinate in this instance, except you did have . . . Vr'1: We had the tea F: You had the tea Vfvl: Yes. F: Tell me a little bit about them. VM: ~'Jell
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at their home and I knew Senator Hugo Black pretty we 11 . The Durr' s used to have a lot of pa rti es. They had people over like Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, John L. Lewis, the Johnsons, Hugo Black and his lovely wife, Virginia's sister. G: Do you
  • temper and tactics; 1960 Kennedy/Johnson campaign; Hofheinz’ private bill regarding Yorktown Corporation; LBJ’s jokes; 1960 Democratic Convention and LBJ’s acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; assignments LBJ offered James.
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Katzenbach and Bob Kennedy all operated a very extensive network throughout the South. When you called John Doar about a problem that you had heard about in Meridian or in Selma, wherever, as sometimes happened--a lawyer or a judge or an elected official
  • Clark; pardons and paroles; LBJ’s relationship with Hoover; Omnibus Crime Act of 1968; Model Cities; Robert Weaver; Bob Wood; tariffs; press relations; overseas airline decision; 1968 LBJ campaign and decision not to run; political activities after the 3
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into this, because I answered yes." where they were asked for references. They sit and they never Then he got to the section [He wrote] "Honorab 1e Robert Kennedy" and two others of similar stature. And he smiled and he said, "They're going to have fun
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , who at that time was Secretary [Robert] Weaver, would become the acting secretary of housing and urban development. F: Why was that put in? C: I don't know. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: C. ROBERT PERRIN INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Mr. Perrin's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Mr. C. Robert Perrin, the Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Today's date
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  • Perrin, Robert, 1925-
  • Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • movement of many friends in Louisiana who felt there should be a twoparty system. They went to the Republican Convention and, of course, were successful in getting [Dwight] Eisenhower to run instead of [Robert] Taft. So many of the people who had supported
  • LBJ was convinced to be John F. Kennedy's running mate; LBJ's and Hale Boggs' dedication to the War on Poverty and civil rights, especially in the South; Lynda Johnson dating George Hamilton; Hale Boggs' involvement in Adlai Stevenson's 1956
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1 -- 3 G: Kennedy introduced essentially a Medicare program that year that would be financed by an increase in Social Security taxes. Do you remember that? M: Well, I remember Johnson and [Robert] Kerr cooperating on some kind of a Medicare
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • written into the Democratic platform an idea to have a heart conference at the presidential level, and President Kennedy had called such a heart conference but it was a disaster. I wondered if you remembered any of the reasons why it didn't turn out well
  • trying to get practical results from the NIH; Wilbur Cohen; fact sheets on heart disease, stroke and cancer; Lasker’s disagreements with Dr. Shannon; Truman’s effect on heart research and health insurance; the Kennedy family; doctor’s response to medical
Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the short run. So I asked I think it was [Nicholas] Katzenbach--I'm not 100 per cent sure, it might have been [Robert] Kennedy--told him that I wanted to leave, or that I had heard about the task force and that if the Justice Department didn't have anyone
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1974 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: I believe, Mr. Baker, you're from Pickens, South Carolina. B: That's correct. Pickens is the county seat
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  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , as all these guys from the Kennedy offices and other places had called over to get friends excused from the draft or put into a reserve outfit right away because otherwise they might have to go into the army and go to Vietnam. So that's basically what I
  • ); attending the Guam Conference with General Westmoreland; how Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) was started with Knowlton and Lathram heading it; director of CORDS, Robert Komer, bringing Robert Montague with him to Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an acknowledgement from the White House within twenty-four hours. That had been the rule through Kennedy and we carried on through Johnson. [They got] at least an acknowledgement signed by Larry, which I signed. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had been talking to [Walter] Heller--this is Kennedy--and had asked Heller, who was then chairman of the Council [of Economic Advisers], as you know, to do some kind of study, to get the analysis done in essence for maybe a major presidential thrust
  • Kennedy Task Force; comprehensive community action program; Sargent Shriver; Shriver Task Force; legislation; VISTA; drafting the bill; resident participation; planning and operation problems; regional planning; political power; Moynihan; Job Corps
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HUGHES -- I -- 3 BH: Yes~ Rich~ there were eight presidential hopefuls, of whom John F. Kennedy was one. them around. There were so many that they were shuffling They had two ballrooms
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Newman -- I -- 4 Jake Jacobsen. I went to Washington and called Jake Jacobsen, and he said, "Well, really, the person for you to call is Juanita Roberts." So I called Juanita, and she made arrangements for me to come in and I met
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Yes. I guess my tenure began [at] the tail end of 1952. Nixon resigned a day or so early and that had something to do with my seniority. I was made senior to some of those who came in on the same date. Jack Kennedy and I were elected the same day
  • How Kuchel became a Senator; LBJ in the Senate; LBJ’s relationships with Robert Taft and William Knowland; LBJ’s political skill in the Senate with both Democracts and Republicans; LBJ’s interest in tidelands; the Patrick J. Hurley/Dennis Chavez
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Kennedy, who was up on Long Island, I think, on this particular occasion-M: This was Robert Kennedy? H: Robert Kennedy. He, having been Attorney General for a time, and therefore had known about the deliberations of this 303 Committee, had known
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and sometimes take immediate action . B: Yes, that's right . leadership . And also he had me circulate copies of it to the I would have a copy of my brief and a copy of the Record sent to Senators Mansfield and Russell Long ; subsequently, Ted Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contact with the field. That operation was under the direction of Nancy Lyons, who had been extremely effective, she and the other women, in the Kennedy campaign.She was 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • circumstances, to various kinds of proposals. M: Then how long did you stay with the AEC? I: I stayed with the AEC in the changeover of Administration, and I was White House liaison under both the Republicans and Democrats. I came to know President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • anything to do with his trip to Vietnam when he was vice president? S: No, that took place while I was in Geneva, I believe, 1961? M: Yes, it would have been while you were there. What was your job in the department at the time that President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- IX -- 5 R: Marie Fehmer, Juanita Roberts and me. For a little while there was another girl
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the deputy budget director, talked to Ehrlichman or [H. R.] Haldeman. I also talked to [Robert F.] Ellsworth and I think some of us talked to [Robert P.] Mayo, I don't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy wanted the vice president to represent him, right? C: Right at the independence of an African Republic--Senegal. dent asked me to go along. of two or three people. And the Presi­ We took a plane and a congressional delegation I remember
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. LEWIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Lewis' residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to begin by tracing what you know about the origin of the Task Force [on Agriculture and Rural Life]. L
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  • Lewis, Robert G. (Robert George), 1919-
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. Lewis
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Robert] Taft have a close working relationship? Do you have any insight on that? Y: I think he had a great admiration for Taft. Taft wasn't nearly as conservative as a lot of people thought he was. He was one of the sponsors of federal aid